A report on Internet governance and the challenges of digital transformation

The report was developed within the activities of the ICANN ccNSO working group on Internet Governance (ccNSO-IGLC) and published on the ICANN ccNSO News in May 2022. The focus is made on the special issue of The Italian Journal of Informatics and Law (Rivista Italiana di Informatica e Diritto, RIID) , edited by the Italian National Research Council (CNR), dedicated to "Internet governance and the challenges of digital transformation". The issue calls on scholars and experts to share and deepen the many issues that today impact on the evolution of the Internet ecosystem and its governance, in its various aspects: technical, legal, economic, social and politicalThe topics discussed on Internet Governance debates are part of a global reflection centred on the development of the digital world: global connectivity, public goods, inclusion, capacity building, human rights, artificial intelligence, trust and security, global cooperation, models and geopolitics of Internet Governance. This is a field of study, as broad as it is complex, in which different but complementary skills interact, all necessary to investigate the rules, policies, standards and practices of global cyberspace. Vinton G. Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet and today Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, opens the monographic issue no. 1/2022 of the Journal.