I Thought Internet Governance Was Some Government Thing. I Was Wrong.
When I first heard the term Internet Governance , I immediately assumed it was one of those topics that policy students discuss while engineering students quietly avoid. The phrase itself sounds intimidating. Internet. Governance. Put those two words together and it feels like a subject that requires a suit, a law degree, and twenty years of experience. At least that's what I thought. Then one day I was scrolling through LinkedIn and saw a post about applications opening for something called the India School on Internet Governance (inSIG) . People in the comments were excited. Some were talking about AI governance. Others mentioned digital rights, cybersecurity, and Internet shutdowns. I remember thinking: "Wait, people actually study how the Internet is governed?" Until then, my understanding of the Internet was pretty simple. Engineers build apps. Companies run platforms. Users use them. End of story. Apparently, there was much more happening behind th...