Integrated Internet Internationalism

In the digital age, stability is determined by how the internet is used, and this is most evident during conflicts and crises. Tech companies’ interventions during the Ukraine War to ensure the stability of the internet were essential to the digital and physical security of Ukrainians and their basic communications infrastructure. Yet, as new crises emerge across the world, governments, multilaterals, and new geopolitical actors such as tech companies find themselves unprepared to play the role of protectors of the global internet. Therefore, a new model of internet internationalism is required that is centred on the engagement across these actors to define a twenty- first century approach to stability and digital resilience.