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Governance & Institutions

The domain represents the supportive properties and mechanisms of governance that buttress the Cyber-IR systems and related realities. These mechanisms are designed to stabilize—and to enable and support—societies.

High-level Ontology for Governance & Institutions domain.
Source: Choucri, Fairman, Agarwal (2021).

Ontology: Governance & Institutions

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DIMENSION 1: SYSTEM STATE

1. STATE LEVEL

  1. Provision of Public Services
    • Physical Infrastructure
    • Social Infrastructure
    • Political & Legal Infrastructure
    • National Security
  2. Governance Mechanisms
    • Demand Management
    • Political Processes
    • Economic Processes
    • External Activities & Policies
  3. Governance Capabilities
    • Capabilities of Political Systems
    • Policy Formation & Delivery
    • Management of Government Capabilities
    • e-Governance
  4. Provision of Data & Statistics
    • State Data & Meta Data
    • Cyber Data & Meta Data
    • Institution Data, Other
    • Review, Update, Other

2. INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

  1. Private International Activities
    • Business & Corporate Activities
    • Not-for-Profit & Voluntary Activities
    • Private-Public Activities
    • Others
  2. International Institutional Activities
    • Mission-Driven Activities
    • Capacity Building
    • Regional Institutions
    • Others
  3. Coordinate Policy Responses
    • Cooperative Strategies
    • Sanction & Pressures
    • Military Actions
    • Others
  4. Treaties, Conventions & Global Accords
    • Type & Focus
    • Norms, Instruments, & Enforcement
    • Cybersecurity Treaties
    • Cyber & Cybersecurity Law

3. GOVERNANCE OF CYBERSPACE

  1. Private Authority & Mechanisms
    • Type & Function
    • Actors
    • Process & Products
    • Activities & Others
  2. International Governance
    • Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs)
    • Service Providers (ISP) & Exchange Point Managers
    • Certificate Authorities
    • Others
  3. Cyber Diplomacy
    • Conflict Avoidance
    • Informal Activities & Accords
    • Interaction Processes
    • Others
  4. Formal Regulations
    • Source & Type
    • Actors & Entities
    • Instruments
    • Enforcement

4. PROVISION OF STATISTICS & RECORDS

  1. Data & Metadata
    • Traditional Indicators
    • Cyber-Related Indicators
    • Variables
  2. Routing & Peering Data
  3. ISP & Exchange Points Data
  4. Other
DIMENSION 2: PROBLEMS OF GOVERNANCE & INSTITUTIONS

1. SOURCES OF PROBLEMS & THREATS

  1. Expansion of Population Demands
    • Demand for Equity
    • Demand for Political Participation
    • Changes in Demand Composition
    • Others
  2. Erosion of Institutional Performance
    • System Overload
    • Conflict Over Goals and/or Policy
    • Challenges to Regime Legitimacy
    • Erosion of Law & Order
  3. Contentions in View and Values
  4. Generativity

2. THREATS TO STATE & SOCIETY

  1. Damages to Markets
  2. Shortages of Goods & Services
  3. Growth of Illegal Activity
  4. Other

3. DAMAGES TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

  1. Energy & Industry
  2. Information & Communication, and Mobility & Transportation
  3. Food & Agriculture
  4. Water Systems & Others

4. EROSION OF LIFE SUPPORTING PROPERTIES

  1. Energy
  2. Food & Water
  3. Air, Space & Security
  4. Other
DIMENSION 3: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY RESPONSES

1. GOVERNMENT MECHANISMS

  1. Efficiency Gains
    • Reward Performance
    • Provide Benefits & Services
    • Reduce Operational Barriers
    • Others
  2. Accountability
    • Feedback & Adaptations
    • Responsiveness
    • Connection to Constituencies
    • Others
  3. Equity
  4. Adaptation

2. COMMUNICATION & NETWORK SUPPORTS

  1. Expand e-Governance
  2. Control Cyber Threats
  3. Enhance e-Capability
  4. Other

3. TECHNOLOGY & AI FOR GOVERNANCE

  1. Context Control
  2. Application Oversight
  3. Innovation Management
  4. Critiques & Corrections

4. EVALUATION, FEEDBACK & ACTION

  1. Methods
  2. Review
  3. Reporting
  4. Correctives
DIMENSION 4: SCOCIO-ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESPONSES

1. STATE CAPABILITY & PERFORMANCE

  1. Demand Management
  2. Governance Mechanisms
  3. e-Governance
    • Service Provision & Performance
    • Feedback & Accountability
    • Capability Expansion
    • Other
  4. Adaptation & Change

2. COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL ACTION

  1. Policy Development
    • International Consultation
    • World Conferences
    • Private-Public Activities
    • Informal Measures
  2. Policy Response Type
    • Formal Accords & Agreements
    • Bilateral & Regional
    • International Responses
    • Informal Measures
  3. Private Sector Norms & Policy
  4. Data Based Measures

3. INTERNATIONAL TREATIES & CONVENTION

  1. Cyber-IR Agreements
    • International Policy Conferences
    • Conventions, Directives, & Treaties
    • Global Standards
    • Others
  2. Traditional International Relations
    • Agenda 21 & Follow-up
    • Millennium Development Goals (MDG) & Follow-up
    • State-Based Initiatives
    • Non-State Activities
  3. Ongoing Consensus Building Processes
    • World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
    • World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT)
    • World Social Science Forum (WSSF)
    • Others
  4. Other

4. GLOBAL INITIATIVES

  1. Non-State Centered
  2. Profit vs. Non-for-Profit
  3. Alternative Boundary Conditions
  4. Other