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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

Governance & Institutions represents the supportive properties and mechanisms that buttress the Cyber-IR reality. These mechanisms of governance are designed to stabilize societies.

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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