A Web of Trust: Toward a Safe, Secure, Reliable and Open Internet (Council on Foreign Relations)

There is widespread recognition that the Internet also requires improved, if not new, governance arrangements to enhance its stock of eroding digital capital. The discussion is analogous to the debate political scientists are having about the breakdown of trust in democracies and the important role that institutions and their reform have to play in restoring trust and effective governance.

http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/10/12/a-web-of-trust-toward-a-safe-secure-reliable-and-open-internet/