Objectives of knowledge management

Internet governance
as the control put in place to manage the growth 
of the Internet and its usage. The global nature of the Internet makes it less practical for a 
government to control cyberspace. Dyson says:
Now, with the advent of the Net, we are privatizing government in a new way – not only in 
the traditional sense of selling things off to the private sector, but by allowing organizations 
independent of traditional governments to take on certain ‘government’ regulatory roles. 
These new international regulatory agencies will perform former government functions in 
counterpoint to increasingly global large companies and also to individuals and smaller 
private organizations who can operate globally over the Net.
Dyson (1998) describes different layers of jurisdiction. These are:
1 
Physical space comprising individual countries in which their own laws such as those 
governing taxation, privacy, and trading and advertising standards hold.
2 
ISPs – the connection between the physical and virtual worlds.
There are number of established non- profit- making organisations that control different 
aspects of the Internet. These are sometimes called ‘ supra- governmental’ organisations since 
their control is above government level.