The Internet’s defining characteristics—its distributed architecture and its decentralized governance—offered the promise of improved access and greater freedom for everyone, but the Internet has not exactly delivered on it. Instead, the very structures and practices established to maintain the Internet widened the gap between the promise of a public good and the more complicated present-day reality. The Ford Foundation’s Technology and Society program supported a new, field-setting research report by Niels ten Oever, a postdoctoral researcher, examining the background and impacts of the Internet’s multistakeholder governance. Niels spoke with J. Bob Alotta, VP of global programs at Mozilla, to explore and offer recommendations to civil society, corporations, governments, and academics for aligning Internet governance—and Internet infrastructure—with the public interest and human rights. Niels ten Oever’s published report: “Human Rights Are Not a Bug: Upgrading Governance for an Equitable Internet” https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-reports/human-rights-are-not-a-bug-upgrading-governance-for-an-equitable-internet