Lu Heng Making Efforts to Strengthen Internet Governance
TechRound’s 2022 profile introduces Lu Heng’s work on Internet governance, the LARUS Foundation and wider participation.
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Published by the TechRound Team in December 2022, this profile describes Lu Heng’s work on an open Internet and the LARUS Foundation’s education and fellowship activities. Its focus is the opportunity to participate: people need knowledge and access before they can contribute to decisions that affect their networks.
The piece introduces the connection between his commercial infrastructure work and his interest in Internet governance. It is a portrait of those efforts at the time.
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Who participates, and who claims to represent?
In Note 54, Lu Heng later separates participation from political authority. An open meeting can admit more voices without acquiring a mandate over everyone outside it. That distinction helps explain why his work moves beyond access to the process and toward limits on institutional power.