GigaNet 2024 Symposium 

Giganet Programme, Day 0 (December 15, 2024), IGF Riyadh

09:45- 10:00 Welcome and introduction

10:00- 11:00 Research Paper Panel 1. Chair: Jamal Shahin

  • Roxana Radu, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. “Turning the Tide: Active Cyber Defence to Counter Ransomware”
  • Sophie Hoogenboom, PhD Researcher on Digital Governance, UNU-CRIS in Bruges. “A Non-Systematic Literature Review: Constructivist/Relational Approaches to (Digital)-Sovereignty”
  • Maysa Amer, Doctoral candidate, Free University Berlin. “Internet Governance and Power Dynamics: A Theoretical Framework of Internet and Platform Governance in the Arab Countries.”

11:00-12:00 Round table: Multistakeholderism in Internet Governance

  • Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Professor Emeritus, Aarhus University
  • Milton Mueller, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

12:00 – 12:45: Research Paper Panel 2, Chair: Roxana Radu

  • Yik Chan Chin, Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University, “The right of Data Portability in China”
  • Monika Stachoń, PhD Candidate, University of Warsaw. “Cyberspace as a new sphere of oppositional struggle – the case of Iran”
  • Discussant: Jamal Shahin, Associate Professor at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)