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GigaNet 9th Annual Symposium

1 September 2014

Istanbul, Turkey

8:30 – 9:00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

9:00 – 10:30 THEORETICAL SESSION: Conceptualizing Internet governance

• Carolina Aguerre. A framework for national mechanisms on Internet governance
• Kirsten Gollatz, Jeanette Hofmann and Christian Katzenbach. Between Coordination and Regulation: Conceptualizing Governance in Internet Governance
• Rolf Weber. Proliferation of “Internet governance”

11:00 – 12:30 EMERGING SCHOLAR SESSION: Institutional innovation in Internet governance

• Andreas Kuehn. A New Paradigm in Securing Software Vulnerabilities – An Institutional Analysis of Emerging Bug Bounty Programs and their Implications for Cybersecurity and Internet Governance
• Uta Meier-Hahn. Internet interconnection: how economic sociology can inform the discourse on internet governance
• Trisha Meyer. Access and Control: The Political Economy of Online Copyright Enforcement in the European Union

 

12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH

 

1:30 – 3:00 INTERACTIVE SESSION: Multistakeholder governance and its alternatives

• Samantha Bradshaw, Laura DeNardis, Fen Hampson, Eric Jardine, and Mark Raymond. The Emergence of Contention in Global Internet Governance
• Aaron van Klyton and Kerry Holden. Exploring the tensions and incongruities of Internet governance in Africa
• Derrick Cogburn. Uncovering the Conceptual Antecedents of the NETMundial Outcome Document on the Future of Global Internet Governance

 

3:30 – 5:00 INTERACTIVE SESSION: The DNS and global Internet governance

• Hong Xue. ICANN New gTLD RPMs Caveats of Intermediary Liability in Domain Name System
• Patricia Vargas-Leon and Andreas Kuehn. Political Economy of Critical Internet Resources: South America vs. Amazon
• Kenneth Merrill. A Marketplace of Networks: Power and counter-power in the DNS

GigaNet 8th Annual Symposium

21 October 2013

Bali, Indonesia

8:30 – 9:00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

 

9:00 – 10:30 EMERGING SCHOLARS
Moderator: Derrick Cogburn (American University)

• Giants, dwarfs and P2P alternatives to Internet-based services: an issue of Internet governance?
  Francesca Musiani
• Cyber Espionage and International Law
  Aaron Shull
• The evolution of the legislative proposals about the “Internet Kill Switch” in the U.S.A: a historic-legal analysis
  Patricia Vargas-Leon
• Accountability 2.0: Towards a Special Responsibility for Internet Intermediaries
  Nicolo Zingales

 

11:00 – 12:30 CHALLENGES TO THE MULTISTAKEHOLDER GOVERNANCE MODEL

• Thinking Clearly about Multistakeholder Internet Governance
  Laura DeNardis and Mark Raymond
• Transformation of the international telecommunications regime into the global telecommunication governance With a Comparative Institutional Analysis Approach
  Yoko Nishioka
• Assessing the influence of online activism on internet policy-making: SOPA and ACTA
  Alison Powell

 

12:30 – 12:50 BOOK LAUNCH

• Radu, R., Chenou, J.-M., Weber, R. (eds.). 2013.  The evolution of global internet governance: principles and policies in the making, Zurich: Schulthess and Springer

 

12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 – 2:30 ECONOMIC ISSUES IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE

• In the Eye of the Beholder: The Role of Needs-Based Assessment in IP Address Market Transfers
  Brenden Kuerbis, Hadi Asghari and Milton Mueller
• Security Economics in the HTTPS Value Chain
  Hadi Asghari, Michel Van Eeten, Axel Arnbak and Nico Van Eijk

 

3:00 – 6:00 APC/GIGANET JOINT FORA ON SECURITY, SURVEILLANCE AND THE MILITARIZATION OF CYBERSPACE

The fora are a new interactive format intended to be open discussion venues where IGF participants can come to interact with subject matter experts in relevant topical areas.

 

3:00 – 4:20 CYBER WAR, CYBER WEAPONS AND INTERNET GOVERNANCE

• John Laprise – Historical perspectives on national security and communication
• Christopher S. Yoo – Cyber War vs. Kinetic War: Technical Differences and Legal Implications
• Nir Kshetri – Cybersecurity-related Barriers to International Trade and Investment
• Edet Ojo (Media Rights Foundation- Nigeria)
• Moez Chakchouk – Beyond Cyberwar: Impacts on internet governance policies: Tunisian experience
• Additional experts to be announced.

 

4:40 – 6:00 SURVEILLANCE & SNOWDEN

• Ron Dilbert, Citizen Lab
• Jiow Hee Jhee and Sofia Morales – Perception & Effects of Surveillance in Singapore
• Robert Bodle – Social media and cybersecurity: examining the public-private nexus of state security and online social production
• Alex Comninos (APC)
• Additional experts to be announced

GigaNet 7th Annual Symposium 

5 November 2012

 Pre-conference to the UN Internet Governance Forum

Baku Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) will hold the Seventh GigaNet Annual Symposium, on 5 November 2012, one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Since 2006, GigaNet has organized an Annual Symposium to showcase research about Internet Governance, focusing on an interdisciplinary approach. As in previous years, this year’s symposium will provide room to discuss current and future questions as well as the challenges encountered and results achieved in Global Internet Governance.

Please visit the event website for further information and registration:

http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012.html

Final program

 

9.00 – 9.15: Introduction by the Chair of GigaNet

 

9.15 – 10.30: The UN, the ITU and Internet governance

Chair: Milton Mueller – Syracuse University

• Contested Boundaries. The International Telecommunication Regulations and Internet Governance
  William Drake – University of Zurich
  
• New Issue Domains in the UN Ambit. Negotiating Meanings for Security in Cyberspace
  Roxane Radu – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
• Regionalism and the Caribbean Internet Governance Forum
  Dhanaraj Thakur – University of the West Indies
  

                         

10.30 – 11.15: Governance of critical Internet resources

Chair: Stefano Trumpy – CNR – Istituto di Informatica e Telematica

• Dimensioning the Elephant. An empirical Analysis of the Ipv4 Transfer Market
  Milton Mueller – Syracuse University
  Brenden Kuerbis – Syracuse University
  Hadi Asghari – Delft University of Technology

• The Impact of the New gTLD Program on the Internet Governance Regimes of Emerging Economies
  Hongbin Zhu – China Internet Network Information Centre
• Additional paper (not presented during the symposium)
  Laying the Path: Technical Approaches to Legal and Policy Issues in Internet Design.
  Sandra Braman – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

11.15 – 11.45: Coffee break

 

11.45 – 13.00: The role of private actors in Internet governance

Chair: Leo Van Audenhove – Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• Unravelling the Economic and Political Drivers of Deep Packet Inspection
  Hadi Asghari – Delft University of Technology
  Michel Van Eeten – Delft University of Technology
  Milton Mueller – Syracuse University
• From Neutral Thirds to Private Law Enforcers: Toward a Criterial Framework for Requests Placed on Internet Service Providers
  Nicole van der Meulen – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Arno Lodder – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Internet Policies and Corporate Social Responsibility
  Rolf H. Weber – University of Zurich
  

 

13.00 – 14.30: Lunch break

 

14.30 – 15.30: The Internet, civic engagement and state repression

Chair: Lee Hibbard – Council of Europe

• Media Disruption and Revolutionary Unrest. Evidence from Mubarak’s Quasi-Experiment
  Navid Hassanpour – Yale University
• The Effects of the Internet on Civic Engagement Under Authoritarianism. The Case of Azerbaijan.
  Katy Pearce – University of Washington
  Sarah Kendzior – University of Washington
  Deen Freelon – American University
• Additional paper (not presented during the symposium)
  Digital Citizenship in the South Caucasus: A Comparative Analysis between Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan
  Wayne Buente – University of Hawaii
  Lala Hajibayova – Indiana University

15.30 – 16.00: Coffee break

 

16.00 – 17.30: Cyber security, privacy and copyright

Chair: Michel van Eeten  –  Delft University of Technology

• Cookies versus Clams. Tracking Technologies and their Implications for Online Privacy
  Andreas Kuehn – Syracuse University
• The Evolution of Formal and Informal Institutions related to Cyber-Security. A Comparison of China and India
  Nir Kshetri – University of North Carolina
• Discourse Networks on Access Blocking in France and Germany and the European Union
  Yana Breindl – Georg-August Universität Göttingen

 

Registration

The GigaNet Annual Symposium is free of charge.

Registration is possible via the event website: http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012.html

 

Venue

The symposium will take place at the Baku Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, the venue of the 2012 Internet Governance Forum.

Please visit the website of IGF 2012for information about the venue and accommodation in Baku.

 

Contact

For questions concerning the program and the organisation, please contact the symposium organizers Leo Van Audenhove, Program Committee Chair, and Julia Pohle.

 

 

Coffee breaks and other expenses supported by:

 

GigaNet Sixth Annual Symposium

United Nations Office, UNON complex, Nairobi, Kenya

Room 11

September 26, 2011

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET) will hold its Sixth Annual Symposium on 26 September 2011, one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Since 2006, GigaNet has organized an Annual Symposium to showcase research about Internet Governance, focusing on an interdisciplinary approach. Prior successful symposia took place in Greece (2006), Brazil (2007), India (2008), Egypt (2009) and Lithuania (2010). In 2011, the Internet Governance Forum has entered its second phase, after having reached the end of its first 5-years mandate. This year’s event will provide room to discuss the challenges encountered and results achieved during the first five years of IGF. As in previous years the GigaNet Symposium will further discuss current and future questions of Global Internet Governance.

The symposium will be organized in co-operation with Research ICT Africa (RIA). RIA is a network of researchers in 20 African countries conducting research on ICT policy and regulation and facilitating evidence-based and informed policy making for improved access, use and application of ICT for social development and economic growth. http://www.researchictafrica.net/

 

Remote participation

Remote participants is provided via the IGF website: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation-2011/rp-links

 

Registration

Registration is free of charge. If you are planning to either attend in person or remotely participate, please register at http://www.amiando.com/giganet2011 or send an email to jpohle@vub.ac.be.

Preliminary program

 

9.45 – 10.15: Gathering & Coffee

10.15 – 10.30: Introduction & Welcome

 

10.30 – 12.15: Panel 1: Internet Governance Processes and Institutions

• Jeremy Malcolm (Consumers International): Arresting the decline of multi-stakeholderism in Internet governance
• John Gathegi (University of South Florida): Internet anonymity, reputation and freedom of speech. The US legal landscape
• Caroline Agguerre (Universidad de San Andres): Internet communities in Argentina and Brazil. Origins, networks and institutional development.
• Gitte Stald (IT University of Copenhagen): EU Kids online. Informing evidence-based policy for children’s online opportunities and risks

12.15 – 13.45: Lunch
13.45 – 15.00: Roundtable on the state of Internet Governance Research and Practices in Africa

• Alison Gillwald (Research ICT Africa)
• John Walubengo (University of Nairobi)
  
• Shikoh Gitau (Researcher Google &Young African Researchers Network)

 

15.15-15.30: Coffee
 

15.30- 17.00: Panel 3: Internet Rights and Repression

• Matthias C. Ketteman (University of Graz): The legality of internet blackouts in times of crisis. An assessment at the intersection of human rights law, humanitarian law and internet governance principles
• Sanja Kelly & Sarah Cook (Freedom House): New technologies, Innovative repression. Growing threats to Internet freedom
• Robert Bodle (College of Mount St. Joseph): Upholding online anonymity in Internet governance. Affordances, ethical frameworks, and regulatory practices

 

17.15-18.15: Roundtable on the state of Internet Rights

Roundtable jointly organized by GigaNet and APC

• Anriette Esterhuyzen (Association for Progressive Communication – APC)
• William J. Drake (Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ, University of Zurich) (GigaNet)
• Peng Hwa Ang (Signapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University) (GigaNet)
• Lee Hibbard (Council of Europe)
• Joy Liddicoat (Association for Progressive Communication – APC)
  
• Wolfgang Kleinwächter (University of Aarhus) (GigaNet) 
  

 

GigaNet 2011 Program Committee

• Leo Van Audenhove – PC Chair, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Roy Balleste – St. Thomas University, Miami, USA
• William Drake – University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Dmitry Epstein – Cornell University, USA
• Marianne Franklin – Goldsmiths University London, UK
• Raquel Gatto – Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Alison Gillwald – Director Research ICT Africa
• Nanette Levinson – American University, USA
• Milton Mueller – Syracuse University, USA
• Rolf H. Weber – University of Zurich, Switzerland

 

Contact

If you have any question related to the symposium, please e-mail the Program Committee Chair: leo.van.audenhove@vub.ac.be

Additional papers to download

• Shawn Gunnarson (Kirton & McConkie): Theorizing fact-based policy development at ICANN (not able to attend)