8 February 2023 at 8pm CET, online, register here The possible establishment of a sovereign internet in Russia, European initiatives on 'Digital Sovereignty', and the conflict between China and the United States over Huawei equipment are rekindling the discussion on splinternets and the limits to global interconnectivity. This event is co-organized by Giganet. Can the … Continue reading Webinar: Politics of (dis)connection
ICYMI: Infrastructural Distortion and Possession & Internet Standard Setting Research Methods webinars
Earlier this year we had two GigaNet supported events. Infrastructural Distortion and Posession Global internet infrastructure is increasingly becoming part of geopolitical conflicts. However, politics have always been an inherent part of communication infrastructures. One could even argue that that the internet infrastructure has been a field of reconfiguration of global power for decades, we … Continue reading ICYMI: Infrastructural Distortion and Possession & Internet Standard Setting Research Methods webinars
Webinar: Infrastructural Distortion and Possession
14 December 2022 at 8pm CEST, online, website here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fz4_6OmZUM Global internet infrastructure is increasingly becoming part of geopolitical conflicts. However, politics have always been an inherent part of communication infrastructures. One could even argue that that the internet infrastructure has been a field of reconfiguration of global power for decades, we just failed to … Continue reading Webinar: Infrastructural Distortion and Possession
Webinar: To sanction or not to sanction the Internet access: A SancNet debate
Friday, April 1st at 4 PM CEST, online, register here Until now, sanctions on the Internet infrastructure have not been explicitly used, perceived by some as an unacceptable barrier to communication. However, recently, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the Ukrainian government explicitly asked for such sanctions. In response to that, Internet governance organizations rejected this notion, … Continue reading Webinar: To sanction or not to sanction the Internet access: A SancNet debate
Workshop: Internet Standard Setting Research Methods
You are invited to GigaNet’s 2022 workshop about Internet Standard-Setting Research Methods on 12 January 2022, from 12:00 to 17:30 UTC. Website here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oTRGS9Toh8 This workshop will showcase the broad range of research methods used by Internet governance scholars from multiple disciplines to study Internet standard-setting bodies, such as the IETF, IEEE, W3C, WHATWG, 3GPP, … Continue reading Workshop: Internet Standard Setting Research Methods