R: R: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GigaNet Symposium in Athens

[Ezendu Ariwa]

I am happy to speak at the event
Kindly let me know if thats fine

Ezendu

> Hi again,
>
> Sorry, this year we didn’t ask people to write papers, but rather just
> to
> give presentations.  This all had to be organized fairly quickly and close
> to the date, so it didn’t seem reasonable to require speakers to write
> on
> short notice.  I suspect that efforts will be made to have papers for next
> year and beyond, subject of course to having enough volunteers to organize
> the process etc.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
>
> From: Claudia Padovani <claudia.padovani at unipd.it>
> Reply-To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:16:28 +0200
> To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> Subject: R: R: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GigaNet Symposium in Athens
>
> In wishing you again a successful meeting, I also wonder if the papers
> presented at the Giganet will be posted anywhere, for those of us who are
> curious to follow from a distance…
> claudia
>
>
>
> Da: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] Per conto
> di William Drake
> Inviato: mercoledì 11 ottobre 2006 12.54
> A: Plenary
> Oggetto: Re: R: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GigaNet Symposium in Athens
>
> Hi Claudia,
>
> Thanks.  Given the nature of the meeting there won’t be any outcomes or
> news
> per se, but I imagine we’ll try to generate some sort of brief synthesis
> report on what happened.  Hope to see you at the next symposium in Rio, if
> not before.
>
> Bill
>
>
> From: Claudia Padovani <claudia.padovani at unipd.it>
> Reply-To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:51:53 +0200
> To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> Subject: R: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GigaNet Symposium in Athens
>
> Ciao to all of you. And thanks Bill for circulating this.
> To all those of you attending the Forum in Athen: good luck for a
> productive
> meeting. Giganet seems to be one of the most stimulating spaces in that
> context… and I am very sorry this time I won’t make it. I have been
> following from a distance, quite silent, yet intrigued by some
> developments.
> And very curious about the outcomes. I have also been doing small pieces
> of
> research (mapping issue networks…no final results yet but willing to
> contribute in forthcoming Giganet meetings) and invited a few students of
> mine to focus on this process as well as on the broader environment which
> is
> taking shape also with your contribution.
> We shall certainly read your reports and comments, counting on your
> contribution to get the sense of the process.
> Best wishes
> Claudia padovani
>
>
>
> Da: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org]
> <mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org%5d> Per conto di William Drake
> Inviato: lunedì 9 ottobre 2006 14.23
> A: Plenary
> Oggetto: [WSIS CS-Plenary] GigaNet Symposium in Athens
>
> Please distribute as appropriate
>
> Final Program
>
> Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
> First Annual Symposium
> www.intgovforum.org/IGF_Platform.php
>
> Divani Apollon Palace & Spa Hotel
> Athens, Greece
> Room: TBA
>
> 29 October 2006
>
>
>
> The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is an emerging
> scholarly community initiated in Spring 2006.  Its four principal
> objectives
> are to: support the establishment of a global cohort of scholars
> specializing on Internet governance issues; promote the development of
> Internet governance as a recognized, interdisciplinary field of study;
> advance theoretical and applied research on Internet governance, broadly
> defined; and facilitate informed dialogue on policy issues and related
> matters between scholars and Internet governance stakeholders
> (governments,
> international organizations, the private sector, and civil society). In
> this
> context, the GigaNet plans to organize symposia to be held on site prior
> to
> the annual meetings of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). This event is
> the first in that series.
>
>
> 9:30-9:45    Welcome and Overview
>
> Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor of International Communication Policy
> and
> Regulation, University of Aarhus; Denmark
>
>
> 9:45-11:15 Theorizing Internet Governance: The State of the Art
>
> Chair:
>
> Peng Hwa Ang, Dean, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang
> Technological University, and Director, Singapore Internet Research
> Center;
> Singapore
>
> Panelists:
>
> “The Need For Interdisciplinary Understanding”
> Mary Rundle, Director, Net Dialogue, and Fellow, Berkman Center for
> Internet
> and Society at Harvard University and the Center for Internet and Society
> at
> Stanford University; USA
>
> “Cross-national Collaboration on Internet Governance: Critical Success
> Factors for Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies”
> Nanette S. Levinson, Associate Professor of International Relations,
> American University; Washington DC, USA
>
> “The Role of the State in Heterogeneous Governance Arrangements”
> Jeanette Hoffman, Research Fellow, Social Science Research Center, and
> Partner, the Internet Governance Project; Berlin, Germany
>
> “An Economic Rationale for Internet Regulation”
> Filomena Chirico, Post-doc Researcher, Tilburg Center for Law and
> Economics,
> Tilburg University; The Netherlands
>
> “Hybrid Regimes, Power, and Legitimacy in Global Governance: 
Insights
> from
> Internet Privacy Regulation”
Ralf Bendrath, Research Fellow,
> University of
> Bremen; Germany
>
> Focus:
>
> In recent years, scholars have begun to analyze Internet governance issues
> using the theoretical tools of their respective academic disciplines.
> While
> issues surrounding ICANN have attracted particular attention, there also
> has
> been significant work done on the international governance of digital
> international trade and intellectual property, privacy, security, speech,
> and other topics.  Such research often has been rather specialized and
> geared toward the distinct audiences interested in each issue-area, which
> limited intellectual cross-fertilization. These topics are related, and
> Internet governance should be seen as a broad but coherent field of study
> that merits elaboration and support.  Mapping the landscape of relevant
> theoretical perspectives is an important first step toward this end.
>
> The purpose of this panel is to consider questions such as: What aspects
> of
> Internet governance are uniquely interesting and worthy of scholarly
> analysis?  How has Internet governance been addressed by scholars in the
> social sciences, humanities, law, and other disciplines, and which
> theoretical approaches seem to be the most promising for which issues and
> dynamics?  Do these efforts point to the emergence of a coherent research
> agenda and the cumulative development of new knowledge? Are there
> barriers—intellectual, institutional, and other—that might have to be
> overcome to advance that agenda? How can Internet governance develop into
> an
> interdisciplinary scholarly field that is taken seriously by academics and
> also capable of providing useful inputs to the Internet Governance Forum
> and
> other policy development institutions?  What lessons can be learned, if
> any,
> from other fields defined by the object of inquiry/dependent variables
> rather than by shared theories and independent variables, e.g.,
> “communication studies,” “information studies,” and “women's
> studies”? Are
> there national or cultural differences in the ways scholars approach these
> matters, and if so how might these be reconciled?
>
>
> 11:15-11:30 Coffee break
>
>
> 11:30-13:00 “Enhanced Cooperation” and Interaction among Stakeholders
> in
> Internet Governance
>
> Chair:
>
> Milton Mueller, Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse University, and
> Partner, the Internet Governance Project
>
> Panelists:
>
> “A European Perspective on Enhanced Cooperation”
> Bernard Benhamou, Senior Lecturer for the Information Society, National
> Foundation of Political Science; Paris, France
>
> “‘The Sovereign Right of States:’ Why Multi-Stakeholder Policy
> Development
> is Possible
> and Necessary”
> Jeremy Malcolm, Doctoral candidate, Murdoch University; Perth, Australia
>
> “Distributed Internet Governance: A Chance or a Threat to Democracy?”
> Meryem Marzouki, Researcher, National Center for Scientific Research, and
> Computer Science
> Laboratory of the University Paris 6; France
>
> “The Future of Enhanced Cooperation”
> Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor of International Communication Policy
> and
> Regulation, University of Aarhus; Denmark
>
> Focus:
>
> In addition to creating the Internet Governance Forum, the Tunis Agenda
> calls for “enhanced cooperation” among governments. This language
> originated
> with the European Union's June 2005 criticism of US unilateral control of
> ICANN. The EU claimed that the WSIS statement constituted, “a worldwide
> political agreement providing for further internationalization of Internet
> governance, and enhanced intergovernmental cooperation to this end” and
> that, “Such cooperation should include the development of globally
> applicable principles on public policy issues associated with the
> coordination and management of critical Internet resources.”
>
> The purpose of this panel is to consider questions such as: What are the
> causes of US-EU tensions over Internet governance? What institutional form
> might such a “new cooperation model” for deliberations among
> governments
> take? How viable is the distinction between “day-to-day management of
> the
> Internet and “public policy?” What, more generally, is the role of
> national
> governments in Internet governance in relation to other stakeholder
> groups?
> What implications might “enhanced cooperation” have for civil society
> and
> multistakeholder participation? How might such a philosophy lead to
> changes
> in the structure or processes of ICANN?
>
>
> 13:00-14:30  Lunch break (on your own)
>
>
> 14:30-16:00 The Distributed Architecture of Internet Governance
>
> Chair:
>
> William J. Drake, Director, Project on the Information Revolution and
> Global
> Governance, Graduate Institute of International Studies; Geneva,
> Switzerland
>
> Panelists:
>
> “The Role of International Telecommunications Arrangements in
> Distributed
> Internet Governance”
> Don MacLean, Independent consultant (formerly Chief of Strategic Planning
> and External Affairs, the International Telecommunication Union); Ottawa,
> Canada
>
> “Institutional Factors Impacting Participation in Distributed Internet
> Governance”
> David Souter, Visiting Professor in Communications Management (formerly
> Chief Executive, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization); University
> of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
>
> “Striking a Balance in Guiding Principles for Distributed Internet
> Governance”
> Qiheng Hu, President of the Internet Society of China and Chairperson of
> the
> Steering Committee for the China Network and Information Center (formerly
> Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Beijing, China
>
> “Best Practices for Internet Standards Governance?”
> Laura DeNardis, Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society
> Project; New Haven, USA
>
> Focus:
>
>  As the WSIS agreements recognized, Internet governance involves much more
> than ICANN or the collective management of naming and numbering. Internet
> governance also includes the development and application of
> internationally
> shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs
> in
> a variety of other issue-areas, e.g. technical standardization, cybercrime
> and network security, international interconnection, e-commerce,
> e-contracting, networked trade in digital goods and services, digital
> intellectual property, jurisdiction and choice of law, human rights,
> speech
> and social conduct, cultural and linguistic diversity, privacy and
> consumer
> protection, dispute resolution, and so on. These activities take a variety
> of forms and are pursued in a heterogeneous array of settings, including
> governmental, intergovernmental, private sector, and multistakeholder
> organizations and collaborations. In parallel, the international regimes
> and
> related frameworks they establish vary widely in their institutional
> attributes, e.g. the collective action problems addressed, functions
> performed, participants involved, organizational setting and decision
> making
> procedures, agreement type, strength and scope of prescriptions,
> compliance
> mechanisms, power dynamics and distributional biases, etc.  But while
> there
> is now broad recognition that the architecture of Internet governance is
> highly distributed, there has been little systematic scholarly analysis or
> policy dialogue about its precise nature and implications.
>
> The purpose of this panel is to explore and clarify some of the lingering
> ambiguities, including questions such as: Which governance mechanisms are
> relatively more or less important in shaping the Internet¹s evolution and
> use?  How well do these mechanisms cohere, and are there tensions and gaps
> between them? Are there crosscutting issues that merit consideration from
> analytical and programmatic standpoints?  Are there generalizable lessons
> to
> be learned by the distinct communities of expertise involved in different
> issue-areas with regard to best practices and institutional design?  Does
> the distributed architecture pose any challenges with respect to the
> effective participation of less powerful stakeholders and the global
> community¹s ability to govern in an effective and equitable manner?
> Looking
> beyond formalized collective frameworks, under what circumstances, if any,
> may private market power or spontaneously harmonized practices constitute
> forms of Internet governance? What is the current role of governance
> mechanisms for international telecommunications, and what might that role
> become in a future marked by convergence and potentially non-neutral next
> generation networks?
>
>
> 16:00-16:15 Closing of the Symposium
>
>
> 16:15-16:30 Coffee break
>
>
> 16:30-18:00 GigaNet Business Meeting  (Open to current and prospective
> GigaNet members)
>
>
> *******************************************************
> William J. Drake  drake at hei.unige.ch
> Director, Project on the Information
>   Revolution and Global Governance
>   Graduate Institute for International Studies
>   Geneva, Switzerland
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