[WSIS CS-Plenary] Workshop on Global Internet Governance - Paris, 23 June 2008 - Announcement and Call for Contributions

[Meryem Marzouki]

[Apologies in case of multiple reception.]

Dear colleagues, dear all,

Please find hereafter and as attached file the preliminary  
announcement and call for contributions for an international academic  
workshop on: "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary  
Research Field in Construction".
This workshop is organized by GigaNet (the Global Internet Governance  
Academic Network), in cooperation with two main French CNRS  
pluridisciplinary networks of scholars in Internet-related studies:  
the ICT and Society (GDR TICS) and Electronic Democracy (DEL) Networks.

The workshop will be held in Paris, France, on 23 June 2008 morning.  
As many of us will converge to Paris to attend the ICANN meeting on  
this same week, this workshop will be a great opportunity for the  
international scientific community involved in the field, together  
with other interested parties, to meet and exchange ideas based on a  
survey of current academic projects running in the field.

Please distribute widely.

Best regards,
Meryem Marzouki (chair of the workshop organizing committee)

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Meryem Marzouki
LIP6/PolyTIC - CNRS
104 avenue du Président Kennedy - 75016 Paris
http://www-polytic.lip6.fr
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Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in  
Construction
A GigaNet workshop, organized in cooperation with GDR TICS and DEL  
Networks
www.igloo.org/giganet - gdrtics.u-paris10.fr - certop.fr/DEL
Paris, 23 June 2008 Morning
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Contributions

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you  
to participate in a scholar workshop to be held in Paris, France, on  
the morning of June 23rd. This workshop is organized in cooperation  
with two main French pluridisciplinary networks of scholars in  
Internet-related studies: the ICT and Society (GDR TICS) and  
Electronic Democracy (DEL) Networks.

The purpose of the workshop, the first of its sort, is to allow  
scholars involved in Internet Governance-related research to describe  
their ongoing research projects to other scholars in the field, in  
order to share ideas, forge possible collaborations, and identify  
emerging research themes in the field. Scholars from various academic  
disciplines and all regions of the world are welcome to contribute to  
this reflexive exercise, with the long-term objective of collectively  
building this interdisciplinary research field.

What is global Internet governance and what it is not? Are there any  
differences in the way this process is understood, defined and  
implemented in different regions of the world? Is it sensitive to  
political and cultural backgrounds and traditions, and if so to which  
extent and in which ways? How is Internet governance different from,  
and related to, global governance of other information and  
communication technologies? What could be the invariants of a global  
governance process, irrespective of the domain area it addresses?  
What are the national and regional projects and networks currently  
pursuing research on Global Internet Governance? Is there any  
academic syllabus or other education program dedicated to these  
issues? These are among the many questions to be discussed by the  
workshop participants.

Please send to the workshop organizing committee chair, Meryem  
Marzouki (Meryem.Marzouki at lip6.fr) by April 15, 2008, your name,  
affiliation, e-mail address and CV along with no more than 500 words  
describing your ongoing projects. Rather than featuring academic  
paper presentations, the workshop aims at providing a survey of  
current academic activities in the field of global Internet  
governance. Invitees selected by the organizing committee for  
participation at round-table discussions will be notified by May 15,  
2008.

Attendance to the workshop is free and open to all interested parties.

Organizing Committtee
Eric Brousseau (GDR TICS), U. Paris X, France; Divina Frau-Meigs  
(GigaNet), U. Paris III, France; Nanette Levinson (GigaNet), American  
U., USA; Meryem Marzouki (GigaNet), CNRS, France; Milton Mueller  
(GigaNet), Syracuse U., USA; Thierry Vedel (DEL), CNRS, France; Rolf  
Weber (GigaNet), U. Zürich, Switzerland.

NOTE
GigaNet will hold its third annual Symposium in India, in conjunction  
with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).  The call for papers will  
be issued by end March 2008.

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