Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)

A global network for scholars of internet governance

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The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is an emerging scholarly community initiated in spring 2006 in conjunction with the UN Internet Governance Forum. Its four principal objectives are to:

support the establishment of a global network of scholars specializing in 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).

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Call for Papers - Fifth GigaNet Annual Symposium - deadline 15 July 2010

Dear GigaNet members and followers,

On behalf of the Program Committee, we are pleased to announce below the Call for Papers for the Fifth GigaNet Annual Symposium, to be
held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 13 September 2010.

The event is a good opportunity to share and discuss your research with experts in Internet Governance or just to follow the high quality interdisciplinary research which are being conducted now.

I am grateful for the Program Committee work and I hop… Continue

Posted by Raquel Gatto on June 17, 2010 at 3:58pm

Montreal workshop was great

The Montreal regional meeting concluded Monday afternoon, and it took me until now to find the time to report on it. It was an energizing meeting. Attendance hovered around 50 most of the time. Our experiment with a more outreach-oriented program on the first day was definitely a success. Thanks to support from Media@McGill and specifically Professor Becky Lentz, the first-day program attracted a large number of students, mainly undergraduate students. Many new members joined, and plans for anot… Continue

Posted by Milton Mueller on June 2, 2010 at 2:30pm