The GigaNet Reception
Sunday, November 24, 18:00-20:00
Villa Rixdorf Restaurant, Richardplatz 6, Berlin
(15 minute walk from the Estrel Conference Center)
This reception has been generously sponsored by ICANN.
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The GigaNet 2019 Symposium
Monday, November 25, 10:35-18:00
Convention Hall I-D, Estrel Congress Center, Berlin
If you cannot attend the GigaNet Annual Symposium, watch the event LIVE here or participate remotely (we are in Hall I-D and you will need to register).
The symposium is supported by our local host organization, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
Symposium Program
10:35‐10:40 OPENING REMARKS
Hans Klein, Georgia Tech, USA
10:40‐12:10 LOCAL & COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Dmitry Epstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Unpacking Cyber-Capacity Building in Shaping Cyberspace Governance: The SADC case, Enrico Calandro and Nils Berglund, Research ICT Africa, South Africa
- The governance of global digital public goods: Not just a crisis for Africa, Alison Gillwald and Anri Van der Spuy, University of Cape Town and Research ICT Africa, South Africa
- Policy by judicialization: the institutional framework for intermediary liability in Brazil, Clara Iglesias Keller, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans‐Bredow‐Institute, Germany. Presentation.
- Back up: can users sue platforms to reinstate deleted content? A comparative study of US and German jurisprudence, Matthias C. Kettemann and Anna Sophia Tiedeke, Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans‐Bredow‐Institut, Hamburg, Germany. Presentation.
12:10‐13:00 LUNCH
13:00‐14:30 INSTITUTIONS & PROCESSES
Chair: Carolina Aguerre, Universidad de San Andres, Argentina
- Towards a European constitution for the internet? Comparative
institutionalization and mobilization in European and Transnational digital
constitutionalism, Dennis Redeker, Jacobs University Bremen/Universität Bremen,
Germany - Power spotted through its outcomes: understanding the relative contributions of different stakeholders in the shaping of a governance scheme for illegal hate speech online, Barthélémy Michalon, Sciences Po, France
- Leaders and participation in transnational internet governance, Thomas Winzen and David Weyrauch, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Much ado about hacking? How news media in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States report cyber threats, Christine Buse and Florian Meißner, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
14:30‐14:45 BREAK
14:45‐16:15 LAWS & NORMS
Chair: Julia Pohle, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany
- IoTs and the need for digital norms – A global or regional issue? Maria Bada, University of Cambridge, UK
- Protection of personal data through implementation of the right to informational self‐determination: identifying opportunities and pitfalls, Tatiana Shulga‐Morskaya, University of Bordeaux, France
- From localization towards stewardship of data, Jyoti Panday, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
- Counter‐disinformation around the World: comparing state actions, Giovanni De Gregorio and Roxana Radu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK
16:15‐16:30 BREAK
16:30‐18:00 THEORY
Chair: Marianne Franklin, Goldsmith’s University of London
- Legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance—patterns at ICANN, Hortense Jongen and Jan Aart Scholte, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- From discourse to policy change in cybersecurity: US‐Russian rivalry for cyber rules, cyberpower and practices of norm‐making, Ilona Stadnik Saint‐Petersburg State University, Russia
- Global platform governance and the internet impossibility theorem, Blayne Haggart, Brock University, Canada
- Telecommunications ownership and control (TOSCO). A new dataset on internet infrastructure in Africa, 2000‐2016, Lisa Garbe, Tina Freyburg and Veronique Wavre University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Presentation.
18:00-19:00 GIGANET BUSINESS MEETING
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2019 GigaNet Symposium Program Committee
Program Chair: Hans Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Local Conference Chair: Julia Pohle, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany
Angela Daly, Strathclyde University Law School, Scotland
Anna Loup, University of Southern California, USA
Caleb Ogundele, African Academic Network on Internet Policy, Nigeria
Christian Djeffal, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Daniel Oppermann, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Divina Frau-Meigs, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Dmitry Epstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Edison Tabra, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru
Efrat Daskal, Northwestern University, USA
Elinor Carmi, Liverpool University, UK
Gianluigi Negro, Peking University, China
Jamal Shahin, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jat Singh, University of Cambridge, UK
Jim Quirk, American University, USA
John Gathegi, University of South Florida, USA
Jun Liu, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Maria Bada, University of Cambridge, UK
Matthias Kettemann, Leibniz Institute for Media Research and Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), Germany
Nanette Levinson , American University, USA
Rolf Weber, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Trisha Meyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Yik Chan Chin, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Yong Liu, Hebei Academy of Social Sciences, China