28 NOVEMBER (Banquet Hall A, United Nations Conference Centre & Online)
ADDIS ABABA LOCAL TIMES (UTC +3) INDICATED BELOW
10h WELCOME REMARKS / INTRODUCTION
10h10 THE CONTESTED GOVERNANCE OF DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Chair: Alison Gillwald, Research ICT Africa and Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
Discussant: Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of Aarhus
- Development aid and fiber-optic network providers: China, the World Bank, and the ICT sector in Africa – Stephanie Arnold (University of Bologna)
- What we owe each other: equitable access to secure, affordable, and reliable LEO broadband satellite services – Berna Akcali Gur (Queen Mary University of London) and Joanna Kulesza (University of Lodz)
- Power plays, industrial strategy, and the appropriation of open software in the making of Open RAN. The case of Japanese industry in 5G standardisation – Riccardo Nanni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
- Encoding Privacy: Tech Workers as Co-Regulators in Data Protection Regulations – Rohan Grover (USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism)
- AI politics and sanctions: comparing the cases of Russia and Iran – Radomir Bolgov and Olga Filatova (Saint Petersburg University)
11h30 BREAK
11h40 DIPLOMACY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE NEW ERA OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE
Chair: Yik Chan Chin, Beijing Normal University
Discussant: Ayden Ferdeline, Humanity in Action / Alfred Landecker Foundation
- An Agent of Change: Youth Meta-participation at the Internet Governance Forum – Nadia Tjahja and Diana Potjomkina (United Nations University – CRIS)
- Politics of citations: A gender analysis of the conference proceedings of the Internet Governance Research Network (REDE) in Brazil – Fernanda Rosa (Virginia Tech), Kimberly Anastácio (American University), Maria Vitória Pereira de Jesus (UNIMONTES) and Hemanuel Veras (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
- Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace: Engaging the Private Sector Through Tech Diplomacy – Stefania Grottola (University of Geneva)
- Roles in the Digital Space: Symbolic Interactionist Role theory and Norms of Sovereignty – Sophie Hoogenboom (United Nations University- CRIS)
- Safe space by design? Federated architectures as alternative socio-technical models for content moderation governance – Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani (Center for Internet and Society, French National Centre for Scientific Research)
13h00 LUNCH BREAK
14h10 PERSPECTIVES ON DATA GOVERNANCE AROUND THE WORLD
Chair: Jan Aart Scholte, Global Transformations and Governance Challenges, Leiden University
Discussant: Dmitry Epstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Trade Diplomacy Implications of Data Sovereignty & Data Localization – Robert A. Rogowsky, Stephanie Teeuwen and Katarina Zomer (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey)
- East Wind, West Wind. Avoiding a new technological cold war – María del Pilar Rodriguez Pita and Jorge Emiliano Pérez Martínez (Internet Governance Forum Spain)
- Co-production for Artificial Intelligence project implementation: lessons from Latin America – Maria Esther Cervantes, Fabrizio Scrollini (Latin American Open Data Initative) and Carla Bonina (University of Surrey)
- The aftermath of pandemic data disclosure: Towards a data governance framework for equitable datacultures – Jeehyun Jenny Lee (University of Washington)
15h20 BREAK
15h25 GIGANET BUSINESS MEETING
16h20 CONCLUSION
We look forward to the symposium and to your participation!
GigaNet Program Committee 2022
Program Chair: Roxana Radu, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Berna Akcali Gur
Yik Chan Chin
Andrea Calderaro
Corinne Cath
Dmitry Epstein
Patricia Esteve-Gonzalez
Giovanni De Gregorio
Robert Gorwa
Matthias C. Kettemann
Hans Klein
Nanette Levinson
Jun Liu
Ashwin Mathew
Trust Matsilele
Trisha Meyer
Riccardo Nanni
Gianluigi Negro
Niels ten Oever
Daniel Oppermann
Jim Quirk
Julia Pohle
Gnanajeyaraman Rajaram
Michèle Rioux
Mauro Santaniello
Jamal Shahin
Jat Singh
Edison Tabra
Patricia Adriana Vargas Leon
Rolf H. Weber