The possible establishment of a sovereign internet in Russia, European initiatives on ‘Digital Sovereignty’, and the conflict between China and the United States over Huawei equipment are rekindling the discussion on splinternets and the limits to global interconnectivity. This event is co-organized by Giganet.
Can the internet, the original network of networks, resist the contemporary strain, or was it built to accommodate these differences? In this talk three expert scholars on this topic, Daniel Lambach, Francesca Musiani and Fernanda Rosa, will give their views on the politics of global connection, its limitations, its future, and its discontent. Their talks will be discussed by one of the founders and prominent researchers of the fields of internet governance, Milton Mueller.
Speakers: Dr Daniel Lambach Dr Francesca Musiani Dr Fernanda R Rosa
Earlier this year we had two GigaNet supported events.
Infrastructural Distortion and Posession
Global internet infrastructure is increasingly becoming part of geopolitical conflicts. However, politics have always been an inherent part of communication infrastructures. One could even argue that that the internet infrastructure has been a field of reconfiguration of global power for decades, we just failed to see it. Elinor Carmi, Fenwick McKelvey and Seda Guerses shone a light on the actors and particularly the material reconfiguration of our life-worlds and politics through technology.
Internet Standard Setting Research Methods
We also had the workshop on Internet Standard Setting Research Methods. This workshop showcased the broad range of research methods used by Internet governance scholars from multiple disciplines to study Internet standard-setting bodies, such as the IETF, IEEE, W3C, WHATWG, 3GPP, ITU-T, ITU-R.
14 December 2022 at 8pm CEST, online, website here
Global internet infrastructure is increasingly becoming part of geopolitical conflicts. However, politics have always been an inherent part of communication infrastructures. One could even argue that that the internet infrastructure has been a field of reconfiguration of global power for decades, we just failed to see it. Elinor Carmi, Fenwick McKelvey and Seda Guerses have been will shine a light on the actors and particularly the material reconfiguration of our life-worlds and politics through technology. This event is co-organized by Giganet.
Friday, April 1st at 4 PM CEST, online, register here
Until now, sanctions on the Internet infrastructure have not been explicitly used, perceived by some as an unacceptable barrier to communication. However, recently, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the Ukrainian government explicitly asked for such sanctions. In response to that, Internet governance organizations rejected this notion, but others proposed that sanctions and boycotts should also be imposed on various properties of the Internet.
Sanctions are not new. The Internet and many Internet services have long been affected by economic sanctions that governments impose on other nation states. Such sanctions have blocked people’s access to online services and, to some extent, to Internet infrastructure. Considering the importance of the Internet in connecting people, nation states have come up with waivers for certain transactions that take place on the Internet. Today, in the face of atrocities being committed by Russia against Ukraine, is it time to reconsider whether sanctions are “absolutely” bad for the Internet? What can be learned from other examples of internet-related sanctions, such as Iran? Join us to debate the desirability and potential intended and unintended consequences of explicitly Internet-oriented sanctions. Is it possible to design sanctions and boycotts targeting Internet infrastructure and services that can be proportionate, precise, effective and that can provide relief for Ukraine and those affected by war?
Panelists:
Courtney Radsch, Fellow, Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, UCLA and ARTICLE19 US adviser (moderator)
Andrew Sullivan, CEO, Internet Society
Farzaneh Badii, Founder, Digital Medusa
Bill Woodcock, Executive Director, Packet Clearing House
Yik-Chan Chin, Associate Professor, Beijing Normal University
Svitlana Matvitenko, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication (video contribution)
Sponsoring organizations:
UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy
GigaNet
Digital Medusa
ARTICLE19
University of Amsterdam, IN-SIGHT.it project
Details:
When: Friday, April 1st at 4 PM CEST/10 AM ET/7 AM Pacific Time
You are invited to GigaNet’s 2022 workshop about Internet Standard-Setting Research Methods on 12 January 2022, from 12:00 to 17:30 UTC. Website here.
This workshop will showcase the broad range of research methods used by Internet governance scholars from multiple disciplines to study Internet standard-setting bodies, such as the IETF, IEEE, W3C, WHATWG, 3GPP, ITU-T, ITU-R. The workshop is also open to the study of “de-facto standardisation” that takes place outside of formal organisations and processes (Musiani and Ermoshina, 2019).
The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for scholars and researchers to:
Explore and perhaps discover qualitative and quantitative methods applicable to standard setting for information networks;
Share open research questions and work-in-progress on methods;
Discuss the feasibility of applying specific methods;
Improve the understanding of specific methods;
Receive feedback to improve the methodological approaches;
Identify new and existing data sources; and
Outline novel topics of interest arising from these various methods for the general study of standardisation and Internet governance broadly construed.
The workshop will focus on the following methods for studying standardisation:
Network analysis;
Computational methods;
Discourse analysis;
Ethnography;
Mixed Methods.
Additionally, we will also consider what lessons can be drawn from studying non-Internet standard-setting bodies and how researchers can acquire the relevant data for their research (including but not limited to standards, patents, conversations, and other standardisation documents and resources).
The workshop will include brief presentations of the authors and group discussion delving into their methods (and findings) and we are excited to have Professor Jorge L. Contreras as a keynote speaker.
We will share the full program in due course. In the meantime, you can email us with questions at: intgovworkshop@protonmail.com and encourage you to share the workshop with your networks.
Reference
Ermoshina, Ksenia, and Francesca Musiani. “‘Standardising by Running Code’: The Signal Protocol and de Facto Standardisation in End-to-End Encrypted Messaging.” Internet Histories 3, no. 3–4 (October 2, 2019): 343–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2019.1654697
Full program
7:00 EST / 12:00 UTC / 13:00 CET Opening Corinne Cath and Niels ten Oever
7:15 – 8:15 EST / 12:15 – 13:15 UTC Qualitative SDO analysis Panelists: Jorge Contreras, Riccardo Nanni, Julien Rossi, Ashwin Mathew, Zuno Verghese Chair: Corinne Cath Discussant: Niels ten Oever
8:15 – 8:30 EST / 13:15 – 13:30 UTC Break
8:30 – 9:30 EST / 13:30 – 14:30 UTC Quantitative SDO analysis Panlelists: Justus Baron, Christoph Becker, Olia Kanevskaia, Nick Doty, Brad Biddle, Margaret Ng Chair: Riccardo Nanni Discussant: Julien Rossi
9:30 – 10:00 EST / 14:30 – 15:00 UTC / 15:30 – 16:00 CET Keynote by Jorge Contreras Chair: Farzaneh Badii
10:00 – 10:30 EST / 15:00 – 15:30 UTC Break
10:30 – 11:30 EST / 15:30 – 16:30 UTC Internet Governance analysis Panelists: Albert Garrich Alabarce, Alison Gillwald, Freya Vandenboom, Kapil Goyal Chair: Julien Rossi Discussant: Farzaneh Badii
11:30 – 12:00 EST / 16:30 – 17:00 UTC / 17:30 – 18:00 CET Closing remarksby Farzaneh Badii
We are using cookies to provide a better experience of our site. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used.OKNoRead more
