Not the ‘New Oil’: Data Governance and the Internet

13th GigaNet Annual Symposium

15 November 2018

Paris, France

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The 13th GigaNet Annual Symposium will take place on Thursday, November 15, 2018, in Paris, France, following the 13th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

The symposium will be held at Sorbonne Université. Address: LIP6 Laboratory, Tower 26, Room 25-26/105 Sorbonne Université, Jussieu Campus, 4 Place Jussieu Paris, 75005 Paris. Attendees will need to show bags or luggage at campus entrance, as security measures still apply. See maps of Jussieu campus and neighbourhood indicating symposium location.

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8:30 – 9:00          REGISTRATION AND WELCOME

9:00 – 11:00         DIGITAL CONSTITUTIONALISM

• Moderator: Meryem Marzouki
• Neena Pandey and Rahul De’, “Legitimacy Perception of Internet Governance Form: An Inter-Country Analysis”
• Dennis Redeker, “Exploring the Bottom-Up Digital Constitutionalism of the ‘Feminist Principles of the Internet’”
• Nicola Palladino and Mauro Santaniello, “Setting the ‘Internet global multistakeholder community’. An empirical analysis of the IANA transition”
• Anke Obendiek, “Protecting Whose Norms? Authority Struggles in Data Governance”

11:00-11:15         BREAK

11:15 – 12:45       TECHNICAL GOVERNANCE

• Moderator: Hans Klein
• Guillaume Sire, “Semantic infrastructures and the privatization of meaning”
• Nathalie Marechal, “Accountability for Targeted Advertising: Bringing Transparency to the Practice of Surveillance Capitalism”
  (Replaces Corinne Cath, “Changing Hearts and Machines: Human Rights in the Internet Engineering Task Force” who unfortunately cannot attend)
• Francesca Musiani, Alexandre Mallard and Cécile Méadel, “Governing What Wasn’t Meant To Be Governed: A Controversy-Based Approach to the Study of Bitcoin Governance”

12:45 – 14:15       LUNCH

14:15 – 16:15       CYBERSECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY

• Moderator: Derrick Cogburn
• Liudmila Sivetc, “Let’s Control Copies Instead of Originals! New Way of Controlling National Internet”
• Radomir Bolgov and Ruben Elamiryan, “Comparing cybersecurity in NATO and CSTO: Legal and political aspects”
• Domenico Fracchiolla and Francesco Amoretti, “The Cyber Security Policy of the USA under the Obama Administration”
• Martina Ferracane, “Data Flows & National Security: A conceptual framework to assess restrictions on data flows under GATS security exception”

16:15-16:30         BREAK

16:30 – 18:00      TRANSNATIONAL PRIVATE REGULATION

• Moderator: Adam Peake
• Rotem Medzini, “From national to transnational private regulation of/by European data protection officers as regulatory intermediaries”
• Jennifer Shkabatur, “The Global Commons of Data”
• Tobias Mahler, “‘ICANN Shall not Regulate’: A Critical Analysis of ICANN’s Post-Transition Regulatory Powers”

18:00 – 18:30       GIGANET BUSINESS MEETING

Internet Governance in a Time of Global Reordering 

GigaNet 12th Annual Symposium

17 November 2017

Geneva, Switzerland

2017 GigaNet Annual Symposium took place on December 17, 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland on Day Zero of the 12th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held between December 18 and 21. The Symposium was held at Salle 15 Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG). Individual paper submission can be viewed through our SSRN Archive. Original paper titles and content may have been updated following submission for the Symposium.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

9:00 – 9:10      WELCOME

• Marianne Franklin, Giganet Steering Committee Chair
• Milton Mueller, Program Committee Chair

9:10 – 9:30      DIGITAL TRADE

• Jeremy Malcolm: Contested Meanings of Inclusiveness, Accountability and Transparency in Trade Policymaking

9:35 – 10:20    THE ICANN REGIME

• Undra Baasanjav: International Domain Names (IDNs) and Language Rights
• Aaron van Klyton, Soomaree and Arrieta Paredes: The multistakeholder model of Internet governance, ICANN, and the business sector: Practices of hegemonic power 

10:20 – 10:50  COFFEE BREAK

10:50 – 11:35   THE ICANN REGIME (CONTINUED)

• Jan Aarte Scholte: Complex Hegemony: The IANA Transition in Global Internet Governance
• Mark Datysgeld : Understanding the role of States in Global Internet Governance: ICANN as a case study

11:40 – 12:30   GOVERNANCE OF PERSONAL DATA 

• René Mahieu, Hadi Asgahri and Michel van Eeten: MAPPED: Creating an evidence base for assessing the effectiveness of the right of access for transparency and user control
• Amanda Nunes Lopes Espiñeira Lemos and Lahis Pasquali Kurtz: Sovereignty over personal data in Brazil 

12:30 – 2:00    LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION

• Hans Klein: A Holistic Model of Internet Development and Governance
• Rafael Prince and Nathalia Patrício: Net neutralities: no neutral definition
• Brenden Kuerbis and Farzaneh Badiei: Mapping the cybersecurity institutional landscape
• Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix: Who Owns the Addresses? The IPv4 Addresses Distribution Process, Its Actors and Their Legal Entitlements

2:00 – 2:45      SOVEREIGNTY IN CYBERSPACE

• Stéphane Couture and Sophie Toupin: What Does the Concept of “Sovereignty” Mean in Digital, Network and Technological Sovereignty?
• Sara Solmone: Fulfilling freedom of expression online: The problem of access-based jurisdictional approach in Internet-related cases 

2:50 – 4:00      GOVERNANCE BY PRIVATE ACTORS

• Kseniia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani: Standardizing by running code: The Signal protocol
• Louise Marie Hurel and Luisa Lobato: Unpacking Cybernorms: Private companies as norms entrepreneurs
• Natasha Tusikov: Internet Firms as Global Regulators 

4:00 – 5:15       NATIONAL REGIMES

• Fabricio Solagna and Diego R. Canabarro: The participation of nongovernmental stakeholders in Internet governance in Brazil: An assessment of CGI.br’s elections
• Yik Chan Chin and Changfeng Chen: Internet Governance in China: Exploration of Power Relationship
• Gianluigi Negro: The Global Construction of the Chinese Internet, 1994 – 2014 

5:10 – 6:00      GIGANET BUSINESS MEETING
6:30 –                RECEPTION

Internet Governance Research a Decade After WSIS

New Directions and Persisting Challenges

GigaNet 11th Annual Symposium

5 December 2016

Zapopan/Guadalajara, Mexico

09:00 WELCOME

• Marianne Franklin, Chair of Steering Committee
• Daniel Oppermann, Chair of Program Committee

09:15-10:45 – PARTICIPATION, TRANSPARENCY & RESPONSIBILITY

Since its early days as Arpanet and also after the development of HTML and the ongoing dissemination of the commercial Internet, participation was and still is a key factor driving the success of networks. The airiness of the first generation of users in the 1990s however is over. The virtual space for free expression by some once even hoped to be independent from state control is struggling today with surveillance from different directions. Several stakeholders, among them governments and private companies, have a keen interest today in observing and evaluating user behavior on the net. As a consequence critical users try to find more secure technical means to communicate or look for institutional ways to protect user privacy and improve online participation of different stakeholder groups. We will start our day diving into this debate on participation, transparency and responsibility with the following presentations:

• Rachel Pollack Ichou. Opening the black box: in search of algorithmic transparency 
• Isadora Hellegren. Deciphering Crypto-Discourse: Articulations of Internet Freedom in Relation to the State 
• Brandie Nonnecke and Dmitry Epstein. Crowdsourcing Internet Governance: The Case of ICANN’s Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation
• Moderator: Alejandro Pisanty 
  

break

11:00-13:00 – LEGAL CHALLENGES

 User participation, data storage and data (in)security in cyberspace, approached in the first panel, are also subjects of intense intense debate for legal scholars, who are often confronted with the conflict between territoriality and cyberspace. Legal regulations concerning privacy, the growing awareness of hate speech, the right to be forgotten and the challenges of legal compliance in cyberspace are among the topics that will be discussed at a round table with the following experts:

• Markus Oermann, Tobias Mast and Wolfgang Schulz. Doing Internet Governance: Constructing Normative Structures inside and outside of Intermediary Organisations
• Patricia Vargas-Leon. Implications of the application of the “hot pursuit” principle in the cyberspace: an analysis of the case “Microsoft v. United States of America” 
• Nicolas Suzor. Digital constitutionalism: Using the rule of law to evaluate the legitimacy of governance by platforms
• Michael Dick. WIPO’s “Making Available Right” and its Implementation in the Canadian Copyright Regime: At the Intersection of Internet Governance and Intellectual Property Policy
• Moderator: Thiago Tavares 
  

13:00-14:30 lunch break

14:30-15:45 – ACTORS AND POLICIES IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE

 The third panel picks up the topic of participation in a different way. It focuses on questions related to end users and young people involved in, or affected by policies and practices of big IG actors like ICANN and the IGF. ICANN`s New gTLD Program is another form of increasing participation in the Internet. So far, the evaluation of this program is in its early stages and the complexity of the whole process has let to the organization postponing its second round of the program. Also the IGF is a key actor that promotes participation and especially tries to open doors to the next (or rather, the current) generation of Internet users. In this session we want to discuss these aspects of big IG actors:

• Jeanette Hofmann. The founding of the IGF from a field theoretical perspective
• Efrat Daskal and Anna Orlova. Does the world belong to the young? The role of youth in the IGF
• Keisuke Kamimura. Policy oriented evaluation of the expansion of top level domain name space
• Moderator: Marianne Franklin

break

16:00-17:15 – EMERGING ECONOMIES & CRISIS

The ups and downs of participation in the Internet and in Internet Governance can also be observed very well over the past few years in countries with increasing economic growth and also in relation to the Internet. Depending on the context they are labeled as emerging economies, newly industrialized economies, tiger states, BRICS, or developing countries. While some countries benefited from historically and often violently gained economic advantages building basic infrastructure and later telecommunication networks that are today offering stable and strong Internet connections other are still struggling with their colonial past followed by more or less stable ups and downs and unsteady developments. In this last session we want to explore some of these questions and cases and discuss the relation between power and access.

• Kimberly Anastácio. A view from the cheap seats: Internet and colonialism
• Soraia Souza. Internet policy framing in emerging economies: a case study of Marco Civil da Internet, a Brazilian Law for Internet Governance
• Adam Senft and Irene Poetranto. Internet governance during crisis: The changing landscape of Thailand
• Moderator: Daniel Oppermann
• Discussant: Alison Gillwald

17:15-18:00 – FINAL SESSION

•  Summing up
• Updates and Announcements
• Stocktaking and Looking Forward
• Moderator: Marianne Franklin

The symposium will be followed up by the GigaNet Reception at the restaurant MI LOLA, Avenida Providencia 2925, Guadalajara.