The research agenda of GigaNet is driven by its diverse members. As a collective premier research event, GigaNet Program Committee organizes an Annual Symposium at the Internet Governance Forum meetings. The GigaNet Annual Symposium is an opportunity to showcase some of the best current research on Internet Governance from around the world and provides a venue for scholars to discuss and debate these crucial issues.
The 1st GigaNet Symposium was held in Athens, Greece, on 29 October 2006. The 2nd GigaNet Symposium was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 11 November 2007.
Third GigaNet Annual Symposium
Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), India
2 December 2008
The Symposium brochure(with introduction, detailed program, acknowledgments and biographies), posterand list of pre-registered participants are available online, as well as the photo gallery of presenters
Program agenda with links to full papers and presenters’ photos>
9:00-9:30 Opening Session
Welcoming Remarks by GigaNet Chair
NANETTE S. LEVINSON, American University, USA
Program Overview by Program Chair
MERYEM MARZOUKI, CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
9:30-11:15 SESSION 1 – Chair: ROLF H. WEBER, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Networked Global Governance And The Institutionalization of Internet Governance
New Web Standards in the Making: Transnational Private Governance and Beyond
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DUDOUET, CNRS & Université Paris-Dauphine, France
BENJAMIN NGUYEN (presenter), Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
ANTOINE VION (presenter), Université de la Méditerranée, France
Co-Creating Processes in Global Governance: The Case of Internet Governance
NANETTE S. LEVINSON, American University, USA
More Substance than Process: Information Government’s Lessons for Internet Governance
VIKTOR MAYER-SCHÖNBERGER (presenter), LKY School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Structuring Online and Offline Discursive Spaces of Internet Governance: Insights from a Network Approach to Map an Emerging Field
ELENA PAVAN (presenter), University of Trento, Italy
MARIO DIANI, University of Trento, Italy
ICANN’s GAC and Global Governance of the Internet: The Role of the EU in Bringing Back ‘Government’ to Internet Governance
JAMAL SHAHIN (presenter), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium & Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
MATTHIAS FINGER, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
11:15-11:45 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION*
11:45-13:30 SESSION 2 – Chair: NIKHIL AGARWAL, Europe Asia Business School, India
Global Internet Governance: The Diverse Instruments of a complex mechanism
The Humanization of Internet Governance: A Roadmap Towards a Comprehensive Global (Human) Rights Architecture for the Internet
WOLFGANG BENEDEK (presenter), University of Graz, Austria
MATTHIAS C. KETTEMANN, University of Graz, Austria
MAX SENGES, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain & Stanford University, USA
Architecting Civil Liberties
LAURA DENARDIS (presenter), Yale Law School, USA
Internet Governance and the Jurisdiction of States
JOANNA KULESZA, University of Lodz, Poland
Disrupting Global Governance: The Internet Whois Service, ICANN, and Privacy
MILTON MUELLER, Syracuse University, USA & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
MAWAKI CHANGO (presenter), Syracuse University, USA
Internet Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in Latin-America
CRISTOS VELASCO SAN MARTIN, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
13:30-14:30 LUNCH BRE AK
14:30-16:15 SESSION 3 – Chair: STEPHEN D. MCDOWELL, Florida State University, USA
Stakeholders or Social Actors? Power Dynamics In Internet Governance
Capacity Building’ through Learning in the Global Internet Governance For
SLAVKA ANTONOVA, Massey University, New Zealand
Engendering Internet Governance Research: The Example of Censorship
HEIKE JENSEN (presenter), Humboldt University, Germany
Two Kinds of Violence: Internet Governance and Internet Mob in Mainland China
ZHUO ZHANG, Wuhan University, China
HANDONG WANG, Wuhan University, China
From Athens to Hyderabad: Ontological Politics in the Internet Governance Forum
TAREK CHENITI (presenter), Oxford University, United Kingdom
Social Actors on a Hot Tin Roof? Between the Traditionaland the Avant-garde in ‘Internet Governance’ Mobilization
MARIANNE I. FRANKLIN (presenter), Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
16:15-16:45 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION*
16:45-18:30 GIGANET BUSINESS MEETING
*POSTER SESSION
An Assessment of the UN Internet Governance Forum
OLGA CAVALLI, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Separated Together: The International Telecommunication Union and Civil Society
KRISTINA IRION, Central European University, Hungary
Realizing the Global Promise of the Internet: The Future of Internet Governance
CONSTANCE LEDOUX BOOK, Elon University, USA
JANNA QUITNEY ANDERSON, Elon University, USA
Building Regional and Ethno-Linguistic Communities in the Infosphere: dot Asia and dot Cat
STEPHEN D. MCDOWELL (presenter), Florida State University, USA
PHILIP E. STEINBERG, Florida State University, USA
YI-HSING HAN, Florida State University, USA
The Space Law Analogy to Internet Governance
JEREMY MALCOLM (presenter), Consumers International, Malaysia
Who Dominates the Market First? Competition Between IDN ccTLDs and IDN gTLDs
Y.J. PARK, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Toward a Humanistic Conception of Cyberspace. A Twofold Challenge for Netizens Mobilizing for a Democratic Internet Governance
ELENA PAVAN, University of Trento, Italy
MAX SENGES (presenter), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain & Stanford University, USA
KONSTANTINOS KOMAITIS, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Modifying the Data Stream: Deep Packet Inspection and Internet Censorship
BEN WAGNER (presenter), University of Granada, Spain & University of Munich, Germany
Social Contract As Model For The Internet Community
ROLF H. WEBER (presenter), University of Zürich, Switzerland