2012 Annual Symposium

GigaNet 7th Annual Symposium

5 November 2012

Pre-conference to the UN Internet Governance Forum

Baku Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) will hold the Seventh GigaNet Annual Symposium, on 5 November 2012, one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Since 2006, GigaNet has organized an Annual Symposium to showcase research about Internet Governance, focusing on an interdisciplinary approach. As in previous years, this year's symposium will provide room to discuss current and future questions as well as the challenges encountered and results achieved in Global Internet Governance.

Please visit the event website for further information and registration:

http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012.html

Final program

9.00 - 9.15: Introduction by the Chair of GigaNet

9.15 - 10.30: The UN, the ITU and Internet governance

Chair: Milton Mueller – Syracuse University

• Contested Boundaries. The International Telecommunication Regulations and Internet Governance
  William Drake – University of Zurich
                                                                                                                      
• New Issue Domains in the UN Ambit. Negotiating Meanings for Security in Cyberspace
  Roxane Radu – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
  
  

• Regionalism and the Caribbean Internet Governance Forum
  Dhanaraj Thakur – University of the West Indies
  

10.30 - 11.15: Governance of critical Internet resources

Chair: Stefano Trumpy – CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica

• Dimensioning the Elephant. An empirical Analysis of the Ipv4 Transfer Market
  Milton Mueller – Syracuse University
  Brenden Kuerbis – Syracuse University
  Hadi Asghari – Delft University of Technology

• The Impact of the New gTLD Program on the Internet Governance Regimes of Emerging Economies
  Hongbin Zhu – China Internet Network Information Centre
  
  
• Additional paper (not presented during the symposium)
  Laying the Path: Technical Approaches to Legal and Policy Issues in Internet Design.
  Sandra Braman – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

11.15 - 11.45: Coffee break

11.45 - 13.00: The role of private actors in Internet governance

Chair: Leo Van Audenhove – Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• Unravelling the Economic and Political Drivers of Deep Packet Inspection
  Hadi Asghari – Delft University of Technology
  Michel Van Eeten – Delft University of Technology
  Milton Mueller – Syracuse University
  
  
• From Neutral Thirds to Private Law Enforcers: Toward a Criterial Framework for Requests Placed on Internet Service Providers
  Nicole van der Meulen – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Arno Lodder – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  
  
• Internet Policies and Corporate Social Responsibility
  Rolf H. Weber – University of Zurich
  

13.00 - 14.30: Lunch break

14.30 - 15.30: The Internet, civic engagement and state repression

Chair: Lee Hibbard – Council of Europe

• Media Disruption and Revolutionary Unrest. Evidence from Mubarak's Quasi-Experiment
  Navid Hassanpour – Yale University
  
  
• The Effects of the Internet on Civic Engagement Under Authoritarianism. The Case of Azerbaijan.
  Katy Pearce – University of Washington
  Sarah Kendzior – University of Washington
  Deen Freelon – American University
  
  
• Additional paper (not presented during the symposium)
  Digital Citizenship in the South Caucasus: A Comparative Analysis between Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan
  Wayne Buente – University of Hawaii
  Lala Hajibayova – Indiana University
  
  

15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break

16.00 - 17.30: Cyber security, privacy and copyright

Chair: Michel van Eeten  –  Delft University of Technology

• Cookies versus Clams. Tracking Technologies and their Implications for Online Privacy
  Andreas Kuehn – Syracuse University
  
  
• The Evolution of Formal and Informal Institutions related to Cyber-Security. A Comparison of China and India
  Nir Kshetri – University of North Carolina
  
  
• Discourse Networks on Access Blocking in France and Germany and the European Union
  Yana Breindl – Georg-August Universität Göttingen
  
  

Registration

The GigaNet Annual Symposium is free of charge.

Registration is possible via the event website: http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012.html

Venue

The symposium will take place at the Baku Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, the venue of the 2012 Internet Governance Forum.

Please visit the website of IGF 2012for information about the venue and accommodation in Baku.

Contact

For questions concerning the program and the organisation, please contact the symposium organizers Leo Van Audenhove, Program Committee Chair, and Julia Pohle.

Coffee breaks and other expenses supported by: