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2017 Annual Symposium Programme (Geneva, Switzerland)

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

9:35 – 10:20    THE ICANN REGIME

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 

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

2:50 – 4:00      GOVERNANCE BY PRIVATE ACTORS

4:00 – 5:15       NATIONAL REGIMES

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

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Call for Papers: 12th Annual GigaNet Symposium (Geneva, Switzerland)

Internet Governance in a Time of Global Reordering 

December 17, 2017

The Internet is one of the major manifestations of globalization, yet the current political climate is characterized by a reaction against globalization and a surge of populism and nationalism in many countries. At the same time, assertions of sovereignty in cyberspace are met with warnings about fragmentation. How resilient are Internet governance institutions and practices when trends in international relations and domestic policy shift?

GigaNet is now accepting proposals for papers to be presented at its annual symposium in Geneva. While papers related to the symposium theme are encouraged, authors from any field of study, any methodological or theoretical approach, or working on any aspect of Internet governance are invited to submit their work. Suggested topics:

• Trade agreements and Internet governance
• The role of sovereignty in cyberspace
• The prospects of jurisdictional or technical fragmentation of the Internet
• Multistakeholder governance and the distribution of power in IG institutions
• Governance of the Internet of things (IoT)
• Transborder data flows and U.S.-European negotiations on the new privacy shield agreement
• Algorithmic regulation and intermediary platforms
• The post-transition ICANN; ICANN-related policy issues
• Cybersecurity, cyber conflict among great powers, and Internet governance
• New methods for measuring Internet governance-related phenomena

The 12th Annual Symposium will take place on 17 December 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland as a pre-event of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Participation in the GigaNet symposium and the UN IGF is free of charge.

GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on Internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, regional and international debates on Internet Governance. GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the conference. More information on GigaNet’s organizational structures and activities can be found on the website at https://giga-net.org.

Submission Requirements 
Extended abstracts should consist of 800-1500 words and describe the 1) research question(s), 2) the data used, 3) the methodology and 4) the main findings of the paper. Proposals should be submitted in English. No names or other personally identifiable information should appear on the uploaded files; however, applicants will submit through the Easychair platform which will record their names and contact data.

All documents must be uploaded by 10 June 2017 to: EasyChair

Selection Process 
GigaNet will select abstracts based on double-blind reviews and inform the authors by August 1, 2017. Authors have until August 15 to confirm their attendance, otherwise they will not be put in the program. Final papers must be written and presented in English and need to be handed in by 10 October 2017. Selected authors who do not submit their complete papers by this date will be removed from the program.

Timetable
June 10 Extended abstract submission deadline
August 1 Acceptances notified; requests for confirmation August 15 Confirmation deadline
October 10 Complete papers due
December 17 Symposium

Further details can be found on GigaNet’s website. Queries can be sent to the Program Committee Chair, Dr. Milton Mueller, at: giganet2017@easychair.org

giganet Other events

ICA 2017 Preconference: The Challenges and Promises of Participatory Policy-Making (San Diego, CA, USA)

2017 International Communication Association Preconference 

The challenges and promises of participatory policy-making: Communication practices, design considerations and socio-technical processes.

Hosted by
CalIT2, UC San Diego

Supported by
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley
Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago

Co-sponsored by
ICA Communication and Technology Division
ICA Communication Law and Policy Division
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)

May 25, 2017 | San Diego, CA
Room 5302, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego

 

09:00 am Breakfast

Opening Remarks by Pre-Conference Co-Chairs

  • Brandie Nonnecke, UC Berkeley (@BNonnecke)
  • Dmitry Epstein, University of Illinois at Chicago (@Think_Macro)
  • Tanja Aitamurto, Stanford University (@TanjaAita)

Introductions

10:00 am In Pursuit of “Inclusive” Digital Platforms: Examining ICTs, Policy, and Alternative Spaces from an Activist/Organizer Perspective

  • Rachel Moran, Matthew Bui and Rogelio Lopez, University of Southern California

10:30 am Bridging Publics and Policy Makers: Civic-Engagement in Digital Rights Debates

  • James Losey, Stockholm University

11:00 am Barriers to Adoption: Lessons Learned from RegulationRoom.org

  • Mary Newhart and Joshua Brooks, Cornell University

11:30 am Designing e-Participation Processes and Platforms for Multistakeholder Internet Governance: Perceptions, Politics, and Practices in ICANN’s Implementation of IdeaScale

  • Brandie Nonnecke, UC Berkeley & Dmitry Epstein, University of Illinois at Chicago

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Policy Hacking: Citizen-based Law-making and Policy Code

  • Arne Hintz, Cardiff University [Presenting via videoconferencing]

1:30 pm The Value of Crowdsourcing in Public Policy-Making: Epistemic, Democratic and Economic Value.

  • Tanja Aitamurto and Kaiping Chen, Stanford University

2:00 pm Break (refreshments served) 

2:30 pm Discussion

  • What are the emerging themes and topics you’d like to examine further and why?
  • How could we examine those topics? (Research designs and collaborations)

4:00 pm Wrap-up

  • Conference Co-Chairs

4:30 pm Adjourn

giganet Past Annual Symposia

2016 Annual Symposium Programme (Guadalajara, Mexico)

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:

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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:

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:

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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.

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.

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ICA 2016 Preconference: Power, Communication, and Technology in Internet Governance (Tokyo, Japan)

ICA 2016 Preconference

Power, communication, and technology in Internet governance

Organized by
GigaNet (Global Internet Governance Academic Network)
Co-Sponsored by ICA’s Communication Law and Policy, and Communication and Technology Divisions

Hosted by
Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Tokyo campus)

Supported by
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago

Wednesday, 8 June 2016

PROGRAM

9:15 Opening
9:30 Session 1: Repertoires of IG research, theoritization, and practice
Facilitator and respondent: Leo Van Audenhove

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  • Nathalia Foditsch. Zero rating: evil or savior? Looking at the issue through the lenses of competition policy
  • Jeanette B Ruiz and George A Barnett. Regulating Ownership of the International Internet Backbone and the Worldwide Web
  • Matt Bui, Emily Sidnam and Ellen Helsper. Future Directions for Digital Inclusion Policy: Identifying Gaps in Policy and Integrating Theory for the Pursuit of Tangible Outcomes
  • Sandra Braman. Designing for Instability: Internet Architecture and Constant Change

11:00 Break

11:30 Session 2: National perspectives on IG

Facilitator and respondent: Séverine Arsène

  • Olga Khrustaleva.From national sovereignty to digital sovereignty. Russia’s data localization law and its implications
  • Fernanda Ribeiro Rosa. Internet Governance and the interplay between global and local initiatives: the case of “Marco Civil”
  • Rekha Jain. A Model for Internet Governance for India

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Session 3: Multistakeholderism and civic engagement in IG

Facilitator and respondent: Sonia Livingstone

  • Gwen Shaffer and Andrew Schrock. Collaboratively drafting open data policies: Measuring impacts and improving outcomes
  • Sherly Haristya. The polarisation and interaction of views among civil society actors in the global internet governance
  • Sarah Myers West. Searching for the Public in Internet Governance: An Examination of Infrastructures of Participation at NETmundial
  • Leo Van Audenhove, Julia Pohle, Luciano Morganti and Jo Pierson. Media Literacy and Internet Governance: A necessary marriage, exemplified by the case of the Belgian State versus Facebook

16:00 Break

16:30 Session 4: Reflecting on 10 years of Internet governance research

  • Dmitry Epstein. Internet governance: A meta-review of research literature
  • Christian Pentzold. Performing Internet Governance

Followed by roundtable discussion with

  • Julia Pohle
  • Sandra Braman
  • Adam Peake

18:00 Closing

  • Carolina Ines Aguerre, University of San Andrés
  • Séverine Arsène, French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
  • Analia Aspis, University of Buenos Aires
  • Renata Aquino-Ribeiro, Federal University of Ceará
  • Madeline Carr, Cardiff University
  • Dmitry Epstein, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Marianne Franklin, Goldsmith, University of London
  • Sherly Haristya, Nanyang Technological University
  • Argyro Karanasiou, Bournemouth University
  • Joanna Kulesza, University of Łódź
  • Daniel Oppermann, University of São Paulo
  • Julia Pohle, Berlin Social Science Center
  • Rolf H. Weber, University of Zurich

LOGISTICS

Registration

In order to participate in the event you need to register on the ICA website. There is a registration fee of $25 that you need to pay on the site. To register you will need to create an account on the ICA website, but you do not have to become a member of the ICA or register for the main conference (although it promises to be interesting). Your registration covers refreshments and lunch.

Pre-conference location

The pre-conference will take place on the Tokyo campus of Kanazawa Institute of Technology (K.I.T.) located at Atagotoyo Bldg. 12F, 1-3-4 Atago, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0002, Japan (Google maps). We will meet in room 13F 1301.

Lodging
There are a number of hotels in the general vicinity of the K.I.T. Tokyo campus.

  • Hotel Mystays Hamamatsucho (3 stars/starting at $97)
  • Tokyu Rei Hotel (3 starts/starting at $102)
  • APA Hotel Shinbashi (3 stars/starting at $107)
  • Art Hotels Hamamatsucho (3 stars/starting at $107)
  • Hotel Sunroute Shinbashi (3 stars/starting at $133)*
  • Unizo Shinbashi (3 stars/starting at $152)*
  • Dai-Ichi Hotel Annex (4 stars/starting at $193)*
  • Dai-Ichi Hotel Tokyo (4 stars/starting at $215)*
  • Hotel Okura Tokyo (5 stars/starting at $240)
  • ANA InterContinental Tokyo (5 stars/starting at $267)

*Close to Shinbashi train station.  It take about 15 mins walk or a 5 mins TAXI ride (¥780/$7) to K.I.T campus from the Shinbashi station.

There is also a selection of AirBnB options starting at around $80.

Traveling from Tokyo to Fukuoka
Option 1: Shinkansen high speed train

Travel time from Tokyo Station to Hakata (Fukuoka Station): between 5h30 and 6h30.

The price for a single journey is around 22750 yen (about 200$), reservation fee included.

For a round trip between Tokyo and Fukuoka (or travel plans before and after the conference), the best option is to get a Japan Rail Pass. It is available to all foreigners, but need to be purchased before arriving in Japan. http://www.japanrailpass.net/ and http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2361.html).

The 7-day pass costs around 250$ and can be used on most JR trains throughout Japan (reservation fee included). For the travel between Tokyo and Fukuoka, Rail Pass holders cannot travel on the fastest Shinkansen line (called “Nozomi”) but need to change trains at Osaka or Kobe.

Check here for the connections and time table of the Shinkansen lines (at the bottom of the page, you can select to include the Nozomi line).

Option 2: Flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka

Flight time: 2 hours

Fares starts from 60$ for a one-way trip from Narita airport which is located 60 km from Tokyo city center (about 90 min / 25$). One-way flights from the closer Haneda airport start from 200$ (about 20 min / 5$).