Organization: GigaNet
Title: The 12th Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network
Description:
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. The theme of this year’s Symposium is "INTERNET GOVERNANCE IN A TIME OF GLOBAL REORDERING."
Symposium Schedule
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome
Marianne Franklin, Giganet Steering Committee Chair, and 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
Poster session:
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