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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ciao to all of you. And thanks
Bill for circulating this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>To all those of you
attending the Forum in Athen: good luck for a productive meeting. Giganet seems
to be one of the most stimulating spaces in that context… and I am very sorry
this time I won’t make it. I have been following from a distance, quite silent,
yet intrigued by some developments. And very curious about the outcomes. I have
also been doing small pieces of research (mapping issue networks…no final
results yet but willing to contribute in forthcoming Giganet meetings) and
invited a few students of mine to focus on this process as well as on the
broader environment which is taking shape also with your contribution.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We shall certainly read
your reports and comments, counting on your contribution to get the sense of
the process.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Claudia padovani<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>Da:</span></font></b><font size=2
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plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Per conto di </span></b><st1:PersonName
ProductID="William Drake" w:st="on">William Drake</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Inviato:</span></b> lunedì 9 ottobre 2006
14.23<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>A:</span></b> Plenary<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Oggetto:</span></b> [WSIS CS-Plenary] GigaNet
Symposium in Athens</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><i><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-style:italic'>Please distribute as appropriate<br>
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Final Program<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)<br>
First Annual Symposium<br>
</span></b>www.intgovforum.org/IGF_Platform.php<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
</span></b>Divani Apollon Palace & Spa Hotel<br>
Athens, Greece<br>
Room: TBA<br>
<br>
29 October 2006 </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
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The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is an emerging
scholarly community initiated in Spring 2006. Its four principal
objectives are to: support the establishment of a global cohort of scholars
specializing on Internet governance issues; promote the development of Internet
governance as a recognized, interdisciplinary field of study; advance
theoretical and applied research on Internet governance, broadly defined; and
facilitate informed dialogue on policy issues and related matters between
scholars and Internet governance stakeholders (governments, international
organizations, the private sector, and civil society). In this context, the
GigaNet plans to organize symposia to be held on site prior to the annual
meetings of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). This event is the first in
that series.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>9:30-9:45
Welcome and Overview<br>
</span></i><br>
<st1:PersonName ProductID="Wolfgang Kleinwächter" w:st="on">Wolfgang
Kleinwächter</st1:PersonName></b>, Professor of International Communication
Policy and Regulation, University of Aarhus; Denmark<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>9:45-11:15 Theorizing
Internet Governance: The State of the Art<br>
</span></i></b><i><span style='font-style:italic'><br>
Chair: <br>
</span></i><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
Peng Hwa Ang</span></b>, Dean, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang
Technological University, and Director, Singapore Internet Research Center;
Singapore<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Panelists:<br>
</span></i><br>
“The Need For Interdisciplinary Understanding”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Mary Rundle</span></b>, Director, Net
Dialogue, and Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
University and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University; USA<br>
<br>
“Cross-national Collaboration on Internet Governance: Critical Success Factors
for Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Nanette S. Levinson</span></b>, Associate
Professor of International Relations, American University; Washington DC, USA<br>
<br>
“The Role of the State in Heterogeneous Governance Arrangements”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Jeanette Hoffman</span></b>, Research Fellow,
Social Science Research Center, and Partner, the Internet Governance Project;
Berlin, Germany <br>
<br>
“An Economic Rationale for Internet Regulation”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Filomena Chirico</span></b>, Post-doc
Researcher, Tilburg Center for Law and Economics, Tilburg University; The
Netherlands<br>
<br>
“Hybrid Regimes, Power, and Legitimacy in Global Governance:
Insights from
Internet Privacy Regulation”
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Ralf Bendrath</span></b>,
Research Fellow, University of Bremen; Germany<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Focus:<br>
</span></i><br>
In recent years, scholars have begun to analyze Internet governance issues
using the theoretical tools of their respective academic disciplines.
While issues surrounding ICANN have attracted particular attention, there
also has been significant work done on the international governance of digital
international trade and intellectual property, privacy, security, speech, and
other topics. Such research often has been rather specialized and geared
toward the distinct audiences interested in each issue-area, which limited
intellectual cross-fertilization. These topics are related, and Internet
governance should be seen as a broad but coherent field of study that merits
elaboration and support. Mapping the landscape of relevant theoretical
perspectives is an important first step toward this end.<br>
<br>
The purpose of this panel is to consider questions such as: What aspects of
Internet governance are uniquely interesting and worthy of scholarly analysis?
How has Internet governance been addressed by scholars in the social
sciences, humanities, law, and other disciplines, and which theoretical
approaches seem to be the most promising for which issues and dynamics?
Do these efforts point to the emergence of a coherent research agenda and
the cumulative development of new knowledge? Are there barriers—intellectual,
institutional, and other—that might have to be overcome to advance that agenda?
How can Internet governance develop into an interdisciplinary scholarly field
that is taken seriously by academics and also capable of providing useful
inputs to the Internet Governance Forum and other policy development
institutions? What lessons can be learned, if any, from other fields
defined by the object of inquiry/dependent variables rather than by shared
theories and independent variables, e.g., “communication studies,” “information
studies,” and “women's studies”? Are there national or cultural differences in
the ways scholars approach these matters, and if so how might these be
reconciled? <br>
<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>11:15-11:30 Coffee break<br>
</span></i></b><br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>11:30-13:00 “Enhanced
Cooperation” and Interaction among Stakeholders in Internet Governance<br>
</span></i></b><br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Chair: <br>
</span></i><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Milton Mueller</span></b>, Professor of
Information Studies, Syracuse University, and Partner, the Internet Governance
Project<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Panelists:<br>
</span></i><br>
“A European Perspective on Enhanced Cooperation”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Bernard Benhamou</span></b>, Senior Lecturer for
the Information Society, National Foundation of Political Science; Paris,
France<br>
<br>
“‘The Sovereign Right of States:’ Why Multi-Stakeholder Policy Development is
Possible<br>
and Necessary”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Jeremy Malcolm</span></b>, Doctoral
candidate, Murdoch University; Perth, Australia<br>
<br>
“Distributed Internet Governance: A Chance or a Threat to Democracy?”<br>
<st1:PersonName ProductID="Meryem Marzouki" w:st="on"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Meryem Marzouki</span></b></st1:PersonName>,
Researcher, National Center for Scientific Research, and Computer Science<br>
Laboratory of the University Paris 6; France<br>
<br>
“The Future of Enhanced Cooperation”<br>
<st1:PersonName ProductID="Wolfgang Kleinwächter" w:st="on"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Wolfgang Kleinwächter</span></b></st1:PersonName>,
Professor of International Communication Policy and Regulation, University of
Aarhus; Denmark<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Focus:<br>
</span></i><br>
In addition to creating the Internet Governance Forum, the Tunis Agenda calls
for “enhanced cooperation” among governments. This language originated with the
European Union's June 2005 criticism of US unilateral control of ICANN. The EU
claimed that the WSIS statement constituted, “a worldwide political agreement
providing for further internationalization of Internet governance, and enhanced
intergovernmental cooperation to this end” and that, “Such cooperation should
include the development of globally applicable principles on public policy
issues associated with the coordination and management of critical Internet
resources.”<br>
<br>
The purpose of this panel is to consider questions such as: What are the causes
of US-EU tensions over Internet governance? What institutional form might such
a “new cooperation model” for deliberations among governments take? How viable
is the distinction between “day-to-day management of the Internet and “public
policy?” What, more generally, is the role of national governments in Internet
governance in relation to other stakeholder groups? What implications might
“enhanced cooperation” have for civil society and multistakeholder
participation? How might such a philosophy lead to changes in the structure or
processes of ICANN? <br>
<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>13:00-14:30 Lunch
break</span></i></b><i><span style='font-style:italic'> (on your own)<br>
</span></i><br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>14:30-16:00 The
Distributed Architecture of Internet Governance<br>
</span></i></b><br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Chair: <br>
</span></i><br>
<st1:PersonName ProductID="William J. Drake" w:st="on"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>William J. Drake</span></b></st1:PersonName>,
Director, Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance, Graduate
Institute of International Studies; Geneva, Switzerland<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Panelists:<br>
</span></i><br>
“The Role of International Telecommunications Arrangements in Distributed
Internet Governance”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Don MacLean,</span></b> Independent
consultant (formerly Chief of Strategic Planning and External Affairs, the
International Telecommunication Union); Ottawa, Canada<br>
<br>
“Institutional Factors Impacting Participation in Distributed Internet
Governance”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>David Souter,</span></b> Visiting Professor
in Communications Management (formerly Chief Executive, Commonwealth
Telecommunications Organization); University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom<br>
<br>
“Striking a Balance in Guiding Principles for Distributed Internet Governance” <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Qiheng Hu,</span></b> President of the
Internet Society of China and Chairperson of the Steering Committee for the
China Network and Information Center (formerly Vice President, Chinese Academy
of Sciences); Beijing, China<br>
<br>
“Best Practices for Internet Standards Governance?”<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Laura DeNardis,</span></b> Visiting Fellow,
Yale Law School Information Society Project; New Haven, USA<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Focus:<br>
</span></i><br>
As the WSIS agreements recognized, Internet governance involves much more
than ICANN or the collective management of naming and numbering. Internet
governance also includes the development and application of internationally
shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs in a
variety of other issue-areas, e.g. technical standardization, cybercrime and
network security, international interconnection, e-commerce, e-contracting,
networked trade in digital goods and services, digital intellectual property,
jurisdiction and choice of law, human rights, speech and social conduct,
cultural and linguistic diversity, privacy and consumer protection, dispute
resolution, and so on. These activities take a variety of forms and are pursued
in a heterogeneous array of settings, including governmental,
intergovernmental, private sector, and multistakeholder organizations and
collaborations. In parallel, the international regimes and related frameworks
they establish vary widely in their institutional attributes, e.g. the
collective action problems addressed, functions performed, participants
involved, organizational setting and decision making procedures, agreement
type, strength and scope of prescriptions, compliance mechanisms, power
dynamics and distributional biases, etc. But while there is now broad
recognition that the architecture of Internet governance is highly distributed,
there has been little systematic scholarly analysis or policy dialogue about
its precise nature and implications. <br>
<br>
The purpose of this panel is to explore and clarify some of the lingering
ambiguities, including questions such as: Which governance mechanisms are
relatively more or less important in shaping the Internet¹s evolution and use?
How well do these mechanisms cohere, and are there tensions and gaps
between them? Are there crosscutting issues that merit consideration from
analytical and programmatic standpoints? Are there generalizable lessons
to be learned by the distinct communities of expertise involved in different
issue-areas with regard to best practices and institutional design? Does
the distributed architecture pose any challenges with respect to the effective
participation of less powerful stakeholders and the global community¹s ability
to govern in an effective and equitable manner? Looking beyond formalized
collective frameworks, under what circumstances, if any, may private market
power or spontaneously harmonized practices constitute forms of Internet
governance? What is the current role of governance mechanisms for international
telecommunications, and what might that role become in a future marked by
convergence and potentially non-neutral next generation networks?<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>16:00-16:15 Closing of
the Symposium <br>
</span></i></b><br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>16:15-16:30 Coffee break<br>
</span></i></b><i><span style='font-style:italic'><br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>16:30-18:00 GigaNet Business Meeting </span></b>(Open
to current and prospective GigaNet members)<br>
</span></i><br>
<br>
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<st1:PersonName ProductID="William J. Drake" w:st="on">William J. Drake</st1:PersonName>
drake@hei.unige.ch<br>
Director, Project on the Information<br>
Revolution and Global Governance<br>
Graduate Institute for International Studies<br>
Geneva, Switzerland<br>
<a href="http://www.cpsr.org/Members/wdrake">http://www.cpsr.org/Members/wdrake</a><br>
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