[Air-L] Summer School on Internet Governance

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

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> 2nd Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG)
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> Meissen, July 25 - August, 31, 2007
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> The Internet, with more than 1.2 billion users worldwide, is the  
> most important infrastructure of the information age. The Internet  
> influences policies, economics and cultures on the global as well as  
> on the local level. Internet related issues like security and  
> stability, freedom of expression, privacy, eCommerce, new market  
> opportunities, protection of intellectual property, fight against  
> cybercrime, development, digital divide and others getting higher  
> and higher priorities on the national and international political  
> agenda. To reach the UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG) until 2015  
> the Internet is a crucial tool. For some experts Internet Governance  
> will become as important as it is climate change today.
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> Do you want to understand, how and by whom the Internet is governed  
> and what the issues are which have made Internet Governance as one  
> of the new global conflicts of the diplomacy of the 21st century? Do  
> you want to know what the political, economic, social and legal  
> implications of Internet Governance are and what is behind ICANN,  
> RIRs, ccTLDs, gTLDs, iDNs, IPv6, IGF, WGIG and WSIS ? Do want to get  
> more detailed information on how technical Internet Standards,  
> Protocols and Codes, how the Domain Name System and the IP Address  
> Space or the Domain Name market is evolving? Than you should apply  
> for the "2008 Summer School on Internet Governance" (SSIG).
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> The 2008 Summer School offers a unique multidisciplinary high level  
> 50 hours academic programme both for graduate students and young  
> academics as well as for junior professionals from private sector,  
> government and civil society. The programme is a well balanced  
> mixture of theoretical lectures with world leading academics as well  
> as practical presentations from well known experts working directly  
> in the technical community, the market or in policy. It offers also  
> opportunities for interactive communication with faculty members and  
> among the fellows themselves by the daily evening programme of  
> students  presentations.
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> Members of the 2008 Faculty include, inter alia
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> Prof. Olga Cavalli, University of Buenos Aires
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> Bertrand de la Chapelle, Envoy of the Information Society, French  
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> Avria Doria, Lulea Technology University, Chair of ICANNs GNSO Council
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> Dr. William Drake, Graduate Institute for International and  
> Development Studies, Geneva
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> Philipp Grabensee, Chairman of the Board of Afilias Ltd., Dublin
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> Ayesha Hassan, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris
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> Markus Kummer, Executive Secretary of the Internet Governance Forum,  
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> Prof. Milton Mueller, School of Information Studies, Syracuse  
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> Michael Niebel, European Commission, Member of ICANNs GAC, Brussels
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> Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford Internet Institute (TBC)
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> The Faculty is chaired by Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of  
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> The 2008 Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) takes place in  
> the St. Afra Monastery of the "Evangelische Akademie Meissen" in  
> Germany, a historic place, where the father of the German  
> enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, went to school. Meissen is  
> a 1000 years old small city, famous for its "Meissen China", its  
> very dry white wine and its old fortress, gothic churches and  
> historic wine cellars from July 25 - July 31, 2008. It is a 30  
> minutes train ride from Dresden Airport, which connected by six  
> daily shuttles to Munich and Frankfurt.
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> The Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) is organized by the  
> University of Aarhus and the Medienstadt Leipzig e.V., a recognized  
> "At Large Structure" (ALS) under ICANN Bylaws. It is sponsored by  
> five TLD Registries, among them as Golden Sponsor DENIC (.de), as  
> Silver Sponsor UNINETT (.no) and SIDN (.nl) and as Bronze Sponsor  
> EURID (.eu) and DotAsia (.asia). Additionally UNESCO, Diplo  
> Foundation, GIGANET, ENOM, Afilias, Dotberlin and others have  
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> The fee of 1.000.00 EUR (plus 19% VAT) includes, next to the full  
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> *	six nights accommodation in single guest rooms of the academy,
> *	breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee and snacks & wine at the daily  
> night sessions,
> *	one evening reception in the Meissen Procellanmanufactory,
> *	a gala dinner in the historic wine-restaurant "Vinzenz Richter",
> *	sightseeing events,
> *	free WiFi access and
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> There is a special fee for students of 500.00 EUR (plus 19% VAT).  
> There is also an opportunity to apply for support from the  
> fellowship programme which is still under development.  Students  
> will get a certificate at the end of the Summer School.
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> Detailed information, including the Draft Programme and the  
> electronic "Application Form" as well as comments from 2007 Summer  
> School Fellows can be found under www.euro-ssig.eu <http://www.euro-ssig.eu/ 
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> If you are interested in the Summer School on Internet Governance  
> (SSIG), please send Applications until May 31, 2008 by using the  
> electronic form on the website or contacting directly Sandra  
> Hoferichter (info at hoferichter.eu), the Secretary of the Summer  
> School or Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter (wolfgang at imv.au.dk), chair of  
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> Members of the 2008 Programme Committee
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> Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter, University of Aarhus (Chair); Dr.  
> William J. Drake, Graduate Institute for International and  
> Development Studies Geneva; Prof. Milton Mueller, Syracuse  
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> Vastenburg, SIDN; Giovanni Seppia, EURID; Sabine Dolderer, DENIC;  
> Philipp Grabensee, Afilias; Axel Plathe, UNESCO
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu 
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Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.  
--Byron