[Air-L] Invitation to Participate: Research Related to Internet Governance

[Nanette Levinson]

Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in
Construction

A GigaNet workshop, organized in cooperation with GDR TICS and DEL Networks

                        Paris, 23 June 2008 Morning

            Preliminary Announcement and Call for Contributions

The  Global  Internet  Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) invites you to
participate  in  a  scholar  workshop  to  be held in Paris, France, on the
morning  of  June  23rd. This workshop is organized in cooperation with two
main  French  pluridisciplinary  networks  of  scholars in Internet-related
studies:  the  ICT  and  Society  (GDR TICS) and Electronic Democracy (DEL)
Networks.

The  purpose  of  the workshop, the first of its sort, is to allow scholars
involved  in Internet Governance-related research to describe their ongoing
research  projects to other scholars in the field, in order to share ideas,
forge possible collaborations, and identify emerging research themes in the
field.  Scholars  from  various academic disciplines and all regions of the
world  are  welcome  to  contribute  to  this  reflexive exercise, with the
long-term   objective   of  collectively  building  this  interdisciplinary
research field.

What  is  global  Internet  governance  and  what  it is not? Are there any
differences  in the way this process is understood, defined and implemented
in  different  regions  of  the  world?  Is  it  sensitive to political and
cultural backgrounds and traditions, and if so to which extent and in which
ways?  How  is  Internet  governance different from, and related to, global
governance  of other information and communication technologies? What could
be  the  invariants  of  a  global  governance process, irrespective of the
domain  area  it addresses? What are the national and regional projects and
networks  currently  pursuing  research  on  Global Internet Governance? Is
there  any  academic syllabus or other education program dedicated to these
issues?  These are among the many questions to be discussed by the workshop
participants.

Please  send  to the workshop organizing committee chair, Meryem Marzouki (
Meryem.Marzouki at lip6.fr)  by April 15, 2008, your name, affiliation, e-mail
address  and  CV  along with no more than 500 words describing your ongoing
projects.  Rather than featuring academic paper presentations, the workshop
aims  at  providing a survey of current academic activities in the field of
global  Internet  governance. Invitees selected by the organizing committee
for  participation  at  round-table discussions will be notified by May 15,
2008.

Attendance to the workshop is free and open to all interested parties.

                           Organizing Committtee

Eric Brousseau (GDR TICS), U. Paris X, France; Divina Frau-Meigs (GigaNet),
U.  Paris III, France; Nanette Levinson (GigaNet), American U., USA; Meryem
Marzouki  (GigaNet),  CNRS,  France; Milton Mueller (GigaNet), Syracuse U.,
USA;  Thierry  Vedel  (DEL), CNRS, France; Rolf Weber (GigaNet), U. Zürich,
Switzerland.

                                   NOTE

GigaNet  will hold its third annual Symposium in India, in conjunction with
the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).  The call for papers will be issued by
end March 2008.

                           www.igloo.org/giganet