[Air-L] Reminder: 7th GigaNet Symposium registration is open

[Francesca Musiani]

Dear all,

If you plan to attend, don't forget to register for GigaNet's next
symposium, taking place on 5 November in Baku:
http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012

Please find below the final program:


*7th Annual Symposium*
5 November 2012

Pre-conference to the UN Internet Governance Forum
Baku Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012

*Program *

9:00 -- 10:00 - The UN, the ITU and Internet governance

Contested Boundaries: The International Telecommunication Regulations
and Internet Governance. William Drake -- University of Zurich

New Issue Domains in the UN Ambit: Negotiating Meanings for Security in
Cyberspace. Roxane Radu -- Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies

Regionalism and the Caribbean Internet Governance Forum. Dhanaraj Thakur
-- University of the West Indies


10.00 -- 11:15 -- The role of private actors in Internet governance

A Quantitative Study of the Factors Driving DPI Deployment by Network
Operators Worldwide. Hadi Asghari and Michel Van Eeten -- Delft
University of Technology; Milton Mueller -- Syracuse University; Shirin
Tabatabaie -- Delft University of Technology

 From Neutral Thirds to Private Law Enforcers. Nicole van der Meulen and
Arno Lodder -- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Internet Policies and Corporate Social Responsibility. Rolf H. Weber --
University of Zurich


11.15 -- 11.45 Coffee break


11:45 -- 13:00 -- Governance of critical Internet resources

Dimensioning the Elephant: An Empirical Analysis of the IPv4 Transfer
Market. Milton Mueller and Brenden Kuerbis, Syracuse University

Laying the Path: Technical Approaches to Legal and Policy Issues in
Internet Design. Sandra Braman -- University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

Impact of the New gTLD Program: Domain Name Regulation Revolution in
China. Hongbin Zhu -- China Internet Network Information Centre


13.00 -- 14.30: Lunch


14.30 -- 15.45: The Internet, civic engagement and state repression

Media Disruption and Revolutionary Unrest: Evidence from Mubarak's
Quasi-Experiment. Navid Hassanpour -- Yale University

The Effects of the Internet on Civic Engagement Under Authoritarianism.
The Case of Azerbaijan. Katy Pearce and Sarah Kendzior -- University of
Washington; Deen Freelon -- American University

Digital Citizenship in the South Caucasus: A Comparative Analysis
between Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Wayne Buente -- University of
Hawaii; Lala Hajibayova -- Indiana University


15.45 -- 16.15: Coffee


16.15 -- 17.30: Cyber security, privacy and copyright

Cookies versus Clams. Tracking Technologies and their Implications for
Online Privacy. Andreas Kuehn -- Syracuse University

The Evolution of Formal and Informal Institutions related to
Cyber-Security: A Comparison of China and India. Nir Kshetri --
University of North Carolina

Discourse Networks on Access Blocking in France and Germany and the
European Union. Yana Breindl -- Georg-August Universität Göttingen


18.00 -- 19.30: Closing reception


Registration and contact

The symposium is free of charge.
Please visit our conference website for registration and additional
information: http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012



--
Francesca Musiani

2012-13 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
1316 36th Street NW
Washington, DC 20057-1025

Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Research engineer and PhD Candidate, Center for the Sociology of
Innovation, MINES ParisTech

Section Head and Co-Chair, ESN-IAMCR (http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn)
Outreach officer, GigaNet (http://giga-net.org)

http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/Perso/Musiani