[Air-L] GIG-ARTS 2018 Program: Cardiff, 26/27 April - "Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies" Centre for Internet and Global Politics/Cardiff University
Hanna Kreitem
hannaq at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 03:51:14 PDT 2018
Hi Niels,
I agree with you that more openness and equality effort is needed here,
however, I tend to find that remote participation in academic conferences
is less common than that at Internet governance meetings, particularly the
multi-stakeholder ones.
Now, since I will be participating at the conference (and talking about
digital inequalities!), I will be happy to assist in setting up a simple
one-venue remote participation channel if the organizers allowed this.
Regards,
Hanna.
On Monday, April 16, 2018, Niels ten Oever <lists at digitaldissidents.org>
wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> Thanks a lot for this, this looks like a _very_ useful and timely
> conference, in which I would really like to participate. I think this
> conference would also really benefit from hearing 'outside voices' (such
> as the potential benefactors or target group of said capacity building).
>
> Therefore I was a bit confused that there will be no opportunity for
> remote participation, which is quite common for academic conferences,
> but really quite uncommon for Internet governance meetings.
>
> While the world is trying to address both inequalities and climate
> change, it might be good to look at other ways to include people in the
> conversation than through physical attendance?
>
> I think this is a broader discussion we should have in the academic
> community (not dissimilar to open access), so I am sorry for bringing
> this up specifically with regards to this conference.
>
> All the best,
>
> Niels
>
>
>
> On 04/13/2018 06:19 PM, Andrea Calderaro wrote:
> > GIG-ARTS 2018 - The Second European Multidisciplinary Conference on
> Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies
> >
> > 26-27 April 2018, Cardiff
> >
> > Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy
> capacity building strategies
> >
> > Organised by: Centre for Internet and Global Politics / School of Law
> and Politics / Cardiff University
> >
> > In partnership with: DiploFoundation, The ECPR Standing Group on
> Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network
> (GigaNet), IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology Section, ICA Division
> Communication Law & Policy
> >
> > Conference Description
> >
> > After having explored “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue”
> at its first edition in Paris in 2007, the Second European
> Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors,
> Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS 2018) addresses power
> inequalities in internet governance, and digital policy capacity building
> strategies aiming at overcoming gaps in digital policy developments.
> >
> > Connectivity infrastructure is constantly expanding, while internet
> access is incessantly growing across countries, regions and socio-political
> contexts. In this context, new and crucial questions emerge from a
> governance and security perspective. As for the latter, new connectivity
> calls for cybersecurity capacity building strategies aiming at secure
> digital infrastructure. At the same time, from a governance perspective,
> traditional powers in the governance of the internet are increasingly
> challenged from newly connected actors who demand more influence in the
> transnational debate around digital policy development. As a result,
> despite claims for equal representations and diversity since the first
> World Summit on Information Society in 2003, the narrowing of the digital
> divide opens new and key questions: Whether and what inequalities exist in
> internet governance decision making? How is the rapidly changing internet
> geography and sociography reflected in the governance of the internet?
> Moreover, in order to increase awareness and enhance involvement of newly
> connected countries in national and transnational digital policy
> developments, what are the best internet governance capacity building
> strategies available? How do newly connected countries and actors build
> their digital policy capacity, and do they develop an active role in the
> transnational internet governance debate? Whether in newly or early
> connected countries, various kinds of divides persist across socio-cultural
> and political contexts, reflecting if not extending societal and
> socio-economic inequalities. Are such renewed forms of inequalities and
> discriminations adequately addressed in internet governance debates? What
> are the requirements for digital policies to actually empower people and
> uphold their individual and collective rights online?
> >
> > In order to answer these crucial and manifold questions, the conference
> program includes more than 20 scholarly presentations and contributions
> from policy makers from the European Commission, UK Foreign and
> Commonwealth Office, Chatham House, International Telecommunication Union
> (ITU), ICANN, UNESCO, DiploFoundation and the Global Commission on the
> Stability of Cyberspace.
> >
> > The conference will also benefit from the contribution of Professor JP
> Singh, Chair of Culture and Political Economy / Director of the Centre for
> Cultural Relations at the University of Edinburgh, and author of the
> forthcoming book Development 2.0: How Technologies Can Foster Inclusivity
> in the Developing World (Oxford University Press), who will deliver the
> keynote speech.
> >
> > Please find more information about the program below, or via the
> conference website: https://www-npa.lip6.fr/gig-arts/conference/
> >
> > Program Chair
> > Andrea Calderaro
> > Centre for Internet and Global Politics, University of Cardiff, United
> Kingdom
> >
> > Program Committee
> > William J. Drake, University of Zurich, Switzerland
> > Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths University
> > Katharina Höne, DiploFoundation, Malta & Switzerland
> > Nanette S. Levinson, American University Washington DC, USA
> > Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, United
> Kingdom
> > Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France
> > Ben Wagner, UW Vienna, Austria
> >
> > GIG-ARTS 2018 Communication Details
> > - Website: events.gig-arts.eu<http://events.gig-arts.eu/> | www.cigp.eu<
> http://www.cigp.eu/>
> >
> > Registration
> > Limited number of seats are available, so please register by 20th April:
> > https://www-npa.lip6.fr/gig-arts/conference/registration/
> >
> > Or, contact:
> >
> > - Conference Format: events at gig-arts.eu<mailto:events at gig-arts.eu> |
> Andrea Calderaro (CalderaroA at Cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:CalderaroA at Cardiff.ac.uk
> >)
> > - Logistics: Verity Marsterson (MarstersonVL at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:
> MarstersonVL at cardiff.ac.uk>)
> >
> > Venue
> > The conference will be held in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, at
> the Centre for Internet and Global Politics, hosted at Cardiff University /
> School of Law and Politics.
> >
> > Address: Cardiff University - Main Building / Park Pl - CF10
> 3AT
> >
> >
> >
> > Conference program
> >
> > Day 1 – Thursday 26 April 2018
> >
> > 09:15-09:30 Welcome Session
> >
> > Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University)
> >
> >
> > 09:30-11:00 Session 1:Inequalities in Internet Governance
> >
> > Chair: Meryem Marzouki (CNRS France)
> >
> >
> > - Global Informal Governance, Non-State Actors, and Models of
> National Policy-Making: Explaining Standard Developing Organisation (SDO)
> Decisions Through Multiple Streams
> >
> > Alison Harcourt (Exeter University)
> >
> > - Lost in (IANA) Transition: Inequalities and Discursive
> Struggles Within The “Global Multistakeholder Community”
> >
> > Mauro Santaniello, Francesco Amoretti and Nicola Palladino (University
> of Salerno)
> >
> > - Participation Matters: Potential Effects of the IGF on
> Internet Governance Capacity Building
> >
> > Dmitry Epstein (University of Illinois) and Brandie Nonnecke (UC
> Berkeley)
> >
> >
> > 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
> >
> > 11:30-13:00 Session 2 – Cyber Capacity Building: Security
> >
> > Chair: Robin Mansell (London School of Economics)
> >
> > - Cyber Security Capacity Building: Strengthening Policy Advice
> >
> > Madeline Carr and Alex Chung (University College London), Atif Hussain
> and Siraj Shaikh (Coventry University)
> >
> > - Cyber Security a Shared Responsibility? The Role and
> Likelihood of Public Private Partnerships in National Cyber-Security
> Strategies as a Capacity Building Tool of Power Politics
> >
> > Madeleine Myatt and Detlef Sack (University of Bielefeld)
> >
> > - Cyber Security Strategies: a Comparative Analysis
> >
> > Domenico Fracchiolla (LUISS University) and Mara Morini (University of
> Genova)
> >
> > - The Necessity and Pitfalls of Cybersecurity Capacity Building
> for Norm Development in Cyberspace
> >
> > Zine Homburger (Leiden University)
> >
> >
> > 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
> >
> > 14:30-15:30 Roundtable: Politics and Policy of Cyber Capacity
> Building
> >
> > Chair: Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University)
> >
> > The cyber dimension is increasingly central in foreign policy, and
> discussions around how to develop a sustainable internet infrastructure
> have become key to regulatory strategies at the transnational and national
> level. New levels of connectivity are welcomed as opportunities, but also
> increase vulnerability from a security and human rights perspective.
> Therefore, there is a growing demand to securitize connectivity, which is
> at the center of urgent demands to develop cyber capacity across actors,
> newly connected countries and beyond. CCB Strategies will be discussed by:
> >
> > - Panagiota-Nayia Barmpaliou (European Commission, DG Int. Cooperation &
> Dev.)
> >
> > - Robert Collett (UK Cabinet, Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
> >
> > - Emily Taylor (Chatham House)
> >
> > 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
> >
> > 16:00-17:30 Session 3 – Cyber Capacity Building: Human Rights
> >
> > Chair: Ben Wagner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
> >
> > - The Repressive Potentials of Social Media Regulation: a Warning From
> Turkey To the World
> >
> > Sefa Ozalp, Chiara Poletti and Daniel Gray (Cardiff University)
> >
> > - Content Control Contestations: Why Authoritarian States Challenge
> the Internet Freedom Norm
> >
> > Daniëlle Flonk (Hertie School of Governance)
> >
> > - Two Generations of Online Speech Controls in Russia: from Filtering
> and Blocking to Creating a Copy of the National Internet Infrastructure?
> >
> > Liudmila Sivetc (University of Turku)
> >
> >
> > 18:00-18:30 Key Note Speech at the Wales National Museum
> >
> > Speaker: Professor JP Singh (University of Edinburg)
> >
> >
> > 18:30-20:00 Conference Reception at the Wales National Museum
> >
> > Day 2 – Friday 27 April 2018
> >
> > 09:00-09:30 UNESCO’s “Internet Universality Indicators”
> >
> > Xianhong Hu (UNESCO)
> >
> >
> > 09:30-11:00 Session 4 – Cyber Capacity Building: Economy and Trade
> >
> > Chair: William Drake (University of Zurich)
> >
> > - WTO Digital Trade Discussions: Identifying the Way Forward
> >
> > Marilia Maciel, Jovan Kurbalija and Roxana Radu (DiploFoundation)
> >
> > - Data Flows & National Security: a Conceptual Framework to
> Assess Restrictions on Data Flows Under GATS Security Exception
> >
> > Martina Francesca Ferracane (University of Hamburg)
> >
> > - The International Political Economy of Digital Catching-Up:
> New Trade Agreements and Digital Latecomers
> >
> > Shamel Azmeh (University of Bath), Christopher Foster and Jaime
> Echávarri Valdez (University of Sheffield)
> >
> > - Towards a New Tech Meritocracy? World Society, Technological
> Capacity and Participation in Global Internet Governance
> >
> > Thomas Winzen and David Weyrauch (Mannheim University)
> >
> >
> > 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
> >
> > 11:30-12:30 Roundtable: Power Struggles in Internet Governance
> >
> > Chair: Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University)
> >
> > Discussions on how to enhance inclusiveness in digital policies decision
> making processes has been at the centre of internet governance debate since
> its origins. Enhanced connectivity has however made it even more pressing
> that newly connected actors are represented in the debate. As a result,
> there is an increasing need to expose existing forms of inequalities and
> understand how they impact on agenda setting and decision making
> capacities. Discussions on internet governance inequalities and strategies
> to overcome this gap will benefit from the contribution from:
> >
> > - Marilia Maciel (DiploFoundation / Global Commission on the Stability
> of Cyberspace)
> >
> > - Andrea Beccalli (ICANN)
> >
> > - Mike Nxele (UN International Telecommunication Union - ITU)
> >
> > - Xianhong Hu (UNESCO)
> >
> > 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
> >
> > 14:00-15:30 Session 5 – Identifying the gaps: Actors, Diplomacy, and
> Regulation
> >
> > Chair: Katharina Höne (DiploFoundation)
> >
> > - Big Data – Big Capacity Gaps? Towards Capacity Building for
> Big Data in Diplomacy and Development Cooperation in the Context of Small
> and Developing Countries
> >
> > Katharina Höne (DiploFoundation)
> >
> > - Who Owns the Internet, and Why Does it Matter? An Analysis of
> ISP Ownership in Africa
> >
> > Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe and Veronique Wavre (University of St. Gallen)
> >
> > - Artificial Limitations and Meaningful Access: How Artificial
> Limitations on the Internet Affect Digital Inequalities
> >
> > Massimo Ragnedda and Hanna Kreitem (Northumbria University)
> >
> > - Who direct Social Media governance? An empirical study of
> actors performing the controversy around Social Media and content regulation
> >
> > Chiara Poletti (Cardiff University)
> >
> > 15:30 Concluding Remarks
> >
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > Andrea Calderaro, PhD
> > Director Centre for Internet and Global Politics (CIGP)
> > Director of PGR Politics & IR
> > Lecturer in International Relations
> > Department of Politics and International Relations | Cardiff University
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > Personal page: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/330531-calderaro-
> andrea
> > Twitter: @andreacalderaro
> >
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