[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
Niels ten Oever
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Wed Apr 18 04:49:22 PDT 2018
Hi Hanna,
That would be tremendously helpful, thanks!
Up for broad crowd-sourced academic streaming team (broadCAST) ;)
Best,
Niels
On 04/18/2018 12:51 PM, Hanna Kreitem wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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/
> <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><http://events.gig-arts.eu/
> <http://events.gig-arts.eu/>> | www.cigp.eu
> <http://www.cigp.eu><http://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/
> <https://www-npa.lip6.fr/gig-arts/conference/registration/>
> >
> > Or, contact:
> >
> > - Conference Format: events at gig-arts.eu
> <mailto:events at gig-arts.eu><mailto:events at gig-arts.eu
> <mailto:events at gig-arts.eu>> | Andrea Calderaro
> (CalderaroA at Cardiff.ac.uk
> <mailto:CalderaroA at Cardiff.ac.uk><mailto: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><mailto: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
> > -----------------------------------------------
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> http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/330531-calderaro-andrea
> <http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/330531-calderaro-andrea>
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> >
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