[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
Corinne Cath
corinnecath at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 05:39:45 PDT 2018
Hi all,
If this works, it would be great if that recording could be made available
for watching at a later date as well.
Many thanks!
best,
--
Corinne Cath
Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute & Alan Turing Institute
Web: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/corinne-cath
Email: ccath at turing.ac.uk & corinnecath at gmail.com
Twitter: @C_Cath
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Niels ten Oever <
lists at digitaldissidents.org> wrote:
> 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@
> 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
> > <http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/330531-calderaro-andrea>
> > > Twitter: @andreacalderaro
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Corinne Cath
Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute & Alan Turing Institute
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