[Air-L] WEBCAST APR 23 – International Cooperation on Internet Freedom and Openness

Wed Apr 23 07:12:32 PDT 2025

Coming up at 15:00 UTC (REAL TIME TEXT
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The session's announcement precipitated some fairly vigorous discussion on
GigaNet.

Pari Esfandiari cited her CircleID essay How Trump’s Trade War is Reshaping
the Global Internet
<https://circleid.com/posts/how-trumpas-trade-war-reshaping-the-global-internet>
which
includes
*"What began as a debate over tax fairness has morphed into a contest over
who gets to write the rules of the internet economy. With the United States
aggressively defending its tech sector and other countries asserting fiscal
sovereignty, the world is entering an era of contested digital governance.
Whether the internet evolves as a shared global commons or fragments into
isolated walled gardens will depend on choices being made right now."*

Wolfgang Kleinwächter responded
*"A landmark moment was last week in Geneva during the UNCSTD session.
During the negotiations on the WSIS+20 resolution it was mainly Iran which
watered down proposals to make the IGF a "permanent institution" and to
refer to the "Sao Paulo Multistakeholder Guidelines" (SPMGs). Nevertheless,
the final text included some positive language on human rights, sustainable
development goals, AI and against "duplication" of processes and
institutions. But when the resolution was ready for adoption, it was the US
which asked for a "roll call". The US rejected all references to SDGs,
gender and climate and voted as the only country with "No".  The UNCSTD
resolution will go to ECOSOC and constitutes the main reference for the
"intergovernmental prepratory process" (as mentioned in 79/227) for the
WSIS+20 high level review conference in December 2025.  So far, all WSIS
documents  were adopted by consensus. An interesting "Road to NYC" is ahead
of us. Will we move from the "WSIS Spring" (Tunis) to the "WSIS Winter"?"*

Milton Mueller, then chimed in

* "I think as part of the Oslo IGF and the WSIS+20 process, we need to
start asking hard questions about whether participating in multilateral UN
processes is our friend, our enemy, or just unnecessary baggage in the
quest for a free and open internet. I think we need to shore up the
independence and legitimacy of the native internet institutions, such as
ICANN, RIRs, IETF, and yes, IGF (which was supposed to provide a link to,
not control by, the UN system). Agree with Alexander that ICANN's tendency
to keep itself out of the line of fire by saying nothing is short-sighted
and cowardly. If they won't stand up for self-governance by the Internet
community, who will?"*
So, should be interesting, to say the least!

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On *Wednesday April 23, 2025*, at *11:00-12:30 EDT* (15:00-16:30 UTC),
the *Columbia
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presents a webinar '*International Cooperation on Internet Freedom and
Openness
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'.

In recent years there has been debate in U.S. foreign policy circles about
ways to strengthen cooperation among democratic countries seeking to
promote Internet freedom and openness. In this context, the Biden
Administration considered spearheading a new alliance to work alongside
other initiatives on democracy promotion and Internet freedom, and in April
2022 launched a *Declaration for the Future of the Internet
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with
sixty partner countries. But two years on, the policy environment has
changed dramatically. Digital cooperation among the liberal democracies is
now complicated by a host of new disagreements over trade, regulation,
security, information and geopolitical alignments. At the same time,
digital cooperation among nondemocratic governments is proceeding without
such disruptions and is producing results. These trends raise a number of
pressing questions about the future of global digital governance in general
and the international coalitional dynamics around Internet freedom and
openness in particular.

What has and has not been achieved in this issue-area, and what is the
state of play today? How might the apparent weakening of the coalition of
liberal democracies impact the international politics of Internet freedom
and openness in the years ahead? How might key countries, regions and
multinational companies adapt to the new environment? Can multistakeholder
cooperation help to fill in any gaps and influence the trajectory of change?

This webinar will take stock of these and related questions. A panel of
experts with hands-on experience in this field will lead off the
conversation, and then the rest of the session will be devoted to open
discussion among all interested attendees.

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.

*INTRODUCTION*
*Eli Noam*, Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia
Business School.

*PANEL*
*Eileen Donahoe* - Former U.S. Special Envoy for Digital Freedom
*Ambassador David A. Gross* - Wiley Rein LLP / Former U.S. Coordinator for
International Communications and Information Policy
*Jason Pielemeier* - Executive Director, Global Network Initiative,

*MODERATOR*
*William J. Drake*, Director of International Studies, Columbia Institute
for Tele-Information

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