The Global Internet Governance Academic Network annual symposium features cutting-edge research on Internet & data governance, regulation, COVID-19 responses and more.

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The full program is available at: https://www.giga-net.org/2020-annual-giganet-symposium-program-katowice-poland-remote/ .It consists of 23 presentations on the latest academic research on Internet governance topics, clustered around 6 panels (ran in parallel): 

(A1) Platform governance;

(B1) Internet Governance and the COVID-19 Pandemic;

(A2) Data governance;

(B2) Stakeholders and their role in Internet Governance;

(A3) Governing standards and infrastructure;

(B3) Cyberconflict and cybersecurity.

You are kindly invited to join us for a half-day of inspiring academic and policy discussions!

2020 GIGANET SYMPOSIUM -  PROGRAM (updated 1 November)

13:40-13:55 UTC – Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Dmitry Epstein, GigaNet Chair
Roxana Radu, GigaNet Program Chair 2020

14:00-15:15 UTC – parallel sessions 1

PANEL A1: PLATFORM GOVERNANCE

Chair: Meri Baghdasaryan, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (United States)
Discussant: Peng Hwa Ang, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

• The Regulatory Politics of Platform Content Governance: Institutional and Normative Constraints in the German NetzDG Process. Robert Gorwa, University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
• YouTube is not yet regulated by Ukrainian law: Internet regulation in the proposed draft law of Ukraine on the media. Svitlana Jaroszynski, Florida State University (United States).
• Democratic legitimacy and global platform regulation. Blayne Haggart, Brock University (Canada) and Clara Iglesias Keller, WZB Berlin Social Science Center (Germany).
• Reforming the liability of non-hosting intermediaries. Sebastian Felix Schwemer, University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Tobias Mahler, University of Oslo (Norway) and Håkon Styri, Norwegian National Security Authority.

PANEL B1: INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Chair: Yik Chan Chin, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China)
Discussant:  Alejandro Pisanty, National Autonomous University of Mexico

• Common Grounds to Protect IXPs: The Key for the Internet Resilience in Times of COVID 19. Patricia Vargas Leon, Information Society Project, Yale Law School and Tufts University (United States).
• When reality hits: the demands brought by Covid-19 and the lack of guaranteed Internet access in Brazil. Laura Pereira, UNESP (Brazil).
• Literature review and coding analyses of COVID-19 tracking mobile application of India. Abhishek Royal, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) and Mohammad Atif Aleem, Tata Consultancy Services (India).

15:20-16:35 UTC – parallel sessions 2

PANEL A2: DATA GOVERNANCE

Chair:  Ioana Stupariu, Central European University (Austria)
Discussant: Claudio Lucena, Paraiba State University (Brazil) & FCT (Portugal) 

• From pandemic control to data-driven governance: the case of Health Code in China. Wanshu Cong, McGill University (Canada).
• A Data Sharing Discipline. Steven Weber, University of California, Berkeley (United States).
• Conceptualizing beneficial interests in the political economy of data: A theoretical inquiry. Arindrajit Basu and Amber Sinha, Centre for Internet & Society (India).
• The disregarded global potential of data protection law. Stephan Koloßa, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany).

PANEL B2: STAKEHOLDERS AND THEIR ROLE IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE

Chair: Alison Gillwald, Research ICT Africa & University of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance (South Africa)
Discussant: Rasha Abdulla, American University in Cairo (Egypt)

• The role of the epistemic communities in the ‘constitutionalization’ of Internet Governance: the case of the EU High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. Nicola Palladino, University of Salerno (Italy).
• Idea entrepreneurs: the case of the 2020 United Nations OEWG and Cybersecurity. Nanette Levinson, American University (United States).
• What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of typologies of civil society in Internet Governance. Nadia Tjahja, UNU-CRIS, VUB, Sunium (Netherlands), Trisha Meyer IES, VUB (Belgium), and Jamal Shahin, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
• Internet Governance in the “Post-Truth Era”: analyzing key topics in “Fake News” discussions at IGF. Chelsea Horne, American University (United States).

16:40-17:55 UTC – parallel sessions 3

PANEL A3 – GOVERNING STANDARDS & INFRASTRUCTURE

Chair: Bruna Santos, Coalizão Direitos na Rede (Brazil) 
Discussant: Farzaneh Badii, Yale University (United States)

• What rules the Internet? A study of the troubled relation between web standards and legal instruments in the field of privacy. Julien Rossi, COSTECH-UTC (France).
• Rising China and the global Internet: assessing China’s challenge to the global Internet Governance system and the international liberal order. Riccardo Nanni, University of Bologna (Italy).
• The Technology We Choose to Create: Human Rights Advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force. Corinne Cath, University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
• Norm conflict in the governance of complex, transnational, and distributed infrastructures: the case of Internet routing. Niels ten Oever, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).

PANEL B3: CYBERCONFLICT & CYBERSECURITY

Chair: Amit Sheniak, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Discussant:  Carolina Ines Aguerre, GCR21-UniDUE (Germany) and CETYS UDESA (Argentina)

• Proliferation of cyber norms: limitations of traditional diplomacy in discussing cyberconflict. Stefania Grottola, Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva (Switzerland).
• Information as power: evolving US military information operations and their implications for global Internet governance. Milton Mueller and Karl Grindal, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States).
• Cybersecurity governance through principles of international law. Rolf H. Weber, University of Zurich (Switzerland).
• Cybersecurity capacity building: cross-national benefits and international divides. William Dutton, Sadie Creese, Patricia Esteve-Gonzalez, University of Oxford (United Kingdom), and Ruth Shillair, Quello Center, Michigan State University (United States).

18:00-19:00 UTC – GigaNet business meeting

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