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[ecrea] Forms of execution and institutionalisation of Internet governance

Tue May 12 19:04:31 GMT 2009




IG3T - Paris Workshop- June 12, 2009. 9h-18h
Forms of execution and institutionalisation of Internet governance
Ecole des Mines, 60 boulevard Saint Michel, 75006 Paris
Room V114-V115

Global Internet governance, as a form of techno-political regulation, suffers from a democratic deficit that is particularly obvious as multiple devices are intended to reduce it. The creation of Fora (Forum des Droits sur l'internet, Forum sur la gouvernance de l'internet ?) is one of the means by which civil society is supposed to exert an influence on the development of standards and decision-making. However, an empirical examination of their organisation and operations reveals important gaps: don't these authorities ultimately legitimise the existing techno-political practices and neutralise some of the dynamics of collective action? At the same time, the technical choices incorporate values and interests that can be contradictory. It is thus important to consider: a) the problems arising from the idea of a global ethics for the Internet and the sectorial realities of its governance; b) the unveiling of the necessary prerequisites that have underpinned Internet governance since the nineties and the conditions that would make agreement possible between the market-related aspects, the public policies and the "common good"; and c) the organisation of normative pluralism in contextual devices in which ethics and policies are brought up to date.

SPEAKERS
o       Herbert Burkert (University of St Gall, CH):
-       The Institutionalization of the Net.
o       Marcel Machill (University of Leipzig, DE):
-       The Importance of Search-engines for Internet Governance
o       Eva Hemmungs-Wirten (University of Uppsala, SW):
-       Gleaning as Governance : Histories of Use from rural to digital Spaces.
o       Claudia Padovani (University of Padua, IT):
- Democracy and global Governance, the wager of the Internet Governance Forum.
o       Bernhard Rieder (Université Paris 8, FR):
- Institutionalizing without Institutions? Self-Organization, Hierarchy and Power on the Web. o Francis Châteauraynaud (Director, Research Group on pragmatic and reflective sociology, EHESS-Paris, FR): - Asymmetries in the seizure of power and forms of power in a networked world. o Cécile Méadel (CSI-ENSMP) and Laurence Monnoyer-Smith (Technical University of Compiègne, FR), with Francesca Musiani & Romain Badouard:
-       Towards a typology of Internet Governance devices.

Free entrance after inscription to the following address: contact-at-voxinternet.org


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