[ecrea] Forms of execution and institutionalisation of Internet governance

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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