[ecrea] GIG-ARTS 2018 Program: "Overcoming Inequalities in Internet Governance: framing digital policy capacity building strategies"

*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*

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/Organised by: /Centre for Internet and Global Politics / School of Law 
and Politics / Cardiff University

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/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

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*Conference Description*

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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 
programincludes 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 theprogram below, or via the 
conferencewebsite: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/> | 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/

Or,*contact*:

- Conference Format: (events /at/ gig-arts.eu) <mailto:(events /at/ gig-arts.eu)> | 
Andrea Calderaro ((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)>)

*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

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*Conference program*

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*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

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