[P2P-F] Fwd: Next Week: Geneva Internet Platform

[Michel Bauwens]

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http://giplatform.org/gic

The Geneva Internet Conference (GIC) will address critical issues,
gaps, and future developments in Internet governance (IG) and digital
politics. The conference will provide a neutral and inclusive space
for debates as it paves the way to 2015, building on the main events
and developments in 2014, including announcement of the transition of
the IANA oversight of Internet functions, NETmundial and the Internet
Governance Forum.

Registrations to attend the conference in situ in Geneva are now
closed. You may still participate online. Please check "Remote
participation" tab for more info.

Programme includes two "fathers of the Internet" -- Bob Kahn and Louis
Pouzin:



DAY ZERO – 17 November 2014

14.00 ‒ 17.00        Introduction to Internet governance
(pre-conference workshop) - Auditorium Kreuzel

17.30 ‒ 19.30        Keynote address by Fadi Chehadé, President and
Chief Executive Officer, ICANN (Auditorium de Mello)

Inauguration of Geneva Digital Landscape IG 360° followed by a
reception - WMO Attic

DAY ONE – 18 November 2014

The Internet governance landscape
09.30 ‒ 10.00

Welcome and opening remarks  (Salle Obasi)

Amb. Jürg Lauber, Head of Division, UN and International Organisations
Division, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Ruedi Noser, National Counselor, President of ICT Switzerland and the
initiators of the Geneva Internet Platform

10.00 ‒ 11.00

FORUM: One Internet – many policy angles  (Salle Obasi)

Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary-General elect  & Director,
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU

Yi Xiaozhun, Deputy Director General, WTO

Flavia Pansieri, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR

Christian Wichard, Deputy Director-General, Global Issues Sector, WIPO

Preserving one Internet involves different policy processes. More than
50% of global Internet policy is discussed and decided on in Geneva:
telecom infrastructure, human rights, e-commerce, digital intellectual
property are just a few of the areas. This high-level panel will
discuss different policy angles, and ways in which cross-cutting
Internet policy can be developed. High officials from the ITU, the
WTO, and WIPO will discuss potential synergies among their activities
of the relevance for the Internet.

11.30 ‒ 13.00

FORUM: Mapping the Internet governance landscape ‒ actors, processes,
and issues  (Salle Obasi)

Moderator: Jovan Kurbalija, DiploFoundation and GIP

Louis Pouzin, expert in computer communications (one of the fathers of
the Internet)

William J. Drake, International Fellow and Lecturer, University of
Zurich & Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, ICANN

Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Managing Director, Compass Rose Sdn Bhd & Member
of the Board of Directors, ICANN

Khaled Fattal, Group Chairman, Multilingual Internet Group, London

Internet governance is a highly complex policy space with hundreds of
actors addressing more than 50 IG issues through more than 1000
mechanisms (conventions, standards,events, experts groups, etc.). The
more Internet impacts all spheres of our life, the more complex and
broader Internet governance will become.  Very few actors, if any,
have a full grasp of the complexity of IG.  The risk of
incomprehensible IG could lead towards the marginalisation of some
actors and, ultimately, a risk for legitimacy of Internet governance.
In addition, good mapping of Internet governance will increase the
efficiency of policy processes and reduce duplicate efforts in various
forums. The session will discuss the challenge of mapping Internet
governance and ways and means of making it more accessible to all
concerned.

The panellists will address the following issues:

What does Internet governance include?
What are the criteria for mapping Internet governance issues and their
relevance?
How can we create easier access to Internet governance?
If a one-stop shop is a solution, what functions should it have and
how should it be organised?

14.30 ‒ 16.00

Same issues, different perspectives: overcoming policy silos in
privacy and data protection  (Auditorium de Mello)

Moderator: Vladimir Radunovic, DiploFoundation and GIP

Brian Trammell, Communication Systems Group, ETH Zurich

Nick Ashton-Hart, Executive Director, Internet &Digital Ecosystem
Alliance (IDEA)

Amb. Thomas Hajnoczi, Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations,
Geneva

Carly Nyst, Legal Director, Privacy International

The omnipresence of the Internet in modern society makes most Internet
policy issues transversal. For example, cybercrime cannot be addressed
only as a security issue or e-commerce only as trade issue. Yet, a
transversal approach is more an exception than a common practice in
Internet governance. This session will discuss ways and means of
introducing a transversal approach using the example of data
protection and privacy, addressed from standardisation, human rights,
diplomatic, security, and business perspectives.

Legal framework, jurisdiction, and enforcement in Internet governance
(Salle Obasi)

Moderator: Jacques de Werra,Professor, Law School, University of Geneva

Rolf Weber, Professor, University of Zurich

Joe Cannataci, Professor, University of Groningen

Mira Burri, Senior Research Fellow, World Trade Institute & Lecturer,
University of Bern

Konstantinos Komaitis, Policy Advisor, Internet Society

Xianhong Hu, Program Specialist, Division for Freedom of Expression
and Media Development, UNESCO

The Internet does not function in a legal vacuum. Increasingly, it is
perceived that what is (il)legal offline is (il)legal online. The UN
Human Rights Council made this principle explicit: ‘The same rights
that people have offline must also be protected online.’ Thus, most
Internet issues are already regulated in the offline environment (e.g.
jurisdiction, copyright, trademark, labour law).The main challenge is
how to apply these rules to Internet transactions, particularly in
view of transborder aspects and the speed of Internet activities. At
the preparatory seminar for the Conference, the idea of legal
innovation with wisdom was suggested. It means that there is a need
for innovation for the Internet, which should not ignore  the wisdom
of the legal profession gathered over centuries in regulating
conflicts and ensuring order in human society.

The session will focus on the following questions:

Is there any area where the ‘offline/online principle’ cannot be
applied and there will be a need for new substantive rules for the
Internet?

What are the specific challenges for applying  existing legal rules on
the Internet?

How do we innovate with wisdom? What are the possible innovations?

Inclusion in digital policy: e-participation and capacity development
(Auditorium Kreuzel)

Moderator: Pete Cranston, co-director, Euforic Services, Oxford

Chengetai Masango, Programme and Technology Manager, Secretariat of
the Internet Governance Forum

Ginger Paque, Director of IG Programmes, DiploFoundation

Anders Norsker, Head of Information Services, ITU (tbc)

Marília Maciel, Researcher and Coordinator, Center for Technology and
Society, FGV Brazil

Anne-Rachel Inné, Vice-President, Government Engagement, ICANN

Inclusive digital policy depends on e-participation and capacity
development. E-participation ensures participation of all those who
cannot participate in situ. It is not surprising that e-participation
in global governance is most advanced in the field of Internet
governance.  The session will discuss the four most relevant
experiences in digital policy: the IGF, ICANN, the ITU, and
NETmundial.

The session will provide concrete input based on the following questions:

What  practical techniques are there for making e-participation more
effective?

How can we ensure proper synchronisation between two dynamics of the
event: in situ (in the conference room) and remote (via
e-participation)?

How do we deal with different time-zones in e-participation?

How do we  ensure capacity development for e-participation?

DAY TWO – 19 November 2014

The complexity of Internet governance: sustaining innovation while
ensuring equality
09.00 ‒ 10.30

FORUM: How do actors cope with Internet governance complexity?  (Salle
Obasi)

Robert E. Kahn, CEO and President, Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (one of the fathers of the internet)

Hon. Helena Dalli, Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and
Civil Liberties, Malta

Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change, India

Marília Maciel, Center for Technology and Society, FGV Brazil

Richard Samans, Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board,
World Economic Forum

With more than 50 Internet policy issues addressed in hundreds of
various forums, many actors face difficulties in following Internet
governance. Some governments, such as China, the USA, and Germany,
have introduced cyber and Internet ambassadors as a way of covering
foreign digital policy. Many countries started a national Internet
Governance Forum in order to integrate the wider technical, academic,
and business communities in Internet policies. For business and
technical communities, following IG requires covering non-technical
issues such as human rights (e.g. privacy). For civil society, in
particular small organisations, covering the IG field is becoming very
difficult. At the same time, due to the inter-connection of IG issues,
many actors cannot afford not to use a comprehensive approach
including technical, legal, and human rights aspects among others.
Panellists will present different experiences in covering Internet
governance and suggest some practical solutions. The session is
planned to end with a list of concrete suggestions that should help
various actors to deal with the complexity of IG.

11.00 ‒ 12.30

Aim for full transparency – accept exceptional translucency (Salle Obasi)

Moderator: Pete Cranston, co-director, Euforic Services, Oxford

Veronica Cretu, President, Open Government Institute (Moldova)

Nigel Hickson, Vice-President, UN and IGO Engagement, ICANN

Avri Doria, Principal Researcher, Technicalities

Kari Tapiola, Special Adviser to the Director-General, ILO

Transparency is essential for robust and effective Internet
governance. It is particularly important in multistakeholder spaces
that typically do not have procedural mechanisms to ensure procedural
transparency and due process. While full transparency should be a
default operational mode, in some cases a ‘translucent’ approach could
be considered (e.g. limited public participation in deliberation with
full publicity of results of deliberations). This session will aim to
establish criteria for determining the level of transparency needed
(e.g. full transparency with transcription, access to documents,
etc.). It will rely on experiences from the Open Governance
Partnership and ILO communities.

Subsidiarity: how to make Internet governance decisions at the
appropriate level, building on lessons learned from Switzerland
(Auditorium Kreuzel)

Moderator: Thomas Schneider, Deputy Head of International Relations
Service, OFCOM

Peter Gruetter, Chairman, Swiss Telecommunications Association

Norbert Bollow, co-founder and co-convenor of the Just Net Coalition

Michel Veuthey, Vice-president of the International Institute of
Humanitarian Law, San Remo

Hanane Boujemi, Manager, IG Programme, MENA Region, HIVOS

While global solutions are preferable for global issues (e.g. IG,
climate change), they are often difficult to achieve. After the
failure of the Copenhagen summit (2009), the climate change community
focused more on local, national, and regional initiatives. The same
tendencies are noticeable in IG (most cybercrime conventions are
regional, protests against IG policies are regional/national – SOPA,
ACTA).

IG issues should be addressed at the policy level which is closest to
the cause of the issues (e.g. cybercrime) or the impact a specific
policy may have (e.g. access, net neutrality).

The main challenges will be to ensure that ‘policy elevators’ move
both ways (up and down) among local,national, regional, and global
levels. The session will also discuss the practice of ‘forum shopping’
(inserting policy initiatives on the most favourable policy level).
Swiss academics and practitioners will  present the country’s long
experience in using subsidiarity principles.

The panel will address the following specific questions:

What issues could be addressed effectively at a lower level than a
global one (e.g. regional and national levels)?

How can we ensure synchronisation among different policy levels while
avoiding the risk of ‘forum shopping’?

Evidence in Internet governance: measurement and data-mining
(Auditorium de Mello)

Moderator: Vladimir Radunovic, DiploFoundation and GIP

Aaron Boyd, Chief Strategy Officer, ABI Research

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Editor of Global Innovation Index & Senior Economist,
WIPO

Eliot Lear, Principal Engineer, CISCO Systems

Kavé Salamatian, Professor, University of Savoie, France

Although the Internet is an engineering artifact, we do not have
sufficient technical data of relevance for Internet governance. For
example, one of the major problems in cybersecurity is the lack of
data about threats and losses. Policy-makers and, increasingly a more
engaged general public,  are looking for data such as: the impact of
digital innovation on economic growth; the quantity of digital assets
and their distribution worldwide, etc.

The session will focus on three main issues:

Mapping of available data and measurement of relevance for IG
Survey of data and measurement for specific issues.
Techniques and approaches to improve evidence and measurement of
relevance for IG.

14.00 ‒ 15.30

Lessons learned from other multistakeholder processes (Salle Obasi)

Moderator: Anne-Marie Buzatu, Deputy Head of Operations IV, DCAF

Andy Orsmond, Executive Director, International Code of Conduct Association

Michel Quillé, Vice-President, International Forum on Technologies and
Security

Michele Woods, Director, Copyright Law Division, WIPO

The different stakeholder communities remain divided over the
legitimate carrying out and enforcement of decisions. Consequently,
compliance remains a test case for IG processes.

How can we ensure effective implementation and compliance of
decisions, in particular those that require the participation of
multiple actors with different views on legitimacy and accountability?

Why did you see a need to adopt a multistakeholder approach?

What challenges were you facing and how did the multistakeholder
approach address them?

What were the three main lessons learned and take-aways from the
process, and what would you do differently?

Drafting in policy processes: how can we best nurture the
socialisation of policy texts in multistakeholder contexts?
(Auditorium de Mello)

Moderator: Jovan Kurbalija, DiploFoundation and GIP

Richard Hill, President, Association for Proper Internet Governance

Avri Doria, Principal Researcher, Technicalities

Alex Sceberras Trigona, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of Malta
and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta

One of the fathers of the Internet Jon Postel said ‘Group discussion
is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.’ The more people
involved, the greater the complexity of the process. The drafting
process is not individual writing; it is highly social. Thus,
‘socialisation of the text’ is essential for successful negotiations.
All involved should be aware of how the final draft was negotiated,
what was included, and what was left out. Participants should know
that their voices were heard, considered, and adopted… or not,
accordingly.

The panellists will address the following questions:

How do we harvest and harness a wide range of inputs in the drafting
process?

What types of procedures are needed to ensure that the drafted text
can have legitimate acceptance by most actors involved in the process?

How do we deal with conflicting situations in the drafting process?

Funding, accountability and trust in Internet governance (Auditorium
Kreuzel)

Moderator: Pete Cranston, co-director, Euforic Services, Oxford

Markus Kummer, Member of the Board of Directors, ICANN

Désirée Miloshevic, Senior Adviser of International Affairs and Public
Policy, Afilias International

Jean-Marie Chenou, Lecturer, University of Lausanne

Funding,  accountability, and trust are closely inter-related and are
necessary for a legitimate governance system. Funding  contributes to
accountability, which in turn creates more trust in IG space. This
session will address various approaches to fundraising in Internet
governance. It will also discuss the question of accountability and
trust.

16.00 ‒ 17.00

Closing session: wrap-up and concluding remarks  (Salle Obasi)

Philipp Metzger, Director-General, OFCOM



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