Conference organized by the GIG-ARTS project, co-sponsored by the ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, supported by The French National Research Agency (ANR), The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, and The Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Paris IAS).

Presentation

The GIG-ARTS (Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies) conference is a European annual multidisciplinary academic venue to present and discuss developments in Global Internet Governance (GIG) and their implications in and beyond this field of research. It is one of the outcomes of the GIG-ARTS project (www.gig-arts.eu).
The GIG-ARTS conference aims to complement and bridge between existing venues, such as established International or European disciplinary conferences in the social sciences (e.g. IAMCR, ICA, ISA, IPSA, ECPR, EISA, … general conferences), where GIG scholars sometimes find their interdisciplinary research marginalized in terms of issues, areas and disciplines; or such as in the only venue specialized in GIG so far (the Annual GigaNet Symposium), organized as a pre-event of the UN annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) since 2006, making it difficult to both focus on European developments and to accommodate a larger academic community than the one that is used to participating in IGF proceedings. The GIG-ARTS conference objectives are threefold: to foster the enlargement and diversification of this academic community in order to increase its visibility; to open more opportunities to young scholars, particularly from Europe and its neighbourhood; and to anchor its discussions in the European context, providing a space where the scholarly community can address regional challenges and contribute to regional discussions.
Each year, the GIG-ARTS conference will highlight a main theme. In addition to keynote speeches and academic presentations and discussions, at least one roundtable will feature a debate with practitioners around that theme. The theme of the first GIG-ARTS conference edition in 2017 is: “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue”.

Program

Thursday 30 March 2017

08:30-09:00 – Welcome of Participants

09:00-09:30 – Opening Session
Conference Opening
Meryem Marzouki, General Chair, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France
Welcome addresses
- Bernard Ludwig, Scientific Project Manager for French-German and International Programmes, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France
- Serge Fdida, Vice-President for Europe and International Partnerships, UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France
- Simon Luck, Scientific Coordinator, Paris Institute for Advanced Study, France

09:30-10:30 – Keynote Session 1
Undiplomatic Ties: When Internet Blocks Intermediation
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Yves Schemeil, Science Po Grenoble (Grenoble Institute of Political Studies), France
Moderator: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France

10:30-11:00 – Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 – Presentation Session 1
Internet Governance as a Science Diplomacy Terrain
Chair: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France
Respondent: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, Austria

• Modes of Internet Governance as Science Diplomacy What Lessons for Europe from the US Experience?
  Francesco Amoretti and Domenico Fracchiolla, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
• Framing Internet governance in the context of International Relations theory
  Julien Nocetti, IFRI – French Institute of International Relations, France
• Digital Constitutionalism: Global, Regional and National Initiatives to Entrench Digital Rights
  Dennis Redeker, University of Bremen, Germany
• The paradox of globalised networks: internet governance between global consensus and local priorities
  Julia Pohle, WZB - Berlin Social Sciences Center, Germany

12:30-14:00 – Buffet Lunch

14:00-15:30 – Presentation Session 2
Diplomacy at the Crossroads of Globalisation and Digitalisation
Chair: Eric Brousseau, University Paris Dauphine, France
Respondent: Robin Mansell, The London School of Economics, United Kingdom

• Digital rights and market in Free Trade Agreements
  Maria Francesca De Tullio and Giuseppe Micciarelli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
• Contested Understandings: Cybersecurity Governance
  Louise Marie Hurel, CTS-FGV – Center for Technology and Society, Brazil
• The impact of information and communication technologies on a global participatory process
  Jerome Duberry, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
• National sovereignty, global policy, and the privatization of telecommunications
  Claire Peters, Bristol University, United Kingdom

15:30-16:00 – Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 – Presentation Session 3
Case Studies of European Policy Diffusion
Chair: Mauro Santaniello, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Respondent: Andrea Calderaro, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

• The struggle over Internet governance as a matter of policy diffusion: reflections on copyright and privacy
  Katharine Sarikakis, Olga Kolokytha, Izabela Korbiel and Krisztina Rozgonyi, University of Vienna, Austria
• The EU and effective multistakeholderism in Internet Governance
  Jamal Shahin, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, The Netherlands and Belgium
• European models for the governance of Media and Information Literacy (MIL): what lessons for Internet Governance (IG)?
  Divina Frau-Meigs, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France
• The diffusion of European values in the digital age: science diplomacy and the right to be forgotten
  Jean-Marie Chenou, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

17:30-18:00 – UNESCO Special Session
UNESCO project: Defining Internet Universality Indicators
Speaker: Xianhong Hu, UNESCO, France
Moderator: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France
Presentation: UNESCO will present and discuss its new project of Defining Internet Universality Indicators and seeks to engage with various stakeholders for their inputs and contribution. The project is an immediate response and action following UNESCO’s adoption of ‘Connecting the Dots’ Outcome document in 2015 as its new approach to Internet issues as well as the successful development and application of the UNESCO IPDC Media Development Indicators. The project aims to elaborate appropriate Internet indicators which can serve to enrich stakeholders’ capacity for assessing Internet development, broaden international consensus, and foster online democracy and human rights towards knowledge societies engaged in sustainable development. This task will use the UNESCO concept of Internet Universality and related R.O.A.M principles as the guiding framework that promotes an Internet based on human Rights, and the principles of Openness, Accessibility and Multi-stakeholder participation.
Speaker: Xianhong Hu, UNESCO, France

18:00-19:00 – Dining Cocktail

Friday 31 March 2017

09:30-10:30 – Keynote Session 2
Cyber-Security, Cyber-Peace and Privacy: Diplomatic and Other Options
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Joseph A. Cannataci, University of Malta and University of Groningen, Malta and The Netherlands; United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
Moderator: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France

10:30-11:00 – Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 – Presentation Session 4
Internet Governance Facing Digital Disruptions
Chair: Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Danish Institute of Human Rights, Denmark
Respondent: Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

• Opening the Black Box: The Search for Algorithmic Transparency in Europe
  Rachel Pollack Ichou, UNESCO, France
• Not fudging nudges: What Internet law can teach regulatory scholarship
  Chris Marsden, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
• Migrating Servers, Elusive Users: Reconfigurations of the Russian Internet in the Post-Snowden Era
  Kseniia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani, ISCC CNRS/Paris Sorbonne/UPMC, France
• Shaping words to shape policy process: discourse coalitions in the Internet Governance ecosystem
  Mauro Santaniello and Nicola Palladino, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy

12:30-14:00 – Buffet Lunch

14:00-16:00 – Roundtable with Diplomacy Professionals
Framing a European Internet Governance Science Diplomacy
'It's Organized Chaos': Deep Structure in Internet Governance
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jan Aart Scholte, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Moderator: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France
Discussion Speakers:
- Laurent Bernat, Policy Analyst, Digital Economy Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD, France
- Katharina Höne, Project Manager and Researcher in Science Diplomacy, DiploFoundation, Malta
- Xianhong Hu, Program Specialist, Division of Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO, France
- Sophie Kwasny, Head of Data Protection Unit, Information Society and Action Against Crime Directorate, Council of Europe, France
- Elena Plexida, Policy Officer Internet Governance, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium
- Michael Remmert, Deputy Director, Policy Planning Directorate; Coordinator of the Schools of Political Studies, Council of Europe, France
Presentation: Global internet governance raises specific challenges for diplomacy to make informed choices when faced with multifold digital disruptions, where decisions made at the national or regional level may have a much wider geopolitical impact. Moreover, recent global internet governance institutionalization processes have emphasized important mutations in diplomatic practices.
Other global issues such as environment, health, finance or world trade have already opened the way to a renewed interest in science diplomacy, as a means to address complex mutations of the global world politics, which are often characterized by their highly technical nature, but internet governance is surprisingly often neglected or reduced to its cybersecurity dimension in science diplomacy studies
Focusing on Europe as a global actor with comparative perspectives from other regions, this roundtable of diplomacy professionals aims at discussing, through some emblematic case studies, whether and how a European internet governance science diplomacy could be framed.

16:00-16:15– Conference Conclusions

GIG-ARTS 2017 Organizing Committee Members:

1. Eric Brousseau, Université Paris Dauphine, France
2. Andrea Calderaro, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom
3. Meryem Marzouki (Conference Chair), CNRS & UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, France
4. Mauro Santaniello, University of Salerno, Italy

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