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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">CALL FOR
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(112,140,61)" lang="EN-GB">9th
Annual Symposium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">1 September
2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Istanbul, Turkey</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB">Deadline
for abstract submissions: April 15 2014</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking research
submissions about Internet Governance to be presented at its Ninth Annual
Symposium, held on 1 September 2014, one day before the United Nations Internet
G<a name="_GoBack"></a>overnance Forum (IGF) in Istanbul, Turkey. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">GigaNet is a scholarly community that promotes the development of
Internet Governance as a recognized, interdisciplinary field of study and
facilitates informed dialogue on policy issues and related matters between
scholars and governments, international organizations, the private sector and
civil society. </span><span lang="DE"><a href="http://giga-net.org/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">http://giga-net.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Since 2006, GigaNet has organized an Annual Symposium to showcase
research about Internet Governance, bringing together researchers and
practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and fields. As in previous
years, the symposium will provide room to discuss current and future questions
as well as the challenges encountered and results achieved in global Internet governance.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">The 2014 GigaNet Symposium offers researchers a timely
opportunity to present their work on our rapidly changing field.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(112,140,61)" lang="EN-GB">Conference
themes </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">GigaNet is interested in receiving abstracts related to Internet
Governance themes, especially those containing innovative approaches and/or
emerging research areas. The program committee welcomes all proposals on topics
related to global Internet governance including such themes as:<span style> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">•<span style> </span>The WGEC process and
outcomes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">•<span style> </span>The WSIS review
process and outcomes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">•<span style> </span>The mainstreaming and
proliferation of “Internet Governance”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">•<span style> </span>The institutionalization
of internet governance</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">•<span style> </span>Analysis of the
NETmundial meeting</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">•<span style> </span>Global Trade,
Intellectual Property and Internet Governance</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">•<span style> </span>The ICANN separation
roadmap from the NTIA</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">We will continue to provide a venue for emerging scholars in the field
by offering select panels. Emerging Scholars are those individuals who have
received their Ph.D. within the past three years as well as current doctoral
students working on their approved doctoral research.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Accepted papers from senior scholars will be presented and discussed in
a roundtable format involving business, government and technical community
representatives, while emerging scholars will present their work in a more
traditional academic panel. In both cases, presenters should expect to have
conversations about their work with people from a wide range of stakeholder groups.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Interested scholars should submit abstracts of their research paper at
the Easy Chair platform: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2014"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2014</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red" lang="EN-GB">Deadline
for abstract submissions: April 15 2014</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Paper proposals should be submitted following these requirements: </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings" lang="EN-GB"><span style>§<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">An abstract of 800-1000 words, in English, that describes
the paper’s main research goal(s) and methodology employed</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings" lang="EN-GB"><span style>§<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">A short bio note focused on institutional
affiliations, advanced degrees, scholarly publications and work in the field of
Internet Governance and related issues (for example ICTs). Please include a
link to a more detailed CV.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings" lang="EN-GB"><span style>§<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Authors of accepted abstracts must submit their final
papers by <b style>15 July 2014</b>. Those unable
to do so will be removed from the program.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(112,140,61)" lang="EN-GB">Process
and publication </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">The Program Committee will evaluate submitted abstracts and inform
proposal authors of acceptance decisions by email before <b style>1 June 2014</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Accepted submissions and final papers will be published on the GigaNet
website. An online publication with selected papers on the main challenges of
Internet Governance is also planned for the Istanbul IGF. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(112,140,61)" lang="EN-GB">Registration
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">The GigaNet Annual Symposium is free of charge. However, registration
will be required to gain entry to the event venue. Please continue visiting our
website for further information about registration, venue and accommodation. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">If you have any question related to the submission or
the symposium activities, please </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">e-mail the Program Committee Chair: </span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:j-laprise@northwestern.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">j-laprise@northwestern.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">.</span></p>
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