<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone!<div><br></div><div>Apologies for the cross-posting.</div><div><br></div><div>The extended deadline for submitting abstracts to GigaNet annual symposium is June 23. This is a great group of people asking an ever growing number questions about internet governance, coming from a broad range of countries, disciplines, and methodological backgrounds.</div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to reach out to me or the PC chair (see below) if you have any questions. Also, please distribute this information to your networks.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Dmitry</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">From:<span class="inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b class="gmail_sendername" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Mueller, Milton L</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu">milton@gatech.edu</a>></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: [GIGANET-MEMBERS] Deadline approaching for 2017 Symposium!</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">To: <a href="mailto:GIGANET-MEMBERS@listserv.syr.edu">GIGANET-MEMBERS@listserv.syr.edu</a></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">A reminder that we are still accepting paper proposals for this year's Symposium.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">See our Call for Papers here:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://giga-net.org/2017-annual-symposium" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://giga-net.org/2017-annual-symposium</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Submit proposals here:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2017" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2017</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">This year's symposium will be in Geneva, so Europeans should find it very accessible.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Topics we are interested in include but are not limited to:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Trade agreements and Internet governance</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">The role of sovereignty in cyberspace</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">The prospects of jurisdictional or technical fragmentation of the Internet</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Multistakeholder governance and the distribution of power in IG institutions</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Governance of the Internet of things (IoT)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Transborder data flows and U.S.-European negotiations on the new privacy shield agreement</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Algorithmic regulation and intermediary platforms</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">The post-transition ICANN; ICANN-related policy issues</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Cybersecurity, cyber conflict among great powers, and Internet governance</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">New methods for measuring Internet governance-related phenomena</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dr. Milton L Mueller</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Professor, School of Public Policy</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Georgia Institute of Technology</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Internet Governance Project</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://internetgovernance.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://internetgovernance.org/</a>  <br></div></div></div>