[governance] 7th GigaNet Symposium, 5 Nov 2012: registration is open

[Julia Pohle]

Registration for the next GigaNet symposium, taking place as a pre-event 
to the UN IGF on 5 November in Baku, is now open: 
http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012

Please find below the final program:


*GIGANET 7th Annual Symposium*
5 November 2012

Pre-conference to the UN Internet Governance Forum
Baku Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012

*Program *

9:00 -- 10:00 - The UN, the ITU and Internet governance

Contested Boundaries: The International Telecommunication Regulations 
and Internet Governance. William Drake -- University of Zurich

New Issue Domains in the UN Ambit: Negotiating Meanings for Security in 
Cyberspace. Roxane Radu -- Graduate Institute of International and 
Development Studies

Regionalism and the Caribbean Internet Governance Forum. Dhanaraj Thakur 
-- University of the West Indies


10.00 -- 11:15 -- The role of private actors in Internet governance

A Quantitative Study of the Factors Driving DPI Deployment by Network 
Operators Worldwide. Hadi Asghari and Michel Van Eeten -- Delft 
University of Technology; Milton Mueller -- Syracuse University; Shirin 
Tabatabaie -- Delft University of Technology

 From Neutral Thirds to Private Law Enforcers. Nicole van der Meulen and 
Arno Lodder -- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Internet Policies and Corporate Social Responsibility. Rolf H. Weber -- 
University of Zurich


11.15 -- 11.45 Coffee break


11:45 -- 13:00 -- Governance of critical Internet resources

Dimensioning the Elephant: An Empirical Analysis of the IPv4 Transfer 
Market. Milton Mueller and Brenden Kuerbis, Syracuse University

Laying the Path: Technical Approaches to Legal and Policy Issues in 
Internet Design. Sandra Braman -- University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

Impact of the New gTLD Program: Domain Name Regulation Revolution in 
China. Hongbin Zhu -- China Internet Network Information Centre


13.00 -- 14.30: Lunch


14.30 -- 15.45: The Internet, civic engagement and state repression

Media Disruption and Revolutionary Unrest: Evidence from Mubarak's 
Quasi-Experiment. Navid Hassanpour -- Yale University

The Effects of the Internet on Civic Engagement Under Authoritarianism. 
The Case of Azerbaijan. Katy Pearce and Sarah Kendzior -- University of 
Washington; Deen Freelon -- American University

Digital Citizenship in the South Caucasus: A Comparative Analysis 
between Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Wayne Buente -- University of 
Hawaii; Lala Hajibayova -- Indiana University


15.45 -- 16.15: Coffee


16.15 -- 17.30: Cyber security, privacy and copyright

Cookies versus Clams. Tracking Technologies and their Implications for 
Online Privacy. Andreas Kuehn -- Syracuse University

The Evolution of Formal and Informal Institutions related to 
Cyber-Security: A Comparison of China and India. Nir Kshetri -- 
University of North Carolina

Discourse Networks on Access Blocking in France and Germany and the 
European Union. Yana Breindl -- Georg-August Universität Göttingen


18.00 -- 19.30: Closing reception


Registration and contact

The symposium is free of charge.
Please visit our conference website for registration and additional 
information: http://www.amiando.com/giganet2012



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*Julia Pohle* | Researcher

iMinds - Digital Society
SMIT, Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Julia.Pohle at vub.ac.be
office: +32 2 629 16 32
mobile: +32 488 596721
Pleinlaan 9 | 1050 Brussels | Belgium

http://smit.vub.ac.be
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