[governance] RightsCon Session on Net Neutrality

[Luca Belli]

Dear all (apologies for cross-posting), 




I would like to invite you to
attend – on site or remotely – the RightsCon
Silicon Valley session 
on ‘Network
Neutrality: How to Identify Discrimination and Advance Solutions’ that will
take place on 4 March from 16:00 to 17:00 (GMT -8) at the
Mission Bay Conference Center, in San Francisco. 



Please, find below the description of the session.


Best regards, 



Luca

 

Network
Neutrality: 

How to Identify Discrimination and Advance Solutions

 

Organisers:

- Mr Luca Belli, CERSA and founder of the Dynamic
Coalition on Network Neutrality;

- Ms Primavera De Filippi, CERSA,
Berkman Center and co-founder of the DC NN;





Panellists: 

- Ms Raegan MacDonald, ACCESS;

- Ms Elvana Thaçi, Council of Europe;

- Mr Joe McNamee, EDRi;

- Mr Alejandro Pisanty, National Autonomous
University of Mexico and ISOC Mexico;

- Ms Carolina Rossini, New America
Foundation;

- Mr Francisco Vera Hott, Derechos
Digitales;

- Ms Staci Pies,
Microsoft;

- Ms Renata Avila, World Wide Web
Foundation.

 

Format 

This session will take the
form of a “fishbowl”: panellists will first engage in a discussion around the
various facets of the net neutrality debate; after which, the attendees will be
invited to join the panel by rotating in and out of the fishbowl, thus actively
contributing to shaping the dynamics of the second part of the session.

 

Session description

This session will analyse the
instrumental role played by the network neutrality (NN) principle to guarantee
the full enjoyment of human rights and foster a competitive market, and will
focus on concrete solutions aimed at implementing this principle. 

The panellists will underline
the risks of discriminatory Internet-traffic management (ITM) practices and
will suggest technical and policy “remedies” that may be used to mitigate,
avoid or prevent traffic discrimination. Subsequently, the panel will analyse a
selection of national approaches aimed at safeguarding NN. On the one hand,
private sector actors will be asked to identify the approaches that provide the
most “innovation-friendly” environment. On the other hand, civil society actors
will be asked to scrutinise the current approaches, identifying potential
loopholes and pitfalls that may jeopardise Internet-users’ full enjoyment of
fundamental rights and compromise the free flow of information. 

Lastly, the organisers will
discuss the content and role of the model framework on network neutrality,
which has been initiated by the Council of Europe (CoE), elaborated by the Dynamic Coalition on Network
Neutrality and delivered back to the CoE as a working base to elaborate a
“Recommendation on Network Neutrality”



Luca Belli
PhD Candidate in Public Law
CERSA, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris 2
Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality 

 		 	   		  
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