Workshop on Internet Governance - Agenda |
FINAL AGENDA
Thursday
26 February 2004 |
08.30 – 09.30
|
Registration
|
|
|
09.30 - 10.00
|
Opening of the Workshop (audio
archive)
|
|
|
10.00 – 10.30 |
Session 1:
Perspectives on the Negotiations at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on Internet Governance
(audio
archive)
Session Chair: Mr. Shyamal GHOSH (biography),
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,
India
Internet governance emerged late in
the WSIS negotiations as a major issue that threatened an eventual
agreed text for the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan to be
adopted at the first phase of the WSIS in December 2003. Mr. Markus
Kummer, the member of the Swiss government’s WSIS negotiation team who
mediated the Internet governance discussions, reviews the different
positions and perspectives on the debates as well as his interpretations
of the final text.
- Speaker: Markus KUMMER (biography),
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs,
Switzerland
Discussion Session
|
|
|
10.30 – 11.00 |
Break
|
|
|
11.00 - 12.00
|
Session 2:
Background Paper on Internet Governance (audio
archive)
Session Chair: Mr. Shyamal GHOSH (biography),
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,
India
This workshop’s objective is to
contribute to the ITU's process that will prepare its inputs and
position vis-à-vis the United Nations working group to be established
on Internet governance, resulting from the Declaration of Principles and
Action Plan adopted at the first phase of WSIS. The ITU has commissioned
a background paper
(PDF) by an external consultant that may provide some
conceptual tools to assist in addressing the key issues as well as
identifying other issues that the ITU membership may wish to consider.
This session provides an overview of the background paper and an
opportunity for interactive discussion of its contents.
- Speaker: Don MACLEAN (biography),
Independent Consultant
Discussion
Session
|
|
|
12.00 - 13.30 |
Lunch
|
|
|
13.30 - 15.15 |
Session 3:
Perspectives on the WSIS Discussions on Internet Governance (audio
archive)
Session Chair: Ewan SUTHERLAND (biography), Executive Director,
International Telecommunications Users Group
(INTUG)
The topic of Internet governance,
which, depending on different perspectives, either encompasses or
equates with the topic of Internet resource management. This session
will present different perspectives on the scope and implications of the
Internet governance debates.
- Speaker: Ayesha HASSAN (biography), Senior
Policy Manager for E-Business, IT and
Telecoms, International Chamber of Commerce
- Speaker: Wolfgang KLEINWACHTER (biography),
Professor,
University of Aarhaus
- Speaker: Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE (biography), Editor,
OpenWSIS Initiative
- Speaker: Louis POUZIN (biography), Project
Director, EuroLinc France
Panel
discussion among speakers above moderated by Session
Chair as well as questions from the floor
|
|
|
15.15 - 15.45 |
Break
|
|
|
15.45 - 17.30 |
Session 4: Towards a
Definition of Internet Governance (audio
archive)
Session Chair: Daniel J. WEITZNER
(biography), Technology &
Society Domain Lead. World Wide Web Consortium
Faced
with convergence between telecommunications, broadcasting, multimedia
and information and communication technologies, government policy makers
and regulators are faced with new and evolving challenges at both
national and international levels. A number of important ICT policy
issues highlighted in the WSIS process, including regulatory reform,
privacy, security, SPAM, government role in the promotion of free &
open source software, management of Internet resources, intellectual
property and interconnection, suggest that the strengthening of national
ICT policy making processes as well as finding new methods for
international cooperation and harmonization are sought. This
session looks toward developing a definition of Internet governance
within the broader perspective of the past evolution in the deployment
of communication networks, present trends, and future possibilities.
- Speaker: William DRAKE (biography), Senior Associate,
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable
Development
- Speaker: Marc HOLITSCHER (biography), Research Associate,
International Relations Department, University
of Zurich
- Speaker: Michael GEIST (biography), Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
- Speaker: Ken CUKIER (biography), Research Fellow, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
Panel discussion among
speakers above moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the
floor
|
|
|
Friday
27 February 2004 |
09.00 – 10.30 |
Session 5: Public Policy
Issues in Internet Governance (audio
archive)
Session Chair: Bob KAHN (biography), President & CEO, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
(CNRI)
The Economist reported on the
Internet governance debates at WSIS said: “it is a positive sign that
countries are discussing how to run the Internet, since it requires
global solutions to its problems. Clearly, the old utopian dream that
the Internet would undermine the very notion of the nation state belongs
in the dustbin of history. The reality is rather more mundane: the sorts
of disagreements that characterize other global issues such as trade,
the environment and human rights, are now migrating to the network, as
the Internet becomes part of the fabric of everyday life.” This session will review some of the public policy
issues related to Internet governance.
- Speaker: Milton MUELLER (biography), Professor, School of
Information Studies, Syracuse University
- Speaker: Izumi AIZU (biography), Principal, Asia Network
Research
- Speaker: John PALFREY (biography), Executive Director,
Berkman Center for Internet & Society,
Harvard Law School
- Speaker: Karl AUERBACH (biography), Chief
Technology Officer, InterWorking Labs
Panel
discussion among speakers above moderated by Session
Chair as well as questions from the floor
|
|
|
10.30 - 11.00 |
Break
|
|
|
11.00 – 12.30 |
Session 6: Understanding Internet Focus Institutions (audio
archive)
Session Chair: Daniel KARRENBERG (biography), Chief Scientist,
RIPE NCC
The
growth of the Internet has been accompanied by the creation of a number
of specialized Internet focus institutions; both formal and informal.
This session presents perspectives on Internet governance by
representatives of some of those institutions.
- Speaker: Vittorio Bertola (biography), ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee, Italy
- Speaker: Paul KANE, Chairman, CENTR
- Speaker: Bill Manning, EP.NET, USA
- Speaker: Axel PAWLIK (biography), Managing Director, RIPE NCC
- Speaker: Theresa SWINEHART. General Manager, Global
Partnerships, ICANN
Panel
discussion among speakers above moderated by Session
Chair as well as questions from the floor
|
|
|
12.30 – 14.00
|
Lunch
|
|
|
14.00 – 15.00
|
Session 7: Understanding Intergovernmental Institutions (audio
archive)
Session Chair: William DRAKE (biography), Senior Associate,
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable
Development
This session presents some relevant activities of intergovernmental
institutions and how they have adapted to changes brought about by the Internet.
- Speaker: Sam PALTRIDGE (biography), Communication Analyst,
OECD
- Speaker: Johannes Christian WICHARD (biography), Head,
Legal Development Section, Arbitration and
Mediation Center, WIPO
- Speaker: Tim Kelly (biography), Head, Strategy and Policy Unit, ITU
Panel
discussion among speakers above moderated by Session Chair as well as
questions from the floor
|
|
|
15.00 - 16.15
|
Session 8: Capacity Building (audio
archive)
Session Chair: Mr. Nabil KISRAWI, Syrian representative to the ITU
Efforts to develop inclusive governance structures at the
international level will be ineffective unless initiatives are taken to
build Internet governance capacities in developing countries and
regions. This session discusses some of those challenges and how
institutions are addressing them.
- Speaker: Derrick COGBURN (biography),
Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
- Speaker: Alex NTOKO (biography), Bureau for Telecommunication Development, ITU
- Speaker: Jovan KURBALIJA (biography), Director of
DiploFoundation and Author, "Internet
Governance: Cyber-Empires and Digital
Divides"
- Speaker: Sergei KAMBALOV (biography),
Deputy Executive Coordinator, Secretariat of the UN ICT Task Force
- Speaker: KangSik CHEON (biography),
COO, International Business Development,
Netpia
Panel discussion among speakers above moderated by Session
Chair as well as questions from the floor
|
|
|
16.15 - 16.35
|
Break
|
|
|
16:35 – 17:35 |
Session 9: Strategic Issues 2005 and Beyond
(audio
archive)
Session Chair: Mr. Shyamal GHOSH (biography),
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,
India
All major communications network innovations have given rise to new
enterprises, transformed economic, social and political structures,
crossed borders, created international disputes, and perhaps most
important, eventually led to the development of new coordination or
governance frameworks. This historical pattern has been repeated with
almost predictable regularity, beginning with telegraph in the 1840s,
the telephone in the 1870s, radio telegraphy or “wireless” in the
1890s, radio broadcasting in the 1920s, television broadcasting in the
1950s, geostationary satellite communications in the 1960s, computer
communications in the 1970s, optical communications in the 1980s, and
the Internet and mobile communications in the 1990s. This session
attempts to take a longer-term strategic view as to where we are likely
to be heading.
- Panellist: Markus KUMMER (biography),
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs,
Switzerland
- Panellist: Don MACLEAN (biography),
Independent Consultant
- Panellist: Ewan SUTHERLAND (biography), Executive Director,
International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG)
- Panellist: Daniel J. WEITZNER
(biography), Technology &
Society Domain Lead. World Wide Web Consortium
- Panellist: Bob KAHN (biography), President & CEO, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
(CNRI)
- Panellist: Daniel Karrenberg
(biography), Chief Scientist, RIPE
- Panellist: William DRAKE (biography), Senior Associate,
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable
Development
Panel
discussion among Speakers of Sessions 1 & 2 and Session Chairs
from Sessions 3-7 moderated by Session Chair
|
|
|
17:35 – 17:45 |
Closing
of the Workshop by Chairman (audio
archive) |
|
|