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FINAL
AGENDA
Thursday
26 February 2004 |
08.30 – 09.30 |
Registration
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09.30 - 10.00 |
Opening
of the Workshop (audio
archive)
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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 |
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Break |
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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 |
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12.00 - 13.30 |
Lunch |
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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
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15.15 - 15.45 |
Break |
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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
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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
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10.30 - 11.00 |
Break |
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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
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12.30 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
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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 |
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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
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16.15 - 16.35 |
Break |
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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
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17:35 – 17:45 |
Closing
of the Workshop by Chairman (audio
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