WEBCAST FEB 18 / 20 – GigaNet Online 2024 Symposium
On Tuesday February 18, 2025, and Thursday February 20 ,2025, the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) will hold the online portion of its 2024 Annual Symposium. The in-person 2024 GigaNet Symposium was held on December 2024 at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia. A recording can be found at https://isoc.live/18689.
GigaNet aims to foster multidisciplinary research on internet governance. The symposium serves as a platform for scholars to present and discuss research related to various aspects of internet governance, including but not limited to, infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital rights, and sustainability. The GigaNet Symposium thus plays a crucial role in shaping discussions, policies, and research directions in the field of internet governance, bringing together academics, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world.
AGENDA https://www.giga-net.org/2025/02/
All times CET = UTC+1
DAY 1 – Tuesday February 18 2025
13:15 Introduction and welcome
13:30 Panel 1
A comparative study of China and EU’s digital sovereignty –Xiaojuan Grace Yang
Digital Sovereignty and the Fractured Landscape of Internet Governance –Pilar Rodriguez Pita, Jorge Pérez Martínez, Alberto Urueña Lopez
QUIC, or the battle that never was: a case of re-infrastructuring control over Internet traffic –Francesca Musiani, Clément Perarnaud
Chair: Sophie Hoogenboom
Discussant: Serhat Tutkal
15:30 Panel 2
Cascading Secrecy: Tensions between Transparency and Trade Secrecy – Hannah Ismael, Ziyaad Bhorat
Far from a consensus: Exploring the role of digital authoritarianism in hindering UN discussions on cyber norms – Claudiu Codreanu
Contested Governance of Speech Online: Global Perspectives on Actors in Social Media Content Moderation – Dennis Redeker
Chair: Sophie Hoogenboom
Discussant: Berna Akcali Gur
VIEW ON YOUTUBE – https://youtu.be/otpwT3KCp1s
PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/83344311685
REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/4hN8xC7
DAY 2 – Thursday February 20. 2025
08:00 Panel 3
Technopreneurial coalition vs. state-sponsored dependency: A comparison of two scenarios of digital governance in local China – Yuchao Zhao
The Evolution of Governance by Internet Infrastructure in Russia Before and After February 2022: New Generations of Controls and Their Effects on New-School Regulation Theory – Liudmila Sivetc
Towards a genuine governance of Internet? The case of the Quechua-speaking population in Peru – Ana Lucia Taboada, Fabiana Alvarado
Chair: Jamal Shahin
Discussant: Trisha Meyer
10:00 Panel 4
Uploading Tuvalu: The Internet Governance Dimension of Virtualizing Cultural Heritage in Times of Climate Change –
Matthias Kettemann
The shrinking online space of civil society: withstanding social control by infrastructure in war zones. The Palestine case – Riccardo Nanni
Reframing Internet Governance: The Struggle of Multistakeholderism in the Face of Multilateralism – Mark W. Datysgeld, Jaqueline Trevisan Pigatto, Laura Gabrieli Pereira da Silva
Chair: Jamal Shahin
Moderator: Roxana Radu
11:30 Closing session
VIEW ON YOUTUBE – https://youtu.be/pYKPYTp_qOQ
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REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/4k63C0E
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