On Friday October 30 2015 Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will present a lunchtime panel The High Politics of Internet Governance: Global Policy Conflicts a Decade after the World Summit on the Information Society. On December 15-16 in New York, the United Nations is convening a General Assembly High-Level Meeting to review the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society after a decade (WSIS+10) and to craft a future vision for the information society. Input from various stakeholders has raised questions about the future of the Internet and who will run it. This Columbia SIPA panel will explain the implications of this dialog for Internet sustainability, security, and freedom, and how this high-level discussion connects to the planned transition of U.S. oversight in Internet governance. Moderator: Merit Janow, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University. Panel: Laura DeNardis, Professor, American University, and Senior Research Scholar, Columbia SIPA; Gordon Goldstein, Managing Director and Head of External Affairs, Silver Lake Group; Ambassador David Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein; Veni Markovski, Vice President, ICANN; Ambassador Janis Mazeiks, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations; H. E. Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the United Nations. The event will be webcast live via the Columbia SIPA Livestream Channel.
What: The High Politics of Internet Governance: Global Policy Conflicts a Decade after the World Summit on the Information Society
Where: School of International and Public Affairs, NYC
When: Friday October 30 2015 1pm-2pm EDT | 17:00-18:00 UTC
Webcast: https://livestream.com/sipa/events/4458501
Twitter: @ColumbiaSIPA | #WSIS10
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