MONDAY 3 JUNE 2024
- 12:30-13:00 Registration
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13:00-13:30
Welcome
Meryem Marzouki and Mauro Santaniello, GIG-ARTS Conference Series
Jan Aart Scholte, Global Transformations and Governance Challenges
Dennis Broeders, The Hague Program on International Cyber Security -
13:30-14:30
Keynote Speech: The Multistakeholder Approach in Internet Governance 30 Years On: Cornerstone or Achilles Heel?
Speaker: Anriette Esterhuysen, Association for Progressive Communications
Moderator: Meryem Marzouki, Global Internet Governance & Digital Rights Expert -
14:30-16:00
Paper Panel Session 1: Assessing the Multistakeholder Model
Chairperson: Dennis Broeders, Leiden University
– The “Big Tech-Big Power Politics Archives”
Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Marianne Franklin, University of Groningen
– Multistakeholder Global Governance at ICANN: A Cross-Level Analysis of Legitimacy
Hortense Jongen, Free University Amsterdam; Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University
– Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: When Multistakeholderism Hampers Accountability
Triantafyllos Kouloufakos, KU Leuven
– Assessing Multistakeholder Governance of Content: Comparative Analysis of the Christchurch Call and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
Jyoti Panday, Georgia Institute of Technology
– Exploring Digital Constitutionalist Advocacy Coalitions in the Global Multistakeholder Internet Governance (1992-2023)
Dennis Redeker, University of Bremen; Mariëlle Wijermars, Maastricht University; Nicola Palladino, University of Salerno - 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
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16:30-18:00
Roundtable 1: Policymaker Experiences of Multistakeholderism
Moderator: Tatiana Tropina, Leiden University
– Alexia González Fanfalone, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
– Hu Xianhong, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
– Olaf Kolkman, Internet Society (ISOC)
– Markus Kummer, Internet governance and policy expert
– Elena Plexida, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
– Guus van Zwoll, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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18:00-19:30
Reception Wijnhaven Brasserie, Sponsored by ICANN
Location: Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP The Hague -
20:30
Evening Social Miss Maui Beach House, Sponsored by ICANN
Location: Strand Noord 37-38, 2586 ZZ The Hague
TUESDAY 4 JUNE 2024
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09:00-10:30
Paper Panel Session 2: Multistakeholderism in the Global South
Chairperson: Marianne Franklin, University of Groningen
– Multistakeholderism in the Global South: A Comparative Study of AFRINIC, APNIC, and LACNIC
Debora Irene Christine, Tifa Foundation; Nahema Nascimento Falleiros, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Gloria Nzeka, University of Maryland
– Hybrid Multistakeholderism in Moroccan Digital Governance: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
Serena Fraiese, University of Salerno
– Do Elections Catalyse or Distract Multistakeholder Governance against Information Disorder? Examining the Drivers and Barriers to Sustained Co-Governance Efforts in the Post-Election Period
Beltsazar Krisetya, Centre for Strategic and International Studies
– More than a Stakeholder: A Global South Feminist Counterpublic Sphere and the Vision of a Gender Just Global Digital Compact
Lisa McLaughlin, Miami University
– Platform Advocacy and Social Media’s Accountability to Dissident Voices in the Global South
Mai Van Tran, Free University Brussels - 10:30-11:00 Break
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11:00-12:00
Keynote Speech: The Power to Govern Ourselves: (Multi)Stakeholders, States and Collective Action
Speaker: Milton Mueller, Internet Governance Project, Georgia Institute of Technology
Moderator: Louise Marie Hurel, London School of Economics -
12:00-13:00
Lunch, Reflections on Multistakeholder Experiences in Other Policy Fields
– Josh Brem-Wilson, Coventry University (on food)
– Mao Suzuki, National University of Singapore (on health) -
13:00-14:30
Roundtable 2: Regional Perspectives on Multistakeholderism
Moderator: Mauro Santaniello, University of Salerno
– Carolina Aguerre, Universidad Católica del Uruguay – Latin America
– Fiona Asonga, Technology Service Providers of Kenya (TESPOK) – Africa
– Nibal Idlebi, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) – Middle East
– Nadia Tjahja, United Nations University-Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) – Europe
– Yang Fan, Xiamen University – East Asia -
14:30-15:45
Paper Panel Session 3: Multistakeholderism and Digital Sovereignty
Chairperson: Arun Sukumar, Leiden University
– (Cyber-) Sovereignty Discourse within the Internet Governance Forum
Christopher Eglinton and Dmitry Epstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
– Global Internet Governance: The Follies of Internet Freedom, Multistakeholderism, and the Rise of Sovereignty Discourse and Digital Constitutionalism
Neelesh Maheshwari, South Asian University
– Infrastructural Sanctions, the War in Ukraine, and EU Digital Sovereignty
Niels ten Oever, University of Amsterdam; Clément Perarnaud, Brussels School of Governance; John Kristoff, University of Illinois Chicago; Max Resing, University of Twente; Moritz Müller, University of Twente; Arturo Filastò, Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI); Cris Kanich, University of Illinois Chicago
– From Multistakeholderism to Digital Sovereignty: Towards a New Discursive Order in Internet Governance?
Julia Pohle, Berlin Social Science Center; Mauro Santaniello, University of Salerno
- 15:45-16:00 Break
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16:00-17:15
Paper Panel Session 4: Geopolitics of Internet Governance
Chairperson: Francesco Amoretti, University of Salerno
– Shades of Digital-Cyber Sovereignty: A Multilayer Analysis of the China-US Cyber Rivalry
Giacomo Bruni, Peace Research Institute Oslo
– Hollow Multilateralism: How Autocracies Contest Norms and Procedures of International Organizations
Daniëlle Flonk, Hitotsubashi University; Maria J. Debre, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen
– The Securitization of Data Flows in the Context of Sino-American Relations: Potential Impact on Internet Fragmentation
Marilia Maciel, Diplo Foundation
– Privacy Framing in Legislative Hearings after Cambridge Analytica: Analysis of Stakeholders and Discourses
Dmitry Epstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Rotem Medzini, University of Birmingham -
17:30-19:30
Reception Democracy Drinks, Sponsored by ICANN
New Ways of Democracy in Internet Governance
Location: Hague Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal 58, 2511 CJ The Hague
Speakers: Alisa Heaver, Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate; Jamal Shahin, Free University of Brussels
Moderator: Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University
