13:00-13:30Welcome
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
13:30-14:30Keynote 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
14:30-16:00Paper Panel Session 1: Assessing the Multistakeholder Model Chairperson: Francesco Amoretti, University of Salerno – 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
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00Roundtable 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
18:00-19:30Reception Wijnhaven Brasserie, Sponsored by ICANN Location: Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP The Hague
20:30Evening Social Miss Maui Beach House, Sponsored by ICANN Location: Strand Noord 37-38, 2586 ZZ The Hague
TUESDAY 4 JUNE 2024
09:00-10:30Paper Panel Session 2: Multistakeholderism in the Global South – 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
10:30-11:00Break
11:00-12:00Keynote 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
12:00-13:00Lunch, Reflections on Multistakeholder Experiences in Other Policy Fields – Josh Brem-Wilson, Coventry University (on food) – Mao Suzuki, National University of Singapore (on health)
13:00-14:30Roundtable 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
14:30-15:45Paper 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
15:45-16:00Break
16:00-17:15Paper Panel Session 4: Geopolitics of Internet Governance – 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
17:30-19:30Reception 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