---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dandjinou Pierre <pdandjinou@gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:25 PM Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] THE FUTURE OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE AFTER DUBAI: ARE WE HEADING TO A FEDERATED INTERNET? To: "africann@afrinic.net" <africann@afrinic.net>, AfriCS-IG < africs-ig@lists.apc.org> Fyi, We might need to have this kind of debates in our African fora as well? Pierre Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) THE FUTURE OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE AFTER DUBAI: ARE WE HEADING TO A FEDERATED INTERNET? 20 June 2013 Columbia University, New York To register please visit: http://futureofinternetgovernance.eventbrite.com The purpose of this conference is to assemble representatives of different stakeholders in order to launch a discussion of potential scenarios of the future of internet governance: · Do we need to move to a different approach of Internet governance? · What are the geopolitical issues of Internet governance? · How can the multi-stakeholder approach be improved? · What is the future of role of the ITU? · Should ICANN be reformed? · Should governments assume a more pro-active role? Among the speakers participating: · Eli Noam, Professor – Columbia Business School (confirmed) · Anne Carblanc, Principal Administrator in the Information Computer and Communications Policy Division - OECD (confirmed) · Dr. Hamadoun Tourè, Secretary General - ITU (confirmed) · Aparna Sridhar, Policy Counsel – Google (confirmed) · Christopher Yoo, Professor - University of Pennsylvania (confirmed) · Esther Dyson, Chairman - EDventures Holding (confirmed) · William Hearmon, Head – Africa Broadband Forum (confirmed) · Musab Abdulla, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority-Bahrain · Richard Hill, President - Association for Proper Internet Governance (confirmed by webex) · Robert Pepper, VP Public Policy - Cisco (invited) · Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary - NTIA (invited) · Lorenzo Pupillo, Executive Director Public and Regulatory, Telecom Italia (confirmed) · Jamie Hedlund, VP- Stakeholder Engagement - ICANN (invited) · Bertrand de la Chapelle, International Diplomatic Academy, Paris (confirmed via webex) · Wolfgang Kleinwachter, University of Aarhus (confirmed via webex) the registration is here: http://citifederatedinternet.eventbrite.com/ -- Pierre Dandjinou Cotonou - 229 90 087784 / 66566610 Dakar 221 77 639 30 41 www.scg.bj skype : sagbo1953 _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/