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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 Tourč, 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/




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