Status:
IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Emerging Issues
Main theme question address by workshop: Question 1: What are the implications of the use of new technical and political instruments on the free flow of information
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
The emergence of the Internet is a turning point in human history. However, being originally conceived as a tool for communication between scientists worldwide, the Internet rapidly has turned into its own virtual world living by its own laws and rules of the game, and its own original interpretation of the concept of human rights. Moreover, development of the Internet changes the essence of the human rights policy, as well as realization of the human rights and freedoms in constitutional law.
A cyberspace philosophy promotes maximum independence of the internet from any government and other forms of interference. It is impossible, however, to preclude any kind of internet governance or regulation thereof. The internet is like a mirror reflecting the real world, where we have moral and legal rules called to provide and ensure freedom of expression and information accessibility rights, protection from abuse of those rights by criminal and other kinds of wrongful behavior.
Similar rules should also exist in the cyberspace. Nowadays, we could in fact reveal the three levels of internet governance, namely: supranational, national and self-regulation. Due to the specificity of the internet, none of these levels could be declared self-sufficient or unique to set up relevant management rules. The main purpose of this workshop is to compare these three levels of internet governance and to allocate their roles in this process according to their functional characteristics.
Background Paper: Background Paper.pdf
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
Dr. Svetlana V. Maltseva, Dean of the Business Informatics faculty, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (Technical and Academic Communities)
Dr. Anna K. Zharova, assistant professor, Business Informatics Faculty, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (Technical and Academic Communities)
Andrey A. Shcherbovich, lecturer of the department of the Constitutional and Municipal Law, faculty of law, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (Technical and Academic Communities)
Andrey V. Shiroukhov. Alor Invest LLC, vice director-general (private sector)
Daniel Hladky, Deputy Director W3C Office Russia (civil society)
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: No
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Malcolm Jeremy (Mr), Consumers International, Malaysia
Kleinwaechter Wolfgang (Mr), University of Aarhus, Germany
Name of Remote Moderator(s):