Title: "Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) - 9th Annual Symposium "
Description:
Program - 9th Annual Symposium
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and introductions
9:00 – 10:30 Theoretical session: Conceptual/Definitional papers
• Carolina Aguerre. A framework for national mechanisms on Internet governance
• Kirsten Gollatz, Jeanette Hofmann and Christian Katzenbach. Internet Governance as an Analytical Concept
• Rolf Weber, Proliferation of “Internet governance”
11:00 – 12:30 Emerging scholar session: Institutional innovation in Internet governance
• Andreas Kuehn. A New Paradigm in Securing Software Vulnerabilities – An Institutional Analysis of Emerging Bug Bounty Programs and their Implications for Cybersecurity and Internet Governance
• Uta Meier-Hahn. Internet interconnection: how economic sociology can inform the discourse on internet governance
• Trisha Meyer. Access and Control: The Political Economy of Online Copyright Enforcement in the European Union
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Interactive session: Multistakeholder governance and its alternatives
• Mark Raymond, Laura Denardis and Fen Hampson. The Emergence of Contention in Global Internet Governance
• Aaron van Klyton and Kerry Holden. Internet Governance and the African city
• Derrick Cogburn. Uncovering the Conceptual Antecedents of the NETMundial Outcome Document on the Future of Global Internet Governance
3:30 – 5:00 Interactive session: The DNS and global Internet governance
• Hong Xue. Trademark Protection at the Top-Level Domains: A Legal Review of the Trademark Right Objections in ICANN New gTLD Program
• Patricia Vargas-Leon and Andreas Kuehn. Political Economy of Critical Internet Resources: South America vs. Amazon, Inc.: The battle for .AMAZON)
• Kenneth Merrill. A Marketplace of Networks: Power and counter-power in the DNS