<incom> GigaNet Workshop on "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction"

[Soenke Zehle]

*GigaNet Workshop: "Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary
Research Field in Construction"*
23 June, 2008
Paris, France

<http://internetgovernance.org/events.html#GigaNetParis_062308>

The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
<http://www.igloo.org/giganet> invites you to participate in a scholar
workshop to be held during the upcoming ICANN meeting in Paris, France,
on the morning of June 23rd. This workshop is organized in cooperation
with two main French pluridisciplinary networks of scholars in
Internet-related studies: the ICT and Society (GDR TICS
<http://gdrtics.u-paris10.fr/>) and Electronic Democracy (DEL) Networks.

The purpose of the workshop, the first of its sort, is to allow scholars
involved in Internet Governance-related research to describe their
ongoing research projects to other scholars in the field, in order to
share ideas, forge possible collaborations, and identify emerging
research themesin the field. Scholars from various academic disciplines
and all regions of the world are welcome to contribute to this reflexive
exercise, with the long-term objective of collectively building this
interdisciplinary research field.

What is global Internet governance and what it is not? Are there any
differences in the way this process is understood, defined and
implemented in different regions of the world? Is it sensitive to
political and cultural backgrounds and traditions, and if so, to which
extent and in which ways? How is Internet governance different from, and
related to, global governance of other information and communication
technologies? What could be the invariants of a global governance
process, irrespective of the domain area it addresses? What are the
national and regional projects and networks currently pursuing research
on Global Internet Governance? Is there any academic syllabus or other
education program dedicated to these issues? These are among the many
questions to be discussed by the workshop participants.

Please send to the workshop organizing committee chair, Meryem Marzouki
(Meryem.Marzouki[at]lip6.fr) by April 15, 2008, your name, affiliation,
e-mail address and CV along with no more than 500 words describing your
ongoing projects. Rather than featuring academic paper presentations,
the workshop aims at providing a survey of current academic activities
in the field of global Internet governance. Invitees selected by the
organizing committee for participation at round-table discussions will
be notified by May 15, 2008.

Attendance to the workshop is free and open to all interested parties.

Organizing Committtee:

Eric Brousseau (GDR TICS), U. Paris X,France; Divina Frau-Meigs
(GigaNet),U. Paris III, France; Nanette Levinson(GigaNet), American U.,
USA; Meryem Marzouki(GigaNet), CNRS, France; Milton Mueller (GigaNet),
Syracuse U.,USA; Thierry Vedel (DEL), CNRS, France; Rolf Weber
(GigaNet),U. Zürich, Switzerland.

Internet Governance Project http://internetgovernance.org