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In anticipation to the Global Multi-Stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial) meeting in Sao Paulo, the International Seminar on Internet Governance will promote a open discussion and exchange between different stakeholders. The KAS will be supporting this open to the public meeting, contributing to encompass Internet Governance Principles and the roadmap for the changes in the Internet Governance ecosystem.

Afternoon agenda

15:00 - 16:30 First Panel: Principles for the Governance and Use of the Internet

It is one of the goals of NETmundial to agree on a set of common principles that may form a benchmark for a future Internet governance model. A set of such principles--many of which were contested--has been identified and put to public consultation before the NETmundial meeting. This panel will reflect on the viability of implementing such a set of guiding principles in a highly diverse and distributed Internet governance ecosystem. What are these principles worth in practice and can they provide effective regulatory guidance?

Moderator:

Ronaldo Lemos, director, Rio Institute for Technology & Society, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

Speakers:

Jeanette Hofmann, director, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Germany

Oliver Stuenkel, Professor, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil

Urs Gasser, director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Bertrand de la Chapelle, director, Internet & Jurisdiction Project

Ambassador Olof Ehrenkrona, Minister Carl Bildt's Senior Adviser on cyber issues

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30 Second Panel: Roadmap for the Further Evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem

It is a further ambitious goals of the NETmundial meeting to propose a roadmap for the future evolution of the Internet governance ecosystem. In accordance with the complexity of the current ecosystem, diverging views on the specifics and implementation of such a roadmap exist. Taking the most recent developments and discussions as a starting point, this panel will aim to identify opportunities and potential pitfalls before the upcoming NETmundial meeting. What are the core issues of controversy? How is the role of stakeholders and current key institutions such as ICANN bound to change? Might the Internet governance ecosystem even be going through a constitutionalizing moment?

Moderator:

Elena Lazarou, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil

Speakers:

Aaron Shull, counsel and corporate secretary, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada

Chris Riley, Mozilla

Markus Kummer, ISOC

William Drake, Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ, University of Zurich

Carlos Affonso Souza, director, Institute for Technology and Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alex Gakuru, executive director, CODE-IP Trust, Kenya

18:30 - 19:00 Wrap-up and Closing

Ronaldo Lemos, director, Rio Institute for Technology & Society, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil

Thorsten Benner, director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Germany

Wolfgang Schulz, director, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Germany

For more informations, please visit the following website: http://www.itsrio.org/eventos/international-seminar-on-internet-governance-preparatory-to-netmundial/

Hosts:

Rio Institute for Technology & Society (ITS), Brazil

Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Germany

In cooperation with:

Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers (NoC)

Sponsors:

Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br)

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), Germany

International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada

Venue:

Rua Peixoto Gomide, 282, 4th floor

Jardim Paulista, São Paulo

São Paulo, Brazil

Date:

April 22, 2014