EuroDIG 2022
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20-22 June, Trieste/online

Кстати, раз уж упомянули #EuroDIG, то стоит обратить внимание и на этот форум тоже.
Пандемийные ограничения немного отступают, и все медленно возвращается в офлайн, но не для всех😳. Так что часть будет наслаждаться солнцем в итальянском Триесте, а часть - подбирать красивые фоны для зума;)

Тем не менее, программа заслуживает внимания хотя бы тем, что европейцев тоже волнует цифровой суверенитет - и регуляторный, и инфраструктурный.
Смотрите сами👇

▶️Focus Area 1. Digital sovereignty – is Europe going in the right direction to keep the Internet safe and open?
Subtopic 1: The European vision of digital sovereignty: From principles to action.
Subtopic 2: Digital Sovereignty impact on the Internet infrastructure.

▶️Focus Area 2. Reality check – do we implement effective regulations and set the right standards to solve the problems of the future?
Subtopic 1: A new European regulatory regime: What are the Dos and Don’ts?
WS 3: International Connectivity: European Data-Gateway Platforms and the Global Gateway

▶️Focus Area 4. Internet in troubled times
Subtopic 1: Responding to disinformation in times of COVID-19 and geopolitical conflict
Subtopic 2: Sovereignty and the Internet: a risk of fragmentation

И это только часть программы. Полная версия тут: https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Consolidated_programme_2022

Регистрация: https://www.eurodig.org/get-involved/register-for-eurodig-2022/

Internet Governance Forum Greece invites you to its Virtual Event about "Splinternet"
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Tuesday, July 5th
7 pm EEST | 6 pm CEST | 12 pm EST
online, via Zoom, streaming on Facebook, LinkedIn & YouTube Live on IGFGreece Pages

Похоже, про "сплинтернет" мы будем слышать и говорить все чаще и чаще. Таков уж путь ;) Вот и на греческом IGF будет беседа вместе с титанами мыслителями и практиками в этой теме. Подключайтесь, кому интересно

What is the Splinternet? Can a government’s policy or regulation “break up" the Internet? If so, what does “breaking up” the internet even mean?Is it only governmental policies that can potentially ‘splinter’ the internet? What about big technology companies? What is their role? How can the Splinternet disrupt users’ online interactions, and what can we do about it?
Our panel speakers:
🔸 Dr. Milton Mueller, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA)
🔸 Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis, Internet Policy Analyst
🔸 Dr. Farzaneh Badii, Founder of Digital Medusa
🔸 Jane Coffin, Chief Community Officer at Connect Humanity

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_YC-x3-KdQLWmpAiP8YVRnw

What does Internet Fragmentation mean to you ? Identifying fragmentation and key stakeholders || Policy network on Internet fragmentation
15 Sept, 13:00-15:00 UTC, online
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The webinar is structured in three blocks (1) defining fragementation using examples, (2) impact on the layers of the internet, (3) responding to fragementation. Each block with be briefly introduced by a Q&A with discussants and followed by an open discussion.

Discussants: Allie Funk, Anriette Esterhuysen, Carolina Hippolito vor der Weid, Farzaneh Badii, Konstantinos Komaitis.

[draft agenda]
Avoiding fragmentation of the Internet is one of the complex digital issues the UN Secretary-General recommends addressing in the Global Digital Compact.
- Question 1: there are different approaches to defining and classifying fragmentation. For policy makers it is important to understand concrete concerns.
What are concrete examples where technical, commercial or policy measures lead to fragmentation of the Internet?
Why are these examples of concern? How does this measure or practice lead to fragmentation (i.e. what layer does it affect)? How does this impact people’s experience with the Internet? What are further-reaching impacts, e.g. on society?
- Question 2: Which parts or layers of the Internet are facing the greatest threat?
- Question 3: What kind of response is needed from policymakers and other stakeholders.
Who should be doing what ? What are the possible actions required of different stakeholders ( Governments, Private sector, Technical community, Academia, Civil Society, International Treaty Organisations)
What kind of guiding principles are needed?

Details are available at https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/policy-network-internet-fragmentation

Начался второй день RIGF 2022
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Программу и список докладчиков можно посмотреть на сайте: https://rigf.ru/prog/
Прямая трансляция доступна на YouTube-канале: https://youtu.be/KDWkWy5rhRM

В 16:30 по мск начнется секция, посвященная участию молодежи в управлении интернетом. Подключайтесь, расскажем много интересного!

Town Hall Meeting of IGF Stakeholders with the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology
24 October 2022, 14:00-15:30 UTC
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Under-Secretary-General Amandeep Singh Gill, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, is pleased to meet with Internet Governance Forum (IGF) stakeholders, including to hear their views as contributions to the forthcoming Global Digital Compact.
All are welcome to attend.

Place: Room XXIV at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, and through Webex
Join Online: https://ungeneva-vc.webex.com/ungeneva-vc/j.php?MTID=mebc2a4c1cdc28da1fc3850bbd40d4263

Summit on Digital Diplomacy and Governance || DiploFoundation in cooperation with Malta’s Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
17-19 November, Malta/online
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1️⃣We will bring diplomats, tech envoys, digital policy experts, and other officials from around the world together to discuss the most pressing issues in digital governance right now. We’ve planned a rich programme which we have co-created with our experts.

2️⃣ We will think beyond traditional narratives and hype, and try to find new solutions for the new era. Overrated blue-sky narratives around AI, the metaverse, and quantum technology? We see through them. Diplo experts will contribute to the discussions.

3️⃣ We will dedicate a part of the programme to facilitate a consultation on the Global Digital Compact, the initiative launched by the UN Secretary-General in 2021 which will be agreed upon at the UN Summit of the Future in 2024.

4️⃣ We will launch our latest report, ’Stronger Digital Voices from Africa’, with insights on how Africa can build its digital foreign policy and diplomacy. It’s not only of relevance for Africa but also for a globally inclusive digital future.

Highlights from the programm:
- Setting the scene: The three pillars of digital diplomacy
- Digital governance and cooperation: Towards a Global Digital Compact
- Diplomatic processes: The state of play in negotiations
- Emerging technologies: New issues on diplomatic agendas
- How can we prepare diplomats for 2032 and beyond?

➡️ Full programm and registration: https://20years.diplomacy.edu/#programme

CITI Seminars on Global Digital Governance
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The purpose of this new webinar series is to foster expert dialogue on the analytical and policy issues that continually arise across the heatedly contested and complex institutional ecosystem of global digital governance. The series seeks to build on the sort of debates that occur around multistakeholder Internet governance processes but which often go dim between international meetings and negotiations.

Each session will start with a roundtable discussion among a panel of leading analysts and practitioners, followed by discussion/Q&A involving all attendees. The sessions will be held monthly during university semesters at 11:00-12:30 (New York time). They will be organized and moderated by Dr. William J. Drake, Director of International Studies at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information.

Сегодня! ➡️ The ITU’s Plenipotentiary Conference and Internet Governance
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
11:00-12:30 EDT (New York time) 18:00 по мск
Register at: https://citiplenipotentiary.eventbrite.com

➡️ November 17: Internet Fragmentation, Reconsidered.

➡️ January 19: Whither the Internet Governance Forum?

IGF 2022 YOUTH TRACK WORKSHOP IV
Robust digital transformation: looking into cybersecurity and digital rights
24 October 2022 at 13:00 UTC | hosted online
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The session will specifically focus on how cybersecurity places an important role in shaping the present and future of digital transformation and human rights on the Internet. It will be moderated by the coordinators from the Youth LACIGF and Myanmar Youth IGF.
This is the very last capacity development workshop before the IGF 2022 Global Youth Summit takes place in Addis Ababa.
Regidtration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ljTemTPISmyzcQVP-vtC9A

Seminars on Global Digital Governance || Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia University Business School
Internet Fragmentation, Reconsidered
Thursday, November 17, 2022
11:00-12:30 EST (New York time) / UTC -5
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What exactly does “Internet fragmentation” really mean, and how does the way we define and conceptualize the term affect the lines of action undertaken in response?
This webinar seeks to help advance our thinking about these foundational questions. A panel of leading analysts and practitioners in the global Internet governance environment will discuss such topics as the nature, sources, forms, and consequences of Internet fragmentation, as well as the responses pursued by governments and stakeholders to date and going forward.

Moderator
William J. Drake, Director of International Studies at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information

Roundtable Panelists
Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and chief Internet evangelist, Google
Eli M. Noam, Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information and Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
Andrew Sullivan, President and CEO of the Internet Society
Tatiana Tropina, Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity Governance, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Netherlands

Register at: https://internetfragmentation.eventbrite.com

(On November 28 at 9:00 EDT / 14:00 UTC a follow-up session on these issues will be held as part of the UN’s annual Internet Governance Forum meeting in Addis Ababa, where fragmentation will be an overarching thematic issue. https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2022-day-0-event-68-understanding-internet-fragmentation-concepts-and-their)

Whither the Internet Governance Forum?||Seminars on Global Digital Governance, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI)
Thursday, January 19, 2023
11:00-12:30 EST (New York time) / UTC - 5
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Many states and stakeholders are content to have the IGF serve as a non-negotiation space for inclusive multistakeholder dialogue and an incubator or platform for bottom-up initiatives on capacity building and norm development. But many others insist that the IGF must do more to attract engagement from developing country governments and to produce “concrete outcomes” that can help tackle the growing range of policy challenges raised by the Internet and advanced technologies. And in addition to these and other long-standing points of contention, there are new debates about whether the IGF should serve as a vehicle for a broadened range of global digital cooperation efforts, as well as its role and prospects in light of the UN’s Global Digital Compact initiative and the pending WSIS +20 review.

Roundtable Panelists:
- Raúl Echeberría, Executive Director of ALAI, the Latinamerican Internet Association (Uruguay)
- Anriette Esterhuysen, Senior Advisor for Internet Governance, the Association for Progressive Communications (South Africa)
- Adam Peake, Senior Manager for Civil Society Engagement, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (the Netherlands)
- Flávio Rech Wagner, Emeritus Professor in the Institute of Informatics, the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre (Brazil)

Register at: https://citigovernance.eventbrite.com

ICANN Independence, Seven Years On||Seminars on Global Digital Governance
Thursday, February 23, 2023
11:00-12:30 EST (New York time) / UTC - 5
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This webinar takes up the challenge by assembling a panel of leading experts who have been deeply involved in ICANN processes. The group will consider such questions as: the transition’s geopolitical, interest group, and institutional consequences; the implementation of ICANN’s accountability framework and of Public Technical Identifiers, the ICANN affiliate created to manage the IANA functions (most notably coordination of the Internet's unique identifiers); the challenges ICANN and its community have faced in responding to new pressures from technological change, industry demands, and government policies; ICANN’s role and engagement in the wider global Internet governance ecosystem; and the lessons of its experience for the future of multistakeholder cooperation in global Internet and digital governance.

Roundtable Panelists:

- Olga Cavalli, National Director of Cybersecurity in the Chief of Cabinet of the President of Argentina, and former Undersecretary of Information Technology and advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Argentina)
- James Gannon, Chair of the Board of Directors of Public Technical Identifiers, and Vice President of Quality, Trust & Safety at the PharmaLedger Association (Ireland)
- Milton Mueller, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Public Policy, and Director of the School's Internet Governance Project (USA)

Registration: https://citigovernenceicann.eventbrite.com

Митап «ИТМО говорит ChatGPT – да!»
28 марта 15:00
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В ИТМО обсудят применение машинного обучения и AI-технологий со всех сторон: образование, наука и бизнес.
Модератор: Андрей Себрант, директор по стратегическому маркетингу в Яндексе,
Спикеры:
- Александр Капитонов, д.т. н., декан факультета инфокоммуникационных технологий ИТМО,
- Александр Крайнов, директор по развитию технологий искусственного интеллекта в Яндексе,
- А также приглашенные гости из числа студентов, поделившихся своей практикой применения ChatGPT в обучении.

Ссылка на трансляцию:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/live/h6W1jEPOcm8?feature=share
ВК: https://vk.com/video-84793390_456239604?list=ln-KbE7fJOBjqbamwao1A

Policy Network on Internet Fragmentation || IGF
Webinar 1 - Internet governance and Coordination
Tuesday May 16, 13:00-14:30 UTC
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Draft Agenda
1. Welcome & introductions - Brief overview of the PNIF and PNIF Framework for Discussing Internet Fragmentation
2. Internet Fragmentation - Internet Governance and Coordination
• question 1: Unpacking - Fragmentation of Internet Governance and Coordination: What is it? What is it not?
• question 2: Prioritizing - Which manifestations of this type of fragmentation pose the highest risk and should be avoided or addressed?
• question 3: Addressing - What practices, guidelines, and principles could help to address fragmentation of Internet goverance and coordination?
3. Conclusion and next steps

Discussants: Ms Anriette Esterhuysen, Dr Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Ms Susan Ness, Ms Raquel Gatto.

➡️ Registration: https://intgovforum.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMud-qtrj0uEtFnkyXvncIy437QY4oMmw2i

More on the PNIF at https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/policy-network-on-internet-fragmentation

Webinar 3 - Internet Technical Layer || Policy Network on Internet Fragmentation
June 27, 12:00 UTC, online
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The webinar will be structured in a similar way as webinar 1 (on governance and coordination) and 2 (on user experience) to have an open discussion guided by the following questions:
1) Unpacking - Fragmentation of the Internet’s technical layer: What is it ? What is it not?
2) Prioritising - Which manifestations of technical layer fragmentation should be avoided or addressed?
3) Addressing - What practices, guidelines, or principles could help to address or prevent fragmentation of the technical layer?

[discussants]
Mr Olaf Kolkman (Internet Society), Ms Mirja Kühlewind (IAB)

[moderation and coordination]
Ms Sheetal Kumar, PNIF co-coordinator, Ms Bruna Martins dos Santos, PNIF MAG co-coordinator, Mr Wim Degezelle IGF Consultant PNIF.

Registration link: https://intgovforum.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkde6oqjMvGNfNFMW2kp9J7-2SWu9zn2W_

Глобальный саммит ООН «ИИ во благо»
🗓 6-7 июля, Женева, Швейцария и онлайн

Цель саммита — продвигать использование искусственного интеллекта в сферах здравоохранения, экологии, устойчивого развития, инфраструктуры и других приоритетных областях развития.

Глобальный саммит «ИИ во благо» организован Международным союзом электросвязи в партнёрстве с 40 родственными агенствами ООН и совместно с правительством Швейцарии.

Среди спикеров: Doreen Bogdan-Martin (International Telecommunication Union (ITU)), Werner Vogels (Amazon), Lila Ibrahim (Google, DeepMind), Stuart Russell (UC-Berkeley), Ali Agha (NASA) и многие другие.

❗️ Обратите внимание: доклады и воркшопы начнутся уже с 3 июля.
Программа саммита: https://aiforgood.itu.int/programme-ai-for-good/

Зарегистрироваться (бесплатно) можно здесь.

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UNIDIR Invitation: Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Internet Fragmentation
17 October 14:30 -16:00 CEST Online
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To further unpack this complex issue and understand the possible effects and consequences of Internet fragmentation on cybersecurity broadly understood, UNIDIR’s Security and Technology Programme is organizing a multi-stakeholder dialogue that will also inform the new UNIDIR research project “Internet Fragmentation and Cybersecurity. A Primer” that will be published later this year.
SPEAKERS:
Elena Plexida, Vice President for Government and IGO Engagement at ICANN
Allison Mankin, Director of DNS Services, Packet Clearing House
Benjamin Ang, Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security and Future Issues in Technology, RSIS
Jaya Baloo, Chief Information Security Officer, Rapid7
Moderated by Samuele Dominioni, Researcher, Security and Technology Programme, UNIDIR

PARTICIPANTS: We welcome delegations, cyber experts as well as members of the multi-stakeholder community including industry, civil society, and intergovernmental organizations.

RSVP: Registration is mandatory. Please register here (via Microsoft Forms), by Monday 16 October 2023. The link to access the event will be emailed to registered participants one day prior to the session.