The 18th annual meeting of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be held from 8 to 12 October 2023 in Kyoto, hosted by the government of Japan, under the overarching theme: The Internet We Want - Empowering All People.
The Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation will be attending and presenting in-person and online through the week.
The day before the official start of the conference, Professor Jamal Shahin will be organising the 11th Annual Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Symposium, which brings together scholars from all over the world to discuss the latest development in Internet governance and digital policy. Visiting researcher Stephanie Arnold will be presenting her paper “’Globalizing’ digital policymaking: the impact of the EU Digital for Development (D4D) policy on ICT policy adoption in the Global South”. PhD researcher Orsolya Gulyas will present a paper titled ‘Global Gateway and the Global South(s): Contextualizing and conceptualizing ‘dependency’ in the EU’s digital development strategy.’ Moreover PhD researcher Sophie Hoogenboom will be giving a poster presentation about her paper ‘’A new social contract for data? Reflecting upon the conditions needed for a global social contract in relation to data to arise.’’
On the first day of the event, PhD researcher Nadia Tjahja will be presenting her recent publications in the session “Legitimacy of multistakeholderism in IG spaces” on a panel with Dr Hortense Jongen (Free University of Amsterdam and University of Gothenburg) who will be presenting her research on questions of legitimacy at ICANN, and Dr Corinne Cath (University of Amsterdam) who has investigated exclusionary cultures at the IETF. You can read Nadia’s publications here.
On the second day, Post-doctoral researcher Clément Perarnaud, in collaboration with CNRS, is co-organising the session “Discussing Internet Governance research in time of crisis”. The session aims at gathering researchers and experts working on Internet Governance to identify synergies and build collaborations.
On the third day, PhD researcher Sophie Hoogenboom and Professor Jamal Shahin are hosting a networking session “Digital Sovereignty and Global Cooperation”. This networking event is designed to introduce different stakeholders, for which digital sovereignty plays a role to each other, discuss their perspectives on digital cooperation and effective multilateralism, and raise their (potential) concerns about the concepts that are being used to justify policy in this space.
On the final day of the IGF, Professor Jamal Shahin will be speaking in the session “Regional perspectives on digital governance” which is moderated by PhD researcher Nadia Tjahja, and is an event co-organised by UNU-CRIS and UNU-EGOV.
To join these sessions, you can register on the IGF website here.
An overview of the date and times are available here:
