• Welcoming Address: Mr. Roberto BLOIS (biography), Deputy Secretary General, ITU

  • Welcoming Address

• Chairperson’s Opening Remarks: Mr. Shyamal GHOSH (biography), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, India

Session Chair: Mr. Shyamal GHOSH (biography), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, India

Internet governance emerged late in the WSIS negotiations as a major issue that threatened an eventual agreed text for the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan to be adopted at the first phase of the WSIS in December 2003. Mr. Markus Kummer, the member of the Swiss government’s WSIS negotiation team who mediated the Internet governance discussions, reviews the different positions and perspectives on the debates as well as his interpretations of the final text.

• Speaker: Markus KUMMER (biography), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland

Session Chair: Mr. Shyamal GHOSH (biography), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, India

This workshop’s objective is to contribute to the ITU's process that will prepare its inputs and position vis-à-vis the United Nations working group to be established on Internet governance, resulting from the Declaration of Principles and Action Plan adopted at the first phase of WSIS. The ITU has commissioned a background paper (PDF) by an external consultant that may provide some conceptual tools to assist in addressing the key issues as well as identifying other issues that the ITU membership may wish to consider. This session provides an overview of the background paper and an opportunity for interactive discussion of its contents. 

• Speaker: Don MACLEAN (biography), Independent Consultant
  •  Workshop Background Paper: Herding Schrödinger's Cats: Some Conceptual Tools for Thinking about Internet Governance
  • Herding Schrödinger's Cats: Some Conceptual Tools for Thinking about Internet Governance (presentation)

Session Chair: Ewan SUTHERLAND (biography), Executive Director, International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG)

The topic of Internet governance, which, depending on different perspectives, either encompasses or equates with the topic of Internet resource management. This session will present different perspectives on the scope and implications of the Internet governance debates. 

• Speaker: Ayesha HASSAN (biography), Senior Policy Manager for E-Business, IT and Telecoms, International Chamber of Commerce

  •  Issues Paper on Internet Governance

• Speaker: Wolfgang KLEINWACHTER (biography), Professor, University of Aarhaus

  •  WSIS and Internet Governance: Towards a Multistakeholder Approach

• Speaker: Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE (biography), Editor, OpenWSIS Initiative

  • Internet Governance Discussion and WSIS

• Speaker: Louis POUZIN (biography), Project Director, EuroLinc France
  •  An Analysis of Internet Governance Aspects

Panel discussion among speakers above moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor

Session Chair:  Daniel J. WEITZNER (biography), Technology & Society Domain Lead. World Wide Web Consortium 

Faced with convergence between telecommunications, broadcasting, multimedia and information and communication technologies, government policy makers and regulators are faced with new and evolving challenges at both national and international levels. A number of important ICT policy issues highlighted in the WSIS process, including regulatory reform, privacy, security, SPAM, government role in the promotion of free & open source software, management of Internet resources, intellectual property and interconnection, suggest that the strengthening of national ICT policy making processes as well as finding new methods for international cooperation and harmonization are sought. This session looks toward developing a definition of Internet governance within the broader perspective of the past evolution in the deployment of communication networks, present trends, and future possibilities. 

• Speaker: William DRAKE (biography), Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development

  • Framing 'Internet Governance' Policy Discourse: Fifteen Baseline Propositions

  • Also submitted (not presented): 

    • William J. Drake. "Communications." In, P.J. Simmons and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, eds., Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001, pp. 25-74. 

• Speaker: Marc HOLITSCHER (biography), Research Associate, International Relations Department, University of Zurich

  • Internet Governance Revisited: Think Decentralization! (presentation)

  • Internet Governance Revisited: Think Decentralization! (transcript)

• Speaker: Michael GEIST (biography), Professor of Law, University of Ottawa

  • Governments and Country-Code Top Level Domains: A Global Survey

  • ccTLDs, national governments and internet governance (presentation)

• Speaker: Ken CUKIER (biography), Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 

  • Internet Governance: What? How? Who? (presentation)

  • Internet Governance: What? How? Who? (remarks)

Panel discussion among speakers above moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor

Session Chair: Bob KAHN (biography), President & CEO, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)

The Economist reported on the Internet governance debates at WSIS said: “it is a positive sign that countries are discussing how to run the Internet, since it requires global solutions to its problems. Clearly, the old utopian dream that the Internet would undermine the very notion of the nation state belongs in the dustbin of history. The reality is rather more mundane: the sorts of disagreements that characterize other global issues such as trade, the environment and human rights, are now migrating to the network, as the Internet becomes part of the fabric of everyday life.” This session will review some of the public policy issues related to Internet governance.

• Speaker: Milton MUELLER (biography), Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

  • Making Sense of "Internet Governance": Identifying Public Policy Issues

• Speaker: Izumi AIZU (biography), Principal, Asia Network Research

  • Netizen Participation in Internet Governance (transcript)

  • Netizen Participation in Internet Governance (presentation)

• Speaker: John PALFREY (biography), Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School

  •  Submission to the Workshop on Internet Governance

  •  The Accountable Net: Peer Production of Governance (presentation)

• Speaker: Karl AUERBACH (biography), Chief Technology Officer, InterWorking Labs

  • Deconstructing Internet Governance

  • Governing the Internet, A Functional Approach

  • First Law of the Internet

  • Some Issues of Internet Governance (presentation)

Panel discussion among speakers above moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor

Session Chair: Daniel KARRENBERG (biography), Chief Scientist, RIPE NCC 

The growth of the Internet has been accompanied by the creation of a number of specialized Internet focus institutions; both formal and informal. This session presents perspectives on Internet governance by representatives of some of those institutions.

• Speaker: Vittorio Bertola (biography), ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee, Italy

  •  End user involvement in Internet Governance: why and how

  •  At Large Advisory Committee's Statement on WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Actions

• Speaker: Paul KANE, Chairman, CENTR

  • Private Sector Investment: A Driving Force of the Internet (presentation)

  • Private Sector Investment: A Driving Force of the Internet (transcript)

• Speaker: Bill Manning, EP.NET, USA

  • Unique Strengths for Extraordinary Challenges

• Speaker: Axel PAWLIK (biography), Managing Director, RIPE NCC

  • Responsible Distribution of Internet Numbering Resources over the years

• Speaker: Theresa SWINEHART. General Manager, Global Partnerships, ICANN
  • Understanding Internet Focus Institutions 

Panel discussion among speakers above moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor

Session Chair: William DRAKE (biography), Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development 

This session presents some relevant activities of intergovernmental institutions and how they have adapted to changes brought about by the Internet.

• Speaker: Sam PALTRIDGE (biography), Communication Analyst, OECD

  • OECD activities related to Internet Public Policy Issues 

• Speaker: Johannes Christian WICHARD (biography), Head, Legal Development Section, Arbitration and Mediation Center, WIPO

  • The World Intellectual Property Organization

• Speaker: Tim Kelly (biography), Head, Strategy and Policy Unit, ITU

  •  The International Telecommunication Union

Panel discussion among speakers above moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor

Session Chair: Mr. Nabil KISRAWI, Syrian representative to the ITU

Efforts to develop inclusive governance structures at the international level will be ineffective unless initiatives are taken to build Internet governance capacities in developing countries and regions. This session discusses some of those challenges and how institutions are addressing them.

• Speaker: Derrick COGBURN (biography), Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan

  • Building Human Capacity through Geographically Distributed Policy Collaborations

  • Also submitted (not presented): 
    • Governing Global Information and Communications Policy: Emergent Regime Formation and the Impact on Africa 
    • Cogburn, D.L.; Zhang, L; and Khothule, M. "Going Global, Locally: The Socio-Technical Influences on Performance in Distributed Collaborative Learning Teams," ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, 2002
    • Olson, G.M., Teasley, S., Bietz, M.J., and Cogburn, D.L., "Collaboratories to Support Distributed Science: The Example of International HIV/AIDS Research." ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, 2002
    • Cogburn, D.L., "Elite Decision-Making and Epistemic Communities: Implications for Global Information Policy," in Sandra Braman (ed.) The emergent global information policy regime. Houndsmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2004)
• Speaker: Alex NTOKO (biography), Bureau for Telecommunication Development, ITU

  •  ITU Development Sector: Framework and Activities

• Speaker: Jovan KURBALIJA (biography), Director of DiploFoundation and Author, "Internet Governance: Cyber-Empires and Digital Divides"
  •  Taxonomy of Internet Governance
  •  Online Learning Course for Internet Governance - Capacity Building

  •  "Swiss Knife" for Internet Governance Negotiations - Set of Tools for Online Negotiations and Collaboration

• Speaker: Sergei KAMBALOV (biography), Deputy Executive Coordinator, Secretariat of the UN ICT Task Force
• Speaker: KangSik CHEON (biography), COO, International Business Development, Netpia
  • Proposal on Easy and NO Hierarchical Internet Address: NLIA

Panel discussion among speakers above moderated by Session Chair as well as questions from the floor

Session Chair:  Mr. Shyamal GHOSH (biography), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, India

All major communications network innovations have given rise to new enterprises, transformed economic, social and political structures, crossed borders, created international disputes, and perhaps most important, eventually led to the development of new coordination or governance frameworks. This historical pattern has been repeated with almost predictable regularity, beginning with telegraph in the 1840s, the telephone in the 1870s, radio telegraphy or “wireless” in the 1890s, radio broadcasting in the 1920s, television broadcasting in the 1950s, geostationary satellite communications in the 1960s, computer communications in the 1970s, optical communications in the 1980s, and the Internet and mobile communications in the 1990s. This session attempts to take a longer-term strategic view as to where we are likely to be heading.

• Panellist: Markus KUMMER (biography), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
• Panellist: Don MACLEAN (biography), Independent Consultant
• Panellist: Ewan SUTHERLAND (biography), Executive Director, International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG)
• Panellist: Daniel J. WEITZNER (biography), Technology & Society Domain Lead. World Wide Web Consortium 
• Panellist: Bob KAHN (biography), President & CEO, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
• Panellist: Daniel Karrenberg (biography), Chief Scientist, RIPE
• Panellist: William DRAKE (biography), Senior Associate, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development 

Panel discussion among Speakers of Sessions 1 & 2 and Session Chairs from Sessions 3-7 moderated by Session Chair