IGF 2014 sub theme that this workshop fall under
Internet and Human Rights
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Description
Enforcing the correct level of human rights protection is very often a matter of jurisdictional reach. In the cyberspace, there could be two obvious alternatives to create a separate jurisdictional space: the technological option and the legal option.
Over a year before German Chancellor Merkel travelled to France in February 2014 to speak with French President Hollande about creating the foundations of a “protected” EU Internet, the EU-funded MAPPING project had already spelt out its plan of researching if “parallel universes” in cyberspace could be a solution for promoting human rights. This objective of creating spaces within cyberspace where European values on privacy and other human rights may be applied could conceivably be created by technological or legal means.
In its first stakeholder assembly (Rome 20-21 May 2014) MAPPING will be dedicating a session to “On-line mass surveillance, security and privacy: is an international treaty the only way forward?” including a discussion of the recent ECJ decision declaring “invalid” the EU Data Retention Directive.
In the IGF, the MAPPING consortium aims to take this debate even further with as many Internet governance stakeholders as possible - from Europe and beyond. How can we have human rights embedded in the current Internet structure? Are there technological or legal solutions to this issue? Would a “Schengen cloud” human rights Internet, as suggested by French and German leaders, be the solution? How would others see such a possible space?"
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Name(s) and stakeholder and organizational affiliation(s) of institutional co-organizer(s)
Mr. Bogdan Manolea Civil Society ApTI (Association for Technology and Internet)
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Has the proposer, or any of the co-organizers, organized an IGF workshop before?
no
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Type of session
Roundtable
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Duration of proposed session
90 minutes
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Subject matter #tags that describe the workshop
# parallel universes, # international treaty, #privacy, #intellectual property rights, # MAPPING project
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Names and affiliations (stakeholder group, organization) of speakers the proposer is planning to invite
Name: MS. Nevena Ruzic Stakeholder group: Intergovernmental Organization: Vice-Chair Bureau to the Consultative Committee of the Council of Europe Convention 108 Have you contacted the speaker? Y Has the speaker been confirmed? Y
Name: Mr. Bogdan Manolea Stakeholder group: Civil Society Organization: ApTI (Association for Technology and Internet) Have you contacted the speaker? Y Has the speaker been confirmed? Y
Name: Mr Christian Hawellek Stakeholder group: Academic Organization: Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany Have you contacted the speaker? Y Has the speaker been confirmed? Y
Name: Dr. Oleksandr Pastukhov Stakeholder group: Academic Organization: University of Malta Have you contacted the speaker? Y Has the speaker been confirmed? Y
Name: Dr. Meryem Marzouki Stakeholder group: Civil Society/Academic Organization: CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique /National Center for Scientific Research, France) Have you contacted the speaker? Y Has the speaker been confirmed? Y Do you need help in recruiting speakers from certain stakeholder groups? N
Name: Dr. Alfonso Alfonsi Stakeholder group: Civil Society Organization: Laboratorio di Scienze della Cittadinanza/Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences, Italy Have you contacted the speaker? Y Has the speaker been confirmed? Y
Name: Mr. Patrick Curry Stakeholder group: Business Organization: British Business Federation Authority Have you contacted the speaker? Y Has the speaker been confirmed? y
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Name of Moderator(s)
Prof. Joe Cannataci
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Name of Remote Moderator(s)
Dr Bo Zhao
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Description of how the proposer plan to facilitate discussion amongst speakers, audience members and remote participants
The discussion will be stimulated by the distribution of a three-page discussion note which would comprise of a number of quotation representing different and at times opposing views from the participants in the on-going debate about the utility or futility of a new international treaty. A special thread for this Round Table will also be created on the MAPPING Project web-site and the MAPPING policy observatory. More than 300 invitees to the MAPPING stakeholder meeting in Rome (20-21 May, 2014) will also be invited to contribute their five key pros and cons for the Treaty. The moderator/s will synthesize these arguments in advance and integrate some of these into the discussion note and others into prepared questions for the Round Table participants. The preparation of these documents will be an on-going process and should be continuously updated so as to reflect the on-going international debate about the subject.
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Description of the proposer's plans for remote participation
The format followed will also include a Germany hub and a France hub where a number of Internet Governance, privacy and data protection specialists will follow the Round Table and propose a number of key points to the local rapporteurs. The Germany rapporteur and the France rapporteur will then remotely intervene in the Round Table and convey a synthesis of the viewpoint of the hubs’ discussion.
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Background paper
No background paper provided
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