Discussions about a "Federated Internet" at Columbia University

Columbia University’s Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) hosted an international conference on “The Future of Internet Governance after Dubai : Are we heading towards a federated Internet?”on June 20, 2013 in New York.

I&J Director Bertrand de La Chapelle spoke about perspectives and future modes of Internet Governance and the evolution of the multistakeholder model.

Agenda

9:00am Welcome and Overview

• Raul Katz Welcome
• Eli Noam: A Federated Model for Internet Governance

9:30am Do We Need To Move To A Different Approach To Internet Governance?

What is the current status and challenges of Internet governance?

• Taylor Reynolds:Head of Working Party Information Economy, ICCP–OECD 
• James Cowie: CTO - Renesys: "Measure Twice, Cut Once: Data Challenges of Internet Governenance"
• Panel Moderator: Raul Katz

10:00am The geopolitics of Internet Governance: avoiding the digital cold war

• Aparna Sridhar, Policy Counsel – Google "After Dubai: Key Global Challenges"
• Beatrice Covassi, European Union Washington DC Delegation 
• Raul Katz, CITI "Internet Governance in Latin America: It is All About Economics"
• Musab Abdulla, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority-Bahrain (via Webex)
• Panel Moderator: Bruce Lincoln

11:15am Keynote presentation: Dr. Hamadoun Tourè, Secretary General, - ITU (via Webex)

• Moderator: Eli Noam

1:00pm Keynote presentation: Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary - NTIA 

• Moderator: Robert Atkinson

1:30pm The Organizations for the Governance of Internet

• Bertrand de la Chapelle, International Diplomatic Academy, Paris (via webex)
• William Drake, University of Zurich: "Multistakeholderism vs. Multilateralism" (via webex)
• Wolfgang Kleinwachter, University of Aarhus (via webex)
• Moderator: Raul Katz

 2:45pm The Internet Governance After Dubai

• Lorenzo Pupillo, Executive Director Public and Regulatory Affairs, - Telecom Italia
• Veni Markovski, ICANN Regional Vice President
• John Curran, President, -American Registry for Internet Numbers "How to break the Internet without even trying"
• Richard Hill, President, Association for Proper Internet Governance "The Internet Governance After Dubai" (via webex)
• Moderator: Darcy Gerbarg

3:45pm New Emerging Issues

• Chris Soghoian, American Civil Liberty Union 
• Dennis Weller, Navigant Economics
• Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania "Decentralization/Federation and its Discontents"
• Moderator: Robert Atkinson

4:45pm Concluding Remarks

• Eli Noam
• Lorenzo Pupillo
• Raul Katz