Dear AoIR community, The program for the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network is now available.  The symposium is to be held in Vilnius - Lithuania, on September 13th, 2010.  Detailed information about remote participation features and speakers full papers will be posted close to the event at: http://giga-net.org/page/2010-annual-symposium If you are planning to attend the event or to follow remotely, please register at: http://giga-net.org/page/registration-fifth-giganet You can find more information and the detailed program below. Best, Dmitry ============================= Fifth GigaNet Annual Symposium Vilnius, 13 September 2010 The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is a scholarly community which aims: (i) to promote the development of Internet Governance as a recognized interdisciplinary field of study and (ii) to facilitate the informed dialogue on policy and issues in a multistakeholder approach. In order to fulfills its goals, since 2006, it has been organizing a collective premier research event, the GigaNet Annual Symposium at the Internet Governance Forum meetings, which is an opportunity to showcase some of the best current research on Internet Governance from around the world and provides a venue for scholars to discuss and debate these crucial issues. Prior successful symposia in Greece (2006), Brazil (2007), India (2008) and Egypt (2009) lead us to the Fifth GigaNet Symposium to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 13th, 2010 - one day before the IGF official opening, at LITEXPO.     We will offer Remote Participation options for the Symposium.     Registration is free of charge. If you are planning to attend or remotely participate, please apply here: http://giga-net.org/page/registration-fifth-giganet If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact: giganetsymposium2010@easychair.org Symposium Program   9:00-9:15 Opening 9:15-10:30 PANEL 1: Internet governance theory and issue Moderador: William Drake, Centre for International Governance of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva - Peng Hwa Ang and Natalie Pang. Going Beyond Talk: Can International Internet Governance Work? - Everton Lucero. Global Governance of Critical Internet Resources: A Perspective from the South - Jean-marie Chenou. Multistakeholderism or elitism ? The creation of a transnational field of Internet governance 10:30-11:00 Poster session and coffee break 11:00-12:15 PANEL 2: State power and Internet governance Moderator: Rolf Webber , European Law Institute and the Center for Information and Communication Law at the University of Zurich - Joanna Kulesza. State responsibility for acts of cyber-terrorism - Jeremy Shtern. Models of Global Internet Governance and the Projection of State Power: The Case of Facebook and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada - Lorena Jaume-Palasi and Ben Wagner. Nosy preferences of Google and China: Modelling an internet governance conflict using Amartya Sen’s liberal paradox 12:15-12:30 Sponsorship slot 12:30-13:30 Lunch - Sponsored by MIT Press. Welcome speech given by William Drake, editor of the MIT Press series on “The information revolution and global politics” and Milton Mueller, author of the newly released book, “Networks and States: the Global Politics of Internet Governance.” 13:30-14:45 PANEL 3: Interaction of technology, operations and governance Moderator: Meryem Marzouki, LIP6/PolyTIC - CNRS - Brenden Kuerbis. Securing Internet routing: Influence and control of critical Internet resources through social networks and delegation - Dmitry Epstein, Qiu-Hong Wang, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Milton Mueller. What’s in the name? A behavioral study of the use of the URLs in China and the US - Laura DeNardis. The Privatization Of Internet Governance 14:45-15:45 PANEL 4: IGF practice, multistakeholderism and emerging issues - Nanette Levinson. Evaluating and Analyzing Collaboration In Cross-cultural and Cross-sectoral Perspective: Indicators from The Internet Governance Forum - Ivar Alberto Hartmann. Universal Access policies and Internet Access as a Fundamental Right: The Constitutional Law Perspective informed by the Brazilian Case. 15:45-16:00 Closing 16:00-16:30 Poster session and coffee break 16:30 GigaNet Business meeting   POSTER SESSION: • Charlotte Bogusz. Openness and Privacy v/ Security : The example of filtering measures.2 • Charlotte Bogusz. The promotion of the general interest through ICTs : The French and Senegalese examples • Daniel Oppermann. Analysing cybercrime from a multistakeholder perspective • Luiz Costa. The Internet and the Constitutional restrictions on foreign participation in Brazilian Media • Luiz Costa. A case study on the Brazilian E-Commerce Forum • Mona Badran. Is internet changing the social life of Egyptian college students and affecting their privacy? • Rolf H. Weber. Policies for Governing Critical Internet Resources • Shawn Gunnarson. Securing ICANN's Accountability • Sofiane Bouhdiba. Internet governance and Education: the Tunisian Virtual University in the context of the Tunis agenda 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Slavka Antonova, University of North Dakota, USA Lamees El Baghdady, Modern Sciences and Art University, Egypt Roy Balleste, St. Thomas University, USA Olga Cavalli, South SSIG, Argentina Dmitry Epstein, Cornell University, USA Marianne Franklin, University of London, UK Raquel Gatto - PC Chair, PUC-SP, Brazil Konstantinos Komaitis - Membership Chair, University of Strathclyde, UK Brenden Kuerbis - Communications Chair, Syracuse University, USA Nanette Levinson, American University, USA Milton Mueller - GigaNet Chair, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands