UNU-CRIS Digital Governance cluster prepares to contribute to the UN Internet Governance Forum in Kyoto, Japan
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 Digital Governance Cluster, represented by co-coordinators Professor Jamal Shahin and Nadia Tjahja, and PhD Fellows Orsolya Gulyas, Stephanie Arnold and Sophie Hoogenboom are organising, moderating and speaking in 4 sessions. Additionally Shahin and Tjahja will be co-organising the 11th Annual Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Symposium as a pre-event to the IGF, in which Gulyas, Arnold and Hoogenboom will be presenting.
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. Arnold will be presenting her paper “’Glocalizing’ digital policymaking: the impact of the EU Digital for Development (D4D) policy on ICT policy adoption in the Global South”. Gulyas will introduce a paper titled ‘Global Gateway and the Global South(s): Contextualizing and conceptualizing ‘dependency’ in the EU’s digital development strategy.’ Moreover 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, 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 Tjahja’s publications here.
On the third day, Hoogenboom and 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, UNU-CRIS will be collaborating with UNU-EGOV to organise the session “Regional perspectives on digital governance” which is moderated by Tjahja, with panellists Dr Delfina Soares, Director of UNU-EGOV, Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen from UNU-EGOV, Mactar Seck from UNECA and Professor Jamal Shahin from UNU-CRIS.
To join these sessions, you can register on the IGF website here.
An overview of the date and times are available here:
