European Summer School on Internet Governance (EuroSSIG)

 

 

Learning in a multistakeholder environment:
EuroSSIG teaches the Internet governance leaders of tomorrow

Click here to watch a video summary of the EuroSSIG 2011

Click here to watch a video summary of the EuroSSIG 2010      

The 5th edition of the European Summer School on Internet Governance (EuroSSIG) in Meissen / Germany completed after six days of intense lectures and discussion end of July 2011.   

EuroSSIG brings together fellows with various backgrounds to promote a better understanding of the global Internet Governance controversy and to provide comprehensive and structured knowledge on the various aspects of Internet Governance.

Its annual one-week program covers the political, legal, economic, socio-cultural and technological dimensions of the governance of the Internet as well as issues like human rights, cybercrime, privacy and intellectual property. The course includes also practical oriented lectures about the management of critical Internet resources (CIR) like domain names, IP addresses, root servers and Internet protocols.  

“Internet governance is not yet an established academic discipline you can study at a university’s faculty”, Wolfgang Kleinwächter, founder and chair of the EuroSSIG faculty said. “It is a multidisciplinary issue which crosses law, business, history, political, social and cultural science, informatics and mathematics and it has a very practical component. This special kind of knowledge is needed by a broad range of various constituencies working in the Internet world”.

The establishment of the EuroSSIG goes back to discussions within the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) which was established by the former UN Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, to prepare the 2^nd phase of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis (2005).  

 

Read more:

Interview with Art Reilly, Senior Director of Strategic Technology Policy, Cisco
Warren News, Friday, 20 August 2010

 

 

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Read our members' posts   

This is a list of BASIS members, who are posting on Internet Governance related matters.
Their posts do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICC.  

  

Member	Title and Organization	Twitter	Blog
Charles Sha'ban	Executive Director, AGIP Regional Office	@cshaban
	Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization
Nissim Bar-El	President and Chairman	@comsecglobal	comsecconsulting.blogspot.com
	COMSEC Group
Patrik Faltstrom	Senior Consulting Engineer, Office of the CTO	@patrikhson	stupid.domain.name
	CISCO Systems

 

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Internet Governance Forum  

 

 _{The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society signed at the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society [WSIS, 13 – 15 November 2005] invited the Secretary-General of the United Nations to convene a new forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue, called the Internet Governance Forum [IGF], by the second quarter of 2006 and to implement this mandate in an open and inclusive process.} 

   

 
_{Fifth Internet Governance Forum} 

  _{Vilnius, Lithuania (14 - 17 September 2010)}

   

   

   

 

 _{Fourth Internet Governance Forum} 

 _{Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (15 -18 November 2009)} 

   

   

   

  

   _{Third Internet Governance Forum}   

   _{Hyderabad, India (3 - 6 December 2008)}  

   

     

      

   
  

     

   _{Second Internet Governance Forum}  

   _{Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (12 - 15 November 2007)}  

     

     

     

   _{First Internet Governance Forum}  

   _{Athens, Greece  (30 October - 2 November 2006)}  

     

     

     

 _{Related link:}    

_{www.intgovforum.org}  

  

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