<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Fyi,<br><br></div>We might need to have this kind of debates in our African fora as well?<br><br></div>Pierre<br><div><div><div><br>Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI)<br><br>THE FUTURE OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE AFTER DUBAI: ARE WE HEADING TO A FEDERATED INTERNET?<br>
<br>20 June 2013<br><br>Columbia University, New York<br><br>To register please visit:<br><br><a href="http://futureofinternetgovernance.eventbrite.com">http://futureofinternetgovernance.eventbrite.com</a><br><br>The purpose of this conference is to assemble representatives of different stakeholders in order to launch a discussion of potential scenarios of the future of internet governance:<br>
<br>· Do we need to move to a different approach of Internet governance?<br>· What are the geopolitical issues of Internet governance?<br>· How can the multi-stakeholder approach be improved?<br>· What is the future of role of the ITU?<br>
· Should ICANN be reformed?<br>· Should governments assume a more pro-active role?<br><br>Among the speakers participating:<br><br>· Eli Noam, Professor – Columbia Business School (confirmed)<br>· Anne Carblanc, Principal Administrator in the Information Computer and Communications Policy Division - OECD (confirmed)<br>
· Dr. Hamadoun Tourč, Secretary General - ITU (confirmed)<br>· Aparna Sridhar, Policy Counsel – Google (confirmed)<br>· Christopher Yoo, Professor - University of Pennsylvania (confirmed)<br>· Esther Dyson, Chairman - EDventures Holding (confirmed)<br>
· William Hearmon, Head – Africa Broadband Forum (confirmed)<br>· Musab Abdulla, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority-Bahrain<br>· Richard Hill, President - Association for Proper Internet Governance (confirmed by webex)<br>
· Robert Pepper, VP Public Policy - Cisco (invited)<br>· Larry Strickling, Assistant Secretary - NTIA (invited)<br>· Lorenzo Pupillo, Executive Director Public and Regulatory, Telecom Italia (confirmed)<br>
· Jamie Hedlund, VP- Stakeholder Engagement - ICANN (invited)<br>· Bertrand de la Chapelle, International Diplomatic Academy, Paris (confirmed via webex)<br>· Wolfgang Kleinwachter, University of Aarhus (confirmed via webex)<br>
<br>the registration is here: <a href="http://citifederatedinternet.eventbrite.com/">http://citifederatedinternet.eventbrite.com/</a><br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>Pierre Dandjinou<br>Cotonou - 229 90 087784 / 66566610</div>
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