Event Highlight
2015 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Internet Governance and Cyber Security
Posted May 16 2015
The conference was livecast over the course of the one-and-a-half days. The archived footage of each session can be found under each of the tabs below along with a list of the respective speakers. Unfortunately, the dinner keynote discussion on day 1 and the concluding lunch keynote on day 2 could not be filmed as they were closed sessions.
Events in this Series
- 2021 Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Policy Forum
- 2020 Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Cybersecurity, the Digital State, and Democratic Governance
- 2019 Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Navigating Digital Transformations: Survive or Thrive?
- 2018 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: State of the Field Workshop on the Digital Transformation
- 2017 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Tension between fragmentation of the internet and globalization
- 2016 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Data Governance
- 2015 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Internet Governance and Cyber Security
Background Papers
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A series of background papers were released to form a basis for discussion for each of the panels. These papers were contributed by the Research Advisory Network (RAN) of the Global Commission on Internet Governance and by speakers who took part in the event.
Plenary Panel 1: Examining the Future of the Open and Universal Internet
- Legal Mechanisms for Governing the Transition of Key Domain Name Functions to the Global Multi-stakeholder Community, by Aaron Shull, Paul Twomey & Christopher S. Yoo
- Legal Interoperability as a Tool for Combatting Fragmentation, by Rolf Weber
- On the Nature of the Internet, by Leslie Daigle
- A Primer on Globally Harmonizing Internet Jurisdiction and Regulations, by Michael Chertoff and Paul Rosenzweig
Plenary Panel 2: The Future of Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance
- Innovations in Global Governance: Toward a Distributed Governance Ecosystem, by Stefaan G. Verhulst, Beth S. Noveck, Jullian Raines & Antony Declercq
- Tipping the Scale: An Analysis of Global Swing States in the Internet Governance Debate, by Tim Maurer and Robert Morgus
Panel 3A: Human rights, Freedom of Expression and the Internet
- The Right to Freedom of Expression and the Use of Encryption and Anonymity in Digital Communication, a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, by Frank LaRue, United Nations General Assembly: Human Rights Council
- OECD Principles for Internet Policy Making, by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- NETmundial Draft Outcome Statement, Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance
- Are Courts re-inventing Internet Regulation?, by Dr. Agnes Callamard, Director, Global Freedom of Expression, Columbia University
Panel 3B: Trade, Internet Governance, and Cross-border Data Flows
- Information Flow and Trade Agreements: History and Implications for Consumers’ Privacy, by Alberto Cerda and Carolina Rossini
- The Trillion Dollar Question: How trade agreements can maximise the economic potential of data in the networked economy and support the Internet as the world’s trading platform, by the International Digital Economy Alliance (IDEA)
- Putting Data to Work: Maximizing the Value of Information in an Interconnected World, by Business Roundtable
- ccTLDs and trade, by Susan Chalmers for CIGI
Panel 4A: Privacy, Big Data and the Internet
- Understanding Digital Intelligence and the Norms That Might Govern It, by Sir David Omand
- Toward a Social Compact for Digital Privacy and Security, a statement by the Global Commission on Internet Governance
- Cyber Security, civil society and vulnerability in an age of communications surveillance by Alex Comninos and Gareth Seneque
Panel 5: Mitigating Cyber-risks in Critical Infrastructure: Private and Public Responses for the Financial Sector
Panel 6A: Nuclear vs Cyber: Conflict & Deterrence
- The Regime Complex for Managing Global Cyber Activities, by Joseph S. Nye Jr.
- A cyber-security agenda for civil society: what is at stake?, by Alex Comnimos
- Thinking about Nuclear and Cyber Conflict: Same Questions, Different Answers, by Herb Lin
Panel 6B: Cyber security and the Internet of Things
- The Impact of the Dark Web on Internet Governance and Cyber Security, by Michael Chertoff & Tobby Simon
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Confirmed speakers included:
- Nick Ashton-Hart (Internet & Digital Ecosystem Alliance)
- Steve Bellovin (Columbia Engineering)
- Paul Bracken (Yale)
- Kathryn Brown (Internet Society)
- Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures)
- Agnès Callamard (Columbia Global Freedom of Expression)
- Vinton G. Cerf (Google)
- Susan Chalmers (Chalmers & Associates)
- Anupam Chander (University of California)
- Fadi Chehadé (ICANN)
- Michael Chertoff (GCIG)
- Leslie Daigle (GCIG)
- Laura DeNardis (American University)
- Victoria Espinel (Business Software Alliance)
- Gordon Goldstein (Silverlake)
- Amb. David Gross (Wiley Rein)
- Fen Hampson (CIGI)
- Dean Merit Janow (Columbia SIPA)
- Robert Jervis (Columbia SIPA)
- Matthew Jones (Columbia University)
- James Kaplan (McKinsey & Company)
- Konstantinos Komaitis (Internet Society)
- Ronaldo Lemos (Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro)
- Herbert Lin (Stanford University)
- Austin Long (Columbia SIPA)
- Rebecca MacKinnon (New America)
- Kevin Mandia (FireEye)
- Andrew McLaughlin (Columbia SIPA)
- Louis Modano (NASDAQ)
- Michael Nelson (CloudFlare)
- Eli Noam (Columbia Business School)
- Beth Noveck (NYU GovLab)
- Joseph Nye (Harvard Kennedy School)
- Nuala O’Connor (Center for Democracy & Technology)
- Beth Petrie (Citigroup Information Protection Directorate)
- Rima Qureshi (Ericsson)
- Carolina Rossini (Public Knowledge)
- Jacquelynn Ruff (Verizon Communications)
- Sharad Sanghi (Netmagic Solutions)
- Marietje Schaake (GCIG)
- Anya Schiffrin (Columbia SIPA)
- Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia Engineering)
- Tobby Simon (Synergia Foundation)
- Brad Smith (Microsoft)
- Lawrence Strickling (U.S. Department of Commerce)
- Paul Twomey (Argo Pacific)
- Andrew Wyckoff (OECD)
- Christopher Yoo (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
Watch the recordings:
- Day 1: Opening, Welcome and Keynote Discussion
- Plenary Panel 1: Examining the Future of the Open and Universal Internet
- Plenary Panel 2: The Future of Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance
- Fireside Chat with Brad Smith
- Panel 3A: Human rights, Freedom of Expression and the Internet
- Panel 3B: Trade, Internet Governance, and Cross-border Data Flows
- Panel 4A: Privacy, Big Data and the Internet
- Panel 4B: Innovation and the Internet
- Day 1: Concluding remarks with moderators
- Day 2: Opening Joint-Keynote
- Plenary Panel 5: Mitigating Cyber-risks in Critical Infrastructure: Private and Public Responses for the Financial Sector
- Panel 6A: Nuclear vs Cyber: Conflict & Deterrence
- Panel 6B: Cyber-security and the Internet of Things
Events in this Series
- 2021 Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Policy Forum
- 2020 Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Cybersecurity, the Digital State, and Democratic Governance
- 2019 Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Navigating Digital Transformations: Survive or Thrive?
- 2018 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: State of the Field Workshop on the Digital Transformation
- 2017 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Tension between fragmentation of the internet and globalization
- 2016 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Data Governance
- 2015 Global Digital Futures Policy Forum: Internet Governance and Cyber Security