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EVENT DETAILS |
Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, in collaboration with the Global Commission on Internet Governance, welcome you to attend their Conference on Internet Governance and Cyber-security on May 14-15, 2015.
Day 1: Internet Governance | Day 2: Cyber-security
Nine panels over one and a half days.
Over 40 thought leaders including leading Columbia University faculty from SIPA, business, law, engineering, journalism; GCIG Commissioners and affiliated researchers; influential US and international policy makers, entrepreneurs, legal experts, technologists, and corporate executives from around the world.
An agenda covering the most pressing policy issues in the worlds of internet governance and cyber-security including privacy, security, innovation, international trade and cross border data flows, data protectionism, human rights, freedom of expression and much more.
A series of expert background papers that form a basis for discussion for each of the panels.
Featuring addresses by:
Steven Bellovin, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Michael Chertoff, GCIG Commissioner & former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, United States
Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia SIPA
Kevin Mandia, Chief Operating Office & Senior Vice President, FireEye
Eli Noam, Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School
Marietje Schaake, GCIG Commissioner & Dutch member of the European Parliament
Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft
Lawrence Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, US Department of Commerce
Tim Wu, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
To register for the event, visit Eventbrite
Overview
We have reached an important juncture for many Internet policy issues, both within nations and globally. The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University is hosting a major forum in collaboration with the Global Commission on Internet Governance to examine critical issues associated with Internet governance and cyber security.
We are in a period when technological change and use of the internet by private and commercial actors is an important engine of growth and a source of tension within and between nations. Nations are developing unique, and often divergent policies and approaches with respect to several important Internet policy areas. Countries and regions are considering policy measures aimed at addressing tensions between individual privacy and security, local data control and an internationally-accessible Internet, management of expression and the consequences of divergent policies globally.
The emerging challenges brought about by new technologies will require novel and adaptive policy responses from governments with major input and participation from the private sector, policy makers and the academy. Only by convening these diverse interests is it likely that effective policy frameworks can be developed over time. It is with this need in mind that Columbia SIPA hosts this conference on May 14-15th, in collaboration with the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
Panels
The conference will involve panels on topics including:
Day 1: Internet Governance
Examining the Future of the Open and Universal Internet
The Future of Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance
Human rights, Freedom of Expression, and the Internet
Trade, Internet Governance, and Cross-border Data Flows
Privacy, Big Data, and the Internet
Innovation and the Internet
Day Two: Cyber-security
Mitigating Cyber-risks in Critical Infrastructure: Private and Public Responses for the Financial Sector
Nuclear vs Cyber: Conflict & Deterrence
Cyber-security and the Internet of Things
Organizers
This conference is hosted by:
Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
For nearly 70 years, SIPA has been equipping future leaders with the skills, knowledge and intellectual curiosity to solve the world's most critical public policy challenges. Through a rigorous and multidisciplinary curriculum, practical capstone projects and field work that engage real world issues, and connections to world-renowned scholars and practitioners, SIPA students learn to make a positive difference in the world, whether in the public, private, or nonprofit sector. At home in Columbia's prestigious university community and the global City of New York, SIPA is also a uniquely diverse, international and entrepreneurial community that brings together world leaders of diverse backgrounds, skills, and perspectives.
SIPA recently launched a new initiative around technology and policy called Tech&Policy@SIPA'. This ambitious effort fuses public policy, engineering, data science and entrepreneurship through a variety of activities, including new courses on data analytics and visualization; a Challenge Grant that invites graduate students to combine ICT and data to solve urban challenges globally; participation with Columbia Entrepreneurship in a start-up lab in lower NYC; and interdisciplinary research around internet policy issues including internet governance and cyber security. This new research is aimed at deepening collaboration at Columbia University across disciplines as well as convening interdisciplinary expert groups, such as at this Conference. By equipping the next generation of public policy students and scholars with a deeper understanding of new technology, nurturing organizations that are building novel tech-based solutions to pressing public policy problems, and supporting cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, SIPA is stimulating a host of creative endeavors at the intersection of technology and public policy.
This conference is held in collaboration with:
The Global Commission on Internet Governance
The Global Commission on Internet Governance was established in January 2014, to articulate and advance a strategic vision for the future of Internet governance. With work commencing in May 2014, the two-year project will conduct and support independent research on Internet-related dimensions of global public policy, culminating in an official commission report.
Chaired by Carl Bildt, the commission will inform concrete policy recommendations for the future of Internet governance, by providing a framework both for coordination among advanced industrial democracies and for addressing the interests and values of states that are uncertain about the future of multi-stakeholder governance. Key issues to be addressed by the commission include governance legitimacy and regulation, innovation, online rights and systemic risk.
Launched by two independent global think tanks, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Chatham House, the Global Commission on Internet Governance will help educate the wider public on the most effective ways to promote Internet access, while simultaneously championing the principles of freedom of expression and the free flow of ideas over the Internet.
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