[kictanet] EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE:

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EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE:

INTERACTIVE LEARNING IN A MULTISTAKEHOLDER ENVIRONMENT



Meissen, Germany, July 30 - August 4, 2007



Internet Governance was one of the most controversial issues in the process 
of the UN sponsored "World Summit on the Information Society" (WSIS). Based 
on a broad definition of Internet Governance the Tunis phase of WSIS decided 
in November 2005 to establish an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) for further 
discussion of the various dimensions of Internet Governance and to launch a 
process towards enhanced cooperation among involved institutions and 
organisations like ICANN, ITU and others. The issue of Internet Governance 
is rather new not only for economic activities, political debate and 
diplomatic negotiations but it is also new both for scientific research and 
academic education. The European Summer School on Internet Governance 
(EURO-SSIG) will help to promote the understanding of the different 
dimensions of Internet Governance as it was defined in the Final Report of 
the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) in July 2005. It will 
bring together students from different stakeholder groups to support a 
practice oriented interactive learning in a multistakeholder environment.


The first European Summer School on Internet Governance (EURO-SSIG) will 
take place in the Evangelian Academy of the former St. Afra Monastir in 
Meissen/Germany, from Monday, July 30 - Saturday, August 4, 2007. The 
EURO-SSIG offers 40 hours of lectures and seminars on the different aspects 
of Internet Governance by leading international experts. The programme 
covers lectures on the technical, political, legal, socio-economic and 
cultural dimension of Internet Governance as well as theories on global 
governance in the information age and multistakeholderism. Faculty members 
include Prof. Jonathan Zittrain from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), 
Dr. David Souter from the London School of Economics (LSE), Dr. Jeanette 
Hofmann from the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and former WGIG Members Dr. 
Bill Drake and Jovan Kurbilja from the Geneva Institute for Higher 
International Studies (HEI), Avri Doria from Lulea Technology University 
(LTU) and Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwächter from the University of Aarhus who will 
chair the EURO-SSIG Faculty. Additionally to the lectures there will be 
evening round tables with leading professionals from government, private 
sector and civil society.


EURO-SSIG is open both for students and academic staff members. There is a 
limited numbers of places for fellows from governmental agencies and the 
private sector. Fellows will get a signed certificate. The privileged 
participation fee - which includes accommodation (five nights), all meals, 
teaching material, the touristic program and the gala dinner - for students 
and academic staff members is 500.00 EUR (plus 19% VAT) per person. There 
are special tariffs for governmental and private sector representatives.


Application forms can be found unter www.euro-ssig.eu. The dateline for 
applications is May, 15th, 2007. There is a limited number of fellowships 
for students which can be obtained on request and availability.

The Summer School is organized by a consortium of European universities 
under the leadership of the Department of Media and Information Studies of 
the University of Aarhus in close cooperation with the "Global Internet 
Governance Academic Network" (GIGANET). It is supported by DENIC. 
Cooperation partners are UNESCO and the Diplo Foundation.



To get more information contact the EURO-SSIG secretary Sandra Hoferichter 
under info at hoferichter.eu <mailto:info at hoferichter.e>  or go to the 
EURO-SSIG website http://www.euro-ssig.eu 
<https://server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.euro-ssig.eu> 
which provides also special information with regard to accommodation and 
transportation.