Monday, 14 September 2009

11:00 - 11:15 

Introductory statements from co-organizers and facilitator

11:15 - 11:45

Video messages and opening statements by stakeholder groups from the private sector, civil society, youth, governments

11:45 - 12:45

Roundtable of European parliamentary perspectives regarding Internet governance

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch

14:15 - 15:45

Parallel Workshop 1 - 3

Workshop 1:  End-users access to, and choice in services.

Key words, questions and references:
Role of ISPs and governments; rights and freedoms of users as citizens and as consumers; what competition to provide content and services? Towards a European users rights charter? Network neutrality vs traffic prioritization

Workshop 2: Personal and professional privacy

Key words, questions and references:
Surveillance and privacy; filtering; secure e-mail; enforcing personal rights in the online working world. Has the right balance been struck between market and industry trends and needs (and their money-making opportunities) and the protection of fundamental rights (i.e. is there a need to invest more in privacy, even if this means reducing business’ margins or profits or even the pace of development (if this is really at stake – developing privacy and security may be profitable and facilitate development)? What should Europe be saying in respect of all this? Where are the profits going and where is the damage left?

Workshop 3:  Allocation of and control over critical Internet resources.

Key words, questions and references:
Addresses; domain names; trademarks; naming issues; ICANN JPA & IANA contract; responsibilities regarding namespace; new gTLDs and IDNs; mobile Internet, digital dividend, IPV6; DNSSEC.

15:45 - 16:15

Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45

Parallel Workshop 4 - 6

Workshop 4:  Cybercrime and cyber security:Public-Private-Partnerships 

Key words, questions and references:
How to build effective public-private partnerships to meet new and emerging threats? How do we increase robustness while, at the same time, limiting the impact of stress on IT infrastructure and services? What has to be done on global, what on regional and national level? How can we assure that privacy and freedom of expression are respected?

Workshop 5: Effective media literacy for the end-user

Key words, questions and references: 
Citizenship; competences; consumerism; media coaching; user aggregation; serious games; identity construction; human rights respect and implementation; online resources; open educational resources; cross-cultural education and communication; cultural diversity; towards a European media literacy model; governance of media education; mapping of media education policies; dynamic coalition on media governance.

Workshop 6:  The Internet of 2020: Future services  future services

Key words, questions and references:
Services in 2020; challenges to existing non-telecom regulation such as copyright, cross border issues and other kind of non-harmonization of regulation and legislation.

17:45 -18:30

Reporting-in from workshops - European threads

18: 30

Reception offered by OFCOM Switzerland, EBU and Council of Europe

Tuesday, 15 September 2009 

09:00 - 10:30

Plenary 1:  Access to infrastructure and content

Key words, questions and references:
(Part I) Access to Infrastructure: How to create an enabling environment? What business models and what regulation for infrastructure market? Financing and sharing models for IT infrastructure? Should there be universal service including broadband?

(Part II) Access to content: Digital divide. Should we regulate new media? Professional journalism and trust in the Internet. What role of public service media in the Internet? Quality standards for user generated content? Where is the dividing line between private communication and public expression? Viral advertising. Telecoms package and protecting fundamental human rights. Freedom of expression.

10:30 - 12:00

Plenary 2:  What is public and what is private on social networks? - Towards greater end-user privacy and security. 

Key words, questions and references:
Responsibilities of providers/operators. Ownership of works/content on social networking sites? Intellectual property, digital rights management. Digital identity. Storage of personal data. Are there user friendly business models? Respect for privacy as a business advantage? Dealing with identity theft, identity fraud, and information leakage. Dignity, security and privacy of children. Controlling one’s own data and data retention. Default privacy settings. How to delete profiles? The ethical dimensions of social networks. The use of social networking sites for political mobilisation.

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

Plenary 3:  The post-JPA phase: towards a future Internet governance model

Key words, questions and references:
NTIA-RFC. European recommendation to US DoC about future of ICANN and IANA. What is meant by multistakeholder governance of the internet? What are the respective roles of the different stakeholders? Is the business sector able to take fully responsibility of the well-functioning of the Internet? What would be an appropriate form of regulation for the management of the critical internet resources? On what fundamental values and principles should this be based? Is there a “European common view” on this?

15:00 - 16:00

Plenary 4:  Arrangements for a European IGF and Future EuroDIG events

Key words, questions and references:
Is there a need/desire for a European IGF? What should be its mandate and objectives? If so, how should such a regional forum work? How should it link to national, global and other regional Internet governance initiatives? How could it help to improved e-participation in internet governance?

16:00 - 17:00

Conclusions and next steps