Governing digital interdependence – the role of Europe – FS 02 2021

29 June 2021 | 14:45-17:30 CEST | Studio Bruges
Consolidated programme 2021 overview / Day 1

Title: Governing digital interdependence – the role of Europe
Proposals: #9 #29 #34 #36 #54 #56

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Session teaser

The past few years have brought a spread of divergent Internet-related legislative and regulatory frameworks around the world, the emergence of digital sovereignty ambitions and initiatives, and the intensification of technology-driven competitions between countries. These influence the perspective on the role of Europe in this. During this session different perspectives will be shown and discussed.

Session description

The focus session format is new in the EuroDIGs history, this three-hour session will dive deep into the ever-changing global legislative and regulatory frameworks. The first 45 minutes will be filled with perspectives on this changing environment and the development of the European Soverenity. Perspectives will be given by representatives from the public sector, academia and private sector.

After a small break, the audience will be divided into multiple breakout rooms where the discussion amongst each other continues under the leadership of the key participants.

After that, the session will be concluded with a debriefing from the breakout rooms into the main room and a discussion about the outcomes and differences.

In this session, the following questions will be answered by the panel speakers and you as a participant.

• What does all this mean for the global nature of the Internet and the future of our digitally interdependent world?
• How do we reconcile tendencies towards digital independence with the calls for improved digital cooperation at the global level?
• Where does Europe position itself in this landscape?
• And what is the key to governing this digital in(ter)dependence in a manner that benefits society at large?

Format

The key format of EuroDIG is about dialogue, this session is developed to create discussion on the highest level. This session is divided into three parts of 45 minutes, the second focuses on developing full discussion in smaller groups, the third session is about understanding the others' perspectives in a debriefing.

Input session
14:45 – 14:48 (3 min): Introductions by moderator and session format.
14:48 – 15:08 (20 min): Speaker introductions on European frameworks and sovereignty.
15:08 - 15:13 (5 min): Reaction from key participant.
15:13 - 15:25 (12 min): Discussion with whole audience + closure

Break: 15:25 - 15:40

discussion session 15:40 - 16:25 (45min): discussion in breakout rooms

Break: 16:25 - 16:35

reporting session

16:35 - 17:05 (35 min): Reporting from breakout rooms + discussion
17:05 - 17:15 (10 min): Closing remarks

Further reading

Links to relevant websites, declarations, books, documents. Please note we cannot offer web space, so only links to external resources are possible. Example for an external link: Main page of EuroDIG

People

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Focal Point

Focal Points take over the responsibility and lead of the session organisation. They work in close cooperation with the respective Subject Matter Expert (SME) and the EuroDIG Secretariat and are kindly requested to follow EuroDIG’s session principles

• Auke Pals

Organising Team (Org Team) List Org Team members here as they sign up.

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

• Sorina Teleanu

The Org Team is a group of people shaping the session. Org Teams are open and every interested individual can become a member by subscribing to the mailing list.

• Auke Pals
• Riccardo Nanni, University of Bologna
• Hendrik Ike, GÉANT
• Vittorio Bertola, Open-Xchange
• Wout de Natris, De Natris Consult/DC-ISSS

Speakers

• Erik Huizer (CEO GEANT) - Academia/technical community

Erik has been GÉANT CEO since July 2017.

Erik has a long-standing involvement with the NREN community and was previously CTO of SURFnet, and a member of the GÉANT Association Board until he stepped down to take up the CEO position. Before SURFnet he served as Managing Director for ICT at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO).

Erik has fulfilled various board-level functions of Internet related organisations and for over 30 years has been involved in education and research networking, Internet standardisation and Internet governance. For his contributions to the Internet he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014.

• Marina Kaljurand (Member of European Parliament) - Public sector

Marina Kaljurand is the Member of European Parliament since July 2nd, 2019. Kaljurand was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018-2019). She was the Chair and Commissioner of the GCSC (2017-present). Kaljurand is a member of the UN SG`s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (since 2020).

Kaljurand served as Estonian Foreign Minister (2015-2016) and as Ambassador of Estonia to the State of Israel, the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Canada and the United States of America.

Kaljurand served twice as the Estonian National Expert at the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (GGE), in 2014-2015 and in 2016-2017.

Marina Kaljurand graduated cum laude from the Tartu University (1986, LLM). She has a professional diploma from the Estonian School of Diplomacy (1992) and MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (F95).

• Götz Brasche (CTO Cloud, Huawei Technologies) - Private sector

Key Participants

• Olaf Kolkman (Board Member Global Forum of Cyber Expertise, Former CTO Internet Society)

Moderator

• Auke Pals

Remote Moderator

Trained remote moderators will be assigned on the spot by the EuroDIG secretariat to each session.

Reporter

Reporters will be assigned by the EuroDIG secretariat in cooperation with the Geneva Internet Platform. The Reporter takes notes during the session and formulates 3 (max. 5) bullet points at the end of each session that:

• are summarised on a slide and presented to the audience at the end of each session
• relate to the particular session and to European Internet governance policy
• are forward looking and propose goals and activities that can be initiated after EuroDIG (recommendations)
• are in (rough) consensus with the audience

Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes

See the discussion tab on the upper left side of this page. Please use this page to publish:

• 30 April 2021, 13:00 - 13:30 CEST

In this meeting we confirmed the teaser, session description and format

• 17 May 2021, 14:00 - 14:45 CEST

In this meeting we started our call for speakers and key participants

• 9 June 2021, 12:00 - 12:30 CEST

In this meeting we confirmed the speakers and key participants and are proceeding working on the format on the breakout session

Messages

A short summary of the session will be provided by the Reporter.

Video record

Will be provided here after the event.

Transcript

Will be provided here after the event.