Buongiorno, Per chi fosse interessato: Dear all (apologies for cross-posting), I would like to invite you to attend – on site or remotely – the RightsCon Silicon Valley session on ‘Network Neutrality: How to Identify Discrimination and Advance Solutions’ that will take place on 4 March from 16:00 to 17:00 (GMT -8) at the Mission Bay Conference Center, in San Francisco. Please, find below the description of the session. Best regards, Luca Network Neutrality: How to Identify Discrimination and Advance Solutions Organisers: - Mr Luca Belli, CERSA and founder of the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality; - Ms Primavera De Filippi, CERSA, Berkman Center and co-founder of the DC NN; Panellists: - Ms Raegan MacDonald, ACCESS; - Ms Elvana Thaçi, Council of Europe; - Mr Joe McNamee, EDRi; - Mr Alejandro Pisanty, National Autonomous University of Mexico and ISOC Mexico; - Ms Carolina Rossini, New America Foundation; - Mr Francisco Vera Hott, Derechos Digitales; - Ms Staci Pies, Microsoft; - Ms Renata Avila, World Wide Web Foundation. Format This session will take the form of a “fishbowl”: panellists will first engage in a discussion around the various facets of the net neutrality debate; after which, the attendees will be invited to join the panel by rotating in and out of the fishbowl, thus actively contributing to shaping the dynamics of the second part of the session. Session description This session will analyse the instrumental role played by the network neutrality (NN) principle to guarantee the full enjoyment of human rights and foster a competitive market, and will focus on concrete solutions aimed at implementing this principle. The panellists will underline the risks of discriminatory Internet-traffic management (ITM) practices and will suggest technical and policy “remedies” that may be used to mitigate, avoid or prevent traffic discrimination. Subsequently, the panel will analyse a selection of national approaches aimed at safeguarding NN. On the one hand, private sector actors will be asked to identify the approaches that provide the most “innovation-friendly” environment. On the other hand, civil society actors will be asked to scrutinise the current approaches, identifying potential loopholes and pitfalls that may jeopardise Internet-users’ full enjoyment of fundamental rights and compromise the free flow of information. Lastly, the organisers will discuss the content and role of the model framework on network neutrality, which has been initiated by the Council of Europe (CoE), elaborated by the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality and delivered back to the CoE as a working base to elaborate a “Recommendation on Network Neutrality” Luca Belli PhD Candidate in Public Law CERSA, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris 2 Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality