Dear all,

I would like to invite you to participate – in situ or remotely – to IGF workshop 172: Network Neutrality: a Roadmap for Infrastructure Enhancement  that will be held on 3 September from 11:00 to 12:30 (see: http://sched.co/1k5ALnS )

 

The workshop will interrogate such questions as:
(i) how does Network Neutrality* (NN) relates to network enhancement?
(ii) is the market alone able to provide appropriate answers to guarantee network enhancement in accordance with the NN principle?
(iii) how can governmental policies promote private investments in network enhancement without impinging upon the NN principle?
(iv) is there room or need for State-subsidized network infrastructures?

Moderators:

·         Luca Belli, Council of Europe & Université Paris 2

·         Primavera De Filippi, CNRS & Berkman Center

Panellists:

·         Ana Olmos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

·         Carolina Rossini, New America Foundation

·         Chris Riley, Mozilla

·         Elvana Thaçi, Council of Europe

·         Michele Bellavite, ETNO

·         Parminder Singh, ICT for Change

Remote moderator:

·         Nicolo' Zingales, Tilburg University & CTS-FGV

 

Looking forward to seeing you in Istanbul.

Best,

Luca

*the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality elaborated the following NN definition: “Network neutrality is the principle according to which Internet traffic shall be treated equally, without discrimination, restriction or interference regardless of its sender, recipient, type or content, so that Internet users’ freedom of choice is not restricted by favouring or disfavouring the transmission of Internet traffic associated with particular content, services, applications, or devices” see:  http://www.networkneutrality.info/sources.html

The abovementioned definition inspired the European Parliament that, in the first reading of the “Connected Continent Regulation”, affirmed that “The principle of ‘net neutrality’ in the open internet means that traffic should be treated equally, without discrimination, restriction or interference, independent of the sender, receiver, type, content, device, service or application” see : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P7-TA-2014-0281&language=EN