IGF 2016: Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

Baher Esmat's Schedule



December 5 • Monday
09:00 – 10:00 P Mapping digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa: A new visual tool for comparative analysis
Workshop Room 3 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Hanane Boujemi, Noha Fathy
Speakers: Walid Al-Saqaf, Hanane Boujemi, Noha Fathy, Niels ten Oever
11:00 – 12:30 P ICANN - Reflections on the evolution of the multistakeholder model in the context of the IANA Stewardship Transition
Workshop Room 2 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Baher Esmat, Nigel Hickson
13:00 – 18:00 P Global Connect, IEEE, ISOC, ITU, UNESCO, WEF, and the World Bank - Advancing Solutions for Connectivity: Improving Global Coordination and Collaboration
Workshop Room 3 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Karen McCabe, Despoina Sareidaki, Alex Wong
December 6 • Tuesday
09:00 – 10:00 O OF13: INTERNET & JURISDICTION
Workshop Room 9 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Paul Fehlinger
11:15 – 12:45 S WS22: Local content and sustainable growth
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Paolo Lanteri, Bertrand Moullier
12:00 – 13:30 G WS14: Asia and the Next Billion: Challenges in Digital Inclusion
Workshop Room 7 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Satish Babu, Maureen Hilyard
12:00 – 13:30 T Teaching Internet Governance - experiences from 10 years of SIGs
Workshop Room 9 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Sandra Hoferichter
16:00 – 16:30 C OPENING CEREMONY
Main Session Room (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
16:30 – 18:00 C OPENING SESSION
Main Session Room (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
December 7 • Wednesday
09:00 – 10:30 H WS162: The Role of Judiciary Systems and Internet Governance
Workshop Room 3 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Guilherme Canela de Souza Godoi, Xianhong Hu
10:15 – 11:45 L WS63: ICANN New gTLD Program: Exploring Impact & Future Direction
Workshop Room 7 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Nigel Hickson, Dierdre Sidjanski
12:00 – 13:30 A WS19: Enhancing linguistic and cultural diversity in cyberspace
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Giovanni Seppia, Emily Taylor
12:00 – 13:30 L WS86: Reality of the Answerability of multistakeholder model
Workshop Room 7 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Rafik Dammak, Robin Gross
15:00 – 16:00 O OF14: ICANN
Workshop Room 9 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Baher Esmat
16:30 – 18:00 R WS64: A Post IANA Transition ICANN
Workshop Room 2 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Nigel Hickson, Dierdre Sidjanski
December 8 • Thursday
10:15 – 11:45 Y WS6: Can Law enforcement catch bad actors online anymore ?
Workshop Room 4 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Robert Guerra, Julie Hedlund
10:45 – 12:15 L WS91: The power of the noncommercial users on the Internet
Workshop Room 7 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Rafik Dammak, Robin Gross
10:45 – 11:45 O OF16: EGYPT
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Nirvana Farrag
14:15 – 14:35 I [LIGHTNING SESSION] Challenges of Internet Governance in MENA region
Lightning Session Area

Session Organizers: Layal Bahnam, Roula Mikhael
15:00 – 16:30 A WS165: Fostering Digital Capacities for Decent Life in MENA
Workshop Room 2 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Nadira Alaraj, Hafedh Yahmadi
Speakers: Nadira Alaraj, Nibal Idlebi, Cherkaoui LEGHRIS, Mohit Saraswat, Hafedh Yahmadi
15:00 – 16:30 L WS189: Civil Society Experiences from the IANA Transition Process
Workshop Room 7 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Tapani Tarvainen, Gangesh Varma
16:30 – 17:00 A WS142: IDNs : 'A Key to Inclusive and Multilingual Internet'
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Harish Chowdhary
December 9 • Friday
09:00 – 10:30 A WS97: How to create relevant Internet Governance Content
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Olga Cavalli, Dustin Phillips
10:00 – 11:30 M IGF Best Practice Forums (BPFs) and Policy Options for Connecting the Next Billion(s)
Main Session Room (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Brian Gutterman, Anri van der Spuy
11:30 – 13:00 S WS262: VoIP Crackown: Implications for gov, telecom & civil society
Workshop Room 8 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Amin Jobran, Keith J. McManamen
12:00 – 13:30 E WS75: Domain Name System fragmentation? Risk and reality
Workshop Room 2 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Farzaneh Badiei, Milton Mueller
13:30 – 14:15 F IGF Newcomers Track: Wrap up: Taking Stock and How to engage in the IGF2017 community intersessional work
Workshop Room 4 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
15:30 – 17:00 C Taking Stock : Emerging Issues - Future of the IGF and IGF Retreat Consultation
Main Session Room (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
17:00 – 18:00 C CLOSING CEREMONY
Main Session Room (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)