IGF 2016: Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

IFEX2016's Schedule



December 5 • Monday
09:00 – 10:00 P International Media Support - Operational responses to online harassment
Workshop Room 7 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Andreas Reventlow
09:00 – 13:00 P Organization of American States (OAS) & UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression - Freedom of Expression and the ICT Sector: Regional Concerns [closed event]
Workshop Room 8 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Amos Toh
11:00 – 12:30 P UNICEF - Global Kids Online: from research on children’s rights in the digital age to national and international policy
Workshop Room 3 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Jasmina Byrne
12:00 – 13:30 F IGF Newcomers Track: IGF Mentors Session
Workshop Room 6 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
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
15:00 – 18:00 P Organization of American States (OAS) & UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression - Freedom of Expression and the ICT Sector: Regional Concerns [closed event]
Workshop Room 8 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Amos Toh
16:00 – 18:00 P UNESCO - Protecting safety of journalists online and offline in global Internet Governance ecosystem
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Xianhong Hu, Cédric Wachholz
December 6 • Tuesday
09:00 – 10:30 R WS170: The Network of Networked Things: Finding the Internet in IoT
Workshop Room 2 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Chris Buckridge, Pablo Hinojosa
09:00 – 10:30 Y WS26: Cybersecurity - Initiatives in and by the Global South
Workshop Room 3 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Carolina Caeiro, Laura Kaplan
10:15 – 11:45 H WS168: Implementing human rights standards to the ICT sector
Workshop Room 7 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Luca Belli, Jamila Venturini
10:45 – 12:15 E WS118: Meet TISA:The trade agreement you’ve probably never heard of
Workshop Room 4 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Maryant Fernandez, Burcu Kilic
11:30 – 13:00 H WS266: The right to access the Internet in Latin America
Workshop Room 6 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Carlos Brito, Luis Fernando Garcia
12:00 – 13:30 Y WS27: WePROTECT: Combating online child sexual abuse with the MSM
Workshop Room 3 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Ernie Allen, Mike Taylor
13:00 – 15:00 T SEED Alliance Awards Ceremony
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Sylvia Cadena
15:00 – 16:00 C Setting the Scene: Orientation
Main Session Room (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
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 Y WS96: Free Expression & Extremism: An Internet Governance Challenge
Workshop Room 4 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Carl Miller, Jonathan Russell
09:00 – 10:00 H WS234: Linking connectivity, human rights, & development
Workshop Room 6 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Peter Micek, Fabro Steibel
10:45 – 12:15 D DC on Internet Rights and Principles
Workshop Room 10 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Catherineeaston, Internet Rights and Principles Coalition/Amnesty International, Minda Moreira
10:45 – 12:15 H WS208: Inclusive responses to intentional internet disruptions
Workshop Room 5 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Deniz Duru Aydin, David Sullivan
10:45 – 11:45 T FREEDOM HOUSE
Workshop Room 8 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Dominic Bellone
12:00 – 13:00 O OF27: FREEDOM ONLINE COALITION
Workshop Room 8 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Seth Bouvier
15:00 – 16:30 Y WS152: Working Together: Collaborative Security in local contexts
Workshop Room 3 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Hirofumi Hotta, Mat Ford (Internet Society)
15:00 – 16:30 H WS159: Encryption and safety of journalists in digital age
Workshop Room 6 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Xianhong Hu
15:00 – 18:00 M National and Regional IGFs (NRIs)
Main Session Room (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
16:30 – 18:00 H WS158: Human rights advocacy: strategies for the digital age
Workshop Room 7 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Donja Ghobadi, Sheetal Kumar, Matthew Shears
17:00 – 18:00 O OF46: OAS
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Belisario Contreras
December 8 • Thursday
09:00 – 10:30 A WS42: How can Privacy help us harness ‘Big Data for Social Good’?
Workshop Room 1 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Yiannis Theodorou, Boris Wojtan
09:00 – 10:30 G WS164: Sex & Freedom of Expression Online
Workshop Room 6 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Nadine Moawad, Janine Moolman
10:00 – 13:00 M Human Rights: Broadening the Conversation
Main Session Room (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Jac sm Kee
10:15 – 11:45 A WS98: Markets, communities & public policies for access and HR
Workshop Room 2 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Carolina Aguerre, Paula Vargas
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
12:00 – 13:30 R WS3: SIDS Roundtable: Death, Disaster & the Internet
Workshop Room 2 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Tracy Hackshaw
12:00 – 13:30 G WS138: Solutions for countering online abuse against women
Workshop Room 6 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Sadaf Khan, Tehmina
15:00 – 16:30 G WS127: Doxxing women: privacy protections against gender violence
Workshop Room 6 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Cleria Patricia Saldanha Maia, Ana Paula Lourenço dos Santos
15:00 – 16:00 H WS267: Surveillance and International Human Rights Law
Workshop Room 4 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Luis Fernando Garcia, Katitza Rodriguez
15:00 – 16:30 H WS28: The 'Right to Be Forgotten' and Privatized Adjudication
Workshop Room 10 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Daphne Keller, Jeremy Malcolm
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 – 18:00 Y WS153: Let’s break down silos in cyber security and cyber crime!
Workshop Room 3 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Wout de Natris, Maarten Simon, Sophie Veraart
16:30 – 18:00 H WS30: Strategic Litigation: Freedom of Expression Online - SE Asia
Workshop Room 4 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Oliver Xavier Reyes, Mark Wallem
16:30 – 18:00 S WS271: Civil Society & Private Sector Build ICT support for SDGs
Workshop Room 8 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Garland McCoy
December 9 • Friday
09:00 – 10:00 G WS225: Hands-on youth-driven Internet initiatives
Workshop Room 4 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Mark Datysgeld, Lucas Moura
09:00 – 10:30 S WS134: Assemblies and Associations online: Coping with Challenges
Workshop Room 8 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Shahzad Ahmad, Tehmina
10:45 – 11:45 Y WS196: On cybersecurity, who has got our back?: A debate
Workshop Room 2 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Sheetal Kumar, Daniela Schnidrig
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 H WS109: Analyzing the Causes & Impacts of Internet Shutdowns
Workshop Room 4 (PALCCO, Guadalajara, Mexico)

Session Organizers: Arjun Jayakumar, Prasanth Sugathan