Standardization and interoperability

The Internet must be based on open standards that facilitate interoperability and enable all to participate in its development.

address

São Paulo - SP
Espaço Transatlântico
JUNE 11TH, 2015

Host CGI.br member
Virgílio Almeida: Coordinator, CGI.br
Demi Getschko: CEO, NIC.br
Hartmut Glaser: Executive Secretariat, CGI.br

Speakers

Steve Crocker: Mr. Steve Crocker created the well known document series 'Request For Comments' (RFCs). He was also the Program Manager of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States of America an helped create the Arpanet protocols, the basis for the Internet. He developed academic research as well as government oriented and also played a role in the private sector. Nowadays he is the CEO of Shinkuro, Inc. and Chair of the ICANN Board of Directors.

Liane Tarouco: Full professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, she holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering / Digital Systems from the University of São Paulo (USP). She develops teaching and research activities in Computer Science, focusing on Computer Networks an Networks Management. She represented the Scientific and Technological community at the CGI.br Board from 1997 to 1999. Liane is one of the key actors of the history of the Internet in Brazil, actively participating in the first activities for the connection with the global Internet in the country.

Freedom, privacy and human rights

The use of the Internet must be driven by the principles of freedom of expression, individual privacy and the respect for human rights, recognizing them as essential to the preservation of a fair and democratic society.

address

São Paulo - SP
Anfiteatro do Ed. Bolsa de Imóveis
JULY 2ND, 2015 - 7pm to 10pm

Host CGI.br member
Virgílio Almeida: Coordinator, CGI.br

Speakers

Frank La Rue: Executive Director of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Europe and former UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion and protection of the right to the freedom of opinion and expression (2008-14). He is widely respected as one of the world’s foremost human rights advocates, with particular expertise in political analysis; democratic development; and conflict management, negotiation, and resolution. A lawyer by training, Mr. La Rue is also a journalist, and has served in the Cabinet of the Government in his native Guatemala as Presidential Secretary for Human Rights, and has frequently taught and written about human rights.

James Bamford: Columnist for Foreign Policy Magazine, a contributing editor at Wired magazine, a documentary producer for PBS, and a bestselling author. He is widely noted for his writing about the United States intelligence agencies, especially the highly secretive National Security Agency.

Diversity

Cultural diversity must be respected and preserved and its expression must be stimulated, without the imposition of beliefs, customs or values.

address

Salvador - BA
Fiesta Convention Center
Av. Antonio Carlos Magalhães, 741 - Itaigara
July 16th, 2015
4:30pm to 7pm

Speakers

João Brant: Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Culture. He served as special advisor at the Municipal Cultural Secretariat of São Paulo and was also coordinator of Intervozes. He is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of São Paulo, master in Regulation and Communication Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Raquel Rennó: Associate professor of the Cultural Center, Languages and Applied Technologies of Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB) and in master's degree in Arts, Culture and Languages Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. She participates in research and experimentation projects in digital culture with Latin American and European artists and researchers in the Cultural Association ZZZINC.

Pe. Maurício da Silva Ferreira: Rector of the Catholic University of Salvador. Graduated in theology in Rome - Italy, he was ordained as priest in 2000. Holds a Master (thesis on Human Rights) and doctorate with a thesis on Ethics and Politics in Rome. He had been the Theology course coordinator of UCSal and Rector of the Seminário central São João Maria Vianney.

Innovation

Internet governance must promote the continuous development and widespread dissemination of new technologies and models for access and use.

address

São Paulo - SP
Blue Tree Towers Morumbi
Av. Roque Petroni Junior, 1000 – Jardim das Acácias
August 19th, 2015 - 6:30pm to 9pm

Speakers

Raul Echeberria: He is the Vice President for Global Engagement in the Internet Society. Founder of Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC), where he served for 14 years, participated in different spheres of Internet governance, developing projects in institutions such as ICANN, Oxford University and APC. Between 2006 and 2014, he was also a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Anupam Chander: Anupam Chander is Director of the California International Law Center and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. He is a Cyber-law and intellectual property expert and his research focuses on the regulation of globalization and digitization. His new book, The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce, was released in June 2013 by Yale University Press. Anupam explores how global trade on the Internet is now regulated, why regulation matters to individuals as well as nations, and how better regulatory laws can encourage international trade while protecting national and human rights.

Legal and regulatory Environments

The legal and regulatory environments must preserve the dynamics of the Internet as a space for collaboration.

address

São Paulo - SP
Hotel Blue Tree Premium Morumbi
Av. Roque Petroni Junior, 1000 – Brooklin Novo
September 16th, 2015
6:30pm to 9pm

Speakers

Raul Echeberría: He is the Vice President for Global Engagement in the Internet Society. Founder of Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC), where he served for 14 years, participated in different spheres of Internet governance, developing projects in institutions such as ICANN, Oxford University and APC. Between 2006 and 2014, he was also a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Alison Gillwald: Alison Gillwald is Executive Director of Research ICT Africa and Adjunct Professor at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, Management of Infrastructure Reform and Regulation programme. Prior to this she was Associate Professor at the Witwatersrand University’s Graduate School of Public and Development Management, where she founded the Learning Information Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Centre in 1999 with the purposes of fast tracking ICT policy and regulatory training in Southern Africa. She did so after serving a term on the founding Council of the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA). She was appointed to the African Ministers’ Advisory Group in 2000 and in 2002 she chaired the National Digital Advisory Body appointed by the Minister of Communication. She is founding editor of the Southern African Journal of Information and Communication, which is published in the areas of telecommunications and broadcasting policy and regulation, gender and politics more broadly. Gillwald has a Masters degree in Politics from the University of Natal, which examined democratic media policy for South Africa and a doctorate from the University of Witwatersrand on a decade of telecommunication reform. She also has a post-graduate certificate in Economics and Public Finance from UNISA.

Functionality, Security and Stability

The stability, security and overall functionality of the network must be actively preserved through the adoption of technical measures that are consistent with international standards and encourage the adoption of best practices.

address

São Paulo - SP
BLUE TREE PREMIUM MORUMBI
Av. Roque Petroni Junior, 1000 – Brooklin Novo
September 17th, 2015
10am to 12pm

Speakers

Yurie Ito: Yurie Ito is a Director of Global Coordination Division for the Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC). She has previously served 7 years as Technical Director for the organization and also served ICANN as a Director of Global Security Programs from 2009-2011. She has led a number of international collaborative efforts and currently serves as the Chair of the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT). She has been an active member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and was Board Member of FIRST for 6 years from 2004-2010.

Maarten Van Horenbeeck: He is President of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the premier organization and recognized global leader in incident response. Maarten has been a member of the Board of Directors of FIRST since 2011. He has over 13 years of professional experience in information security, most recently at Amazon, Google and Microsoft, where his work focused on building technical community and relationships with the incident response community. Originally from Belgium, Maarten lives in Seattle and holds a Masters degree in Information Security from Edith Cowan University, Australia.

Universality

Internet access must be universal so that it becomes a tool for human and social development, thereby contributing to the formation of an inclusive and nondiscriminatory society, for the benefit of all.

address

São Paulo - SP
Centro de Convenções Rebouças
Rua Doutor Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 23 - Cerqueira Cesar
September 23th, 2015
4pm to 6pm

Speakers

Sunil Abraham: He is the Executive Director of The Centre for Internet and Society - CIS India. He is also a social entrepreneur and Free Software advocate. He founded Mahiti in 1998 which aims to reduce the cost and complexity of Information and Communication Technology for the Voluntary Sector by using Free Software. Sunil was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999 to 'explore the democratic potential of the Internet' and was granted a Sarai FLOSS fellowship in 2003. Between June 2004 and June 2007, he managed the International Open Source Network, a project of the UNDP's Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme serving 42 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Lêda Lucia Spelta: Psychologist by the Psychology Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1977. One of the first blind people working with computers in Rio de Janeiro, in 1974. She was a programmer, systems analyst, support analyst and team coordinator in various public and private companies. As a member of the Brazilian Braille Committee, coordinated the preparation of Braille language for Informatics, unified into Portuguese. Participates in the Studies Comission EC-04 / CB-40 / ABNT, which prepares draft technical standards on "Accessibility for Digital Inclusion".

Neutrality of the Network

Filtering or traffic privileges must meet ethical and technical criteria only, excluding any political, commercial, religious and cultural factors or any other form of discrimination or preferential treatment.

address

São Paulo - SP
Blue Tree Towers Morumbi
Av. Roque Petroni Junior, 1000 – Jardim das Acácias
October 13th, 2015
6:30pm to 9:30pm

Speakers

Barbara van Schewick: Barbara van Schewick is a Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering in Stanford University’s Department of Electrical Engineering. Van Schewick’s research on the economic, regulatory, and strategic implications of communication networks bridges law, networking and economics. This work has made her a leading expert on network neutrality. Her book "Internet Architecture and Innovation" is considered to be the seminal work on the science, economics and policy of network neutrality.

Chris Marsden: Christopher T. Marsden is a Professor of Law at the University of Sussex, UK. He is a regular international speaker on Internet law and policy issues, and has been cited in The Economist, El Pais, Wall St Journal and many domestic newspapers and journals, as well as GigaOm, ZDNet, Computer Weekly and other online journals. He has 20 years’ experience in Information Society analysis, research and consulting in academic, thinktank, government and commercial organisations. He has consulted for the governments of South Korea, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Thailand, Japan, the European Commission, Council of Europe. Chris Marsden is author of Regulating Code; the Oxford Bibliography of Internet Law; Internet Co-regulation; and Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution.

Democratic and Collaborative Governance

Internet governance must be exercised in a transparent, multilateral and democratic manner, with the participation of the various sectors of society, thereby preserving and encouraging its character as a collective creation.

address

João Pessoa - PB
Hotel Tropical Tambaú
Av. Almirante Tamandare, 229 – Tambaú
November 09th, 2015 6:45pm to 10:00pm

Speakers

Urs Gasser: is the Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor at Harvard Law School. He is a trustee on the board of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at the University of Torino and on the board of the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and a Fellow at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. Gasser has written and edited several books, and published over 100 articles in professional journals. His research and teaching activities focus on information law, policy and society.

Markus Kummer: is the Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat supporting the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Previously he headed the Secretariat of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and before joining the United Nations in 2004, he held the position as Envoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne. Mr. Kummer was a member of the Swiss delegation during the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) where he chaired several negotiating groups, including the group on Internet governance. He served as a career diplomat in several functions in the Swiss Foreign Ministry and was posted in Lisbon, Vienna, Oslo, Geneva and Ankara.

Stefano Rodotà: is Professor of Law at the University of Rome, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the University College of Turin, a member of the Convention for the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and one of the authors of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. He also serves as Chair of the Internet Governance Forum, Italy. He is the former President of the Italian Data Protection Commission and of the European Group on Data Protection, a former Member of the Italian Parliament, the European Parliament, and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He was professor of Law at universities of Paris, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Lima, Caracas, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Oxford and Stanford.

Carlos Alberto Afonso: He is a representative of the third sector in the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. Engineer from Poli-USP, Master and PhD from York University, Canada. He was one of the pioneers in the Internet development in Brazil, creating Alternex in 1987 as an experimental message exchanging system for civil entities, that evolved to the first Internet Service Provider of the country in 1989. In 1995, when he was one of the IBASE directors, he worked for the CGI.br creation, for which he was indicated as a member.

Juan Carlos de Martin: Associate Professor at the Politecnico of Torino, where he co-founded and co-directs the Nexa Center for Internet and Society. Since 2011, he is a Berkman Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of Harvard University and Senior Visiting Researcher at the Internet and Society Laboratory of Keio University (Tokyo).

Ronaldo Lemos: Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Technology and Society. Lemos’ academic qualifications include a J.D., University of Sao Paulo Law School, a Master of Laws degree, Harvard Law School, and a Doctor of Law, University of Sao Paulo. In July 2013, Lemos joined the MIT Media Lab as a visiting scholar. He is a member of the board of Mozilla Foundation.

Veridiana Alimonti: Deputy member in the Board of CGI.br, representing the third sector. She has a Master degree in economic law from the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, with a work focused on the study of communication policies in Brazil. She was the lawyer of the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense (Idec) between 2011 and early 2015, working in the areas of telecommunications and Internet, and was a member of the board in the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), as a representative of the third sector, 2011-2013's term. He is currently associated and a member of the Board of Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social.

This event is organized by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and had support from the Italian Parliament and the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS) of Rio de Janeiro.