[liberationtech] Stanford Liberationtech: Max Senges, Emergence of Multistakeholder Internet Governance Based on Democratic Values, on Nov 20 at 4:30 pm

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The Emergence of Multistakeholder Internet Governance Based on Democratic Values

Max Senges, Program Manager, Research, Google

on November 20, 2014 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

at Wallenberg Theater
Bldg 160, Room 124

Open to the public.
No RSVP required

FSI Contact: Kathleen Barcos <kbarcos at stanford.edu>

ABSTRACT

How can and how should we govern a global resource like the online
space? How can stakeholders (governments, businesses and civil
society) participate on equal footing and “in their respective roles”?
And how can democratic values inform all governance practices, when
the constituency is potentially everybody, most decisions are highly
complex and interdependent and when the shared resource is a
conglomerate of private and public assets? These are the questions
scholars and practitioners in the internet governance field explore
and experiment with since the UN World Summit of the Information
Society in 2003 brought internet governance to the attention of
diplomates and governments around the world. In this seminar Max
Senges will review the historic development of internet governance as
well as discuss current challenges and opportunities in building an
effective governance ecosystem for the transnational digital space.

SPEAKER BIO

Max Senges (1978) works as Program Manager for Google Research and
Education, where he leads an Internet of Things program and is also
managing the Faculty Research Awards in the Policy & Standards field
under Vint Cerf. He participates in the internet governance sphere
since the first WSIS 2003 and bootstrapped the IGF Dynamic Coalition
on Internet Rights and Principles between 2008 and 2010.

More recently he has published “Internet Governance as our shared
responsibility” and “Ensuring that Forum Follows Function” in “The
Roadmap for Institutional Improvements to the Global Internet
Governance Ecosystem” jointly with Vint Cerf, Patrick Ryan and Rick
Whitt.

Senges holds a PhD in philosophy from the Information and Knowledge
Society Program at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in
Barcelona as well as a Masters in Business Information Systems from
the University of Applied Sciences Wildau (Berlin).

http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech/events/liberation-technology-seminar-series-tba-0