Euro-SSIG
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| Type: | Academic Organization |
| Industry: | Internet Governance |
| Founded: | 2007 |
| Founder(s): | University of Aarhus Medienstadt Leipzig e.V. |
| Website: | www.euro-ssig.eu |
| Key People | |
| Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Chairman Wolf Ludwig, Chair of EURALO, Communication Manager Euro-SSIG | |
Euro-SSIG stands for the European Summer School on Internet Governance, which offers one week academic hours to students interested in learning about internet governance. The topics discussed during the summer school include political, legal, economic, socio-cultural, and technological and many other issues affecting the global internet such as intellectual property, cyber crime, digital divide, new market opportunities etc. Euro-SSIG was established by the University of Aarhus and the Medienstadt Leipzig e.V. in 2007.Wolfgang Kleinwächter,= serves as Chairman of the academia. [1]
The need to establish an international academic organization dedicated in providing comprehensive instruction about internet governance was realized by the academic members of United Nations Working Group of Internet Governance (WGIG), who were also contributed in providing a complete and elaborate explanation of the meaning of internet governance in 2005. On June 2006, an expert meeting was held in Rathen Germany which was prepared and coordinated by the small ad hoc working group that was created and supported by International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), International Communication Association (ICA) and UNESCO. The result of the meeting was the establishment of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET) and Euro-SSIG. On July 2007, the first internet governance school was held at Meissen, Germany.[2]
Twenty one fellows from both developed and developing countries participated during the Euro-SSIG from July 31 to August 7, 2007. The faculties of the summer school provided 40 hours of lecture regarding the history and theories of internet governance including the technical, economic, socio-political and legal implications of the global internet. Faculties include:[3]
- Bill Drake, Graduate Institute for International Studies Geneva
- Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford Internet Institute
- Jeanette Hofmann, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
- Avri Doria, Lulea Technology University
- David Souter, London School of Economics
- Bertrand de la Chapelle, GAC- France
- Michael Niebel, GAC- European Commission
- lga Cavalli, GAC- Argentina
- Professor Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Euro-SSIG Faculty Chairman, University of Aarhus
The faculty members of the 2008 summer school on internet governance which was held at on July 25 – 31, 2008 is available here Faculty 2008
The 2009 Euro-SSIG was held Germany July 26 – August 1, 2009. There were 32 participants from 15 countries with 30 faculty members composed of professors from various universities, technical professionals and officers from ICANN and IGF.[4] The list of the faculty members is available here Faculty 2009
The 4th European Summer School on Internet Governance was held on July 25-31, 2010. The list of faculty members is available here Faculty 2010
The Euro-SSIG 2011 was held on July 2011. Thirty participants were chosen out of 133 applicant from 54 countries all over the world. There were 28 faculty members who shared their expertise on internet governance from different international organizations including WSIS, WGIG, IGF, EURODIG, ICANN etc. According to Wolfgang Kleinwächter, “Internet governance is not yet an established academic discipline you can study at a university´s faculty.IIt is a multidisciplinary issue which crosses law, business, history, political, social and cultural science, informatics and mathematics and it has a very practical component. This special kind of knowledge is needed by a broad range of various constituencies working in the Internet world. With EuroSSIG we provide a high level space for learning in a multistakeholder environment where we enable fellows to become leaders of Internet Governance of tomorrow.” [5]
