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Rationale&#160;&#8220;Digital diplomacy&#8221; has recently been the subject of significant debates, events and activities at a variety of governance sites. The concept is often used without having been clearly defined and delimited. For some, it is restricted to the use of digital means, especially social networks, by diplomats to practice a kind of &#8220;Public Diplomacy 2.0&#8221;. In others&#8217; views, it extends to foreign affairs and international relations with regard to all matters related to the digital environment, including internet governance.There is undoubtedly a need to better understand recent transformations of diplomacy in the digital era, their drivers and their nature, whether and how they might change European and transnational power relations and, ultimately, which values they carry and channel on the global scene.Moreover, in the global internet governance field specifically, where the technical, social and market innovations are quickly developing, there is a particular difficulty to keep pace with numerous internet innovations and make informed choices and decisions on issues that may appear mainly technical. Most significantly, still unresolved, highly sensitive issues challenge national, regional and global policymaking, in terms of sovereignty and other political, legal, economic, social, cultural and societal choices.Finally, this important issue must be put in the context of the history of institutions building regarding the internet. The United Nations decision, ten years ago at the World Summit on Information Society, that internet governance processes should be institutionalized in an open and inclusive manner through multistakeholder participation, constituted in this regard an important mutation in diplomatic practices.This first edition of the European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies is therefore dedicated to the formalization, understanding and discussion of global internet governance, in all its dimensions, as a diplomacy issue and terrain. A special emphasis is given to the role of the European Union, its member states and its neighbourhood in a field historically dominated by US interests, especially those of private sector internet giants.ProgrammeDay 1 &#8211; Thursday 30 March 201708:30-09:15 &#8211; Welcome of Participants09:15-09:30 &#8211; Conference Opening09:30-10:30 &#8211; Keynote Session 1 Undiplomatic Ties: When Internet Blocks IntermediationModerator: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universit&#233;s, FranceKeynote Speaker: Prof. Yves Schemeil, Science Po Grenoble (Grenoble Institute of Political Studies), France10:30-11:00 &#8211; Coffee Break11:00-12:30 &#8211; Presentation Session 1. Internet Governance as a Science Diplomacy TerrainChair: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universit&#233;s, FranceRespondent: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, AustriaModes of Internet Governance as Science Diplomacy What Lessons for Europe from the US Experience? Francesco Amoretti and Domenico Fracchiolla, Universit&#224; degli Studi di Salerno, ItalyFraming Internet governance in the context of International Relations theory, Julien Nocetti, IFRI &#8211; French Institute of International Relations, FranceThe Habitus of Academics in Internet Governance: An Analysis Based on Bourdieu&#8217;s Theory of Fields, Dennis Redeker, University of Bremen, GermanyThe paradox of globalised networks: internet governance between global consensus and local priorities, Julia Pohle, WZB - Berlin Social Sciences Center, Germany12:30-14:00 &#8211; Buffet Lunch14:00-15:30 &#8211; Presentation Session 2. Diplomacy at the Crossroads of Globalisation and DigitalisationChair: Eric Brousseau, University Paris Dauphine, FranceRespondent: Robin Mansell, The London School of Economics, United KingdomDigital rights and market in Free Trade Agreements, Maria Francesca De Tullio and Giuseppe Micciarelli, Universit&#224; degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and Universit&#224; degli Studi di Salerno, ItalyContested Understandings: Cybersecurity Governance, Louise Marie Hurel, CTS-FGV &#8211; Center for Technology and Society, BrazilThe impact of information and communication technologies on a global participatory process, Jerome Duberry, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, SwitzerlandNational sovereignty, global policy, and the privatization of telecommunications, Claire Peters, Bristol University, United Kingdom15:30-16:00 &#8211; Coffee Break16:00-17:30 &#8211; Presentation Session 3. Case Studies of European Policy DiffusionChair: Mauro Santaniello, Universit&#224; degli Studi di Salerno, ItalyRespondent: Andrea Calderaro, Cardiff University, United KingdomThe struggle over Internet governance as a matter of policy diffusion: reflections on copyright and privacy, Katharine Sarikakis, Olga Kolokytha, Izabela Korbiel and Krisztina Rozgonyi, University of Vienna, AustriaThe EU and effective multistakeholderism in Internet Governance, Trisha Meyer Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Jamal Shahin, University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Brussel,The Netherlands and Belgium European models for the governance of Media and Information Literacy (MIL): what lessons for Internet Governance (IG)? Divina Frau-Meigs, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, FranceThe diffusion of European values in the digital age: science diplomacy and the right to be forgotten , Jean-Marie Chenou, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia17:30-18:00 &#8211; UNESCO Special SessionUNESCO project: Defining Internet Universality IndicatorsPresentation:UNESCO will present and discuss its new project of Defining Internet Universality Indicators and seeks to engage with various stakeholders for their inputs and contribution. The project is an immediate response and action following UNESCO&#8217;s adoption of &#8216;Connecting the Dots&#8217; Outcome document in 2015 as its new approach to Internet issues as well as the successful development and application of the UNESCO IPDC Media Development Indicators. The project aims to elaborate appropriate Internet indicators which can serve to enrich stakeholders&#8217; capacity for assessing Internet development, broaden international consensus, and foster online democracy and human rights towards knowledge societies engaged in sustainable development. This task will use the UNESCO concept of Internet Universality and related R.O.A.M principles as the guiding framework that promotes an Internet based on human Rights, and the principles of Openness, Accessibility and Multi-stakeholder participation.Speaker: Xianhong Hu, UNESCO, France18:00-19:00 &#8211; CocktailDay 2 &#8211; Friday 31 March 201709:30-10:30 &#8211; Keynote Session 2Moderator: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universit&#233;s, FranceKeynote Speaker: Prof. Joseph A. Cannataci,&#160;University of Malta and University of Groningen, Malta and The Netherlands; United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy10:30-11:00 &#8211; Coffee Break11:00-12:30 &#8211; Presentation Session 4. Internet Governance Facing Digital DisruptionsChair: Rikke Frank J&#248;rgensen, Danish Institute of Human Rights, DenmarkRespondent: Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsOpening the Black Box: The Search for Algorithmic Transparency in Europe, Rachel Pollack Ichou, UNESCO, FranceNot fudging nudges: What Internet law can teach regulatory scholarship, Chris Marsden, University of Sussex, United KingdomMigrating Servers, Elusive Users: Reconfigurations of the Russian Internet in the Post-Snowden Era, Kseniia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani, ISCC CNRS/Paris Sorbonne/UPMC, FranceShaping words to shape policy process: discourse coalitions in the Internet Governance ecosystem, Mauro Santaniello and Nicola Palladino, Universit&#224; degli Studi di Salerno, Italy12:30-14:00 &#8211; Buffet Lunch14:00-16:00 &#8211; Roundtable with Diplomacy ProfessionalsFraming a European Internet Governance Science DiplomacyPresentation:Global internet governance raises specific challenges for diplomacy to make informed choices when faced with multifold digital disruptions, where decisions made at the national or regional level may have a much wider geopolitical impact. Moreover, recent global internet governance institutionalization processes have emphasized important mutations in diplomatic practices.Other global issues such as environment, health, finance or world trade have already opened the way to a renewed interest in science diplomacy, as a means to address complex mutations of the global world politics, which are often characterized by their highly technical nature, but internet governance is surprisingly often neglected or reduced to its cybersecurity dimension in science diplomacy studiesFocusing on Europe as a global actor with comparative perspectives from other regions, this roundtable of diplomacy professionals aims at discussing, through some emblematic case studies, whether and how a European internet governance science diplomacy could be framed.Moderator: Meryem Marzouki, CNRS and UPMC Sorbonne Universit&#233;s, FranceSpeakers:Anne Carblanc (TBC), Head of Division on Digital Economy Policy, OECD, FranceXianhong Hu, Program Specialist, Division of Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO, FranceJovan Kurbalija, Director, DiploFoundation, MaltaElena Plexida, Policy Officer Internet Governance, European Commission DG CONNECT, BelgiumMichael Remmert, Deputy Director, Directorate of Policy Planning, Coordinator of the Schools of Political Studies, Council of Europe, FranceThomas Schneider (TBC), Deputy head of international affairs, OFCOM, Switzerland16:00-16:15&#8211; Conference ConclusionsPractical informationTwitter:&#160;@GigArtsEU&#160;- Hashtag:&#160;#GIGARTS17Mailing list for updates:&#160;https://tibre.lip6.fr/wws/info/info-gig-arts-2017Venue and hotels nearby:&#160;http://events.gig-arts.eu/venue/Conference Registration and FeesParticipants must register before March 15, 2017. Registration fees are 100&#8364; for regular participants and 50&#8364; for students showing proof of status. Registration fees include participant kit and all meals.Please register at: http://events.gig-arts.eu/registration/About the GIG-ARTS ConferenceOrganized by the GIG-ARTS Project (www.gig-arts.eu)Co-Sponsored by the ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), Rowman &#38; Littlefield PublishersSupported by The French National Research Agency (ANR), The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UPMC-Sorbonne Universit&#233;s, The Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Paris IAS)The GIG-ARTS (Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies) conference is a European annual multidisciplinary academic venue to present and discuss developments in Global Internet Governance (GIG) and their implications in and beyond this field of research. It is one of the outcomes of the GIG-ARTS project.The GIG-ARTS conference aims to complement and bridge between existing venues, such as established International or European disciplinary conferences in the social sciences (e.g. IAMCR, ICA, ISA, IPSA, ECPR, EISA), where GIG scholars sometimes find their interdisciplinary research marginalized in terms of issues, areas and disciplines; or such as in the only venue specialized in GIG so far (the Annual GigaNet Symposium), organized as a pre-event of the UN annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) since 2006, making it difficult to both focus on European developments and to accommodate a larger academic community than the one used to participating in IGF. The GIG-ARTS conference objectives are threefold: to foster the enlargement and diversification of this academic community in order to increase its visibility; to open more opportunities to young scholars, particularly from Europe and its neighbourhood; and to anchor its discussions in the European context, providing a space where the scholarly community can address regional challenges and contribute to regional discussions.Each year, the GIG-ARTS conference will highlight a main theme. In addition to keynote speeches and academic presentations and discussions, at least one roundtable will feature a debate with practitioners around that theme.&#160; The theme of the first GIG-ARTS conference edition in 2017 is: &#8220;Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue&#8221;.Scientific Programme CommitteeFrancesco Amoretti, University of Salerno, ItalyWolfgang Benedek, University of Graz, AustriaSergio Branco, ITS Rio, BrazilEric Brousseau, Universit&#233; Paris Dauphine, FranceAndrea Calderaro, University of Cardiff, United KingdomAgn&#232;s Callamard, Columbia University, USAJoseph Cannataci, University of Malta, MaltaJean-Marie Chenou, Universidad de los Andes, ColombiaMikkel Flyverbom, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkMarianne Franklin, Goldsmiths, University of London, United KingdomJeanette Hofmann, WZB, GermanyRikke Frank J&#248;rgensen, The Danish Institute for Human Rights, DenmarkJoanna Kulesza, University of Lodz, PolandNanette S. Levinson, American University Washington DC, USARobin Mansell, LSE, United KingdomMeryem Marzouki (Conference Chair), CNRS &#38; UPMC-Sorbonne Universit&#233;s, FranceJeanne Mifsud-Bonnici, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsJo Pierson, VUB, BelgiumMich&#232;le Rioux, Universit&#233; du Qu&#233;bec &#224; Montr&#233;al, CanadaMauro Santaniello, University of Salerno, ItalyKatharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, AustriaJoris Van Hoboken, IVIR, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsOrganizing CommitteeEric Brousseau, Universit&#233; Paris Dauphine, FranceAndrea Calderaro, University of Cardiff, United KingdomMeryem Marzouki (Conference Chair), CNRS &#38; UPMC-Sorbonne Universit&#233;s, FranceMauro Santaniello, University of Salerno, Italy