The Internet Governance Lab at IGF 2021

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2021 kicks off on Monday, December 6th. The 16th edition is hosted by the Government of Poland under the overarching theme: ‎‎‘’Internet United’’. The Internet Governance Lab fellows and faculty will participate in several panels, presenting a range of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Internet governance and technology policy. 

Our non-resident doctoral fellow Louise Marie Hurel is speaking in four sessions:

- Exploring Neutrality: A Multistakeholder Cyber Norms Dialogue (link

- Supply Chain Governance and Security for IoT Resilience (link

- Town Hall: Beyond hype: what does digital sovereignty actually mean? (link

- Open Forum: Online knowledge portals for national cyber capacity (link)

Faculty fellow Chelsea Horne is presenting at the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Annual Symposium, which takes place on the Day 0 of the IGF program. Her paper is titled “Dark Patterns and Privacy Harms: Accountability and Agency in an Age of Disappearing Privacy.” You can check out the Giganet Symposium full agenda here.

Distinguished fellow-in-residence Fiona Alexander was a panelist in an IGF preparatory session called “16 Years of IGF Evolution and Strengthening – Taking Stock and Looking Forward.”

Registration to participate in the IGF 2021 is free at the link.