Distinguised Guest Lecture with Dr. Kleinwächter
The Internet Governance Lab will host its first Distinguished Guest Lecture of 2022 with Dr. Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Professor Emeritus at the University of Aarhus, on Monday (April 4) at 5:30 p.m. ET.
Dr. Kleinwächter will provide a historical understanding of Internet Governance, describing and discussing “Six Waves of Internet Development” and the differences between the Internet in the 1970s/1990s and the Internet we have today. He will also examine future paths for Internet Governance, highlighting potential scenarios of confrontation or cooperation.
The conversation will occur in a hybrid format. Those available to join us in person will convene at the American University School of International Service in room SIS 300. Those available to participate remotely should email us at <internetgovlab@american.edu>. Please use the header “Distinguished Guest Lecture” and we will send you the Zoom link and password.
About the guest
Wolfgang Kleinwächter is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, Commissioner in the Global Commission on Stability in Cyberspace (GCSC) and former ICANN Board member. He is involved in Internet Governance issues since the early 1990s. He was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a member of the UN WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance (2003-2005), served as Adviser to the chair of the Internet Governance Forum (2005-2010), Nitin Desai, and as Special Ambassador of the Net Mundial Initiative (NMI). He is the founder of the Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) and the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EURODIG). He published more than ten book as “Internet Fragmentation: An Overview” (World Economic Forum Davos, 2017 with Vint Cerf and William Drake) and “Towards a Global Framework for Cyberpeace and Digital Cooperation: An Agenda for the 2020” with a preface from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (Berlin 2019). His blog is under Circle ID (http://www.circleid.com/members/5851/). In 2012, he got the “Internet Award” from the German Internet Economy Association (eco).