IGF 2012 Workshop 154 "What frameworks for cross-border online communties and Services?"
Channel: Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network
Date: 2012-12-03

Panelists: 

• Chinmayi Arun, National Law University India and Fellow at CIS India
• Brian Cute, CEO at PIR (.org)
• Lee Hibbard, Media and Information Society Division at Council of Europe
• Konstantinos Komaitis, Policy Advisor at Internet Society
• Michael Niebel, Internet Policy Development at European Commission 
• Patrick Ryan, Policy Councel Open Internet at Google

Moderator: Bertrand de La Chapelle, Director of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project
Remote Moderator: Paul Fehlinger, Manager of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project

More information at www.internetjurisdiction.net 

Video by the Internet Governance Forum

Tension is growing between the cross-border Internet and a traditional legal and regulatory framework that bases jurisdiction on the physical boundaries of national territories. Conflicts of jurisdiction regarding personal data, freedom of expression, consumer protection, intellectual property and security are proliferating around the world, leading to broad legal uncertainty for all actors. 

In the absence of standards or common operational procedures for the governance of cross-border online spaces and attribution of jurisdiction, the growing patchwork of uncoordinated national regulations could threaten the universality of the Internet as a global network. The workshop aims at raising the awareness and understanding of this problem. 

The open dialogue will explore how this common concern of governments, private companies and civil society actors can be addressed collaboratively, in order to identify possible future frameworks and procedures. Moreover, the next steps of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project and the involvement of IGF participants therein will be discussed.