2011 Agenda

Purpose

Securing the Cyber Commons: A Global Dialogue aims to address the challenges of balancing cyber security with respect for democracy, governance, and human rights, and the preservation of cyberspace as an open commons. The Dialogue will grapple with the hard questions of competing interests, values, and operational challenges presented by the new commons of cyberspace, and will cover a cross-section of thematic areas, as outlined below.

Format

Over the course of one and half days, five “talk show” panel sessions will be held in which a moderator will guide discussions – first, among five or six scene-setting panelists, followed by active discussions from all participants. As the event is by invite only, all participants will have an opportunity to engage fully in discussions, which will be wide-ranging and open-ended. Apart from the introduction, there will be no set presentations.

Space has also been made available for smaller, off-the-record meetings (concurrent working groups) organized around the Chatham House Rule. The details for the concurrent working group sessions are explained at the bottom of the agenda.

day one/Sunday March 27 2011

Innis Town Hall
2 Sussex Avenue
University of Toronto

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Welcome and Opening Plenary

 Introductions
Opening Presentation
“The Contest of the Cyber Commons” Ron Deibert, Rafal Rohozinski and David McMahon (Advisor, National Security, Bell Canada).

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Opening Plenary Panel: Securing the Cyber Commons: A Global Dialogue

 Can cyberspace be both open and secure at the same time? What is the right balance? How do we secure cyberspace from malicious acts (and actors) without sacrificing privacy, human rights, and openness? What should be the rules of the road around military operations in cyberspace? How can we conceive of cyberspace as a “commons” when it is owned and operated primarily by the private sector? Is “commons” an empirical description or a normative goal for cyberspace?
Moderators: Rebecca MacKinnon (Bernard Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation) and John Palfrey (Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Harvard) Panelists: Misha Glenny (Author and Journalist),  Shahzad Ahmad (Bytes For All), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law School), James Farwell (The Farwell Group), Derek Wyatt (Internet Policy Institute), James Andrew Lewis (Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy Program Centre for Strategic and International Studies)

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Break

ROM: C5

100 Queen’s Park

6:00 pm
Reception

ROM: C5

100 Queen’s Park

7:00 pm
Dinner

 

 

day two/Monday March 28

Munk School of Global Affairs

1 Devonshire Place, Toronto Ontario

Campbell Conference Facility (Concurrent closed door workshops 108n and 208n)

8:45am – 10:15am (9:30am – 10:15 am Open Discussion from the Floor)

 Panel One: Liberation and Control: Contesting Cyberspace What role do ICTs play in the revolutions of the Middle East and North Africa? How are ICTs used as tools of control? How is cyberspace being contested today? What role, if any, should liberal democratic governments have in protecting cyberspace as a global commons? Should global media be active supporters of Internet freedom? What are the risks? Moderator: Janice Stein(Director, Munk School of Global Affairs)Panelists: Evgeny Morozov (Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation), Carl Gershman President, National Endowment for Democracy), Tony Burman (Chief Strategic Advisor for the Americas, Al Jazeera English), Ken Berman (Director, International Broadcasting Bureau, Broadcasting Board of Governors), Brett Soloman (Access Now)

10:15am – 10:30am

Coffee Break

10:30am – 12:00pm (11:15-12:00 Open Discussion from Floor)

 Panel Two: Commerce and Control: Economics of the Cyber Commons Should Internet censorship be considered a barrier to trade? What responsibilities do private sector actors have to preserve cyberspace as an open commons? Are self-governance mechanisms, like the Global Network Initiative, enough or do private sector actors need to be regulated to respect human rights? Moderator: Rebecca Mackinnon (Bernard Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation)Panelists: Susan Morgan (Executive Director, Global Network Initiative), Sonja Gittens-Ottley (Manager, Business & Human Rights Program, Yahoo), Gus Hosein (Deputy Director, Privacy International); Paul Twomey (Former ICANN Chairman and CEO, Argo Pacific), Lewis Segall (Google)

12:00pm – 1:30pm

Lunch (Hart House)

1:30pm – 3:00pm (2:30pm – 3:00pm Open Discussion from Floor)

 Panel Three: Crime and Control: Balancing Privacy and Law Enforcement Do we need to give law enforcement and intelligence more powers to police cyberspace? Do states have too much, or not enough, surveillance powers in cyberspace? Who is watching the watchers? Moderator: Misha Glenny(Author and Journalist)Panelists: John Dalglish (UK Government Communications Headquarters Liaison, Ottawa) , Chantal Bernier (Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada), Joseph Menn (Technology Correspondent, Financial Times),  Greg Nojeim (Center for Democracy and Technology), Eric Davis, (Google), Nart Villeneuve (Senior Threat Researcher, Trend Micro)

3:00pm – 3:30pm
Break

3:30pm – 4:45pm (4:15pm – 4:45pm Open Discussion from Floor)

 Panel Four: War and Control: Deterrence and Arms Control in Cyberspace Should the United States demonstrate its offensive cyber capabilities as an exercise in deterrence in cyberspace? Under what conditions is a computer network attack an “act of war”? Are states responsible for computer network attacks and espionage that originates in their territory, even if they are not directing those acts? Does the concept of cyber arms control have any merit?Moderator: John B. Sheldon (Professor, Space and Cyberspace Strategic Studies School of Advanced Air & Space, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air University, Maxwell AFB)

Panelists:  Herb Lin (Chief Scientist, CTSB, National Academies), Eneken Tikk (Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Estonia), Andrew Leslie (Lieutenant-General, Chief of Transformation, Canadian Forces), David McMahon (Advisor, National Security Bell Canada), Ted Tzavellas (Vice President, S4 Inc.), Joel Harding (Director, IO Institute)

4:45pm – 5:00pm

 Ron Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski Summary and Close.

 

Concurrent Working Groups

There are opportunities for participants to “reserve” space and time for concurrent working groups, and to make requests to working group organizers to participate in a session.

Below are the times and topics of working groups that have been booked, as well as free slots that can be booked. If you would like to organize or participate in a working group, please contact Colleen Kelly at cp.kelly@utoronto.ca.

Free Slot
Time 845-1000am
108N

Free Slot
Time 845-1000am
208N

Free Slot
Time: 1030-1200pm
108N

Malware/DDoS Research and Notification

Contact: Chris Davis (Morrigan Research)
Time: 1030-1200pm
108N

Challenges of Cyberspace Research

Contact: Rex Hughes (Visiting Fellow, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies)
Time: 130-300 pm
208N

Free Slot
Time: 130-300pm
108N

Democratization and Technology

Contact: Barbara Haig (Deputy to the President for Policy & Strategy, National Endowment for Democracy)
Time: 330-500pm
208N

Free Slot
Time: 330-500pm
108N