Jean-Paul Philippot, EBU-European Broadcasting Union President

Vincenzo Maria Vita, Vice president: Commissione istruzione pubblica, beni culturali, ricerca scientifica, spettacolo e sport of the Italian Senate

Key words, questions and references:
Privacy protection; control over one's personal data; privacy as both a fundamental human right and an essential facilitator for a global economy; privacy as a business competitive advantage; current situation with regard to online privacy, profiling and targeting: widespread practice of collecting information about the activities and interests of users; privacy and human rights at work place, problem of surveillance of employees and work councils; privacy enhancing technologies: minimization on the collection of one's personal information; towards global data protection standards that are legally enforceable.

Key words, questions and references:
How to build effective public-private partnerships to meet new and emerging threats? How do we increase robustness while, at the same time, limiting the impact of stress on IT infrastructure and services? What has to be done on global, what on regional and national level? How can we assure that privacy and freedom of expression are respected?

Co-moderated by:
Lee Hibbard, Media and Information Society Division / Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe (CoE)

including graduation ceremony for successful participants of the "European Internet Governance Capacity Development Programme"

Key words, questions and references:
Access to content: Digital divide. Should we regulate new media? Professional journalism and trust in the Internet. What role of public service media in the Internet? Quality standards for user generated content? Where is the dividing line between private communication and public expression? Viral advertising. Telecoms package and protecting fundamental human rights. Freedom of expression.

Key words, questions and references:
Freedom of expression with regard to users image, identity and intimacy, as well as their right to reply and other means of redress. Privacy issues: the implications of "profiling". Right to anonymity for users on social networks? What do users expect from providers and from governments? What rules for online social media? How will they develop their own internal rules? How do we manage diverse nationally applicable laws?

Key words, questions and references:
NTIA-RFC. European recommendation to US DoC about future of ICANN and IANA. What is meant by multistakeholder governance of the internet? What are the respective roles of the different stakeholders? Is the business sector able to take fully responsibility of the well-functioning of the Internet? What would be an appropriate form of regulation for the management of the critical internet resources? On what fundamental values and principles should this be based? Is there a “European common view” on this?

Key words, questions and references:
Is there a need / desire for a European IGF? What should be its mandate and objectives? If so, how should such a regional forum work? How should it link to national, global and other regional Internet governance initiatives? How could it help to improved e-participation in internet governance?

Frédéric Riehl, Vice-Director, Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM)