Symposium on the Web and Internet Policy
The symposium
On 9 December, it was our pleasure to host a one-day symposium that was jointly organized by Dr. Volker Stocker (Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society) and Prof. Georgios Smaragdakis (TU Berlin & Max Planck Institute for Informatics). The ‘Symposium on the Web and Internet Policy’ took place online on December 09, 2020 (2.00 pm to 6.30 pm Berlin time).
The symposium provided a novel venue for researchers across fields (e.g., economics, computer science, law, engineering) to present their work on aspects such as ‘Privacy and Discrimination on the Web’ (Session I) as well as ‘Challenges and Regulation in the Internet’ (Session II)
Program
Including the event recordings
2.00pm - 2.20pm
Welcome and Check-in
2.20pm - 3.50pm
Session I: Privacy and Discrimination in the Web
Nikolaos Laoutaris
IMDEA Networks Institute
Lilian Edwards
Newcastle University
Krishna Gummadi
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbrücken
3.50pm – 4.10pm
Virtual Coffee Break
4.10pm – 6.00pm
Session II: Challenges and Regulation in the Internet
William Lehr
MIT CSAIL
“Internet, Broadband, and Spectrum Policy – Separating the Challenges”
David Clark
MIT CSAIL
“Forces that shape the future of the Internet: The inevitable role of government”
J. Scott Marcus
Bruegel
“Promoting the European Data Economy”
Christopher S. Yoo
University of Pennsylvania
“Understanding the Lessons from the Pandemic: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff”
6.00pm – 6.30pm
Concluding Remarks
Poster
