Papers on any internet/digital governance-related topic are welcome. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are warmly encouraged. There will be the possibility for a focused subset of accepted papers to be fast-tracked for publication in a relevant journal. In previous years, collections of papers presented at the symposium were invited for publication in the journal Telecommunications Policy. We particularly welcome presentations of research that take a global perspective, and explicitly invite comparative papers. GigaNet encourages emerging scholars and researchers working with diverse methodologies to submit their work to the symposium. Proposals should be submitted in English. Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge. The Global Internet Governance Academic Network traditionally holds its annual symposium on Day 0 of the IGF, and has done so since 2008. The symposium brings together a number of academics to discuss issues of pertinent to the Internet Governance community. We also aim to engage with practitioners who are active in both the technical community, civil society, and policymakers, by inviting them to participate in the event as discussants for sessions. The session may be organised in a hybrid format, to ensure inclusiveness from as many parts of the world as possible. The Giga-Net Annual Symposium has carried out this exercise in previous years, and has experience in this field. GigaNet will ensure that online participants are able to interact with onsite participants in a constructive manner. We may use sli.do or mentimeter as tools to further engage with participants both onsite and online, in order to ensure that we can successfully balance the interactions between online and onsite participation.
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