Who Will Rule The Internet?

Friday, June 19, 2009

Time :

12:30 noon - 2:00pm (Registration at 12noon)

Venue :

Club Lusitano, 27 F / 16 Ice House Street , Central, Hong Kong

Speaker(s) :

Mr. Markus Kummer, Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat supporting the Internet Governance Forum, The United Nations

Internet Society Hong Kong and The Canadian Chamber of Commerce will receive an envoy from this world of global regulation, a skilled player in this international fray, to explain how the internet is ruled. Get the inside track on the direction of Internet governance and how it will affect you in this talk from the master of the dark arts of Internet governance, Markus Kummer.

THE SPEAKER: Mr. Markus Kummer is the Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat supporting the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Previously he headed the Secretariat of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Before joining the United Nations in 2004, he held the position as eEnvoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne . Mr. Kummer was a member of the Swiss delegation during the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) where he chaired several negotiating groups, including the group on Internet governance. He served as a career diplomat in several functions in the Swiss Foreign Ministry and was posted in Lisbon , Vienna , Oslo , Geneva and Ankara .