Inside the Issues, the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s (CIGI) video podcast series, is back for a fifth season with authoritative insight on global security and politics, international law, and global economy topics.
The first episode of the 2014-15 season features CIGI Senior Fellow Laura DeNardis on the future of the Internet. In addition to exploring the role of ICANN, the new episode touches on the tensions between economic, cultural and territorial interests in Internet controls and standards. DeNardis is also a professor at American University and research director of the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
Inside the Issues is available on the CIGI YouTube channel, CIGI’s iTunes video and audio feeds, and www.cigionline.org. The series continues to be recorded in the CIGI broadcast studio in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Episodes will be hosted by CIGI Chair of Global Security and Senior Fellow David Welch, as well as new host Andrew Thompson of the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Kevin Dias, Communications Specialist, CIGI
Tel: 519.885.2444, ext. 7238, Email: [email protected]
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank on international governance. Led by experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. Conducting an active agenda of research, events and publications, CIGI’s interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world. CIGI was founded in 2001 by Jim Balsillie, then co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry), and collaborates with and gratefully acknowledges support from a number of strategic partners, in particular the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. For more information, please visit www.cigionline.org.
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