Public Session

Final Session: Reimaginations Continued: Digital Self-Determination

May 13

8am-10am (EDT/Boston Time)

This final session will highlight the ideas and work that participants have been engaged with over the last two months. We've explored digital self-determination through various lenses (economics, health, media consumption) as well as challenged certain assumptions around the concept. In additional to reflecting on what ideas we have about digital self-determination, we will offer recommendations about the key considerations around this subject and also her from a special guest, Roger Dubach. We will also highlight the work we are completing and soon to publish as a result of this Research Sprint. This session will be recorded and shared with the public.

Agenda

8am: Welcomes & Greetings (Urs)

8:05am: Session Highlights by Participants (Mal)

• Carmen Ng: Discusses 1st 3 sessions take-aways

• Mary Rhauline Torres: Discusses 2nd 3 sessions take-aways

• Constanza Vidal: Discusses Final 2 sessions take-aways

8:15am: Showcase of Participant Artifacts (Lance)

• Tomás Guarna discussing Session 1: Ana Margarida Coelho & Eraldo Souza dos Santos

• İdil Kula discussing Session 3: Narayanamoorthy Nanditha

• Nanditha Narayanamoorthy discussing Session 4: Carmen Ng

• Kyle Chan discussing Session 5: Idil Kula, Rachid Benharrousse, & Constanza Vidal

• Eraldo Souza dos Santos discussing Session 6: Ana Margarida Coelho & Karolina Alama-Maruta

8:35am: Open Reflective Discussion (Urs)

• What has surprised you most about the Sprint?

• What’s the most relevant insight you will take-away from the program?

• How will you apply the knowledge from this program to your local context and discipline?

8:50am: The ISUR Research Sprint on Digital Self-Determination (Bernardo Caycedo & Natalia Suarez Gonzalez)

9:00am: Break

9:05am: Introduction to Second Half (Lance)

9:10am: Video Response (Lance)

• 4 videos will be shared based upon the prompt: “Based upon the learning from the sprint, what 3 essential points would you want the Swiss government to hear and consider when doing work in the realm of digital self-determination?”

Videos by:

• Carmen Ng

• Kyle Chan

• Hillary McLauchlin

• Christian Thönnes

9:25am: Special Guest: Roger Dubach

9:45am: Comments, Questions, & Next Steps (Mal)

Speaker Bios

Roger Dubach

Roger Dubach, born in 1974, studied Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Philosophy at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). In 2003, he joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and was appointed as a Diplomatic Advisor to the Director of the Federal Office for Energy in 2006. In this and his next function as Energy Counsellor at the Swiss Mission to the EU in Brussels, he acted as Technical Director of the energy negotiations between Switzerland and the EU. In 2013, he was appointed as a Personal Advisor to the Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard, and later as Deputy Director of the Task Force for the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship. Between 2016 and 2018, he served as Diplomatic Advisor on G7 and G20 issues in the Cabinet of the OECD Secretary-General in Paris, and was appointed by the Federal Council in August 2018 as an Ambassador and Deputy Director of the Directorate of International Law.