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Co-organizers:
School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University；
China Internet Network Information Center；
EastWest Institute
Introduction of the Chair:
Shen Yi
Shen Yi is the Associate Professor of Department of International Politics of Fudan University, Director of Center for BRICS Studies of Fudan Development Institute and Deputy Director of Centre for Cyberspace Governance Studies of Fudan University. He also serves as a guest research fellow of China Institute of Cyberspace. He studies information technology, international security, communication and foreign affairs, national information security strategies and relations among developed nations. His research was published in World Economics and Politics, International Review, China Review, Messenger, Wenhui Daily, and Oriental Morning Post. He is the independent author of National Network Security Strategy of the United States published in 2013. Since 2014 he has been invited for two successive years to participate in the World Internet Conference hosted in Wuzhen and he also attended the 5th Xiangshan Forum as a guest speaker. He has been widely regarded as one of the most active young scholars in the field of cyber security and strategy studies. On April 19th this year, Prof. Shen was invited as one of ten presenters to speak at the Cyber Security and Informatization Work Conference presided over by President Xi Jinping.
Bruce McConnell
Bruce McConnell is responsible for leading EWI’s communications and networking with public and private sectors around the world. He also manages the institute’s Cooperation in Cyberspace Program, which includes its Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative. McConnell is also a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He received a Master of Public Administration from the Evans School for Public Policy at the University of Washington, where he maintains a faculty affiliation, and a Bachelor of Sciences from Stanford University.
Beginning in 2009, McConnell provided programmatic and policy leadership to the cybersecurity mission at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He became Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity in 2013, and responsible for ensuring the cybersecurity of all federal civilian agencies.
From 2005-2008, he served on the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency.
From 1999-2000, McConnell was Director of the International Y2K Cooperation Center, sponsored by the United Nations and the World Bank, where he coordinated regional and global preparations of governments and critical private sector organizations to successfully defeat the Y2K bug. McConnell was Chief of Information Policy and Technology in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget from 1993-1999, where he led the government-industry team extended the presumption of open government information onto the Internet.
Theme Interpretion:
Cybersecurity has become one of the most important issues of national security agenda since 2013. While at the same period, the evolution of governance of global cyberspace also entered into a new era when NTIA of DOC announced to transfer the stewardship of ICANN to a new entity governed by the principle of multi-stake-holder in Mar. 2014. This sub-session of Shanghai Forum will focus on these two issues and invite the experts from China, US, Russia and India to discuss the latest development of these topics and to find out whether Asia wisdom could produce constructive ideas to solve the tough challenges.
The latest development of governance of global cyberspace will be discussed in the first panel of the sub session. The experts from CNNIC who actively participate the transition of stewardship of IANN will introduce the newly finished negotiation of the transition process. The experts from China, US, Russia and India will jointly share and discuss their understanding, comments and possible solution of the transition process.
Cybersecurity to be discussed in the roundtable mainly refer to the national security of the cyberspace which mainly consider how to ensure the security of the key information infrastructure, i.e., the finance, power, water, public transport, industry SCADA, that is necessary to the security of the cyberspace. The sub-session will focus on how to improve and enhance strategic confidence and cooperation on cybersecurity among key nation state in the Asia-Pacific region, will estimate the effectiveness of dialogue arrangements that already existed, will explore the possible scenarios that will challenge the strategic stability among different actors in the region.
Before and after the sub session, two independent policy reports will be produced as the main result of the sub session in which will include the joint contribution of the experts from different countries.
