
and Communication Law
«Who governs the internet?» 4th & 5th March 2021

24 διακεκριμένοι ακαδημαϊκοί, ειδικοί επιστήμονες και εκπρόσωποι φορέων, από την Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό, συζήτησαν για τα κρίσιμα θέματα που προκύπτουν σε σχέση με τη διακυβέρνηση του κυβερνοχώρου σε εθνικό αλλά και παγκόσμιο επίπεδο και κράτησαν αμείωτο το ενδιαφέρον των 200 και πλέον συμμετεχόντων που τους παρακολούθησαν.
Το Συνέδριο τελούσε υπό την αιγίδα του Υπουργείου Ψηφιακής Διακυβέρνησης και έφερε την υποστήριξη της Ελληνικής ‘Ένωσης Προστασίας Δεδομένων και Ιδιωτικότητας.













1st day: Thursday, March 4
10.00 – 10.20 Welcome speeches
Tzina Papantonopoulou – Karatza, Publisher, NOMIKI BIBLIOTHIKI
Konstantinos Menoudakos, President emeritus, Council of State, President, Hellenic Data Protection Authority
10.20 – 12.30 1st Session: Data Governance Act. Will it change the data strategy/ protection game?
Coordinator: Dr. Lilian Mitrou, Professor, University of the Aegean, Greece
Data Governance Act
Andrea Katalin Tóth, Legal and Policy Officer, DG CNECT's Data Policy and Innovation Unit, European Commission
ROUND TABLE: Implications for public sector, business and citizens’ rights – The data sharing puzzle and data altruism- New Roles and Responsibilities - Data Governance Act and Open data
Speakers:
Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Minister of Digital Governance, Hellenic Republic
Hijmans Hielke, Director, Belgian Data Protection Authority, President of Litigation Chamber
Andrea Katalin Tóth, Legal and Policy Officer at DG CNECT's Data Policy and Innovation Unit – European Commission
Τhomas Zerdick, Head of Unit Technology and Privacy, European Data Protection Supervisor
Paul De Hert, Full Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Harry Tsavdaris, National Technology Officer, Microsoft, Greece – Cyprus - Malta
Q & A
12.30 – 15.30 Break – Networking
15.30 – 17.30 2nd Session: Protecting Consumers in Digital Society: a matter of regulation or enforcement? Data user vs data subject
Coordinator: Spiros Tassis, LL.M, TMT and Privacy Lawyer, Chairman of the Hellenic Association of Data Protection and Privacy
ROUND TABLE: Protecting Consumers in Digital Society: a matter of regulation or enforcement - Facebook decision of the Bundeskartellamt and the Google decision of the CNIL - Consumer rights for your personal data (data user vs data subjects) – How / Is it acceptable to pay with your data? Transposing Directives 2019/770 & 2019/2161
Speakers:
Paolo Balboni, Founding Partner, ICT Legal Consulting - Professor of Privacy, Cybersecurity, and IT Contract Law, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity Maastricht University Faculty of Law
Effie Kinini, Assistant Professor, Athens Law School, Greece
Dimitrios Kyriazis, Research Fellow in Law (NCH London), Guest Lecturer in Law, Oxford University
Evangelos Margaritis, Attorney At Law, Ph.D, CIPP/E, Post – Doc, University of Athens, Greece
2nd day: Friday, March 5
10.00 – 10.20 Welcome speeches
10.20 – 12.30 3rd Session: Freedom of expression vs. Censorship in digital platforms
Coordinator: Ioannis A. Tassopoulos, Professor of Public Law, University of Athens, Greece
Splinternet, digital nationalism, and freedom of expression
Panayotis Voyatzis, PhD, Référendaire, General Court of the European Union
Media Policy in 2021: Tech regulation in EU and in the UK
Damian Tambini, Ass. Professor, London School of Economics, UK
Taming digital platforms by human rights in Germany and the US
Irini Katsirea, Reader in International Media Law, University of Sheffield, UK
Dealing with misinformation on digital platforms
Anna – Maria Piskopani, PhD, University of Athens, Greece
Q & A
12.30 – 15.30 Break – Networking
15.30 – 18.00 4th Session: Open Initiatives in Copyright
Coordinator: Irini Stamatoudi, Professor, School of Law, University of Nicosia, Cyprus and Visiting Professor, International Hellenic University, Greece
Keynote Speech: The importance of open initiatives in copyright: the example of creative commons
Marco Ricolfi, Professor, University of Turin, Italy
(F)OSS (Free and Open-Source Software)
Malcolm Bain, Partner, Id Law Partners, Across Legal, Spain
CC (Creative Commons)
Prof. Lucie Guibault, Associate director Law and Technology Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada
PSI (Public Sector Information) and Copyright
Dimi Dimitrov, EU Policy Director, Wikimedia, Belgium
Open Access to Knowledge (Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge, Open Repositories and Copyright)
Michael Carroll, Professor, American University, US
How much of the public domain is actually public?
Severine Dusollier, Professor, Sciences Po Law School, France
Q & A
















