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2004 Program
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Saturday,
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4:10 PM - 5:50 PM
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Policy Issues of Electronic Commerce |
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How Did Location Shape Adoption of the Commercial Internet? Global Village, Urban Leadership and Industry Composition |
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Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University |
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Chris Forman, Carnegie Mellon University |
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Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto |
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Virtual World Governance:
Digital Item Trade and its Consequences in Korea |
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Ian P. MacInnes, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University |
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YJ Park, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University |
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Sang-Min Whang, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University |
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Emerging Patterns of E-Commerce Governance in Europe: the European Union's Directive on E-Commerce |
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George Christou, Department of Information and Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University |
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Seamus Simpson, Department of Information and Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University |
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Changing regulation – impacts on mobile content distribution |
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Haakon Flage Bratsberg, Telenor R&D |
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Ole Christian Wasenden, Telenor R&D |
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ICT for Development |
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Investing in Infrastructure: Increasing Internet Access in the Developing World |
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Heather Hudson, Telecommunications Management and Policy Program, University of San Francisco |
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The effect of institutional constraints on the success of universal service policies |
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Martha A. Garcia-Murillo, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University |
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Brenden Kuerbis, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University |
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Leapfrogging through Wireless Technologies - Internet Access for Least Developed Countries |
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Rahul Tongia |
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Kirran Bullubi |
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The New Global Battle on Internet Governance: The World Summit on the Information Society and Beyond |
| At the December 2003 World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS), governments adopted a Declaration of
Principles asserting, inter alia, that, "intergovernmental organizations
have had and should continue to have a facilitating role in the coordination of
Internet-related public policy issues." Governments also adopted a Plan of
Action calling, inter alia, on the UN Secretary General to set up a Working
Group on Internet Governance to |
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develop a working definition of Internet governance; |
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identify the public policy issues that are relevant to Internet governance; and |
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develop a common understanding of the respective roles and responsibilities of governments, existing intergovernmental and international organizations and other forums as well as the private sector and civil society from both developing and developed countries. |
| Accordingly, this plenary session provides an overview of the current global political battle over Internet governance that is playing out in the ongoing WSIS process and various international institutions. Leading analysts who have been closely involved in the process will trace the evolution of the new global debate, outline the interests and positions of the main players, identify the key issues and sources of tension, assess the relative merits of intergovernmental and private sector solutions to governance problems, and consider the prospects for and advisability of change to the status quo. |
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Organizer/
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Wiliam J. Drake
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Switzerland |
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Panelists:
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Meredith Atwell
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, USA |
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Jeanette Hoffman
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Fur Sozialforschung, Germany |
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Marcus Kummer
Secretariat of the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance, Switzerland |
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Adam Peake
Glocom Institute, Japan |
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Anthony Rutkowski
Verisign, USA |
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