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[ox] conference: the politics of code



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The Politics of Code:
Shaping the Future of the Next Internet
Thursday, 6th February 2003
A one day public conference organised by the Programme in Comparative Media
Law and Policy, and the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

The Internet is at a crossroads, critical choices will be made in the coming
months about the Internet's architecture that will shape the Internet for
years to come.

PCMLP and the OII are therefore convening a conference in Oxford to not only
identify what those critical choices are, and to discuss in an innovative
cross-disciplinary set-up of practitioners and academics how we can shape
the future of the next Internet.

High profile speakers - among them Prof. Larry Lessig, renowned thinker on
Cyberlaw and Esther Dyson, celebrated digerati and founding chairman of
ICANN - will discuss the key choices that need to be made on privacy,
security, access, openness and control in the design of Internet technology
and Internet Governance.

This conference will examine how the underlying architecture of the
Internet - which consists of standards, protocols and software code -
creates new public policy issues and requires new approaches from
policy-makers.

Speakers will address how seemingly narrow technical developments such as
IPv6, digital rights management systems, and digital identity and
authentication technologies have the potential to fundamentally transform
the global network.

  a.. Is the Internet moving from an open to a closed communications medium?
  b.. Is access to the Internet likely to become more controlled and
mediated at the expense of personal freedom?
  c.. Do standards that are being developed have a negative impact on
innovation and the growth of the Internet?
The challenge, and main point of debate, is to create governance processes
for the global network, which are able to foster technical innovation and
take political values into account.

The event will be hosted at the Oxford Union; a name synonymous with famous
speakers and world class debating. Steeped in history, the Union was founded
in 1823 as a forum for the free exchange of ideas. The great debating
chamber, where the event will take place, has seen such speakers as Winston
Churchill, Mother Teresa and Kermit the Frog.



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Organisation: projekt oekonux.de


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