SocialPipeline 06/15/2010 (p.m.)

• RIGF.Asia: Agenda

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  • Emerging Issues: Role of Civil Society in Internet Governance
    
    One of the major recommendations of the WGIG Report was that civil society should have a key role in Internet governance, a role that places civil society as a stakeholder on par with government and the business sector. That’s the theory. In practice, civil society does not seem to be a major stakeholder and these days its significance seems to be paling. Because civil society groups played an important role in the innovative use of the Internet, the concern over the loss is not just a matter of representation on the Internet but also the larger concern over whether future innovations may be stymied. This session aims to explore the question of the role of civil society in Internet governance.
    
    
    • Moderator: Charles Mok, Chairman, Internet Society Hong Kong
    • Christine Loh, Chief Executive Officer, Civic Exchange
    • Sean Ang, Executive Director, Southeast Asian Centre for e-Media
    • Isaac Mao, Fellow, Berkman Center, Harvard University
    • John Fung, Director of Information Technology Resource Center (ITRC)
      
      Hong Kong Council of Social Services (HKCSS)
    • Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Chair, At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) of ICANN
    • Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change (ITFC)
    • Yap Swee Seng, Executive Director, Asian Forum for Huma Rights and Development
  • Emerging IssuesThe Internet is an ever-changing media, itself constantly evolving and always challenged our social norms and the world’s economic system. As the world’s Internet population approaches 2 billion, the advent of Web 2.0 technology has confronted public and private organizations with the need to adopt social media and cloud computing technologies for improved civic engagement using the new media. This panel session will examine all issues related to these and other emerging issues, with an Asian perspective.Moderator:Mr. Charles Mok, Chairman, Internet Society Hong Kong
    
    
    • “Bridging Local and Global Content”
      
      Oiwan Lam, Northeast Asia editor of Global Voices Online and editor of inmediahk.net
    • “The open dialog model between censors and users”
      
      Isaac Mao, Fellow, Berkman Center, Harvard University (Confirmed)
    • “China Internet: big opportunity, even bigger challenge.”
      
      Sherman So, Former technology journalist of South China Morning Post and co-author of “Red Wired”
    • “Open the Social Media Silos: Internet Governance’s New Challenges”
      
      Eric Lee(李士傑), Senior project manager in CITI, Research Center for IT Innovation, Academia Sinica / TELDAP, Taiwan E-Learning & Digital Archives Program
    • Prof. Peter Yu, Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School, USA

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