| Wednesday, 30 September | |
| 15:00-18:00 | Registration |
| Thursday, 1 October (Morning) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Opening session (Auditorium, level 2) |
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Chairperson : Peter Canisius, President, German Commission for UNESCO, (Germany) Henrikas Yushkiavitshus, Assistant Director-General for Communication, Information and Informatics - UNESCO Jean Pastorelli, Representative of the Minister of State of the Principality of Monaco
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| 10:30-13:00 | VF - INFOethics:Link from INFOethics'97 to INFOethics'98 Presentation by Mr Rainer Kuhlen |
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THEME A: PUBLIC DOMAIN AND MULTILINGUALISM IN CYBERSPACE (Auditorium, level 2)
Roundtable 1: Developing information in public domain Moderator: Martha Stone, President, International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID); Global Information Alliance (GIA) Audio-visual presentation: Introduction by Mr. Louis Chammings, Researcher, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA), (France) Speakers: Richard Stallman, Founder of the GNU project which led to the free software GNU/Linux operating system (USA) Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo, President ADETI, Spanish Association of Telecommunication Rights and Information Technologies (Spain) Roger Valer Ayimambenwe, Director-General, National Archives, National Library and Gabon Documentation; National Co-ordinator of the Internet Development (Gabon) Alain Giffard, Technical Advisor for New Technologies, Ministry of Culture and Communication (France) Anwar Abu Eisheh, Professor in Civil Law, University Al-Quds (Palestine) Discussion |
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| 13:00-15:00 | Lunch |
| Thursday, 1 October (Afternoon) | |
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THEME A : PUBLIC DOMAIN AND MULTILINGUALISM IN CYBERSPACE (Auditorium, level 2) |
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| 15:00-18:00 | Roundtable 2 : Promoting and using multilingualism
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Moderator: Daniel Prado, Director, Terminology and Language Industries (DTIL) (Union Latine) Audio-visual presentation Speakers: Toru Nishigaki, Professor, Information Center for Social Science Research, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (Japan) Adeeb Ghonaimy, Director, Egyptian Universities Network, Professor of Computer Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University (Arab Republic of Egypt) Sveinn Einarsson, Chairman, Icelandic National Commission for UNESCO, Ministry of Education and Culture (Iceland) Taik-Sup Auh, President, Korean CyberCommunication Society; Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Journalism and Mass-Communication (Republic of Korea) Anatoly Anisimov, International Scientific and Training Center of Information Technologies and Systems, Kiev, Ukraine Discussion
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| 19:00-21:00 | Reception |
| Friday, 2 October (Morning) | |
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THEME B: PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY IN CYBERSPACE (Auditorium, level 2) |
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| 10:00-13:00 | Roundtable 3: Protecting privacy and confidentiality rights
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Moderator: Ben Petrazzini, Strategic Planning Unit, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Audio-visual presentation Speakers: Rainer Kuhlen, Head, Information Science Department, University of Konstanz (Germany) Mark Rotenberg, Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (USA) Rohan Samarajiva, Director General of Telecommunications, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka) Kazem Motamed Nejad, Professor of Communication Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University ( Iran) Simon Davies, Visiting Fellow, Computer Security Research Center, London School of Economics; Director, Privacy International (UK) Discussion |
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| 13:00-15:00 | Lunch |
| Friday, 2 October (Afternoon) | |
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THEME B: PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, SECURITY IN CYBERSPACE (Auditorium, level 2) |
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| 15:00-18:00 | Roundtable 4: Protecting proprietary and security rights
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Moderator: Klaus Brunnstein, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP); Director, Virus Test Center, Professor, University of Hamburg Audio-visual presentation Speakers: Nancy John, Second Vice-President International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Netherlands Yousef Nusseir, President, National Information Center (Jordan) A.K. Chakravarti, Advisor Information Technologies, Department of Electronics, Government of India (India) Peter Randle, Managing Director, Global ICT Consultancy Ltd; Chairman CEPIS/IP Task Force (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies) (UK) Discussion
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| Saturday, 3 October (Morning) | |
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THEME C: SOCIETIES AND GLOBALIZATION (Auditorium, level 2) |
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| 09:00-12:00 | Roundtable 5: Promoting cognitive education
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Moderator: Androulla Kaminara, European Commission Information Society Project Office, Directorate Generals III and XIII, Project co-ordinator of the European Survey of Information Society Audio-visual presentation Speakers: Kristof Nyiri, Director, Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary) Vincent Mosco, Professor of Communication, School of Journalism and Communication, Carlton University (Canada) Larbi Ajjoul, State Secretary in Prime Minister Office, in charge of Post and Information Technologies (Morocco) Vladimir G. Kinelev, Former Minister of Education of the Russian Federation; Director, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (Russian Federation) Derrick L. Cogburn, Director, Center for Information Society Development in Africa; Africa Regional Director, Global Information Structure Commission (South Africa) Discussion |
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| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| Saturday, 3 October (Afternoon) | |
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THEME C: SOCIETIES AND GLOBALIZATION (Auditorium, level 2) |
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| 14:00-17:00 | Roundtable 6: Developing social, economic and multicultural responsibilities
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Moderator: Aidan White, General Secretary, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Audio-visual presentation Speakers: Alexander N. Yakovlev, Academician; President, International Democracy Foundation (Russian Federation) Jacques Berleur, Professor, Institut d'Informatique Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Belgium) Kweku Appiah, Chairman, Ghana Group for the Promotion of Global Information Society; Director, Social Policy Division, NDPC (Ghana) Cees J. Hamelink, Professor of International Communication, University of Amsterdam; Editor-in-chief, International Journal for Communication Studies Gazette; Honory President, International Association for Mass-communication Research (Netherlands) Daniel Pimienta, Head, Foundation Networks & Development (FUNREDES) (Dominican Republic) Discussion |
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| 17:00-18:00 | Adoption of conclusions |
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Closure Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Chairperson, World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology, Former President of Iceland (Iceland) Henrikas Yushkiavitshus, Assistant Director-General for Communication, Information and Informatics - UNESCO
Chairperson : Peter Canisius, President, German Commission for UNESCO, (Germany)
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