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European Consortium for Communications Research (ECCR)

International conference:

Deconstructing WSIS:
Towards a sustainable agenda for the future information society

European Parliament (Brussels - Belgium)

March 1, 2004

In the wake of the first phase of the World Summit on the Information 
Society (WSIS) held in Geneva last December and in waiting for its second 
phase in Tunis in November 2005, many crucial questions emerge. Is WSIS a 
turning point in the development of the Information Society? Or is it yet 
another failed attempt to bridge the digital divide? Are international 
political circles and the civil society successfully getting back in the game?

During this one day international conference, speakers from universities 
and high level officials from international institutions will deconstruct 
the process which led to WSIS, the achievements and limits of its first 
phase, the nature and extent of its outcome.

The conference will also discuss recommendations to policy makers at the 
European level in order to meet the challenges raised by the unprecedented 
pace of ICT innovation.

Registration and documentation: http://www.eccr.info
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2004
Inquiries: Marleen Meyvis <(marleen.meyvis /at/ kubrussel.ac.be)>


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   9.15 Opening

Bart Staes - Member of the European Parliament - Groen!



   9.30 Panel 1: Information society policies

Peter Johnston - European Commission - DG Information Society - Head of 
Unit - Evaluation and monitoring

Mogens Schmidt - Unesco - Deputy Assistant Director-General for 
Communication and Information

Carlos Braga - World Bank - Senior adviser International trade



   10.30 Coffee break



   11.00 Deconstructing WSIS Part 1

Jan Servaes - ECCR - Professor & Head of the School of Journalism and 
Communication - University of Queensland
--> WSIS history

Divina Frau-Meigs - IAMCR Deputy Secretary General - Professor of media at 
Paris III
--> NGOs and civil society's involvement in the WSIS process: drafting the 
alter-agenda

Stefano Martelli - ECCR Board of advisers - Professor in Sociology of 
Cultural and Communicative Processes - University of Palermo
--> How civil society can help civil society? A case history of 
research-action in the communication field with the ICT

Discussant - Jean-Francois Soupizet - European Commission - DG Information 
Society



  12.00 Deconstructing WSIS Part 2

Claudia Padovani - Professor at the Dipartimento di Studi Storici e 
Politici - University of Padova
--> World Summit on the Information Society. Who sets the agenda?

Barbara Thomaß - Professor at Institut für Medienwissenschaft - 
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
--> PSB as an instrument of implementing WSIS aims

Yassen N. Zassoursky & Elena Vartanova - Professor and Dean of the Faculty 
of Journalism - Moscow State University & Professor and Deputy dean of the 
Faculty of Journalism - Moscow State University
--> A Russian perspective on the WSIS

Miyase G. Christensen - Faculty of Communication - Bahçesehir University
-->  Social shaping of telecoms and information society policies in Turkey: 
an analysis within the context of the EU's information society policies

Discussant - European Internet Foundation (TBC)



   13.15 Lunch break



   14.30 Panel 2: The new commission agenda

Anne Bucher - European Commission - DG Information Society - Head of unit 
Analysis, policy planning & eEurope

François Heinderyckx - ECCR - Director Dept. of Information and 
Communication Sciences - University of Brussels (ULB)

Kaarle Nordenstreng - ECCR - Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication 
- University of Tampere

Gie Goris - Editor - MO* magazine




   16.00 Coffee break


   16.30 ECCR General assembly


   18.30 End of conference




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