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Sent: 17 January 2007 20:11
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Subject: <nettime> Yale ISP's Open Standards International Symposium
(OSIS)
OPEN STANDARDS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (OSIS) AT YALE LAW SCHOOL
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School cordially invites you
to attend the Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS), scheduled
for February 3, 2007, at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. Anyone
interested in attending is encouraged to register at
http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsosis.html.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) standards are
increasingly serving as a locus of political and economic controversy.
Technical standards, though not made by legislatures or elected
representatives, increasingly mediate between prevailing social tensions
such as access to information versus property rights and law enforcement
versus individual civil liberties. Economically, the intellectual
property arrangements underlying standards determine the competitive
openness of certain technology markets and intersect directly with
global trade conflicts.
Technically, recent interoperability problems in government services
like disaster response have prompted renewed political interest in open
standards around the globe. Despite the significance of open standards
in the global ICT context, even the meaning of openness is a contentious
topic. OSIS will be the first academic conference to examine concepts of
open standards in the larger context of technology, markets, politics,
and law.
During this ground-breaking symposium, a distinguished international
group of technologists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, executives,
lawyers, computer scientists, and activists will map out the terrain of
open standards issues in four panels: (1) Technology; (2) Economics; (3)
Politics; and (4) Law.
For a full conference description and to register for the event, please
visit the symposium web site at
http://research.yale.edu/isp/eventsosis.html.
Confirmed speakers include:
An Baisheng, Deputy Division Chief, WTO Department, Ministry of
Commerce, People's Republic of China Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of
Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, and Director, Information
Society Project, Yale Law School Daniel Benoliel, ISP Fellow Alumnus,
Information Society Project, Yale Law School Vittorio Bertola, At-Large
Advisory Committee, ICANN; President & CTO, Dynamic Fun Sherrie Bolin,
President and CEO, The Bolin Group Geoffrey Bowker, Professor &
Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa
Clara University Carl Cargill, Chief Standards Officer, Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
Laura DeNardis, Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law
School Alexander Galloway, Assistant Professor, Culture & Communication,
New York University Linda Garcia, Professor & Director, Communication,
Culture & Technology, Georgetown University Rishab Ghosh, Senior
Researcher, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social
Research Training Centre on Innovation & Technology Robin Gross,
Executive Director, IP Justice Eddan Katz, Executive Director,
Information Society Project, and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School Ken
Krechmer, Fellow, International Center for Standards Research,
University of Colorado, Boulder John Morris, Director, Internet
Standards, Technology, and Policy Project, Center for Democracy and
Technology John Palfrey, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet
& Society; Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Huang Rengang,
Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission to the WTO, People's
Republic of China Manon Ress, Director, Information Society Projects,
Consumer Project on Technology Robert Shaw, Deputy Head, Strategy and
Policy Unit, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Peter Strickx,
General Manager, Architecture & Standards, Fedict, Belgium Bob Sutor,
Vice President, Standards and Open Source, IBM Corp.
Natalie Sunker, Republic of South Africa, Deputy Director, Intellectual
Property, Policy & Legislation, Department of Trade and Industry Andrew
Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP John Wilson, Lead Economist,
Development Economics Research Group, International Trade, The World
Bank
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