>Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:58:37 -0700 >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service >(RRE). Send any replies to the original author, listed in the >From: field below. You are welcome to send the message along to >others but please do not use the "redirect" command. For >information on RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, >send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > >------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- >Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:44:01 -0500 >From: Steven Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Internet and Politics Conference - Finland Jan 99 >To: Multiple recipients of list DO-WIRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** > > >Enclosed are sections from the 2nd International Congress >on Electronic Media and Citizenship in Information Society - >Invitation and Call for Abstracts. The 1996 Congress in Germany >was a useful event that brought together some of the world's best >experts in the Internet and politics arena. This event should be >an exciting opportunity for further global networking by those >interested in improving democracy as it converges with the >Internet. > >Steven Clift >Democracies Online >http://www.e-democracy.org/do > >For similar updates, join the Democracies Online Newswire. Send a >message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, write: >subscribe do-wire Your Name (Place) > > > >Politics and Internet > >2nd International Congress on Electronic Media >and Citizenship in Information Society > >6-9 January 1999 >Espoo, Jyvaeskylae, Oulu and Tampere, Finland > >Main URL: http://www.dipoli.hut.fi/pi99/ > >Overview: > >On whose terms are the information society and technology being >developed? How are information technology and communication >affecting democracy and making of joint decisions? What new >networks and models are emerging to pave the way for decisions? Is >the responsibility for content production being left to the >entertainment industry? Is the government under obligation to >influence the trend in information society, and if so, what is its >role and scope? What do the new trends have to offer different >groups or the individual? > >The Politics & Internet congress scheduled for January 1999 will >be a follow-up to the event held in Munich in 1997. Its aim is to >put forward the Nordic perspective on a field marked both >technical innovations and their applications in everyday life and >an attempt to ensure balanced development and social cohesion. The >organisation of the congress will be in the hands of the Finnish >National Fund for Research and Development (SITRA) on the >initiative of the Finnish Parliament. > >More than 100 organisations are involved in the preparation of the >project alone: companies, associations, universities, public >agencies, representatives of political parties, NGOs, tele >operators, the media, etc Close to thousand participants are >expected to visit the four congress venues - Espoo, Tampere, >Jyvaeskylae, and Oulu - on 6-9 January 1999, making the congress a >joint national effort. For the first three days it will be based >on Dipoli in Espoo, after which delegates will proceed to the >satellite congress of their choice in one of the other towns. > >The contents of the conference will be highly varied. Leading >thinkers from Europe, the USA and Asia will be invited to speak at >the joint sessions, which will be complemented by sessions on >related themes viewing the issues from the point of view of the >ordinary citizen, business, research and politics. There will also >be an exhibition featuring various projects and new technologies. >The language of the conference will be English. > > >Conference Program: >Congress on 6-8 January > > Programme schedule > See: http://www.dipoli.hut.fi/pi99/schedule.html > > Main themes > >Congresses on 9 January > > Congress in Jyvaeskylae > Congress in Oulu > Congress in Tampere > > >Invited speakers include > >Dr. Benjamin Barber, the Walt Whitman Center, Rutgers, USA >Dr. Tarja Cronberg, Regional Council of North-Carelia, Finland >Dr. Bertel Haarder, Vice President of European Parliament >Dr. Christa Maar, Academy for the Third Millenium, Germany >Dr. Jean-Francois Marchipont, European Commission >Dr. Jens Thorhauge, The Danish National Library Authority, Denmark >Ms. Riitta Uosukainen, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament > >Who shoud attend > >The congress welcomes the participation of decision makers from all >levels of politics and public sector, researchers in political and >social science and information and communication technology, NGOs >and representatives of commerce and industry as well as members of >the public. > >The Politics & Internet congress discusses the new roles of Public >Sector, Private Sector and Third Sector. This discussion falls under >three main themes and within them under several sub-themes. The >themes and topics will be explained in more detail in the next >congress brochure. > >Please see the programme schedule for the list of sessions. The >length of each session is 2 hours, and they will be either >traditional sessions with four presentations in each, round table >discussions, workshops or 'meet the experts' sessions, where you can >put questions to the professionals. >
