Agenda
The Participative Web:
Strategies and Policies for the Future
Te c h n o l o g y Fo r e s i g h t Fo r u m
W e d n e s d ay, O c t o b e r 3 , 2 0 0 7
8:00 8:45
REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
Master of Ceremonies: John Oxley, Vice President, Canadian Association of Information Technology
Professionals
Independent Conference Bloggers:
·
Richard Akerman, Technology Architect at the National Research Council Canada Institute for

Scientific and Technical Information
·
Kieren McCarthy, General Manager of Public Participation for the Internet Corporation for Assigned

Names and Numbers (ICANN)
9.00 9.20
OPENING: WELCOMING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION
·
Michael Binder, Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and

Telecommunications, Industry Canada
·
Susanne Huttner, Director, Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, Organisation for Economic

Co-operation and Development (OECD)
9.20 10.50
SESSION 1: THE FUTURE OF THE PARTICIPATIVE WEB: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERSITY?
Chair: John Lettice, Co-founder and Editorial Director, The Register
·
Jonathan Taplin, Professor, University of California
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Cyrus Beagley, Associate Principle, Media Practice, McKinsey
·
Ginsu Yoon, Vice President, Business Affairs, SecondLife
·
Michael Gill, Chief Executive Officer, Fairfax Business Media
10.50 11.10
Coffee Break
11.10 12.30
SESSION 2: CREATIVITY AND THE INTERNET ECONOMY: BUSINESS AND SCIENCE
STREAM A
STREAM B
Business 2.0 and innovation.
Research 2.0: e-Science and new ways of
Business use of the participative web
interaction in the science community
Chair: David Crane, Global Issues Columnist,
Chair: Walter Stewart, Walter Stewart &
Toronto Star
Associates Inc.
·
Bob Young, Founder, Lulu.com
·
Andrew Herbert, Managing Director of the
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Anthony Williams, New Paradigm and Author

MSR Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, Microsoft
of
Wikinomics
·
Bill St. Arnaud, Senior Director Advanced

·
Paul Misener, Vice President for Global Public

Networks, CANARIE Inc.
Policy,
Amazon.com
·
Diana Rhoten, Program Director, Office of
·
Daniel Bretonès, Professor, ESCEM School of

Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

Business and Management (France)
·
Mario Campolargo, Head of Unit "GEANT and
·
Shenja van der Graaf, Media@lse, London
e-infrastructure", Information Society and Media

School of Economics
Directorate-General,
European
Commission

12.30 13.45
LUNCH, courtesy of IBM Canada, with Demonstrations of participative web projects and
15.05 16.25
SESSION 4: CONFIDENCE AND COMPETITION IN THE INTERNET ECONOMY:
technologies
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF THE PARTICIPATIVE WEB

Keynote: Robert Sutor, Vice President for Open Source and Standards, IBM
STREAM A
STREAM B
Creation, access and competition
Confidence, privacy, and security
13.45 15.05
SESSION 3: CREATIVITY AND THE INTERNET ECONOMY:
Chair: William New, Editor-in-Chief,
Chair: Hugh Stevenson, Deputy Director, Office of
USERS, GOVERNMENTS AND CITIZENS
Intellectual Property Watch
International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission, USA
STREAM A
STREAM B
·
Kiyoshi Mori, Vice Minister Policy
·
Gary Davis, Deputy Commissioner,
User-created content:
Government 2.0: Engaging citizens to deliver

Coordination, Ministry of Internal Affairs and

Office of the Data Protection Commissioner,
What are the impacts?
better policy and improve efficiency
Communications,
Japan

Ireland
Chair: Michel Leblanc, Analyweb Inc./Blogger
Chair: Ellen Miller, Co-Founder and Executive
·
Urs Gasser,Director, Research Center for
·
Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of
Director, Sunlight Foundation

Information Law, University of St. Gallen and

Global Public Policy, Facebook
·
Jungwook Lim, Vice President for Service

Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for

Innovation, Daum Communications, Korea
·
Don Lenihen, President and Chief Executive Officer,
·
Jennifer Mardosz, Vice President of Business and

Internet & Society
·
Andres Monroy-Hernandez, MIT Media Lab,
Crossing
Boundaries

Legal Affairs, Fox Interactive Media
·
Anne Bucher, Head of Unit, Information
Lifelong
Kindergarten
Group
·
Wolfgang Blau, Journalist, Political correspondent

(parent company of MySpace)

Society and Media Directorate-General,
·
Jennifer Corriero, Executive Director,

US Elections and Media Expert
·
John Lawford, Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy
European
Commission
Co-founder
of
TakingITGlobal
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Quitterie Delmas, Editor AGORAVOX and political
Centre,
Canada
·
Martin Senftleben, Professor of Intellectual
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Manon Ress, Director, Information Society

blogger, French presidential elections

Property, Free University of Amsterdam

Projects, Consumer Project on Technology
16.25 16.45
Coffee Break
16.45 17.55
SESSION 5: POLICY ROUNDTABLE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR POLICY
Chair: Michael Geist, Canadian Research Chair of Internet and e-Commerce Law
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Sangwon Ko, Vice Chair of the OECD Working Party on the Information Economy, Executive Director,

Division of Information Industry Research, Korea Information Society Development Institute
·
Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Voice, Civil

Society Representative to the OECD
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Joseph Alhadeff (Oracle Corporation), Chair ICCP Business and Industry Advisory Committee

to the OECD
·
Daniela Battisti, Vice Chair of the OECD Information, Computer and Commmunications Policy

Committee and Director, Public Agency for Economic Development, Italy
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Joseph Alhadeff (Oracle Corporation), Chair of the ICCP Business and Industry Advisory Committee

to the OECD
·
Keith Besgrove, Chair of the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy and First

Assistant Secretary, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australia
·
Neil Anderson, Head of Telecom, Union Network International, Trade Union Advisory Committee to
the
OECD
17.55 18.00
CONCLUSIONS and PRIORITY-SETTING for the ICCP
·
Richard Simpson, Chair of the OECD Information, Computer and Commmunications

Policy Committee and Director General, Electronic Commerce, Industry Canada
18.00 19.30
RECEPTION courtesy of Research In Motion Limited
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