Information Influx
Conferenza internazionale nel corso della quale verrà presentata da Eugenia Siapera della Dublin City University la piattaforma online Mediafreedom.Ushahidi per monitorare le violazioni della libertà di stampa in Europa, realizzata da OBC e Index on Censorship nell'ambito del progetto europeo "Safety Net for European Journalists"
Wednesday 2 July
13:00 – 16:30
Information Influx Young Scholars Competition
13:00 – 13:05
Word of welcome by Dr. L. Guibault
13:05 – 13:40
Catherine Doldirina, Joint Research Centre EC – Open data and Earth observations: the case of opening access to and use of EO through the Global Earth Observation System of Systems
Comments by Prof. Mark Perry
13:40 – 14:15
Jenny Metzdorf, University of Luxembourg – The implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive by national regulatory authorities – National reponses to regulatory challenges
Comments by Dr. Tarlach McGonagle
14:15 – 14:50
Harry Halpin, MIT/W3C – No Safe Haven: The Storage of Data Secrets
Comments by Dr. Philippe Aigrain
14:50 – 15:05
Refreshments break
15:05 – 15:40
Ellen Wauters, ICRI – University of Leuven – Social Networking Sites’ Term of Use: addressing imbalances in the user-provider relationship through ex ante and ex post mechanisms
Comments by Dr. Chantal Mak
15:40 – 16:15
Nicolo Zingales, Tilburg University– Virtues and perils of anonymity: should intermediaries bear the burden?
Comments by Prof. Joel Reidenberg
16:15 – 16:20
Closing remarks
17:00 – 18:30
Information Influx public opening:
- Welcome Louise Gunning-Schepers, University of Amsterdam, Edgar du Perron, University of Amsterdam and Bernt Hugenholtz, Institute for Information Law;
- Keynote – Degrees of Freedom: Sketches of a political theory for an age of deep uncertainty and persistent imperfection – prof. Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School
- Young Scholars Award ceremony
- Speech by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission
19:00 – 22:00
IViR 25th birthday soirée – by invitation
Thursday 3 July
9:00 – 10:00
Keynote – Governance, Function and Form, prof. Deirdre Mulligan, University of California, Berkeley
10:30 – 12:30
Parallel sessions:
- Rights in the mix
- Behavioural targeting – If you cannot control it, ban it?
- Tomorrow’s news: bright, mutualized and open?
- Filtering away Infringement: copyright, Injunctions and the role of ISPs
12:30 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 14:30
Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev
14:30 – 16:30
Parallel sessions:
- Mass-digitization and the conundrum of online access
- The algorithmic public: towards a normative framework for automated media
- Accountability and the public sector data push
- A new governance model for communications security?
17:00 – 18.00
Keynote – Copyright as Innovation Policy, Fred von Lohmann, Google
19:00 – 22:00
Conference Dinner
Friday 4 July
9:00 – 10:00
Keynote – Datafication, dataism and dataveillance, prof. José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam
10:30 – 12:30
Parallel sessions:
- Global information flows and the nation state
- United in diversity – the future of the public mission
- Legalizing file-sharing: an idea whose time has come – or gone?
12:30 – 14:00
Buffet Lunch, plus: Brown bag lunch with Rob Frieden – Net Neutrality: One step beyond
14:00 – 15:00
Keynote – Intellectual Property: Two Pasts and A Future, prof. James Boyle, Duke Law School
15:30 – 17:30
Parallel sessions:
- Assembly (Information.influx)
- Big brother is back
- Who owns the World Cup? The case for and against property rights in sports events
17.30 – 18:30
Farewell drinks
INFO
Institute for Information Law (IViR) - University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law
Kloveniersburgwal 48 - 1012 CX Amsterdam
phone: +31 (0)20 525 3406
www.ivir.nl
