Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

http://www.osce.org/documents/rfm/2004/07/3342_en.pdf

The Representative on Freedom of the Media
Mikl$(D??(Bs Haraszti
Guaranteeing Media Freedom on the Internet -
Conference in Amsterdam, City Hall, Amstel 1, Raadzaal
27 and 28 August 2004
List of Speakers
Rev. 9
Yaman Akdeniz
Yaman Akdeniz is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Leeds,
where he teaches and
writes mainly about Internet-related legal and policy issues. He is
also the founder and director of
www.cyber-rights.org, a non-profit civil liberties organization. Dr.
Akdeniz is an international policy
fellow at the Open Society Institute and is working on a project
entitled "Civil society participation
in the policy-making process of the Turkish Government in relation to
the development of an
Information Society in Turkey". His publications include Sex on the
Net? The Dilemma of Policing
Cyberspace; The Internet, Law and Society.
Lodewijk Asscher
Mr. Lodewijk Asscher specialises in constitutional law, especially
freedom of speech, privacy and
communications secrecy in the Internet era. His doctoral thesis (2002),
entitled 'Fundamental
Rights of Communication', addresses the question of how to render
constitutional protection for
the freedom of speech and the right to communications secrecy less
technology-dependent. Mr
Asscher is currently doing research on 'Code as Code. Regulation of
Cyberspace' and on the
European regulation of Unsolicited Email (Spam).
Prior to joining IViR, Mr. Asscher studied Law at the University of
Amsterdam and at Columbia
University School of Law, New York. He has been a councillor in
Amsterdam City Council for the
PvdA (social democrats) since the 2002 elections.
Matthew Berry
Matthew Berry is Senior Counsel at the United States Justice
Department's Office of Legal Policy.
Immediately before joining the Office of Legal Policy, Mr. Berry also
served as an attorney-adviser
in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.Mr. Berry is a
graduate of Dartmouth College
and Yale Law School. Before coming to the Justice Department, he was a
visiting assisting
professor at William & Mary Law School, where he taught courses on the
First Amendment as
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well as election law. Mr. Berry has served as a law clerk for United
States Supreme Court
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Laurence Silberman of the
United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was also a staff
attorney at the Institute for
Justice, which he primarily focused on First Amendment litigation and
authored briefs on free
speech issues filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. He has authored
articles appearing in The Wall
Street Journal, National Review, USA Today, and numerous other
publications.
Marcel van den Berg
Marcel van den Berg is an Senior Internet investigator at the Digital
Expertise Team of the Dutch
National Police and is currently supporting the National High Tech
Crime Center as an Internet
specialist.
Steve Buckley
Steve Buckley is a communications activist and media policy consultant
with particular interests in
communication for development, freedom of expression and communication
rights. He has been
a member of the International Board of the World Association of
Community Radio Broadcasters
(AMARC) since 1992 and President of AMARC since 2003. He is also a
member of the Executive
Secretariat of the Communication Rights in the Information Society
campaign (CRIS) and a
member of the International Council of IFEX, the International Freedom
of Expression Exchange.
He has been a media consultant to UNESCO, UK Department for
International Development,
World Bank and Ford Foundation among others. He has had extensive
involvement in the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and is currently Co-Chair of
the WSIS Civil Society
Content and Themes Group. Steve was a founder of the UK Community Media
Association in
1983 and its Chief Executive from 1991 to 2004. He was educated at
Cambridge University
(Natural Sciences) and University of Essex (Sociology).
Cormac Callanan
Secretary General and past-president of INHOPE - the association of
Internet Hotline Providers
(www.inhope.org). The mission of Inhope is to facilitate and
co-ordinate the work of Internet
hotlines responding to illegal use and content on the Internet. Inhope
has 20 member hotlines in
18 countries around the world.
He was founding Chairman of the Internet Service Provider Association
of Ireland (www.ispai.ie)
and Secretary General of the European Service Provider Association
(www.euroispa.org) until
February 2003. He was founding Director of the Irish www.hotline.ie
service responding to reports
about illegal child pornography and hate speech on the Internet. In
international assignment in the
he established the first commercial ISP business in Ireland in 1991,
EUnet Ireland.
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Cormac is a board member of the Copyright Association of Ireland. He
served on the Rightswatch
UK & Ireland Working Group developing best practice guidelines for
Notice and Takedown
procedures as they relate to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).
Sylvie Coudray
Silvie Coudray works at UNESCO since fifteen years (1989-2004), within
the Communication
Sector, specifically the Division of Freedom of Expression, Democracy
and Peace (FED).
She is responsible for the planning, coordination and organization of
the World Press Freedom
Day and related activities. In relation with this yearly event, she in
charge of public information
orientated work, coordination with the United Nations as well as
continuous working relations with
NGOs, governments and media professionals.
Ms Coudray has also been in charge of driving the development of
UNESCO's program for Media
in Conflict Areas. She has been active in promoting the image and
position of UNESCO as a vital
member of the UN family in safeguarding freedom of expression. Within
the CI Sector, she is also
involved in the overall preparation of the World Summit on Information
Society (part 2),
specifically on issues concerning freedom of expression.
Adilia Daminova
Adilia Daminova is Media Programme Manager and Adviser for the
Politico-Military Dimension
with the OSCE Center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Nico van Eijk
Nico van Eijk studied Law at the University of Tilburg and received his
doctorate on government
interference with broadcasting in 1992 from the University of
Amsterdam. His research activities
focus on Telecommunications and Media Law. He also works as a legal
adviser to Rabobank
International (Utrecht) and law firm Nauta Dutilh (Amsterdam). He is
the Vice-Chairman of the
Dutch Federation for Media and Communications Law (VMC) and a member of
various advisory
boards (Euroforum, The Amsterdam Nyenrode Law School, (ANLS)).
Colin Guard
Colin Guard is the Regional Program Manager for Central Asia of the
Internet Access and
Training Program (IATP), a program funded by the Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs of
the United States Department of State and administered by the
International Research and
Exchanges Board (IREX). In Central Asia, IATP consists of a network of
66 Internet access sites
in Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan that
provide Internet access
to over 25,000 people every month, and training to over 4,000 people
per month.
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Previously, Colin was the IATP Regional Program Manager for Western
Eurasia, responsible for a
network of 42 Internet access sites in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.
Before joining IREX, Colin
worked on a higher education reform project at the Salzburg Seminar.
Colin has an M.A. in
Russian from Middlebury College, and has studied in Vladivostok,
Novosibirsk and Moscow. He
grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC and lives in Tashkent with his
wife Masha, a native of
Moscow.
Yashar Hajiyev
Yashar Hajiyev holds a PhD degree in computer technology and graduated
in Engineering of
Communication at Moscow State University. He also holds a certificate
on eGovernment issued
by the Estonian Communication Center.
Since 2001 he works as country coordinator for the Global Internet
Policy Initiative, a project of
the Internews Network and Center for Democracy and Technology. His
duties are providing
technical assistance to both Azerbaijan authorities and civil society
groups on Internet policy and
legislation; advocating legal and regulatory framework supporting
development of information
technologies and growth of information society; supporting legislative
initiatives of civil groups and
business associations aimed at development of information technologies
in Azerbaijan.
>From 1995 to 2001, he was a local expert of Lloyd's Agency on
telecommunication and computer
systems. From 1997 to 2001, he worked as Associated professor of
Communication Faculty at
Baku Technical University. From 1979 to 1997, he was senior researcher
of Solid State
Electronics, Institute of Azerbaijan, Academy of Science.
Miklos Haraszti
Hungarian writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university
professor Miklos Haraszti was
appointed the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media effective
from 10 March 2004. He
was born in Jerusalem in 1945. Mr. Haraszti studied Philosophy and
literature at the Budapest
University and in 1996 received an Honorary Degree from Northwestern
University in the United
States. In 1976 Mr. Haraszti co-founded the Hungarian Democratic
Opposition Movement and in
1980 he became editor of the samizdat periodical Besz$(D??(Blo. In 1989, he
participated in the
"roundtable" negotiations on transition to free elections. A member
of the Hungarian Parliament
from 1990-1994, he then moved on to lecture on democratization and
media politics at numerous
universities. Mr. Haraszti has written several essays and books,
including "A Worker in a Worker's
State" and "The Velvet Prison", both of which have been translated into
several languages. His
essays have been published in The New York Times and The Washington
Post. He speaks
English, Russian and German.
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Klaas Hernamdt
Operations Manager for Waag Society since 2000. Managing the setup,
implementation and
delivery of many Web applications and Internet projects. Involved in
strategic and technical
management of the Lab, Human Resource management and operations. He
started in 1995 as
mainframe developer for IBM, working on the core applications for
business processes for Banks,
Insurance companies and Airlines, developed into a Internet programmer,
implementing
nationwide e-business solutions and a Project Manager for various
e-business projects.
Klaas Hernamdt formed several theatre groups, experimenting with
different forms of theatrical
expression, ranging from children's plays, street theatre and
combinations of dance and theatre,
inspired by theatrical theorists from Italy, France, Germany and
Poland. Participated in many
performances, workshops and improvisations in the Netherlands, Germany
and Italy.
Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt works for the Dutch National Police and is active in
the fields of Cyber
Intelligence, Cyber Security and the fight against Cybercrime. Right
now he's supporting the
National High Tech Crime Center functioning as the projects strategic
adviser.
Lee Hibbard
Lee Hibbard works as an administrator at the Council of Europe who has
been dealing with, inter
alia, the Convention on legal co-operation and information concerning
"Information Society
Services" (CETS 180) and questions concerning private international law
often in co-operation
with many Central and Eastern European States. He is now working for
the Media Division of the
Council of Europe.
Alexander Ivanko
A former Russian journalist who worked for the daily Izvestia, a
leading Moscow newspaper, from
1984 to 1994. From 1994 to 1998 he was posted as the United Nations
Spokesman in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. He joined the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom
of the Media as an
adviser in October 1998.
Sandro Karumidze
General Manager at JSC Telenet, one of the leading Georgian
telecommunication and Internet
service providers. During 1995-2001 he worked as Director of Internet
and Information programs
at the Open Society - Georgia Foundation, branch of Soros Open
Society Institute. He is a
founder and ex-chairman of the Georgian Chapter of the Internet Society
- ISOC.