Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: cybercrimeresearch@hotmail.com Newsgroups: fj.soc.law Subject: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Date: 9 Nov 2005 13:38:05 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 288 Message-ID: <1131572284.991336.68340@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.127.14.100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1131572290 18880 127.0.0.1 (9 Nov 2005 21:38:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:38:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/416.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.127.14.100; posting-account=lvCciA0AAACkmp8OzBAoO1YzFWkY8Dkw Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.soc.law:4487 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=F3s 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 Page 2 of 9 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. Page 3 of 9 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. Page 4 of 9 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=E9lo. 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. Page 5 of 9 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.