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Workshop: "Public Access TV & New Media" (Memphis, TN)
This is a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) workshop taking place at the National Media Reform Conference.  The workshop focuses on how public access television (“access TV”) can pursue its existing mission using new media, especially as changes to the franchise system for public access TV are debated in 2007. We begin with the recognition that access TV possesses an invaluable infrastructure of organizations and funding, and we then consider how that could be better connected to media like municipal wi-fi, Internet video, and content management systems.

Article: "Public Access Television: An Institutional Analysis"
This article in Community Media Review first identifies the regulatory frameworks, organizational structures, and established practices that structure public access television. It then analyzes how such institutions constrain managers' ability to fulfill a social change mission.

March 14: 1st Amendment Program
Information Control: How Government Wants to Keep Secrets
but Force Reporters to Disclose Sources.
Speakers are Peter Canfield and Tom Clyde. Peter C. Canfield is a senior partner at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson and has long been at the center of efforts to advance openness in government and press freedoms. Thomas M. Clyde, also a partner at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, is the author of Tapping Officials' Secrets: The Door to Open Government in Georgia.
Location: "The Letter Room" in Student Success Center (Downstairs from Clary Theater)
Date: Tuesday, March 14
Time: 6PM reception ($10), 7PM event (free to Georgia Tech)
This even is co-sponsored with the Atlanta Press Club. More information.

Analysis: "An Assessment of the WSIS Outcomes"
This paper summarizes the decisions made on Internet governance at the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and considers their implications for civil society.

Policy Analysis: "ICANN Reform: Establishing the Rule of Law"
A policy analysis prepared for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). It argues that well-established rules for the governance of regulatory agencies can be applied to ICANN to realize good Internet governance.

Article: "Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the World Summit on the Information Society" Published in Information Technology and International Development (a journal co-edited by IP3's Michael Best). ITID's latest issue focuses on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). More info on ITID.

Radio Interview on KPCC Los Angeles
Larry Mantle, host of the show Airtalk, interviews IP3 Director Hans Klein on the topic of Internet governance (3 October 2005.) To listen to the interview, click here.

Sponsored Forum at UN World Summit (Tunis, November 2005)
The UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be held in Tunis, Tunisia, from November 16-8, 2005. This session is entitled, "Geneva-Tunis and Beyond"and will consider the processes by which global Internet governance issues will be addressed following the Summit. Co-sponsors of this event are the journal Information Technology and International Development (MIT Press) and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

SEPT. 30: Media Activist and Film Director, Danny Schechter
"Media and Homeland Insecurity"
IP3 and the Southern Media Justice Coalition co-host a talk by film director and media activist Danny Schechter. This event is free and open to the public.
At 7PM there will be a showing of his movie Weapons of Mass Deception (GSU Cinefest Theater.)
Download event flyer (PDF).
More info.

Atlanta Telecommunications Policy Advisory Committee (TelePAC)
Unofficial archive of the TelePAC committee, created by the Atlanta City Council in 2004 to advise on telcommunications franchises, new technology, and PEG Access television. (PEG presentation of 25 August 2005 is posted here.)

Municipal Telecommunications & Community Media
Highlights research and policy advising for telecommunications policy, especial public, educational, and governmental (PEG) access television. New material:

• New report: "Reinventing PEG Access"
• Two presentations from Annual Conference of the Alliance for Community Media (July 2005)
• Full report from the Atlanta Telecommunications Policy Advisory Committee (TelePAC)

"The Right to Political Participation and the Information Society"
Paper presented at Global Democracy Conference (www.G05.org)
Montreal, May 2005

JUNE 16: Public Forum: "Does Sunshine Dry Up Economic Development?"
Thursday, June 16, 6:30/7:30PM, Clary Theater
IP3 and the Atlanta Press Club co-host a moderated discussion about the recent attempts to change the Georgia Open Records Act, including House Bill 218, which would have exempted certain economic development records from public scrutiny, or what many media outlets named “the secrecy bill.”

"What to Do About ICANN: A Proposal for Structural Reform"
Concept paper of the Internet Governance Project.

"Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the World Summit on the Information Society" Published in Information Technology and International Development (a journal co-edited by IP3's Michael Best). ITID's latest issue focuses on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). More info on ITID.

IP3 at World Summit's PrepCom2 Meeting in Geneva. As part of the Internet Governance Project, IP3 is participating in the Feburary 2004 2nd Preparatory Committee Meeting of the Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society. IP3 is co-sponsoring two panels entitled "Civil Society in ICANN: What Needs to Change and What Needs to Be Defended in the ICANN Model?" (Feb. 17) and "Internet Governance Deliberations After WSIS: Institutional Change for the Future" (Feb. 18). Powerpoint presentation: "Institutional Design for Legitimacy".

Prof. Michael Best joins Georgia Tech and and IP3. Michael Best is an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, where he researches Internet technology and international development. He received his PhD from MIT and is also affiliated with Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Prof. Hans Klein appointed to Atlanta TelePAC. In November 2004 the City of Atlanta created a Telecommunications Policy Advisory Committee (TelePAC) to provide policy advice on issues of new information technology and public, educational, and government access television (PEG-TV). Klein chairs the sub-committee on PEG-TV. Georgia Tech professor Helena Mitchell also serves on the TelePAC.

IP3 in Internet Governance Project

IP3 has formed a partnership with two research centers at Syracuse University -- the Convergence Center at the School of Information Studies and the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School -- to form the Internet Governance Project. The Project is working with UN officials to catalog existing global rules for the Internet, analyze how well such governance systems are working, and identify options for policy.
For more information, see www.InternetGovernance.org

Award for Information Security from Cisco Systems

Research Associate Pam Hassebroek has won a scholarship from Cisco's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Group for her research on non-technical organizational factors in information security.

Recent Events

• IT Offshoring: Its effect on the People and Economy of Georgia (co-sponsored with the Georgia Electronic Commerce Association/GECA)
• Globalization Forum: Politics, Economics, and IT Outsourcing (with Cynthia McKinney, Donald Ratajczak, and Ravi Kalakota) April 22, 2004
• Balancing Freedom and Security: The Patriot Act and Homeland Security (with Bob Barr and Randy Chartash) November 6, 2003
• Democracy and New Technology: Electronic Voting in Georgia (with Profs. Dan Wallach and Doug Jones) October 16, 2003
• Jailhouse Rock: File Swapping, Intellectual Property, and the Law (with Gigi Sohn) September 23, 2003.

Recent Scholarship

• ICANN and Non-Territorial Sovereignty:Government Without the Nation State (draft)
• Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Perspective on the UN World Summit on the Information Society
• The Internet's Impact on Policy Evaluation

IP3 at the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Pictured: Robert Guerra (Director, CPSR), Adama Samassekou (President of the WSIS Preparatory Committee), and Hans Klein (IP3/CPSR) at the Geneva Summit of WSIS, December 2003.

Research

• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) as a Political Opportunity Structure. New events and institutions present opportunities for groups to advance their agendas. This research examines the concrete achievements made by groups at UN world summits over the last ten years and uses those insights to assess the opportunities in the on-going WSIS.
• The Peace Movement and the Internet. How do social movements use the Internet? This research analyzes recent activities of Atlanta-area peace activists to obtain insights into the design of coordination mechanisms for dispersed activist movements.
• Intellectual Property (IP) in Georgia. Following their successful advocacy of stronger IP protections at the national and global level, IP groups are now turning their attention to state-level policy, promoting new legislation in Georgia and other states. This research examines the relationships between different policy forums, with attention to the connections between globalization and local policy-making.
• Non-territorial Sovereignty. The acceleration of globalization in recent years has given rise to numerous new global governance institutions. One of these -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- sets major new precedents in global governance. ICANN can be considered an instantiation of sovereignty without a foundation in territority, a novel variation on the nation state.

For more information click on research.

New Faces

• New contributors at IP3 include Pam Hassebroek, Jeremy Farris, Michael Lentz, Spry Boltz, and Daniel Russel.

For more information click on participants.