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What's New at IP3:
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
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.
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