4th Internet, Law and Politics Congress
PROGRAMME
June 2 2008
09.15 h
Welcome.
Imma Tubella, President, UOC.
09.30 h
2008 Congress presentation.
Pere Fabra. Director of Studies, Law and Political Science, UOC.
09.45 h
Opening.
Jordi Bosch. Telecommunications and the Information Society Minister, Catalan government.
10.00 h
Inaugural lecture.
Living Apart Together: Social Networking in the Free World.
Eben Moglen. Professor of Law and Legal History, Columbia University Law School, and Chairman, Software Freedom Law Center, New York.
11.00 h
Coffee break
11.30 h
Regulation of audiovisual content in the age of digital convergence.
Mónica Ariño, Policy Advisor, OFCOM’s International Team.
Comments: Joan Barata, Professor of Administrative Law and President’s Office Manager, Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC).
13.00 h
Lunch break
14.30 h
Content on the internet: regulation or self-regulation?
Round table involving Gonzalo Díe, Director of Corporate Development, RED.ES, and President of IQUA, Mónica Ariño, OFCOM, Amadeu Abril, lawyer, and Miguel Pérez Subías, President of the Spanish Internet Users Association.
Moderator: Raquel Xalabarder, Professor of International Private Law and Technologies Law, UOC.
16.00 h
Coffee break
16.30 h
Electronic public services: e-government 2.0
The Regulation of E-Government 2.0
Speaker: Lorenzo Cotino, Full Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Valencia.
Comments: Agustí Cerrillo. Professor of Administrative Law, UOC.
18.00 h
End of the first day.
June 3 2008
09.30 h
Keynote lecture
Government on the Web
Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet, Oxford Internet Institute.
11.30 h
Public opinion and participation on the internet: blogs and political parties
Speakers:
Lourdes Muñoz, member of parliament, (PSC). PSC Secretary for Women’s Policy.
Carles Campuzano, member of parliament (CiU).
Roc Fages, specialist in communication on the internet.
13.00 h
Lunch break
14.30 h
Electoral strategies on the internet
The experience of the 2008 Spanish General Elections
Speakers: José Rodríguez and Xavier Peytibí, political experts.
Presentation of the results from the Parties and ICT research project.
Speaker: Albert Padró-Solanet, Professor of Political Science, UOC, and member of the GADE-IN3 research group.
Comments and moderator: Rosa Borge, Professor of Political Science, UOC.
16.00 h
Coffee break
16.30 h
Round table debate: Towards citizenship 2.0?
Helen Margetts, Director of Research, Professor of Society and the Internet, Oxford Internet Institute.
David Osimo, e-government researcher and activities coordinator, European Commission’s Institute for Prospective Technological Studies.
Joan Subirats, Professor of Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Ana Sofía Cardenal. Professor of Political Science, UOC.
Comments and moderator: Eduard Aibar, Vice President, Research, UOC.
18.00 h
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