Uses of the Internet Summit The Uses of the Internet Summit will include sessions on e-commerce, medical knowledge, prize-winning stories from developing
countries, community technology centers, education and mobile learning environments, youth on the Internet, and indigenous groups. There will be special Friday sessions on disabilities issues and imagining the future of the Internet.
| US16 June 11:00-12:30 |
| Stories from Developing Countries |
| The Stories Project is a contest sponsored by the World Bank and IICD in Holland to collect the most compelling applications of information
technology for the developing world. The winners are announced at this session. |
| Moderator: |
George Sadowsky, ISOC |
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| Franck Martin, SOPAC, Fiji |
The Internet and the Fiji and Solomon Coups (U85) |
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6 June 14:00-15:30 |
| Youth and the Internet |
| Young people from Llano Grande Center in Elsa, Texas, in the rural border area between Mexico and the US, present projects in oral history,
community radio, digital video, and a Spanish language institute . |
| Chair: |
Francisco Guajardo, Llano Grande Center, USA. f_guajardo@yahoo.com |
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| Virginia Rodriguez |
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| Jose Hinojosa |
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| Cecilia Garza |
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| Daniel Guajardo |
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| US3
6 June 1600 |
| Art & Activism on the Net |
| Technologists as artists and activists using wireless and the Internet will discuss their projects for collaborative music creation, art and activism. |
| Moderators: |
Geert Lovink, geert@xs4all.nl |
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| Institute for Applied Autonomy, Pittsburgh, USA |
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| Gretchen Schoel, College of William and Mary, USA |
Blues, global jams, and the Play of Identity Across Cultures On-Line |
| Marita Liulia, Medeia Ltd. Finland |
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| Gerbrand Oudenaarden, Engage Tactical Media, Netherlands |
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| US4 6 June 11:00-12:30 |
| Mobility and Learning |
| The intersection of mobile wireless networks and learning technologies presents exciting new opportunities and challenges for students and
educators. |
| Moderators: |
Jim Williams EDUCAUSE |
| Alberto Escudero Pascual, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
Kista - IT University Wireless Network -Privacy in mobile internetworking |
| Jose Silvio, UNESCO, Venezuela |
Virtual mobility and lifelong learning on the Internet |
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| US5
6 June 14:00-15:30 |
| Urban Design and Cyberspace |
| Distance is not dead, but new technologies are causing architects and planners to rethink the design of physical and public spaces, which take on new meaning in a world that is spending more time in front of a screen. |
| Moderators: |
Mark Wilson, Michigan State University, USA |
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| Anthony M. Townsend, Taub Urban Research Center, New York University, USA |
The Persistence of Place: Mobile Internet and the Use and Design of Urban Public Spaces |
| Mark Wilson, Michigan State University, USA |
Death of Distance/Rise of Place: The Impact of the Internet on Locality and Spatial Organization |
| Matt Locke, Kirklees Media Centre, UK; |
Social Technologies and Urban Space: presenting recent artistic commissions using mobile technologies. |
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| US6
6 June 16:00-17:30 |
| Creating Online Communities of Medical Knowledge and Trust: Tales from Two Continents |
| People with cancer and African malaria researchers: what do they have in common? They are communities of users or potential users of communications technology as tools to a greater good. These same people are often isolated from one another and from useful resources by geography, distance, and disease in industrialized and rural areas behind barriers erected by fear, hierarchies, and the remnants of colonial empires. Who are these users? What are the technologies that support them? Where are they in the broad scheme of development and how are they creating new paradigms - new ways of doing science, new ways of dealing with disease? |
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Julia Royall, National Library of Medicine, USA |
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| Bernard Glassman, informatics futurist, USA |
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health |
| Mike Jensen, consultant South Africa |
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| Henry Lieberman, Senior Scientist, MIT Media Lab |
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| George Sadowsky, consultant USA |
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| US7
7 June 16:00-17:30 |
| Questioning the Telecenter Movement |
| Telecenters or community technology centers have been providing public access to computing and networked resources for more than 30 years, but in the past few years thousands of pilot projects, franchises, and grass roots efforts have been opening their doors in urban and rural areas all over the world. This panel will look at the challenges, the hype, the successes and failures of the different models. |
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Raul Roman, Cornell University, USA |
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| Royal Colle, Cornell Univ. USA |
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| Anastasia Nakkazi, UNESCO, Uganda |
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| Bill Murray, Small World Connections, UK |
| Johan Ernberg, 7Cs WorldBridge Consultants, Switzerland |
| Michel Menou, London City University, UK |
| Paula Uimonen,Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Gáspár Mátyás, DirectorTelecottage Public Benefit Company, Hungary |
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| US8
7 June 14:00-15:30 |
| Indigenous and Diaspora Groups and the Internet |
| Indigenous group including those who have been displaced by wars and politics are using the Internet in different ways to help preserve their cultures and facilitate communications. This session is a discussion between Maori, Tatar, and Sami Internet users about the benefits and challenges of the Net. |
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Steve Cisler, USA cisler@pobox.com |
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| Kemal Altintas, Bilkent University, Turkey |
e-TATARS: Virtual Community of the Crimean Tatar Diaspora |
| Robyn Kamira, Maori Representative, New Zealand |
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| Aanta Heikka Forsgren, Forest Sami Representative, Sweden |
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| US9
7 June 16:00-17:30 |
| Equity of Access: Solutions and problems |
| Access to the benefits of ICT has many components: connectivity, training, physical access, and cost. Practitioners from around the world present solutions to problems facing all of us in both developing and developed nations. |
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Bill Wright, ITC, USA |
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| Dirk Koning Community Media Center, Grand Rapids USA |
Community Multi-Media Centers |
| Adrian Bates, VICNET, Australia |
Birth of the Skills.net Association Cooperative |
| Klaus Frey, U. of Parane, Brazil |
Exploring the Internet in favor of sustainable community development |
| V.K.S. Samaranayke, Univ. of Colombo, Sri Lanka |
Benefits of Internet to Rural Communities: A Sri Lankan initiative based on inexpensive solutions |
| Tatsuya Yamamoto |
The Japanese IT Support Policy toward Development countries - Implication from Bangladesh and Malaysian Case |
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| US10
7 June 11:00-12:30 |
| Using Today's Internet for Tomorrow's Education: The Ends of the Spectrum |
| Three papers that represent strikingly different examples of creative approaches to using technology to enhance students' learning. |
| Moderators: |
Jacqueline Brown, U. of Washington, USA |
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| Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Tech, USA |
The On-Line Master's of Arts in Political Science; Development and Support for Low Cost, High Accessibility, Worldwide Online Education |
| Robert Rallo, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain |
JLE2: Towards An Ims Compliant Distributed Learning Environment |
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| US11
7 June 14:00-15:30 |
| Ecommerce in Developing Countries |
| Developing country IT specialists and entrepreneurs in startups will discuss Implications, concerns and barriers found by young start-ups when developing e-commerce initiatives (technical, policy, risk, funding issues). The panel will explore the involvement of ISOC in addressing these issues, make recommendations and explore best practices. |
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Rosa Delgado, SITA Switzerland |
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| Michael Minges, ITU, Switzerland |
The Relevance of Mobile Internet for Developing Countries |
| Madanmohan Rao, INOMY.com, India |
Community Networks in Emerging Economies: Local Applications of Global Networks" |
| Mohammed-Sani Abdulai, CICT, Ghana |
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| Alpha Bah, UNDP, North Korea |
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| US12
7 June 11:00-12:30 |
| Origin of the Users: An Evolutionary Taxonomy of Internet Users |
| The panel will present specific but representative case studies or general trends derived from broad experience in developing countries that describe how an individual user's or group of users' concept of and use of the Internet changes over time and with increasing exposure. |
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Mary Fontaine, AED, Washington USA |
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| Steve Dorsey AED, USA |
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| Richard Fuchs, IDRC Canada; Kristi McBride, FutureWorks, Canada |
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| Nils Zurawski U. of Münster,Germany |
Internet Usage Around the World |
| Chitra Radhakishun |
United Nations Trade Development, Switzerland |
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| US13a
8 June 8:30 |
| Disabilities and General Issues |
| The Panel will discuss disability issues as related to the Internet on an International basis. This will range from General accessibility issues, to legal and policy issues, to specifics on accessibility issues and the Internet as they have appeared in an international arena. There will also be a short presentation on implementing accessibility on medium to large organizations. |
| Moderators: |
Mike Burks AT&T USA |
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| Tom Worthington, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd, Australia |
Olympic Failure: A Case for Making the Web Accessible |
| Cynthia Waddell, Accessibility Center of Excellence, USA |
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| Riina Reinumagi, Univ. of Tartu, Estonia |
Internet Usage Around the World |
| YJ Park, MINC, Singapore |
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| US13b
8 June 14:00 |
| Disabilities and Education |
| There are critical issues involved with education and people with disabilities. This panel will explore some of those issues on a worldwide basis. |
| Moderators: |
Mike Burks AT&T |
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| Lim Kin Chew, Enable2000, Singapore |
| David Yong,Jurong Garden School, Singapore |
| Taylor Kearns International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet, USA |
| Cynthia Waddell Accessibility Center of Excellence, USA |
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US14
8 June 8:30 |
| E-commerce |
| What is the state of e-commerce since the Internet investment bubble has deflated? |
| Moderators: |
Scott Gunn, USA |
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| Greg Adamson, ICL, Scotland |
Dancing With Dinosaurs |
| Roland E. Schmid, Univ. of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
How Process Portals Simplify Life |
| Bo Harald, Nordea Group Management, Finland |
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| US15
8 June 14:00 |
| Future Uses of the Internet |
| This session brings together people within public and private R&D structures, who are active in trying to identify, experiment and evaluate future Internet uses based on broadband, mobile and pervasive access, new user interfaces and terminals, etc. It will allow participants to exchange visions of where Internet uses will go, but also of how we can help these uses emerge and how experiments and evaluation methods should allow users to self-appropriate technological innovation in unforeseen ways. |
| Moderators: |
Daniel
Kaplan FING / ISOC France |
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| Franck Boissiere, European Commission, Belgium |
| B.Svante Eriksson, Ericsson, Sweden |
| David Macneil, CANARIE, Canada |
| Laurent Ponthou, France Telecom R&D, France |
| Mark Reschor John Meyer, CommerceNet, USA |
| Jacqueline Tammenoms Bakker, Gigaport, Netherlands |
| Jean-Pierre Tubach, RNRT, France |
| Pierre Bouchard, RISQ (Canada) |
| Jean-Claude Guedon, Université de Montreal (Canada) |
