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.

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Plenary Session
Quest for Global Self-regulation -Lessons Learned
From new top-level domain names to Napster and hate speech, the Internet raises novel issues in global communications regulation. As people increasingly interact, trade, and work together globally with minimal cost over the Net, such traditional frameworks as national borders, tax and duty, censorship, and copyright are not functioning as effectively as before. What can we do, then? One answer is self-regulation. But as illustrated by the on-going controversies over ICANN, most recently in its At-Large director election, achieving effective self-regulation is not an easy task. At this panel, we will examine how much (rough) consensus we have on this self-regulation approach.

Wednesday concurrent sessions

	The ICT Stories Competition 2001: Winning stories from a competition to find the most innovative uses of information and communication technologies (ICT) for sustainable development presented by the World Bank and the International Institute for Communication and Development
	Creating Online Communities of Medical Knowledge and Trust: Tales from Two Continents
	Content Regulation: A panel looks at filtering, censorship, and government policies related to information flow.
	Youth as Collaborators: How are y o u n g people from around the world using the net for collaboration in learning and entrepreneurial projects?
	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.
	Cyberglobal Democracy? Civil society participation in global policy
	Artists and Activists on the Net. A panel discussion on how artists are using new media for collaboration and activism.
	Mobility and learning. Presentations on the influence of mobile Internet on learning environments.
	International Organizations: survey of Internet activities by intergovernmental and business organizations such as UNESCO, Global Business Dialogue, EU, and WTO.

Wednesday evening (tentative) Digital Video Evening. A selection of short digital videos and films with comments by some of those ISOC members involved in their creation.

Thursday concurrent sessions

	Questioning the Telecenter Movement. Will community technology centers in developing countries address the inequity in access to network tools and resources? Can they be sustained?
	Education: Three presentations.
	Slam on Internet development. This experiment was very popular in 2000: a policy slam where anyone has three minutes to voice their opinion about furthering Internet development.
	Indigenous and Diaspora Groups. There are thousands of different cultures and millions who are displaced from their original homelands. Maori, Sami and Tatar representatives discuss issues related to the Internet and traditional cultures.
	E-commerce in developing countries: A panel to discuss projects and challenges in emerging economies around the world.
	Equity of Access: What programs are being put in place to provide more access to tools, jobs, and bandwidth? Reports from Japan.
	Origin of the Users: An Evolutionary Taxonomy of Internet Users. How are Internet users changing over time?
	E-commerce case studies

Friday concurrent sessions

	E-commerce
	Disability Issues (first of three sessions on Friday morning and afternoon)

Friday closing plenary
Debate: Intellectual Property on the Internet. Some will say "intellectual property" is an oxymoron, because the anonymity of users, inexpensive mass storage, and peer-to-peer networks make it impossible to control the conversion and movement of music, graphics, video, and text. Others point to new technologies for copyright protection and stronger agreements on surveillance and enforcement as the means to provide content owners protection and reward.

Friday After Lunch

Imagining future uses of the Internet: experiments, methodologies and visions (two sessions)