Board of Trustees
2000 Board Election
Candidates
Costas Popotas
<cpop@village.uunet.lu>
Nominated by: self
Country: Greece
COSTAS POPOTAS
BIO
Administrator, Automation officer, Library, Court of Justice, European
Communities.
Member: Staff Committee - internal administrative committees - Management
committee of the EU staff Common Sickness Insurance Scheme - Common Joint
Committee, EU institutions - Staff Regulations Committee.
Diploma in Law, Postgraduate
diploma (International private Law), doctoral research (legal data processing),
Law Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Two years vocational
training, computer programming, Greek productivity Centre. LL.M. (by research
and thesis)
Advanced Information Technology and Law, Queen's University of Belfast,
British Council scholar. One year foundation course in Mathematics. Open
University, UK.
Languages: Greek, English, French fluent. German, Spanish, Portuguese,
Italian varying working knowledge.
Previous professional
experience:
Journalism - Researcher,
Legal data processing, Aristotles University of Thessaloniki - Section
of legal data processing, Centre for International and European Economic
Law, Thessaloniki - Barrister, Thessaloniki Bar - Patent Lawyer, European
Patent Office - Teaching, Computers and Law, Greek Productivity Centre
- Working group: computerised justice systems: Greek Ministry of Justice
- Legal Data Processing Committee, Thessaloniki Bar. - Administrator,
Court of Justice of the EC. (Service of Legal Informatics - Staff Department:
Automation officer. Head of Section "Statutory Entitlements"
(90-91).
Legal affairs officer (91-94). Member: Committee on Procurement and Contracts,
New Technologies Consultative Committee, Joint Committee, Staff Regulations
Committee).
Member:
- Society for Computers and Law
- International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
- International federation of European Law
- Internet Society
- Management committee, Parents Association, European School, Luxembourg.
Participation: congresses in Community law, Computer Technology and Computers
and Law.
Publications: Community law, Environmental law, Computers and Law, Legal
Internet.
MOTIVATION
My last year's statement was as follows:
ISOC, having successfully fostered Internet as an innovative technological
social and economic model of integration, is expected to provide the leadership
and guidance which will shift it into a universal infrastructure, an essential
utility and service englobing all current informational media and tools,
available to everybody independently of their technological advancement
and economic capacities.
Since the Internet does not operate in a vacuum, ISOC should propose universal
standards for a novel self-regulation model, alternative to traditional
legislative approaches, which, emancipated from any individual government
will operate at an acclaimed international level; they must forge efficient
decision making and problem resolution procedures for an autonomous and
independent Internet governance recognised from states, organisations
and economic entities; impose the convergence of national legal regulations
towards these guidelines; maintain the capacity to constantly consistently
and universally adapt the Internet infrastructure.
My combined qualification, my long involvement with IT related legal issues
and my experience with an international administration can usefully contribute
new insights and approaches to the ISOC mission.
I certainly remain committed to the role of Internet as a universal infrastructure
as much as I consider that ISOC should become more proactive in the area
of self-regulation. Yet again last year we did not observe any steps towards
a universal approach to self regulation; no national or international
body demonstrated the capacity to assume such a role. This for me is a
clear indication that only an impartial instance like ISOC can:
- propose a sustainable and adaptive model code of conduct for self regulation
- set up a arbitration and dispute resolution mechanism where differences
can be referred from all types of entities.
If proposed for election I will declare my willingness to make my experience
in an international jurisdiction and the legal problems of IT available
to the implementation of these policies.
Costas Popotas
Principal administrator,
automation officer Library, Court of justice of the European Community
tel +352 4303 3664
fax +352 4303 2424
alt. e-mail: cpopotas@curia.eu.int
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