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Workshop Governance, Regulations, Powers on the Internet

May 27-28, 2005
in Paris, France, at the Ecole des Mines de Paris,
60 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris.

Topics and Contents

While there are not the sole driver, information and communication technologies plays a major role in the in-depth mutations of international relations and of the organization of economic activities, and in the profound transformations of Nation States. In particular, they provide practical means for new modes of participation and new mode of regulation and governance. In addition, information technologies and digital networks are raising new issues since global information networks affect the performance of information based activities, the organization of related industries, and the coordination among all kind of stakeholders whose interest are impacted by the raise of the information society, as shown by the World Summit on Information Society in the wider context of the UN reform process.

In particular, technical governance, economic regulations and political government are becoming more and more interpenetrating issues. Yet, there is a need to understand how technical, political, economic and social norms are articulated, who are the main actors of this transforming process and how they interact, how these changes may influence the world ruling in terms of individual rights, public liberties, property rights, market competition, conflict management, security, sovereignty of states…

The GRPI workshop will gather a high-level, multidisciplinary group of researchers in social and political sciences, economy, law, and information technologies to discuss these issues.

Topics of interest includes: the pluralism of norms and their articulation; the emergence of new actors, new arenas and new modalities for setting norms, rules and codes; the definition of charters, codes, contracts between public and private actors; how these rules are implemented and enforced, how the public may adhere to them; what is the substance of the produced norms and their impact on the balance of rights; and finally whether and how this may redefine the modes of national and global political organization?


Programme

May 27

9h30-13h - Multi-Level, Multi-Actor, Decentralized Governance :

  • James N. Rosenau, "People and the Internet as agents of change"
  • Pierre Mounier, "Internet governance and the problem of legitimacy"
  • Tom Dedeurwaerdere, "Democratic governance of the Internet : some questions beyond self-regulation and co-regulation"
  • Meryem Marzouki et Cécile Méadel, "Internet Coregulation Organisms in search of consensus : towards Procedural Democracy?"

14h30-17h30 - Technical and Legal Architecture Interactions :

  • Niva Elkin-Koren, "Creative Commons and IP regulation"
  • Danièle Bourcier, "Creative commons project as an observatory of governance : reflections on consensus about norms"
  • Séverine Dusollier, "DRM at the intersection of copyright law and technology : a case study for regulation"
  • Jay P., "Kesan Governing with Code"
  • B. Deffains Y., Gabuthy, to be determined

May 28

9h30-13h - Private/Public Properties and Goods :

  • Milton M. Mueller, "The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as Farce: A Critique of the Emerging Discourse on Property Rights in Information"
  • Isabelle Rorive, "Fighting Racism on the Internet: The Never-ending Yahoo! Case"
  • Benoit Frydman, "Internet Co-regulation : The European Legal Mechanism"
  • Nicolas Auray, "Direct actions and citizenship amongst hackers : which legislative solutions?"

14h30-19h - Private/Self Regulations :

  • Michael Froomkin, "Building the bottom up from the top down"
  • Christine Hine, "The Formation of conventions for Internet activities…"
  • Dominique Cardon, "Coordination of the international civil society and uses of Internet"
  • Éric Brousseau, "Public and Private Interactions in the Regulations of Information Industrie"

Venue:

The GRPI Workshop will be held on May 27-28, 2005, in Paris, France, at the Ecole des Mines d e Paris, 60 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris.

Organizers and support:

The GRPI workshop organizers are:

  • Eric Brousseau, (FORUM), University of Paris X-Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France, eric@brousseau.info

The workshop is funded by the Interdisciplinary Program on the “Information Society” of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique http://www.cnrs.fr/DEP/prg/societedelinfo.html - e-govern@nce Project

It is supported by the CNRS Research Consortium (GDR TIC et Société) www.tic-societe.org and by the Ecole des mines de Paris www.ensmp.fr/