huridocs-tech 2nd International Congress on Internet and Politics

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6-8 January the 2nd International Congress on Internet and
Politics will be organized in Espoo, on the capital region
of Finland, with special programmes in three other cities in
Finland on the 9th of Januar.

Among the key-note speakers and their themes there are
Benjamin Barber, Professor/Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey THE INTERNET: A PLACE FOR COMMERCE OR A PLACE FOR
US?

Ted Becker, Professor/Auburn University & Christa Slaton,
Professor/Auburn University: HOW THE INTERNET IS
TRANSFORMING REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY AROUND THE WORLD

Chun Wei Choo, Professor/University of Toronto HUMAN
INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION

Bertil Haarder, Vice-President/European Parliament
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS A LIBERATING FACTOR and Dr. Jens
Thorhauge, the Director of the Danish National Library
Authority.

INTERNET AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES

Libraries have been in a central position in making the
programme of the conference. In this conference librarians
have a possibility to get in contact with decisionmakers and
researchers.

There are together 16 plenum papers and 34 sessions
available, covering themes like Access to information, New
citizenship and democracy in information society and
Democracy, Internet and non-governmental organisations

Two of the sessions are organized by the Finnish Library
Association:

In session n:o 8. Copyright and Public Access to
Information, the copyright lawyer of the Australian Council
for Library ans Information Services, Annabelle Herd, tells
why the WIPO Copyright Treaty is in Australia adopted in a
more favorable way for libraries than in Europe and in the
United States. There will also be a panel discussion with
Annabelle Herd, Frode Bakken from Norwegian Library
Association, Jukka Liedes from the Ministry of
Education/Finland, and Tarja Koskinen-Olsson from Kopiosto,
one of the Finnish collecting societies and Chair of
IInternational Federation of Reproduction Rights
Organisations' (IFRRO).

Session 9. Public libraries as open access points to
information and culture, will present two speakers. Marian
Koren from the NBLC/Holland will compare access to
information as a right of a human being and as a citizen
right. Matti Sarmela from the Helsinki City Library will
tell about common efforts of Finnish public libraries to
organize web documents.

The participant fee will raise on the 20th of November (1 ecu ~ 6 FIM, 1
US$ ~ 5,1 FIM):
BEFORE 20 NOVEMBER
* 1200 FIM presenters
* 1800 FIM delegates from Universities or Research Institutes
* 2800 FIM other delegates
* 1000 FIM accompanying persons

AFTER 20 NOVEMBER
* 2300 FIM presenters
* 2300 FIM delegates from Universities or Research Institutes
* 3500 FIM other delegates
* 1000 FIM accompanying persons

Intrested can ask me about hotels with reasonable prices
(tuulah@fla.fi).

More information about the conference is available on the
Internet: http://www.kolumbus.fi/pi99/index2.html

Tuula Haavisto,
member of the Organising Committee on behalf of the
Finnish Library Association

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Tuula Haavisto
CECUP Project Manager

e-mail tuulah@fla.fi                    c/o Virtual Office
mobile tel. +358 - 40 - 568 9396        Haemeentie 153 B
In Finland 040 - 568 9396               FIN-00560 Helsinki
faxes: +358 - 9 - 560 70 550            Finland
and 560 70 554



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