[huridocs-tech] ICT Policy Training Programme (Budapest, 17-29 August 2003)

Dear colleagues,

I hope the following information will be useful.

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2003 ICT POLICY TRAINING PROGRAMME - BUDAPEST
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For public interest advocates from Central, Eastern and Southeastern
Europe

17-29 August 2003

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organised by The Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research
in co-operation with The Open Society Institute and The Markle Foundation

With a special emphasis on public interest advocacy, this ten-day programme
on information and communications technologies (ICT) policy offers
participants the chance to engage in the global ICT policy debate from a
European perspective, with sessions taught by European and international
experts.

The 25 selected participants will receive a full-tuition fellowship to
cover the cost of the training programme, travel to and from Budapest, and room
and board.

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Contents

1. The Programme
2. Who Can Apply
3. The Organisers
4. How to Apply
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1. THE PROGRAMME
During this ten-day programme participants will learn to build skills in 
developing and advocating ICT policy in their home countries and the region.
The programme has a focus on European policies, and a comparative approach 
to assessing national, regional and global policy agendas is central to the 
curriculum. Issues dealt with include ICT infrastructure (telecom
liberalisation and spectrum management/wireless), civil liberties (privacy 
and freedom of expression), and intellectual property - all in the context 
of how decisions are made and how public interest advocates can
participate in policy making processes.

For further information about the training programme please visit 
www.stanhopecentre.org/ict

2. WHO CAN APPLY
In selecting applicants, the selection committee will look for participants 
with a legal background and/or basic understanding of ICT policy issues.
Applications are sought from advanced law students, practising lawyers, and 
other individuals who show a strong demonstrable interest in public 
interest advocacy of the ICT sector.  Preference will be given to applicants
representing civil society and academia.

Applicants must convey how their background (academic and professional) 
relates to ICT policy advocacy and why they want to receive policy training 
in this sector. Applications will be judged on how applicants convey their
motivation, future plans, and overall interest in ICT policy advocacy.

Applicants considered will be from: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, 
Slovakia, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Albania, 
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova,
Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Turkey. The organisers are 
willing to admit a few exceptionally strong candidates from Central Asia 
and the Caucasus.

3. THE ORGANISERS
The 2003 ICT Policy Training Programme builds on a summer school in 2002
at Oxford University (at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy)
for media lawyers and law professionals in the Balkans and southern Caucasus.
The organiser of the 2003 Training Programme will be the Stanhope Centre 
for Communications Policy Research through its Hungarian Office, located at 
Budapest's Eötvös Lorand University, in conjunction with the Markle
Foundation and the Open Society Institute.

4. HOW TO APPLY
For the application form go to www.stanhopecentre.org/ict
Applications are due by 16 June 2003, and should be sent via email to:

Susan Abbott,
Research and Programme Co-ordinator,
Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research,
sabbott@stanhopecentre.org.

Applicants will be notified of their acceptance on/around 1 July 2003.
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Sincerely yours,
Olesya Arkhypska
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Information Programs Director
International Renaissance Foundation
phone: (+380) (44) 461-9709
fax: (+380) (44) 216-7629
e-mail: arkhypska@irf.kiev.ua
web-page: http://www.irf.kiev.ua
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The mission of the programs' area is to ensure support
for policy shaping, dissemination of knowledge and
communication resorces, to provide access to information
demonstrating examples and initiatives of information
and communication technologies application with the intention
to strengthen civil society and to facilitate economic
development of Ukraine.
  


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