Past Events
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Electronic Government at the American Grassroots
Date: Monday 9 June 2003
Speakers: Professor Donald Norris
Data is presented from two nationwide surveys of US local governments (2000 and 2002) and focus groups of local government CIOs and top administrative officials from 37 US city and county governments to examine the adoption of e-government in the US.
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If we build it, will they come? The Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure Development
Date: Thursday 1 May 2003
Speakers: Thomas A. Finholt
Summary to come.
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The Internet and Democracy – From Digital Divide to Discursive Design
Date: Wednesday 30 April 2003
Speakers: Dr Nick Couldry
Summary to come.
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Bringing Home the Bits: A Consideration of Broadband Deployment in the US
Date: Thursday 27 March 2003
Speakers: Dr David Clark, Robert Pepper, Ed Richards
There are many perspectives on the state of broadband deployment - is it a success, a failure, a hotbed for a new generation of monopolist, a societal imperative, or a product that has not yet proved it value to the consumer? Is it all of the above?
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The Internet – Still Wide Open and Competitive?
Date: Friday 21 March 2003
Speakers: Professor Eli Noam
For years now, the Internet seemed to be open, free, and competitive. But now, in the wake of the Internet's bursting bubble the reality of that competitiveness deserves a second look.
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E-Democracy and the Digital Divide: Perspectives on Belarus, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
Date: Wednesday 19 March 2003
Speakers: Munira Aminova, Julian Boev, Anna Brzozowska, Andrei Marusov
Summary to come.
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Digital Rights Management – Speed Bumps to keep People Honest
Date: Tuesday 11 March 2003
Speakers: Peter Davies
This seminar reviews the current state of the arguments in Europe and the United States over Digital Rights Management, and proposes areas where further research might assist in their resolution.
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Information Warfare in an Age of Globalisation
Date: Tuesday 4 March 2003
Speakers: Professor Frank Webster
War is changing, increasingly being what one might call Information War (for those most able to wage it), by which is broadly meant saturation with ICTs, plus a special concern for the media.
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Broadband Forum
Date: Saturday 1 March 2003
Speakers: Professor William H. Dutton
Summary to come.
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E-voting and Beyond
Date: Tuesday 25 February 2003
Speakers: Professor Stephen Coleman
Stephen Coleman examines the arguments for and against Internet- and other e-voting proposals alongside the evidence from recent e-voting pilots.
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Online Piracy: Warez the harm?
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2003
Speakers: Peter Davies
This seminar will attempt to describe the main features of the Warez marketplace, and will review some of the steps used by the rightholder and Internet Service Provider communities to respond to it.
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Politics of Code: Shaping the Future of the Next Internet
Date: Thursday 6 February 2003
Speakers: Professor William H. Dutton
Summary to come.
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Connecting Parliament to the People Online: the case of the UK Parliament’s e-consultations
Date: Tuesday 28 January 2003
Speakers: Professor Stephen Coleman
Stephen Coleman will consider ways in which the UK Parliament has used the Internet to involve the public in its work. He will consider the extent to which ICTs can contribute to reconnections between representatives and the represented.
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Preserving the Future
Date: Wednesday 22 January 2003
Speakers: Dr Christine Finn
Christine Finn's most recent book 'Artifacts: An Archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley' brings the perspectives of the past and the future to the story of Silicon Valley's present material culture.
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Casting a Wider Net: Integrating Research and Policy on the Social Impacts of the Internet
Date: Sunday 27 October 2002
Speakers: Professor William H. Dutton
The Oxford Internet Institute's launch conference.