Glenn Scott, assistant professor in the School of Communications, and Elon students Ashley Barnas and Craig Campbell are conducting a research project at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Ministerial meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy in Seoul, Korea, June 16-18.
The trio is gathering documentary footage and recording individual interviewswith foreign ministers, global business leaders, technical experts,representatives of civil society and academics in attendance at the OECDmeetings for Elon’s Imagining the Internet project
Confirmed speakers to date include:
• Ministers from most OECD countries and from others including Brazil, Estonia,India, Indonesia, Slovenia and South Africa; • Kevin Martin, chairman of theU.S. Federal Communications Commission; • Vivane Reding, European Commissionerfor Information Society and Media; • Paul Aiello, CEO, StarTV (NewsCorporation); • Naoyuki Akikusa, chairman, Fujitsu; • Mitchell Baker, chairman,Mozilla Foundation; • Jim Balsillie, co-CEO, Research In Motion (manufacturerof BlackBerry products); • Vint Cerf, vice president and chief internetevangelist, Google; • Barbara Dalibard, executive vice president OrangeBusiness Services and CEO Equant, France Telecom; • Professor Lawrence Lessig,Stanford Law School; • José María Alvarez Pallete, CEO, Telefonica LatinAmerica; • Josh Silverman, CEO, Skype; • Hamadoun Touré, secretary general,International Telecommunication Union; • Paul Twomey, president/CEO, ICANN; •Katsuaki Watanabe, president and representative director, Toyota.
Three stakeholder forums, organized respectively by business, the Internettechnical community and civil society will take place in Seoul June 16, the daybefore official ministerial meetings take place June 17 and 18.
The latest agenda is available at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/62/10/40506254.pdf
The OECD is an international organization for dozens of leading countries thataccept the principles of representative democracy and free-market economy. Itoriginated in 1948 to facilitate the administration of the Marshall Plan forthe reconstruction of Europe after World War II and moved into the niche it nowoccupies starting in the 1960s. It has evolved into an organization that allowsgovernments to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems,benchmark quality practices and coordinate domestic and international policies.
It is a forum in which peer pressure can serve as an incentive to improvepolicies and practices. Exchanges are coordinated through a secretariat basedin Paris. OECD collects data; monitors trends; researches social changes andevolving patterns in trade, environment, technology and other areas; andanalyzes and forecasts economic developments.
It has 200 committees, working groups and expert groups. Some 40,000 officialsfrom national administrations participate in some way annually in meetings,review and analysis of work undertaken by OECD’s secretariat.
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