Internet Commons Congress 2004

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

8.00 am - 8.50 am  Registration  8.50 - 9.00  Welcome, Daniel Berninger, ICC Host  9.00 - 9.30  John Perry Barlow, co-founder EFF Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (link) 9.30 - 10.30  Session One: The rise of unlicensed spectrum Harold Feld, associate director, Media Access Project  Stuart Gannes, director, Stanford Digital Vision Project  Tim Pozar, co-founder, Bay Area Wireless User Group Kevin Werbach, CEO, Supernova Group Panelists will share their vision for unlicensed wireless in making Internet access low cost and ubiquitous 10.30 - 11.30  Session Two: Broadband & bridging first mile disconnects Dave Burstein, editor, DSLPrime Bruce Kushnick, president,New Networks Institute Terry McGarty, CEO, Merton Group Phil Shapiro, moderator, DC Non-Profit Tech The 90's ended with surplus and high performance capacity in the middle of the Internet and in the edge local area networks. The challenge of bridging local access bottlenecks dominated by cable and telecom monopolists remains. 11.30 - 12.30  Session Three: Internet architecture, governance, IPV6, DNS, and open access Jeff Chester,executive director, Center for Digital Democracy Bob Frankston, entrepreneur,Frankston Innovating Andrew Odlyzko,professor,University Minnesota Ian Peter, founder, Association for Progressive Communications The panelists will address the forces associated with efforts alter the basic nature of the Internet for better or worse as regards the Internet as a commons as well as issues like the Internet tax moratoriums. 12.30 - 1.30 Lunch 1.30 - 2.00  Daniel Sieberg, technology reporter, CNN Internet and freedom of the press  2:00 - 3:00  Session Four: Internet communications, VoIP, and the telephone monopolies Dwayne Goldsmith,CEO, Inflexion Communications Lior Haramaty,co-founder,VocalTec Communications (invited) Jim Kohlenberger,former ,White House communications policy advisor Scott Petrack,CTO, edial (invited) Discuss progress and prospects for Internet communication applications to displace telecom monopolies. 3:00 - 3:15  ICC Roundtable - Introduction - Information freedom and the ubiquity of the Internet, computers, and code Richard Stallman, founder, GNU Project Conversation with Richard Stallman in Boston via remote hook up 3:15 - 5:00  ICC Roundtable Part One: Issues - Information freedom and the ubiquity of the Internet, computers, and code     Ann Bartow, professor, USC Law Center     Julie Cohen, professor, Georgetown Law     David Chaum, founder, DigiCash     Laura Creighton, co-founder, AB Strakt     Seth Finkelstein, activist, Infothought blog     Seth Johnson, activist, There is no spoon     Jon Lebkowsky, president, EFF-Austin     Fred von Lohmann, staff attorney, EFF     Jamie Love, exec director, CPTech     Anthony McCann, lecturer ethnomusicology, UC Santa Barbara     Jay Sulzberger, director, NYFair Use (demo) A Palladiated Computer  A open discuss of information freedom issues with short presentations and audience participation. Issues - VoIP, broadcast flag, Palladium and TCPA, database data, software patents, DMCA, EU IP enforcement directive, shared knowledge/scientific research, reverse engineering, digital exclusive rights, diebold/electronic voting, site finder, SCO vs. IBM, webcasting, privacy, anonymity, PATROIT Act, CAPPS II, Total Information Awarness, FTAA, RFID, computer security, encryption, ICANN/Internet governance, national ID, UCITA, Bayh-Dole, censorship, and censorware. 5.00 - 5.30  Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com Report from a serial entrepreneur

Thursday, March 25, 2004

8.00 am - 9.00 am  Registration 9.00 - 9.30  Larry Irving, President, Irving Information Group 9.30 - 10.30  Session Five: The push to trade freedom and privacy for security Chris Hoofnagle, assoc director, EPIC Declan McCullagh, Washington DC correspondent, CNET Brett Wynkoop, president, Wynn Data The global war on terrorism increasingly targets the Internet as a venue for open communication. 10.30 - 11.30  Session Six: Digital Democracy  William Finkel, outreach manager, meetup.com  Nelson Pavlosky, founder, Swarthmore Coalition for Digital Commons Eric Hensal, Group360 Nicco Mele, webmaster, DeanforAmerica(invited) Panel covers e-voting, engaging and organizing voters via the Internet 11.30 - 12.30  Session Seven: The Internet Commons and Media Concentration Mark Cooper, director research, Consumer Fed of America John Mitchell, principal, InteractionLaw.com Manon Ress, research associate, CPTech Alan Bushnell,technical advisor , DC Indymedia Panel covers indymedia, campaigns fighting FCC media concentration, internet radio, blogging, etc. 12.30 - 1.30 Lunch 1.30 - 2.00  Bob Kahn, president, CNRI Back to the future of the net  2.00 - 3.00  Session Eight: Open scholarship, texts, journals, knowledge centers Anatoly Volynets, board member, Open Studios Sonia Schmitt, educational specialist, World Bank Laurie Racine, president, Center for the Public Domain Fred Stutzman, director of technology, ibiblio.org Panel covers the Internet as a platform allowing users to become producers of information and knowledge. 3:00 - 5:00  ICC Roundtable Part Two: Projects - Information freedom and the ubiquity of the Internet, computers, and code     Eric Blossom, founder, GNURadio     Norbert Bollow, founder, DotGNU     Robert Dewar, president, ADA Core Technologies     Lucas Gonze, software developer, WebJay     Robin Gross, founder, IP Justice     Adam Kosmin, founder, WindowsRefund.net     Shireen Mitchell, founder, Digital Sisters     Drew Streib, founder, SourceForge     David Sugar, software developer, Bayonne GNU     Pete Tri Dish, radio activist, Prometheus Radio Project     Serge Wroclawski, founder, DC-Free Follow up Part One ICC Roundtable issues discussion with presentations and discussion about current information freedom projects. 5.00 - 5.30  Michael Capellas, CEO, MCI (invited) A vision of communication in the 21st century