European Forum on

Harmful and Illegal Cyber Content:

Self-Regulation, User Protection

and Media Competence

 

 

Strasbourg, 28 November 2001

Human Rights Building

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

 

 

 

Media Division

Directorate General of Human Rights

Council of Europe

Strasbourg


 

8h30                       Arrival and registration

 

 

9h30                       OPENING SESSION

 

                                Opening speech

Pierre-Henri Imbert, Director General of Human Rights,

Council of Europe

                               

Chair: Carolyn Morrison, Chairperson of the CDMM,[1]

Head of International Broadcasting,

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, London

 

                                The Council of Europe Recommendation on self-regulation concerning cyber content

                                Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Research Director,

Broadcasting Standards Commission, London

 

                                Keynote speech

                                Jean-François Abramatic, Chairman,

World Wide Web Consortium, Paris

 

 

11h00                    Coffee break

 

 

11h30                    WORKING GROUPS

 

GROUP 1:             Co-operative forms of regulating the Internet

 

Chair: Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, President,
Orientation Council, Forum on Internet Rights, Paris

 

Panellists:

Antonio Amendola, Assistant to the President,

Communications Agency, Naples, Italy

Markus Berni, Lawyer, Baker & McKenzie, Zurich

Ruth Dixon, Deputy Chief Executive,

Internet Watch Foundation, Oakington, UK

Sabine Frank, Secretary General, Voluntary Self-control

of Multimedia Service Providers, Berlin

 

 


 

GROUP 2:             User empowerment and media competence: Combining protection and education

 

                                Chair: Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

 

                                Panellists:

Parry Aftab, Executive Director, Cyberangels, New York

Jan d’Arcy, Co-Director, Media Awareness Network, Ottawa

John Carr, NCH Action for Children, London

Marc Knobel, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Paris
Friedemann Schindler, jugendschutz.net, Mainz, Germany

 

 

 

13h00                    Lunch break

 

 

14h30                    WORKING GROUPS (continued)

 

Discussion of possible future national initiatives by participants:

Hotlines, Internet industry associations, user associations, education and awareness.

 

 

15h30                    Coffee break

 

 

16h00                    CLOSING SESSION

 

                                Reports by the Chairpersons of the Working Groups

 

                                Discussion with all panellists

 

                                General report

                                Beth Simone Noveck, Director of International Programmes,

Information Society Project, Yale Law School

 

 

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18h00                    Reception at the Restaurant in the Human Rights Building

                                hosted by the Directorate General of Human Rights

 


 

 

 

 



[1] The intergovernmental Steering Committee on the Mass Media of the Council of Europe.