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Photos: Session hall
Monday, October 08, 2007 11:40 AM
The striking architecture of the Government Conference Center The building used to be Ottawa's train station, situated close to Parliament and on the banks of the Rideau Canal. A question from the floor during the participative web conference. Read More...
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Photo: Fifth session
Monday, October 08, 2007 11:38 AM
Michael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa Read More...
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Photo: Fourth session, stream A
Monday, October 08, 2007 11:35 AM
Chair William New, Editor-in-Chief of Intellectual Property Watch Read More...
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Photos: First session
Monday, October 08, 2007 11:25 AM
Chair John Lettice, Editorial Director of The Register Ginsu Yoon, Vice President, Business Affairs for Linden Lab Michael Gill, Chief Executive Officer, Fairfax Business Media Read More...
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Photo: Suzanne Huttner
Monday, October 08, 2007 11:22 AM
Suzanne Huttner, Director of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate. During the first session. Read More...
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photos
Sunday, October 07, 2007 9:50 AM
Above: Ginsu Yoon talking about Second Life Andrew Herbert (at podium, left) of Microsoft Research Cambridge, presenting in the "Research 2.0" stream Diana Rhoten (at podium, left) of US NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure, presenting in "Research 2.0" stream Mozelle Thompson (on the left) presenting about privacy, including Facebook privacy... Read More...
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Broad summary of the conference
Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:59 AM
There was an enormous amount of information and debate during the ten sessions at the conference yesterday. Despite our best efforts as bloggers, we were only able to cover a few threads. So, in an attempt to provide a more overarching and objective summary of the day's events, several of the OECD staff have put together a few points to act as an unofficial... Read More...
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in the news
Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:00 AM
Ottawa Citizen - October 4, 2007 - Officials grapple with ever-evolving Internet Top executives and government officials from around the world met in Ottawa yesterday to grapple with the issues of an ever-growing, ever-shifting Internet. From online piracy to questions of how to divide the advertising revenue bonanza, the bureaucrats and representatives of such... Read More...
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Creation, access and competition? How about legislation?
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 5:14 PM
The last split session of the day purported to cover “creation, access and competition” but the real subject took only just minutes to arrive and it was: intellectual property rights. Chair William New from Intellectual Property Watch argued that “a topic doesn’t really exist until the OECD holds a conference on it”. But Kiyoshi Mori from the Japanese government... Read More...
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Content: it's like rock n' roll
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 3:13 PM
The first session of the afternoon (stream A) covered the issue of user-created content i.e. what people stick up on the Internet. What became clear was that this subject – like music – produces a generational split. On the one side, you have the younger generation: excited about the new possibilities, dismissing concerns as people not "getting it"... Read More...
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