Participative Web : oecd-pw-opening

Photo: Suzanne Huttner

Kieren Mccarthy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:22:00 GMT

Suzanne Huttner, Director of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate. During the first session.

Photo: Michael Binder

Kieren Mccarthy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:09:00 GMT

Michael Binder: Assistant Deputy Minister of Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, in Industry Canada. Taken during the opening session.

Michael Binder and Suzanne Huttner, Director of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate

Virtual worlds as jurisdictions

Richard Akerman — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:59:00 GMT

There was a question from an EPIC representative.
He said they have just released their latest report, Privacy and Human Rights 2006
(it was released at a Montreal conference on privacy last month).

For the first time (perhaps the first time ever for a major international report),
they included Second Life as a jurisdiction that they reported on.

Ginsu Yoon of Second Life responded that we have to recognise that companies have a
real physical presence as well, they have servers and employees in the United States,
subject to US law.

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Speaking personally, I think there is a big challenge in figuring out how to deal with
the intersection between the local physical reality and legal frameworks, and the global
differences in cultures and laws.

Earlier in the session, John Oxley had remarked that the world is getting bigger from a
government perspective while at the same time it gets smaller from an individual perspective

Opening remarks

Kieren Mccarthy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:45:00 GMT

So, the conference has opened with the Canadian government’s Michael Binder reflecting on a meeting that happened 10 years ago in this very room.

It was an OECD ministerial meeting about e-commerce, how this new network was going to allow for new business models. “Some of us believe that meeting started the Net revolution,” Binder said. Whether that is true or not, it does reveal the importance and impact that these OECD meetings have and seriously they are taken by the world's governments and economies.

Binder quoted the companies that are in everyone’s minds today – Google, eBay, YouTube, Second Life – and pointed out that 10 years ago these companies simply didn’t exist or were little more than pipe dreams. But not only are these companies now household names but they represent just the frontrunners of a whole new electronic economy. The panellists at the meeting are, Binder explained, “representative of vastness and variety of Internet economy today.”

He closed his opening comments by saying he was looking to forward to “lively discussion and policy debate”.

OECD perspective

This line of thinking was picked up Susanne Hutter of the OECD who explained this was her first meeting representing the organisation.

She also referred back to the OECD ministerial meeting in Ottawa in 1998 that “set the ball rolling”, and pressed home that Amazon, Google and eBay were nothing but fledgling start-ups.

These companies have created “entirely new ways of doing business”, she argued, and have produced the “foundations for markets that are still expanding and changing”. This “fast-paced, changeable and unpredictable” marketplace is precisely the reason she joined the OECD, Huttner explained.

The meeting was about the OECD “ stepping up to the plate” she said using an American baseball analogy, and the meeting and the Seoul ministerial meeting next year is a way to “check course” on these Internet markets.

Brief examples she gave were the way that individuals are changing journalism, and the way new tools are changing the way we have political dialogue. “One of the challenges,” she explained, “is how balance governing efficiently and fairly with the remarkable opportunities these technologies present – and how quickly they change and how unpredictably they change.”

And with that, the conference opens proper.

The transcript of this opening period is now available online here

opening - looking back and looking forward

Richard Akerman — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:26:00 GMT

The opening remarks looked back to the 1998 OECD Ministerial Conference on Electronic Commerce, which was also held in Ottawa. In just that past stretch of roughly ten years, we have come a long way, Google searching and Internet transactions have become common. Given the great progress we have made in the past 10 years, what will the next 10 hold?

Side note: in addition to the live webcast, there will be a delayed transcript available within hours of the presentations. Accordingly, I see my blogging role as more analytical and reflective, as well as in providing links to relevant content elsewhere on the web.

Opening: Welcoming Remarks and Introduction

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:44:00 GMT

9.00-9.20

TK: 10pm
PA: 3pm
NY: 9am
LA: 6am

Michael Binder, Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Industry Canada
Suzanne Huttner, Director, Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
John Oxley (Facilitator), Vice President, Canada's Association of Information Technology Professionals

Click here for a rundown of all blog posts covering this session.

TK	PA	NY	LA
Tokyo	Paris	New York	Los Angeles

Michael Binder

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:37:00 GMT

Michael Binder: Throughout his extensive career in the federal public service, Michael Binder has held senior positions in the former Department of Communications, the Office of the Comptroller General of Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Ministry of State for Urban Affairs and the Defense Research Board.

The Assistant Deputy Minister of Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, in Industry Canada, Michael Binder has been overseeing Canada’s transition to a network economy by promoting the development and use of world class information and communications technologies for the economic, social and cultural benefit of all Canadians.

Mr. Binder holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Alberta.

Susanne Lee Huttner

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:01:00 GMT

Susanne Lee Huttner is Director of the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, overseeing the work of the Information, Computer and Communications Policy Division. She brings over twenty years of experience in the fields of science and engineering research initiatives and of industry-university research partnership for economic development. This included major initiatives in IT and networking. She most recently was Associate Vice-Provost for Major Research Initiatives and Industry Partnerships in the University of California Office of the President, where she worked since 2001.

Over the past decade, she has been responsible for the California Institutes for Science and Innovation and the Industry-University Cooperative Research Programme, which engage R&D companies and represent a large joint research investment portfolio in high tech and bioscience fields. Ms. Huttner holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, a PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA, and a University of California Management Institute certificate.

John Oxley

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:42:00 GMT

John Oxley is Vice President, Canada's Association of Information Technology Professionals. John is also Director Community Evangelism, Microsoft Canada. As the Director of community evangelism, John manages a team of community advisors that reach out and connect with the IT community. Joining Microsoft in 2000 he spent his first 5 years in the Microsoft Consulting Services group delivering enterprise solutions to many large and medium organizations. John has been a consultant and manager for over 12 years working with many professional services companies.

Previous to that, John’s spent many years in the Canadian Air force in technical and leadership roles which have taken him across Canada and around the world. His varied technical experiences have given him a unique insight and fuelled his passion for the IT Industry and community. Technology is not only a career for John, it is a passion and a way leverage his experiences to reach out and support the community.

John, wife and two kids can attest that he is a geek at heart as he is always bringing home some sort of new technology gadget. There is no bounds and no matter if it is the latest software or hardware from Enterprise application, home automation to cool geek device, John will seek it out and share his experiences with other.

Snapshot: What is the conference rundown?

Kieren Mccarthy — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:03:00 GMT

This is cut-down version of the full agenda. You can download the full agenda as a pdf here, or use the links below to learn more about each sessions and those taking part in it.

The conference runs from 9am to 6pm. It is based in Ottawa, Canada, so in terms of time that is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) which is currently GMT -4 hours. See here for a time rundown according to different cities of the world.

The conference comprises five main sessions - three split into two different stream - running for 80 minutes each and with a five-minute conclusion at the end:

Participative Web conference agenda
Time	Event	People
9.00-9.20 TK: 10pm PA: 3pm NY: 9am LA: 6am	OPENING	Michael Binder Suzanne Huttner John Oxley (Facilitator)
9.20-10.50	The Future of the Participative Web	John Lettice (Chair) Jonathan Taplin Cyrus Beagley Ginsu Yoon Michael Gill
10.50-11.10	Coffee break
11.10-12.30	Creativity and the Internet Economy	Stream A	Stream B
TK: 12.10am PA: 4.10pm NY: 11.10am LA: 8.10am	Stream A: Business 2.0 and innovation Stream B: Research 2.0 - eScience and new ways of interaction	David Crane (chair) Bob Young Anthony Williams Paul Misener Daniel Bretonès Shenja van der Graaf	Walter Stewart (chair) Andrew Herbert Bill St. Arnaud Mario Campolargo Diana Rhoten
12.30-13.45	Lunch	Robert Sutor
13.45-15.05	Creativity and the Internet Economy	Stream A	Stream B
TK: 2.45am PA: 7.45pm NY: 1.45pm LA: 10.45am	Stream A: User-created content: What are the impacts? Stream B: Government 2.0 - Engaging citizens	Michael Leblanc (Chair) Jungwook Lim Andres Monroy-Hernandez Jennifer Corriero Manon Ress	Ellen Miller (Chair) Don Lenihan Alejandro Hernandez Pulido Wolfgang Blau Quitterie Delmas
15.05-16.25	Confidence and Competition in the Internet Economy	Stream A	Stream B
TK: 4.05am PA: 9.05pm NY: 3.05pm LA: 12.05pm	Stream A: Creation, access and competition Stream B: Confidence, privacy and security	William New (Chair) Kiyoshi Mori Urs Gasser Anne Bucher Martin Senftleben	Hugh Stevenson (Chair) Gary Davis Chris Kelly Jennifer Mardosz John Lawford
16.25-16.45	Coffee break
16.45-17.55 TK: 5.45am PA: 10.45pm NY: 4.45pm LA: 1.45pm	Policy Roundtable: Opportunities and Challenges for Policy	Michael Geist (Chair) Sangwon Ko Marc Rotenberg Daniela Battisti Joseph Alhadeff Keith Besgrove Neil Anderson
17.55-18.00	CONCLUSIONS and Priority-Setting for the OECD	Richard Simpson

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