Dear all,
We, Japan Computer Access for Empowerment (JCAFE) are going to hold a
series of symposia in Tokyo, Sendai, Hiroshima, and Kobe from 11th to
19th October 2003, entitled 'Civil Society and the Internet, Twenty
Years of Networking and Future Prospects.'
At the first day of the symposia, we'll have WSIS Asian NGO conference.
We'd like to share information about the Prepcom-3 with Al, Mavic and Ms.
Jihee Kim from Jinbonet, and some activities in Japan, and discuss our
direction as Asian NGO community.
We are sorry for announcing so late, and being able to invite small
number of international guests.
Would you send your message about WSIS to us (taratta@jca.or.jp), or
this communication mailing list?
Programme outline is as follows, the details of which are on URL;
http://www.jcafe.net/english/sympo03/
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Program Overview on 11th
Experts Conferences will be held on October 11th and 12th. The contents
of the speakers’ presentations will cover a broad range of issues, but
we expect to concentrate upon the following subjects;
U.N World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Asian NGO Conference,
held on October 11th 2003.
・ Information Technology and Society.
・ General discussion regarding the Media.
・ Public Access.
・ Citizens’ Media.
・ Information Ethics.
・ Specialists’ Responsibility.
・ Disclosure of Information.
・ Privacy.
・ The Introduction of Information Technology to Public Administration.
・ Media Literacy.
Conference of Networking Specialists, held on October 12th 2003.
・ The Past Development of Networking.
・ Case Studies regarding the establishment of Networking in various fields.
・ Collaboration and Cooperation between various sectors.
・ The role of Information Networks.
・ The Prospects for Future Networking, with regard to the current
challenges
The schedule of speakers and the themes of their presentations are as yet
not fully finalized, but the current schedule is as follows;
U.N WSIS Asian NGO Conference (October 11th 2003).
Chairpersons:
-Alan G. Alegre.
-Tadahisa Hamada.
Speakers:
13:05
-Alan G. Alegre (Foundation for Media Alternatives，the Philippines).
13:25
-Mavic Cabrera-Balleza (ISIS International Manila).
(The above speakers will present what was discussed at WSIS PREPCOM-3 held
in September 2003).
13:45
-Tadakazu Fukutomi (Media-producer and journalist), “The Governments’
Monitoring of Society through the Application of Information Technology”.
The presentation will cover how systems, such as close-circuit cameras,
N-System, ITS, IC Cards, RFID, and Biometrics, are being introduced to
public administration to control the activities of citizens. The
presentation will also cover the international implications of such
technology, for instance the standardization of the Japan’s ITS technology
to align itself with the rest of the Asian region, inline with the
conditions of the COE Cyber-crime Treaty.
14:00
-Nobuo Sakiyama (Japan Chapter of Computer Specialists for Social
Responsibility (CPSR/Japan), “Cyber-crime Treaty and its Consequences to
Information Society: the Case of Japan”. (Japanese Government is
preparing bills which are necessary for the ratification of COE
Convention on Cybercrime. Japan is tring to become the first G8 state
which ratifies the treaty, and that ratification will have a strong
impact on other states. This presentation gives a brief explanation of
the bills and its consequences to civil society, from the point of a
computer professional.).
14:15
-Toru Nishimura, (Director of JCA-Net), discussing various issues and
affects, regarding the expansion of the use of IT within public
administration.
14:30
-Toshio Sugawara (Chair of JCA-Net), “NGO and NPO Inter-Community
Communications (ICC) Prospects”.
14:45
-Satoshi Fujino (Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center)
“Our Experience and Prospects regarding Grassroots-Networking in the
High-risk field” The presentation will discuss information divide in the
case of JOC’s criticality accident.
15:00 Intermission
15:10
-Adam Peake (Center for Global Communications, International University of
Japan(GLOCOM)), "Civil Society governance and participation"
15:25
-Paul Arenson, discussing “Tokyo Rising”, concerning ‘Indy Media Japan’
(a grassroots, public access news site, available in Japanese, started in
Seattle), and ‘Tokyo Progressive’ (internet news site available to foreign
citizens residing in Japan).
15:40
-Sang-Jip Kim(Postgraduate student, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate
School of Decision, Science and Technology) “Case Study discussing the
Development of Online Journalism Sites, focusing upon the Korean
‘ohmynews.com’ website”.
15:55
-Yasuyuki Matsumoto (Media-producer), “Voices of Iraqi people through
Citizens’ Media”. There were in place a number of media sources that
allowed Iraqi people’s voices, which the main stream of Japanese media
chose not to air, to be heard. We will discuss the role of such media
sources.
16:10
Discussion: Our direction as Asian NGO community
17:30 closing
Commentator:
-Katsura Hattori (Journalist, Asahi Shimbun)
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