2003

World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva (Dec 2003)
The focus of the Information Society Summit is not
technical but related to the advent of a globalised society in which the
emancipation of the human being is in part related to the possibilities
of communication and exchange of information. To be interconnected is
not enough in order to resolve the fundamental problems of the world today.

• What values do we embrace to ensure that the Information Society becomes a vehicle for democracy, justice, equality, the respect for the rights of individuals and cultures? How can the information society help social development, the emancipation of the individual and collective prosperity?

• What is the role of communication in shaping the future of the society we want to build?

• How to value the differences between cultures together with building a united global society?

• How to give each culture the space and vision necessary in order to be involved in the collective dynamic of change?

Information Technology Standards Conference , The Stanhope Centre in collaboration with the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute and the Markle Foundation hosts a two-day extensive roundtable on the design process of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), and its impact on the various layers of society.

The conference is part of a larger project that seeks a new vocabulary for standard setting and aims to identify ways in which public interest concerns in the standards-setting process can be addresses; exploring barriers for participation in the design and standard processes and seeking strategies to ensure greater transparency & inclusiveness. For more information, see the Conference Report.

Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, Washington DC (Sept 2003) 
The TPRC is an annual forum for scholars engaged in publishable research on policy-relevant telecommunications and information issues, and for public- and private-sector decision makers engaged in telecommunications and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policy makers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policy makers.

The Bellagio Conference , Bellagio, Italy (March 2003)
On March 3-7, 2003 the Rockefeller sponsored a Workshop on Public Values, System Design and the Public Domain. Scholars and practitioners from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States gathered in Bellagio, Italy to work on issues of critical importance in the promotion of public values in the design and implementation the Internet.

2002

Public Design Workshop , New York, NY (2002)
A workshop on Public Design was held on September 13-14, 2002, at the NYU Law School, dedicated to the pragmatic challenge of shaping computer and information systems to reflect public values.