CoE European Forum on Harmful and Illegal Cyber Content, Strasbourg, 28 November 2001

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE       CONSEIL DE L'EUROPE


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, 
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 Director General of Human Rights

 
The Ministers participating in the 6th European Ministerial
Conference
on Mass Media Policy, which was held in Cracow on 15-16 June 2000,
agreed in their Declaration on "a media policy for tomorrow" that the
human and democratic dimension of communication should be at the core
of the intergovernmental activities of the Council of Europe in the
media field, focusing around four essential axes: (1) the balance
between freedom of expression and information and other rights and
legitimate interests, (2) pluralism of media services and content,
(3)
the promotion of social cohesion, and (4) the adaptation of the
regulatory framework for the media in the light of the ongoing
changes. 

Through the organisation of this Forum, the Steering Committee on the
Mass Media of the Council of Europe aims to provide an operational
follow-up to its work towards a Recommendation on self-regulation
concerning cyber-content, take stock of existing experiences and
initiatives at European and international level as regards self-
regulation and co-regulation, bring together different actors in the
field with a view to initiating partnerships and co-operation, and
identify the needs for possible further initiatives in this area. 

All panel reports, further information and contact details of self-
regulatory initiatives will be published on the Web site of the
Forum:


www.coe.int/cyberforum/


Registrations and questions concerning the Forum or the work of the
Council of Europe in the media field can be addressed to:

Mr Pall Thorhallsson	Tel.: (+33) 3 88 41 23 29
Mr Rüdiger Dossow	Tel.: (+33) 3 88 41 28 59
Media Division, DG II - Human Rights	Fax: (+33) 3 88 41 27 05
Council of Europe	E-mail: media@coe.int 
F - 67075 Strasbourg	http://www.humanrights.coe.int/media


The Forum will be held at:
Council of Europe, Human Rights Building, Press Room and Room of the
Directorate General, Quai Ernest Bevin / Rue Boecklin, Strasbourg,
France

Hotel and transport information is available via the web site of
Strasbourg:
http://www.strasbourg.com



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