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Organized by and held at Politecnico di Torino this event takes aim at the international debate about the "digital commons" and the complex relationship between technological innovation and today's mass usage of digital technologies.
The Workshop provides an opportunity for experts and innovators in digital technologies to meet with other stakeholders, opinion leaders, and policy makers in order to deepen and share their understanding of the role of technology in shaping the present and future of our digital commons.
After the opening plenary talk at 9:15 on "Technology, the law and the public domain" (by Rishab Ghosh, MERIT, University of Maastricht)
the workshop will continue for the entire day with three different topic sessions, addressing technology issues, software tools and formats, and infrastructure matters – all of them related to the development of the "digital commons" as a general mainframe, and the science commons in particular.
The list of confirmed speakers include Keith Jeffery (Current Research
Information Systems), Juan Carlos De Martin (COMMUNIA Coordinator),
Robert Horvitz (Open Spectrum Foundation), Philippe Aigrain (Society for Public Information Spaces), Andrea Glorioso (NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society).
A wrap-up session and closing discussion is scheduled at 16:00.
The workshop will take place in Torino (Italy), at the Aula Magna of the Politecnico of Torino at the Lingotto (Via Nizza 230).
Admission is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required.
More information and program details: http://ws1-2008.communia-project.eu
Pre-registration: http://ws1-2008.communia-project.eu/phorm/reg-form.html
Media inquiries: =========
About COMMUNIA
The COMMUNIA Thematic Network aims at becoming a European point of reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment - as well as related topics, including, but not limited to, alternative forms of licensing for creative material;
open access to scientific publications and research results;
management of works whose authors are unknown (i.e. orphan works).
Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus framework, the 3-years long project expects to provide policy guidelines that will help each stakeholder involved - public and private, from the local to the European and global level.
COMMUNIA also plans to build strategic relationships with other non-European countries (starting with the United States and Brazil, where two COMMUNIA members are located) in which similar policy discussions are currently underway.
Website:
Media contact: –
Andrea Glorioso Graduate Researcher, Politecnico di Torino
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Internet Media Group
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino (TO) - Italy
T: +39-011-564-7188 M: +32-488-409-055 F: +39-011-564-7198
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