[Ecommerce] grade report on US policy due this Saturday

[Manon Ress]

Dear Colleagues,

Join us at the CPSR Public meeting at Georgetown University this
Saturday October 16,  9 to 5 pm 2004 to provide a grade report on Bush
Administration policies re:

Telecommunications, Internet, and Mass Media,
Electronic Commerce and Information Policy
Civil Liberties, Democracy, and Work
and Global Policy

Manon
PS
I'll just be grading US work at WIPO, The Hague and UNCITRAL...


Here's the description of the event:

"Experts from academia, civil society organizations, and the private
sector will analyze the administration's performance on a variety of ICT
issues and each give a "grade" on the merits. Later in the conference,
these grades will be aggregated and averaged in a "Report Card"---a big
picture overview of and cumulative final grade on current US policy. The
conference will conclude with an open discussion on how to advance a
public interest agenda that is suited to the current technological and
policy environment, and on the roles that CPSR and other progressive
advocacy organizations can play in such an effort. The conference
sessions will be interactive and offer ample opportunity for audience
members to weigh in with their views.

Participants include: Linda Garcia, Director, CCT Program, Georgetown
University, William Drake, President, CPSR,  Marjory Blumenthal,
Associate Provost, Georgetown University, Kathleen Wallman, CCT Program,
Georgetown University  (Telecommunications), Michael Calabrese, New
America Foundation (Spectrum management) , Jeff Chester, Center for
Digital Democracy (Internet, broadband)
Andrew Schwartzman, Media Access Project (Mass Media),
Moderator:  Brian Kahin, University of Michigan, Gigi Sohn, Public
Knowledge (Intellectual Property), Jim Dempsey, Center for Democracy and
Technology (Spam), Anthony Rutkowski, Verisign (IP-enabled services,
convergence), Elliot E. Maxwell  (Radio Frequency Identification=97RFID),
 Paul Hyland, CPSR, Marcia Hofmann, Electronic Privacy Information
Center (Privacy, Surveillance) , Lillie Coney Electronic Privacy
Information Center (voting technology) Nancy Brigham, CPSR (labor,
outsourcing),  David W. Maher, Public Interest Registry, Desiree
Miloshevic, CPSR (Internet Governance), Manon Ress, Consumer Project on
Technology, J.P. Singh, CCT Program, Georgetown University (WTO, digital
trade), Ernest Wilson IIIrd, U. Maryland (Developing countries),

http://cpsr.org/conferences/annmtg04/
--
Manon Anne Ress
Consumer Project on Technology
www.cptech.org
PO Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
manon.ress@cptech.org, voice: 1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176