Shaping Policies for Creativity, Confidence and Convergence in the Digital World


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Some confirmed speakers:

Mr. Angel GURRÍA Secretary-General
OECD
Mr. See Joong CHOI, Chairman, Korea Communications Commission Mr. Katsuaki WATANABE, President and Representative Director, Toyota Ms. Viviane REDING, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, EC Mr. Vint CERF, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Mr. Waldemar PAWLAK, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister, Ministry of Economy, Poland

Mr. Subramanian 
RAMADORAI
, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services

and Chair of ICC'sBASIS Initiative (Business Action to Support the Information Society)

Ms. Mitchell BAKER, Chairman, Mozilla Foundation Mr. Kevin MARTIN, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission Mr. Jim PRENTICE, Minister, Ministry of Industry, Canada

 

Forty Ministers have confirmed they will attend the Ministerial, along with leaders from International Government Organisations, Business, Organised Labour, the Internet’s technical Community and Civil Society [more]

About the meeting (download a leaflet / watch the video)

The Internet is a key infrastructure for global economic growth and social development. Three major trends – Convergence, Creativity and Confidence – are influencing the policy environment for the Internet Economy. Each of these trends reflects significant shifts in the use and functionality of the Internet. Collectively, they represent a major transition in the evolution of the Internet and the economic system that has developed around it. Therefore, it has become increasingly necessary that policies supporting the Internet Economy be carefully crafted and co-ordinated across policy domains, borders and multiple stakeholder communities.

Ministers and stakeholders meeting on 17-18 June 2008 in Seoul will consider social, economic and technological trends shaping the development of the Internet Economy. They will forge broad principles that can provide an enabling policy environment for the Internet Economy.

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