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| Third UNESCO Congress on Ethical, Legal and
Societal Challenges of Cyberspace
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| Curricula vitae |
Vigdís FINNBOGADOTTIR (President)
(Iceland)
H. E. Mrs Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is the Chairperson of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). Former President of Iceland, she was the first woman in the world to be elected Head of State and fulfilled four terms from 1980 to 1996 when she decided not to stand again. She was Director of the Reykjavik Theatre Company and later the City Theatre for eight years. She was Chair of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Affairs in Nordic Countries (1976-1980). She is founder, member and patron of the "Save the Children" Association in Iceland. She was awarded the honorary distinction of Chancelier des Universités de Paris (France, 1983) and has received very many honorary doctorates from Universities in Canada, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States of America. On leaving office she was made an honorary member of the Women’s Rights Association in Iceland. She has represented the Nordic countries in various important events called "Scandinavia Today". Chair of the newly founded Council of Women World Leaders in 1996, she received special recognition from the Icelandic Language Foundation and in 1997 the Jakob Letterstedts Award for introducing Nordic Cultural Heritage outside its boundaries and the Clara Lachmann-Prize. In 1997 she was awarded the Ceres Gold Medal by the FAO and in 1998 the Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka Prize. UNESCO Goodwill-Ambassador for Languages since 1998, she has been nominated, in December 1999, by Mr Kofi Annan, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the World Conference against Racism, Xenophobia, other Forms of Intolerance. In 1999, she has been asked by the Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) to be member of the advisory panel in charge of examining and redefining the basic concepts of the International Leadership Academy (UNU/ILA).
David KONZEVIK
(Mexico)
President and Chief Executive Officer of KONZEVIK Y ASOCIADOS, an international firm specializing in lectures and consulting on strategies for globalization, economics, finance, and human resources for leading companies throughout the world, Mr Konzenik is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and conventions focusing on the impact of globalization on business, economics, politics and education. He is a faculty member of universities in several countries. He was the economic advisor to the former Economics Minister in Argentina. He was a guest of honour of several governments and was invited in 1999 to participate in the Aspen Institute roundtable on « Ecologies for innovation : the role of information and communication technologies. With a 25 years experience as a professional speaker he authored many theses of which the topic of his talk today « The expectations revolution » is one.
Elizabeth LONGWORTH (moderator)
(New Zealand)
Elizabeth Longworth, as the Principal of Longworth Associates in New Zealand, is a specialist adviser (both legal and policy) on information issues such as privacy or data protection, infoethics, consumer rights, security, access to information and transborder data flows, and the global information infrastructure. She also advises on the legal and ethical implications of new technologies, including global networks, information technology, electronic commerce, electronic banking, international trade finance and telecommunications. Elizabeth is the author of the leading text on New Zealand's privacy laws. Her international privacy consultancy includes assignments in Australia, Hong Kong and Canada. She is an adviser to the New Zealand Law Commission on its computer misuse and electronic commerce projects. She chaired the electronic commerce session at the 1999 APEC Women Leaders Meeting. Elizabeth is the Independent Chair of the New Zealand telecommunication industry's self-regulatory body on number administration. She has also worked with: APEC (NZ) working groups on electronic commerce; the New Zealand Law Society as a facilitator and presenter on Law and the Internet, and on Privacy; New Zealand Librarians on public domain and access issues; the International Standards Organisation, as a Consumer Policy representative; Standards New Zealand, as a member of Computer Security Committee; the European Union Telecommunications Data Protection Working Group; and the Australasian and USA (CDR and Harvard) dispute resolution programmes. She has just completed (December 1999) a report for the OECD on global contractual solutions and on-line dispute resolution mechanisms for transborder data flows.
Thomas B. RILEY
(Canada)
Thomas B. Riley is the owner of Riley Information Services Inc., a company he established in Toronto in 1983. Thomas B. Riley is a Visiting Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Glasgow. As a consultant and advisor, he specializes in national and international information technology policy development, particularly as they relate to questions concerning freedom of information, privacy, and democratization. Most recently he was an advisor to the Hong Kong government for the development of their Access to Information Code, and to the South African Task Force on Open Democracy. Thomas B. Riley is the author of a government and private sector study entitled Living in the Electronic Village: The Impact of Information Technology in a Changing World, an international comparative analysis and social commentary on how Asia, North America and Europe have approached the implementation of information and communications technologies.
George PAPAPAVLOU
(European Union)
Principal administrator of the Commission of the E.C., head of the unit ‘Internet-related services’ of DG Information Society. Responsibilities include Internet naming and addressing, intellectual property, access to public sector information, legal consequences of telecommunications, audiovisual and information technology convergence, personal data protection, computer crime, proof and liability issues. Representing the Commission as speaker in international fora ( e.g. G-8, Council of Europe, O.E.C.D., UNESCO, International Chamber of Commerce). Co-author of the Directive proposal on the protection of personal data (now Directive 95/46/EC) and the Communication on management of the Internet (March 2000). Author of the Green Paper on public sector information (January 1999).
Ekaterina U. GENIEVA
(Russian Federation)
Ekaterina Genieva is the Director General of All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature. She received her Ph.D. in Philology from Moscow State University. Her public activities include membership in various foundations and societies. She is Vice president of the Russian Federation of Library Associations; she is on the Board of Directors of the Soros Foundation and President of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation, Moscow), Member of the Board of the Russian Bible Society, and Member of the Board of the All-Russian Culture Foundation. Dr. Genieva is affiliated with numerous international organisations; she is an Observer to the Russian-German Library Restitution Commission, Vice President of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and a member of the Editorial Board - International Newsletter "Spoils of War" e.a.. She is the author of many publications in the fields of English and Irish literature.
Christine MAXWELL (moderator)
(ISOC)
Ms Maxwell is the Chairman and Founder of Chiliad, a new Internet commerce solutions company. She has been a Trustee of the Internet Society since 1997 (http://www.isoc.org). Ms Maxwell's extensive volunteer work for the Internet Society resulted in her being nominated Vice Chairman of the Society in 1999. Ms Maxwell is an Internet publishing pioneer. She created the "Magellan" online directory in 1993, one of the first most successful, search engine and directory sites on the Internet. Ms. Maxwell served for nine years as a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute, a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging science (http://www.santafe.edu). She is a Director of Leonardo/ ISAST, the International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology (http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/isastinfo.html and http://www.olats.org ).
Arthur LEVIN
(ITU)
Arthur Levin is a Policy Adviser with the ITU and his responsibilities also include the development of new ITU initiatives in the areas of regulation and electronic commerce and organizing the World Summit on the Information Society. He formerly served as Legal Officer of the ITU. He also holds an appointment as an adjunct professor of law at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in the United States, where he teaches a course on International Telecommunications Law and the Internet. He previously served as Legal Adviser of the OECD in Paris and as a senior attorney with regulatory agencies in the United States. He has published numerous articles and books on regulatory topics and is contributing editor for the book "China’s Internet Policy & Legislation" which was published this year.
Yasuhiko KAWASUMI
(Japan)
He has started his business carrier at the Japanese overseas telecommunication operator KDD in 1961 after graduated from Electrical Engineering Faculty of KEIO University in Tokyo. His experience covers the work for the construction of Transpacific Submarine Cable No.1, the maintenance and operation of submarine cable systems and Intelsat satellite systems at the international gateway station of the company, engineering of network management systems, telephone traffic management. He was stationed in Geneva from 1972-1976 as the company’s representative. He attended CCITT, CCIR plenary assembly meetings, World Administrative Radio Conference(WARC), and Plenipotentiary Conference(Nice and Minneapolis) as a member of the Japanese delegation. He has contributed to the standardization of G3 facsimile machine in CCITT in late 1970s. He has participated in Maitland Commission meetings in Bali(Indonesia) and Arusha(Tanzania) in 1984 and the Board meetings of Center for Telecommunication Development of ITU as expert. After taking the position of director of the international affairs department of KDD, he held the posts of secretary general of ITU Association of Japan, Executive Vice President of Kokusai Telecommunication Installation Co. and Secretary General of International Communication Foundation. He moved to Japan Telecom Co., Ltd. in 1997. He was appointed as rapporteur of Focus Group on topic 7 "New technology for rural applications" of ITU’s development Study Group in 1999 and submitted the report on rural communication technologies to the Study Group 2 of ITU-D.
Tadao TAKAHASHI
(Brazil)
Tadao Takahashi is Chair of the Information Society Program Task Force, a national initiative coordinated by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Brazil. He is also director of the Portuguese Language Center of Project UNL (Institute for Advanced Studies/United Nations University) and acting chair of the Brazilian Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC). Previously, Tadao was lecturer at the University of Campinas/Brazil, researcher at the Image Science and Engineering Laboratory/Tokyo Institute of Technology/Japan, and founder and director of the Brazilian Research Network, the academic Internet initiative in Brazil. He organized two weeks ago the Regional Infoethics workshop in Rio de Janeiro.
Jean-Noël TRONC
(France)
Jean-Noël Tronc is Advisor to the Prime Minister for the Information Society. From 1995 to 1997, he served as an expert on communication networks and the Information Society at the Commissariat Général du Plan, the French public agency responsible for strategic studies and evaluation of public policies. Mr. Tronc was a rapporteur for a report to the Prime Minister on the French concept of « Service Public » and for a public report on Information Society Networks. From 1993 to 1995, Mr Tronc was a senior consultant with Andersen Consulting where he focused on the telecommunications sector, especially in mobile and satellite communication. From 1989 to 1992, he worked for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy of the European Parliament. Mr Tronc taught at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. He is currently teaching at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and of the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales.
Yves POULLET (moderator)
(Belgium)
Docteur en droit, Professeur Poullet est Directeur du Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit (F.U.N.D.P.) et enseigne à la Faculté de Droit des FUNDP. Il est Président du Diplôme d’Etudes supéreieures en Droit et Gestion des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (DGTIC) des FUNDP de Namur, Expert auprès du Conseil de l'Europe et de l'UNESCO, et Membre de la Commission belge de protection de la vie privée. A ce titre, il a la charge du secteur des télécommunications et délégué au Working Group on Telecommunications and Media (International Conference of Data Protection Commissioners). Il est aussi Président honoraire de l'Association Belge de Droit de l'Informatique (ABDI), Administrateur fondateur du Forum Européen des Télécommunications et de FIRILITE, Membre du Legal Advisory Board de la DG XIII de la Commission des Communautés européennes et président de la Task Force "Electronic Democracy and Access to public records". Il est également membre de nombreux comités de rédaction de revues spécialisées en droit et informatique.
Deborah HURLEY
(USA)
Deborah Hurley is Director of Harvard’s Information Infrastructure Project, Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School, and Senior Research Associate in both the Center for Science and International Affairs and the Center for Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Ms. Hurley is also the founder and Executive Director of Terra Nova, the global public interest policy center for advanced technologies. Ms. Hurley is a former official of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Shortly before her arrival at the OECD, Ms. Hurley received a Fulbright grant to undertake a study of intellectual property protection and technology transfer in Korea. Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Hurley spent several years practicing intellectual property law in the United States, consulting to UNIDO and lecturing at the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C. Ms. Hurley also instructed government officials from developing countries in the intellectual property laws of developed nations and the contrast of these laws with intellectual property laws and technology transfer rules of developing countries. Ms. Hurley is a member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department on International Communications and Information Policy and co-chair of its Working Group on Security, Encryption and Export Controls. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
Carlos M. CORREA
(Argentina)
Mr Correa is lawyer and economist. He is a Director of the Master Program on Science and Technology Policy and Management of the University of Buenos Aires, director of the Post-graduate Course on Intellectual Property of the University of Buenos Aires and director of the quarterly Journal "Temas de Derecho Industrial y de la Competencia", Buenos Aires. He has been contributing as a consultant to UNCTAD, UNIDO, WHO, FAO, Interamerican Development Bank, INTAL, World Bank, SELA, ECLA, and other regional and international organizations. Between 1984-1989 he was Undersecretary of State for Informatics and Development. From 1990 to 1995 he held the position of Director of the UNDP/UNIDO Regional Programme on Informatics and Microelectronics for Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr Correa is Government delegate (for Argentina) and consultant to Unctad in international negotiations on intellectual property (including the Washington Treaty on integrated circuits and the TRIPS Agreement). He is author of several books and articles on technology and intellectual property published in national and foreign journals
Bernt HUGENHOLTZ
(Netherlands)
Prof. Hugenholtz is professor of law and co-director of the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam teaching courses in copyright law, industrial property law and media and information law. He is Chairman of the Intellectual Property Task Force of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission. He is also the founder and vice-Chairman of the Dutch Society for Media and Communications Law, editor-in-chief of the Information Law Series, published by Kluwer Law International, and member of the editorial boards of Computerrecht (Computer Law) and Informatierecht/AMI (Journal of the Dutch Copyright Society). He was a member of the Amsterdam Bar and partner of Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot from 1990 to 1998. Prof. Hugenholtz received his doctor's degree cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in 1989 on copyright protection of works of information ("Copyright in Information"). He has written numerous books and articles on copyright and information technology, notably on the protection of computer software and databases, and copyright problems relating to the emerging digital networked environment. In addition, he has expertise in the fields of telecommunications and broadcasting law. He has been on several international missions representing the World Intellectual Property Organisation, e.g. in China and Indonesia, and he is a regular speaker at international conferences.
Herman SPRUIJT
(Netherlands)
Herman Peter Spruijt is Member of the International Publishers Copyright Council of which he was a Chairman from 1994 to 1996. He has been Member of the Executive Committee of the International Publishers Association (IPA), representing The Netherlands and Member of the Industry Advisory Committee of the World Intellectual Property Organization, representing the Publishing Industry worldwide. Since 2000 he has been Member of the Board of the Stichting Commissarissen Register, (Non-Executive Directors Register) in the Netherlands. Mr Spruijt held numerous executive and non-executive positions in the publishing industry and was lately Member of the Executive Board at Elsevier NV in Amsterdam and Executive Director at Elsevier NV in London.
Mireille BUYDENS (moderator)
(Belgium)
Ms Buydens is a Member of the Brussels Bar, partner at the international law firm Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot (Intellectual Property Department). She is a member of "Conseil Supérieur de la Propriété Industrielle" at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Since 1997 she has been a Member of the Examination Committee for Patent Agents at the Ministry of Economic Affiars. Ms Buydens is a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and Professor of Information and Media Law at the University of Brussels (ULB).
Euisun YOO
(Republic of Corea)
Mr Yoo is a Professor at School of Communication, Ewha Womans University. In 1998 he received an official Commendation for Research Paper "Legal Issues in Cyberspace" from the Minister of Communication of Korea. Between 1991-93, was a Senior Research Fellow at KISDI (Korea Information Society Development Institutue). He was a staff member of the Korean Broadcasting Commission. Mr Yoo has a Ph.D. in Telecommunication from Indiana University at Bloomington.
Barry STEINHARDT
(USA)
Barry Steinhardt is Associate Director and chair of the ACLU Cyber-liberties Task Force, which coordinates the ACLU's extensive program on information technology issues. He was a co-founder of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), the world's first international coalition of Non- Governmental Organizations concerned with the rights of Internet users and one of the originators of the Internet Free Expression Alliance (IFEA), which was formed to monitor issues related to Internet content rating and filtering. In 1998, Mr Steinhardt served as President of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He returned to the ACLU full time in January. He served on the United States Delegation to the 1995 OSCE (Helsinki Pact) Conference on Non-Governmental Organizations in Warsaw Poland and is a consultant to the Czech Helsinki Committee.
András SZINGER
(Hungary)
Mr Szinger is a Legal assistant at Society Artisjus, Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors’ Rights (the Hungarian society for the collective management of authors’ and composers’ rights). He has worked on Authors’ Rights on the Internet.
Brian WAFAWAROWA
(South Africa)
Brian graduated with an Honours Degree in English from the University of Zimbabwe and a Masters Degree in Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a college lecturer in English and Literature for a brief period before joining Wits University Press as a publisher. Brian was joint Publishing Director of Juta, Juta-Skotaville and the University of Cape Town Press before becoming Managing Director of New Africa Education Publishing. He is the board chair of the Publishing Training Project in South Africa, a member of the general council of the African Publishers' Network and Chairman of the Publishers' Association of South Africa.
Marc ROTENBERG (moderator)
(USA)
Marc Rotenberg is Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, computer security, and communications privacy. He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD and the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO. He was recently named to the Advisory Council for the Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford Law School. He is editor of The 1999 Privacy Law Sourcebook and co-editor (with Phil Agre) of Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (MIT Press 1998). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He is the winner of the 2000 Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility and a finalist for the World Technology Award in Law.
Hansjuergen GARSTKA
(Germany)
After studying Law and Political Science, Dr. Hansjürgen Garstka, became first the Deputy Data Protection Commissioner and since 1989 the Data Protection Commissioner of the State of Berlin. According to the recent Freedom of Information he is at present the Data Protection and Information Access Commissioner of the State Berlin. He is a Professor for Data Protection in the Technical University of Berlin and Lecturer for Computer Law and Information Law at different universities in Berlin. He is also Chairman of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications in the framework of the International Conference of Data Protection and Pricacy Commissioners, Member of the Scientific Board of the German Society for Law and Computer Science (DGRI), and Member of the Steering Committee of the Department for Law and Administration of the German Society for Computer Science (GI).
Stefano RODOTA
(Italy)
Chair of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of Rome "La Sapienza" University, Professor Rodota is currently the President of the Italian Data Protection Commission. He has taught in many foreign universities and has been a visiting scholar in Stanford School of Law and visiting fellowin All Souls’ College, Oxford. He was a representative at both the Italian Parliament (1979 to 1994) and the European Parliament, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1983 to 1994). He was the Vice-Chairman of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. He was among the drafters of the OECD Privacy Guidelines in 1980. He is a member of the Legal Advisory Board for Market Information of the European Commission. He is currently President of the European Data Protection Working Party and a member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. Mr. Rodotà has been recently designated to represent the Italian Government in the Group drafting the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Mr. Rodotà has always been keen on the issue of human rights. He authored a number of publications and essays.
Amr Zaki Abdel MOTAAL
(Egypt)
From 1992, Mr Motaal has been "The Senior Partner" at Abdel Motaal, Moharram & Heiza Law Firm where he works as attorney at law and arbitrator. The Firm is among the first firms to give legal advise pertaining to Cyber Law and On-Line Law. He is registered to plead before the Egyptian Court of Cassation since 1991. He is the weekly writer of the column entitled "the Internet and the Law" in the weekly edition of "Alalam Alyoum" financial newspaper. He is a member of the Egyptian Society for International Law, Member of the International Bar Association and International Associate, the American Bar Association 1986.
Marc ROTENBERG (moderator)
(USA)
Marc Rotenberg is Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, computer security, and communications privacy. He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD and the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO. He was recently named to the Advisory Council for the Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford Law School. He is editor of The 1999 Privacy Law Sourcebook and co-editor (with Phil Agre) of Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (MIT Press 1998). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He is the winner of the 2000 Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility and a finalist for the World Technology Award in Law.
Simon DAVIES
(UK)
Simon Davies is an expert in privacy security and data protection. He directs Privacy International - a non government organization based in Washington, D.C.. Davies is also a visiting fellow in the Computer Security Research Center of the London School of Economics and a visiting fellow of law in the University of Essex. Davies is the author of Big Brother, and he regularly writes for such publications as The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and Wired.
Adama FOFANA
(Burkina Faso)
Mr Adama Fofana is the President of the Higher Council for Information of Burkina Faso. Before then he was the Director-General of the Multinational Superior Postal School in Ivory Coast, Director of the national School of Posts and Telecommunications in Burkina Faso and Minister of Information, Posts and telecommunications and Porte parole of the government. He was also Director of the cabinet of the Secretary general of the African Union for Posts and Telecommunications in The Popular Republic of Congo and held various respoinsibility posts in the administration of posts and telecommunications in Burkina Faso.
Duncan CAMPBELL
(UK)
Duncan Campbell is a television producer and investigative reporter/writer. A journalist since 1975, Campbell has specialized in investigating sensitive political topics, including defense, policing, and the intelligence and security services. In 1976, he revealed for the first time the activities of Britain’s largest electronic eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham. GCHQ is now well known, but Campbell’s investigation resulted in the deportation of his co-author and ultimately his own arrest and trial, with two others, under Britain’s Official Secrets Act. Campbell, formerly a staff writer for the British political weekly New Statesman, has continued to challenge government secrecy in areas where its object is the defeat of public accountability. Campbell’s production company, IPTV, has produced many investigative documentaries for Britain’s Channel 4 Television.
Bernd NIEHAUS
(ECOSOC)
Bernt Niehaus is a Vice-President of Social and Economic Council (ECOSOC) at the United Nations. Since 1998 he has been Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations. He represents Costa Rica at the UN Security Council. Mr Niehaus is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship. He worked as a professor of Public and Private International Law at the University of Costa Rica. Between 1974-98 he was a practicing lawyer and public notary, funding partner of the "Bufete Niehaus" law firm, currently the "Bufete Niehaus y Niehaus" law firm. He is a former Cultural Attaché of the Costa Rican Embassy to the Federal Republic of Germany. He has been a columnist on International law and policy issues in the Costa Rican press.
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