Mobilizing Technologists

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1 Panelists
2 Panel Description
3 Speaker Presentation Slides
4 Remote Questions for the Panelists
5 Notes
6 Resources and papers

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Panelists

Speakers

Daniel Dardailler - Associate Chair for Europe, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Rishab Ghosh - Senior Researcher, MERIT
Jon Hall - Founder, Linux International
Brewster Kahle - Director & Co-founder, Internet Archive
Erik Moeller - Member, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation
Helen Nissenbaum - Professor, Culture and Communication, New York University

Moderator

Georg Greve - President, Free Software Foundation - Europe

A2K2 Conference Organizer

Shay David - Microsoft Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

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Panel Description

As we know, as more and more aspects of modern society are mediated by technology in general and ICTs particularly, the stakes in the battle on the political economy of knowledge are upped. The outcomes have significant influence on our lives. The transition from a political economy in which the key actors that control technology are governments and firms to a participatory economy that promotes access to knowledge and in which many actors are self-selected volunteers, can greatly alter the ways in which we communicate with each other, engage in business, study, participate in our culture, eat, create and even procreate. This panel seeks to explore the role of technologists --within and outside the market, within and outside industry-- in the access to knowledge movement. The panel will explore the relationship between technologists' work and the A2K movement building, and the role that technologists, both companies and individuals, have in leading the way for A2K.

Questions to be considered by the panel include:

Is it true, as some technologists suggest, that people who say it can't be done should move out of the way of the people who are doing it?
What is the role of technologists in pushing the limits on access to knowledge?
How should technologists interact with regulators?
Is there a place for self-regulation?
What is the role of technologists in setting standards for A2K?
How is the shift from IPR based industries to creative communities changing technologists' work?

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