Strasbourg, 28 November 2001
Human Rights Building
PROGRAMME
Media Division. Directorate General of Human Rights. Council
of Europe. Strasbourg
8h30 Arrival and registration
9h30 OPENING SESSION
Opening speech. Pierre-Henri Imbert, Director General of
Human Rights, >Council of Europe
Chair: Carolyn Morrison, Chairperson of the CDMM, >Head of
International Broadcasting, Department for Culture, Media and
Sport, London
The Council of Europe Recommendation on self-regulation concerning
cyber content. Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Research Director,
Broadcasting Standards Commission, London
Keynote speech. Jean-François Abramatic, Chairman, World
Wide Web Consortium, Paris
11h00 Coffee break
11h30 WORKING GROUPS
GROUP 1: Co-operative forms of regulating the Internet
Chair: Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, President, Orientation Council,
Forum on Internet Rights, Paris
Panellists:
Antonio Amendola, Assistant to the President, Communications Agency,
Naples, Italy
Markus Berni, Lawyer, Baker & McKenzie, Zurich
Ruth Dixon, Deputy Chief Executive, Internet Watch Foundation,
Oakington, UK
Sabine Frank, Secretary General, Voluntary Self-control of Multimedia
Service Providers, Berlin
GROUP 2: User empowerment and media competence: Combining protection
and education
Chair: Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, London
School of Economics and Political Science, London
Panellists:
Parry Aftab, Executive Director, Cyberangels, New York
Jan d'Arcy, Co-Director, Media Awareness Network, Ottawa
John Carr, NCH Action for Children, London
Marc Knobel, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Paris
Friedemann Schindler, jugendschutz.net, Mainz, Germany
13h00 Lunch break
14h30 WORKING GROUPS (continued)
Discussion of possible future national initiatives by participants:
Hotlines, Internet industry associations, user associations,
education and awareness.
15h30 Coffee break
16h00 CLOSING SESSION
Reports by the Chairpersons of the Working Groups
Discussion with all panellists
General report
Beth Simone Noveck, Director of International Programmes,
Information Society Project, Yale Law School
18h00 Reception at the Restaurant in the Human Rights Building
hosted by the Director General of Human Rights
The Ministers participating in the 6th European Ministerial Conference
on Mass Media Policy, which was held in Cracow on 15-16 June 2000,
agreed in their Declaration on "a media policy for tomorrow"
that the human and democratic dimension of communication should
be at the core of the intergovernmental activities of the Council
of Europe in the media field, focusing around four essential axes:
(1) the balance between freedom
of expression and information and other rights and legitimate
interests,
(2) pluralism of media services
and content,
(3) the promotion of social cohesion, and
(4) the adaptation of the regulatory
framework for the media in the light of the ongoing changes.
Through the organisation of this Forum, the Steering Committee
on the Mass Media of the Council of Europe aims to provide an
operational follow-up to its work towards a Recommendation on
self-regulation concerning cyber-content, take stock of existing
experiences and initiatives at European and international level
as regards self-regulation and co-regulation, bring together different
actors in the field with a view to initiating partnerships and
co-operation, and identify the needs for possible further initiatives
in this area.
All panel reports, further information and contact details of
self-regulatory initiatives will be published on the Web site
of the
Forum: www.coe.int/cyberforum/
Registrations and questions concerning the Forum or the work of
the Council of Europe in the media field can be addressed to:
Mr Pall Thorhallsson Tel.: (+33) 3 88 41 23 29
Mr Rüdiger Dossow Tel.: (+33) 3 88 41 28 59
Media Division, DG II - Human Rights Fax: (+33) 3 88 41 27 05
Council of Europe E-mail: media@coe.int
F - 67075 Strasbourg http://www.humanrights.coe.int/media
The Forum will be held at:
Council of Europe, Human Rights Building, Press Room and Room
of the Directorate General, Quai Ernest Bevin / Rue Boecklin,
Strasbourg, France
Hotel and transport information is available via the web site
of Strasbourg:
http://www.strasbourg.com
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