[LINK] Fwd: Internet filter workshop - 4 March Sydney

[Jan Whitaker]

forwarded by request:

>Dear colleagues,
>
>The Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre are hosting 
>a serious expert workshop on internet filtering 
>and related issues next week in Sydney 4 March, 
>and would be very pleased to have participants from APF.
>
>http://cyberlawcentre.org/censorship/forum2.htm
>
>•               Derek Bambauer (worked on 
>Harvard's Berkman Center OpenNet Initiative 
>global internet filtering project, author of 
>'Filtering in Oz: Australia's Foray Into 
>Internet Censorship', Brooklyn Law School Legal 
>Studies Working Paper Series, Research Paper No. 125, December 2008)
>•       Kerry GGraham, Inspire Foundation, CEO; 
>co-convenor of the Technology and Wellbeing Roundtable
>•       Kevin Bermeister, Brillliant Digital 
>Entertainment (provider of file filtering tools 
>for web and P2P networks), former co-founder of Kazaa
>•       Paul Brooks, Layer 10 Advisory, telecommunicationss network analyst
>•       Alana Maurushat, UNSW Law 
>Faculty,  formerly of CIPPIC in Canada, IT security researcher
>•¢      Karl Hanmore, AusCERT Operations Manager
>•       James McDoougall, National Childrens and Youth Law Centre, director
>•       John Selby, School of Business, 
>Macquarie Universityy, Internet governance researcher
>•       David Vaile, Cybersspace Law and Policy Centre, director
>
>Topics:
>
>1.      Young people and parents:  the interests 
>of children and young people, options for 
>supporting and protecting these interests in 
>online interactions; roles for parents, their 
>expectations and needs(including possible 
>purposes and goals of approaches to protect the 
>interests of other vulnerable persons, current 
>state of evidence about effectiveness of these 
>approaches, relative resource priorities between various options).
>
>2.      Changing role of ISPs and 
>others:  potential legal and technical 
>implications for ISPs, 'content hosts', virtual 
>community organisers, and others of the current 
>proposals and the range of other demands to 
>attempt 'technical' solutions for regulatory 
>issues online; international comparisons and developments.
>
>3.      Architecture:  options for ISP-based 
>filtering from a technical architecture 
>perspective, what they can and can't filter, 
>implications for the interests of users, ISPs, 
>regulators/censors, the state of play of 
>technical assessments and trials, comparisons with other models.
>
>4.      Classification:  The nature and 
>mechanisms of the classification scheme and the 
>'prohibition' of certain content, the scope of 
>the prohibition, blacklists and other 
>algorithmically targeted content, governance 
>models, implications for implementation, and 
>'reasonable expectations' about what is actually 
>covered or let through any system.
>
>Can you perhaps circulate this to those who you 
>think might be interested? There’s a link on 
>that page that gets you an invitation; we have seats available for you.
>
>Regards,
>David
>
>
>David Vaile
>Executive Director
>Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW
>
>Room 153, Law Building, Union Road
>UNSW Kensington Campus
>Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
>(via Gate 2 off High Street)
>
>T: +61 (0)2 9385 3589
>F: +61 (0)2 9385 1778
>M: +61 (0)414 731 249
>E: d.vaile [at] unsw.edu.au
>W: http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/


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