Friday, April 30, 2004

(special note: conference attendees also are invited to attend 3 other panels on Thursday night and Friday morning on the Internet's impact in the United States. See details)

Welcoming Remarks
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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Orville Schell, dean
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

AnnaLee Saxenian, dean
UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems

Panel 1: Internet Development in China
2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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Panelists:

• Jack Linchuan Qiu, research fellow
  USC Annenberg School for Communication
  "E-governance in China"
• Young Guo, IDG
• Richard Baum, director
  UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
  "Challenges and Opportunities of New Media and Its Political Impact"
• Tom Vest, APRICOT Advisory Board member
  "Costs and Benefits of Running a National ARD (Autonomous Routing Domain):
  China's Footprint on the Internet's Logical Layer "
• Hal Varian (moderator), professor
  UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems

Panel 2: Regulation and Control of the Internet
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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Panelists:

• Cindy Cohn, legal director
  Electronic Frontier Foundation
  "Privacy and Digital Censorship"
• Bill Xia, president
  Dynamic Internet Technology Inc.
  "How the Great Firewall Works"
• Jonathan Zittrain, assistant professor
  Harvard Law School
  "Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering"
  (by video conference)
• Jie Cheng, associate professor
  Tsinghua University Law School
  "Regulating the internet in China:
  why do we need to reshape the scope of information security"
• John Battelle (moderator), director
  Business Reporting Program, UC Berkeley
  Graduate School of Journalism

 

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Saturday, May 1, 2004

Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Courtyard and Library, North Gate Hall

Welcoming Remarks
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

Keynote Address
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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Keynote Speaker:

• Lawrence Lessig, professor
  Stanford University Law School
  Introduced by Xiao Qiang
  UC Berkeley China Internet Project

Panel 3: Standards, Infrastructures, and Designs
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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Panelists:

• John Gage, director of the Science Office
  at Sun Microsystems Inc.
  "Open Source Software in China"
• Andrew McLaughlin
  senior policy counsel of Google Inc.
  "Internet With Chinese Characteristics:
  The Digital Revolution Matures "
• Izumi Aizu, senior research fellow
  International University of Japan
  "Chinese IT Policy and its Impact on Neighboring Countries"
• Alex Zixiang Tan, associate professor
  Syracuse University School of Communication Studies
  "Internet Structure and Regulations in China"
• Peter K. Yu (moderator), assistant professor, Michigan State University

Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Courtyard and Library, North Gate Hall

Roundtable Discussion: Public Opinion in Chinese Cyberspace
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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Discussants:

• Haibo Lu, news editor
  Entertainment Channel at Sohu.com
• Hu Yong, chief consultant, ChinaLabs Inc.
  Beijing, China
• Liang Lu, president of BlogDriver Inc.
• Fang Xingdong, Internet columnist, founder of blogchina.com
• Hosted by Xiao Qiang, director, China Internet Project
  UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Panel 4: The Social Impact of the Internet
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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Panelists:

• Benjamin L. Liebman, associate professor
  Columbia Law School
  "The Impact of the Internet on China's Legal Reform"
• Bu Wei, professor
  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  "Youth Participation and the Digital Divide in China"
• Ashley Esarey, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University
  "Reform of the News Media"
• Susan Shirk, Professor
  University of California, San Diego
  "The Internet, Public Opinion, and Chinese Foreign Policy"
• Randy Kluver (moderator), associate professor
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Panel 5: The Challenges of the New Media in China
4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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Panelists:

• Fons Tuinstra, chief editor of Chinabiz Ltd.
  "Blogging from China"
• Andrew Lih, assistant professor
  University of Hong Kong
  "The Role of Weblogs and Wikis in the Chinese Media Ecology"
• Mao Xianghui, CEO
  Yifang Inc. in Shanghai, China
  "Weblog and Emergent Social Evolution"
• Madanmohan Rao, research director
  Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, India
  "Web and Wireless: Impacts on Markets and News in China"
• Paul Grabowicz (moderator), Director of the New Media Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Closing Remarks
5:45 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall

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(special note: conference attendees also are invited to attend 3 other panels on Thursday night and Friday morning on the Internet's impact in the United States. See details)