OECD Technology Foresight Forum

"Participative Web Forum: Shaping policies for creativity,
confidence and convergence"

Ottawa, October 3, 2007

"The "participative web" is an Internet influenced by intelligent web services based on new technologies empowering the user to be an increasing contributor to developing, rating, collaborating and distributing Internet content and customizing Internet applications. These new web tools are said to enable commercial and non-commercial service providers to better harness the "collective intelligence" of Internet users, driving a range of new social and economic opportunities, including for governments. It is expected to have a significant imipact on all sorts of activities from participatory democracy to radically new business models to new ways of doing science and research." -- OECD Forum Agenda

 

This new chapter for the Internet presents opportunities to highlight economic and social policy objectives. A high-level perspective is needed to identify inter-relations, broad implications, and for all stakeholders to rise to the challenges of adapting to this new environment. The issues – creativity, confidence and convergence, are interconnected.

Consequently, policies that address them need to be formulated across a range of areas such as communications, economic, consumer protection and information security policy, needing cooperation between governments, the private sector, organised labour, the technical community and civil society.

Civil Society Participation at the OECD

In 1998, EPIC and a coalition of NGOs coordinated with the OECD to promote civil society participation in the OECD Ministerial conference that was held in Ottawa, Ontario. Those efforts resulted in an important conference, "The Public Voice in the Development of Internet Policy," and an enhanced role for civil society organizations and academic experts interested in Internet and IT policy.

Since that time, the Public Voice coalition has worked with the OECD and other international organizations on a wide range of Internet policy matters, from privacy and cryptography to electronic commerce and developing market economies. The Public Voice believes that it is vital to maintain civil society participation in the work of the OECD, particularly in the IT realm. Toward that goal, the Public Voice has started a good process to facilitate civil society participation leading up to the 2008 Ministerial in Seoul.

"There is an increasing recognition that we must involve all stakeholders including the voice of civil society.
The Public Voice meeting and its contribution to the Forum have been constructive and positive."
- OECD UNDER-SECRETARY GENERAL

• OECD Technology Foresight Forum 2007 "Participative Web Forum," Ottawa, October 3, 2007
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• OECD Information, Computer and Communications Policy Committee (pdf)
• OECD Civil Society page

OECD Events

• OECD Ministerial, Seoul, Korea, June 17-18, 2008
• OECD Technology Foresight Forum 2007 - Participative Web Forum: "Innovation, Growth and Equity", Ottawa, October 3, 2007
• OECD Forum 2007 "Innovation, Growth and Equity," Paris, May 14-15, 2007
• OECD Workshop on Digital Identity Management, Trondheim, Norway, May 8-9, 2007
• NSF/OECD Workshop “Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet,” Washington DC, January 31, 2007
• OECD Technology Foresight Forum 2006 "Next Generation Networks," Budapest, Hungary, October 3, 2006
• Discussion Forum of April 2006
• Proceedings of 8 March 2006 workshop "the Future of the Internet"
• NSF/OECD Workshop on "the Future of the Internet", Paris, France, March 8, 2006
• The Future Digital Economy: Digital content: Creation, Access and distribution, Rome, Italy, January 30-31, 2006

OECD Publications and Guidelines

• OECD Study on the Participative Web: User-created Content
• OECD Communications Outlook 2007
• OECD Information Technology Outlook 2006
• Evaluating Public Participation in Policy Making
• OECD Cross-Border Fraud Guidelines (2003)
• OECD Security Guidelines (2002)
• OECD Privacy Guidelines (1980)

Public Voice

• "Privacy and Data Protection in Latin America" (Bogota, Colombia 2005)
• "Africa Electronic Privacy and Public Voice Symposium" (Cape Town 2004)
• "The Public Voice in the Digital Economy" (Hawaii 2003)
• "The Public Voice in Internet Policy" (Washington 2002)
• "The Public Voice in Emerging Market Economies" (Dubai 2001)
• "The Public Voice in Electronic Commerce" (Paris 1999)
• "The Public Voice in the Development of Internet Policy" (Ottawa 1998)
• "The Public Voice and the Development of International Encryption Policy" (Paris 1996)
• Case Study - The Public Voice Project: Promoting Public Participation in Decisions Concerning the Future of the Internet (July 2005)

Other Resources

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Protecting Human Dignity in the Digital Age (UNESCO 2000)
• Internet Society
• Global Information Society Watch 2007
• One World Trust: Global Accountability Index 2006
• Case Study - Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Case Study - Canada's Strategy for the Information Highway
• Canada’s Community Access Program: A Case Study of Government Strategic Investment on the Internet

Civil Society Links

• The Association for Progressive Communications
• B.C. Civil Liberties Association
• Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
• Center for Digital Democracy
• Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Consumer Project on Technology
• Consumers International
• Danish Institute for Human Rights
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• European Consumers Organisation
• European Digital Rights
• Global Partners
• Imaginons un Réseau Internet Solidaire (IRIS)
• Internet Governance Forum
• Internet Governance Project
• North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce
• Privacy Activism
• Public Knowledge
• Union des consommateurs

Public Voice Monthly Meetings

Meeting Calendar

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• Thursday, February 1, 2007
• Thursday, May 17, 2007
• Thursday, June 21, 2007
• Thursday, July 19, 2007
• Thursday, August 16, 2007
• Thursday, September 20, 2007
• Thursday, October 18, 2007
• Thursday, November 15, 2007
• Thursday, December 20, 2007
• Thursday, January 17, 2008
• Thursday, February 21, 2008
• Thursday, March 20, 2008
• Thursday, April 17, 2008
• Thursday, May 15, 2008
• Thursday, June 12, 2008
• Thursday, July 17, 2008

Contact

• To Participate Contact: Allison Knight - knight [at] epic.org

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