Welcome Dinner (April 18) | Participants arriving on April 18 will have informal dinner by the swimming pool of ACCEED. | 7:00- 9:00PM | |
| Day One (April 19): The Asian Internet Experience |
MORNING SESSION |
Registration Welcome | Please proceed to the ACCEED Electronic Library, where all sessions will be held | 7:00- 8:30
8:30- 8:40 | Roby Alampay, Executive Director, SEAPA |
Keynote | Our Common Ground: The Internet and Free Expression in Asia: Free Expression in Asia: A situationer; The limits of (and on) traditional media | 8:40- 9:00 | Sheila Coronel Executive Director, PCIJ, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism |
Why the Internet is important to Asians | Asian Internet usage/access vis-à-vis trends restrictions on traditional media; Profiles, projections in Internet usage in Asia (from South Asia to SEA and China); The Internet as a primary source of news and info in Asia Nepal: How the Internet keeps a nation from disappearing.
Skyping in Burma and why governments tolerate cracks in the firewall
Open Forum | 9:00- 9:15
9:15- 9:30
9:30- 9:45 9:45- 10:15 | Prof. Ying Chan, University of Hong Kong
Kunda Dixit, Nepali Times Sein Win, Mizzima.com |
| | COFFEE BREAK | 10:15- 10:30 | |
Shaking up Asian Cyberspace How the Internet is changing the media landscape and public discourse in Asia | Circumventing traditional restrictions on print and broadcasting media: the Malaysiakini experience China and the Internet: Experiments in democracy without mentioning the word
The Internet and political reform in Thailand: blogging, podcasting, online radio, and political reform in Thailand
Vietnam and online news: How Vietnamese inside and outside the country are reaching out to each other to keep their democratic aspirations in sync
Open Forum | 10:30-10:45 10:45-11:00 11:00-11:15
11:15-11:30
11:30-12:00 | Steven Gan, Malaysiakini.com Kevin Wen, Bokee.com
Piyapong “Jib” Phongpai
Chi Dang, Free Journalists Association |
| LUNCH | 12:00-1:30 |
AFTERNOON SESSION |
The power of citizen journalism | Independent blogging/podcasting in China Tag-teaming against the President: Philippine case-study on how bloggers and mainstream media kept a “banned” conversation going and online
Collaborative models for bloggers and mainstream media from around the world
Open Forum | 2:00- 2:15
2:15- 2:30
2:30- 2:45 2:45- 3:15 | Andrew Lih Manolo Quezon III
Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices |
| | COFFEE BREAK | 3:15- 3:30 | |
Technical Workshop 1 | Introduction to Podcasting and Multimedia blogging | 3:30- 5:00 | Jeremiah Foo, SEACEM |
Welcome Dinner | Dinner will be at the Manila Bay. Transportation for delegates will be arranged, to depart ACCEED at 6PM | 7:00- | Office of Senator Juan M. Flavier |
| Day Two (April 20): The Battle for the Internet |
MORNING SESSION |
Technology | The Great Firewall of China Pakistan’s fight for Blogspot
Open Net Initiative findings on blocking and filtering in China, Burma, Singapore, Yemen, Iran | 9:00- 9:15
9:15- 9:30
9:30- 9:45 | Isaac Mao Dr. Awab Alvi, Don’t Block the Blog
Nart Villeneuve, Citizenlab.org |
| | COFFEE BREAK | 9:45- 10:00 | |
The Law | A scan of traditional media/insult laws affecting the Internet in Asia Who needs filtering? Defamation in Singapore
Terrorism and national security laws affecting cyberspace
Open Forum | 10:00- 10:15
10:15- 10:30
10:30- 10:45
10:45- 11:15 | Dini Widiastuti, Article 19 James Gomez
Jeff Ooi, RSF |
Non-legal, non-technological pressures on the Internet | The business of the Internet: Lessons from Google, Yahoo, and MSN in China Economic pressures on online news media
Economic factors affecting access; How to make the Internet work for the “offline community” Open Forum | 11:15- 11:30 11:30- 11:45
11:45- 12:00 12:00- 12:30 | Rebecca Mackinnon, Global Voices/ Berkman Center
JV Rufino, editor, INQ7.net
Owais Aslam Ali, Pakistani Press Foundation |
| LUNCH | 12:30-2:00 |
AFTERNOON SESSION |
Protecting Cyberspace | Ethics and Professionalism as Protection Know your rights: Article 19 in Cyberspace
Hackers are your friends: Malaysiakini’s volunteer protectors
Short introduction to existing projects and programs aimed at protecting bloggers, online writers, and cyberspace in general: Emergency Emails to keep, hotlines, etc. Open Forum | 2:00- 2:15
2:15- 2:30
2:30- 2:45 2:45- 3:00
3:00- 3:30 | Melinda Quintos de Jesus, Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility Article 19
Premesh Chandran, M’kini/SEACEM
CPJ, RSF, SEAPA |
Needs assessment | Distribution of survey to discuss capacities and needs for technology, training, funding | 3:30- 3:45 | To be faciliatated by Premesh Chandran, SEACEM |
Technical Workshop 2 | Wikis and online collaboration tools, paving way for continuing collaboration and discussions, and the building of an Asian network for the defense of free expression in cyberspace | 3:45- 5:30 | Andrew Lih |
| Day Three (April 21): Tools and mechanisms for protecting Asian Cyberspace |
Technical Workshops | How to know if you’re being blocked, censored, monitored PC and Web tools for anonymizing and getting around blocking, filtering, monitoring | 9:00, Whole morning | Nart Villeneuve, Citizenlab, and Ethan Zuckerman, Berkman Center |
| LUNCH | 11:30-1:30 |
| | Technical workshops (continued) Presentation of findings of previous day’s survey/discussion, and facilitation of discussions for moving forward on ways to protect Asian cyberspace END, discussions and recommendations for future collaboration | 1:30- 2:30 2:30- 3:00
3:00- 3:15 | Nart Villeneuve, Ethan Zuckerman, Berkman Center SEACEM
SEAPA |
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