Programme
Monday, 24 March
13.00 - 14.00, Registration and Welcome Coffee
13.00 - 16.00, Opening session
Chair: Robin Mansell (LSE, Chair Scientific Committee)
14.00 - 14.10, Welcome by Robin Mansell (LSE)
14.10 - 15.00, Key note
Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Burgelman (Head of Unit, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission)
15.00 - 15.50, Key note
Kostas Rossoglou (Senior Legal Officer, BEUC)
16.00 - 16.30, Coffee break
16.30 - 18.00, Session 1 – User Empowerment: Really?
Chair: Karim Antonio Lesina (AT&T)
Ilse Mariën and Jernej A. Prodnik (iMinds-SMIT-VUB & Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Ljubljana)
Structural causes of digital exclusion and user (dis)empowerment: A critical perspective.
Discussant: Martin Ulbricht (European Commission)
Esteve Sanz (Yale Law School)
The User-Center Discourse in the EU Information Society Policies
Discussant: Peggy Valcke (iMinds-ICRI, KU Leuven & EUI)
19.30 - 22.00, Conference dinner at Restaurant L’Ultime hallucination
Important Dates
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September 2015 |
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31 October 2015 |
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30 November 2015 |
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15 February 2016 |
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14-15 March 2016 |