Monday March 29th

9.00 - 10.50, Policy benchmarking and policy learning

Chair: Paschal Preston, Dublin City University

Learning from Each Other: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Cross-National Benchmarking
Johannes Bauer, Michigan State University
Discussant: Martin Fransman, JETS

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How to decide on the scope, priorities and coordination of information society policy?
Linda Kool, TNO, Martijn Poel, TNO and Delft University of Technology, and Annelieke van der Giessen, TNO

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Discussant: Maresa Meissl, EC, DG Information Society and Media, Team Leader i2010


11.20 - 13.00, The role of industrial and media policies in the information society:
the cases of software and public broadcasting

Chair: Bill Melody, CMI, Aalborg University and LIRNE.NET

Assessing national and EU policies to support the Software Industry in Europe
Michael Friedewald and Timo Leimbach, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research

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Discussant: Yannis Caloghirou, National Technical University of Athens

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National broadcasting policy vs. European State aid control: the benefits of introducing competition principles into the regulation of public service broadcasting
Karen Donders, Institute for European Studies, and Caroline Pauwels, Free University of Brussels

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Discussant: Bernard Guillou, Mediawise


13.00 - 14.00, Lunch

14.00 - 15.40, Global session

Impact assessment of information society policies: what worked and what did not work in each region?

Chair, Graham Vickery, OECD

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- Helani Galpaya, LIRNEnet and CPRsouth |
- Raul Katz, CITI and ACORN |
- Lishan Adam, CPRAfrica |
- William Lehr, MIT and TPRC |


16.10 - 17.50, File-sharing: myths and realities

Chair: Brigitte Preissl, editor Intereconomics

Towards a European surveillance society? Combating copyright infringement through graduated response initiatives in France and the United Kingdom
Trisha Meyer and Leo van Audenhove, Free University of Brussels

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Discussant: Achim Klabunde, EC, DG Information Society and Media

Legal, Economic, and Cultural Aspects of file sharing
Nico van Eijk, Institute for Information Law, Joost Poort, SEO and Paul Rutten, University of Leiden

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Discussant: Marc Bogdanowicz, EC, JRC-IPTS

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20.00, Dinner, sponsored by Vodafone, Restaurant La Manufacture