[Chapter-delegates] [isoc-us] Urgent: OECD Conference on E-Consumers deadline forapplication on 4 Dec 2009

[Christian de Larrinaga]

Gene

This could be very important. 

There are a range of measures being considered in Europe at the Commission to limit the ability of online businesses to compete with bricks and mortar. The Digital Economy Bill in the UK is attempting to place power of developing and inventing copyright into the hands of Government Ministers with no consultation and only minimal intervention in Parliament. It is also placing powers that essentially require the regulator Ofcom to treat access networks as content networks.  

With the ACTA treaty with unknown provisions one has to wonder if the UK DEB is a sort of advance warning of what to expect globally. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement




best wishes


Christian 


Christian de Larrinaga



On 4 Dec 2009, at 23:54, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:

> Hello Gene,
>  
> This is great news! That's what I find is a decisive force for ISOC: think global, act local.
> Well done - and I look forward to the photos. Remember to wear your ISOC sticker/pin. Bring the banners, the flags and the air horns... oops wrong event, sorry. :-)
> Have a good week-end.
>  
> Warmest regards,
>  
> Olivier
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gene Gaines
> To: Internet Society US Chapters discuss list
> Cc: Chapter-delegates
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [isoc-us] Urgent: OECD Conference on E-Consumers deadline forapplication on 4 Dec 2009
> 
> Olivier,
> 
> Members of the Washington DC ISOC chapter in formation, (actually restarting, www.isoc-dc.org) will attend the OECD meeting in our hometown, Washington DC.
> 
> Will collect any info available, will report back to both the <isoc-us at isoc-ny.org> and <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> > 
>   lists. Will even take a photo or two!
> 
> 
> Gene Gaines
> for ISOC-DC (chapter in formation)
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com> wrote:
> Apologies for this, but I only got told about this today.
> I am sending this in a hurry because I see that there are still a few hours for people to register before the deadline:
> 
> OECD conference:
> Empowering E-Consumers:
> Strengthening Consumer Protection in the Internet Economy
> 
> Washington, DC, 8-10 December 2009
> 
> 
> 
> The OECD Conference on E-Consumers will take place on 8-10 December 2009. It will be held at the US Federal Trade Commission's Conference Centre, located at 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
> 
> Conference home page on:
> http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_43348316_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
> 
> Register on:
> http://webnet.oecd.org/survey/Survey.aspx?surveyid=3754
> 
> I hope that someone from the local ISOC chapter can make it there, and make the voice of the Internet user heard.
> Has anyone from ISOC HQ been scheduled to go there?
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
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