Curriculum

Session Outlines and Readings

Sun. Aug 17: Students and faculty arrive. 7 pm welcome reception at Central European University, Japanese Garden. Materials will be passed out, announcements made etc. Dieter Zinnbauer will lead this session.

Notes/Comments: All sessions will take place in Room 210, Nador u. 11, Central European University (CEU), unless otherwise noted. Classes will begin at 9:30 each day, unless otherwise noted. 20 August is a national holiday in Hungary, and we have booked a conference room in the CEU dorms (Kerepesi) for this day. There will be an all-day session on Saturday, August 23, and it will take place at CEU (please find schedule for Saturday on page 2 below).

Week One	Mon 18th Introduction	Tues 19th Infrastructure Part 1	Wed 20th Capacity Building and Advocacy Part 1	Thurs 21st Intellectual Property Rights	Fri 22nd Civil Liberties Part 1
Morning sessions	9:30-11:00 Introduction to the Internet--Slobodan Markovic, Country Coordinator, Serbia and Montenegro, Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI) 11:00 -11:30 Break 11:30-13:30 European Institutions and Policy Making: Intro to EU and Council of Europe and Their Communications Policies Stefaan Verhulst, Chief of Research, Markle Foundation	9:30-11:00 Telecomm Deregulation and Liberalization--Stefaan Verhulst, Markle Foundation 11:00 -11:30 Break 11:30-13:30 UK and the European Electronic Communications Framework--Stefaan Verhulst, Markle Foundation	*Note--classes will be held at the CEU dormitory, due to Hungarian National Holiday 9:30 -11:30 Advocacy and the Policy Process--Veni Markovski, Country Coordinator, Bulgaria, GIPI--presentation of GIPI’s Advocacy Training Manual, in the context of a successful approach to policy advocacy in Bulgaria 11:30-12:00 Break 12:00-13:30 Public Policy Advocacy--Skills and Practical Advice Edwin Rekosh, Public Interest Law Initiative Columbia University Budapest Law Center [PILI]	9:30-11:00 EU and Copyright, and the EU Copyright Directive--Ian Brown, Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-13:00 Copyright from a US perspective--John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University	9:30-11:00 Free Speech--Overview of the Issues, Legal Context and History--Monroe Price, Director, Stanhope Centre and Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law 11-11:30 Break 11:30-13:30 Field Trip to the Hungarian Parliament--organized by Peter Molnar, one of the drafters of the Hungarian media law and expert on free speech issues

 

Lunch	Mon 18th 13:30-14:30	Tues 19th 13:30-14:15	Wed 20th 13:30-14:30	Thurs 21st 13:00-14:00	Fri 22nd 13:30-14:30
Afternoon session	14:30-16:00 Global ICT Law and Policies: Issues and Concepts Steafaan Verhulst, Markle Foundation and Audri Mukhopadyay 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-18:30 Tutor sessions on case studies--helping the participants put together their oral presentations--Dieter Zinnbauer, Stanhope Centre Werkstatte and ICT Policy Training Programme Director (Note: sessions will run a bit longer on this day to accommodate tutor session and will run up to dinner planned for 7 pm)	14:15--17:00 Case study Hungary, the story of Matav/Axelero. Session includes offsite visit to the Axelero facilities. Presentation by Arvai Gergely, Axerlero. Students and faculty will travel by van to Axelero site. Please make sure you are in front of CEU at 14:15 sharp, as we will depart promptly for the field trip.	14:30-15:30 Instructions and going over Simulation Public Policy Campaigns--preparation for end of training programme, 5 groups of 5 will be organized to come up with a public policy advocacy campaign, issues and campaign themes will be passed out, Dieter Zinnbauer. 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-18:00 NGO Capacity Building, Dieter Zinnbauer	14:00-15:00 Case Study: Serbia, Copyright and the Internet--Slobodan Kremenjak, Zivkovic & Samardzic Law Office, Counsel for Radio B92 15:00-15:15 Break 15:15-16:30 Trademarks: WIPO and the ICANN Domain Process--Audri Mukhopadyay 16:30-16:45 Break 16:45- 18:00 The Information Commons--Felix Stalder, Openflows Vienna	14:30-16:00 OSCE and Freedom of Expression--Christian Moeller, OSCE 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-18:00 French Yahoo! Case (Monroe Price, Stanhope Centre and Cardozo Law School)
Evening	19:00 Dinner at the Iguana Restaurant				18:30 Reception in Japanese Garden at CEU

Sat. August 23rd--Session will take place at CEU, Room 210, Nador u. 11, Lunch will be served.

10:30-12:30 Hungary and Standard Setting--Developing Internet Law in Hungary, with Hungarian lawyers and media activists Peter Molnar and Krisztina Rozgonyi

12:30-13:30 Time to prepare simulation exercises, break off into groups

13:30-14:30 Lunch--will be provided by Stanhope Centre and served in the classroom

14:30-16:30 Presentation of four participants’ case studies that complement and expand upon the issues covered during the week

Sun. August 24th -- Free day

 

Week Two	Mon 25th Civil Liberties Part 2	Tues 26th Infrastructure Part 2	Wed 27th Global Governance and Standard Setting	Thurs 28th Capacity Building and Advocacy	Friday 29th Departure Day
Morning session	9:30-11:00 Privacy and Data Protection-- Judit Sandor, Department of Political Science, Central European University 11:00 -11:30 Break 11:30-13:30 Privacy and Data Retention--Yaman Akdeniz, Lecturer in Cyberlaw, Department of Law, Leeds University	9:30-11:00 Peer2Peer Networking--Christian Sandvig, Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 11:00 -11:30 Break 11:30-13:30 Spectrum Management/Wireless--Christian Sandvig	9:30-11:00 The Transformation of the Global Communications Order-- William Drake, Director, Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance in Geneva, Switzerland 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-13:30 Governing Networks and Services in the New Environment--William Drake	9:30-10:45 Skill sharing and brainstorming--"Mapping Key Policy Issues and Potential Initiatives," Robert Horvitz Project Manager GIPI and Dieter Zinnbauer 10:45--11:00 Break Skill sharing and brainstorming cont’d	Students vacate dorms by no later than 11:00 a.m.
Lunch	13:30-14:30	13:30-14:30	13:30-14:30	12:00-13:00	13:30-14:30
Afternoon session	14:30-16:00 Cybercrime--Yaman Akdeniz 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-18:00 Preparation time for Simulation Exercises	14:30-16:00 Panel Discussion--Wi-Fi--Robert Horvitz, GIPI, will chair the panel, with Attlia Nemeth NETERT, Peter Somogyi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-18:30 Keynote Address "Rising Issues: ICT Policy" Karl Popper Room, Central European University, Christian Sandvig	14:30-16:00 Comparing Notes: National ICT Strategies Development Process, Content and Implementation (collaborative input from selected participants: Parvina Ibodova, Tajikistan Yashar Hajiyev, Azerbaijan Haris Hadzialic Yevgeny Korneev, Albania 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-17:30 Standards Setting and how NGOs can Participate, Dieter Zinnbauer 17:30-18:30 Consultations for Simulation Exercises--Groups can meet and go over policy advocacy campaigns, with Dieter Zinnbauer	13:00-15:30 Simulation Exercises--Presentations of Public Policy Campaigns, moderated by Robert Horvitz, GIPI 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-16:30 Wrap-up and Next Steps--Dieter Zinnbauer
Evening		Optional: Entertainment or Cultural Activity--TBA		Farewell Dinner--17:30 Trofea Restaurant