Glistener: Conference: The new political role of internet &mobile: Iran

Barbara Lochbihler, Chair of the Iran Delegation, cordially invites you to attend following conference:

The new political role of internet and

mobile phone: Example Iran

1 July 2010

Venue: European Parliament, Rue Wiertz 60, 1047-Brussels

Room ASP 1 G 3

9:30 - 9:40    Welcome: Dany Cohn-Bendit

Co-President of the Greens/EFA Group, MEP France

9:40 - 9:50    Introduction: Barbara Lochbihler

President of the Iran Delegation, Greens/EFA Group, MEP Germany

9:50 - 11:20 The Green Movement and the Media - Developments in Iran since the Presidential Elections June 2009

Moderator: Marietje Schaake

Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Culture, Media and Education, ALDE Group, MEP Netherlands

Topics:

§         New methods of communication (SMS, Twitter, Skype)

§         Censorship of TV, Radio and Internet (Websites, Facebook)

§         Surveillance of telephone and e-mails

§         Variations in media use as to age, geography and social background

Panellists:

§         Delbar Tavakoli Blogger

§         Farnaz Seifi Blogger

§         Fred Petrossians, Online Editor in Chief of Radio Farda ,Czech Republic

§         Ben Roome Nokia/Siemens Networks

§         Omid Memarian Journalist and Researcher, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, USA (tbc)

§         Seyyed Ebrahim Nabavi Satirist, writer, diarist, and researcher, Iran

11:30 - 13:00   Future chances and risks of advances in

communication technology

   Moderator: Eva Lichtenberger

   Vice-President Green-EFA Group, MEP Austria

Topics:

§         Technological developments in preparation

§         Freedom of the net versus state control

§         Reactions internally and from the outside

Panellists:

§         Aliakbar Mousavi Khoeini Internet specialist

§         Mehdi Yahyanejad Founder and director of the popular website Balatarin

§         Reza Valizadeh Journalist and blogger

§         Christian Engström MEP Pirate Party, Sweden

§         Simon Hampton Director of European Public Policy at Google, Belgium (tbc)

15:00 - 16:30   How will developments in information

                technology influence politics?

Moderator: Barbara Lochbihler

President of the Iran Delegation, MEP Germany

Topics:

§         How to preserve the freedom of the internet while preventing its abuse

§         How the modern information society influences methods to act against undemocratic governments

§         Are sanctions and isolation still useful tools in the age of cyberspace?

§         EU legislation and democratisation: part of the problems or the solutions?

Panellists:

§         Rouzbeh Parsi Research Fellow, EU Institute for Security Studies Paris

§         Lucie Morillon Reporters without borders, Head of the New Media Desk

§         Sina Motalebi, BBC Persian television's Head of Output, UK

§         Erich Möchel Investigative journalist, Austria

§         Tomas Dupla del Moral DG RELEX, Director Middle East, South Mediterranean, European Commission

§         Christian Jouret European Council  (tbc)

Conclusions: Barbara Lochbihler

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                                              barbara.lochbihler@europarl.europa.eu

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