Information Society WG

The Information Society (INFOSOC) Working Group

Convened by: Prof. Giovanni Sartor (LAW) and Prof. Alexander Trechsel (SPS)

The INFOSOC website is currently being redesigned and will be relaunched by the end of 2012.

INFOSOC coordinators: Ben Wagner, Emma Linklater, Argyri Panezi and Johanne Kuebler.

The Information Society working group is an interdisciplinary forum for all those working on topics and themes related to the Information Society, including topics related to Internet Governance, Digital Contestation, the societal, legal and political impacts of new communications technology and digital research methods. Researchers and Fellows from all departments and the Robert Schuman Centre are welcome to attend and contribute to the group.

If you want to receive regular information about the events organised by the INFOSOC working group, please sign up to our groupsite webpage here:https://euiinfosocwg.groupsite.com/join


Events Schedule 2011 / 2012

14 February 2012


REGULATION OF DATA PROTECTION: BRIEF HISTORY OF DISAGREEMENTS AND THE NEW WORLD OF DATA GEOPOLITICS by Monika Zalnieriute

09 December 2011


The digital war of the XXI century: Internet vs. Privacy. European and National perspectives by Eduard Blasi Casagran, Member of the Legal Service in the Catalan Data Protection Authority (APDCAT).

10 March 2010

Socio-Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing by Primavera De Filippi, Researcher, European University Institute

08-09 March 2010

Government and the Internet: Participation and Control Workshop organised by SPS, LAW and INFOSOC. Speakers include Dr. Ivar Thallo (eGovernance Academy Tallinn) and Dr. Guido Scorza (La Sapienza, Rome). Event Program. Workshop presentations.

23 February 2011

Trains, Planes and Battleships: Accountability and Liability in Autonomous Technologies by Dr. Giuseppe Contissa, Max-Weber Fellow, European University Institute

02 Februrary 2011

Ambient intelligence and the right to privacy. the challenge of detection technologies by Shara Monteleone, European University Institute


Events Schedule 2010

20 October 2010:

Introductory Meeting hosted by the current coordinators of the Working Group Angela Daly & Ben Wagner

2 November 2010:

Liberation Technologies, Digital Resistance and Human Rights
Guest Lecture by Prof. Giovanni Ziccardi, Professor of Legal Informatics at the University of Milan in Collaboration with the Human Rights Working Group

30 November 2010:

Workshop at the Italian Internet Governance Forum (IGF Italia) in Rome organised by the INFOSOC Working Group

2 December 2010:

Deep Packet Inspection Technology & Human Rights: The impact of infromation technology diffusion on human rights.

 

 

Previous Meetings & Conferences:

Conference 28-29/10/2008

The EUI hosted the first edition of "The Future of..." - Conference on Law & Technology, organized by the INFOSOC WG with the EUI Law Department. The conference aims to be an original and ground-breaking symposium, attracting quality papers dealing with prospective studies and analyzes of legal developments and transformations expected in the future. Taking into account the present technological trends affecting society, the conference challenges scholars to think about and to forecast the main problems and changes that Law will face and suffer in the future of ambient technologies, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, web 3.0, mixed realities (convergence between virtual and physical domains), autonomous software agents, artificial intelligence and many other features and elements.

Meetings 2008

Meetings 2007

Meetings 2006