Digital Life
GVU Brown Bag: Hans Klein
Date: November 5, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: TSRB 132
Fee: none
From ITU to ICANN: The Political Shaping of Global Communications
ABSTRACT: Governments’ role in global communications is changing. Traditionally, governments have acted through the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), where they shaped technology according to their interests in national security, economic development, and industrial policy. With the emergence of the Internet and of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), governments’ roles have dramatically changed. In ICANN only the United States government has direct control over the management of core Internet resources. This has not eliminated political influences on technology, but it has narrowed their scope. This talk will examine how the political shaping of global communications has changed in the evolution from the ITU to ICANN.
BIO: Hans Klein is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. He is a co-founder of the Internet Governance Project (www.IGP.org) , a collaborative research and policy project focused on global Internet governance. He is the former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (www.CPSR.org).
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Faculty
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Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Educational Technology, Social Networking/Online Communities, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Internet Research Ethics, Human Computer Interaction, Human Computer Interaction for Kids -
Assistant Professor
School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College of Liberal ArtsAreas of Expertise:
Participatory Design, Critical Design, Design Studies, Robotics and Sensing in Art and Community Settings -
Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Social Impacts of Technology, Home Network Security, Home Networking, Human-Computer Interaction -
Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of EngineeringAreas of Expertise:
Computational Video, Computational Photography, Computational Journalism, Computational Media, Computational Perception -
Associate Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Societal Impacts of Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work -
Assistant Professor
School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing
School of Literature Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College of Liberal ArtsAreas of Expertise:
Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mobile Games, Social Games, Augmented Reality Games, Video Game Design, Video Game Architecture -
Assistant Professor
School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College of Liberal ArtsAreas of Expertise:
Tangible Interfaces, Experimental Media, Media Arts, Interaction Design, Emerging Technologies -
Professor and Director of Graduate Program in Digital Media
School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College of Liberal ArtsAreas of Expertise:
Game Design, Interactive Narrative, Interactive Television, Media Convergence, Information Design, Digital Media and Education -
Director, GVU Center
Professor, School of Interactive Computing
Associate Dean for Strategic Planning and Initiatives
College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered Computing, Health Informatics, Ubiquitous Computing, Assistive Technologies -
Associate Professor
School of Psychology, College of Sciences School of Interactive Computing, College of ComputingAreas of Expertise:
Interactive Music, Mobile Music, Human-Computer Interaction, Auditory Perception, Psychology