*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** See: http://www.fnst.de/bildung/t-heuss/ Politics in Cyberspace - Liberal Democracy in a Global Information Society [Dec 8 and 9 - Gummersbach, Germany] The digital revolution leads to profound changes in our societies, in the role of the state, in strategies and forms of political action and opinion making. The shift of competencies along the lines of more subsidiarity and federalism within in a increasingly self-conscious civil society is an inevitable development of post-industrial society, which has to be confronted with a positive and creative attitude. The structures and processes of opinion and decision making in "cyber-democracy" will change fundamentally, so that political parties have to part with conventional methods and strategies if they want to survive within this new context. International experts and politicians from countries which are in the forefront of using new technologies with the necessary corresponding mental disposition, such as North America, the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom will participate in this international conference to debate the following questions and will try to point to possible solutions and actions for our societies and its political institutions: - How will the power relations change in a digital civil society? - - How will political culture develop in the evolving knowledge society? - - Which kind of political strategies and organisational methodology do political parties need, to achieve their democratic mission? - - How will political communications change and which are the possible effects ? - - How can freedom of opinion and of the press be safeguarded and state censorship be avoided? - - Will the defence of human and civil rights be improved in our globalised "cyber world" ? Draft Program Friday, December 8, 2000 03:00 p.m. Welcoming remarks and introduction Bernd SCHEITTERLEIN, Director of the Theodor-Heuss-Academy Wolfgang STÜTZER, Conference Director Introduction of Participants 3:30 p.m. Introductory Keynote: Parties State or Civil Society? - Challenges in the Media Society Speaker: Prof. Ulrich SARCINELLI, University Koblenz/Landau 04:00 p.m. Discussion 04:30 p.m. Break 05:00 p.m. Formation of Political Opinion and Decision Making in „Cyber-Democracy" Proposed Speaker: Dieter WALZ, TNS EMNID, Bielefeld 06:30 p.m. Dinner 07:30 p.m. Politics and Marketing in the Information and Media Society Roundtable Discussion Participants: Christian LINDNER MP, FDP Parliamentary Group in the Regional Parliament of North Rhine - Westphalia, Düsseldorf; Prof. Dr. Peter HENNING, University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe; John ARAVOSIS, Wired Strategies, Washington DC (requested) Moderation: Kristine HASELSTEINER, Open Text Corporation, Ottawa 09:00 p.m. End of First Conference Day Saturday, December 9, 2000 from 08:00 a.m. Breakfast 09:00 a.m. Power and Political Culture in a digitalised Civil Society Prof. Klaus Brunnstein, University of Hamburg 09:45 a.m. Discussion 10:30 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. Freedom of Opinion and of the Press in Cyber Democracy Pierre BOURQUE, Bourque News Watch, Ottawa 11:45 Discussion 12:30 p.m. Lunch 14 :00 p.m. Civil and Human Rights in Cyberspace Mark Erik HECHT, Executive Director, Human Rights Internet, Ottawa 14:45 p.m. Discussion 15:30 p.m. Break 16:00 p.m. The World Wide Web and Political Communication John ARAVOSIS, Wired Strategies, Washington DC (requested), 17:00 p.m. Discussion 18:30 p.m. Dinner 20:00 p.m. Conversation at the Fireplace Elections and Forms of Political Action in the Information and Media Society Dr. Fritz GOERGEN, Forecast GmbH, Cologne Sunday, December 10, 2000 from 8:00 a.m. Breakfast 09:00 a.m. Political Strategies in Cyberspace: Risks and Chances of Political Parties Uwe EVERS, Director, Online Services, Universum Verlag, Berlin 09:45 a.m. Discussion 10:30 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. The Electronic Republic: Chances and Risks Concluding Roundtable Discussion with Speakers Moderator: Wolfgang STÜTZER 12:30 p.m. Final Session Wolfgang STÜTZER and Bernd SCHEITTERLEIN 13:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure of Participants VENUE: THEODOR-HEUSS-ACADEMY Theodor-Heuss-Strasse 26 D-51645 Gummersbach, Germany Tel: +49 2261 3002 110 * Fax: +49 2261 3002 122 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.fnst.de/bildung/t-heuss/ Direction of the Conference: Bernd R. SCHEITTERLEIN, Director, Theodor-Heuss-Academy of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, Gummersbach Moderation: Wolfgang STÜTZER, Tübingen Organisation: Brigitte BAUER, Theodor-Heuss-Academy Tel. +49 (0) 2261/ 3002-112 Fax: +49 (0) 2261 / 3002 122 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simultaneous Translation: German/English/German ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
