Transforming Enterprise
On January 27-28, 2003,
BRIE will be co-sponsoring Transforming
Enterprise, the First International Conference on the Economic and
Social Implications of Information Technology in Washington DC at the
main auditorium of the US Department of Commerce.
BRIE and IGCC as part
of the E-conomy Project are organizing a panel discussion on "Transforming
Production," on January 27, 2003.
Papers will be presented
by Francois
Bar, Peter Cowhey, and Jonathan Sallet:
The Transformative
Impact of Next Generation Networks;
John Zysman Production
in a Digital Era Commodity or Strategic Weapon?;
Steve Weber;
and Olli Rehn
Francois Bar
is an Associate Professor at Stanford University; Peter Cowhey
is Dean at the UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific
Studies, Director of Institute on Global Coopertion and Conflict, and
former Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC); Jonathan Sallet is Co-Director, NSA Project,
School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, and was former
Chief Policy Counsel of MCI/WorldCom, and former Director, Office of
Policy & Strategic Planning at the US Department of Commerce; Olli
Rehn is Professor at the University of Helsinki and was former Head
of Cabinet of Commissioner Erkki Liikanen, at the European Commission;
Steve Weber is Co-Director of Research, BRIE, Associate Professor
at UC Berkeley; and John Zysman is Co-Director at the Berkeley
Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), and Professor at UC
Berkeley.
Chairing the panel
will be Neils Christian Nielsen, former Chief Executive of the
Danish Technology Institute.
For further references,
please see
New
Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Telecommunications and Information
Industries
by Peter Cowhey;
Access
and Innovation Policy for the Third Generation Internet by Francois
Bar, Stephen Cohen, Peter Cowhey, Brad Delong, Michael Kleeman, and
John Zysman (Reprinted from Telecommunication Policy, Copyright 2000,
with permission from Elsevier Science - single copies of the article
can be downloaded and printed for the reader's personal research and
study)
Construction
of Market Place Architecture by Francois Bar (Brookings, 2001)
The
Success of Open Source, First Chapter by Steve Weber,
(forthcoming, 2003 Harvard Press)
