FSI researchers consider international development from a variety of angles. They analyze ideas such as how public action and good governance are cornerstones of economic prosperity in Mexico and how investments in high school education will improve China’s economy.
They are looking at novel technological interventions to improve rural livelihoods, like the development implications of solar power-generated crop growing in Northern Benin.
FSI academics also assess which political processes yield better access to public services, particularly in developing countries. With a focus on health care, researchers have studied the political incentives to embrace UNICEF’s child survival efforts and how a well-run anti-alcohol policy in Russia affected mortality rates.
FSI’s work on international development also includes training the next generation of leaders through pre- and post-doctoral fellowships as well as the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program.
Having dominated Danish politics for over a decade, as Prime Minister and leader of the Danish Social Democrat Party, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was elected President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) in April 2004. As President of the PES, he leads 34 national socialist and social democrat parties in government and in opposition, in their common efforts at European level.
Member of the Danish Parliament since
1988, Poul took over the chairmanship of the Danish Social Democrats and
its Parliamentary Group in 1992. In under a year he was elected
Prime Minister, a post which he kept until 2001. Since then, Poul has
concentrated his political engagement at the European level. From
2002 onwards, Poul has been a leading figure in the development of
new policy ideas and initiatives for European social democrats, as chair of the
PES High Level Group on globalisation and chair of the PES Lisbon Network.
Poul has also been chairman of the Global Progressive Forum from 2004 to 2007, a globalisation initiative involving a wide range of
NGOs, and a Member of the European Parliament, having led
the Danish Social Democrats to a stunning victory in the June 2004
European elections.
Oksenberg Conference Room
In today’s businesses information technology plays a central role. It is not only tightly knit into most enterprises’ core business processes but can also be a major source of innovation. For a considerable time the research in computer science has been concerned both with developing solutions that enable or facilitate particular business activities as well as with the provision of an infrastructure that is capable of providing the necessary data and computing capacity to these applications.
With the collapse of Soviet Union and a lack of internal energy resources, North Korea has been in economic hardships since early 1990s. Chung will discuss how the shortage of electric power has affected not only the operations of factories but the daily lives of North Koreans. He will also examine how North Korea has attempted to rehabilitate its energy sector internally and in external relations with neighboring countries as well as in the Six-Party Talks.
Lee will evaluate North Korean nuclear technology based on his analysis of North Korea’s National Science and Technology Development Plan and of its historical background. He
will examine the priorities in disabling of North Korea’s nuclear capacity.
Joon Young Chung is a reporter at Yonhap News, a Korean news wire service, and has worked in various departments including the national desk, business desk and the North Korea desk for the past 14 years. Recently he has covered Inter-Korean Dialogue and the Six-Party Talks.
Choongeun Lee is a Research Fellow at the Science & Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) in Korea. Before joining STEPI, he worked at the Yanbian University of Science & Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, and Peking University in China. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in engineering from Seoul National University in Korea, and Ph.D. in education from Beijing Normal University in China.
Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room
Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Joon Young Chung is a reporter at Yonhap News, a Korean news wire service, and has worked in various departments including the national desk, business desk and the North Korea desk for the past 14 years. Recently he has covered Inter-Korean dialogue and the Six-Party talks.
Shorenstein APARC
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Choongeun Lee is a Research Fellow at the Science & Technology Policy Institute(STEPI, Korea). Before joining STEPI, he worked at the Yanbian University of Science & Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, and Peking University in China. He received his B.A. and Ph. D in engineering from Seoul National University in Korea, and Ph.D. in education from Beijing Normal University in China.
His research has concentrated on science and technology systems (S&T) and policy of North Korea, China, and other transition countries. His recent publications include Linking strategy of military and civil innovation system based on recent change in security posture on Korean peninsula (2007, STEPI), Education and S&T System in North Korea (2006, Kyongin Publishing Co.), Nuclear Bomb and Technology in North Korea (2005, Itreebook), The S&T System and Policy of North Korea (2005, Hanulbooks), The S&T Cooperation of North Korea-China and its Implication (2005, North Korean Studies Review).
In the twelve years since the publication of the paper “Law
and Borders – The Rise of Law in Cyberspace” by David G. Post and David
Johnson, law makers and courts in the US and EU have had to address
numerous new questions arising from new information technologies and online
activities. What have we learned applying existing legal principles to new
Internet phenomena? What new principles have been established and what new
concepts underlie these principles? What role will new regulatory models and
regimes play in the future.
The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF)
[http://ttlf.stanford.edu] and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International
Studies (FSI) [http://fsi.stanford.edu] will host the first Transatlantic
Information Law Symposium on June 14, 2008 at Stanford Law School. The goal of
the symposium is to bring together the leading experts from the US and EU to
discuss current issues in information law and to promote mutual understanding of
the different approaches.
The symposium will address the following topics:
Constitutional Rights and IT in the EU
The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in EU Law
The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in US Law
Freedom of Speech and the Internet in US Law
Network Neutrality in US Law
Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under US Law
Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under EU Law
The Future of Regulating Cyberspace - Open Discussion
This event is free and open to the public. For more
information and registration, please click here.
Stanford Law School
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Department of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law
Althanstrasse 39-45
1090 Wien
Andreas Wiebe, LL.M., is Head of the Deparment of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. From January through June 2008, Professor Wiebe served as Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at the Forum on Contemporary Europe, during which time he taught courses in e-commerce law and intellectual property law at the Stanford Law School. Professor Wiebe co-organized the June 14 "Transatlantic Information Law Symposium," held at the Stanford Law School and presented by the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
