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WHOSE INTERNET?
International conference in Helsinki, Finland. The themes are, how to proportion the principle of free access to information to offensive web content, the 'ownership' of web contents and the means of library professionals to handle the Internet.
The program runs in English on Thursday 18 May from 10.00 to 17.30 and on Friday 19 May from 9.00 to 11.30. The last part of the Friday program will be in Finnish.
Program
Thursday 18 May
- 10.00-10.20 Opening by Dr. Tarja Cronberg, MP, President of the Finnish Library Association
- 10.20-10.40 Introduction to the conference themes by Ms. Tuula Haavisto, Senior Library Adviser, member of FAIFE/IFLA
Free access vs. harmful material
- 10.40-11.30 Limitless Internet – how to live with it? by Prof. Paul Sturges, Chair, FAIFE/IFLA
- 11.30-12.00 Proportioning free access to harmful content by Dr. Jyrki Kasvi, MP, Finnish Parliament; member of the Committee for the Future
- 12.00-12.45 Practices in libraries – cases from Finnish and other public libraries
- 12.45-14.00 Lunch
Internet content – on whose provision?
- 14.00-14.30 Whose material do you find on Internet by Dr. Kimmo Tuominen, Head of Reference and Archival Services Library of Parliament, Finland
- 14.30-15.00 The cultural impact of Internet in South Africa by Mr. John Tsebe, National Librarian, South Africa
- 15.00-15.30 Non-Latin alphabet, Internet and libraries by Mr. Irakli Garibashvili, President, Georgian Library Association
- 15.30-16.00 Coffee
What to do
- 16.00-16.30 Media education by Dr. Sirkku Kotilainen, Adjunctive Professor, Jyväskylä University
- 16.30-17.30 Media Awareness Network in Canada by Ms. Anne Taylor, Former Executive Director of the MNet Project, Canada
- 17.30-18.30 Reception at Hotel Arthur
Friday 19 May
What to do continues
- 9.00-10.15 Danish view to the filtering and blocking programs by Prof. Niels Ole Pors, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
- 10.15-10.50 Juridical perspective to filtering, censorship and free access to information by Prof. Ahti Saarenpää, University of Lapland, Finland
- 10.50-11.00 Closing the international part of the program
- 11.00-11.20 Coffee break, after which all the foreign participants have a study trip to libraries, and the rest of the program will be in Finnish
- 11.20-12.10 Rajojen vetämisen periaatteet Elokuvatarkastamossa, johtaja Matti Paloheimo, Valtion elokuvatarkastamo (Walk on line in the Finnish Board of Film Classification)
- 12.10-13.00 nuorison paneeli Internetin haitta-aineistosta (youth panel)
- 13.00-13.30 Loppupohdiskelua, projektipäällikkö Suvi Kuikka, Pelastakaa Lapset ry (closing by Ms. Suvi Kuikka, project manager of Save the Children Finland)
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