Thursday, 28 May 2009 – Ministerial Conference Day 1

08h00

Registration

09h00 – 10h30

Opening of the Conference

09h00 – 09h30

Address by the Icelandic Minister of Culture, Education and Science

Katrin Jakobsdottir

Address by the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio

09h30 – 10h00

Election of the Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons of the Conference

Address on behalf of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe:
Rt.Hon. Andrew McIntosh, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on the Media and Member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, United Kingdom

10h00 – 10h30

Keynote speech: “A New Notion of Media”

Dr Karol Jakubowicz

10h30 – 11h00

Coffee break

 General theme: A New Notion of Media?

Sub-theme 1:

New media – new regulations?

Introductory remarks:

Giuseppe de Martino, Legal Director, DailyMotion.com

Statements by ministers:

Civil Society response                                                      Mark Thompson, Media Program, Open Society Institute

Panel discussion A:

Trust the content – trust the Media?

Moderator: Duska Jurisic, Journalist, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Panellists:

Adriano Farano, Executive Manager, Editor, Cafebabel.com : the European magazine

Divina Frau-Meigs, Professor of media sociology, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France

Marjan Hammersma, Head of the Department for Media, Libraries and Literature, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands

William Horsley, Association of European Journalists Media Freedom Representative, Chairman, Association of European Journalists, U.K

Georgios Kipouros, Working Group on Education, European Youth Forum, Greece

Jahri Lahti, Head on New Media, Finnish Broadcasting Company

Jelena Surculija, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, Serbia

Discussants:

Inge Brakman, Dutch media authority (CVDM), the Netherlands

Andreas Christodoulou, Press and Information Officer A, Media Section, Ministry of Interior, Republic of Cyprus

Sub-theme 2:

Trust the content – trust the media:

Introductory remarks:

Statements by ministers:

Panel discussion B:

Media and new communication services and the individual

Moderator:  Birna Helgadottir, Journalist, Iceland

Panellists:

Robert Amlung, Adviser on Internet and new media, Directorate General ZDF

Mr. Bülent ARINÇ, Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister responsible for Media and Information Society, Turkey

Ed Klute, Online More Colour in the Media, the Netherlands

Ren Reynolds, The Virtual Policy Network

Malte Spitz, European Youth Forum

Plamen Vatchkov, Head of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications, Bulgaria

Discussants:

Sub-theme 3:

Relations of the media with the individual and with the community(ies):

Introductory remarks:

Tine Radinja, President, European Youth Forum

Statements by ministers:

Véronique Moreira, Vice-President (Committee Culture and Education) within the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe.

Response by civil society:
Pieter de Wit, President, Community Media, Forum Europe (CMFE)

Panel discussion C:

New media and media-like services, an opportunity for freedom of expression or a challenge to privacy and other rights?

Moderator: Lyse Doucet, BBC, UK

Panellists:

Richard Bartle, Games designer, professor, UK

Srd Kisevic, European Youth Forum

Giuseppe de Martino, Legal Director, DailyMotion.com

Michael Rotert, Vice-President, European Internet Service Providers Association (EuroISPA)

Discussants:

Pekka Nurmi, privacy expert, Chairperson of the Council of Europe Committee on Legal Co-operation

Thomas Schneider, OFCOM, Switzerland

Friday, 29 May 2009 – Ministerial Conference Day 2

Internet Governance
Frédéric Riehl, Secretary of State, Federal office of communications, Switzerland

Markus Kummer, Secretary of the Internet Governance Forum, United Nations

Emerging challenges to freedom of expression and information

Rt.Hon. Andrew McIntosh, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on the Media and Member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, United Kingdom

Peter Noorlander, Legal Director, Media Legal Defence Initiative

Council of Europe recent achievements in the field of media and new communication services / information society (report on the CDMC's activities in the period 2005 – 2008)

Matthias Traimer, Chairperson of the Council of Europe Steering Committee on Media and New Communication Services (CDMC) in 2007 and 2008

The future activities of the Council of Europe in the media and information society fields: orientations and priorities

Delia Mucică, Chairperson of the CDMC

Other business

Adoption by the Ministers of a Political Declaration and other texts