[February 24-25, 2011
Workshop on Free and Open
Communication on the
Internet (FOCI)
Klaus Advanced Computing Bldg, 1116 East & West
266 Ferst Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332-0765
Agenda
Thursday, February 24, 2011
2pm-5:30pm Internet Censorship Panel and Lecture [Download flyer]
6pm Reception: Hotel Palomar Atlanta
866 West Peachtree Street, NW
Atlanta, GA 30308
Friday, February 25, 2011
8-9a Continental Breakfast
9-9:30a Welcome
9:30-11a Panel #1: The International Scene (Moderator: Nick Feamster)
- Dorothy Chou (Google)
- Jed Crandall (University of New Mexico)
- Lilian Edwards (Strathcylde Law School, UK)
- Sina Rabbani (Anarchy)
11a-1130a Break
1130a-1230p Lunch
12:30-2p Panel #2: Policy (Moderator: Rich DeMillo)
- Mike Best (Georgia Tech)
- Hans Klein (Georgia Tech)
- Hal Roberts (Harvard University)
- Wendy Seltzer (Princeton University)
2-2:30p Break
2:30-4p Panel #3: Next Steps (Moderator: Roger Dingledine)
- Josh Karlin (BBN)
- Santosh Vempala (Georgia Tech)
- Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech)
- Mike Freedman (Princeton)
4-4:15p Wrap-Up & Next Steps
More than 50 countries around the world censor or monitor some subset of Internet traffic, and recent years have seen both the rise of new censorship techniques and technologies to evade these techniques. As Internet connectivity becomes pervasive, government control over and surveillance of its citizens' traffic in countries around the world will become an increasingly important issue. In light of these trends, we are hosting a workshop to build a community of people who are working on various aspects of Internet censorship and surveillance. The goals of the workshop are as follows:
- To gain a better understanding of the state of Internet censorship in various countries
around the world. - To understand the policy and legal issues associated with censorship (and anticensorship)
in countries around the world. - To understand the important technical problems faced by developers of today's anticensorship
tools. - To identify research problems related to anti-censorship in computer science and
technology policy.
We expect the workshop to have about 20-30 attendees and to last 1-1.5 days, with a few talks
from experts and several open-ended panel discussions.