COMMUNIA: The European Thematic Network on the digital public domain
When: Wednesday 13 February, 12:30 - 2pm
Where: Gibson Room (Room 1064), Z Block, Gardens Point Campus.
Juan Carlos De Martin, Associate Professor at the Information Engineering School of the Politecnico di. Previously, prof. De Martin spent -besides several years with the National Research Council of Italy- two years as Visiting Scholar at the University of California, and two years in Dallas as Texas Instruments member of technical staff and as adjunct professor at the University of Texas. His research activities are focused on multimedia processing and transmission. He is also actively involved in investigating the effects of digital technologies and Internet on society. In that direction, he has been following the Creative Commons Italy project since 2003, he brought to Italy and co-organized the Harvard Law School Internet Law Program, and founded in November 2006 the NEXA Center for Internet and Society of the Politecnico di Torino (http://nexa.polito.it). Since 1 September 2007, Dr De Martin is the Coordinator of COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain (http://communia-project.eu). De Martin is a member of IEEE and the author or co-author of over seventy international scientific publications.
The COMMUNIA Thematic Network aims at becoming a European point of reference for theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment - as well as related topics. Funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus framework, the 3-year long project expects to provide policy guidelines that will help each stakeholder involved - public and private, from the local to the European and global level. COMMUNIA also plans to build strategic relationships with other non-European countries (starting with the United States and Brazil, where two COMMUNIA members are located) in which similar policy discussions are currently underway.
RSVP to e.bledsoe@creativecommons.org.au
