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Opening session

Mrs Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

Mr Mogens Schmidt, Deputy Assistant Director-General, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO.

Mr Jean-Pierre Boyer, Secretary General of the French Commission for UNESCO.

Presentation of the results of the UNESCO Latino-American and African regional meetings and of the UNESCO code of ethics project

S. Exc. Mrs Laura Faxas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,
Permanent Delegate of the Dominican Republic to UNESCO,

Mr Felix Weil, Member of the Board, International Center for Information Ethics (Germany),

Mr Boyan Radoykov, Programme Specialist, Information society Division, UNESCO.

Introduction session

General rapporteur : Mr Yves Poullet, Director of the Computing and Law Centre, Notre-Dame de la Paix University (Belgium).

Mr Philip Brey, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente (The Netherlands),

Mrs Penny Duquenoy, Manager of the British Computer Society Ethics Forum, Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University (United Kingdom),

Mr Stefano Rodotà, Professor, Rome University (Italy),

Mrs Catherine Trautmann, Member of the European Parliament (France).

Round table 1 : Towards equality of access
The ethical issues regarding access to information, knowledge and culture

Moderator : Mrs Helen Darbishire, Executive director of Access Info Europe, Madrid (Spain).

Mrs Constance Bommelaer, Manager of Public Policy, Internet Society (ISOC) (France ),

Mrs Divina Frau-Meigs, Professor, Paris 3 University (France),

Mrs Claudia Lux, President-Elect of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), (Germany),

Mr Jon Thorhallsson, President, Confederation of European Computer User Associations (CECUA), (Iceland),

Rapporteur : Mr Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Professor LIP6 - University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), ACASA group leader (France)

Round table 2 : Freedom of expression : a right with responsibilities
The ethical issues regarding the creation and dissemination of Internet content and communications

Moderator : Mr Karol Jakubowicz, former Director of the Strategy and Analysis Department of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland, former Chairperson of the Steering Committee on Media and New Communication Services (Poland)

Mr Vittorio Bertola, Engineer, co-founder of Dynamic Fun, representative of the global internet users in the ICANN board,(Italy)

Mr David Butt, Member of the Board of Directors of ECPAT International (Canada)

Mrs Hanne-Sophie Greve, Former judge of the European Court of Human Rights (Norway),

Mr Tomislav Medak, Creatives Commons International Croatia List, Multimedia Institute (mi2), Zagreb (Croatia),

Mr Thomas Schneider, International Affairs Service, Federal Office of Communication, Chairperson of the Council of Europe Group of specialists on human rights and information society, (Switzerland).

Rapporteur : Mr Dirk Voorhoof, Professeur, Université de Gand - Belgique/Université de Copenhague - Danemark (Belgique)

Round table 3 : Identity and social networks
The ethical issues of empowering Internet users and the emergence of new forms of social relations

Moderator : Mrs Françoise Massit-Folléa, Professor Ecole Normale Supérieur Lettres et Sciences humaines, Paris, Scientific manager of Vox Internet II programme, (France)

Mr Paul de Hert, Professor, Free University of Brussels and Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (The Netherlands),

Mr Soenke Zehle, Professor, Saarland University (Germany),

Mr Serge Proulx, Professor, Québec University, Montreal (Canada).

Rapporteur : Mrs Mary Rundle, Director, Geneva Net Dialogue, Berkman Center - Harvard (United States of America).

Round table 4 : Security and governance
The ethical issues concerning the protection of rights and freedoms of Internet users with regard to their actions and responsibilities

Moderator : Mrs Isabelle Falque Pierrotin, President, Internet Rights Forum, (France).

Mr Joaquin Bayo Delgado, Deputy European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) European Union

Mr Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel, Google, (United States of America)

Mr Henrik Kaspersen, President of the Cybercrime Convention Committee, Council of Europe, Professor at the Computer Law Institute of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), (Pays-Bas)

Mr Andreas Krisch, Member of the board of European Digital Rights (EDRI), Member of the Austrian Association for Internet users (Austria),

Mrs Marie Georges, Councellor of President for Advanced Studies, Development and cooperation, Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (the French Data Protection Independant Authority) (France)

Rapporteur : Mrs Lorna Woods, Professor and member of the Human rights center of the University of Essex (United Kingdom)