Workshop Governance, Regulations, Powers on the Internet, May 27-28, 2005, in Paris, France, at the Ecole des Mines de Paris,60 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris.

Topics and Contents

While there are not the sole driver, information and communication technologies plays a major role in the in-depth mutations of international relations and of the organization of economic activities, and in the profound transformations of Nation States. In particular, they provide practical means for new modes of participation and new mode of regulation and governance. In addition, information technologies and digital networks are raising new issues since global information networks affect the performance of information based activities, the organization of related industries, and the coordination among all kind of stakeholders whose interest are impacted by the raise of the information society, as shown by the World Summit on Information Society in the wider context of the UN reform process.

In particular, technical governance, economic regulations and political government are becoming more and more interpenetrating issues. Yet, there is a need to understand how technical, political, economic and social norms are articulated, who are the main actors of this transforming process and how they interact, how these changes may influence the world ruling in terms of individual rights, public liberties, property rights, market competition, conflict management, security, sovereignty of states…

The GRPI workshop will gather a high-level, multidisciplinary group of researchers in social and political sciences, economy, law, and information technologies to discuss these issues.

Topics of interest includes: the pluralism of norms and their articulation; the emergence of new actors, new arenas and new modalities for setting norms, rules and codes; the definition of charters, codes, contracts between public and private actors; how these rules are implemented and enforced, how the public may adhere to them; what is the substance of the produced norms and their impact on the balance of rights; and finally whether and how this may redefine the modes of national and global political organization?

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