The 1st COMMUNIA Workshop provides an opportunity for experts and innovators in digital technologies to meet with other stakeholders, opinion leaders, and policy makers in order to deepen and share their understanding of the role of technology in shaping the present and future of our digital commons.

After the opening plenary talk at 9:15 on "Technology, the law and the public domain" (by Rishab Ghosh, MERIT, University of Maastricht) the Workshop will continue for the entire day with three different topic sessions, addressing technology issues, software tools and formats, and infrastructure matters -- all of them related to the development of the "digital commons" as a general mainframe, and the science commons in particular.

For more information on the workshop material (abstracts, presentations, proceedings, etc.) and agenda, visit the COMMUNIA site, at http://ws1-2008.communia-project.eu/.

Venue
The COMMUNIA workshop on "Technology and the Public Domain" will take place in Torino (Italy), at the Aula Magna of the Politecnico of Torino at the Lingotto (Via Nizza 230).

Attendance and Registration
The workshop is free and open to the public until all available seats are taken. Pre-registration is required. Please click here to register.

Confirmed speakers include:

Simone Brunozzi (BeeSeek)
Rob Davies (ePSIplus Thematic Network)
Francois Déchelle (Creative Commons France)
Séverine Dusollier (FUNDP - Centre de recherche informatique et droit)
Rishab Ghosh (MERIT, University of Maastricht)
Jonathan Gray (Open Knowledge Foundation)
Robert Horvitz (Open Spectrum Foundation)
Keith Jeffery (Current Research Information Systems)
Antonio Lioy (Politecnico di Torino, OpenTC project)
Stefano Quintarelli (Internet evangelist)
Xavier Serra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Music Technology Group)
Kaitlin Thaney (Science Commons)
Ivan Vighetto (Wikimedia Italia)
Nathan Yergler (Chief Technology Officer for Creative Commons)

Organisation
General Chair: Juan Carlos De Martin (NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society, Politecnico di Torino)

Co-Chairs: Philippe Aigrain (Sopinspace), Andrea Glorioso (NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society, Politecnico di Torino)

Scientific Committee:

Juan Carlos De Martin (NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society)
Andrea Glorioso (NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society)
Philippe Aigrain (Sopinspace)
Elias Carotti (Politecnico di Torino)
Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
Angelo Raffaele Meo (Politecnico di Torino)
Publications Chairs: Elias Carotti (Politecnico di Torino), Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (COMMUNIA)

Organizational Secretariat: Maria Teresa Medina Quintana (Politecnico di Torino)

Press: Bernardo Parrella (COMMUNIA)

Contacts:

General inquiries:
info@communia-project.eu

Media inquiries:
press@communia-project.eu