Reykjavík Digital Freedoms Conference 2008
On the 5. of July the conference on digital freedom of 2008 will start at the Gullteig-hall at Grand Hotel Reykjavík. A spectacular selection of lecturers are gathered for this unique event which is meant to raise consciousness of Icelanders about the nature of freedom in the digital age. The main lecturers are Eben Moglen from the Software Freedom Law Center and John Perry Barlow from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Besides them there will be a number of other local and international speakers who will discuss further topics related to digital freedom.
Schedule
12:00 start of conference
Tryggvi Björgvinsson, president of FSFÍ
12:30 Freedom to Think: The Role of Free Software in the Growth of the Human Mind
Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center
14:00 The right to know
John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
15:30 Break
16:00 Open Environment for Digital Identification in Iceland
Haraldur Agnar Bjarnason, Ministry of finance
16:20 Ending Poverty with Open Hardware
Vinay Gupta and Lindsey Darby, Hexayurt inc.
16:40 Free culture in the classroom
Salvör Gissurardóttir, The Iceland University of teaching
17:00 Peering into the Future: Collaborative Models for Distributed Manufacturing
Andy McDonald, Center for Advanced Textiles, University of Glasgow
17:20 Icelandic wiki projects
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, The Icelandic wikimedia group
17:40 Privacy in an open digital goverment
Haukur Arnþórsson, University of Iceland
18:00 End of conference
