The book : Foresight of the Internet Digital networks as structuring tools for the Knowledge Regions Participants - Photos - Cover of the book - To order

The conference organised by the Destree Institute in Namur in March 2005 participates in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The book "Foresight of the Internet" presents the proceedings of the conference and includes the contributions proposed by the participants:

Foreword
Marie-Anne Delahaut		Director of research at the Destree Institute, head of the Information Unit; President of the Wallonia Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC), Namur

Preface
Viviane Reding		Member of the European Commission, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Luxemburg ‑ Brussels

Introduction
Vinton Cerf		Founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC), Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI - Ashburn, Virginia 2004 A.M. Turing Award Winner, with Robert E. Kahn, "For pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet's basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking" (16.02.2005)
Marie-Anne Delahaut		Deputy manager, advisor, head of the Information Unit and network administrator of the Destree Institute, Executive director of ISOC (Belgium) Wallonia, Namur
Peter Zangl		Deputy Director-General, Information Society Directorate General, European Commission; Member of the Working Group on the Internet Governance nominated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations following the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, Brussels

1. Technologies for the Information Society
Françoise Massit-Folléa		Professor in Communication Studies, Ecole Normale Supérieure Human & Social Sciences, Lyon; Counsellor for the French Ministry of Research, Department New Technologies for Society; Head of the Vox Internet Program, Paris
Louis Pouzin		Designer of the Cyclades network; Project Director, European Languages Internet Conference (EUROLINC) - Versailles
Helmut Schink		Siemens AG Vice-president, Systems Engineer, Director for Advanced Standards, former Director of ICANN, Officer for standards of the Internet Society Advisory Council, Germany
Loïc Damilaville		Registry for the Internet domain names .fr (France) and .re (Reunion Island), AFNIC, Paris
Sabine Dolderer		Director-General of the registry for the German Top Level Domain .de (DENIC), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Olivier Iteanu		Lawyer, Court of Appeal in Paris, Law on new information technologies; Honorary president of ISOC France, Paris
Mariana Cocirdan		Expert in communication and information systems at the Telecommunication Agency of Wallonia (AWT), Namur
Jacques Berleur		Emeritus Professor at the Computer Science Faculty and Honorary President of the University of Namur, President of ISOC (Belgium) Wallonia, Namur
Georges Chatillon		Director of DESS on Internet Law, Administration - Companies, University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris Expert for the French and German Governments, for the European Commission and for the OECD
Sébastien Bachollet		President of ISOC France and of EGENI

2. Human resources towards the Knowledge-based Society
Alain Moscowitz		Interclub "Computing, telecom, multimedia" (G9+); Confederation of European Computer User Associations Vice President, Paris
Jean-Marie Rousseau		Administrator in the Research Directorate General of the European Commission, Brussels
Frédéric Gruet		Representative in French Ministry of Research for the Technology Directorate, ICT Department, Paris
Borka Jerman-Blažič		Senior researcher, Associated Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Head of the Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, President of the European Chapters Coordinating Council of the Internet Society (ISOC-ECC)
Jon Thorhallsson		President of the Confederation of European Computer User Associations, Iceland
Bernard Nifasha		Advisor, Cabinet of the Minister of Communication, Secretary of the Technical Committee in charge of the promotion of ICT, Project Economic Governance, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Burundi
Alexandre Desrousseaux		Head of project "Action régionale en e-démocratie, projet DREAM 2", Service "Nouvelles Technologies" de la Direction de l'Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et des Nouvelles Technologies, representing Arnaud Fréville, Directeur de la recherche, de l'enseignement supérieur et des TIC, Conseil Régional Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille
Joan Dzenowagis		Project Manager, Health InterNetwork, e-Health, World Health Organization (WHO), Genève
Marianne Poumay		Director of the e-Learning Support Laboratory (LabSET), University of Liège (ULg); Vice-President of ISOC (Belgium) Wallonia, Liège
Thierry Gaudin		President of the association Prospective 2100 and of the association Reso, organizer of the annual meetings of Autrans (ISOC France), Paris

3. Transversal issues of Internet governance
Introduction
Frank March		Executive Coordinator Deputy to Mr. Markus Kummer and Senior Programme Adviser of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), created by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan following the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Geneva
Anne-Marie Straus		President of the Telecommunication Agency of Wallonia and of the Digital Incubator of Wallonia, Namur
Cécile Méadel		Head Researcher at the Sociology of the Innovation Center, associated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS - UMR 7120), Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Paris
Thibault Verbiest		Lawyer (Law firm ULYS, Brussels and Paris), Lecturer at the Paris I University (Sorbonne), President of the Internet Rights Observatory, Brussels
Chantal Léonard		Coordinator of the Walloon Business House for Europe (Walloon export Agency), Brussels
Chantal Lebrument		Responsible for the Internet, SNECMA, Paris, representing Bruno Oudet, Professor at the Joseph-Fourier University, Grenoble; in charge of the WSIS for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former President of ISOC France and organizer of the annual meetings of Autrans
François Schoubben		Assistant, Computer Science Faculty of the University of Namur (FUNDP); chair of webevasion.be, Namur
Jean-Michel Cornu		Scientific director of Next Generation Internet Foundation (FING), Ris-Orangis, France
Patrick Vande Walle		Member of the board of the Internet Society (ISOC), President of ISOC Luxembourg
Bernard Benhamou		Head of the Foresight and the Internet Governance Mission, Agency for the Development of the e-Administration (ADAE), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris
Christopher Wilkinson		Adviser, Information Society Directorate General of the European Commission; Head of Secretariat, ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), Brussels

Conclusion
Richard Delmas		Principal administrator of the the Information Society Directorate General of the European Commission; Secretariat of the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), Brussels
Marie Arena		Minister President of the Government of the French Community Brussels - Wallonia , in charge of Education, Brussels; Minister of Learning in the Government of the Wallonia Region, in charge of cyber-schools and cyber-classes, Namur

Postface
Markus Kummer		Executive Coordinator of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), created by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan following the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Geneva

Complements and reference, in particular
1. Technologies for the Information Society
Latif Ladid		President, IPv6 Forum; Chair, EU IPv6 Task Force; Trustee, Internet Society, Kehlen, Luxembourg "e-Nations, The Internet for all", An IPv6 business case
2. Human resources towards the Knowledge-based Society
Klaus Burmeister, Andreas Neef & Beate Schulz-Montag		Zukunftsforscher, Politologe und Gründer von Z_punkt Zukunftsforscher und Informationswissenschaftler Zukunftsforscherin und Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin, Z_punkt, The Foresight Company, Essen, Germany Crossover Society - Zukunft Jenseits Gängiger Labels (Crossover Society, The Future Beyond the Usual Categorisations)
Sergei Stafeev		Director, Centre of Community Networking and Information Policy Studies (CCNS), St. Petersburg, Russia Cultural Diversity in the Information Society
Khaled Zouari		Doctorant, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 (GRESEC), Tunisie / Grenoble La société arabe face à la société de l'information : le cas de l'Internet en Tunisie
Kim Veltman		Co-ordinator of a European Network of Centres of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage and Professor at the new European University of Culture in Paris, System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS), Maastricht / Paris / Toronto Culture, Creativity and the Internet
3. Transversal issues of Internet governance
Proposé par Bernard Benhamou		Head of the Foresight and the Internet Governance Mission, Agency for the Development of the e-Administration (ADAE), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris General principles of Internet Governance, Proposal of the French Government (janvier 2005)
Proposé par Latif Ladid		President, IPv6 Forum; Chair, EU IPv6 Task Force; Trustee, Internet Society, Kehlen, Luxembourg IPv6 Roadmap (juillet 2005)
Proposé par Frank March		Executive Coordinator Deputy to Mr. Markus Kummer and Senior Programme Adviser of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), created by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan following the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Geneva Report of the Working Group on Internet Governance (juin 2005)

	List of the contributors and of the participants		Reference of the book - To order DELAHAUT Marie-Anne (dir), Prospective de l'Internet - Foresight of the Internet, Proceedings of the Conference, Preface by Viviane REDING, Postface by Markus KUMMER, Namur, The Destree Institute, 544 pages (with color photos), 2005, 30 €.
	Photos of the conference, Namur, 04.03.2005.
	The Destree Institute
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