AnP Brainstorming
Here are some old notes from the brainstorming process...
Existing Proposals to be Discussed
- GNI
- GOFA
- Q6/17
Potential Guests
- Caroline Nolan, Colin Maclay, or John Palfrey from Berkman/GNI
- Andrew McLaughlin from Google
Brainstorming:
- Rebecca MacKinnon (former CNN journalist, former Berkman Fellow, and now Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Center; see fourth and fifth links below)
- Rep. Rick Boucher
- Chris Smith, Congressman and GOFA co-sponsor
- Mary Robertson, former President of Ireland
- Mark Allison, or another Amnesty International researcher on East Asian issues
- Nicola Wong (Google), Michael Samway (Yahoo) (see second link below), or other representatives of Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo who have dealt with China, S. Korea, Saudi Arabia, or other regimes in this context
- Edward J. Markey, House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet
- Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Chris Kelly, Facebook Chief Privacy Officer (candidate for AG of California in 2010)
- Peter O’Kelly, Skype President [1]
- Representatives of Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo who have helped design GNI
- Perhaps a representative of the government of South Korea (see seventh link below) or, ideally, China (hey, we can dream)
- Perhaps also a continental civil law (French, German?) free speech scholar to talk about contrasting international ideas of free speech?
Course structure
Class:
- First 10-15 minutes: Exposition- background information, state problem, and introduce types of potential solutions: Law (GOFA), Market, Norms (GNI), Code
- Next 45 minutes: Q&A with guests, in a panel, on what the terrain looks like now, and what's left to do. (Possibly Using Live Question Tool w/ Projector)
- Remainder: Classwide simulation, with students in groups, defending assigned roles as various stakeholder groups.
Simulation
The class will be divided into simulation groups ahead of time (e.g., US Congressional Representatives, Bloggers, Human Rights Groups). Each group will be assigned a role in the simulation, and we will give each group a set of readings specific to their role in the simulation.
A relevant privacy/anonymity problem (that has just recently been introduced on the global stage) will be introduced in the second half of the class. Drawing upon assigned readings and the lessons and principles introduced in the first half of the class, each simulation group will devise and advocate a broad approach to for confronting this problem. Each group's approach should be based on its assigned role in the simulation.