With a special emphasis on public interest advocacy, this ten-day programme
on information and communications technologies (ICT) offers participants the
chance to engage in the global ICT policy debate from a European perspective,
with sessions taught by European and international experts.
The 25 selected participants will receive a full-tuition fellowship to cover
the cost of the training programme, travel to and from Budapest, and room
and board.
Contents
1. The Programme
2. Who Can Apply
3. The Organisers
4. How to Apply
1. THE PROGRAMME
During this ten-day programme participants will learn to build skills in
developing and advocating ICT policy in their home countries and the region.
The programme has a focus on European policies, and a comparative approach
to assessing national, regional and global policy agendas is central to the
curriculum.
Issues dealt with include ICT infrastructure (telecom liberalisation and
spectrum management/wireless), civil liberties (privacy and freedom of
_expression), and intellectual property - all in the context of how decisions
are made and how public interest advocates can participate in policy making
processes.
For further information about the training programme please visit
www.stanhopecentre.org/ict.
2. WHO CAN APPLY
In selecting applicants, the selection committee will look for participants
with a legal background and/or basic understanding of ICT policy issues.
Applications are sought from advanced law students, practising lawyers, and
other individuals who show a strong demonstrable interest in public interest
advocacy of the ICT sector. Preference will be given to applicants
representing civil society and academia.
Applicants must convey how their background (academic and professional)
relates to ICT policy advocacy and why they want to receive policy training
in this sector. Applications will be judged on how applicants convey their
motivation, future plans, and overall interest in ICT policy advocacy.
Applicants considered will be from: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,
Slovakia, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania,
Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Turkey. The organisers are willing to
admit a few exceptionally strong candidates from Central Asia and the
Caucasus.
3. THE ORGANISERS
The 2003 ICT Policy Training Programme builds on a summer school in 2002 at
Oxford University (at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy) for
media lawyers and law professionals in the Balkans and southern Caucasus.
The organiser of the 2003 Training Programme will be the Stanhope Centre for
Communications Policy Research through its Hungarian Office, located at
Budapest's Eötvös Lorand University, in conjunction with the Markle
Foundation and the Open Society Institute.