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Opening Speeches Authorship & Culture Brazil, the Free Culture Nation Keynote: The Read-Write Society Netlabels: Niche, Long Tail, Blueprint? Art & Copyright Quality Management in Free Content Economy & Labour Information Freedom Rules Business and the Commons Paris Accord: Composers, Performers and the Public Open Source Biotechnology Rules & Tools of Freedom EU Copyright Directive, Review and Implementation The Future of Free Software Open APIs Freedom Expanded Open Spectrum Closing Ceremony by uwekamper © All rights reserved Open Spectrum Friday, 15 September 2006, 15:00, Columbia Club The convergence of radio technology and computing creates the opportunity to rethink the electromagnetic spectrum as a public resource. The global movement of Free Wireless Networks operating on licence exempt microwave frequencies have successfully demonstrated that managing the spectrum as a commons works. Open Spectrum advocates argue that the switchover from analogue to digital radio and tv should be used to make more parts of the spectrum licence exempt. With the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) about to revise the rules of global spectrum management, there is also strong lobbying for spectrum auctioning to be increased, which would turn the 'ether' into a commodity. Which alternatives in policy making do exist? What are the requirements for sustainable peer-based networking communities? Chair: Armin Medosch Author & (wireless) Networker, London Onno Purbo Free Wireless Networking Activist, Jakarta, Indonesia Robert Horvitz Stichting Open Spectrum, Prague A Critique of Open Spectrum From Within Malcolm J. Matson Founder COLT telecom, Founder and Executive Director OPLAN Foundation (Open Public Local Access Networks), Director of OpenPlanet Ltd, London

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