Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)
2234 Piedmont Avenue
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
510-642-3067

The Digital Economy in International Perspective:

Common Construction or Regional Rivalry

The Willard Inter-Continental Washington
Washington, D.C.
May 27, 1999

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Conference Papers and Presentations

The purpose of this conference is to frame an international dialogue on corporate strategy and public policy in the evolution of the digital marketplace, with emphasis on developments in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. The conference provides an international dimension to the May 25-26 conference on "Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools and Research."

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7:30 – 8:30 a.m.		Registration
8:30 – 9:15 a.m.		Breakfast and Overview: Common Stakes in the E-conomy Introductions by John Zysman, Professor and Co-Director, BRIE, University of California, Berkeley
	Opening Remarks:	David Beier, Chief Domestic Policy Advisor, Office of the Vice President Andrew Pincus, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce
	Analytic Overview:	J. Bradford De Long, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley; former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury Peter Harter, Vice President, Global Public Policy and Standards GoodNoise; former Public Policy Counsel, Netscape Communications
	Session I: Differences in Technology and Use This session explores whether there are significant emerging differences in technology and use between the US and other parts of the world (e.g. European leadership in wireless technologies and infrastructure), and whether those differences have competitive implications. It examines emerging international differences in enabling technologies, infrastructure provision and E-commerce applications.
	Chairs:	Michael Borrus, Adjunct Professor and Co-Director, BRIE, University of California, Berkeley; Managing Director, Petkevich and Partners Stephen Cohen, Professor of Planning and Co-Director, BRIE, University of California, Berkeley Martin Kenney, Professor of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis; Senior Project Director, E-conomy™ Project, BRIE
9:15 – 10:45  a.m.		Panel 1 - Developments in Enabling Network Technologies and Infrastructure François Bar, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Stanford University Jiro Kokuryo, Associate Professor and Head of the Electronic Commerce Research Project, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University, Japan Erkki Ormala, Director, Technology Policy, Nokia Corporation Glenn Woroch, Visiting Professor of Economics and Executive Director, Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Axel Zerdick, Professor of Economics and Mass Communication, Freie Universität Berlin
10:45 – 11:15  a.m.		Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.		Panel 2 - E-commerce Applications in Sectoral Perspective Stuart Feldman, Director, IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce Mark Kvamme, Chairman, USWeb/CKS Niels Christian Nielsen, Executive Vice President, Danish Technological Institute David Pecaut, Senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.		Lunch:   Digital Economy or Digital Society? A U.S. - European Conversation Elliot Maxwell, Special Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce for the Digital Economy, U.S. Department of Commerce Erika Mann, Member, European Parliament, Member of the Committee on External Economic Relations and the Committee on Economic, Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy
	Session II: International Interoperability and Governance in the E-conomy This session considers the most important legal and regulatory issues raised by the emerging digital e-conomy, areas of domestic and international conflict over these legal issues, and how best to avoid the emergence of rival national e-conomies with conflicting standards. Each national e-conomy must establish rules to construct its digital marketplace; rules that involve issues like intellectual property rights, protection of privacy and security, competition, and taxation. At the same time, the multitude of national e-conomies must be interconnected, whether through common harmonized rules, compatible standards, or some combination thereof.
	Chairs:	Peter Cowhey, Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego; former Chief, International Bureau, FCC Denis Gilhooly, Advisor for Telecommunications, World Bank; former Vice President for Business Development, Teledesic
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.		Panel 3 - Governance institutions and venues for dispute resolution Don Abelson, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Industry Peter Cowhey, Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego; former Chief, International Bureau, FCC John Dryden, Head of the Information Computer and Communications Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.		Panel 4 – The construction, structure and operation of networks Don Cruickshank, Chairman, Action 2000, Department of Trade and Industry, U.K.; former Director General, Office of Telecommunications, U.K. Robert Pepper, Chief, Office of Policy and Plans, FCC Jonathan Sallet, Chief Policy Counsel, MCI/Worldcom
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.		Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:30  p.m.		Panel 5 - Laws for digital transactions and their relationship to social values Helen McDonald, Director General of Policy Development, Electronic Commerce Task Force, Industry Canada Patricia Paoletta, Vice President for Government Affairs, Level 3 Communications, former Counsel for the Majority, Office of Representative Tom Bliley (R-VA) Bror Salmelin, Head of Unit, DGXIII - Information Society: Telecommunications, Markets, Technologies, European Commission Pamela Samuelson, Professor, Boalt School of Law and School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley
5:30 – 5:45 p.m.		Program Summary: Denis Gilhooly - Advisor for Telecommunications, World Bank; former Vice President for Business Development, Teledesic
5:45 – 6:15 p.m.		Closing Remarks - Tales from the Silicon Valley; Governance, Technology and Civil Society Regis McKenna, Chairman and CEO, Regis McKenna Inc. John Zysman, Professor and Co-Director, BRIE, University of California, Berkeley