[Bradford] Fwd: DEAPPG Panel Event on Net Neutrality: A Briefing paper

[Dick Thomas]

an interesting email I just got about Net Neutrality meeting going on
tonight
it's come from the house of commons but there were no please don't forward
warning so I assume its fair game

I'm not sure why I'm getting house of commons emails but I must of
complained or emailed some one once but even so interesting read :)


DIck

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Brown <mbmbrown0 at gmail.com>
Date: 29 March 2011 12:18
Subject: DEAPPG Panel Event on Net Neutrality: A Briefing paper
To: Eric JOYCE <ericjoycemp at gmail.com>, Sophia PICKLES <
PICKLESS at parliament.uk>, Jean-Jaques Sahel <jean-jacques.sahel at skype.net>,
Beth Knight <elizabethhiroko at gmail.com>, Alex Stanley <
alexjstanley at gmail.com>, Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com>


*[image: deappg.jpg]*

*Dear DEAPPG Member, *

*I have attached a briefing paper  for our event this evening on Net
Neutrality. I hope you find it useful. This event looks to be very well
attended by members of the public and people from the IT and communications
industry. If you can not make it this evening but would still like to ask a
question of the panel, feel free to send it  to me this afternoon, or tweet
during the event using the #deappg tag.*

***DEAPPG Event: Net Neutrality, Opportunities and Challenges?*

The House of Commons, Committee Room 19 Tuesday 29th March 6.30-8.00pm

This is a panel event open to members of the public:
Speakers include:
Jean-Jaques Sahel, Director Government Affairs, Skype.
Kip Meek, Senior Public Policy Adviser, Everything Everywhere
Robert Hammond, Head of Postal and Digital Communications, ConsumerFocus
Rob Reid, Which?
James Heath, Controller for Policy, The BBC
Jim Killock, The Open Rights Group
Julie Meyer, Chief Executive, Ariadne Capital
Dominique Lazanski, The Tax Payer’s Alliance
Chair: Eric Joyce MP

What is the Internet likely to look like in the near future? Will it become
a two-tier network with a differentiated payment system for different types
of content? Will it be a network that actively filters and discriminates by
content and service for payment? This is a debate which continues in both
the United States and Europe: people feel passionately about this issue
because they feel their internet freedom is threatened. Their freedom of
access to information and the means to connect, to cooperate and to
collaborate with others is also an extremely important aspect of  a creative
society and the digital economy . The European Commission has said that one
of the founding principles of the Internet is ‘the open and neutral
character of the Internet’ how will this be affected and what advantages, if
any, can differential charging for Internet content bring to the consumer?

kind regards
-- 
Martin Brown
deappg coordinator
07527449760
02072192779
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martin at digecon.co.uk
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mbmbrown0 at gmail.com






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Dick Thomas
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www.xpd259.co.uk
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