Insular Technologies
INTRO
Workshop Presentation
Workshop at V2_Organisation Rotterdam
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 15 - 17 March 99


The presentations on Monday evening and Wednesday evening are open to a wider audience.

Monday 15 March
late afternoon: first meeting, socialising
20.00 - 22.00: Public Presentation of the Insular Technologies project in co-operation with PACT Systems Ljubljana and Ljudmila HW-LAB (Marko Peljhan/Borja Jelic/Tomaz Izanc)

Tuesday 16 March
Lectures, discussion and working sessions on:
10.00 - 14.00: Wireless Data Communications Technologies - characteristics and alternatives.
15.00 - 18.00: Encryption - technical possibilities and legal aspects.
20.00 - 22.00: International Telecommunications Laws - legal and political implications of the Insular Technologies System

Wednesday 17 March
Follow-up discussions
11.00 - 18.00: Follow-up on the themes and discussions of the previous day, drafting of a realistic, suitable plan
20.00 - 22.00: Public presentation of the IT Consortium and workshop results

Participants include:

Balazs Beothy (HU) Representative of Consortium member C3. Jaap Both (NL) Packet Radio and computer bricoleur. Michael van Eeden (NL) Representative of Consortium member De Waag. Arthur Elsenaar (NL) Innovator in the field of radio, analogue/digital and human machine interfaces. Karel Fassotte (NL) Representative of WorldCom. Jaanis Garancs (LV) Representative of Consortium member E-Lab. Rop Gonggrijp (NL) Founder of XS4ALL and cryptography expert. Peter Hagdahl (SE) Representative of Consortium member CRAC. Borja Jelic (SI) of PACT Systems and Ljudmila HW-LAB, radio/computer software engineer. Dmytrik Kleiner (CDN) Pirate radio & netcasting wizard of IDIO-AUDIO infamy. Sergiy Kuchma (UA) Secure speech communication, speech coding. Kees Mulder (NL) Packet Radio and computer bricoleur. Marko Peljhan (SI) of PACT Systems, short-wave tactical radio strategist. Tomaz Isanc (SI) of It-T, radio/computer software engineer. Sinisa Rogic (YU) Representative of Consortium member CyberRex. Remko Scha (NL) Innovator in the field of sound and radio. Raitis Smits (LV) Representative of Consortium member E-Lab. James Stevens (UK) Representative of Consortium member Backspace. Patrik Tschudin (CH) Packet Radio over short-wave (HF) and VHF. Will Waites (CDN) TAO-affiliated GNU-coder and network protocol specialist. Maurice Wessling (NL) encryption expert.

Prospective members of the Consortium include:
Backspace, London. C3 - Centre for Culture and Communication, Budapest. CRAC - Creative Room for Art and Computing, Stockholm. CyberRex, Belgrade. E-Lab, Riga. Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, Ljubljana. Public Netbase, Vienna. V2_Organisation - Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam. De Waag - Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam.

If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please contact
Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>.