Public Lecture
The Ethics of Broadband: Optimizing the Impact of the Internet in Asia
Deepak Jain Hall, Sasa International House, Chulalongkorn University
October 17, 2019, 2pm to 4pm. Refreshments will be served afterward.
Speakers and Their Topics
Craig Warren Smith: “Operationalizing Broadband Ethics in the Era of 5G”
Shenglong HAN, “Envisioning Meaningful Broadband-China: A Framework for Activating an Ethical Broadband Ecosystem for the World’s Largest Nation”
Craig Warren Smith is Chairman of the Digital Divide Institute. In 1999 he founded the international movement to close the digital divide. After graduating with honors from Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley, he became a professor of technology policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and also at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. In 2007, he created an ethics-based paradigm called Meaningful Broadband. It was accepted that year by Thailand’s NBTC and it’s five telecommunications operators. It has since been activated as a model for closing the Digital Divide by the Republic of Indonesia. In 2019, this model was slated for deployment to 30 million low-income citizens located in remote parts of the archipelago.
Shenglong HAN, Ph.D. in management science, Associate Professor of the Department of Information Management at Peking University. Funded by Freeman Foundation of the USA, he visited University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a visiting scholar from July 2008 to June 2009. From May 2012 to August 2015, he was sent by Confucius Institute Headquarters and Peking University to Thailand to act as the Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University. His current research interests focus on digital divide and community informatics.
Program
2.00-2.15 pm: Introducing the Program and the Speakers, setting the stage
Soraj Hongladarom, Director, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology
2.15 – 2.45 pm: “Operationalizing Broadband Ethics in the Era of 5G”
Craig Warren Smith
2.45 – 3.15 pm: “Envisioning Meaningful-Broadband China”
Han Shenglong
3.15 -4.00 pm: General Discussion
4.00 – 5.00 pm: Coffee and Refreshments Break, Networking
The public is cordially invited. Please register by sending an email to parkpume@gmail.com before October 15, 2019. Seating limited to 25 only.
Organized by the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University and the Digital Divide Institute, supported by the Mahachakri Foundation.
Center for Science, Technology, and Society 