A CITI Address and Discussion: “The Broadbanding of Europe”

 

With Erkki Liikanen, Member of the European Commission
responsible for Enterprise and Information Society

Wednesday, November 5, 2003
4:30PM-5:30PM
Room 209 W&J Warren Hall (Amsterdam Avenue between 115th and 116th)
Columbia University
New York, NY


The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) will host Erkki Liikanen, the EU Commissioner responsible for Enterprise and Information Society. Mr. Liikanen heads EU policy development and coordination for the deployment of broadband communications. Mr. Liikanen will speak on the ways in which the European countries are meeting or stimulating the demands for information transmission and interconnection. He will also describe the EU's e-Europe initiative.

Discussants are:
Eli Noam, Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
Mark Stahlman, Founder, New Media Laboratory
John Thorne, Deputy General Counsel, Verizon Communications
Others TBA

There is NO FEE for this event but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ASSURE SEATING. To RSVP, contact CITI at: events@vii.org or (212) 854-4222.