Political and Legal Issues of Information Society

To "Aera Informatica" Main Page Milton Friedman Economic Freedom, Human Freedom, Political Freedom Copied with permission of the Authorities of The Smith Center -- A Conservative Think Tank at Cal State Hayward. Among the advocates of open society, Milton Friedman, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976, was among those few who were lucky to materialize his ideas in economic practice on a large scale. It is he and his team to whom Chile owes its overcoming an acute economic crisis, as caused by socialistic policies, and its way to successful free economy, which after some years resulted in human and political freedom. Programm für Stabilität, Aufschwung und mehr Beschäftigung in Deutschland. Synoptische Übersicht zum Stand der Umsetzung des "20-Punkte-Programms" vom 9. Januar 1996. Stand: 1. Juli 1996. In this document (item 16), telecommunication and biotechnology are indicated as crucial for economical and political development. Moreover (item 19) one postulates (i) to create perspicuous legal foundations for information and communication technologies, (ii) to make the ties between science and economics still closer, and (iii) to increase competition in activities leading to information society. Bürokratie gefährdet Zukunftsindustrien This text is a quotation of the comment submitted to "Die Welt" (January 1997) by Professor Jürgen Doeblin, a member of the Bundestag Committee for the Future of Media. Though the situation referred to is improving (owing to the pressure of EU standards), this comment can serve as a case study to hint at how information society may be endangered by policies deviating from the standards of open society. Bernd Neumann: Politische Rahmenbedingungen für die Informationsgesellschaft. This article belongs to a series of contributions due to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation which appear in the series Aktuelle Fragen der Politik. From this series we shall make available some items concerning information society. BURDA AKADEMIE zum DRITTEN JAHRTAUSEND ,,Academy for the Third Millenium'' - the institution involving scientists and experts to deal with electronic media, established in Muenchen, 1993, by a circle related to BURDA publishers. Its works (conferences, publications, etc.) are concerned with the role of Internet etc. for democracy and the information society. A Gene Map of the Human Genome. A document containing links into many other documents on the same subject. It may by of interest for those who put emphasis on importance of biotechnology, as in the CSU program (see above).