1. Sessions

 

Session I : Keynote Speech -- Perspective of this conference

Speaker : Kim Jinkyoon, Convener of Organizing Committee, Professor of Sociology Department of Seoul National University

 

Session II : Challenge of Labor Movements worldwide and International Communication Strategy

Moderator : Won Youngsu, Korean Institute for Labor Studies and Policies (KILSP)

Presentations

- What is to be done for the 21st Century?

Che Mansoo, Deputy Director of Korean Institute for Labor Studies and Policies

- Labor Challenges and Potential in Global Economy : Telecommunication, Democracy, Mobilization and Power for the 21st Century

Steve Zeltzer, LaborNet US & Labor Video Project

Commentary

- Asia : Bong Angeles, Asian Monitoring and Resouce Centre (AMRC)

- South Africa : Anna Weeks, South African Municipal Workers Union(SAMWU)

- Turkey : Fedra Koc, DISK Basin-IS Union(Press workers)

- India : J. John, (CEC)

 

Session III : Report from Workshop and Discussion

Moderator : Rev. Jang Changwon, Chair of Steering Committee, LaborNet Korea

 

 

2. Workshops

 

(1) Experiences of LaborNets and Perspectives

moderator : Chris Bailey, LabouNet UK

presentations :

- LaborNet Facing 2000. Tasks and Opportunities

Steve Zeltzer, LaborNet US

- LabourNet Germany as the Virtual Meeting Place of the Left in the Unions and Workplcae

David Hollis, Labor Net Germany

- Korea : Experience of Launching NodongNet

Lee Yonggeun, Coordinator of LaborNet Korea

- Turkey : Experience with the New Communication Technologies in Turkey

Onder Ozdemir, Videotek

- South Africa : The State of Labor Media in South Africa in 1999

Anna Weeks, SAMWU

 

(2) The Labor Unionists Strategy for New Communication

Different Information Changes The Way of Struggle

moderator : Park Canggeun, Hyundai Precision Trade Union

presentations

- Labor Union and Communication : Mutual Understanding Or Delivery

Im Inae, Millennium Report Team, LAN

- What Really Happened? The language of the Common Workers. the Language of the Guidance division

Hong Eunyoung, Millennium Report Team

 

(3) Labor Video Movement

moderator : Kim Hyunsook, Seoul National University of Technology

presentations

- Experience with the New Communication Technologies in Turkey

Onder Ozdemir & Funda Basaran, Videotek, Turkey

- Japan's Labor Movement and Labor Video

Akira Mazbara, Video Press

- Class Struggle Hightens Use of US Labor Video

Steve Zeltzer, Labor Video Project

- Canadian Experience of Labor Video Movement

Julius Fisher, Working TV

- The situation of the Korean Labor Video Activism an da Proposal about International Networking

Kim Myungjoon, Labor Video Production

 

(4) Barriers to Women Workers On-line Access, and How to Overcome

moderator : Jung Yanghee, Chair of Seoul Women Workers Union

presentations

- The Utilization of Electronic Communication and Women Workers Movement

Lai NganYin, Committee of Asian Women (CAW)

- Two lies in 'digital age' prophecies

- How we can overcome barriers between women(workers) and cyberspace?

Sita, Currently in masters program in sociology, Yonsei University

- Women's strategy in cyberspace : More political imagination

Chang Yeokyung, Jinbo Network

Comment

- Asia : Bong Angeles, AMRC

- South Africa : Anna Weeks, SAMWU

 

(5) Possibility and Perspective for Internet Broadcasting(?)

moderator :

- Internet Video Streaming Workshop

Brian Drolet, Free Speech TV

- Webcasting - One producers personal experience

Julius Fisher, Working TV

- Possibility and Limit of Internet Broadcasting as an Alternative Media

- Based on Progressive Network Center's Experience and Plan

Hong Seokman, JinboNet

 

(6) Information Technology, Social Surveillance and Response by Labor Movement

moderator : Kwon Soonwon (lecturer, Seoul National University)

presentations

- Surveillance and the interception of communications

Chris Bailey, LabourNet UK

- Labor Control through Information Technology at the Workplace and Workers Response

a unionist from Junju Branch of Hyndai Motors

- For the immediate action against watch and control

Kim Youngshik, Cyber Rights Team of JinboNet

- A report of the struggle for people's privacy against Japanese Government

Yasuda Yukihiro, JCA-NET

 

(7) Imformatization Experiences of Trade Unions and their Perspective

moderator : Lee Yonggeun, Coordinator of LaborNet Korea

presentations

- Situation and Perspective of Trade Union Informatization

Kim Hyekyung, Task Group for Labor Informatization (TGLI)

- Workers Struggle, and Utilizing Inforamtion Technology and Media

Lyu Kwonkeun, LaborNet Korea

- Informatization of Science and Technology Labor Union through Using Homepage

Lim Iksung, unionist from National Science and Technology Trade Union

- Local Experience of Workers Communication Network: Case of Ulsan

Jin Kwanguk, communication officer of KCTU Ulsan Regional Council

- Organized Labor's Best Bet?: CyberUnions!

Arthur Shostak, Professor of Sociology Drexel University, Dept. of Psychology and Sociology

 

(8) WTO New Round and Workers struggle

moderator : Lee Jonghoi, Coordinator, People's Solidarity for Social Progress (PSSP)

presentations

- No to WTO, No to New Round. Turn Around!

Lee Changgeun, Policy and Information Center for International Solidarity (PICIS)

 

(9) Workshop : Movement for Independent Channel and its Perspective

moderator : Kim Myungjoon, Labor New Production

presentations

- Independent Media in the Digital Age

Brian Drolet and Eric Galatas, Free Speech TV

- National Labor Channel - Efforts in the United States

Wes Brain and Suzi Aufderheide, UPPNET and NorthWest Alliance for Community Media

- The Valuation and Outlook of 'Citizen's Stockholder Broadcast Foundation' Movemen

Choi yungmook, researcher, Korea Broadcasting Institute

 

(10) Utilizing Linux in the Labor Movement

moderator : Yang Sungji, Research Group on Intellectual Property

presentations

- Real Information Society and Social Implications of 'GNU/LINUX'

Hong Seongtae, Research Group on Intellectual Property

- Usability of Linux in the social movement including labor movement

- Case study of some groups in domestic and foreign countries

Oh Byngil, Jinbo Network

 

(11) Workers Struggle and Perspective for Global LaborNet

moderator : Steve Zeltzer, LaborNet US

presentations

- Labor Movement and Internet

Chris Bailey, LabourNet UK

- Workers Struggle and Perspective for Global LaborNet

Won Youngsu, KILSP