Governance of e-commerce and cyberspace

Dr. Erich Schweighofer (Centre of Legal Informatics, Vienna University) will give a talk about governance of e-commerce and cyberspace. He is specifically going to address the issue of the current Wikileaks scandal. Globalization means a big change in regulation of the economy. Borders are less significant and are partly supplemented by electronic firewalls (e.g. the Golden Shield Project of China). Important issues of governance are electronic identities (e-persons), electronic actions (e-actions), electronic market places and social fora. Technology (mostly software) determines the action space of human beings and good governance starts at the creation of these virtual spaces (code is law).