We're delighted that Michael Geist will be opening Museums and the Web 2008. A leading Canadian Internet theorist and advocate, Michael will challenge our pre-conceptions about how institutions should act in an inter-connected world.

Hands On the Internet

Michael Geist, University of Ottawa, Canada

While many Internet advocates have long supported a hands-off government and policy approach to the Internet, Michael will make the case for a hands-on approach, citing the role that the museum and archival communities should play in contentious issues such as digital copyright, network neutrality, and access to public domain works.

See more ICHIM07 photographs in our flickr group: ichim07.