Documents 1999
Consumer Protection after the OECD Guidelines
Monday, Oct 11, 1999What's Next? Consumer Protection after the OECD Guidelines Speaking Notes – Philippa Lawson Public Voice 99 Conference We need first to be clear on what our goal is. Our goal is not simply to promote electronic commerce as a way of improving economic opportunity and choice – that, our business colleagues are doing very well. We, the public voice, recognize that the social ...
Improving Internet Access: The Canadian Approach
Friday, Apr 30, 1999Philippa Lawson Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Ottawa, Canada Paper for “Computers, Freedom and Privacy: The Global Internet” The Internet holds great promise as a facilitator of social and economic development. Indeed, we are already experiencing the tremendous empowering effect that it can have on otherwise disadvantaged individuals and groups: witness, for example, the ...
Achieving Universal Access to the Internet: An Impossible Dream?
Thursday, Mar 18, 1999University of Ottawa, Department of Communications Speaker Series on Communication, Social Justice and the Common Good Philippa Lawson March 18, 1999 I work for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, which is a small non-profit organization based here in Ottawa, devoted primarily to representing the residential consumer interest in the regulation of public utilities and the provision of ...