"The Internet as Public Space: Concepts, Issues, and Implications in Public Policy"

About

Y.T. Chien is Director of the Information and Intelligent Systems Division at the National Science Foundation (NSF). On leave from NSF this year, he is pursuing information technology policy-related work with the HIIP as a visiting fellow. For the last four weeks, he was in Tokyo under a special fellowship to study Japan?s Internet R&D programs. With a rare, though brief, opportunity to look at and experience the cyberspace there, he will include in this talk his personal observations about Japan in the Internet world.