Communications and Society Program

FOCAS 2007 overview

The 2008 Forum on Communications and Society is scheduled for August 10-12, 2008. To learn more about FOCAS 2008, visit www.aspeninstitute.org/focas.

Watch the archives of the 2007 FOCAS discussions at www.aspeninstitute.tv.  

 FOCAS 2007 included three interactive roundtables:

• Content Issues for New and Old Media- how consumers, businesses, and governments treat issues of content at a time of rapidly changing business models
• Media & Community Values- how media policies affect the coherence of local geographic communities
• Media & Property Values- new approaches to intellectual property issues occasioned by the sharing generation

FOCAS 2007 keynote addresses were given by:

• Kevin Martin- Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
• Viviane Reding- Comissioner for Information Society, & Media- Euopean Commission

FOCAS 2007 gathered leaders and experts including:

• Jonathan Adelstein- Federal Communications Commission
• Madeleine Albright- The Albright Group
• Esther Dyson- EDventure Holdings
• Michael Eisner- The Tornante Company, former Disney CEO
• Jordan Greenhall- DivX, Inc.
• Arianna Huffington- The Huffington Post
• Craig Newmark- craigslist
• Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.- The New York Times 

Contact

The FOCAS 2007 event has passed but we are in the stages of planning FOCAS 2008. For sponsorship and participant opportunities, please contact Ms. Erin Silliman at the Communications and Society Program at 1-202-736-5818 or by email at erin.silliman@aspeninstitute.org.