On May 23-24, 2011, the 9th Chinese Internet Research Conference will bring together scholars, policy-makers, and public and private actors to discuss Chinese Factors in Internet Development: Global Public Goods, National Policies, and Private Interests.   Hosted by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Washington, D.C., it will present research and policy papers by authors around the globe, on various topics including Global Online Content Production and Consumption, Global Online Codes of Conduct and Regulation, and Global Internet Technologies and development.

The draft program can be found at the program page.

For more logistic information about the conference, please visit the conference information page.

If you have any inquiries, please send us an email at circ2011@yahoo.com.

A warm reminder for authors, completed papers should be submitted by April 5, 2011.

Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University

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Partners:

The Institute for Pacific Asia Texas A&M University	School of Journalism & Communication Chinese University of Hong Kong
Drake Law School Intellectual Property Law Center	The Singapore Internet Research Center (SIRC), Nanyang Technological University
School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University

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