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Online Lecture Series on US China Cyber Relations Monday June 23 thru Friday June 27 at Emory University
Dr William Foster researched US China Cyber Relations for 15 years and he strongly believes that it is essential to view the current US-China cyber relationship in the context of the interaction over the past 25 years of the technical, cultural and bureaucratic dimensions of the internet in China.
Lectures will be held from Monday June 23 to Friday June 27 in Room 420 of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University (1300 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322) between 12p-1p and Broadcast Online.
These will be split up into five topics across five days.
Day 1: The Birth of the Internet in China: Hopes and Fears- Here we will discuss what China expected to do with the internet
Day 2: The battle in China for who would own and control the Internet- 20 Ministries in China were in a fight for who would be the sole controller of the internet in China.
Day 3: How the People’s Liberation Army views the Internet in China as a tool for cyber espionage against militantly aggressive forces in the U.S.
Day 4: China leverages its telecom market to create vicious competition among ministries and their proteges.
Day 5: The future of U.S.-China cyber Relations
There will be food each day and this event will be broadcast online each day.
About Dr. William Foster
Dr. William Foster got his PhD and studied at University of Arizona under Dr. Sy Goodman. His PhD dissertation on the Diffusion of the Internet in China was published in 2001 by CISAC at Stanford. Sy’s research team, the MOSAIC Group, has studied Internet diffusion in 40 countries.
Dr. Foster was in charge of government for the Commercial Internet Exchange, the world’s first ISP association. He then taught information systems at Arizona State University and then left to found the Institute for Next Generation Internet.
