The Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) held an expert seminar titled “How to Develop Cyber Norms?” on November 13 at Ferrum Tower with the support of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.

This seminar served as a venue for experts from the academia and industry to discuss current issues in cyberspace that the existing normative framework fails to address, ways to promote the coevolution of ICT and social norms, and how to develop a forward-looking model for cyber norms that reflects both recent technological advances and common values such as human rights and trust.

In his presentation on the trends of cyber norm development in Korea and other countries and their implications, Prof. Park No-hyoung, Director of the Cyber Law Centre at Korea University, reviewed the current trends of cyber norms from the perspective of international law, domestic law and civil society and suggested implications for the establishment of fundamental rights on the Internet.

Shim Woo-min, Legislative Researcher of the National Assembly Research Service, gave a presentation titled “Analysis of current issues surrounding cyber norms with a focus on domestic laws” and discussed various ways to improve the domestic normative framework for cyberspace based on an analysis of Korea’s current framework for cyberspace and its limitations.

In the following presentation on the future direction and tasks for developing cyber norms, Prof. Kwon Heyun-young of Department of Science and Technology Law at Kwangwoon University proposed a future direction and action plans for designing the structure and main content of future cyber norms including the underlying premises and basic principles of cyber norms.

During the panel discussion, with Prof. Park Jong-su of Korea University School of Law as a moderator, Kang Seong-ju, Director General of the IT Strategy Bureau at the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Prof. Oh Byoung-cheol of Yonsei University Law School, Prof. Lim Jong-in of Graduate School of Information Security at Korea University, Prof. Chung Chan-mo of Inha Law School, Park Sung-hoon, Investigator of Human Rights Planning Division at the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, Han Jong-ho, Director of the Naver Partner Center, Kang Jeong-soo, Director of Open Net, Prof. Hwang Yong-suk of Media Communication at Konkuk University, Prof. Lee Hee-jung of Korea University School of Law, and Prof. Lee Sang-kyung of University of Seoul Law School shared their thoughts on the development of cyber norms.

Contact: LEE SI JIK, researcher, Department of Information Society Research (Tel: 043-531-4357)