http://mediationchannel.com/2007/03/26/fifth-international-forum-on-online-dispute-resolution-to-be-held-april-19-20-2007-in-liverpool/ News and ideas about mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and law Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:41:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/03/26/fifth-international-forum-on-online-dispute-resolution-to-be-held-april-19-20-2007-in-liverpool/#comment-163 Computers Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:26:00 +0000 http://mediationchannel.com/2007/03/26/fifth-international-forum-on-online-dispute-resolution-to-be-held-april-19-20-2007-in-liverpool/#comment-163 I’m curious if these events are designed to focus on the various disputes that naturally arise when an international tool comes to involve participants in several individual nations, or if they have more to do with how to use online forums as a means of resolving disputes (of course, both may be applicable). Initially, in reading your post, it sounded like the former, but as I read on, the phrase “use of technology in mediating disputes” made it sound like the latter. I’m very interested, though, in what steps might be on the table for regulation of the internet across borders, or whether such regulation is even possible. There are, as you mention, so many aspects to the rise of disputes. To take something quite simple, what happens when the age of consent in Canada (16), comes up against the age of consent in (18) when it comes to online dating services? Presumably someone in North Dakota might be keenly interested in such discrepancies. And this does not even take into account the myriad economic problems that are possible when cross-national commerce is done over the internet. I’m curious if these events are designed to focus on the various disputes that naturally arise when an international tool comes to involve participants in several individual nations, or if they have more to do with how to use online forums as a means of resolving disputes (of course, both may be applicable). Initially, in reading your post, it sounded like the former, but as I read on, the phrase “use of technology in mediating disputes” made it sound like the latter. I’m very interested, though, in what steps might be on the table for regulation of the internet across borders, or whether such regulation is even possible. There are, as you mention, so many aspects to the rise of disputes. To take something quite simple, what happens when the age of consent in Canada (16), comes up against the age of consent in (18) when it comes to online dating services? Presumably someone in North Dakota might be keenly interested in such discrepancies. And this does not even take into account the myriad economic problems that are possible when cross-national commerce is done over the internet.

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