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Training • Joint Initiatives

The Legal Aspects of eGovernance, May 12-16, 2008

The Legal Aspects of eGovernance module is an intensive one week course taught by researchers at the CIPP as part of the Executive Masters Program in eGovernance that is offered by Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne. Through this module, participants from around the world will learn how to best use and manage electronic/intangible assets (goods and services) as well as the legal risks and opportunities associated with these assets. Emphasis is put on active participation and interaction between teachers – from Academia and private practice – and participants. The module is conceived for senior executive participants from a variery of countries and thus includes aspects of civil, common and international law. The CIPP has been collaborating with Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne on the eGovernance Masters programme since its creation in 2005. Visit egov.epfl.ch for more details.

The Treble Cliff: The Remonetization of Music and other Promiscuously Transportable Media Objects, January 8 – April 10, 2008

The Treble Cliff is an interdisciplinary course taught at The Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies at McGill University. Professors David Lametti and Tina Piper, on behalf of the CIPP, were involved in the development of the course and will be teaching a number of the lectures. The objective of the course is to provide a group of students from five Faculties: Management, Music, Law, Science (School of Computer Science), and Arts (Art History and Communication Studies) with an opportunity to study and develop business models or policy papers for the music industry in its rapidly changing current environment. The course is intended to take advantage of the presence of Sandy Pearlman, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Schulich School of Music and eminent music industry commentator, innovator and arch disruptor. Students will be exposed to the various components of the existing situation through in-depth lectures and workshops under the leadership of acknowledged experts. Once a thorough understanding has been achieved, students will be asked to create a viable business model for a new paradigm.