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CAPTEL is a research
centre located in Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. It
is one of the first technology law and policy centres in the world to be founded
in a business school. It is within the fertile environment of business academia
and industry that the centre's early days were sown.
As a result, CAPTEL
was created specifically be a centre for research and consultancy in technology
law and policy for the
promotion of the Asia Pacific region.
It
is a centre created to accommodate a diverse cross
discipline experts for the purposes of: (a) developing a vehicle for applied legal research
and policy development; (b) as a regional think tank for institutions seeking
expert advice and consulting; (c) to develop joint research in technology law
and policy between Schools in NTU and with other top research arms and centres; (d) to be the organisational platform for academics
for academic exchanges; (e) to develop leading edge industry oriented programmes;
and (f) to be a repository of knowledge on specific
areas of information and technology law being developed in the Asia Pacific region. The
core objective of the centre is to conduct developmental research on technology
law and policy. To achieve this objective, the centre will have multi-track themes
to reflect the diverse expertise from the School and associate fellows:
a) Protection Regimes for Intellectual Property
Rights - The laws relating to the protection of intellectual property of new technologies
and to the new property developed by the use of new technologies. b) Legal Infrastructure for E-Business - Research
on the development of International Treatises, Codes and Model Laws and their
impact on E-Commerce. c) Regulation of the Internet - Researching the
development of Standards for Internet Regulation to manage Internet conduct in
the Asia Pacific; Content regulation. d) IT Laws - Cybercrime, Technology Security, Privacy
and other IT laws. e) Telecommunications Law - Access Issues.
f) Biotechnology Law & Ethics - Research in
related laws and policy and regulatory infrastructure. g) ICT Competition Law. h) Development of a repository database of relevant
laws and cases in the region for further research - Collecting and sharing with
the Public information on the region's reported cases and developments affecting
technology.
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