The annual Institute brings together young scholars and regulators from around the world to discuss important recent trends in technology and its influence on information policy. The sessions deal with recent problems in internet regulation and net neutrality, satellite delivery of information, emerging issues in the structuring of the mobile industry and its delivery of video. Much of the time is devoted to new developments in comparative approaches to regulation, looking at Ofcom in the UK and other agencies, possibly including Hungary, Germany, the Middle East and China. In the past there have been sessions on freedom of information statutes, public diplomacy, media and economic and social development and the history of information transitions in the former Soviet Union. The richness of the experience comes from exposure to a variety of speakers and from the discussions among participants themselves. Last year, there were 27 participants from 16 different countries.
