President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of the Republic of Estonia
Date and Time
May 23, 2014
11:00am to 12:00pm
Admission
Audience
General Public
Faculty/Staff
Students
Alumni/Friends
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Event Sponsor
Stanford University Libraries, Department of Communication, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Stanford Engineering
Contact
liisi.eglit@stanford.edu
(650) 736-4724
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Tune in on May 23, 2014
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of the Republic of Estonia will speak on
Evolving into a Genuinely Digital Society.
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Evolving into a Genuinely Digital Society
During the Enlightenment, John Locke offered a democratic solution to the Hobbesian nightmare of a war of all against all: a social contract to regulate the relationship between the government and free citizens. We now need a new "Lockean contract" for the modern digital society. The President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, talks about the solutions found in a small, high-tech European democracy and calls for the Locke and Voltaire of the digital age.
A special thank you to the Carlos Kelley McClatchy Lecture Fund for support of this event.
Co-sponsored by Department of Communication, Stanford Libraries, The Freeman Spogli Institute, European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Stanford Engineering