[Ecommerce] US Tech Policy: Call for papers etc for Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (deadline March 21)
Manon Ress
manon.ress@keionline.org
Wed Mar 12 08:06:07 2008
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COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY: TECHNOLOGY POLICY '08
http://cfp2008.org/
18th Annual CFP conference
May 20-23, 2008
Omni Hotel
New Haven, CT
Call for presentations, tutorials, and workshops
From CFPWiki
http://www.cfp2008.org/wiki/index.php/Call_for_presentations%2C_tutorials%2=
C_and_workshops
This election year will be the first to address US technology policy
in the information age as part of our national debate. Candidates have
put forth positions about technology policy and have recognized that
it has its own set of economic, political, and social concerns. In the
areas of privacy, intellectual property, cybersecurity,
telecommunications, and freedom of speech, an increasing number of
issues once confined to experts now penetrate public conversation. Our
decisions about technology policy are being made at a time when the
architectures of our information and communication technologies are
still being built. Debate about these issues needs to be better-
informed in order for us to make policy choices in the public interest.
This year, the 18th annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference
will focus on what constitutes technology policy. CFP: Technology
Policy '08 is an opportunity to help shape public debate on those
issues being made into laws and regulations and those technological
infrastructures being developed. The direction of our technology
policy impacts the choices we make about our national defense, our
civil liberties during wartime, the future of American education, our
national healthcare systems, and many other realms of policy discussed
more prominently on the election trail. Policies ranging from data
mining and wiretapping, to file-sharing and open access, and e-voting
to electronic medical records will be addressed by expert panels of
technologists, policymakers, business leaders, and advocates.
Open participation is invited for proposals on panels, tutorials,
speaker suggestions, and birds of a feather sessions through the CFP:
Technology Policy '08 submission page. Please read the submission
guidelines.
Suggested topics
This is a list of suggested topics, but we you have a good idea for a
topic that's not in this list, please feel free to send it along.
* Information Privacy
* Anonymity Online
* Government Transparency
* Voting Technology
* Online Campaigning
* Social Networks
* Citizen Journalism
* Cybercrime & Cyberterrorism
* Digital Education
* Copyright and Fair Use
* Patent Reform
* Open Access
* P2P Networks
* Information Policy and Free Trade
* Media Concentration
* Genes & Bioethics
* Electronic Medical Records
* Web Accessibility
* Open Standards
* Network Neutrality
* High-Speed Internet Access Policy
* Freedom of Information
* Technology Policy Administration
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Submission Deadlines
* Panel, Tutorial, and Speaker proposals: March 21, 2008
* Birds of a Feather Session (BoFs) proposals: April 21, 2008.
Panel, Tutorial, and Speaker proposals accepted by the Program
Committee will be notified by April 7, 2008.
Registration available online at http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?Event=
Id=3D193762
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sans la remuer.
Pens=E9es, essais, maximes et correspondance de J. Joubert p.249
http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=3DGallica&O=3DNUMM-88671
Translation: It is better to debate a question without settling it
than to settle a question without debating it