[Upd-discuss] Information Ethics Roundtable on SECRECY, March 22nd, 2006, Portland, Oregon

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

 Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:39:42 -0700
From:	"Don Fallis" <fallis@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>  
Subject:	Information Ethics Roundtable on SECRECY
To:	JESSE@listserv.utk.edu

The 2006 *Information Ethics Roundtable* will be held on March 22nd in
Portland, Oregon.  The roundtable brings together researchers from several
different disciplines (philosophy, information science, communications,
public administration, anthropology, law, etc.) to discuss the ethical
issues surrounding access to information, information privacy,
intellectual property, intellectual freedom, and censorship.

The main topic of the 2006 roundtable will be the ethics of *Secrecy* as
used by governments, businesses, scientists, and individuals.  The keynote
speaker will be Alasdair Roberts of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs at Syracuse University.  He is an expert on open government
and the author of *Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information
Age*.  For further information, visit our website at:
http://www.sir.arizona.edu/ier/

The 2006 roundtable will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of
the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.  For
further information, go to: http://apa-pacific.org/current/

Don Fallis
Program Chair
2006 Information Ethics Roundtable
http://www.sir.arizona.edu/ier/

Don Fallis
School of Information Resources and Library Science
University of Arizona
http://www.sir.arizona.edu/faculty/fallis/fallis.html


Zapopan Muela
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"Tiranos y autócratas han entendido siempre que el alfabetismo, 
el conocimiento, los libros y los periódicos son un peligro 
en potencia. Pueden inculcar ideas independientes e incluso
de rebeldía en las cabezas de sus súbditos.
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"Tyrants and autocrats have always understood that literacy, 
learning, books and newspapers are potentially dangerous. 
They can put independent and even rebelious ideas to the heads 
of their subjects."
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-- Sagan, Carl (1997). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle
in the Dark : El mundo y sus demonios: La ciencia como una luz en la 
oscuridad. México: Planeta, p. 390; New York: Ballantine Books, p. 362.


		
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