Panel Discussion at Hastings: Wikileaks and Open Government

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION CHAPTER &
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES

Present

Sunshine Week Local Wikileaks Panel and 2011 National Webcast : The Road Forward on Open Government

Where: UC Hastings College of the Law
Classroom B
198 McAllister, San Francisco, CA 94102
Directions: http://www.uchastings.edu/about/directions/index.html

When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Sunshine Week is a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. The Special Libraries Association, San Francisco Bay Region Chapter and the Northern California Association of Law Libraries will present the Sunshine Week 2011 National Webcast and a local Wikileaks panel.

The SLA/NOCALL sponsored event will feature a local panel of speakers discussing WikiLeaks as it relates to (and provides an alternative to) our current concepts of Open Government, as well as the bigger picture impact of WikiLeaks on the ways we access information. Confirmed panelists include:

• Declan McCullagh, chief political correspondent for CNET, award-winning journalist, and frequent writer and speaker about technology, law, and politics. From 1998 to 2002, Declan was Wired's Washington bureau chief.
• Rainey Reitman, Electronic Frontier Foundation’s activism lead. Her work focuses on WikiLeaks and the intersection between personal privacy and technology, particularly social networking privacy, locational privacy and online data brokers. She serves as a steering committee member for the Bradley Manning Support Network.
• James Jacobs, Government Documents Librarian at Stanford and one of the founders of the Free Government Information blog (http://freegovinfo.info/).

The 2011 Sunshine Week National Webcast, The Road Forward on Open Government, will focus on the Obama Administration's commitment "to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government" by examining how this commitment is being put into practice -- from both a policy and a technical standpoint -- and what more the Administration can and should be expected to do to meet its goal.

The first panel will cover the policy aspects of the Administration's Open Government Initiative. Panelists include:

• David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States (confirmed)
• Gary Bass, Executive Director, OMB Watch (confirmed)
• Steven P. Croley, Special Assistant to the President for Justice and Regulatory Policy, White House Domestic Policy Council

The second panel will discuss the effect technology has on the way people get and use information, how the government is trying to fill that need, and the strengths and limitations of the Administration's approach. Panelists include:

• Jennifer LaFleur, Director of Computer-Assisted Reporting at ProPublica (confirmed)
• Tom Lee, Director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation (confirmed)
• Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director of the Center for Responsive Politics (confirmed)
• Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Agenda:

5:30—6:00        Registration and Networking
6:00—7:00        Local Wikileaks Panel
7:00—8:30        National Webcast

Menu: Assorted sandwiches, cookies, and salad. Please indicate if you prefer a vegetarian or vegan meal.

Cost: $20 for SLA and NOCALL members, $25 for non-members and guests, and $15 for students, retired, and unemployed.

DEADLINE: Please register online or mail your check by March 22, 2011

Online registration: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csfo/calendar/regform_2011_sunshine.html

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