This Year's Topic: Secrecy
Galleria Rooms of the Portland Hilton
Portland, Oregon
We live in an "information society." Information and new information technologies have become essential to our social, economic, and political interactions. This 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 focus of the 2006 roundtable will be Secrecy. 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 (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). Other speakers include David Resnik of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Adam Moore of the Department of Philosophy and the Information School at the University of Washington, Philip Doty of the School of Information at the University of Texas, and Mark Alfino of the Department of Philosophy at Gonzaga University.
The 2006 roundtable will be held in conjunction with the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. It is supported by a Mini-Conference Grant from the Pacific APA.| Links: |
Speaker: Alasdair Roberts (Syracuse University)
Title: Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age
Commentator: Alan Mattlage (University of Maryland)
Speaker: David Resnik (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
Title: Secrecy in Scientific Research
Commentator: Catherine Womack (Bridgewater State College)
Speaker: Adam Moore (University of Washington)
Title: Privacy, Secrecy, and Government Surveillance
Commentator: Thomas Grassey (U. S. Naval War College)
Speaker: Philip Doty (University of Texas)
Title: The Ethics of Managing Risk Through Secrecy
Commentator: Ken Himma (Seattle Pacific University)
Speaker: Mark Alfino (Gonzaga University)
Title: Ethical Issues in Trade Secrets for Professional Services
Commentator: Tony Doyle (CUNY)
About the Roundtable:
The
first Information
Ethics Roundtable
in 2003 grew out of a debate
in Library Quarterly between Doyle and Fricke-Mathiesen-Fallis
on the issue of Censorship
and Access to
Information. Subsequent topics have included Privacy
and Intellectual
Property. Keynote speakers in previous years have included
Michael Brown (noted author of Who
Owns Native Culture?) and Siva
Vaidhyanathan (noted author of Copyrights
and Copywrongs). A selection of papers from the roundtable will appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Information Ethics (guest edited by Kay Mathiesen).
The focus of the 2007 roundtable will be Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Property. The 2007 roundtable will be held at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Further details will be posted shortly.
The organizers of the roundtable are Don Fallis (Program Chair), Tony Doyle, Kay Mathiesen, and Catherine Womack. For further information about the roundtable, contact the organizers or write to:
Information Ethics Roundtable
Attn: Don Fallis
School of Information Resources
University of Arizona
1515 East First Street
Tucson, AZ 85719
Previous Rountables:
- Information Ethics Roundtable 2005
- Information Ethics Roundtable 2004
- Information Ethics Roundtable 2003
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