[open-government] [foianet] Global Conference on Transparency Research: Registration Deadline Saturday, May 7th

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Saturday, May 7th is the last day to register for the Global
Conference on Transparency Research taking place at Rutgers-Newark,
New Jersey on Monday 18th-20th.  There will be no onsite registration.
 If you plan to attend the conference, you must register and pay by
this Saturday.

To register, follow this link:
http://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/home/conferences/1stgctr/registration.html
 You must complete a two-step process: 1) Fill in the attendee
registration form; and 2) Pay the registration fee following the
payment link.  Both of these steps must be completed by Saturday, May
7th to attend the conference.

More information on the conference is pasted below.  I look forward to
seeing many of you there.

Best,

Suzanne J. Piotrowski

Conference Chair

Associate Professor

School of Public Affairs and Administration

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

111 Washington Street

Newark, NJ 07102-3026

Ph. 973.353.5199

Fax 973.353.5907

spiotrow at andromeda.rutgers.edu

www.suzannepiotrowski.com

To join the International Transparency and Secrecy Research Network
listserv go to https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/itsrn_l

1st Global Conference on Transparency Research
http://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/home/conferences/1stgctr.html

1st Global Conference on Transparency Research

Dates: May 18-20, 2011

Location: Rutgers-University-Newark, New Jersey, USA

Website: http://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/home/conferences/1stgctr.html

The 1st Global Conference on Transparency Research, a
multi-disciplinary and multi-method conference will be hosted by
Rutgers University-Newark.  This conference is co-sponsored by:

·         Rutgers School of Law-Newark (primary sponsor)

·         Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to
Information –CELE-, School of Law, Palermo University, Argentina

·         The Constitution Unit, University College London, UK

·         Governance: An International Journal of Policy,
Administration and Institutions

·         School of Public Administration, Renmin University of China

·         School of Public Administration and Public Policy, Kookmin
University, Korea

·         School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers-Newark, USA

The purpose of the conference to bring together scholars from a wide
range of fields including sociology, anthropology, political science,
public administration, cultural studies, political economy,
journalism, technology, and law who study issues of governmental
transparency. This is the first large meeting of its kind to bring
together leading scholars from throughout the world to collectively
advance our understanding of the impact and implications of
transparency policies that involve governments, either directly or
indirectly.  This includes policies on access to information held by
and about governments, transparency relationships between government
entities, transparency relationships between governments and private
and non-profit entities, and access to information held by government
about individuals.

The conference committee has put together an excellent program.
Professor Christopher Hood, the Gladstone Professor of Government and
Fellow of All Souls College Oxford, is the conference keynote speaker.
 The keynote speech is sponsored by Governance: An International
Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions.  Marco Daglio,
Head of the Public Service Delivery Unit, Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development will present an overview of the OECD’s
Open Government Project.  Martin Tisné, Program Manager of the
Transparency and Accountability Initiative, will present an assessment
of which areas of inquiry related to transparency and accountability
deserve increased scholarly attention. The Transparency and
Accountability Initiative is a donor collaborative that includes the
Ford Foundation, Hivos, the International Budget Partnership, the
Omidyar Network, the Open Society Institute, the Revenue Watch
Institute, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

We received over 270 paper proposals from scholars from around the
world.  A total of 130 of these proposals were accepted.  Thirty
concurrent panel sessions are scheduled on topics such fiscal
transparency, municipal transparency, accountability, corruption,
whistle blowing, regional overviews, theoretical foundations,
institutional forces, and freedom of information laws and
implementation.

Five organizations (Canada's International Development Research
Centre, Open Society Foundations Human Rights Governance and Grants
Program, Open Society Foundations Latin America Program, Open Society
Foundations Rights Initiatives, Right to Information Fund, and World
Bank Institute) have agreed to provide support to fund a total of 29
individuals from developing countries.  The organizing committee is
very grateful for their support of these scholars.  We have
individuals presenting their work from Africa, Asia, Australia,
Europe, North America, and South America.

The conference will take place at the Center for Law and Justice at
Rutgers University-Newark.  On the evening of Wednesday, May 18th
there will be reception at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center
(NJPAC).  The following evening, Thursday May 19th, the conference
participants will have dinner at the Newark Museum.  The dinner will
begin with a cocktail reception outside (weather permitting) and a
gallery viewing of the American wing and the Victorian Ballantine
House—a National Historic Landmark.  The dinner will be in the
Museum’s central atrium.  For more information on the conference
schedule and how to register for the conference visit
http://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/home/conferences/1stgctr.html

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