[open-government] ORGCON 2012: Power On Democracy

Tue Mar 6 16:01:41 UTC 2012

Hi all,

If you are near London on 24 March, come to our conference, which I think would be of interest to many of you, including issues around transparency, censorship, privacy, and the use of digital technology for democracy.

We will have a couple of panels on Open Data!

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OVER 400 Digital rights activists will gather in London on Saturday 24 March 2012 to hear some of the greatest minds thinking about privacy, copyright, free speech and democracy.

Billed as "ORGCon 2012: Power on Democracy", the event will examine some of the biggest privacy and free speech threats facing the UK today, and ask how we can use technology to support our democratic rights in the face of these threats.

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgcon-2012

Lawrence Lessig, author and former US advisor to Obama's administration will deliver a keynote: "Recognizing the fight we're in: A plea for some realism about IP activism"

Cory Doctorow, the sci-fi author and digital activist, will deliver a keynote on the Coming War against general purpose computing

Wendy Seltzer, the founder of Chilling Effects, will tell us how we won against SOPA

Ross Anderson will debunk the myth that government-held personal data like health records is easily and safely anonymised

Sessions include talks on censorship in the Comms Bill (Theo Bertram, Google) extradition (Graham Smith), the new government snooping proposals (Privacy International) and cookies and tracking (Tom Lowenthal of Mozilla) and data protection (Lilian Edwards). 

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Javier Ruiz
javier at openrightsgroup.org
+44(0)7877 911 412
@javierruiz

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