2012 BC Information Summit set for September 19th

FIPA is excited to announce that the 2012 BC Information Summit will take place September 19th at UBC Robson Square.

The event, entitled “This Time, It’s Personal: Freedom of Information and Privacy Under Government 2.0” will take a comprehensive look at the BC Government’s new “Government 2.0: Citizens @ The Centre” initiative, and what it means for information rights in this province.

Confirmed speakers include:

COLIN BENNETT: Professor in the Department of Political Science
at the University of Victoria; Surveillance and privacy researcher;
Member of the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s External
Advisory Board.

MICHAEL VONN: Policy Director at the BC Civil Liberties Association

GWEN BARLEE: Policy Director at the Wilderness Committee

KATE MILBERRY: Activist academic and postdoctoral fellow in
the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto

MIKE LARSEN: Professor of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
and co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.

Full speaker and programming details will be released throughout the summer and posted on our website at http://www.infosummit.ca. Early bird Summit registration will open August 8th, and regular registration begins on August 29th. Our secure registration system has been generously sponsored by the BC Library Association, and will be available through the Information Summit website.

FIPA would like to thank our Info Summit sponsors and our community partners. Stay up to date with all sponsorship and program information by checking http://infosummit.ca regularly.