Please save the date for the Yale Information Society Project’s (Yale ISP) third annual Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3) on September 8-10, 2008. In a departure from precedent, please note that this year’s conference will take place in Geneva, Switzerland. The location and timing will enable this year’s event to reach out to a significant [...]

An event I wish, but will be unable, to attend: American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property; Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law; and Women and the Law Program present the Fifth Annual Symposium on IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections. The symposium explores the rich intersection of intellectual [...]

I just got done listening to the JISC podcast “The Google Generation: Myth or Reality?“, and it seems like the key thing discussed in it (I haven’t had time to read the report) crosses over with some of what Andrew Keen discusses in The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture: [...]

The Office of Public Sector Information will be having a BarCamp around Recommendation 8 from the Power of Information Review on 12 January 2008. Recommendation 8 “To improve government’s responsiveness to demand for public sector information, by July 2008 OPSI should create a web-based channel to gather and assess requests for publication of public sector [...]

Seem very web 2.0 / Gikii themed! BILETA 2008 Glasgow Caledonian University on 27-28 March 2008 _____ “Law Shaping Technology; Technology Shaping the Law” Security and privacy of our personal information is becoming a central theme with the rise in social networking technologies and user generated content. Have sites such as Facebook and YouTube responded [...]

I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog about open access to legal publishing in the UK and how we should all start the ball rolling on discussing some of the issues. As I was thinking about it some more this morning, I think that we need a speed geek on open access to law [...]

I posted over at the Open Rights Group blog about last week’s Open Source Summit sponsored by Olswang and Greenberg Traurig. The link is here.