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Building Government IT 2.0: A Personal Account of My Experiences as Chief IT Strategist for a U.S. Federal Agency

Apr 11, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Interaction and Collaboration in Cultural Heritage Information Systems

Apr 6, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination via Online Social Networks

Apr 4, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How do companies use Facebook to investigate potential employees? And does Facebook facilitate illegal employment bias?

Can You Spell Idiographic? — Designing Information Systems for Humanities Scholarship

Mar 23, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Irina Bokova <br>(photo <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/unescosantiago/5040338206/">courtesy of UNESCO</a>)

Panel on Information Access & Freedom in the Digital Age

Mar 20, 2012, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Panel discussion with Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO; privacy and censorship scholars Deirdre Mulligan & Nicole Wong; and Chinese human-rights activist Qiang Xiao; moderated by Geoffrey Nunberg.

InfoCamp 2012

Mar 17, 2012, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

InfoCamp Berkeley is an unconference for anyone interested in user experience, information architecture, interaction design, information management, information design, librarianship, online search, informatics, or related fields.

Whose Content is it Anyway? A User Perspective on the Ownership and Control of Social Media

Mar 16, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Personal Digital Archiving: Discussion Based on the Personal Digital Archiving 2012 Conference

Mar 9, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Studies in Collective Memory: Towards Computational History through Large Scale Text Mining

Mar 2, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Social Substrates: People and the data they make

Feb 29, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

David A. Shamma is a media artist and research scientist studying creative expression and sharing at Yahoo! Research.

Multilingual Social Tagging of Art Images: Cultural Bridges and Diversity

Feb 17, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Beyond Global: Learning from Many Voices

Feb 15, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Chris Riley is a designer and global communications strategist and the founder of Studioriley. He explores the relationship between business and culture through brand strategy and communications design.

Rebecca MacKinnon <br /><i>(photo: Brooke Bready)</i>

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

Feb 14, 2012, 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm

A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy, and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Rebecca MacKinnon addresses the fundamental and urgent question of how technology should support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users.

Update on the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Project

Feb 10, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Untold Story of How Billions in Government Savings is Likely to Result from Current Administration IT Reforms

Feb 8, 2012, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

New ARL Best Practices in Fair Use

Feb 6, 2012, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Half-day workshop with new insights into how librarians can apply fair use principles to resolve copyright challenges.

Scholarly Notes and Digital Humanities

Feb 3, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

The Credibility Crisis in Computational Science: An Information Issue

Feb 1, 2012, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Victoria Stodden is a scholar of law, statistics, and computational science policy, and is an advocate for open data and reproducible research.

Classical and Textual Case-based Reasoning

Jan 27, 2012, 3:10 pm to 5:00 pm

Casting a Wider Net: Delivering News on the Censored Internet

Jan 27, 2012, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Karl Kathuria of the BBC World Service discusses the challenges of broadcasting the news to countries with governmental Internet censorship, like Iran and China.

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