Center for Information Policy Research Announces Spring Colloquia

The UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies, Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR), announces its Spring 2007 Colloquium Series. Established in 1998 and directed by Elizabeth Buchanan since August 2006, CIPR facilitates information policy research through its lecture series, research paper series, and outreach activities, and its information ethics fellows program. The Center's research agenda revolves around social, ethical, economic, legal, and technical aspects of information and information technologies with a focus on such key information policy issues as intellectual property (copyright, patents, etc.), privacy, equity of access to information, ethics of information use and service, censorship, cyberlaw, and government, corporate, and international information policies.

The Spring 2007 International Information Policy Colloquia feature Toni Samek (February 22), Jacques du Plessis (March 9), Catherine Johnson (March 28), and Siva Vaidhyanathan (May 12), who concludes the season as the speaker for the annual Ted Samore Lecture. The lectures are free and open to the public.