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The National Academy of Public Administration
and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have
announced that they will host Personal Privacy in the Digital
Age: The Challenge to State and Local Governments, a conference
to be held May 19-21, 2002 at the Hilton Crystal City in Arlington,
Virginia.
The conference will feature provocative
plenary sessions, six focused workshops, and an interactive
town meeting. The Academy and Virginia Tech are sponsoring
this event through the Joint Center for eGovernance, an Academy
program established to address the impact of digital technologies
on governance processes. The Center is a unique partnership
with Virginia Tech's School of Public & International
Affairs and the International Institute for Information Technology.
The conference theme originated with members of the Center's
Information Practices Project and Intergovernmental Consortium,
who worked together to develop a comprehensive program.
"Our notion of privacy is being redefined
as we speak," said Susan Pandy, the Center's Program
Manager. "This event represents an important gathering
of decision makers and activists to begin a national dialogue
addressing digital security and privacy in the wake of September
11. Information management practices and interoperability
raise important challenges to state and local governments.
Various sectors need to begin talking about the proper balance
between security and privacy on the one hand, and access to
information and protection of sensitive data on the other."
Conference highlights include cross-cutting
workshops focusing on key policy issues including privacy
in federal legislation protecting medical and financial records;
protecting international data flows; law enforcement, open
records and freedom of information; commercialization of the
public information; emerging technologies for secure state
and local infrastructures; and building better intergovernmental
relationships. The town meeting will synthesize and process
the work of the opening plenary sessions and workshop sessions
to formulate a substantive national agenda and commitment
to the future. It also will share important resources and
best practices identified throughout the program, generate
models of action, and cultivate commitment to an ongoing future
process.
Additional conference details are
available online at http://www.conted.vt.edu/privacy.htm.
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