Workshop at Princeton, 1/21-22, "Defining, Designing and Sustaining Transparency"

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

Drat... I had meant to get this workshop we're planning on everyone's
radar about three weeks ago. Alas, I sent from my Princeton address
and the bounce must have been silent.

Short version: we're running a workshop on open government and
transparency on 1/21-22 here at Princeton. The format will be
sessions that start out with panels and then go into broad discussion.

If you'd like to receive information as we get an agenda and such
together, please let me know with a note to
joehall+tr...@gmail.com best, Joe

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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <j...@princeton.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Subject: Workshop at Princeton, 1/21-22, "Defining, Designing and
Sustaining Transparency"
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Save the date!

Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy will hold a
1.5-day workshop aimed at Transparency scholars this coming January 21
and 22 (we will end early on Friday 1/22 for travel).  More...

# Defining, Designing and Sustaining Transparency

There have been few venues for the academic treatment of government
transparency.  The purpose of this workshop is catalyze critical
thinking and collaboration focused on transparency scholarship.  (Of
course, attendees from outside the academy will be more than welcome
and will undoubtedly have much to contribute.)

The broad themes the workshop will explore include:

* Defining Transparency: What does transparency mean? What do people
mean when they use the term?  What are the boundaries and tensions
involved with different conceptions?

* Designing Transparency:  How do we design and implement systems,
infrastructures and processes to support transparency?  Is
transparency a value like security, privacy and usability that must be
designed into systems from the beginning?  Are there still effective
ways to make existing systems more transparent without ineffectively
"bolting on" transparency support after policies and systems are
fielded?

* Sustaining Transparency: How do we ensure that transparency is a
value that outlasts changes in political winds? In addition to making
data available, what are strategies for sustainable transparency?  How
do we educate the public to recognize the value and demand
transparency of governmental systems?

The format of the workshop will be 1/3 panels, 2/3 moderated
discussion and a keynote speaker.

We will have more details soon.  Please send email to
joehall+tr...@gmail.com if you'd like to be included in future
updates.

Sincerely, Joseph Hall, Stephen Schultze and  Ed Felten

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
http://josephhall.org/



--
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
http://josephhall.org/

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

There are two sessions we are planning for this event that I left out
of this "save the date" email:

* Law.gov convening: I believe that this will be the first convening
of the Law.gov effort ( http://resource.org/law.gov/ )

* Engaging Academia: There will be a session on how better to plug
open government project ideas into project-based academic instruction
and curricula.

(of course, all of this is subject to change and please ping us.)

best, Joe