Who is Shaping Your Digital Future?

Submitted by webadmin on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 09:03

Start: Oct 26 2009 9:59 am

There's going to be a town hall style discussion on privacy, copyright, net neutrality, and the digital divide coming up in late October. See below for details.

Chebucto Community Net and the Dalhousie Student Union present an Internet Town Hall entitled "Who is Shaping Your Digital Future?" scheduled for 7 pm to 9:30 pm Monday, October 26th at the McInnes Room of the Dalhousie University Student Union Building. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

This Town Hall meeting, open to the public, will address four main points about Internet access in this province - the Digital Divide and how poverty keeps people from having access to the net, copyright laws and Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues, net neutrality and controlling the flow of information, and privacy - who has access to your data and what they are doing with it.

The planned format is a thirty minute keynote address, followed by five to ten minute talks from local experts on the four fields then questions and answers from the audience to the panelists.

Here is our lineup:

Moderator: Costas Halavrezos

http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/personality/costas_halavrezos

Keynote: Laura Murray, co-author of "Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide".

http://www.faircopyright.ca/

Topics speakers:

Privacy: David Fraser

http://www.privacylawyer.ca/contact.html

Digital Divide: Andrew D. Wright

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/

Net Neutrality: Terry Dalton

http://www.cicnet.ca/terry-profile.html