[IRP] Fwd: [icie] Conference on Information Rights as Human Rights

[Max Senges]

Hello folks,

this conference might be interesting to some:


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From: Rafael Capurro <rafael at capurro.de>

The topic of the 9th annual Information Ethics Roundtable is Information
Rights

> as Human Rights
>
> April 15-16, 2011
> University of Arizona, Tucson
>
> Webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/informationethicsroundtable
>
> Keynote Speaker: Kit Wellman, Department of Philosophy, University of
> Washington, St. Louis
>
> The focus of this year's Information Ethics Roundtable is the relation
> between
> human rights and information ethics. The Universal Declaration on Human
> Rights
> lists a number of rights related to information (e.g., Articles 18, 19, 25,
> and
> 26). Such "information rights" include the rights to create and communicate
> information (e.g., freedom of expression, freedom of association), to
> control
> other's access to information (e.g., privacy and intellectual property),
> and
> rights to access information (e.g., freedom of thought, the right to read).
> This conference will address several conceptual, empirical, and ethical
> issues
> related to human rights and information:
>        What theoretical approaches to human rights could be most fruitfully
> applied to
> questions in information ethics?
>        What are the benefits or drawbacks of taking a human rights approach
> to
> information ethics?
>        What are the human rights related to information?
>        Are information rights best conceived as liberties, which obligate
> states to
> protect individuals from interference, or as welfare rights, which obligate
> states to provide resources?
>        Are information rights instrumental rights, that is, do they promote
> the
> fulfillment of other human rights?
>        What challenges does cultural diversity pose to a human rights
> approach to
> information ethics?
>        Is there empirical research (e.g., case studies, statistical
> analyses) relevant
> to understanding the relation between information ethics and human rights?
>        What are the relationships and possible conflicts between different
> information
> human rights (e.g., the right to intellectual property and the right to
> access
> information)?
>        What sorts of institutions (e.g., libraries, public schools) are
> necessary in
> order to protect human rights to access information?
>        Do we have human rights to access particular information
> technologies, such as
> computers, cellphones, or the Internet?
>
>        Submit an abstract of up to 500 words on any of the above or closely
> related
> topics.  E-mail contributions to infoethics2011 at gmail.com.  Include your
> full
> name, institutional affiliation and e-mail address.  Address any queries
> about
> the conference to Kay Mathiesen (kmathies at email.arizona.edu).
>
>        Submission Deadline: December 15, 2010
>        Acceptance Notification: January 1, 2011
>
>
>
> --
> Kay Mathiesen
>
> Assistant Professor
> School of Information Resources and Library Science
> University of Arizona
>
> Information Ethics Fellow, 2009-10
> Center for Information Policy Research
> School of Information Studies
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SLIS/cipr/
>
> Mailing Address:
> SIRLS
> University of Arizona
> 1515 East First Street
> Tucson, AZ 85719
>
> http://sirls.arizona.edu/mathiesen
>
>
>


-- 
Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro
Hochschule der Medien (HdM) Stuttgart, Germany
Director: Steinbeis Transfer Institute - Information Ethics (STI-IE)
Private: Redtenbacherstr. 9, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
E-Mail: rafael at capurro.de; capurro at hdm-stuttgart.de
Voice: + 49 - 721 - 98 22 9 - 22 (Fax: -21)
Homepage: www.capurro.de
Homepage ICIE: http://icie.zkm.de
Homepage IRIE: http://www.i-r-i-e.net
Homepage STI-IE: http://sti-ie.de
Distinguished Researcher in Information Ethics, School of Information
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
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