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| CFP2008 will be held May 20-23, 2008, in New Haven, CT at the Omni Hotel. | CFP2008 will be held May 20-23, 2008, in New Haven, CT at the Omni Hotel. | ||
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| + | <p>This election year will be the first to address US technology policy in the information age as part of our national debate. Candidates have put forth positions about technology policy and have recognized that it has its own set of economic, political, and social concerns. In the areas of privacy, intellectual property, cybersecurity, telecommunications, and freedom of speech, an increasing number of issues once confined to experts now penetrate public conversation. Our decisions about technology policy are being made at a time when the architectures of our information and communication technologies are still being built. Debate about these issues needs to be better-informed in order for us to make policy choices in the public interest.</p> | ||
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| + | <p>This year, the 18th annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference will focus on what constitutes technology policy. CFP: Technology Policy '08 is an opportunity to help shape public debate on those issues being made into laws and regulations and those technological infrastructures being developed. The direction of our technology policy impacts the choices we make about our national defense, our civil liberties during wartime, the future of American education, our national healthcare systems, and many other realms of policy discussed more prominently on the election trail. Policies ranging from spyware and national security, to ISP filtering and patent reform, e-voting to electronic medical records, and more will be addressed by expert panels of technologists, policymakers, business leaders, and advocates.</p> | ||
| == What's going on == | == What's going on == | ||
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Welcome to Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008.
CFP2008 will be held May 20-23, 2008, in New Haven, CT at the Omni Hotel.
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Conference Description
This election year will be the first to address US technology policy in the information age as part of our national debate. Candidates have put forth positions about technology policy and have recognized that it has its own set of economic, political, and social concerns. In the areas of privacy, intellectual property, cybersecurity, telecommunications, and freedom of speech, an increasing number of issues once confined to experts now penetrate public conversation. Our decisions about technology policy are being made at a time when the architectures of our information and communication technologies are still being built. Debate about these issues needs to be better-informed in order for us to make policy choices in the public interest.
This year, the 18th annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference will focus on what constitutes technology policy. CFP: Technology Policy '08 is an opportunity to help shape public debate on those issues being made into laws and regulations and those technological infrastructures being developed. The direction of our technology policy impacts the choices we make about our national defense, our civil liberties during wartime, the future of American education, our national healthcare systems, and many other realms of policy discussed more prominently on the election trail. Policies ranging from spyware and national security, to ISP filtering and patent reform, e-voting to electronic medical records, and more will be addressed by expert panels of technologists, policymakers, business leaders, and advocates.
What's going on
Being a part of CFP
- CFP '08 Essay Contest Deadline: May 5, 2008
- Call for Proposals: Tutorials, Panels, Speakers, and BOFs
- Proposal Submissions Page
- [Yale LAMP Sponsored Journalists]
- CFP '08 Communities
How to attend
Conference Hotel Discount Rate extended. Deadline: Mon., Apr. 28, 2008
