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CNI Podcast: Digital Scholarship and the National Endowment for the Humanities - An Interview with Suzanne Lodato

gbayne — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:19:03 -0500

This 17 minute podcast features an interview with Suzanne Lodato, Director of the Division of Preservation and Access for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Our conversation was recorded at the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Before coming to the NEH in 2007, Suzanne Lodato served at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as an associate program officer in the Scholarly Communications Program starting in June 2000. At the Mellon Foundation, she worked on a wide range of grants that spanned library technology, cataloging, electronic publishing, scholarly electronic resources, and research concerning current trends and issues in scholarly communication. Ms. Lodato is a founding member and vice-president of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). She has edited two WMA proceedings volumes, published a number of articles on song and song cycle analysis, and authored entries for The New Grove History of Music and Musicians (second edition), the Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Europe: 1914-2004. Ms. Lodato received a B.M. from San Jose State University, an M.A. from Hunter College, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

2007 Policy Conference: Why Higher Education Advocacy Matters on IT Policy

gbayne — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:58:28 -0500

The closing keynote speech at the 2007 Educause Policy Conference was delivered by James X. Dempsey, Policy Director at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, DC. The key concerns of higher education examined at the 2007 Policy Conference are also among the priorities of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which seeks to promote user empowerment, open access, and free expression. This speech, entitled "Why Higher Education Advocacy Matters on IT Policy", examines how and why the university and academic communities should continue their advocacy on these issues, with the goal of promoting innovation, trust, and access to information. This podcast has a runtime of approximately 25 minutes.

George Tenet on who should be allowed online

sworona — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:49:00 -0600

The blogosphere is abuzz over what George Tenet said last Wednesday (Washington Times - UPI):

"I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control."

Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be limited to those who can show they take security seriously, he said.

Expanded versions of the UPI report have been published by Space Daily, Prison Planet, and others. Why only UPI? Because…

The national press, including United Press International, were excluded from yesterday's event, at Mr. Tenet's request, organizers said, but UPI was given an account of the speech by a member of the audience. The quotes were verified by a source close to the former director.

Some Blog-space headline writers are reacting strongly:

Tenet: Internet Freedom Must Die (Undernews)

Tenet calls for Government Control of the Internet (LibertyPost)

Tenet: Lock Down the Web; Only the 'security serious' may enter (Broadband Reports)

But Tenet has his supporters as well, such as these on Broadband Reports:

"It sounds to me like Tenet wants to kick all the idiots who don't update, patch and generally secure their machines (the same ones who ultimately become spam relay machines and virus proliferators) off the Internet. Why is this a bad thing? … We should kick the idiots offline."

"A license for PC use is a welcome idea imo. Bring it on!"

"Ultimately, every public entity must give way to control by an authority."

"You should have to take a test to both own a computer and have internet access."

The folks at p2pnet, of course, see it through their own lens:

Tenet's observations will be music to the ears of the entertainment industry. Expect to see more media references to p2p and 'threats to the US' via its economy, as represented by the Big Four record label cartel and seven major studios.

What I expect is an increasing crescendo of calls to "lock down the Internet". The mantra will arise from law enforcement, legislators, publishers, network administrators (on- and off-campus), and a variety of others who value control and constraint more than freedom and flexibility. It's a discussion that's been underway from the earliest days of the net, weighing the goose's golden eggs against the mess and the smell and the incessant honking.

It's not yet time to speak of the Internet in the past tense, but the goose is looking worried.

Steve

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