[MNASIS-L] Mark Ritchie presentation - Thursday Oct 18

[Janet Arth]

       Mark Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State
Management of Information ­ Minnesota’s Renewable Asset

Thursday, October 18, 2007
5:00 ­ 7:00 p.m.
Board Room, Retirement Systems of Minnesota Building
60 Empire Drive
St Paul, MN
   http://maps.google.com/maps?q=60+Empire+Dr,+St+Paul,+MN+55103,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Recent events underscore that state and local 
government transparency is both essential and 
threatened.  Government views information as a 
powerful resource to assure an informed democracy 
­ or as a commodity to be shielded, sold, 
available only to the privileged.  Ubiquitous 
dependence on the Internet, coupled with 
telecommunications options, presents 
unprecedented challenges for thoughtful policy 
development, integrated planning and citizen 
participation in the process.  As Minnesota’s 
Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie is in the middle of it all.

Sponsored by:
<http://www.mncogi.org/>Minnesota Coalition on Government Information (MnCOGI)
<http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/mn-tipr>Telecommunications 
and Information Policy Roundtable (TIPR) 
<http://www.asis.org/Chapters/mnasis/index.html>Minnesota 
Chapter, American Society of Information Science 
& Technology (ASIST) 
<http://www.mnindependentscholars.org/>Minnesota 
Independent Scholars’ Forum (MISF)

Free and Open