[Sigifp-l] Update from the Chair

[John Gathegi]

Dear SIG-IFP Members:

HAPPY 2006!

I wanted to bring two matters to your attention:

(1)   For those who might have missed the news, Prof. Tom Lipinski at 
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is the Chair-elect of the SIG.

(2)   The SIG web site has now moved from the Florida State University 
servers to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee servers. We will be 
updating the link shortly.

(3)   The following is a list of all the ideas for panels that have been 
proposed so far. Please let Tom or myself know if you are interesting in 
presenting any one of them:

Deadline for submissions to ASIST: February 13, 2006

Please let the SIG Chair know ASAP whether you are proposing a panel so 
the SIG can sponsor it.


      SIG-IFP proposed ideas on panels:

Providing Copyright Information in Electronic Forms: Legal, Usability, 
and Design Issues

Digital Communities Intellectual Property Comparison: Survey of Global 
Information Policies

Distance Education and the Law

Privacy in the Digital Age: Possibility, Policy, and Practice

Privacy and its impacts on Universities

RFIDs

 

Possible collaborations with other SIGs:

Indigenous Knowledge and Information Access in Africa (with SIG III)

Intellectual Property Issues in Digital Globalization: International 
Aspects of Copyright (with SIG III)

Information as a Civic Responsibility: UN Human Rights Civic Wireless 
Networks (with SIG III)

Issues with HIPPA (with Med-SIG)

Open Access and Access to Scientific Databases (with SIT-SIG)

Critical Perspectives on Intellectual Property (with Julian Warner/ 
Queens University of Belfast)



Instructions for Symposia/Panels (extract from ASIST web site)

Symposia and panels present topics for discussion such as cutting-edge 
research and design, analyses of hot or emerging trends, opinions on 
controversial issues, reports by practitioners on current information 
science and technology projects, and contrasting viewpoints from experts 
in complementary professional areas. Submissions should be in the form 
of a short paper (approximately five pages, no smaller than 10-pt. 
font). The submission must include two distinct parts: 1) scope: 
providing a clear rationale for the panel, an overview of potential 
issues to be discussed, and justifications for selecting the proposed 
panel members and 2) panel member contributions: a single page from each 
member (to be included in the 5 page count) describing what the member 
plans to discuss and a list of questions the member will raise for other 
panel and audience members to react to. It is assumed that a panel will 
have about three to four members. We discourage the same panel sponsor 
from submitting multiple proposals.  Submissions must also include 
title, sponsor(s), and names and affiliations of all panel members. The 
final versions of these submissions will be published in the digital 
conference proceedings. Additional materials, e.g., PowerPoint slides or 
short papers by individual presenters, will be published in the digital 
conference proceedings at the author's request.

 

Yet another year that promises to be an exciting time for SIG-IFP!

 

With best wishes,

John

John N. Gathegi, PhD, JD
2005-6 SIG IFP Chair
Associate Professor
College of Information
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
(850) 644-8104

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