[Sigifp-l] Newsletter update

[Tomas Lipinski]

Hi Everyone! Hope your summer is going well.

 

Believe it or not we're working on the first IFP SIG Newsletter, mostly
design and technical issues at the moment, but we're hoping to move into
content by the end of the month, here's where you can help out, we're
toying with a short (1,000-3,000 word lead or feature article segment
and perhaps a student contribution as well, so if you have anything in
the hopper or know of a worthy student paper, please forward or inquire,
at this point subject to limited peer review, i.e., my own and Associate
Professor Elizabeth Buchanan's review).

 

More important we're looking for correspondents (we call them Desk
Editors) to contribute a short (500-1000 word update. For lack of a
better idea (if you've a better idea please suggest) we've organized by
general region, but these should not be taken as barriers of a sort,
just a way to perhaps organize the contributions. A contributor can
write an essay or opinion price, offer a list of developments or
abstract of recent documents, focus on a theme or particular
development, your choice, all within the broad are of "policy" related
to information, we want to flexible and let the correspondents offer the
contribution of content and style of their choice. We're hoping for
submissions by mid-September if that is possible, earlier would be even
better. The goal is to roll out the first edition before or at the
annual conference, then about twice in 2008 and each year thereafter. So
far Doctor Kawooya will cover sub-Saharan Africa, but we need "desk
editors" for the following regions or areas. A commitment for even the
first issue alone would be accepted and welcome. Thanks much!

 

Updates: 

Desk Editor Pacific Rim:

Desk Editor Asia and Indian subcontinent:

Desk Editor Canada: 

Desk Editor United States: 

Desk Editor EU: 

Desk Editor Eastern Europe (non-EU?) and former Soviet States: 

Desk Editor southern Mediterranean (non-EU) and Middle East:

Desk Editor sub-Saharan Africa: Dick Kawooya

Desk Editor Latin America:

 

 

 

Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. 
Associate Professor 
School of Information Studies 
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee 
P.O. Box 413 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 53201 
414-229-4908, 414-229-6699 (fax) 

"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely
because it comes late." Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust
Co., 335 U.S. 595, 600 (1949) (Frankfurter, J. dissenting) (upon
realizing his error in a previous decision and joining Justice Douglas
and Justice Jackson in dissent).

 

 

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