Disturbing Developments in Digital Government

February 3, 2015

The School of Public Policy will be hosting a talk on the latest development in digital government. Please find all the vital information for the public lecture below:

Speaker: David C.G. Brown, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa

Moderated by: Ian Clark

Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto

Digital technologies have dramatically increased government’s ability to collect, use, re-use, store and disseminate information. The federal government has made clear its intention to move towards digital information management, yet its efforts thus far have lacked coherence. Causes for concern are plenty: from the deterioration of the Access to Information and Privacy regime, to the shutdown of government depositories and libraries, to collection and surveillance activities in the name of national security, to the hyper-centralization of government communications, and the foundering of the Open Data initiative. Prof. Brown’s lecture will examine the state of digital information management in Canada, and what we can expect going forward.

 

When:

Friday, February 6, 2015
12:30-2:00pm
Where:
School of Public Policy and Governance

Canadiana Gallery, Room 361
14 Queen’s Park Crescent West, Toronto
This event is free and open to the public.

For more info and registration: http://publicpolicy.utoronto.ca/disturbing-developments-in-digital-government/