I was just invited to participate on a panel at the Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International (HURIDOCS) Conference in Geneva, February 25-27, 2009.
The panel will be part of Plenary IV: Trends in Information Technology and Human Rights. The other panelists include my good friend Lars Bromley from AAAS and:
- Florence Devouard, Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Dan Brickley, developer of Semantic Web technologies
- Jan Kleijsen, Director of Human Rights Standard Setting, Council of Europe
Lars will also be leading a workshop on “Satellite Imagery and Mapping” which I look forward to attending. I also plan to attend Sam Gregory’s workshop on “Video Advocacy“. Sam is the Program Director of Witness.
I plan to sit in on Plenary III entitled: Drawing Together the Common Information Needs. I’m particularly interested in uses of satellite imagery by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and have had several conversations on this with my colleague Russ Schimmer based on his remote sensing work in Darfur.
Another perk of attending this conference is that the LIFT Conference will be taking place on the same days at the same location. So I really hope to attend some of the LIFT panels if time permits.
iRevolutions 
Thanks for the note, there is another interesting conference here:
http://hrc.berkeley.edu/events/newmachineconference/
Thanks Enrique! I’m already registered for the Berkeley conference and very much looking forward to participating.
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Great, we are going too. Will like to chat with you there or in NYC.
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