[Libs-Or] FW: Invitation to Open Government Event at UW Seattle March 20

[GINNANE Mary J]

FYI: Free webcast--this Friday!

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From: Ann Hemmens [mailto:Hemmens at u.washington.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 12:08 PM
To: GINNANE Mary J
Subject: Invitation to Open Government Event at UW Seattle March 20

Mary Ginnane, President Oregon Library Association

Dear Ms. Ginnane,

I am a law librarian at University of Washington and I am writing to invite you and the members of the Oregon Library Association to a free national webcast/local discussion of open government on March 20th at UW's Odegaard Library in Seattle WA.  It is sponsored by the UW Libraries, WA State Library, WA Coalition for Open Government and the Law Librarians of Puget Sound.

Below is an email describing the event and attached is a flyer. Please feel free to distribute this email and flyer to the OLA members and anyone else you think might be interested.

Thanks in advance for your assistance in promoting this free event.

Ann

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Ann Hemmens
Assistant Librarian, Reference Services
Gallagher Law Library
University of Washington School of Law
Seattle WA 98195
206-543-7672
hemmens at u.washington.edu
http://lib.law.washington.edu
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Opening Doors: Finding the Keys to Open Government
Friday, March 20, 2009 (10am-1pm)
Seattle, WA


Please join us for this FREE national webcast and local panel discussion on Friday, March 20th (10am-1pm) in the University of Washington Odegaard Library. The program will feature a discussion of what the Obama Administration is - or should be - doing to promote open government, what you can do to advance that goal, and what the news media are doing to make government information easily available in American communities.

Following the webcast, Gary Robinson, the former Director of the Washington State Department of Information Services (WA state's CIO), and Mike Fancher, former Executive Editor of The Seattle Times newspaper, will join us for a discussion of issues at the state level.

National webcast participants:

*         Beth Noveck<http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty_profiles/beth_simone_noveck>, professor of law and director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy<http://www.nyls.edu/centers/harlan_scholar_centers/institute_for_information_law_and_policy> at New York Law School and author of Wiki Government (Brookings 2009).

*         Dan Chenok, a member of President Obama's "Technology, Innovation and Government Reform<http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/inside_the_transition_technology_innovation_and_government_reform/>" transition team, former branch chief for information policy and technology in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and currently senior vice president and general manager of Pragmatics.

*         Katherine McFate<http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/katherine-mcfate-mcfate/person_view>, a Program Officer for Government Performance and Accountability in the Ford Foundation's Governance Unit.
**More information: http://www.openthegovernment.org/article/articleview/353/

Local speakers:

*         Gary Robinson<http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/94530>, former Director of Washington State Department of Information Services.  As Washington State's former Chief Information Officer, Mr. Robinson brings a wealth of expertise in state and local e-government issues. He will talk about current e-government issues in WA, other states, and the District of Columbia (President Obama's model for federal reform) as well as the impact of the state budget crisis on e-government.

*         Mike Fancher<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004391351_zenmaster04m.html>, former Executive Editor of The Seattle Times. In his 30 years at the newspaper he managed the newsroom  and "shape[d] a vision for independent, public-service journalism", authored the Sunday "Inside the Times" column and created the blog, "Press Here," which explored the "nexus between the press, the public and technology."

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Please distribute this information widely.

WHEN?
Friday, March 20th 10am-1pm

LOCATION:
University of Washington Seattle
Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220

PARKING & DIRECTIONS:
UW Seattle campus map highlighting Odeggard Library:
http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html?OUG
Parking/Directions (closest UW parking lot is Central Plaza Garage):
http://www.washington.edu/commuterservices/get_to_uw/visitors/index.php

REGISTRATION (free): http://tinyurl.com/llops2009

LOCAL SPONSORS:
Law Librarians of Puget Sound (LLOPS<http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llops/>)
University of Washington Libraries<http://www.lib.washington.edu/>
Washington State Library<http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/>
Washington Coalition for Open Government<http://www.washingtoncog.org/>

HOST:
University of Washington Odegaard Undergraduate Library

Questions? Contact Ann Hemmens (hemmens at u.washington.edu<mailto:hemmens at u.washington.edu>; 206-543-7672).

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