Conferences calling

I will be in Brisbane next Monday and Tuesday attending Right to Know Day functions, so look forward to catching up with Queensland readers in attendance.

iappANZ’s one-day conference, “Silver Lining: The Privacy Umbrella of Cloud Computing” will be held in Sydney on 30 November.

The 2010 Conference of the CMCL–Centre for Media and Communications Law University of Melbourne Law School on 25-26 November, includes a number of interesting sessions including this one to be chaired by Moira Paterson of Monash University:

2.00 - 3.30pm - Regulatory Approaches

Room 108

Andrew Stewart, Adrian Lawrence and Alison Manvell (Baker & McKenzie)

Regulating Content by Platform – Reconsidering Traditional Approaches

Helen Versey and Anthony Bendall (Privacy Victoria)

Privacy and the Media

John McMillan AO (Australian Information Commissioner)

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

The 1st Global Conference on Transparency Research "to bring together leading scholars from throughout the world to collectively advance our understanding of the impact and implications of transparency policies that involve governments, either directly or indirectly" has issued a call for papers. The conference will be held at Rutgers University 19-20 May 2011. Australian institutions are missing from the impressive list of international sponsors although Rick Snell of the University of Tasmania is a member of the Advisory Committee.