Sunshine Week, a national campaign to promote openness and access to information, is March 16-22, 2008. Numerous events at the national and local level, as well as online, have been scheduled to encourage a public dialogue on transparency. More information and abundant resources can be found here.
National Freedom of Information Act day will be observed on March 14 with a day-long conference sponsored by the First Amendment Center.
The recently-formed Collaboration on Government Secrecy at the American University’s Washington College of Law will hold a conference on Monday March 17.
OpenTheGovernment.org will hold a webcast conference on Government Secrecy at the National Press Club on March 19.
Other national and local Sunshine Week events are noted here.
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is excited to announce that Kumar Garg and Matt Lira are joining the organization’s Board of Directors.
A cohesive strategy to achieve two goals: (1) deploy the clean energy and grid upgrades necessary to make energy affordable and combat climate change and (2) create governments that tangibly improve peoples’ lives.
By structuring licensing-and-talent deals that replicate mergers while avoiding antitrust scrutiny, dominant technology firms are reshaping AI labor markets, venture financing, and the future of U.S. innovation.
For International Year of the Woman Farmer and International Women’s Month, we spoke to five women farmers in America about planting the next generation.