 About cipr
The Center facilitates information policy research through its lecture series, research agenda, consulting and outreach activities, and its information ethics fellows program. With information infrastructures and technologies and the globalization of information evolving at a faster pace than our social, legal, and educational systems, it is imperative that information policy issues be examined systematically in an interdisciplinary environment. The CIPR welcomes formal and informal collaborations with other institutions and agencies.
The CIPR's research agenda revolves around social, ethical, economic, legal, and technical aspects of information and information technologies with a focus on such key information policy issues as intellectual property (copyright, patents, etc.), privacy, equity of access to information, ethics of information use and service, censorship, cyberlaw, and government, corporate, and international information policies. The specific focus for the 2008-10 period is on intercultural information ethics and policy.
Agencies or individuals interested in information ethics, law, or policy consultations, advisement, formal presentations, or inservices are encouraged to contact the CIPR for additional information. Consulting fees may apply.
Student internships are available at the CIPR.
Of Interest at CIPR....
2008 Samore Lecture: "Interpreting the Digital Human." A night of music, art, and thought, at the Charles Allis Art Museum, May 17, 2008, 5 pm. Speaker: Dr. Rafael Capurro, Founder, International Center for Information Ethics. ------------------------------------- May 15-17, 2008 Thinking Critically: Alternative Perspectives and Methods in Information Studies. UWM-Libraries, 4th Floor Conference Center, Milwaukee, WI, 53201 ------------------------------------- CIPR announces the release of the inaugral issue of the International Journal of Internet Research Ethics New IJIRE Call for Papers: ------------------------------------- Journal of Information Ethics Founder and Editor, Robert Hauptman on " The Ethics of Authorship" ------------------------------------- Hear the 2007 Ted Samore Lecture — "The Googlization of Everything: Digitization and the Future of Books" with Siva Vaidhyanathan. -------------------------------------
See the Archived lecture page for CIPR's November 30, 2007: A one day conference focusing on ethical issues in archives and the archives profession, held at the UWM Libraries, UW-Milwaukee. Featuring:
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The Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) was established in 1998, at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, School of Information Studies (UWM-SOIS)