Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference all set to start

San Francisco , US : The the Silicon Valley Human Rights conference is all set to start from Tuesday, October, 25 to 26 at Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco.

The conference is thought to set standard in the internet technology with vital industry players fighting for digital freedom. The high tech conference is will examine and explore how the high-tech industry can better plan for and manage the human rights implications of their technologies.

Nearly 500 leaders in business, civil society, and government are slated to attend, and we have an incredible lineup of more than 90 speakers over the course of the two-day program. You may already know that our roster includes the likes of:

Ø Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State

Ø John Markoff, New York Times correspondent

Ø Alex Macgillivray, Twitter General Counsel

Ø Robert Scoble, Tech evangelist

Ø Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ø Van Jones, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

Even the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent a welcome video message to the Conference.

According to the organizers Access team, “We are very excited, though, to share with you that Access has arranged to bring several activists and bloggers from the front lines to participate in the conference, like Ugandan journalist Rosebell Kagumire, and award-winning Lebanese blogger Imad Bazzi. It is through their participation that we will carry the lessons of this unique gathering far beyond the walls of the conference center. We also want to extend an invitation to all the members of the global movement to participate and help make this a huge success. Here’s what you can do:

1. WATCH the conference online at rightscon.org. Just because you can’t be in Silicon Valley with us doesn’t mean you have to miss out. Streaming will begin on Tuesday, Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. PST until 6 p.m. PST, then on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 9 a.m. PST until 5 p.m. PST.

2. TWEET about the conference using #rightscon or @accessnow, and follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/accessnow.

3. SHARE the goals of Access with your friends and ask them to join the movement. Forward this email to them now! Join here!

4. DONATE to the global movement. Every dollar you give goes to ensuring citizens around the world can enjoy the right to a free and open internet. Donate here!

Thank you, from the entire Access team, for helping us keep the Internet open and secure.”

The conference is sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype and Mozilla, amongst others, and held with partners from the civil society sector.

The first Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) conference ready to be held

Washington Dc, USA : Digital Public Library of America invites interested candidates to participate in the public conference to showcase innovative ideas for the Digital Public Library of America in Washington, DC on October 21, 2011.

According to the organizers, “The first Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) conference will bring together government leaders, librarians, technologists, makers, students, and others interested in building a national digital library to present the vision for the DPLA effort and to create multiple points of entry for public participation in the initiative’s work. The conference will be held at the National Archives in Washington, DC.”

The first Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Plenary Meeting, convened by the DPLA Secretariat at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and hosted by The National Archives in Washington, DC.

Online Registration are open for free to the public, to support the DPLA’s goals of building a “big tent” coalition and including broad and diverse voices in the conversation.

The conference will feature presentations from nine promising entries selected from summer 2011’s Beta Sprint, an open call for code and concepts defining how a national digital library might operate. These projects range widely from full prototypes for an online library interface to innovative digital storytelling tools to unique visualization mechanisms for digital collections. Organizations to present include the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, metaLAB (at) Harvard, and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, among others. A full list of submissions, including interactive demos, is available at the DPLA’s new website, http://dp.la/.

Speakers include David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States; Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress; Susan Hildreth, Director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services; Brewster Kahle, Founder of the Internet Archive; Jill Cousins, Executive Director of the Europeana Foundation; and Carl Malamud, President of Public.Resource.Org.

The conference will be streamed live with closed captioning.

For detail information on conference: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/7117