21 Jan 2010 | Events, Uncategorized
As part of the Centre for Investigative Journalism Investigative Film Week, producer Tracy Worcester and associate producer Alastair Kenneil will discuss how to avoid libel and lawsuits when conducting investigations after a screening of their film Pig Business. The documentary charts the four-year investigation into the industrialisation of pig farming.
The film begins in the UK, where Worcester discovers how supermarket labels are an unreliable guide to how and where pork has been produced. She takes us on a journey to the USA, Brazil and Poland and visits the offices of corporate leaders, European bureaucrats and banks. She finds policies that support a farming system of poor quality, damaging to the environment and which pushes traditional farmers out of business.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 at 18.30
£5 full price; £4 concessions
Oliver Thompson Theatre
City University London
Northampton Square,
London EC1V 0HB
21 Jan 2010 | Events, Uncategorized
One of the key issues facing all online providers is the extent to which the rights of users should be protected and enhanced. Can users themselves be empowered to take greater control of their information? Recent controversies over new policies and practices also show that policy agendas and market pressures may collide on issues around privacy,security, and end-user autonomy.
Innovation in this space is dramatic and the subject of a special Polis discussion with the leading internet and telecommunications companies to identify the key policy and technological challenges for the coming years.
Speakers:
Richard Allan, Director of European public policy, Facebook
Kasey Chappelle, Global Privacy Counsel, Vodafone
Alma Whitten, Privacy Engineering Lead, Google
Usama M. Fayyad, Open Insights
Chair:
Gus Hosein, Information Systems and Innovation Group, LSE
6.30pm, 25 Jan 2010
Sheikh Zayed Theatre
New Academic Building, Lincolns Inn Fields
21 Jan 2010 | Events
Event to mark the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency we will be examining his foreign policy. Obama was elected on a ticket of change but to what extent has the international agenda altered since the 44th President of the United States replaced George Bush in the White House?
His address to the Muslim world at Cairo University in June last year was lauded as a masterpiece of oratory and cultural sensitivity but what in practice has Barack Obama delivered when it comes to Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran as well as the War on Terror declared by his predecessor?
Discussion with Jim Sciutto, author of Against US, a book that chronicles the rise of anti-Americanism and Islamic extremism in the Arab world. Rest of panel to be announced. Enayat Fani, senior editor and presenter, BBC Persian Television; Zaki Chehab, author and journalist and editor of arabstoday.net; Davis Lewin, head of programmes at the Henry Jackson Society, a foreign policy think tank based in London
Moderator: Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News correspondent
Frontline Club
21 January 2010 7pm
£12.50
13 Norfolk Place
London, W2 1QJ
21 Jan 2010 | Digital Freedom, Uncategorized
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will today (2.30pm GMT) deliver a speech emphasising the importance of web freedom in US foreign policy. You can watch it at http://www.state.gov/.
Index on Censorship has lined up some key Internet commentators to analyse Clinton’s speech.
UPDATE: Read Index panel here
