Privacy Commissioner launches public consultations on emerging technologies

Consultation opens today to explore consumer privacy in the context of the manner in which businesses target consumers in social networking environments.

Read the full news release.

OLITA Award for Technological Innovation Call for Nominations

A reminder that the deadline for the OLITA Award for Technological Innovation is looming!

This is an excellent an opportunity to share your accomplishments with your peers and receive some well deserved recognition. So, if you have a technical achievement from the past year that you are proud of, or feel that your institution is using technology in an interesting or innovative way, we encourage you to apply. Application forms can be filled out online here.

Nominations are due Nov. 15.

Submit your Digital Odyssey Presentations…please!

Thanks to all presenters and speakers for having provided us with another successful Digital Odyssey day this year!

Please submit your slide presentations as attachments to insideolita@gmail.com and we’ll make them available, ASAP, on the Digital Odyssey 2009 blog.

Are you attending Digital Odyssey? Send us your blog.

Are you going to Digital Odyssey?

Send us your blog, twitter identity (in addition to proposed hash tags e.g. #do2009 #digitalodyssey, etc.) and any related media coverage (flickr? YouTube? so we can link and send additional traffic your way.

We’ll post your submitted links on the InsideOLITA blog AND digitalodyssey blog.

We look forward to reading and viewing your coverage of this event as you record it!

Email us:  insideolita@gmail.com

Digital Odyssey 2009 - New Blog is UP

Visit the new wordpress blog for more information about  “Digital Odyssey 2009: Digitization Theory and Practice“.

http://odyssey2009.wordpress.com/, the new site, currently carries schedule, speaker, and session information. It will also eventually host our blogging reports presented for this event.

Digital Odyssey is taking place this upcoming Friday, June 5th at the University of Toronto I-School (registration is almost full).

We look forward to seeing you this week!