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OGC/GITA Emerging Technology Summit V: Spatial Law and Policy Issues

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty

OGC/GITA will host a conference titled Emerging Technology Summit V: Spatial Law and Policy Issues on October 7, 2009 at the Weston Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference overview states:

Conference Overview
The growing use of Earth browsers, satellite navigation devices in cars and PDA’s, location-based services associated with cell phones, business intelligence, social networking and satellite tracking of vehicles and equipment raises a number of issues concerning privacy, intellectual property rights, liability, and national security. In many cases, the existing legal and policy framework is inadequate to provide governments, businesses and consumers clear guidance on these issues.

Speakers and panelists will include:

* Gordon Chinander, GIS Coordinator for the Metropolitan Emergency Services Board, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.
* Hugh N. Archer, former Director Kentucky Department of Natural Resources
* Steve Wallach, NGA and member of the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory Council
* Kara John, Vice President – Intellectual Property & Privacy at DMTI Spatial Inc.
* Jim Simon, Founding Director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments
* John Moeller, former Staff Director at the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
* Others, to be announced