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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY'S CYBER SECURITY POLICY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE WORLD BANK'S INFORMATION FOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM hold "Open Source: A Case for e-Government."
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Opening Session
Mohsen Khalil, Director, Global Information and Communication
Technologies Department, World Bank Group
Dianne Martin, Director of Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute
George Washington University
9:30 a.m. - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (Moderator)
Ruediger Glott, European FLOSS Report
David A. Wheeler, Why Open Source Software ...? Study
Chris Dibona, Jeff Bates, Bob Wolf (BCG/OSDN Study
11:15 a.m. - Linux Distributions - Red Hat
Paula M. Hunter, UnitedLinux
Merry Beekman, Red Hat
Scott McNeil, FreeStandards
1:30 p.m. - Business Cases
Dan Kusnetzky, IDC
Robert Lefkowitz, Merrill Lynch
Stacey Quandt, Giga
Carter Eltzroth, Helikon.net
3:30 p.m. - Legal
J.T. Westermeier, Esq., Piper Rudnick
Daniel Ravicher, Esq., Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Michael Raschid, Esq., Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-1423
WEB ADDRESS: eGovOS.org
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds Broadband National Policy breakfast discussion on The Future Of Wireless: Broadband Networking on Unlicensed Spectrum.
WHO: The speakers are:
Pierre DeVries, Program Manager for Future Home Technology Microsoft
Carl Stevenson, Senior Manager for Standards & Regulatory Affairs
Agere Systems
Michael Calabrese, Director, Public Assets Program, New America Foundation
David Reed, Independent Communications Systems Designer
Reed.com
Kevin Werbach, Technology Consultant and Author
Karen Kornbluh, Fellow, New America Foundation
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CMD holds the North American Construction Forecast Conference.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: 770-417-4197
WEB ADDRESS:nacf.com
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE holds a news conference releasing Global Water Outlook to 2025: Averting an Impending Crisis.
WHO: The speakers are:
Mark Rosegrant, lead author and senior research fellow, IFPRI
Peter Hazell, director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: Michael Rubinstein, 202-862-5670 or Janet Hodur, 202-862-8177
WEB ADDRESS:ifpri.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION Continuity of Government Commission holds a meeting. The commission was established to make recommendations to ensure the continuity of our three branches of government after a terrorist attack.
WHO: Among the participants will be:
Lloyd Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering
Alan K. Simpson, University of Wyoming
Philip Chase Bobbitt, University of Texas School of Law
Kenneth Duberstein, The Duberstein Group
Charles Fried, Harvard Law School
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General
Lynn Martin, Deloitte and Touche
Robert Michel, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P.
Dr. Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution
Dr. Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10:15 a.m.
EVENT: COALITION OF HOUSING AND HOMELESS ORGANIZAIONS hold a rally to discuss public facilities for hypothermia shelters for the homeless families this winter.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: Freedom Plaza, 13th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-872-1926
WEB ADDRESS:cohho.org
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION holds a news conference to discuss an advertising campaign and a massive mobilization of its members and supporters in a new nationwide effort to safeguard the freedoms that Attorney General Ashcroft and the Bush Administration have targeted since last year's terrorist attacks.
WHO: The speakers are:
Anthony Romero, National ACLU Executive Director
Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU's Washington National Office
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: Richard Alleyne, 212-549-2689
WEB ADDRESS: aclu.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES holds a conference call briefing to discuss the latest developments in the fiscal crises now affecting most state governments, along with two new reports on how those crises did and did not come about, how states have responded, and what steps they should take as they struggle with dismal fiscal conditions.
WHO: The speakers are:
Iris Lav, Deputy Director
Nicholas Johnson, Director, State Fiscal Project (SFP)
Liz McNichol, Senior Fellow, SFP
Kevin Carey, SFP Analyst
DATE: October 16, 2002
CONTACT: Michelle Bazie, 202-408-1080.
WEB ADDRESS: cbpp.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program entitled "The System of Financial Accounting: Firm Structure, Industrial Organization and Government Policy" featuring Mark Warshawsky Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis, US Treasury.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden Restaurant, 618 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Disentangling the Social Safety Net from the Energy Sector: Problems of Privatization in Post-Socialist States with Michael Cain, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on The Posse Comitatus Act: Venerable Safeguard--Or Old Hat?
WHO: The speakers are:
David Kopel, Associate Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
Stephen Halbrook, Appellate Attorney
Paul Schott Stevens, Partner, Dechert International Law Firm
Margaret Stock, Professor, Department of Law, U.S. Military Academy.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Balancing Profits and Respect for Traditional Cultures at the National Geographic Magazine with Carrie Regan, National Geographic.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture featuring Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, ambassador of Pakistan to the United States.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: Katrine Petkova Gloukhov, 202-663-7738
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY School of Foreign Service holds a Forum entitled Global Democratization.
AGENDA: Highlights:
Democratization and Middle East Peace
Philip Wilcox, President
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Conflict Resolution and Democratization
William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Professor
of International Organizations, SAIS
Afghanistan: No Quick Fixes
Phyllis Oakley, Former Assistant Secretary
for Population, Refugees & Migration, Dept. of State
Emerging Issues and Elections Standards
Leslie Campbell, Middle East Regional Director
National Democratic Institute
Elizabeth Clark, ISD Associate
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202 965-5735
WEB ADDRESS: Georgetown.edu
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY presents The Kirk O'Donnell Lecture on American Politics to be delivered by Albert R. Hunt Executive Washington Editor, Wall Street Journal & Panelist, CNN's "The Capital Gang" and "This Honorable Profession" A Conversation Across the Generations.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: Cannon Caucus Room, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-682-4117
WEB ADDRESS:cnponline.org
TIME: 4:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a program on "Trade Beats Aid? The Future of Continental Transport and Trade in
Afghanistan and Central Asia."
WHO: The speakers are:
Ravshan Alimov, director of the Institute of Interregional and Strategic Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Martha Blaxall, an economist at Yale University
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-KS, ranking member on the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Eva Molnar, manager for the Eastern European Transport Sector of the World Bank
Emin Sazak, vice chairman of Yuksel Construction Company in Ankara, Turkey
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture featuring Michael Ignatieff, Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents Aly Bain of Scotland and Ale Möller of Sweden, both music virtuosos, bringing Celtic and Nordic influences together for an exciting musical voyage.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F St. NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-467-4600
WEB ADDRESS: kennedycenter.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Center for Latin American Studies presents Sergio Berensztein, Professor of Political Science at the University of Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires Argentina, discussing 'The Political Crisis in Argentina: The Initiative for Institutional Reconstruction'.
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 37TH and O Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT:
WEB ADDRESS:Georgetown.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS AND PROSE BOOKSTORE presents Kenyan activist Koigi wa Wamwere discussing and signing copies of his political autobiography in story, song and allegory entitled "I Refuse To Die: My Journey for Freedom."
DATE: October 16, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politcs-prose.com
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