Archive for March 20, 2009

The Educational Foundation of NATPE, the National Association of Program Executives, founded in 1963, invites students and faculty from The Triangle and beyond to a free workshop on Saturday, April 4, 2009.

From the Winston-Salem Journal (3/20/09): Sunshine is an apt metaphor for openness and transparency in government. Very little grows in darkness; good does not dwell there. Light, on the other hand, is necessary for life and renewal. So it is with knowledge. We don't learn if we cannot see.

From the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News (3/20/09): A survey by the Associated Press ranked North Carolina near the top in posting public records on the Internet.

More than half of North Carolinians are unaware that state laws exist to allow public access to government records, according to the latest Elon University Poll, but nearly all respondents feel democracy is best when it operates openly.

Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor in the School of Communications and director of the Imagining the Internet Center, has been named to the steering committee for the World Wide Web 2010 conference.