[Eril-l] Cory Doctorow to Keynote at NISO Plus 2021!

[NISO Announce]

Baltimore, October 29, 2020: The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) today announced that the well-known science fiction
author, activist, and journalist, Cory Doctorow, will be a keynote at their
next annual NISO Plus conference to be held virtually, February 22-25, 2021.

In addition to being a prolific and highly successful writer of both
fiction and non-fiction, Cory is also a special consultant to the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties
group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and
treaties. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open
University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a MIT Media
Lab Research Affiliate and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the
University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science.
In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for
Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. His many books
include, most recently, RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for
adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly
and conspiracy; IN REAL LIFE, a graphic novel; and the picture book POESY
THE MONSTER SLAYER. His latest book is ATTACK SURFACE, a standalone adult
sequel to LITTLE BROTHER.

NISO Plus 2021 is a digital-first, fully virtual global conference taking
place across multiple time zones over the course of four days. It aims to
capture the spirit of the inaugural NISO Plus, an in-person conference held
in Baltimore in February 2020, with a focus on innovation, education, and
conversation.  More information about the conference is available at
niso.plus.

“Through his thoughtful writing, Cory Doctorow has proven adept at
envisioning and describing  technological worlds and the human impact of
those technologies,” noted Todd Carpenter, NISO’s Executive Director. “As
both an author and a thought leader about content distribution, it will be
fascinating to hear his thoughts on access to information, on technology,
and the standards that help to disseminate that content to the world. He
will be an amazing headline speaker at our upcoming conference.”


Registration for NISO Plus 2021 will open shortly - please check niso.plus
or follow @NISOInfo for updates.

About NISO

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO fosters the development and maintenance of
standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.
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