General overview:

The premier instance of the International Symposium on Global Information Governance, ISGIG 2008, is focused on cross-border and cross-organization challenges in governing, managing, and securing enterprises in a pervasively connected world. The development of synergy and resolution of conflict between these issues will be a defining factor in the handling and protection of personal, enterprise, and government information worldwide.

Today's growingly complex ICT environments require us to manage information within organizations and processes that span multiple administrative, legislative, political, organization, jurisdictional, and conceptual boundaries. Moreover, the regulatory needs and their impact on businesses and individuals are not well understood, beyond their technical feasibility. This disconnect between government and the business sector is as common as the more familiar gap between business requirements and technology solutions, which in itself gains a novel dimension in cross-border settings.

Co-sponsored by ICST, Europe's largest scientific society, and CreateNet, one of the largest European research consortia, ISGIG 2008 aims to promote the understanding of information governance challenges and their debate among government, business, academia, and technology stakeholders to increase understanding of the issues affecting each stakeholder.

The event:

ISGIG 2008 will host high-level keynotes from government, technical and business thought leaders, targeted case-studies and the presentation of applied research on these topics as conducted by the key stakeholder groups. The symposium will attract industry and business leaders, executive and government heads in an attempt to unravel complex issues of crossover business in addressing and resolving data protection, crossborder security and privacy. The second day of conference will include a realistic case study using Second Life as the case in which these same issues of security and privacy are put to the test.