Deborah Hurley
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Deborah Hurley is the recipient of the 2002 Namur Award, which is a biennial award
given by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in recognition
of outstanding contributions, with international impact, to awareness of the social
implications of information technology. Hurley is a member of: the Advisory Committee
to the U.S. State Department on International Communications and Information Policy
(ACICIP) and Co-Chair of its Working Group on Security, Encryption, and Export
Controls; the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC); and the Advisory Committee on International Science (ACIS) of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was Director
(1997-2002) of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard University.
She was an official (1988-96) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, with responsibility for identifying
emerging issues related to protection of personal data and privacy, security of
information systems, cryptography technology and policy, and protection of
intellectual property. Hurley, after writing the seminal report on information
network security for the OECD member nations in 1989, was responsible for the
drafting, negotiation and adoption by OECD member countries of the 1992 OECD
Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems. In addition to responsibility
for legal, economic, social and technological issues related to information and
communications technologies, she carried out activities on biotechnology, environmental
and energy technologies, technology policy, and other advanced technology fields.
Shortly before her arrival at the OECD, Hurley received a Fulbright grant to
undertake a study of intellectual property protection and technology transfer in
Korea. She carried out this study during her annual leave from the OECD in 1989
and 1990, spending a total of five months in Korea. She served as Chair of: the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Strategic Planning Workshop on Creating
Trust in Critical Network Infrastructures in May 2002; the American Library
Association Forum on New Technology, the Information Commons, and the Future of
Libraries in November 2001; the ITU Strategic Planning Workshop on the Regulatory
Implications of Broadband in May 2001; and the 2001 Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Conference in March 2001. She is the author of "Foreign Policy in the Ubiquitous
Information Environment" in Science and Diplomacy: The State of Science at the
Department of State (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000).
She is also the author, with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, of "Globalization of
Communications" and "Information Policy and Governance" in John Donahue and
Joseph Nye, Jr., eds., Governance in a Globalizing World (Brookings Institution
Press, 2000). Other recent publications include The First 100 Feet: Options for
Internet and Broadband Access, edited with James H. Keller (The MIT Press, 1999),
and "Security and Privacy Laws: The Showstoppers of the Global Information Society"
in Masters of the Wired World (Pitman Publishing, 1999).
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