International Missions

Tokyo

  • In November 2008, Peter Saraga OBE FREng, the Academy’s Honorary International Secretary, led a delegation to Tokyo to participate in a symposium on ‘Privacy and Security in the Information Society’ held jointly with the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ) and hosted by the British Embassy. The symposium provided an opportunity to bring the Academy’s 2007 report, Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance, to an international audience, and to explore the commonalities and differences in the British and Japanese treatments of the subject. The UK speakers were Prof Nigel Gilbert FREng, University of Surrey and chair of the group that produced the Academy’s Dilemmas report; Prof Andy Hopper CBE FREng FRS, University of Cambridge; Prof Cliff Jones FREng, University of Newcastle; Dr Martyn Thomas CBE FREng, Martyn Thomas Associates Ltd; Dr Maire O’Neill, Queen’s University Belfast and former Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow; and Dr Andrew Adams, University of Reading and former holder of an Academy Global Research Award. The Academy will be hosting a return symposium in late 2009/early 2010.

 

 

Updated July 2012

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