Research
szekelyi@ceu.edu
Ivan Szekely, social informatist, CSc in sociology, is an internationally known expert in the multidisciplinary fields of data protection and freedom of information. Szekely is presently Senior Research Fellow and Counsellor at Blinken OSA Archivum, a senior member of the management, leader of international projects, and course director.
He participated in the preparation of the Recommendation of the Council of Europe on access to archives, and was the head of the project monitoring its implementation. He is co-author of the Handbook on access to archives of the Council of Europe. He is a founding member and Chair of the editorial board of the bi-lingual journal Information Society/Informacios Tarsadalom and member of the Scientific Committee and regular speaker of the annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection international conference.
Besides his research and teaching activities in Blinken OSA Archivum, Szekely had been teaching at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences, the University of Miskolc, the University of Szeged, the Budapest School of Communication and Business/Metropolitan University, developing new courses and programs.
Székely participated in several international research projects and research groups, including Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (PRIME), Broadening the Range Of Awareness in Data protection (BROAD), Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications (ETICA), Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS), Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies (IRISS), and The Privacy and Security Mirrors (PRISMS) projects of the EU, and the Surveillance Project of Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
His research interests and publications are focused on openness and secrecy, privacy, identity, surveillance and resilience, memory and forgetting, and archivistics. He recently completed the Council of Europe's pan-European study on access to archives, for which he was the lead researcher.
Central European University
This course aims at looking at the roles and uses of human rights documentation in the context of preserving recorded memory and the history of human rights.
Central European University
The Archival Practice includes supervised practice in the Archivum’s professional activities. Students spend 30 hours in Budapest to familiarize themselves with the various stages of the archival workflow and the “invisible” processes of creating archives.
University of Miskolc (ME)
Central European University
The aim of the specialization is to provide students with theoretical grounding and practical skills in working and pursuing research in a contemporary and innovative archive.
University of Szeged (SZTE)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
Data security, data protection | Bank security and data protection | Data protection and freedom of information | Electronic commerce | Data protection and freedom of information in the media | E-business | Processing of personal and public data | Privacy Enhancing Technologies | Digital way of life
Budapest School of Communications (BKF)
Press ethics | Press ethics, television program production | Media Ethics
