Hear Dick Sclove talk -- Next week!!

[Doug Schuler]

Please distribute this announcement far and wide.  Dick (and the
Loka Institute) has been an active force in democratizing tchnology for
years.  

Thanks!

-- Doug



Will modern technology HELP or HINDER communities as they face the problems 
of the next century?

Do citizens and communities truly "get what they want" in terms of 
technology?  Do they get want they NEED?  

WHO decides how technology is designed and used in our society?  

Is it possible for citizens to have a much stronger voice in making these 
critical decisions?

Do democratic processes apply to the design and development of new technology?
Should they?

How can "ordinary citizens" engage in community research that help
address environmental, social and other problems in the community?


Join us for a FREE, public presentation and discussion with Richard Sclove,
one of the nation's leading thinkers and practitioners in these areas.



                     TECHNOLOGY BY THE PEOPLE

  Democratizing Technology Decisions and Design in the 21st Century


                       An evening with 

                      Richard E. Sclove

                      November 11, 1998
                      7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

        Sponsored by The Evergreen State College through 
                       A PLATO Royalty Lecture

            Urban Onion Restaurant's Palladia Room
     116 Legion Street (across from Sylvester Park in downtown)
                       Olympia, Washington


Richard's presentation will be of interest to students, teachers,
journalists, business people, government workers and, in fact, to
anybody who is concerned with the use -- and abuse -- of technology in
today's world.


Richard Sclove, the founder and research director of the Loka
Institute, Amherst, Massachusetts, (http://www.loka.org) will give a
public presentation and discussion focused on the potential of
democratizing decisions about which new technologies should be
developed into the 21st century and how they should design of
technology.

As one of the nation's leading thinkers and practitioners in these
areas,  Dr. Sclove will be challenging our understanding of critical
issues surrounding the use of technology in today's world.

Last year Dr. Sclove initiated the first European-style, consensus
conference in the United States for citizen-based deliberation of
technology policy. The topic was "Telecommunications and the Future of
Democracy." He also launched a transnational Community Research
Network. His book, Democracy and Technology, has received numerous
awards.

Join us for Richard Sclove's first public appearance in the Olympia
area!


Contacts: 
Rebecca Chamberlain 
chambreb at evergreen.edu 
360.866.6000 x 6844

Doug Schuler 
dschuler at evergreen.edu 
206.634.0752


*******

Richard Sclove is founder and research director of the Loka Institute,
a nonprofit organization concerned with making science and technology
socially and environmentally responsive.  last year Dr. Sclove
initiated the first European-style, pilot consensus conference in the
United States for citizen-based technology policy deliberation, on the
topic "Telecommunications and the Future of Democracy."  He also
launched a transnational Community Research Network that same year.
His book, _Democracy and Technology_, received the 1996 Don K. Price
Award of the American Political Science Association.  He has published
extensively in both scholarly and popular venues, including _Science_
magazine, _The Washington Post_, and many others.  Sclove lectures
widely in the U.S. and abroad, and his consulting clients have included
the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, and the Danish Parliament's Board of Technology.  He holds
a B.A. in environmental studies and, from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, graduate degrees in engineering and political science.

Contact information:  

The Loka Institute 
P.O. Box 355 
Amherst, MA 01004, USA 
Loka at amherst.edu 
http://www.loka.org

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