SCN: Welcome to Seattle! Shaping the Network Society -- May 16-19
Doug Schuler
douglas
Fri Feb 15 10:25:14 PST 2002
Hello,
This note is going out to people mostly in the Seattle area. It's for
the "Shaping the Network Society" symposium that CPSR and the National
Communication Association are sponsoring this May at the University of
Washington. I'm hoping that you all will attend! I'm also hoping that
many of you will volunteer -- we have LOTS of interesting tasks for
YOU! (http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/contact_form.html)
Feel free to pass the note on the interested colleagues here or
anywhere. Note that people can particiapte in our "pattern" project
without necessarily coming for the symposium. (But we'd love to see
them here!)
Thanks!
-- Doug
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Tomorrow's information and communication infrastructure is
being shaped today --
But by whom and to what ends?
IF you believe that our current communication systems aren't meeting
community and civic needs you're not alone! Millions of people from
around the world are asking these questions --
Will communication systems meet the needs of ALL people?
Will they help people address current and future issues?
Will they promote democracy, social justice, a healthy
environment?
Will appropriate research be conducted?
Will equitable policies be enacted?
Millions of people throughout the world are working to create
systems which meet humankind's crucial needs.
We are extending TWO invitations to those who are interested in
this work.
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Join 500 researchers, practitioners, activists, jounalists, educators,
artists, policy-makers and citizens from around the world in Seattle
May 16-19, 2002 at CPSR's eighth biannual "Directions and Implications
of Advanced Computing" (DIAC) symposium to address these critical
questions and develop action plans.
A variety of events are planned ranging from invited speakers, panel
discussions, and pattern presentations to informal working sessions --
both planned and spontaneous. Symposium topics include the digital
divide, human rights and privacy, cyberspace and economic development,
open content research, pattern language development, community
networks, wireless community networking, developing a civil society
charter for the UN Summit on the Network Society, virtual communities
and online activism, cross-border collaborations, and MORE! And, as
with previous DIAC symposia, we'll do our best to bring in some
surprises as well...
Please join us in Seattle (and beyond) for this exciting and important
event! Don't miss it!
Shaping the Network Society:
Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change
DIAC-02 in Seattle, May 16-19, 2002.
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02
Sponsored by:
Public Sphere Project of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility (CPSR)
National Communication Association Task Force on the
Digital Divide
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Browse the "patterns" we've received so far and submit your own!
Based on the insights of architect Christopher Alexander, we are
soliciting "patterns" that people use to create communication and
information technology that affirms human values. We will use these
patterns to craft a "pattern language" - a useful and compelling
"knowledge structure" based on the collective wisdom of our community.
Ideally our pattern language will help articulate -- and promote
interest in -- engaged and effective research and activism.
Our pattern system (http://diac.cpsr.org/cgi-bin/diac02/pattern.cgi)
includes the 150+ patterns that we've collected. It also includes
facilities for entering and editing additional patterns. All of the
patterns entered so far and those entered before the May 1st deadline
will be reviewed at the symposium for possible inclusion in the final
pattern language.
We encourage you to submit a pattern -- or, better, several patterns!
This pattern language will only be
as good as the patterns that you submit!
We are "casting a wide net" for patterns from all relevant domains and
situations.
health
activism
libraries
open source We
human rights are especially
collaborations encouraging additional
civil liberties patterns in these
roll your own media areas...
developing countries
alternative technologies
environmental informatics
gender, ethnicity, age
cultural expression --- thanks ---
war and militarism
culture jamming
media critique
cross-border
organizing
education
language
policy
labor
Please contact symposium and pattern language coordinator, Doug
Schuler, douglas at scn.org, if you have any questions on either of these
invitations.
Don't hate the media. Become the media.
- Jello Biafra
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