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African Americans & Tech/3-Day Electronic Conference
``` Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 07:01:36 -0500 (EST) From: RESCLOVE@amherst.edu To: loka-l@amherst.edu Subject: African Americans & Tech/3-Day Electronic Conference (Loka Alert 1-11)
Loka Alert 1-11 (Sept. 9, 1994)
Friends and Colleagues:
This is one in an occasional series of electronic postings on democratic politics of science and technology, issued by The Loka Institute. You are welcome to post it anywhere you feel is appropriate.
--Dick Sclove Executive Director, The Loka Institute, P.O. Box 355, Amherst, MA 01004-0355, USA Tel. 413 253-2828; Fax 413 253-4942 E-mail: resclove@amherst.edu
Note: The end of this alert includes updates on two earlier action alerts involving (1) workers & technology and (2) environmental cleanup and environmental injustice.
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AFRITECH '95: AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS: Perspectives and Issues for Cross Disciplinary Debate AFRITECH '95: AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE will be held January 20-22, 1995. AFRITECH '95 will provide an opportunity for participants to engage in two-and-a-half days of cross disciplinary debate and discussion on a variety of topics related to technology and the African American experience. Researchers, educators, practitioners, and activists will be able to interact with participants from around the world by signing on to different discussion groups within the conference, from home or office. This Conference is sponsored by the Planning Committee for the Mid-Year Electronic Conference of the "Technology and the African-American Experience Workshop Group." The First Annual International Workshop on "Technology and the African-American Experience" was held last May 20-22, 1994, at Howard University, Washington, DC. The Workshop was planned to bring together those doing research or interested in doing research on the following topics: Workplace Technology and Workers; Urban Infrastructure and Transportation Planning; Environmental Justice; Health and Medicine; Engineering and Engineering Education; Computers, Communication, and Information Technologies; Inventors and Inventing; Technology in African American Households and Daily Life; Unexplored Research Frontiers in Technology & African American Experience; Issues of Public Policy and Politics; and Government Involvement with Technology. The Mid-Year Electronic Conference will focus on these same topics and registrants will be able to present papers and/or participate in the conference at the following levels: Area Chair, Panel Chair, Panelist or Discussant, Presenter of a Paper, or to just Attend. The AFRITECH List will serve as the communication source keeping prospective participants informed and up-to-date on the development of panels for the conference, registration, and provide a forum for input into the development and administration of the conference. Joining the List will also establish a Preregistration list for participating in the conference. Please feel free to notify your colleagues of this list and invite them to subscribe. In addition to subscribing to the list, participants will also need to decide on a preferred level of participation for the electronic conference. Papers, Abstracts and Levels of Participation should be submitted according to the following deadline dates, after subscribing to the List: Area and Panel Chairs: Committed by September 24, 1994 Presenters of Papers: Submit topics by October 7, 1994 Discussants (Panelists): Committed by October 7, 1994 Abstracts of Papers: Submitted by December 10, 1994 Other Attendees: Late Registration Ends, December 20, 1994. To subscribe to the List and receive further details on both the Conference and the List, send an e-mail message to: LISTSERV@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU with the message:
SUBSCRIBE AFRITECH
as the only line in the body of the message (without the
brackets).
If you have questions about the List of the Electronic
Conference send an e-mail message to Rosie L. Albritton
(List-Owner and Chair of the Planning Committee for the
Electronic Conference) at RALBRIT@WAYNEST1 (or)
RALBRIT@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU, or see phone and FAX numbers listed
below.
Rosie L. Albritton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Library &
Information Science, Kresge Library 106, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan 48202-3939
Phone: (313) 577-6203
[Note: a second (face-to-face) Conference on "Technology and the African American Experience" is planned for June 2-4, 1995 at Howard University. Further information will appear in a future Loka Alert.]
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(1) RE: Loka Alert 1-8, "Technology, Workers, & the U.S. Government":
Frank Emspak at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now reports that the dates and locations for NIST's regional public meetings on "Integrating Design Engineering and the Workforce" this fall are: September 27 Cleveland, September 29 Milwaukee; Oct 3 San Francisco; Oct 4 Seattle, October 7 Los Angeles, Oct. 12 Boston, Oct 31 Nashville.
Participating in one of these meetings is a way to support U.S. workers' opportunties to have a voice in developing workplace technologies.
For further information, contact Frank Emspak, Advanced Technology Program, NIST, Bldg. 101/Room A-415, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001. Tel. (301) 975-4802; Fax (301) 921-6319; e-mail: femspak@micf.nist.gov
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(2) RE: Loka Alert 1-10, "Opportunity to Help Reform Superfund (U.S. Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Program)":
Clem Dinsmore reports that there is still time to prod the Congress to enact reformed Superfund legislation this year. This can, among other things, help communities that have experienced environmental injustice become more empowered within government- funded cleanup efforts.
For further information, call Clem Dinsmore, Majority Staff Counsel, U.S. Senate Banking Committee, tel. (202) 224-2232. (Note: Clem was a speaker at the May 1994 Howard University conference on Technology and the African American Experience.)
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If you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Loka Institute e-mail list, please send an e-mail message to that effect to: resclove@amherst.edu
The Loka e-mail list functions as a news distribution service, not an open conference. Please post any comments to resclove@amherst.edu; please do not attempt to reply to the entire list (which includes many busy folks who cannot sustain a barrage of unsolicited e-mail). Thank you for respecting this request. We are in the process of evaluating alternative approaches for establishing an open electronic conference as an optional complement to the Loka Alerts. The distribution of Loka Alerts is an activity of the Public Interest Technology Policy Project.
Extra! Extra!:
The end of the Cold War has opened a little-noticed strategic opportunity to reorganize U.S. science and technology institutions and policies--the best opportunity we've had in decades. Within this context the Public Interest Technology Policy Project is promoting a strong grassroots and public- interest group voice in national science and technology decision making. The Project has now received several startup foundation grants and other grants are pending. Once adequate funds are in hand, the Project will produce Technology Watch, a newsletter on opportunities for developing more environmentally sound and socially responsive U.S. science and technology policies. Technology Watch will be used, in turn, to help organize a nationwide network of public interest and grassroots activists: FASTnet (Federation of Activists on Science and Technology).
The Public Interest Technology Policy Project is a collaborative undertaking of the Loka Institute and the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. For further information, contact Dick Sclove at the Loka Institute (address and other contact information are at the top of this Alert).
There are currently 604 people and organizations worldwide on the Loka e-mail list. ```
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