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DIAC '97: Community Needs and Cyber Challenges:
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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 23:37:27 -0700
From: Susan Evoy
Community Needs and Cyber Challenges:
Activists Explore Connection in Seattle
Proceedings available NOW from CPSR!!
Add to the Resource Bank at http://www.scn.org/tech/diac-97/resources.html
Earlier this year -- while a typical Seattle rainstorm raged -- nearly 400 computer professionals, librarians, journalists, government officials, business people, and community activists gathered face-to- face to consider an increasingly tempestuous issue: How do cyberspace events, policies, and use affect what happens in the communities in which people live?
Cyberspace with its vast physical, financial, as well as emotional investment, represents a techno-social tidal wave of historic momentum. How much of what we hear is realistic? How much is hype? What opportunities -- and what challenges -- does the medium offer? And, most especially, how does it affect community, what Matthew Dumont has called the "gossamer network of mutual responsibilities."
The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility "Community Space and Cyberspace: What's the Connection" conference asked a multitude of pointed questions like "What is work in cyberspace? How can we build up -- or tear down -- our existing non-electronic civic networks? Is cyberspace an agora for rich and informed dialogue or is it an infinite echo chamber for monologists?
CPSR has gathered papers from the panelists and workshop conveners into a trenchant collection of critical ideas as well as pragmatic projects to help carry on the important work of inventing an informed and humanistic future.
Please check out web site to add your information as well as search the conference's on-line resource bank. We encourage everybody -- whether you attended the conference or not -- to read the proceedings, contribute to the resource bank, and follow up on any of these ideas in your communities.
Conference web pages: http://www.scn.org/tech/diac-97 Add information to resource bank: http://www.scn.org/tech/diac-97/resources.html Search the resource bank: Available SOON! Watch for this!
To order the DIAC '97 Proceedings for $18 (including postage), send check, VISA, or Mastercard information to: CPSR, PO Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302 USA 415-322-3778 415-322-4748 (fax)
> -- > Susan Evoy * Deputy Director > http://www.cpsr.org/home.html > Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility > P.O. Box 717 Palo Alto CA * 94302 > Phone: (415) 322-3778 Fax: (415) 322-4748 Email: evoy@cpsr.org ```
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