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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 00:17:06 -0700
From: Peter Miller
/ Written 12:51 AM Apr 27, 1995 by ptwnd in igc:ptw.staff /
For Immediate Distribution:
PLAYING TO WIN COMMUNITY COMPUTING CENTER NETWORK Hosts 4th Annual Meeting in Washington DC Friday, June 2 - Sunday, June 4, 1995 Future Center at the Capital Children's Museum 800 Third Street NE -- near Union Station
Thursday, June 1, 7:30 pm Kick Off with Working Group Against Information Redlining Forum on "Disenfranchised Communities and the Information Superhighway"
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Summary Program Schedule
Preliminary Program Thursday, June 1 7:30-9:30 - see below
Friday, June 2 - 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Registration & Continental Breakfast Panel presentation: Issues of Access: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times --
Mario Marino, Chairman, The Morino Institute, Reston, VA Laura Breeden, Director, Telecommunications and Information Assistance Program, Washington, DC* James Ferguson, Executive Director, National Coalition on Black Voter Participation, Washington, DC* Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Coordinator, Chittenden Community Television, Burlington, VT
Focus Groups Keynote Speaker: Elliot Soloway, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Michigan Concurrent Presentations & Workshops: Starting a Community Technology Center Technology and Literacy Managing Community Technology Programs The PTW Network -- IGC Training for New Users Role of Math and Science in Community Technology Programs Volunteers: How to Find Them/How to Keep Them Reception sponsored by The Morino Institute
Saturday, June 3 9:00 am to 5:45 pm
Registration & Continental Breakfast Affiliate Presentations & Workshops: The Whys and Hows of Public Access Multimedia Projects Integrating Technology: Video and Computers IGC Telecommunications Training for Experienced Users Role of Telecommunications in Community Technology Programs Exploring Internet Resources Telecommunication Projects Tools Play: Using basic computer tools to create learning games Math & Science Projects and Resources Program Assessment and Evaluation The PTW Network Agenda: 1995-96 and Beyond
Sunday, June 4 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Regional and Steering Committee Meetings
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Conference co-sponsors: The Capital Children's Museum, The Morino Institute, The Legent Corporation, the National Science Foundation, and Playing To Win, Inc.
Goals:
To provide opportunities for personal networking and for exchanging information and experiences.
To enhance community-based technology programs by providing technical training and program development information.
To explore and understand issues related to providing equity in technology access at the local, regional and national levels.
Description:
The Annual All-Affiliates Meeting of The Playing To Win Network brings together Network affiliate members, potential affiliates, associates, friends, supporters and other persons interested in learning more about how community-based technology programs can and do provide technology access to underserved and disenfranchised peoples. In addition to gaining practical program development information, participants will learn how programs throughout the PTW Network are working and collaborating to open the doors to technology in their communities. Panel discussions, workshops, and training sessions will be led by affiliate members, PTW Network project staff and consultants, as well as representatives from public policy and public interest organizations. Opportunities for informal socializing will include group lunches and a Friday night reception sponsored by The Morino Institute.
Registration and Lodging:
Representatives of the PTW Network and conference presenters do not pay a registration fee. All other participants are charged $25 to attend the conference ($35 at the door). To register in advance for any day of the conference, contact Ruth Rappaport at RuthR@edc.org, or 800/225-4276 x2329, with your name, address, organization, and phone, and note whether you would like to take advantage of any of the reserved lodging and for what dates. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Radison Barcelo ($100 single; $113 double) and Carlyle Suites ($89; $99) Hotels. A detailed conference information packet will be mailed to all registered participants in May. This packet will include the final program, schedule, maps, and transportation information.
Travel:
Discounted airfare is available from US Air. Contact: Sally Kahn, Stewart International Travel, 800-441-8666. Tell her you are attending the PTW Network Conference in Washington DC.
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DISENFRANCHISED COMMUNITIES AND THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY Co-Sponsored with THE WORKING GROUP AGAINST INFORMATION REDLINING
Thursday, June 1st, 7:30 -- 9:30 p.m. Radison Barcelo Hotel 2121 "P" St. NW
The Working Group Against Information Redlining, a coalition of primarily Washington-based organizations concerned with low-income community access to the National Information Infrastructure (NII), and the Playing to Win Network of community technology centers invite you to join us on June 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. to exchange ideas and information on our efforts to ensure that the gap between the haves and have-nots is not replicated (much less widened) in the deployment of the Information Superhighway.
At the meeting on June 1st, we will distribute information about the proposed community telecommunication forums and resources we are both planning. We will want to discuss with you your possible participation and your ideas about content and community needs.
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT:
Universal access has become a major concern in building the NII. Community-based non-profits in rural and disdvantaged areas lack affordable access to the information superhighway as well as a voice in the development of the content it will carry. Will the information be relevant to community needs? Will people have the capacities and resources to make use of it and be active contributors? If so, how will that be determined?
There is growing interest in people speaking for and about low-income and other disenfranchised individuals. However, there is little in the way of these individuals speaking for themselves in order to shape the debate and policies in ways beneficial to them. In the long run, empowering affected populations to speak for themselves will be essential. Resources for using the NII are limited: when and where communities have come to understand the real opportunities this "highway" could open up for them -- access to education and educational resources, access to medical information and (potentially treatment), access to needed governmental information and benefits, training opportunities, job opportunities -- they don't have the resources (financial, human, or technical) to take advantage of what is already available. Capacity building will be an essential component even if the NII is technically designed to reach all people.
Toward this end, the Working Group Against Information Redlining has been meeting on a monthly basis since May 1994. The groups participating -- OMB Watch, RTK NET (the Right-to-Know Network), the Benton Foundation, Alliance for Public Technology, Alliance for Community Media, the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, the National Trust for the Development of African American Men, the National Consumer Law Center and numerous others -- have developed a proposal for community forums on non-profit access to and use of the NII. The Playing to Win Network, consisting of over 50 neighborhood community technology programs, is currently planning a program focusing on using telecommunications to heighten participants' interest in and involvement with local, state, and national policies upon which their technology access rests.
These community forums and center resource projects will be discussed at the June 1st gathering. For more information on the June 1st program or either project, contact:
Patrice McDermott Peter Miller OMB Watch Playing to Win Network patricem@CapAccess.org ptwnd@igc.apc.org 202/234-8494 800/225-4276 x2727 ```
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