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Daily Scheduled Conference Events

Saturday May 20

Sunday May 21

Monday May 22

Tuesday May 23

Saturday May 20

• Welcome to the Symposium 9:00 to 10:30 Hub Auditorium
  
  Doug Schuler, Symposium Coordinator
  Jim Compton, Seattle City Council

• Patterns and Implications of the Network Society
  (Moderated by Doug Schuler)
  
  Plenary Panel:
  Oliver Boyd-Barrett, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
  Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council, New York, New York
  Veran Matic, B92 Radio and Internet, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  (Mr. Matic has been forced to remain in Yugoslavia as state forces seized the station. We are planning a suitable response including, at a minimum a statement from Mr. Matic.)
  
• Activism Old and New 11:00 to 12:30
  (Moderated by Melissa Guest)
  
  Penny Goldsmith, Co-ordinator of PovNet (Poverty Network), Vancouver, BC
  Denise Joines, Executive Director, ONE/NW (Online Networking for the Environment/Northwest)
  Tom Liacas, Campaigns Coordinator, Adbusters, Vancouver, BC
  Patrice Riemens, Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam
  
  
• Government Initiatives 11:00 to 12:30
  (Moderated by Terryl Ross)
  
  Judy Sparrow, National Telecommunications and Information Agency, Washington DC
  Ron Sims, County Executive King County, Washington
  Gene Crick, Metropolitan Austin Information Network (MAIN), Austin
  Oussama Cheribbi, MP the Netherlands (via two-way webcast)
  Steve Cisler, citizen member, San Jose Information Technology Planning Board
  
  
• Regional Snapshots
  Research Session I 11:00 to 12:30
  (Moderated by Peter Mambrey)
  
  Using Cyberspace to Nuture Civil Society in Nigeria and U.S.A:
  An Educational Partnership Model
        John Agada & Martha Hale
  Telecenters in the Second World -
  Marginal Markets, Remittance Flows and Microbanks
         Scott Robinson
  Community Informatics in Argentina: Act II
         Susana Finquelievich
  
  
• Foundations
  Research Session II 11:00 to 12:30
  (Moderated by Steve Guest)
  
  Defining Prospects for Success in Community Informatics:
  The Autonomy/Harmony Model
         Celia Romm & Wal Taylor
  Cyberspace as a Tectonic System? Implications for Design
         Erik Stolterman
  Communities: Empathy, Hostility, Lurking, Participation
         Jenny Preece
  Holding On To The Ground
         Ian Beeson
       
  
• Access to the Public Sphere 2:00 to 3:30
  (Moderated by Aki Namioka)
  
  Abdul Alkalimat, University of Toledo, Ohio
  Nancy Kranich, President Elect, American Library Association
  Jamie McClelland, Paper Tiger Television, New York
  Fiorella de Cindio, Rete Civiche di Milano, Italy
  
  
• Communications and Human Rights 2:00 to 3:30
  (Moderated by Peter Day)
  
  Cees Hamelink, Communications, University of Amsterdam
  Emma Sanchez, Health Education Department, San Francisco State University
  Scott Robinson, Universidad Metropolitana, Mexico
  (Censored: Veran Matic, B92 Radio and Internet, Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
  
  
• Crossing Boundaries                            top of page
  Research Session III 2:00 to 3:30
  (Moderated by Jenny Preece)
  
  Global Communications in the Post-Industrial Age
         Jesse Drew
  Place Matters, Even in Cyberspace: Exploring Online Maps As Forms of Alternative Community Media
         Becky Lentz
  University-Community Partnerships and IT: Opportunities and Dilemas
         Neal Richman
  
  
• Socio-Technical
  Research Session IV 2:00 to 3:30
  (Moderated by Erik Stolterman)
  
  Open Sources and the Open Society: An Essay in Politics and Technology
         Kelly Parker
  The Turing Game -
  A Participatory Exploration of Identity in Online Environments
         Joshua Berman & Amy Bruckman
  The Soil of Cyberspace: Frameworks and Foundations
  for a Healty Online Public Sphere
         David Silver
  Navigating Very Large-Scale Conversations
         Warren Sack
  
  
• Strengthening Communities 4:00 to 5:30
  (Moderated by Andy Gordon)
  
  Martha Davies, Quipunet and E-Connexions, Port Orchard, Washington
  Joan Fanning, Executive Director N*Power, Seattle
  Susana Finquelievich, CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Nicol Turner, Mapping Community Assets; Net Consulting Group,Chicago
  Lodis Rhodes, University of Texas
  
  
• New Media and Cultural Policy 4:00 to 5:30
  (Moderated by Robin Oppenheimer)
  
  Geert Lovink, Media Theorist and Activist; Society for Old and New Media, Canberra, Australia
  Sandy Cioffi, Director, Heavy Freight Films, Seattle
  Fran Ilich, Sputnik, Mexico City
  
  
• In the Community
  Research Session V 4:00 to 5:30
  (Moderated by Honora Wade)
  
  Discovering the Treasure: the Value of a Learning Community
         Fiorella di Cindio et al
  E-Commerce and Local Economic Development: Enemy or Ally?
         Mike Gurstein
  The Locus of Community and Social Change in Community Networks
         Karen Michaelson
  The Evaluation of LA CultureNet
         Anita Blanchard & Tom Horan
  
  
• Museums, Libraries and Culture                 top of page
  Research Session VI 4:00 to 5:30
  (Moderated by Murali Venkatesh)
  
  Electronic Environments and Public Space:
  the Future of the Future Museum
         Randy Lee Cutler
  Beyond the Field of Dreams: Citizenship and Internet Use at Vancouver Public Library
         Ellen Balka & Brian J. Peterson
  From Representation to Performance: Responsive PublicSpace
         Maja Kuzmanovic (FOAM-sponge) & Sha Xin Wei (Stanford-sponge)
  Cyber culture as a counter culture
         Adrian Mihalache
  
  

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  Sunday May 21

• Public Policy Issues
  Research Session VII 9:30 to 11:00
  (Moderated by Marc Smith)
  
  Local Government Policy Regarding Virtual Political Spheres
         Agneta Ranerup
  On the 'Net, nobody knows that you're a dog! (Well, almost nobody):
  National Governments and the issue of internet control
         Giampiero Giacomello
  Standing Before the Portals:
  Commercial Gatekeepers and the Accessibility of Information Online
        Eszter Hargittai
       
  
• Public/Private Sector Tensions
  Research Session VIII 9:30 to 11:00
  
  (Moderated by Mike Gurstein)
  The Net between public domain and market forces
         Peter van den Besselaar
  Murkey Conceptual Waters: Space, Public and Private
         Gary Marx
  Welcome to 1927: The Creation of Property Rights and
  Internet Domain Name Policy in Historical Perspective
         Christian Sandvig
  
  
  

  Workshops from 9:30 to 11:00                        top of page

• How to Enhance Privacy
         Netiva Caftori, Steve Teicher, Mark Teicher
  
  
• Bridging the Wisdom Divide: Beyond the Knowedge Era Part I
         Bruce Takata, David Matteson
  
  
• Using Internet-Enabled Communication Technologies to Improve Healthcare in Low-Income Communities:
  Alternative Visions for Needs Assessment
         Ralph Warren Jr.
  
  
• Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles: A Political and Technical How-To Kit
         Neal Richman, Bill Pitkin, Yoh Kawano
  
  
• Broadband: Organizing for the Public Interest
         Dorothy Kidd
  
  
• Connecting Community Groups -- the VolNet Experience
         Peter Royce
  
  
• High Tech, Low Tech, No Tech: Moving Beyond Economics to Bridge the Digital Divide.
         Susan Kretchmer, Rod Carveth, Nancy Kranich
  
  
• Interactive Neighborhood Maps on a Community Web Portal:
  The Quality of Life In San Diego Project, and the AXIOMAP Technology
         Ilya Zaslavsky and David Cleveland
  
  
• Civic Participation and the Internet
         Courtney Kakuska, Karen Lee
  
  
• Looking at the Community
  Research Session IX 11:30 to 1:00
  
  (Moderated by Netiva Caftori)
  An Asset-Based Approach to Community Building and Technology
         Nichol Turner & Randal D. Pinkett
  ICTs for Health Promotion in the Community:
  A Participative Approach
         Audrey Marshall
  Electronic Community Networks: Women's Place, Women's Space?
         Leigh Keeble & Brian Loader
  A Local (Toledo Ohio) Census of Public Access to Computing:
  New Data, New Methodology
         Kate Williams & Abdul Alkalimat  
     
  
• New Models  
  Research Session X 11:30 to 1:00                      top of page
  (Moderated by Peter van den Besselaar)
  
  Can Public Policy Widen Participation in Cyberspace?
  Networks, Interests and Initiatives in Northwest England
         John Cawood & Seamus Simpson
  The Association for Progressive Communications and the Networking of Global Civil Society:
  the role of the APC in UN Summits 1992-1995
         Rory O'Brien & Andrew Clement
  Access to Cyberspace as a Human Right
         Bill McIver
  Design of Advanced Community Networks: Participation, Power, Pragmatics
         Murali Venkatesh
  
  
  

  Workshops from 11:30 to 1:00

• An Explanation of Multiple Community Networking Topologies:
  Practices, Capabilities, and Policy Issues
           Jeff Evans & Dara O'Neil
  
  
• Bridging the Wisdom Divide: Beyond the Knowlege Era, Part II
         Bruce Takata & David Matteson    
         
  
• The Socio-technical Development of Platforms and Tools for Local Community Networks
         Peter Mambrey, Volkmar Pipek
  
  
• Participatory Design of Information Strategies: Lessons Learned from El Salvador
         Christina Courtright
  
  
• Igalaaq: Canada's First Arctic Community Access Centre
         William Belsey
  
  
• Creating Sustainable Community Networks that Work
         Association For Community Networking
  
  
• Making Network Society for all -- European and US Experiences
         Ilpo Koskikallio
  
  
• E-mail Groups for Social Change
         Carl Page
  
  
• Identifying Critical Issues in How Governments Shape New Public Space
         John O'Looney
  
  
• First Mile Broadband: Implications and Opportunities
         Richard Lowenberg
  
  

  Special Events    2:00 to 3:30

• Cybersobriety:
  How a Commercially Driven Internet Threatens the Foundations of Democratic Self-Governannce. Some Ways Sound Public Policies Could Help. Why they won't be adopted and What To Do Instead.
         Richard E. Sclove
  
  
• Cyber Dispatches
         Steve Cisler
  
  

  Workshops from 2:00 to 3:30               top of page

• Creating Civic Involvement through Dynamic Networks -- A multi-platform approach
         Gregory Curtin
  
  
• Including Youth Perspectives in Educational Technology Decisions
         Syd Fredrickson
  
• Video Activisim for $5 a Day
          Jamie McClelland & Carlos Pareja
  
  
• Village Studies Around the World
         Institute for Village Studies
  
  
• Involving the Community in Information Technology Projects
         Dan Druker & Judith Sparrow
  
  
• What is a Technology Healthy City? Developing Community Technology Impact Indicators
         Emily Bancroft & David Keyes
  
  
• Telecommunications Applications Prototyping in Second-Generation Community Networks
         Wayne Miner & Murali Venkatesh
  
  
• Open Source Journalism -- An Alternative Strategy for Using the Internet
  to Strengthen Democracy and Build Communities
          Bart Preecs
  
  
• Deliberations in the Digital Age
         John B. Adams & Matt Powell
  
  
• Shaping the Network Society: What's Next?  4:00 to 6:00  Kane Hall   Room 120
  
  Plenary Panel Discussion.
  Moderated by Coralee Whitcomb, President CPSR
  
  
  Gary Chapman, 21st Century Project, LBJ School of Public Affairs University of Texas
  Bill Joy, Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems
  Howard Rheingold, Author
  
  The Future of the Network Society: Live it or Live with it!      8:00 to ?
  iSpy   1921 5th Ave.   Seattle
  
  Benefit Party featuring Heather Duby and Circuitry (with members of Maktub) offering
  dancing, high tech fashion, cyberart, interactive art events, and MUCH MUCH more!
  Cover is 15.00 at the door with all proceeds benefiting CPSR. 21 and over only, please.     
  
  

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  Monday May 22               top of page

• The Role of Libraries and Professional Societies
         topic suggested by Susan Kretchmer
  
  
• Students Shaping the Network Society
           topic suggested by Aaron Weinberg
  
  
• The Role of Independent Media
           topic suggested by Dorothy Kidd
  
  
• Selling Out/Buying In: A Presentation and Fishbowl Discussion
  about the Future of Culture in Seattle's New E-conomy
  
  Seattle Art Museum/Open Studio Workshop    1:00 to 5:00
  
  Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) Stimson Auditorium
  Co-sponsored by the Seattle Arts Commission
  
  This workshop will feature the following people.
  • Sandy Cioffi, Heavy Freight Films, Seattle
  • Gretchen Johnston, Director, Washington State Arts Alliance
  • Linda Knudsen-McAusland, Arts Support Program Manager, Seattle Arts Commission
  • Geert Lovink, Dutch media theorist and activist
  • jeff perlstein, co-founder of the Independent Media Center in Seattle
  • Eileen Quigley, Director, WebActive at RealNetworks, Seattle
  • Cate Riegner, Founder/Director, artAngels Inc., San Francisco
  • Patrice Riemens, Dutch media theorist and activist
  • Joan Shigekawa, Associate Director for Creativity & Culture, Rockefeller Foundation, NY
  • Steve Silha, Seattle reporter, community worker and facilitator
  • Lori Zentner, Director of Creative Services, iStart Ventures, Seattle

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  Tuesday May 23

• Political Organizing in the Network Society
         topic suggested by Andreas Moes
  
  
• Shaping Our Network
  
  In 1998 an informal "network" of researchers and activists interested in community and civil society uses of communications technology was launched to support our collaborative work and to further our effectiveness. Where do we go from here? What project ideas? What resources can we develop to help us work together as a network?
  
  
• Current Developments in "Tactical Media"
  
  Public forum from 7 pm - 9pm on the use of media and technology to support the movements for social justice. At the Independent Media Center. Join Geert Lovink and others for this dialogue. The IMC is located in downtown Seattle at 1415 Third Avenue between Union Street and Pike Street.