Event Calender
The Public Sphere Event Calender highlights conferences, symposiums and other activities sponsored by organizations around the world related to "public sphere" themes.
2002
April 11-13 Digitize This! Building Community Bit by Bit
Con tact: Dirk Konig dirk@grcmc.org
Dig itize This! is a conference for community media practitioners, educators, students, and advocates.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
April 18-20 Version>02 The digital arts and technology convergence
For the first iteration of this event new media producers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, programmers, tactical media provocateurs, designers, information architects, and critical thinkers are asked to comment on the state of the digital commons.
The digital commons is a metaphor for the public space that we use to communicate and distribute ideas, where we share tools and resources, and influences the way we transmit knowledge and art.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
May 16-19 Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change
Contact: Doug Schuler douglas@scn.org
Symposium Aim: A "public sphere" where people learn about, discuss, and deliberate over important issues such as increasing economic disparity, militarization, environmental degradation, racism or sexism is critical to our future.
The focus of this conference will be on "patterns" that people can use to help them develop and use communication and information technology in ways that affirms human values.
University of Washington: Seattle, WA
July 3-5 Electronic Networks - Building Community: 5th Community Networking Conference
Reminder -- Call for Papers - Monash University, Australia.
Expressions of interest and abstracts are still being accepted for this important conference. We invite proposals for reports and presentations (refereed and non-refereed) about current initiatives that respond to the main themes of the conference.
Please see the conference website, www.ccnr.net/2002/ for details about how to submit an abstract or expression of interest for refereed and non-refereed tracks, or other information about the conference. Abstracts should be submitted by 1 December 2001
Aug. 25-30 FIP 17 th World Computer Congress
Contact: contact-wcc2002@cips.ca
Conference highlights include keynote addresses by some of the best IT minds in the world, as well as presentations by members of IFIP Working Groups and Technical Committees, who will share the results of their most recent research.
Montreal, Canada
Dec. 7-13 Third Global Congress on Community Networking in the Digital Era
Cont act Alain Ambrosi: ambrosia@web.ca
This is the third global community networking congress. See the Global Community Networks Partnership site for more information.
Montreal, Canada
