Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Presents:

Getting the Technology You Deserve:
Community Participation in Regional Cable Franchise Policy

SATURDAY, October 25, 2003
Daybreak Star Cultural Center
Discovery Park

TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (subject to change)

8:30 a.m. - Welcome to Seattle, Mike Weisman, Program Director
"Our Table has Four Legs" - an activist agenda

8:40 a.m. - Welcome to CPSR, Nathaniel Borenstein, CPSR President

8:45 a.m. - Framing the Issue: 10,000 Foot View
James Vesely, Editorial Page Editor, The Seattle Times

9:00 a.m. - What is the Technology We Deserve: Why is it Important, and How can we Get It ?
Subtext: the legal and regulatory context, Leg One of the Table)
A moderated panel providing background and context for the issues of refranchise process, and broadband policy at the local and national level

• Sue Buske, The Buske Group
• Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America
• Sean Stokes, the Baller Herbst Law Firm
• Mike Weisman - Moderator

10:15 a.m. - Break

10:30 a.m. - Getting the Technology We Deserve for Social Change and Community Benefit
Subtext: Leg Two of the Table: legislation and policy necessary for public broadband networks
A moderated panel about the use of broadband as a platform for free speech, social justice, and economic development.

• Mark Cooper, Research Director, Consumer Federation of America
• Dirk Koning, Alliance for Communications Democracy
• David Olson, Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission
• David Silver - Moderator - Assistant Professor, University of Washington

12:00 Noon - Box Lunches Served

12:15 p.m. - We Can't ? Oh YES WE CAN!: Unexpected Native and Rural Solutions
15-20 minute presentations with slides or A/V exhibits

• Tom Casey, Grays Harbor PUD
• Grant County, FTTH Network
• Elstun Laueson, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
• Jeff Sterling - Moderator - IXA Inc.

1:15 p.m. - Break

1:30 p.m. - Building the Movement: How to Organize the Community and Build a Public Constituency for Institutional Networks and Public Access in the Cable Franchise Renewal, Learning from Past Mistakes
Subtext: Leg Three of the Table: outreach and activism
Directed discussion

• Marlin Blizinsky, Microsoft Corporation
• Sue Buske, The Buske Group
• Brian Derdowski
• Dirk Koning, Alliance for Communications Democracy
• Sean Stokes, the Baller Herbst Law Firm
• Ann Suter, Seattle Community Access Network (SCAN), Channel 29/77
• Karen Toering - Moderator - 911 Media Arts

2:30 p.m. - Break

2:45 p.m. - Best Practices
Leg Four of the Table: research and development

• Steven Hawley - Moderator - Advanced Media Strategies
• Dirk Koning, Alliance for Communications Democracy
• David Olson, Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission
• Representative from BellevueKirkland network proposal
• Representative from TacomaClick! Network

3:45 p.m. - Break into small groups to discuss action plans

4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Demonstrating Activism
Subtext: Leg Four continued: outreach and activism
Lightly moderated question and answer from participants making their case to a panel of local electeds

• US Senator Maria Cantwell (tentative)
• Judge Don Horowitz, Access to Justice Task Force, presiding
• Jennifer Krebs, Enumclaw City Council (tentative)
• Nick Licata, Seattle City Council

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