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CPSR Conferences & Events

• CPSR - Annual Meetings
• CPSR - Chapter Events
• CFP - Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
• DIAC - Directions and Implications in Advanced Computing
• PDC - Participatory Design Conferences
• CPSR - Activists Meetings
• Other meetings and events

• DIAC and PDC Conference Proceedings

CPSR's Annual Meetings

• 2003 "Getting The Technology You Deserve: Community Participation in Regional Cable Franchise Policy" - Seattle, WA, October 25
• 2002 "Shrinking World, Expanding Net" - Cambridge, MA, October 5
• 2001 "Nurturing the Cybercommons, 1981-2021" - Ann Arbor, MI, October 19-21
• 2000 "Drawing the Blinds: Reconstructing Privacy in the Information Age" - Philadelphia, PA, October 14-15
  See Also, Privacy &nb sp;  See Also, reports in Th e CPSR Newsletter - Fall 2000.
• 1999 "The Internet Gold Rush of '99: Can We Pan for Gold While Serving the Public Good?" - Palo Alto, CA, October 2-3
• 1998 "One Planet, One Net: The Public Interest in Internet Governance"- Boston, MA, October
See Also, One Planet, One Net CPSR's 1998 campaign on Internet Governance.
1997
"Net Worth, Net Work: Technology & Values for a Digital Age" - Berkeley, CA, October 4 & 5
See Also, reports in Th e CPSR Newsletter - Fall 1997.
• 1996 "Communications Unleashed" - Washington, DC, October 19-20
• 1995 "The Good, the Bad, and the Internet"
• 1994 "Organizing for Access: A National Forum on Computer Networking, Community Action, and Democracy"
• 1993 Annual Meeting
• 1992 Annual Meeting Report on Day 1 Report on Day 2

CPSR Chapter Organized Events

• Panel Discussion about Electronic Voting Problems - Washington, DC - December 6, 2003
  
• Forum on Electronic Voting - Santa Cruz, CA - October 26, 2003
  
• Software Libre: Conferencia de Richard M. Stallman - (co-sponsored by CPSR) August 8, 2003; and Latin American and Caribbean Conference on the Development and Use of Free Software - August 11-13, 2003. Bill McIver's report from his CPSR sponsored travel to attend.
  
• CPSR-Peru co-organized the First National Congress of Free Software and co organized and participated in Myths and Realities of Free Software
  
• Forum on the privacy and civil liberty implications of the design and deployment of surveillance and profiling systems by the US government - Research Triangle Park, NC Chapter - April 25, 2003
• UCITA Tutorial with Mary Jo Dively - Pittsburgh, PA - November 20, 2002
  
• Strings Attached? Academic Freedom and Career Realities - Pittsburgh, PA - September 10, 2002
  
• Internet and Public Policy Project Speaker Series CPSR-Georgia co-sponsored:
  "Transnational Collective Action and the Globalization of Information and Communication Policy" by Milton Mueller, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, November 1, 2002
  "Academic Balance on the Fulcrum of Intellectual Property Policy" by Ty Herrington, Associate Professor, School of Literature, Culture and Communications, Georgia Tech, November 13, 2002
  "Creating Regulatory Frameworks for the Internet in Developing Countries" by George Sadowsky,Director, Internet Society Executive Director, Global Internet Policy Inititiative, November 18, 2002
  "Scientific Information and the Internet: A Faustian Bargain?" by Mark McCabe, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Tech, Dec. 4, 2002
  
• JAPAN - Annual Meeting, August 23, 2002.
  
• US Congressman Bob Barr talk on "Civil Liberties in Cyberspace" Georgia Tech, February 15, 2002
• Cit izen of the Republic: The National ID Card Debate Pittsburgh, PA - December 5, 2001
  
• Computing After the World Trade Center: Surveillance and Privacy, Pittsburgh, PA - November 1, 2001
  
• Michigan - Nurturing the Cybercommons: 1981-2021- October 19-21, 2001.
• Spain- September 14-15, 2001.
• Uganda- September 1, 2001.
• Privacy Forum Research Triangle Park, NC- May 23, 2001. Video
• Minnesota - "The Global Digital Divide"- May 18, 2001.

CFP - Computers, Freedom, and Privacy

The First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) was held March 26-28, 1991 in Burlingame, California. Jim Warren was the principal organizer and chair of the first conference, which was sponsored by CPSR. Although CPSR has been a cosponsor of the subsequeunt CFP conferences, primary sponsorship comes from the ACM.

See Also Privacy and Civil Liberties

• CFP2003 - New York, NY, April 1-4
• CFP2002 - San Francisco, CA, April 16-19
• CFP2001 - Boston, MA, March 6-9
• CFP2000 - Toronto, Canada, April 4-7
• CFP'99 - Washington, DC
• CFP'98 - Austin, TX
• CFP'97 - Burlingame, CA
• CFP'96 - Cambridge , MA
• CFP'95 - Burlingame, CA
• CFP'94 - Chicago, IL
• CFP'93 - Burlingame, CA
• CFP'92 - Washington, DC
• CFP'91 - Burlingame, CA

DIAC - Directions and Implications in Advanced Computing

See Also Public Sphere Project

• DIAC 2003 "Pattern Language(s) for Shaping the Network Society" - Milano, Italy, July 15, 2003
• DIAC 2002 "Shaping the Network Society -- Patterns for Participation, Action, and Change" - Seattle, WA, May 16-19
• DIAC 2000 "Shaping the Network Society -- The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace" Conference Proceedings
• DIAC '97 "Community Space and Cyberspace: What's the Connection?" - Seattle, WA
• DIAC '94 "Developing an Equitable and Open Information Infrastructure" - Cambridge, MA, April 23-24
• DIAC '92 Report, by Fen Labalme - Berkeley, CA, May 2-3

PDC - Participatory Design Conference

CPSR's Participatory Design Conference is an international forum where this emerging community can meet, exchange ideas and experiences, and investigate the incorporation of participatory design approaches in new areas such as: product development, long-term system maintenance and redesign, and settings in the developing world.

The first Participatory Design conference explored the historical roots of this way of working, by bringing European practitioners together with American researchers and industry developers. By the second conference, PDC'92, participatory approaches to design had taken root in the US, not only in research environments, but also at several commercial firms. The goal at that time was totake a further step towards defining and nurturing participatory design. PDC'94 focused on ways of working and fostering a substantial dialog among practitioners.

• PDC 2004 Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices --Toronto, Canada, July 27-31
• PDC 2002 "Participation and Design: Inquiring Into the Politics, Contexts and Practices of Collaborative Design Work" - Malmoe, Sweden, June 23-25
• PDC 2000 "Designing Digital Environments: Bringing In More Voices"- New York, NY, November 28-December 1
• PDC 1998 "Broadening Participation"- Seattle, WA, November 12-14
• PDC '96- Cambridge, MA, November 13-15
• PDC '94- Chapel Hill, NC, October 27-28
• PDC '92- Cambridge, MA, November 6-7

CPSR Activists Meetings

• Activists Roundtable. Palo Alto, CA, June 23, 2001. Report in PDF
• Activists Roundtable. Bentley College, Waltham, MA, March 4, 2001 Report in PDF

Other Events

• Global Governance of ICT: Public Interest Considerations Geneva, Switzerland, December 9, 2003
• Globalization and CPSR: Changing Issues, Changing Organization Seattle, WA, October 24, 2003.
• Governing the DNS Commons: The Future of Internet Administration. Alexandria, VA, September 24-25, 1999

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