Preliminary Program

See schedule for most up to date information

7:00 pm, May 15 Registration in conference hotel

8:30 am, May 16 Main registration, HUB, University of Washington campus
9:00 am, May 16 Symposium begins
6:00 pm, May 16 Reception at conference hotel, open to public

7:00 pm, May 17 Special FREE event. Antiguas Civilizaciones de America Usando la Nueva Tecnologia para Formar un Mejor Futuro (Ancient American Civilizations using New Technology to Shape their Future) FREE to the public!
7:00 pm - 10 pm, May 17 Seattle's Independent Media Center (IMC), located at 1415 3rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 (downtown between Pike and Union) cohosts open mic night - a chance for digging in with DeeDee Halleck and Jeff Chester as national guests talking about media consolidation and commercialization, plus additional local and international guests on alternatives and strategies. We invite everyone to participate in the conversation!

late afternoon, May 18, Seattle Lakes, Locks and Lively Reception Cruise
All invited! (there is a fee for this event)

3:00 pm, May 19 Symposium ends

Keynote Addresses

A New Politics of Places on Global Networks
(Cancelled due to family emergency)

Saskia Sassen
Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology
The University of Chicago

Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is currently completing her forthcoming book Denationalization: Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age (Princeton University Press 2003) based on her five year project on governance and accountability in a global economy. Her most recent books are Guests and Aliens (New York: New Press 1999) and her edited book Global Networks/Linked Cities (New York and London: Routledge 2002). The Global City is out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books have been translated into ten languages. She is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and Chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC.

The Digital Divide, Facts and Fiction

Larry Irving
President, Irving Information Group

Larry Irving is the President of the Irving Information Group, a firm providing strategic advice and market development services to international telecommunications and information technology companies. Prior to that Mr. Irving served for almost seven years as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, where he was a principal advisor to the President, Vice President and Secretary of Commerce on domestic and international communications and information policy issues and supervised programs that award grants to extend the reach of advanced telecommunications technologies to under served areas. Mr. Irving is widely credited with coining the term "the digital divide" and informing the American public about the growing problem it represents. He initiated and was the principal author of the landmark Federal survey, Falling Through the Net, which tracks access to telecommunications and information technologies, including telephones, computers and the Internet, across racial, economic, and geographic lines.

Open Research Access for an Open Society

Stevan Harnad
Professor of Cognitive Science
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton

Not all information is or can be free: Texts that authors write in order to sell them (books, magazine articles) are unlikely to become give-aways, even in the digital network era. But there is one form of information that is and always has been an author give-away, even though in the Gutenberg era it too had had to be sold, and that is peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific research articles. These are written for only one purpose: so that they should be used by other researchers (read, cited, applied). Their authors have never sought or received royalties or fees in exchange for them; it was only the inescapable expense of paper printing and distribution that had forced the journals that published them to recover their costs through subscription and license charges in the paper era. That era is now over, but nothing has yet changed. The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is dedicated to hastening and facilitating the optimal and inevitable outcome: the transition from toll-based access to toll-free online access to this special literature (20,000 peer-reviewed journals, 2 million articles annually, most of them currently inaccessible to most researchers because of the toll-barriers) through two strategies: (1) helping to promote author/institution self-archiving of authors' own peer-reviewed, published articles and (2) helping to promote the conversion of established journals to open access and the establishment of new open-access journals. The benefits of opening access to the research literature will be felt not only by researchers worldwide, but by society as a whole.

Discussions

Global Forces: Citizen Voices

Literacy in the Digital Age

Transnational Social Movements

Internet and Culture

Geographies of the Digital Divide

Roles for Privacy and Security

Marginalization or Transformation?
ICT for Indigenous People and Developing Countries

The Internet after 9-11

Community access to Broadband

Values and Design

The Internet and the Future of Activism

Antiguas Civilizaciones de America Usando la Nueva Tecnologia
para Formar un Mejor Futuro

(Ancient American Civilizations using New Technology to Shape their Future)

May 17, 2002
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Puget Sound Room
Courtyard by Marriott--Seattle Downtown/Lake Union
925 Westlake Avenue North
Seattle, Washington 98109

An educational forum with Mino-Eusebio Castro (Naaperori Shirampari Ashenika Mino) of the Ashanika Indigenous community of Marankiari Bajo (territory of the snakes) Central Amazon Zone Peru. This event will be free and open to the public! (The forum will be conducted in Spanish; English translation will be available)

Workshops

The Participatory Design of Community Networks

Andrew Clement

Wireless Community Networking 101

Ken Caruso and Matt Westervelt, SeattleWireless.net

The Global Community Networking Partnership: Information and Work Session (Planning for UN World Summit on the Information Society)

Richard Civille, Center for Community Networking, and Richard Lowenberg, Director of Davis Community Network and Board representative of the AFCN

Community Inquiry on the Web

Ann Peterson Bishop

A Pattern Language for Living Communication: Next Steps

Open Space Technology: Symposium attendees

Reports from student scholars and activists

Kate Williams

Pattern Presentations

PATTERN SESSION 1 — Effective Uses of Technology

Patterns for Civic Action: C4i-Pattern Language for WWW Groups

Jim Brazell

Synergies of Fusion: Social Integration of Voice Video Data

Dirk Koning

Situations in Life

Wolf-Gideon Bleek

Access to Justice Technology Bill of Rights ("ATJ-TBoR")

Donald J Horowitz

 

PATTERN SESSION 2 — Community Networks

Street-Level Community Strengthening by Large Corporations

JJ Cadiz

Community Networks Working With Groups

Peter Royce

Am Johal

Improving Community Networking Practice Through Community-based Research

Richard Civille

Sustainability Strategies for Community Technology Centers

Gabrielle O’Malley

Edward Liebow

Emily Bancroft

David Keyes

 

PATTERN SESSION 3 — Digital Divide

Digital Divide in a High Tech City

Ilya Zaslavsky

Laura Stanley

Meredith Dowling

What Color is My Internet?: Culture, access and cyberspace

Susan B. Kretchmer

Rod Carveth

A patched quilt: Teaching, learning and technology in Appalachian Ohio

Leslie Farley Sheets

Thomas McCain

Artificial Dialectics

Warren Sack

 

PATTERN SESSION 4 — Open Source

VIRTUOSE: a Virtual Community Open Source Engine

M. Benini

F. De Cindio

L. Sonnante

User-driven software quality labelling

Åke Walldius

Yngve Sundblad

Education In Formation: Enabling Technology, Open Source Learning

Robert Luke

OpenCritic: an Open Source Cultural Database (www.opencritic.org)

Tim McCormick

 

PATTERN SESSION 5 - Activism

Recommendations for Uses of E-mail Lists by Activists

Katja Cronauer

Kickin’ Up a Fuss: Race and Gender in Cyberspace

Kalí Tal

Beatrice Brown

Catalyzing Collective Action in Social Cyberspaces

Marc Smith

Communication Rights: Patterns for Cyber Activism on Issues of Incarceration and the Incarcerated

William J. McIver, Jr.

Joy James

 

PATTERN SESSION 6 — Unintended Consequences of Technology

THE DIALECTICS OF AMBIVALENCE: HELPING PEOPLE COPE WITH COMPLEXITY WHEN AS SESSING THE IMPACT OF ICT

Michel J. Menou

Christina Courtright

Reproduction of Inequality through Information Technology

Lynette Kvasny, Assistant Professor of IST and KPMG Doctoral Scholar

Steve Sawyer

Understanding online victimization: victim motives and trust

Laura Huey

Richard S. Rosenberg

Who Speaks For WOLF?

John C. Thomas

Catalina Danis

Alison Lee

 

PATTERN SESSION 7 — Pattern Language

Pattern Language for Living Communication Systems

Doug Schuler

Unintended Use: The "Public Sphere" Designed by the Public

Erik Stolterman

Dimensions of Participation -- Elaborating Herbert Simon's "Science of Design"

John M. Carroll

Reality Check

John C. Thomas, Alison Lee, and Catalina Danis

 

PATTERN SESSION 8 — New Paradigms

Community Access Centres in Russian Schools: On Road to Community Networks

Sergei Stafeev

Civic Intelligence: A New Paradigm for Orienting our Work?

Doug Schuler

Integrating Community Technology and Community Building

Randal D. Pinkett, Ph.D.

Starting the Town Meeting Early: The Potential of Digital Technologies to Augment Town Meetings

Ari Goelman

 

PATTERN SESSION 9 — Access Issues

The Information Main Street

Lon Berquist

Reducing Barriers to Access via Public Information Infrastructure: The LaGrange Public Internet Initiative

Philip Shapira

Jan Youtie

Greg Laudeman

Barriers That Must Be Overcome for Effective Use of Digital Community Information: Preliminary Patterns

Joan C. Durrance

Karen Pettigrew

Kent Unruh

Computer Learning Centers in Public Housing Complexes

Gerald S. Eisman

 

PATTERN SESSION 10 — Models for Digital Success

TechSmart: A Catalytic Approach to Digital Development

Greg Laudeman

Designing a Collaborative Community Information System

James P. Zappen

Teresa M. Harrison

Victoria Moore

Ashley Williams

Value Sensitive Design as a Pattern: Examples from Informed Consent in Web Browsers and from Urban Simulation

Batya Friedman

Alan Borning

Organizational Characteristics for Effectively Addressing Change

Karen L. Michaelson, Ph.D.

Judith Sparrow

 

PATTERN SESSION 11 — Maximizing the Net

"Make Things Visible": Finding Effective Ways to Work with Internet Beginners

Dena Attar

Cyberculture Studies, Merging Disciplines, Research Activism

David Silver

Mastery Online: Systematizing the Training of Faculty

Karen Krupar

Allen Rowe

After-school programs and the Network Society

Scott Webber

 

PATTERN SESSION 12 — Issues in Health and Life Stage

Enhancing Access to Relevant Health Information

Gary L. Kreps, Ph.D.

Using Technology for Social Engagement of the Aged

Pamela Gibbons

Susan Crichton

Kathryn Crawford

Online communities become collaborators in research

Daniel B. Hoch

John E. Lester

Deirdre Norris

Effective Mutual-Help Medical Websites

Patricia Radin

 

PATTERN SESSION 13 - International

Creating e-quality: Learning Networks in Africa

Maria A. Beebe

Mobile ICT Learning Facilities for 3rd World Communities: Helping Bridge the Digital Divide.

Grant Hearn

International Networks of Alternative Media

Dorothy Kidd

The Challenges of Global Learning in the New Digital Age

Clark Germann

Karen Krupar

 

PATTERN SESSION 14 — New Communication Codes in the Digital Age

Roles in Media

Davis Foulger

Structured Local Information Exchange

Mike Powell

Same Language Subtitling: Watch TV "and" Read

Brij Kothari

Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality | Distributed Wilderness

Maja Kuzmanovic

Sha Xin Wei

 

PATTERN SESSION 15 — Legal Issues

Living in the Panopticon: The Illusion of Privacy

Chris Birchak

Frank Birchak

Jean DeWitt

From Public/Private to Public Privacy -- A Critical Perspective on the Infosphere.

Bernhard Debatin

Citizenship, Communication Rights, and Libraries

William F. Birdsall

Restoring Balance to Intellectual Property Rules

Paul Hyland

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Posters

The Network Society, Social Capital and Ethnography

Scott Webber and Lynn Schofield Clark

Protecting Community Networks

Susan Barnes

Support Conversation at the Boundaries

John Thomas

Small Successes Early

John Thomas

From D2 to D2 (from Digital Divide to Doing Democracy)

Lodis Rhodes

Crossing the Divide through Service (Learning)

Norman Clark

Interdisciplinary usability research centre

Aake Walldius and Yngve Sundblad

Information Ecology

Richard Lowenberg

Tele-Community Development

Richard Lowenberg

First Mile Broadband

Richard Lowenberg

Artful Intelligence (AI)

Richard Lowenberg

Digital City: Connecting Real and Virtual Societies

Mika Yasuoka

Building an online movement in anti-poverty communities

Penny Goldsmith

Networked Media and Middle Ground

Davis Foulger

Communication Media: Spheres of Invention

Davis Foulger

Updated May 13, 2002