The Compiler - July 15, 2002

COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS for SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Turning Thoughts to Actions

The CPSR Compiler is a new monthly notice with short updates on recent activities of our members and opportunities to engage in the development of the public voice through CPSR projects.

Members can report news for future issues, by sending a sentence or two (and URL if available) to cpsr@cpsr.org

CPSR provides a discussion and project space where individuals can contribute to the public debate and design of our global digital future. Through CPSR's chapters and working groups, members focus on regional and civic issues developing the public voice. To insure a democratic future in a time of intense globalization, the voice of the public must command a prominent position on the world stage. CPSR frames and channels the public voice.

********* CPSR MEMBER OPPORTUNITIES

Chapter and Working Group Guidelines will be updated soon at http://www.cpsr.org/GroupGuide.html

Members with research ideas that fall under NSF ITS Division programs http://www.nsf.gov might fit within CPSR's mission, and qualify as a CPSR Project http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/ongoing_project.html

CPSR needs some of our information translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese (the official languages of some international organizations), as well as other languages. Members should contact cpsr@cpsr.org if interested.

Members can join other members on the ground floor of discussions of issues and events by subscribing to the CPSR- Activists list at http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/cpsr-activists

Members can join a CPSR Working Group by subscribing to their email list via "a href="http://lists.cpsr.org">http://lists.cpsr.org

For more ideas about how members can make the most of their CPSR membership, refer to the Activists Handbook at http://www.cpsr.org/publications/Activists_Handbook.html

*********UPCOMING

Humberto Carrasco, CPSR member from Chile, is organizing the III Independent Latin American Congress of Domain Names to be celebrated in Santiago, Chile on August 28-30. http://www.nombresdedominio.cl

*********RECENTLY IN CPSR

CPSR Japan is our newest chapter. Sinji Yamane is the Chair.

Thanks to Paul Hyland, CPSR contributed "Digital Rights Management: Whose Rights Are Being Managed?" to a briefing book for the Congressional Internet Caucus http://www.cpsr.org/program/ip/icac_drm_brief.html

Robert Guerra, Bill McIver, and Rufo Guerreschi represented CPSR at the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society, July 1-5 in Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.privaterra.org/ http://www.itu.int/wsis and http://www.geneva20003.org and http://www.wsis.info

Kwami Ahiabenu II represented CPSR at the Africa regional preparatory meeting for the World Summit on Information Society (BAMAKO 2002) in Bamako, Mali http://www.bamako2002.org.ml

CIVSOC wrote "Staying the Course on Internet Privatization: Comments on ICANN Reform," for congressional hearings on ICANN http://www.cpsr.org/internetdemocracy/CPSR_Comments_on_ICANN.pdf

Hans Klein represented CPSR at Internet Crossroads Where Technology and Policy Intersect, Annual Meeting of the Internet Society http://www.inet2002.org/.

The CPSR Board met June 7-8 in Raleigh, NC, and hosted two social events to mingle with local CPSR Research Triangle Park members and attendees of ISTAS 2002.

CPSR co-sponsored The Public Voice in Internet Policy Making. http://www.thepublicvoice.org/events/dc02

CPSR's sponsored PDC 2002 - Participation And Design - Inquiring Into The Politics, Contexts, and Practices Of Collaborative Design Work - in Malmo, SWEDEN http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2002.

CPSR co-sponsored Grassroots Use of the Internet, at Yale University June 22. http://organizenow.net/conference.html

CPSR Email Lists have moved to a new server. To see the full list of the present email discussion lists available via CPSR. See http://lists.cpsr.org

*********CPSR SIGNED ON TO

A call to the Department of Commerce to open to competition the process for selecting who will control the process of how Internet addresses are designed and assigned. http://www.mediaaccess.org

Amicus briefs in the SonicBlue http://www.epic.org/privacy/replaytv/press_release_051302.html and Eldred v. Ashcroft http://eldred.cc/ cases

********* CPSR'S NEIGHBORS

Stop1984, a German initiative for more privacy and freedom of speech. http://www.stop1984.com/index2.php?text=network.txt

European Digital Rights, a new organization founded by ten privacy and civil rights organizations from seven countries. http://www.edri.org/

EEVL (Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library), which provides quick and reliable access to "the best engineering, mathematics, and computing information available on the Internet," included CPSR. http://www.eevl.ac.uk

********* The Winter/Spring PING! is available online at http://www.cpsr.org/publications/ping/ping200206.pdf

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