The CPSR Compiler - November 2002 - 1.5

COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS for SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Turning Thoughts to Actions

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OPPORTUNITIES

Join our newest list: TechDev, born from CPSR's "Shrinking World, Expanding Net" conference (presentations are being added to the conference web page), to support a vigorous and intellectually grounded discussion about how IT can best be designed and implemented in the developing world and how computer science can contribute to human rights.
See http://www.cpsr.o rg/conferences/annmtg02/index.html
See http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/techdev

If you have ideas for making CPSR more responsive to its existing members and more attractive to potential members, consider joining the Membership Committee. The focus of the Membership Committee is the individual members of CPSR.The committee works to develop strategies for recruiting new members and retaining existing ones. It also concerns itself with issues relating to member benefits and services. Contact: cpsr@cpsr.org

The Publications Committee is seeking translators of key CPSR documents/web pages. Contact: cpsr@cpsr.org

Join a Working Group Discussion See http://lists.cpsr.org

Send comments to the U.S. Copyright Office about new exceptions to the anti-circumvention clause of DMCA. What kinds of activity should be treated as legal under the rules?
See http://news.com.com/2100-1023-961 783.html
Comment at http://www.copyright.gov/ 1201/comment_forms

Consider using a letter to college/university presidents from EPIC about copyright infringement and P2P networking,and the impact of network monitoring on privacy and academic freedom on campuses.
See "http://www.epic.or g/privacy/student/p2pletter.html

Participate in Linux in Nonprofits Study by The Nonprofit Open Source Initiative (NOSI) Be intereviewed to develop case studies of nonprofit organizations with staffs of 15 or more, that use Linux for their office network. The idea behind the study is to convince more nonprofits to take a serious look at Linux. See http://nosi.net/tco.shtml

Apply for an Assistant Professorship in the Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
See htt p://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/stia/faculty/positions.pdf

Apply for a fellowship to develop computer technology for rural development in Africa.
See http://www.comminit.com/vaca ncy1052.html

Nominate a candidate for the "IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award." The deadline for nominations is December 10th, 2002.
See http://www.info.fund p.ac.be/~jbl/IFIP/award.html

Apply for a mini-grant for an Internet-based conflict resolution projects. See http://www.crinfo.org/mini -grants-2002.cfm

CPSR-Peru is our newest chapter ! They will work to influence decisions regarding the devlopment and use of Information and Communication Technology in Peru. The chapter will sponsor the II National Congress of Computer and Law and Commerce, and Pedro Mendizabal, President of CPSR-Peru, and Katitza Rodriguez, CPSR Board Member, will speak about the World Summit on Information and Society (WSIS). The chapter will also work on translating CPSR materials to Spanish.
See http://peru.cpsr.org and http://www.idertel.org/

CPSR-Japan met with Lawrence Lessig.

Twelve members of CPSR-Michigan and five members of the faculty in computer science from Eastern Michigan University met at the house of Kurt Lauckner in October. It was a social gathering with no formal agenda. Several issues of concern to CPSR and the computing community were discussed, including DMCA.

CPSR-Michigan conducts most of its business virtually, but has an annual nonvirtual social event. For more information see http://mich.cpsr.org

Eleven members of CPSR-Palo Alto met on October 29th. They heard a report from Peter Neumann about his voting technology work, and commiserated with Severo Ornstein and Laura Gould about the state of the country, and brainstormed about how CPSR could make a difference. The board gave their blessings for pursuit of the ideas, and we await further sharing by individuals with other members.

EXPERTISE SOUGHT AND SHARED BY MEMBERS

CPSR-Canada responded to proposed amendments to Cybercrime and Lawful Access in Canada.
See http://www.lexinformatica.or g/cybercrime

From September to November Hans Klein served as acting Chair of ICANNatlarge.org, an organization that seeks to provide an independent voice for users in the ICANN processes. ICANNatlarge.org organized an AtLarge Forum at ICANN's most recent meeting in Shanghai, China.

Hans Klein, CPSR Board Chair, was quoted in "Some Say ICANN Loses Legitimacy,"
See http://www.i nternetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/1491291

Bill McIver and Robert Guerra represented CPSR at the European Regional Conference of the World Summit on Information and Society (WSIS) in Bucharest, Romania, November 7-9th.

Privaterra recently got press in The Toronto Star, The Chicago Tribune, and The Vancouver Sun.

Robert Guerra, CPSR Board Member, and Caryn Mladen spoke on September 24th about Privaterra at the University of Toronto - Information Rights Salon.
See http://www .fis.utoronto.ca/research/inforights/archive.htm

Peter Hope-Tindall spoke on October 29th at "Public Space Private Space: Where do we draw the line ?"
See http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/inforights/PHT-Presentation.ppt

Tom Cox attended the September ILPF conference on Security vs. Privacy, as a reporter for CPSR.
See http://www.cpsr.org/con ferences/ilpf2002.html

Netiva Caftori spoke at the sixth Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century symposium on October 25th.
See http://orion.neiu.edu/~ncafto ri/pri.htm
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/business/article/0,1426,MCA_440_1503692,00.html

Eric Osiakwan, of CPSR Africa, attended The Civil Society and ICTs Policy Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on November 6th. See http://africa/rights/apc.org

Jeff Johnson and Rich Meagher helped a reporter with a spam article.

SUGGESTED READING

Bill McIver's "Technological Evolution and the Right to Communicate."
See http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom/papers/McIver%20&%20Birdsall.pd f and the related website of L.S. Harms at http://www.righttocommunicate.org

Hans Klein's 15th edition of Cyber-Federalist - "The User Voice in Internet Governance- ICANNatlarge.org"
See http://www.civsoc.org

"Internet Turf War Playing Out" asseses developments at the recent ICANN meeting in Shanghai.
See http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20021107 /TWGEIS

Andy Oram's "Licensing Programmers: A Resurgent Issue" caused quite a stir on the CPSR-Activists list.
See http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2233

Andy's, "Problems of a Total Surveillance System"
See http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2285

Rebecca Mercuri's "A Better Ballot Box" in the October IEEE Spectrum.

"Socially Responsible IT Management" by Michael Erbschloe.
Contact michaelerbschloe@worldnet.att.net

"How to Encourage Women in Linux" by Val Henson
See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO

"Computer-Related Accidental Death" by Donald MacKenzie in Knowing Machines (MIT Press paperback, 1998).

"An Ethical Career in Science and Technology?" a new booklet from Scientists for Global Responsibility edited by Stuart Parkinson & Vanessa Spedding. See http://www.sgr.org.uk

An impressive collection of short essays by CRIS (Communication Rights in the Information Society)
See http://cris.comunica.org/
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/contents.html

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