From: Bruce Sterling [bruces@well.com]

Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:40 AM

Subject: Viridian Note 00341: Web NGOs

Key concepts

web activism, non-governmental organizations, conventions, meetings, Cory Doctorow, house party at Viridian Vatican

Attention Conservation Notice:

A whole lot of links and events vaguely having to do with web activism. Cut to chase, come to house party, network, drink some beer.

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This contest ends in four days: September 30, 2002.

Links:

The "MetaFilter" collaborative weblog maps the zipcodes of its members in the USA.
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/2610

"Smart Mobs, the Next Social Revolution."
http://www.smartmobs.com/index.html

"Globalthink," some kinda vague, networked, lefty, bureaucratic, menace to all things everywhere.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/57663.htm

The military vaporware version. Don't just network live in real-time: blow stuff up, too.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020924_7929.htm

Electronic Frontier Foundation: old-skool ad-hocratic cyberNGO from before it was cool.
http://www.eff.org/

Cory Doctorow of EFF is in town. He's speaking here. And he's got a lot on his mind.
http://effaustin.org/cory.html

Cory writes science fiction. Plus, he is a big wheel in my favorite weblog. He's staying at the Viridian Vatican because we Viridians aid and abet him and his ilk. We ARE the ilk. We exceed in ilkiness.
http://www.boingboing.net/

Source: Art McGee

Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:08:08 +0000 (UTC)
From: Art McGee <amcgee@freeshell.org>

NPO/NGO Media & Technology Calendar

Networking the Networks:
Public Access Computing in Arizona
Mesa, AZ, USA
September 17, 2002
http://www.americaconnects.net/new/default.asp?subid=33

CivicNet '02:
Build Local Power with Community Networks
Internet, Cyberspace, Universe
September 18-October 2, 2002
http://www.civicnet02.net

Community Connections:
Prospects for Electronic Democracy
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
September 20-21, 2002
http://www.cmu.edu/insites

Media, Technology, and Social Change:
Broadening the Base, Building the Movement
Boston, MA, USA
September 20-21, 2002
http://www.ltc.org/gbbn/techconf

Open Source Content Management
Berkeley, CA, USA
September 25-27, 2002
http://www.oscom.org/conferences/berkeley2002

The Web of Change
Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada
September 26-29, 2002
http://www.mediathatmatters.org/webofchange2002

Labor's Voices/LaborTech
New York, NY, USA
September 26-28, 2002
http://www.laborsvoiceslabortech.org

Midwest Regional Technology Conference:
Creating A Social Network
Minneapolis, MN, USA
September 27, 2002
http://www.c-can.org/2002conference.htm

Telecommunications Policy Research
Alexandria, VA, USA
September 28-30, 2002
http://www.tprc.org

United Nations:
Information and Communication Technologies Task Force
New York, NY, USA
September 30-October 1, 2002
http://www.unicttaskforce.org

Pull Focus --->
Pushing Forward:
Media Arts Connecting Culture and Community
Seattle, WA, USA
October 2-5, 2002
http://www.pullfocus.org

The New Media

Critical Approaches
Newcastle, Australia
October 3-4, 2002
http://www.octapod.org/newmediaconference

Dark Markets:
Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy
Vienna, Austria, EU
October 3-4, 2002
http://darkmarkets.t0.or.at

Autonomous Media
Tucson, AZ, USA
October 3-6, 2002
http://www.consensus.net/autonomousmedia.html

Developing Country Access to Online Scientific Publishing
Trieste, Italy, EU
October 4-5, 2002
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ejournals/meeting2002

Break the Media Blackout:
Media Democracy & the Struggle to End Poverty
Philadelphia, PA, USA
October 4-6, 2002
http://www.kwru.org/conference

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility:
Shrinking World, Expanding Net
Cambridge, MA, USA
October 5, 2002
http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/annmtg02

Rural Telecommunications Congress:
Building Demand for Broadband
Des Moines, IA, USA
October 6-9, 2002
http://ruraltelecon.org/rtc02

Global Congress on Community Networking in the Digital Era
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
October 7-12, 2002
http://www.globalcn.org

World Summit on Internet and Multimedia:
Bridging the Digital Divide
Montreaux, Switzerland, EU
October 8-11, 2002
http://www.internetworldsummit.org

Electronic Networks & Democratic Engagement
Nijmegen, Netherlands, EU
October 9-12, 2002
http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom

Union for Democratic Communications:
Democratic Communications and Social Justice
State College, PA, USA
October 10-13, 2002
http://www.udc.org

Race in Digital Space 2.0:
Race and New Media Technologies
Los Angeles, CA, USA
October 11-13, 2002
http://www.annenberg.edu/race

Internet Research 3.0: Net / Work / Theory
Maastricht, Netherlands, EU
October 13-16, 2002
http://www.aoir.org/2002

Advancing the Research Agenda on Open Source
Brussels, Belgium, EU
October 14, 2002
http://merit0227ts49.unimaas.nl/FLOSS/workshop

Technology Initiative Grant Conference
Chicago, IL, USA
Octber 16-18, 2002
http://lstech.org/workgroups/tech_conf_2002

Media Democracy Day
International, Global, Universe
October 18, 2002
http://www.mediademocracyday.org
http://www.mediademocracyday.org.uk

Web Design that Works for Everyone
Providence, RI, USA
October 18-19, 2002
http://www.adaptiveenvironments.org/webconference

Action Coalition for Media Education
Albuquerque, NM, USA
October 18-20, 2002
http://www.acmecoalition.org

New Orleans Book Fair:
The Intersection of Art Books, Zines and Print Publishing
New Orleans, LA, USA
October 26-27, 2002
http://www.nolabookfair.com

Circuit Riders/N-TEN Chicago Regional Conference
Chicago, IL, USA
October 31-November 1, 2002
http://www.nten.org/conferences-chicago

IMAGeNation Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
November 7-10, 2002
http://www.imag-nation.com

Doors of Perception:
The Design Challenge of Pervasive Computing
Amsterdam, Netherlands, EU
November 14-16, 2002
http://flow.doorsofperception.com

American Society for Information Science and Technology:
Information, Connections and Community
Philadelphia, PA, USA
November 18-21, 2002
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM02

Circuit Riders/N-TEN Boston Regional Conference
Boston, MA, USA
November 19-20, 2002
http://www.nten.org/conferences-boston

African Studies Association:
Africa in the Information and Technology Age
Washington, DC, USA
December 5-8, 2002
http://www.africanstudies.org/asa_papercalltheme.html

Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning
San Juan, Puerto Rico
December 8-11, 2002
http://www.technologytools.org

International Conference on Information Systems:
Virtual Community Informatics Workshop
Barcelona, Spain, EU
December 15, 2002
http://web.njit.edu/~bieber/vci-workshop-2002.html

International World Wide Web Conference
Budapest, Hungary
May 20-24, 2003
http://www2003.org

World Summit on the Information Society
Geneva, Switzerland, EU
December 10-12, 2003
http://www.itu.int/wsis

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