TECH ACTIVE
A panel discussion in London on 28 June 2004

Activists, scholars, and programmers have sometimes seen the Internet as a lever they can use to change the world, or they have seen the world as a lever they can use to change their Internet -- for the cause of privacy, liberty, democracy, or equity, among others. Where has this online activism about social justice faltered and how has it triumphed? If you own a computer and a conscience, please join influential activist/scholars to consider the meaning and practice of online activism. What has changed after all this effort, and what might change if we get it right?

Date: Monday, 28 June 2004
Time: A panel discussion from 15:00 to about 17:00, with drinks to follow
Location: Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (tube: Marble Arch, use exit #11 from the Hyde Park pedestrian subway) Stanhope House, Stanhope Place (at Hyde Park), London W2 2HH

Free and open to the public; no advance booking is required. View the PDF Invitation

Featuring:

Nerd Determinism, Nerd Fatalism, and the Copyfight
Cory Doctorow is the European Affairs Coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a contributing editor at Wired magazine, and a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering at Yale University.

Civil Society Bites, and other Privacy Failures
Gus Hosein is a Fellow in Information Systems at the London School of Economics, a Senior Fellow at Privacy International, and an advisor to non-governmental organizations in Europe and the US.

Online Activism in Raced and Queer Media Spaces
Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the author of Cybertypes and co-editor of Race In Cyberspace.

If You're Going to Play the Game, You Need to Play it Well
Bill Thompson is a writer and journalist for BBC Radio and BBC News Online, an external lecturer at City University, a research associate with the iSociety project, and an editorial advisor to OpenDemocracy.net.

This event is hosted by the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, and kindly co-sponsored by the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and The Internet Society of England.