roundtable: Playing to Win in DC June 1-4
roundtable: Playing to Win in DC June 1-4
Playing to Win in DC June 1-4
Peter Miller (ptwnd@igc.apc.org)
Thu, 27 Apr 1995 01:23:27 -0700
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 01:23:27 -0700
From: Peter Miller <ptwnd@igc.apc.org>
Message-Id: <199504270823.BAA19390@igc2.igc.apc.org>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Playing to Win in DC June 1-4
For Immediate Distribution:
PLAYING TO WIN COMMUNITY COMPUTING CENTER NETWORK
Hosts 4th Annual Meeting in Washington DC
Friday, June 2 - Sunday, June 4, 1995
Future Center at the Capital Children's Museum
800 Third Street NE -- near Union Station
Thursday, June 1, 7:30 pm Kick Off with
Working Group Against Information Redlining Forum on
"Disenfranchised Communities and the Information Superhighway"
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Summary Program Schedule
Preliminary Program Thursday, June 1 7:30-9:30 - see below
Friday, June 2 - 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Panel presentation:
Issues of Access: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times --
* Mario Marino, Chairman, The Morino Institute, Reston, VA
* Laura Breeden, Director, Telecommunications and
Information Assistance Program, Washington, DC
* James Ferguson, Executive Director, National Coalition on
Black Voter Participation, Washington, DC
* Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Coordinator, Chittenden Community
Television, Burlington, VT
Focus Groups
Keynote Speaker: Elliot Soloway, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Lab, University of Michigan
Concurrent Presentations & Workshops:
Starting a Community Technology Center
Technology and Literacy
Managing Community Technology Programs
The PTW Network -- IGC Training for New Users
Role of Math and Science in Community Technology Programs
Volunteers: How to Find Them/How to Keep Them
Reception sponsored by The Morino Institute
Saturday, June 3 9:00 am to 5:45 pm
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Affiliate Presentations & Workshops:
The Whys and Hows of Public Access
Multimedia Projects
Integrating Technology: Video and Computers
IGC Telecommunications Training for Experienced Users
Role of Telecommunications in Community Technology Programs
Exploring Internet Resources
Telecommunication Projects
Tools Play: Using basic computer tools to create learning games
Math & Science Projects and Resources
Program Assessment and Evaluation
The PTW Network Agenda: 1995-96 and Beyond
Sunday, June 4 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Regional and Steering Committee Meetings
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Conference co-sponsors: The Capital Children's Museum, The Morino
Institute, The Legent Corporation, the National Science Foundation,
and Playing To Win, Inc.
Goals:
To provide opportunities for personal networking and for exchanging
information and experiences.
To enhance community-based technology programs by providing
technical training and program development information.
To explore and understand issues related to providing equity in
technology access at the local, regional and national levels.
Description:
The Annual All-Affiliates Meeting of The Playing To Win Network
brings together Network affiliate members, potential affiliates,
associates, friends, supporters and other persons interested in
learning more about how community-based technology programs can and
do provide technology access to underserved and disenfranchised
peoples. In addition to gaining practical program development
information, participants will learn how programs throughout the PTW
Network are working and collaborating to open the doors to
technology in their communities. Panel discussions, workshops, and
training sessions will be led by affiliate members, PTW Network
project staff and consultants, as well as representatives from
public policy and public interest organizations. Opportunities for
informal socializing will include group lunches and a Friday night
reception sponsored by The Morino Institute.
Registration and Lodging:
Representatives of the PTW Network and conference presenters do not
pay a registration fee. All other participants are charged $25 to
attend the conference ($35 at the door). To register in advance for
any day of the conference, contact Ruth Rappaport at RuthR@edc.org,
or 800/225-4276 x2329, with your name, address, organization, and
phone, and note whether you would like to take advantage of any of
the reserved lodging and for what dates. A block of rooms has been
reserved at the Radison Barcelo ($100 single; $113 double) and
Carlyle Suites ($89; $99) Hotels. A detailed conference information
packet will be mailed to all registered participants in May. This
packet will include the final program, schedule, maps, and
transportation information.
Travel:
Discounted airfare is available from US Air. Contact: Sally Kahn,
Stewart International Travel, 800-441-8666. Tell her you are attending
the PTW Network Conference in Washington DC.
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DISENFRANCHISED COMMUNITIES AND THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
Co-Sponsored with
THE WORKING GROUP AGAINST INFORMATION REDLINING
Thursday, June 1st, 7:30 -- 9:30 p.m.
Radison Barcelo Hotel
2121 "P" St. NW
The Working Group Against Information Redlining, a coalition of
primarily Washington-based organizations concerned with low-income
community access to the National Information Infrastructure (NII),
and the Playing to Win Network of community technology centers invite
you to join us on June 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. to exchange ideas
and information on our efforts to ensure that the gap between the
haves and have-nots is not replicated (much less widened) in the
deployment of the Information Superhighway.
At the meeting on June 1st, we will distribute information about the
proposed community telecommunication forums and resources we are both
planning. We will want to discuss with you your possible
participation and your ideas about content and community needs.
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT:
Universal access has become a major concern in building the NII.
Community-based non-profits in rural and disdvantaged areas lack
affordable access to the information superhighway as well as a voice
in the development of the content it will carry. Will the
information be relevant to community needs? Will people have the
capacities and resources to make use of it and be active
contributors? If so, how will that be determined?
There is growing interest in people speaking for and about low-income
and other disenfranchised individuals. However, there is little in
the way of these individuals speaking for themselves in order to
shape the debate and policies in ways beneficial to them. In the
long run, empowering affected populations to speak for themselves
will be essential. Resources for using the NII are limited: when and
where communities have come to understand the real opportunities this
"highway" could open up for them -- access to education and
educational resources, access to medical information and (potentially
treatment), access to needed governmental information and benefits,
training opportunities, job opportunities -- they don't have the
resources (financial, human, or technical) to take advantage of what
is already available. Capacity building will be an essential
component even if the NII is technically designed to reach all
people.
Toward this end, the Working Group Against Information Redlining has
been meeting on a monthly basis since May 1994. The groups
participating -- OMB Watch, RTK NET (the Right-to-Know Network), the
Benton Foundation, Alliance for Public Technology, Alliance for
Community Media, the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, the
National Trust for the Development of African American Men, the
National Consumer Law Center and numerous others -- have developed a
proposal for community forums on non-profit access to and use of the
NII. The Playing to Win Network, consisting of over 50 neighborhood
community technology programs, is currently planning a program
focusing on using telecommunications to heighten participants'
interest in and involvement with local, state, and national policies
upon which their technology access rests.
These community forums and center resource projects will be discussed
at the June 1st gathering. For more information on the June 1st
program or either project, contact:
Patrice McDermott Peter Miller
OMB Watch Playing to Win Network
patricem@CapAccess.org ptwnd@igc.apc.org
202/234-8494 800/225-4276 x2727
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