roundtable: Oct30*MIT*Cyberdemocracy*MitchKapor

roundtable: Oct30*MIT*Cyberdemocracy*MitchKapor

Oct30*MIT*Cyberdemocracy*MitchKapor

Howard Frederick (hfrederick@igc.apc.org)
Sat, 21 Oct 1995 06:05:29 -0700 

Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 06:05:41 -0700
From: Howard Frederick <hfrederick@igc.apc.org>
Message-Id: <199510211305.GAA18610@cdp.igc.apc.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 06:05:29 -0700
To: "Moderator of conference list.roundtable" <roundtable@cni.org>
Subject: Oct30*MIT*Cyberdemocracy*MitchKapor


                  The Technology and Culture Forum
             at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                     with Emerson College, Boston
                         cordially invite you to

                       DEMOCRACY IN CYBERSPACE
      Monday, October 30, 1995, 4:00PM, MIT Building 6, Room 120 
                  [See also October 31 event below!]

-->> Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Corporation and the Electronic 
     Frontier Foundation
-->> Karin Knoebelspies, German Green Party's Media Policy Specialist, 
     German Parliament, Bonn
-->> Coralee Whitcomb, Board member of Computer Professionals for 
     Social Responsibility, founder of Virtually Wired, Boston

    More information:  Technology and Culture Forum (617) 253-8405
                        email jsgould@mit.edu 

     Given the centrality of the Internet to global communications and 
democracy in general, it is critical that we ask what a responsive and 
ethical Internet would look like.  The German Green Party, the only 
political party with a clear moral and ethical basis, is struggling 
with that very issue.  

     "Democracy in Cyberspace" offers the community an 
opportunity to engage in the dialogue.  Speakers will address 
democratic access, universal service, privacy protection, democratic 
policy-making, provision of equitable workplaces, reduction of the gap 
between the info-rich and the info-poor, and freedom to communicate.
*********************************************************************
        The Goethe Institute [German Cultural Center], Boston
                            invites you to

                 THE GERMAN GREEN PARTY'S PERSPECTIVE 
            ON THE FUTURE OF MEDIA IN THE INFORMATION AGE

                    A Brown Bag lunchtime lecture
                     Tuesday, October 31, 12-2PM
             Goethe Institute, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
                Tel:  617-262-6050  Fax:  617-262-2615
                  email:  100627.1010@compuserve.com

     Sponsored by Emerson College and the Goethe-Institut, Boston

     Bring your own brown bag lunch for a noontime talk with Karin 
Knoebelspies, German Green Party's Media Policy Specialist, German 
Parliament, Bonn.  From 12:30-1:00 Ms. Knoebelspies will discuss the 
German Green Party's media policy, including themes such as the media 
environment, the future of public broadcasting, free speech in the 
Information Age, and media concentration.

     Before joining the Green Party, Ms. Knoebelspies was a journalist 
at West German Broadcasting (WDR) specializing in Third World affairs.  
She also taught journalism at the University of Dortmund.  Professor 
Howard Frederick of Emerson College will introduce and moderate the 
discussion.  R.S.V.P. by phone or email.

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