Session info
Start: Mar 2 2008 - 4:30pmEnd: Mar 2 2008 - 6:00pm
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With over a billion people engaging in a collective activity, today's Internet is one of humanity's largest social movements, reflecting the kind of social interaction and collective achievement activists like us struggle for world-wide: fundamentally collaborative, democratic and based almost entirely on tools and software that has been produced collaboratively, developed by large, democratic communities and distributed freely. It is truly international and resilient against constant attempts to control its direction and curtail its positive growth.
In this gathering, we seek to collaboratively write an Internet Justice Bill of Rights using an innovative approach involving group process, the web, and a decision making mechanisms that build direct engagement with others.
Alfredo is Co-Director of May First/People Link, the progressive Internet organization. He has been involved in movements for social change for 40 years as an organizer and coordinator of several mass demonstrations and events as well as a leader in the Puerto Rican Independence movement. He's the author of six books and many articles and has produced several video documentaries and a two-season television news series.
dkg is a technology advisor who works with nonprofit, educational, and activist groups in NYC. He is a firm believer that people should be in control of their information and the tools they use instead of the other way around, and tries to help these groups regain control. He has been breaking computers and fixing them again for over 20 years, and is currently involved in the debian project, helping to improve a great Free operating system.
Jamie is Co-Directory of May First/People Link, the progressive Internet organization. He played an anchor role in developing the technology team for the US Social Forum in 2007. He has been active in progressive politics, ranging from alternative media (Paper Tiger Television) to collective labor organizing (with Media Jumpstart/May First Technology Collective) and more for over 20 years.
We are not following a presenter format (there will be no presenters!!).
The three people listed above, as well as Mark Libkuman (from Open Flows) and Josue Guillen (from the Praxis Project) are committed to help facilitate the workshop. We are actively recruiting more.