Tech Active

by Eszter Hargittai on June 22, 2004

There is lots to blog about while in London and Paris, but I am saving most of it for when I’m back in the States. (I really cannot justify sitting at a machine when I could be running around the streets of London and Paris, sorry.) However, this one event will be over by the time I get back to regular blogging so I wanted to post about it.

The Stanhope Centre for Communication Policy Research is sponsoring a panel discussion next Mon (28th) in London on “Tech Active” or the promises, successes and challenges of both using the Internet to change the world and using social policy to change the Internet. Both scholars and activists will engage in this discussion including Cory Doctorow, Gus Hosein, Lisa Nakamura and Bill Thompson. Thanks to Christian Sandvig for organizing the event. I am sure he will have interesting thoughts to add as well. I am sorry to miss it, but my flight leaves London a few hours earlier. The event is free and open to the public so I hope people will take advantage of it!

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Christian Sandvig 06.22.04 at 6:29 pm

I just can’t believe that there is no recurring strategy meeting for activist/scholars working on technology and social justice in London. There is a lot going on in London, but when I asked where to go no one knew of anything. So this event might be a start. The artists have dorkbot (http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotlondon/) we should have something.

Christian

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