From: mindvox.phantom.com!mcmullen@panix.com (John F. McMullen)
Organization: [Phantom Access] / the MindVox system
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 01:31:43 EST
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(NEWS)(GENERAL)(NYC)(00001)

Computers For Social Change Conference To Be Held In NYC 1/121/93 
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 121 (NB) -- The program 
directors of the "Seventh New York City Conference on Computers For 
Social Change" have announced the agenda for this year's conference. The 
conference is to be held Thursday evening, January 21st and on Friday, 
January 22nd at the Hunter College School of Social Work, 129 East 79th 
Street in New York City.

The conference is sponsored by the New York Computer Activists, the 
Education Center for Community Organizing (ECCO) at Hunter College 
School of Social Work, Community Service Center (CSS), and Computer 
Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). The registration fee of
$45 also entitles the attendee to the conference luncheon..

The conference begins on Thursday evening, January 21st with the keynote 
address, "Snapshot of America: A Picture of the Nation's Well-Being - 
Making the Invisible Visible" by Dr. Mark L. Miringoff, Director, The 
Fordham Institute of Social Policy. Dr. Miringoff is professor of social 
policy at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services and 
the author of "American Social Welfare Policy" and "Management in 
Human Services Organization".

On Thursday evening, the Walter A. Wannerstrom Progressive Computing 
Award will be presented to a "community-based group that has used 
computer technology in an especially innovative way to improve its 
community." Wannerstrom was a conference planner until his death in 
1992.

The main day of the conference is divided into a series of workshops. 
organized into five areas: Empowerment and Activism; Public Policy and 
Public Data Access; Organization and Management; Telecommunications; 
and Computer Skills.The Computer Skills workshops are intended to aid 
community leaders in acquiring computer literacy.

Panelists in the other workshops include: Barbara Garson, author of "The 
Electronic Sweatshop", Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation 
(EFF); John German, Non-Profit Computing; Donna Demac, Interactive 
Telecommunications Project; James P. Love, Center for the Study of 
Responsive Law; Stacy Horn, Echo Communications Group, Lance Rose, 
author of "SysLaw"; Alexis Rosen, PANIX; David Sobel, CPSR; and Dave 
Burstein, WBAI-FM.

John German , one of the organizers of the conference, told Newsbytes "I
addition to the wonderful discussions that go on in the workshops,
previous conference have provided an atmosphere for real networking.
Non-profit organizations have developed contacts that have led to hardware
and software donations. The past conferences have been extremely effective
at many levels.and I expect this one to be even more exciting."

(Barbara E. McMullen & John F. McMullen/Press Contact: Patricia 
Friedland, Community Service Society,  212-614-5314/19930121)





John F. McMullen           mcmullen@mindvox.phantom.com    Consultant,
knxd@maristb.bitnet        mcmullen@well.sf.ca.us            Writer,
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