Digital Democracy Conference

Theater Group Critiques Cyberculture
Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 7:30 PM.
University of San Francisco's Lone Mountain Campus (2800 Turk Boulevard), Room 148.

The theater group, Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Crítica, will perform at the University of San Francisco. They use performance, burla and high-tech art to challenge their audience to think about the social, cultural, and environmental consequences of information technologies.

Lecture: "The World Wide Web and Global Justice"
Friday, May 2, 7:30 pm
Faculty Lounge, UC Centre

Myoung-joon Kim, Coordinator, MediaACT, South Korea Marlyn Tadros, Executive Director of Virtual Activism Chris Bailey, Policy Coordinator of Internet Rights Bulgaria

This dynamic panel of social justice advocates will discuss the hurdles faced in South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and the steps that social justice and human rights activists are taking to use the Net.

Citizens' Communications On and Off the Net
University Center Building, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco
Saturday, May 3, 2003 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM.

This event will address how citizen groups are creating community and building democratic communications on and off the Net. Workshops will present action proposals for change and include:

** Chilling Effects: Censorship and the Net
** Creating Community on the Net
** www. Social Justice.net
**World Summit on the Information Society
** Whose Media? Media Reform in the U.S.
** Broadband, Wireless and Beyond in the Bay Area

Speakers include representatives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, USF Law School, Silicon Valley Debug, the San Francisco Independent Media Center, Labortech, Virtual Activism, Internet Rights Bulgaria, Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS), MediaAct Korea, Virtual Identity, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the Democratic Media Centre of the National Lawyers Guild, Media Alliance and Bright Path Video.

Free and Open to the public. Sponsored by The University of San Francisco with the support of Media Alliance.

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