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Online Registration is now OPEN!
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Conference Resources & Documents
December 12th, 2005
Four Points Sheraton Minneapolis
1330 Industrial Boulevard
Minneapolis, MN
DRAFT AGENDA
8:00
AM Registration
Continental Breakfast & Tech Fair Tables
in registration area and general session room
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. PRE-CONFERENCE 101 SESSIONS
(For beginners and those new to the Field of Digital Connectivity)
These sessions will address these questions---
Usefulness: Why do I need this stuff?
Understanding: What do all these terms mean?
Access: Where is this available and can I learn how to use it?
Rights: Who gets access and why? Who determines WHAT is available?
Cost: What about the MONEY? Who controls funding and the decisions?
NOTE: Content will be presented in 15 minute mini-sessions, option
for attendees to rotate among the choices every 15 minutes.
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People, Tech Literacy and Applications:-- Catherine Settanni & Rick
Birmingham
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People and Information: Data – Research - Planning--- Jeff Matson,
Jim Ramstrom, LMIC, MN Dept of Administration
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People & On-line Democracy --- Organizing, Advocacy and Activism
--Angela Stuber, Ohio Community Computer Network (OCCN), Arif Mamdani,
Progressive Technology Project
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Demystifying
Blogs & More
--- Allison H. Fine
Download the 101 Session Abstracts--PDF file
REGULAR CONFERENCE
SESSIONS
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(These are all general sessions, with 10 minute context-setter
speaker followed by 30 to 40 minutes of panel response, then
30 minutes of
Q & A
discussion with the audience.)
Download
the Presenters Bio's--PDF file
9:45 AM
Welcome and Overview of Day – Joanne
Walz, Community Philanthropy Officer, The Minneapolis Foundation,
Minnesota State Network Fund
Progressive Technology Project
Video Presentation
10 AM-11:30 Community Informatics – Community
Informatics (CI) is the practice of enabling communities with
Information and Communications Technologies
(ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective
use of ICT to improve their processes, achieve their objectives,
and overcome
the "digital divides" that exist both within and
between communities. CI empowers communities and citizens in
the access
to and use of ICT
across a number of community services and community needs including
but not limited
to health, building the capacity and responsiveness of cultural
communities to advocate on their own behalf, civic management,
community development
planning processes, and e-governance.
Moderator: Jane Leonard, co-chair Minnesota
State Network Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, president
of Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc.
Keynote: Kate Williams, Research Fellow, University
of Michigan School of Information
Panel members:
Professor john a. powell of the Kirwan Institute
Cheryl Wilson, MICAH
Cheryl Morgan Spencer, Minneapolis Urban League
Rep. Carlos Mariani, Executive Director, Minnesota Minority Education
Partnership
Jim Ramstrom, Minnesota Land Mgmt Information Center:
Environmental Atlas
Dawn Simonson, Metro Agency
on Aging
11:30 Break & Pick up lunch
12 noon Wireless---Next Generation of Tech for Communities
Moderator: Catherine Settanni, co-chair Minnesota
State Network Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, founder/director
of C-CAN; The Community
Computer
Access Network
Keynote: Matt Rantanen and Michael Peralta-Tribal Digital
Village developers, Pala Reservation
Panel members:
Jim Farstad, Minneapolis IP/Broadband Initiative
Russ Adams, Alliance for Metro Stability- Digital Access+Equity Campaign
Gary
Schiff, Minneapolis City Council
Donna Martin, Director of Telecommunications Upper Sioux Community
Laura Waterman Wittstock, President and CEO, Wittstock & Associates
Teresa R. Peterson, Vice Chairman, Upper Sioux Community Board of Trustees
Dennis Nelson, City Administrator
Windom, MN (Buffalo Municipal Fiber project)
1:30 – Break
1:45 PM Policy/Regulatory Arena - Next Generation of Issues
Moderator: Madonna Yawakie, president of Turtle
Island Communication, Inc.
Keynote: Adrian Herbst, principal, Baller
Herbst Law Group
Panel members:
Angela
Stuber, Ohio Community Computing Network (OCCN)
Josh Kirshenbaum, PolicyLink
Nick Wallace,
Institute for Race and Poverty, University of MN
Marcia Warren-Edelman, Native Networking
Policy
Center in Washington, D.C. David Glover, Eastmont Computing
Center in Oakland
3:15 – Break and groups move into Strategy/Action
organizing rooms and tables
Potential organizing areas:
-American Indian Telecom
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Community Organizing around Tech Issues
-Community Informatics Center Concept
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Multi-sector coalition to address Policy/Legislative/Regulatory Issues
3:30 – 4:30 PM Strategy – Coalition Building
Planning
Grant Development
Organize and formulate brief description / narrative for
Minnesota Digitized: The Next Generation Planning Grants
Goal for each session:
Form a group of individuals and organizations willing to
meet over the next three months to develop a full proposal
to the
MSNet Fund
Work to be done:
1) Determine a focus for the planning process, an issue
that needs to be addressed or a strategy that needs to
be developed
that flows
from
the
conference sessions:
- Community Informatics
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New Technologies – Empowering Minnesota’s New Communities
[e.g. wireless]
-Policy and Regulatory Challenges
-Other --- group defines a focus
2) Determine who needs to be part of the planning and how
that group represents the assets and interests of those
most impacted
by
the need/issue. Assure
that the ‘expertise’ is also part of the
group. Determine how to best empower that group to
work together
in the planning process.
3) Decide on an organization to serve as ‘agent’ for
the group [will receive the planning funds, will organize
meetings, make
sure invitations
and supports [stipends, childcare, etc] are distributed,
responsible for putting the proposal in document form,
assures that group
members are empowered
in participation.
4) Determine a planning schedule and date of next meeting.
5) Determine amount needed for planning [$2000 - $5000]
6) Appoint someone to spearhead completion of the planning
grant and submission for MSNet Fund Advisors consideration
at 4:30
PM.
4:15 MSNet Fund Advisors Meeting
Announcement of Planning Grant Awards will be made on December
13
Register now---it is easy and low-cost. If you are an education, youth organizer or grassroots activist---you can even register as a group for the entire conference including pre-conference Digital Connectivity 101 sessions.
Contact us at info@MSNetfund.org for
further information, or call 651-645-9403.
Co-hosted by Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc. and the Community Computer Access Network (C-CAN), the Twin Cities-based Community Technology Empowerment Project. Sponsored by the Minnesota State Network (MSNet) Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation and HP.
