Here's the scoop on the "Broadband and Digital Future- Who is in Control" conference. Wish I could make it.

Access: Broadband and Digital Future- Who is in Control? (4/5/03)

Saturday, April 5, 2003
Stanford University
Jordan Hall in Main Quad building
Palo Alto, California
9:00AM - 6:00PM

Registration Fee - $15-$25
(Sliding scale)
Student $10

Schedule

(Speakers' organization for identification only)

9:00 - 9:30 Registration (Morning refreshments)

9:30 - 10:30 Welcome & Introduction
mic Mylen - Free Radio Berkeley
Steve Zeltzer - LaborNet, LaborTech
Walter Johnson - Secretary Treasurer/SF Labor Council

Keynote speakers
Mark Cooper - Consumer Federation of America
Peter B. Collins - Exec. Board/AFTRA
Ken Hamidi - Faceintel.com

10:30 - 11:20 Workshops I: (Room # to be announced)
1) Privatization and Municipalization of Telecommunications
Bruce Lusignan- Stanford University
Wes Brain - SEIU 503, Oregon Public Employees Union

2) Privacy, Spying and Censorship
Jeramie Scott - Coalition for Labor Justice, Stanford
Todd Davies - Stanford University
Peter Neumann - CPSR
Jake Appelbaum

11:30 - 12:20 Workshops II: (Room # to be announced)
1) Public Access Cable and Interconnect
Joseph Partansky - Concord Cable Access
Steve Zeltzer - LaborNet, Labor Video Project
David Miles - Skating Place / PPNSF

2) The "Digital Divide" and Discrimination
Art McGee - Project Change/ AntiRacismNet
mic Mylen - Free Radio Berkeley
Raj Jayadev - Silicon Valley DEBUG

12:30 - 1:20 Lunch (sandwiches and drink provided)
Videos
Music - Larry Shaw - solddowntheriver.org

1:30 - 2:20 Workshops III: (Room # to be announced)
1) Workers' Right in the New Technology
Joshua Sperry - CWA 9423
Karin Hart - CWA 9415
Raj Jayadev - Silicon Valley DEBUG
Peter B. Collins - Ex. Board/AFTRA
Carolyn Bowden - IATSE

2) Wireless Networks (Wi-Fi) and Micro Radio
John Parulis - brightpathvideo.com
mic Mylen / Stephen Dunifer - Free Radio Berkeley
Sarah Olsen - SF Liberation Radio

2:30 - 3:20 Workshops IV : (Room # to be announced)
1) Defending Access to Alternative Media
Jeff Pearlstein - Media Alliance
Sarah Olsen - SF Liberation Radio
Steve Zeltzer - LaborNet, Labor Video Project
Ken Hamidi - Faceintel.com

2) Global Internet Governance (ICANN, the WSIS, etc.)
Dorothy Kidd - University of San Francisco
Art McGee - Project Change/AntiRacismNet
Peter Neumann - CPSR
Karl Auerbach - ICANN

3) Open Source
Jake Appelbaum - appelbaum.net
(More speakers to be announced)

3:30 - 4:20 Workshops V : (Room # to be announced)
1) Cable Internet Access and Regulation
Dorothy Kidd - University of San Francisco
Mark Cooper - Consumer Federation of America
Jeff Pearlstein - Media Alliance

2) Labor Video and a Labor channel
Carl Bryant - NALC 214, Letter Carriers Today
Wes Brain - SEIU 503, Oregon Public Employees Union
John Anderson - Workers Independent News Service (WINS)

4:30 - 6:00 Report Back, Proposals