[liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?
Hey Liberation Tech, I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there were any more specific orgs that are membership/profession-based? And yes, I googled it first : ) Thanks, Ringo -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?
there used to be http://cpsr.org/ but I think they dissolved. there's http://www.ict4d.org.uk/ which is close, but not quite what you're after. ___ http://www.yishaymor.org learning; design; technology; research On 15 October 2013 10:07, Ringo ri...@hackbloc.org wrote: Hey Liberation Tech, I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there were any more specific orgs that are membership/profession-based? And yes, I googled it first : ) Thanks, Ringo -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?
Hello Ringo, IFIP ( International Federation for Information Processing) has a working group on social accountability and computing: http://ifipwg92.org/ You also might be intrested in the ETHICOMP conferences: Last one: http://www.sdu.dk/en/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/Idk/Arrangementer/Tidligerearrangementer/ethicomp2013 Next one: http://ethicomp2014.org/ bests, Alberto -- Alberto Cammozzo http://cammozzo.com/en http://tagmenot.info On 10/15/2013 11:07 AM, Ringo wrote: Hey Liberation Tech, I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there were any more specific orgs that are membership/profession-based? And yes, I googled it first : ) Thanks, Ringo -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?
Ringo: Hey Liberation Tech, I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there were any more specific orgs that are membership/profession-based? And yes, I googled it first : ) FIfF in Germany maybe: http://fiff.de/ Georg -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?
Yes, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility was dissolved (although the web site is still available.) There is still a need! I think FIFF is a good example and I believe there are several more. I'm hoping to add these to http://publicsphereproject.org/civic_organizations. (Ideally people would add their own but I'm willing to do it if necessary) On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Georg Koppen g.kop...@jondos.de wrote: Ringo: Hey Liberation Tech, I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there were any more specific orgs that are membership/profession-based? And yes, I googled it first : ) FIfF in Germany maybe: http://fiff.de/ Georg -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?
On 2013-10-15 04:07, Ringo wrote: I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there were any more specific orgs that are membership/profession-based? And yes, I googled it first : ) Yes and no... As has been pointed out, CPSR is now defunct. TechSoup used to be CompuMentor and, when it was that former entity, helped match nonprofits with screened IT professionals ready to donate their services to help with various tech issues in the SF Bay Area - it doesn't do that anymore (except online, via its forum - help on an ad hoc basis, and contributing online volunteers aren't screened). That kind of circuit rider movement lead to the creation of organizations like NTEN (http://www.nten.org/history), which still exists. Lasa is a social welfare law and tech charity based in the London, and long ran the UK version of Circuit Riders, but I'm not sure that exists anymore. Internationally, there's the World Computer Exchange, which mobilizes tech volunteers (http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/volunteer). The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) was a global volunteer initiative to help bridge the digital divide. UNITeS both supported volunteers applying information and communications technologies for development (ICT4D) and promoted volunteerism as a fundamental element of successful ICT4D initiatives. UNITeS was launched in 2000 by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and was hosted by the United Nations Volunteers programme. Its archived web site is here: http://www.coyotecommunications.com/unites/ UNITeS is defunct, but the UN still has IT4D focused initiatives, and UNV still recruits and places IT volunteers for assignments. I maintain a Twitter list called Tech4Good ICT4D that has other leads for you: https://twitter.com/jcravens42/tech4good-ict4d/members -- Ms. Jayne Cravens MSc Portland, Oregon, USA The web site - http://www.coyotecommunications.com The email - j...@coyotecommunications.com Me on Twitter, other social networks, my blog: http://www.coyotecommunications.com/me/jayneonline.shtml -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?
ACM (assoc for Computing Machinery) are one of the oldest and I think still the largest professional society in the field. They have many SIGs (special interest groups). Try this one: http://www.sigcas.org/ Also try IEEE http://www.ieee.org/index.html I went to one Computers, Freedom Privacy (CFP) conference and it was great. Both geeks with some social awareness and lawyers or political types with some technical understanding seem to be rather rare types, and this is distinctly unfortunate. That conference had quite a few of both. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
