FRIDAY,
April 27
11:00-12:00
Registration begins
12:00-12:30
Opening Remarks
12:30-2:30
Session One: E-Race-ing the Digital
This general session on race and technology will address issues
of facilitating universal access to technology, fair pricing
and connectivity, corporate profits, corporate responsibility
and good citizenship. The session will also pose the question,
does technology affect/influence how we think about race?
Nolan
Bowie, Senior Fellow, JFK School of Government, Harvard
University
Farai Chideya, Editor,
PopandPolitics.com
Coco Fusco, Associate
Professor, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Lisa Nakamura, Assistant
Professor of English, Sonoma State University
Jamille Watkins-Barnes,
Business
Consultant, Classic Business Development Corporation
Moderator:
Tara McPherson, University
of Southern California/Annenberg
3:00-5:00
Session Two: How Wide is the Digital Divide?
This session will address public sphere issues, including
'the digital divide', public policy issues, activist work,
distance learning, libraries, access, etc. This session will
also discuss histories of exclusion; markets vs. publics,
urban vs. rural connectivity.
Karen Radney Buller, Founder/CEO/President,
National Indian Telecommunications Institute
Jack
Gravely, Directory of Workplace Diversity, FCC
Kalamu
ya Salaam, Poet and Community Activist
Ana Sisnett, Executive
Director, Austin Free-Net
Thuy Linh Tu, PhD
Candidate, American Studies Program, NYU
Moderator:
Anna Everett, University
of California/Santa Barbara
5:00-6:45
Art
Exhibition Opening
at
MIT List Center, catered by Calla Lilly
7:00
- 8:00
Keynote Address
Walter
Massey, President, Morehouse College
8:30-9:00
AM
Registration and continental breakfast
9:00-9:30 AM
Opening Remarks
9:30-11:30
Session Three: Authenticating Digital Art, Expression and
Cultural Hybridity
This session will center on 'expressive technologies',
challenging the myths of black and minority technophobia,
and considering issues of design and community knowledges.
Can digital space foster 'authentic' cultural expression?
Vivik
Bald, (aka DJ Siraiki), Co-founder,
Mutiny
Beth Coleman (aka DJ Singe),
Co-director,
SoundLab Cultural Alchemy
Paul D. Miller (aka DJ
Spooky), Artist,
Musician, Writer
Mimi Nguyen, Ph.D.
candidate, Comparative Ethnic Studies, U.C.-Berkeley
Alex Rivera, Digital
Media Artist and Filmmaker
Moderator:
Erika Muhammad, PhD
candidate, New York University
11:30-1:00
Lunch, catered by Redbones
1:00-3:00
Breakout Sessions: Making I.T. (Information Technologies)
Happen
This series of six workshops and roundtables will address
specific questions with the goal of generating workable answers
and suggestions to impact legislation, public opinion, community
and grassroots involvement. Designed as small breakouts, we
hope all conference attendees, both scholars and community
participants, will find a place to express their perspectives
and ask questions in these workshops. A Moderator/host from
each session will report back to the larger group; each moderator
will also submit a written summary of the group's findings
– at the end of the breakout roundtables – to be
used in our "Best Practices and Next Steps" phase of the conference
and published on the program's web site.
•
Breakout One: Art and Hactivism
mervin
Jarman, Performance Artist, Mongrel
Carmin Karasic, Digital
Artist
• Breakout
Two: Funding the Arts: Creative Capital
Ruby
Lerner, Executive
Director and President, Creative Capital Foundation
Noreen Tomassi,
President/CEO,
Arts International
• Breakout
Three: Digital Business: From Netrepreneurs to Corporations
Averlyn
Archer
Philip
Emeagwali, Nigerian
Computer Scientist
Retha Hill, Vice President
for Content Development, BET.com
Moderator:
Starling
David Hunter III, MIT Sloan School of Managament
•
Breakout Four: Hactivist Workshop: Organizing the Million
Women March
Ken
Anderson, Technical
Consultant, Million Women March
Phile' K.A. Chionesu, Million Women March
Asia Coney, Million
Women March Organizer
Gloria
Fox, MA House of Representatives/Million Women March
• Breakout
Five: Hate Speech
Lakshmi
Chaudhry, Contributing
Writer, Wired News
Laura Leets, Assistant
Professor, Department of Communication, Stanford University
• Breakout
Six: Job Opportunities & Training
Anita
Brown, Founder
and Chair, Black Geeks Online
Steve Drake, Executive
Director, Community Digital
Rene
McClure, President,
Black Data Processing Associates
Moderator:
Paula
Robinson, Director, Institute for Integration of Technology
and Education
• Breakout
Seven: Boston's Best Practices
Edward
DeMore, City of Boston and Technology Goes Home Project
Rachel Kimboko, HUD
Neighborhood Networks and America Connects
Marlon Orozco, Computer
Clubhouse
Randal Pinkett, Camfield
Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project
Wayne
Williams, Williams Consulting
Moderator:
Richard O'Bryant, PhD
candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:30-5:00
Reports from Breakout Groups
A roundtable summarizing and discussing topics from breakout
groups. This session is designed to raise useful questions
and offer creative solutions to the problems confronting the
digitally disadvantaged.
5:00-8:00
Free Time
8:00
Performance Event: A Digital Vaudeville
in
Walker
Memorial,
with food provided by The Middle East
Vivek
Bald (DJ Siraiki)
Beth Coleman (DJ M.
Singe)
Paul Miller (DJ Spooky)
9:30-11:30 AM
Session Four: Speculative Fictions/Imaging the Future
This session will focus on possible futures and modeling
alternatives, including issues of justice, community, and
democracy.
Mel
Chin, Artist
Ricardo Dominguez,
Co-founder,
The Electronic Disturbance Theater
mervin Jarman, Performance
Artist, Mongrel
Alondra Nelson, PhD
Candidate, American Studies, NYU
Elizabeth Nunez, Distinguished
Professor of English, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Moderator:
Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
11:30-12:30
Closing Remarks
12:30
Snack Sendoff
Rooms
will be made available for those who want to continue discussions.
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