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=='''INoSA at Left Forum 2015'''== 
'''New York City May 29-31'''
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We've partnered with May First/People Link to bring together leading technology activists from all over the world who are working to defend the knowledge commons and to protect access to the internet. Given the centrality of electronic communications to our work, it is critical that we remain vigilant to the politics surrounding information and communications technology.

==<span class="field-content">[[http://www.leftforum.org/content/internet-and-worlds-struggle-survival-next-five-years|'''The Internet and the World's Struggle for Survival -- the Next Five Years''']]</span>== 
'''Friday May 29 5:00 pm-6:45 pm Eastern time''' Session A [[http://www.leftforum.org/content/l76|L.76]]
This panel features technology activists from Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, India and a leader in the recent U.S. struggle to defend net neutrality here. These speakers will help us think about some of the opportunities and challenges surrounding the technology many of us have come to take for granted.
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">'''Chair:''' Alfredo Lopez, May First/People Link</span>
<u>'''Panelists'''</u>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Juan Gerardo Dominguez Carrasco -- Leadership Committee Chair, [[@https://mayfirst.org/|May First/People Link ]]</span>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Alice Aguilar, [[@http://www.progressivetech.org/|Progressive Technology Project]] </span>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Malkia Cyril -- Director, [[@http://centerformediajustice.org/|Center for Media Justice]] </span>
* Shamika Goddard, Union Theological Seminary technology chaplain.
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Shahzad Ahmad, [[@http://content.bytesforall.pk/|Bytes for All, ]]Pakistan--</span>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Joseph Torres, Outreach Coordinator, [[@http://www.freepress.net/|Free Press]] (which organized campaign defending Net Neutrality) </span>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Jackie Smith, Professor of sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Coordinator of [[@http:''scholaractivist.org|International Network of Scholar Activists]], and editor of open access Journal [[@http:''jwsr.org/|Journal of World-Systems Research]], one of the first peer-reviewed open access scholarly journals, launched in 1994.</span>
''' ''Smith stressed the need for activists to become producers and not merely users of technology. Activists must be more informed and skilled regarding technology, privacy, net neutrality debates. Scholar-activists can play a role in facilitating skills transfer and helping raise consciousness on campuses.''
''' The [[@https:''www.apc.org/en/news/everything-you-need-know-about-wsis10-review|World Summit on the Information Society ten year review process ]]is currently underway, and a high level ten-year review will take place at the Unite Nations in New York. General Assembly will discuss a draft text on world information and technology policies. The draft text should be available in September, and this conference provides a good opportunity to raise consciousness and to help the general public better understand the issues at stake. '''RESOURCE:''' <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">[[http://www.alainet.org/en/revistas/169787|'''Towards a People’s Internet''' ]]</span>by //Latin America in Movement// provides perspectives from the global South on net Neutrality and internet governance, and the chapter by //Norbert Bollow,// [[http:''www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169785|WSIS+10: issues, actors, what to expect, what to achieve ]]is particularly helpful to understand this important international meeting.
''' Open Access Week 2015 is October 19-25, 2015. Organize an event on your campus or tap into online programs and resources. See [[@http:''www.openaccessweek.org/|http:''www.openaccessweek.org/ ]]for more details.
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==[[@http://www.leftforum.org/content/resisting-technology-privatization-and-surveillance-roles-scholar-activists|“Resisting Technology Privatization and Surveillance: Roles for Scholar-Activists”]]== 
'''<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sunday May 31 12:00pm - 01:50pm in Room 1.107, John Jay College, </span>'''<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The City University of New York, 524 West 59th st, New York, NY 10019</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Panelists will help scholar-activists better understand some of the issues surrounding open access publishing and open data, internet security and surveillance, and software issues. We’ve brought in some leading technology activists to help demystify some of the debates and to share some of the analyses of communications and publications industries that are often overlooked by academic researchers. Since these affect our work directly, it is critical that we inform ourselves on these topics.</span>
'''Chair:''' Jackie Smith, International Network of Scholar Activists
<u>'''Panelists'''</u>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Barry Cohen, </span>Associate Dean of College of Computer Science, N.J. Institute of Technology& </span>Moderator of [[@http://www.portside.org/|Portside]],</span>an online alternative media source dedicated to realizing the democratic potential of the internet and other new technology.
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Seda Gürses, post-doctoral fellow, Media, Culture and Communications department and Information Law Institute at New York University. Studies privacy and surveillance issues and is active in Turkish organization advocating digital rights.</span>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Peter Murray-Rust, Director [[@http://contentmine.org/|ContentMine]], University of Cambridge, UK </span>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> Rebecca Kennison -- [[@http:''knconsultants.org/|K|N Consultants ]]which works to foster broad knowledge infrastructure transformation and to expand opportunities for disadvantaged populations. K|N is behind the [[@http://www.openaccess.org/index.php?section=1|Open Access Network]]. Kennison was one of the first staff members of the [[@https://www.plos.org/|Public Library of Science ]]and the</span> founding director of [[@http:''cdrs.columbia.edu/cdrsmain/?q=index.php|Columbia University's Center for Digital Research and Scholarship.]]
''' ''Presentation slides:[[@file:Left Forum_Open Access Matters Kennison Slides.pdf| "Open Access Matters"]]''
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Benjamin Cockelet, teaches community organizing at New York University and founded the [[@http://projectpoder.org/|Project on Organizing, Development Education and Research (PODER)]], a citizen-led corporate accountability initiative in Latin America.</span>
* <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Seeta Pe</span>ña Gangadharan, Senior Research Fellow at the [[@http://www.newamerica.org/oti/|Open Technology Institute.]] </span>Seeta's work is on digital inequalities and discrimination, media justice and communications rights.