Dear all, OneWebDay, an Earth Day for the Internet, is coming up - it's a week from Monday. You may want to use the occasion to raise broad questions about digital divide issues, standards-compliance, network neutrality, censorship, interconnection etc. with your classes and colleagues. Like Earth Day, OneWebDay is a big tent. For ten ways individuals can celebrate OneWebDay, go to <http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/OneWebDay_in_a_box#10_Ways_to_Help_t<http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/OneWebDay_in_a_box#10_Ways_to_Help_t> he_Web> The theme this year is online participation in democracy. The overall goal of the effort is to create a global constituency that cares about the future of the internet and is willing to get involved in good works and good policy. There are physical events going on in Copenhagen, London, Melbourne (where they've wiki-fied planning for the city's future), Tunisia, Oxford, Sofia, Kiev, all over Israel, Bangalore, Chennai, and probably other places. In the U.S., there are events in Austin, Chicago (Future of Music - several days), Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Portland (where they really know how to use wikis), Milwaukee, NYC, San Francisco, and DC. In particular, in NYC at noon on 9/22 there's a OneWebDay rally in Washington Square: Moderator Sree Sreenivasan (WNBC-TV), plus Tim Westergren (Pandora), Larry Lessig (Stanford), Craig Newmark (craigslist), Dharma Dailey (Ethos Group), City Councilwoman Hon. Gale A. Brewer, John Perry Barlow, Andrew Baron (Rocketboom), and SJ Klein (OLPC). Sree will be taking questions texted to the group, and the whole thing will be webcast. In San Francisco, the city is using OWD as an opportunity to install wireless access in low-income housing, with the help of EFF. In DC, they're putting together a time-capsule of e-democracy efforts, to be re-examined in 2020. To see all the details, go to < http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/Main_Page>. If you do end up having some kind of participatory event at your school or other institution, use #owd2008 as the tag, and the web streaming guidelines at <http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/Webcast<http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/Webcast>
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Best regards, Susan Crawford Professor, Univ. of Michigan Law School Founder, OneWebDay +1 202 669 0430