Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of internet_rights_wrkshop/intro-ussf2010

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Mar 25, 2009, 5:59:46 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

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 By way of introduction, my name is Jamie - I am one of the co-directors of May First/People Link. MFPL is a membership-based activist organization with nearly 300 members. Our mission is to organize the left online - ensure that the values of collaboration, openness and democracy are defended and expanded on the Internet so our members can effectively organize the Internet for real political change.
 
-You may have heard of us in relationship to the 2007 social forum. We were ''not'' the organization that did the technology for the social forum. We ''were'' the group that organized the technology team that did the technology for the social forum. And that distinction is one of the most important to us, especially with regard to the 2010 social forum and, fundamentally, the reason we wanted to meet with you tonight.
+You may have heard of us in relationship to the 2007 social forum. We were ''not'' the organization that did the technology for the social forum. We ''were'' the group that organized and participated on the technology team that did the technology for the social forum. And that distinction is one of the most important to us, especially with regard to the 2010 social forum and, fundamentally, the reason we wanted to meet with you tonight.
 
 Technology is the term used to describe the tools humans use to do what we think we have to do. It's really no different than anything else human beings do and the way we develop it is no different. We talk about it, each of us bringing to that discussion what we've learned up to now, and we make decisions about it collaboratively. There are people who try to argue that technology is something made by a few people or a company or some other organization and then offered to the rest of us to use. But the truth is that everyone who works in developing a technology brings to that work what he or she has learned from countless other people and that, in the process of the development of that technology, it's the users who really guide where it's going and what it looks like.