Summer 2003

by Kavita Singh and Mary Lester and Gene Crick

Dear Friends,

On June 26^th, Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) in collaboration with the Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) and the Association for Community Networking (AFCN) will convene our 12^th annual conference. We're excited to bring you this special issue of the Community Technology Review combining articles and interviews from people that represent this year's conference tracks and our work in the field.

Kavita Singh

The theme, "Creating Our Future: Shaping the Agenda of Community Technology," was carefully selected to speak to our future and to the strength of our movement. The evolving developments and impacts of communications technology in society are powerful and complex. Our shared goals of greater equity, opportunity, and benefit for all people is evermore critically important. Inclusiveness is a fundamental value of our work. As a network, we embrace diversity and are working with our members to include the diversity of all people, including people with disabilities.

Mary Lester

Finally, the role of our organizations is changing. What we have been and are doing now may not be what is needed as we move forward. We look forward to your joining us for the necessary conversations and the shaping of action agendas that will help to make the "information revolution" a "people's revolution."

Gene Crick

We're working hard to bring you a conference that includes these issues in all of the sessions and gives us time to reflect on the road ahead. How can we use our networks, numbers, energy, and effective spaces across the country to define our own agenda?

 

 

Enjoy this special conference issue. See you in Washington DC!

Kavita Singh, Executive Director of CTCNet
Mary Lester, Executive Director of ATA
Gene Crick, President of AFCN