[MLB-WIRELESS] talk: Community Networking in UK/USA

[Clae]

>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:25:05 +1000
>From: larry <larrys at vicnet.net.au>
>Subject: Great speakers of interest to ECNA members
>Reply-to: larry <larrys at vicnet.net.au>
>X-Priority: 3
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>Community Networking in the U.K. and the U.S.A:   David Wilcox and Terry
>Grunwald
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>6.00 pm - 7.00 pm Thursday 15 May 2003
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>Kaleide Theatre, 360 Swanston Street, RMIT University
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>(Light refreshments after the lecture are sponsored by ECNA)
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>David Wilcox and Terry Grunwald are visiting Australia for the The Smith
>Family Community Learning Network project and this is their only public
>appearance before work in New Zealand.  David has been closely involved with
>the establishment of community networks in the UK, (see
>www.partnerships.org.uk), and Terry engages in community networking
>consultancy and development in the US.
>
>They are partners in an international collaborative initiative, Making The
>Network (www.makingthenetwork.org.uk),   a joint UK-US initiative which
>works with communities, governments, and other organisations to get
>electronic community networks going. They have produced extremely useful
>materials about bringing together communities to go online, using innovative
>and enjoyable planning methodologies.
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>Both of them have important stories to tell about the development of
>community networking in the US and UK, having worked with all levels of
>government and diverse communities.
>
>The E-community Networking Association (ECNA) is hosting the refreshments,
>so please come and hear them!
>
>RSVPs should be addressed to Cheryl Lewis-Fitzgerald, telephone (03 9925
>9631, email cheryl.lewis-fitzgerald at rmit.edu.au) by Monday 12 May.
>
>Please excuse cross postings and forward to relevant lists!
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>***************************
>Larry Stillman
>Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University
>www.ccnr.net   larrys at vicnet.net.au
>  61  3 9903 1801
>fax 61 3 9903 2564


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