Inequality & Power

Increasingly, access to economic, political, and social rewards in society depends on technology, access, and skills. Inequalities in the ability to make effective use of technologies often lead to a shift in power and influence in a community and, is indeed a issue of concern in making information and communication technologies useful and accessible.

Recommended Reading - "Root Shock"

Submitted by tvol on February 2, 2007 - 2:53pm
"Root Shock" is a book referenced several times by various organizers in Chicago. It analyzes the effects of gentrification on longstanding urban communities. Root Shock at AADL
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Technology Manager opportunity -- based in NYC

I'm a 2004 SI / CIC alum now working as a National Circuit Rider for LawHelp.org / Probono.net. We're looking for a Technology Manager based in our New York offices. This is a senior staff position and is ideal for someone who wants to combine his/her technology and business experience with an important social cause – increasing access to justice for the most vulnerable people in society through the innovative use of technology. This position will play a key role in a major New Business Initiatives grant from the Gates Foundation we received last year to seed the development of a new ASP platform to help law firms manage their in-house pro bono programs. Here's the job description: http://www.probono.net/link.cfm?6542 . Feel free to email me at elizk@umich.edu if you have any questions.

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Michael Walzer: background for in-class discussion

For those of you currently on campus, or those of you with a passion for civil society cognoscenti, I'm providing two links that ought to provide some background on Michael Walzer, author of "The Idea of Civil Society," which will be discussed in lecture this Friday, November 17th, 2005. First is an interview from the UNESCO Courier. It addresses some of Walzer's views on the intersections of race and identity politics with civil society:

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Inequality and Diversity

Submitted by jbaugh on October 25, 2005 - 12:50pm
Today's seminar will be led by student Brian Kerr The readings for today are Policy, Paradox, and Political Reason Thinking about Community Technology and
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This makes me sad

Submitted by Lev Rickards on October 8, 2005 - 2:29pm
There are 300,000 of my co-religionists in Iran. They make up the largest religious minority in that country. Education is incumbent upon Bahá’ís. We are expected to build our capacity as human beings, in service to building a better world. Here in the States, us CIC-ers are guaranteed access to education, pending certain institutional, classist, racist structures that (God willing) we can all work to dismantle. I know we all value the right to higher education, because we are all here in graduate school. My brothers and sisters in Iran are systematically denied that right:
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