Social & Economic Justice

This category deals with issues of inequality, diversity, identity and power within communities.

SI Hosts MCRI Panel: Pat Gurin, Mick McQuaid, and Bob Frost, 11/3/06, 11:20-1pm, 411 West Hall

SI invites you to a very special event this Friday, November 3 @ 11:20-1pm, in 411 West Hall. We are hosting Pat Gurin (expert witness in the University of Michigan’s defense of its undergraduate and law school admissions policies), and School of Information faculty Mick McQuaid and Bob Frost on a panel discussing the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative in an information context. Please come and ask questions!!! Lunch is provided.

Labortech 2006 conference, Nov 17-19, San Francisco CA

Join trade unionists, educators and workers from the US and around the world as they debate, discuss and learn about new communication technology and the development of a labor media movement.

LaborTech.net which has had conferences since 1990 brings together labor video, computer, labor media activists and labor educators to advance knowledge and use of the the internet and multi-media by working people.

[JOB] US/IL/Chicago: Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Systems Administrator


Job Announcement
Computer System Administrator
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (Shriver Center) is seeking qualified applicants for a full-time position as Computer System Administrator.

The Shriver Center is a nonprofit organization that serves as a national resource, champions law and policy, to promote equal opportunity and support for low-income individuals, families, and communities so that they can escape poverty permanently. The Shriver Center takes action to end poverty. From idea to law to practice to monitoring, we work to overcome the myriad issues that combine to cause poverty.

Reuters Digital Vision Program

Announcement 
The Reuters Digital Vision Program (RDVP) at Stanford University is accepting applications for the 2006-07 academic year (September 2006 - June 2007). The deadline is April 3, 2006. Fellowships will be awarded at the end of May, 2006.
 
The Program
 
The Digital Vision Program supports social entrepreneurs who seek to leverage technology-based solutions in the interest of humanitarian, educational, and sustainable development goals. The Program fosters interdisciplinary projects and prototyping efforts that address real needs in underserved communities. For the 2006-07 academic year, the program will focus on the following broad categories:

Agenda for Class 07 - 10/21

Guest speaker: Michael Gordon, Associate Dean of IT/Professor, Ross School of Business
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