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.

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 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.

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:

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

This - a longer writeup of a story I heard on NPR last week - refers to the lawsuit Keith Harper discussed last November.

Security of Indian trust computers at issue in new hearings
BY BILL MCALLISTER/MEDIANEWS GROUP

WASHINGTON A nine-year-old class-action lawsuit that has forced the
government to begin accounting for its mishandling of billions of
dollars in Indian Trust assets enters another critical phase this week.

Cleveland Digital Literacy Initiative Largest to Date in U.S.
Certiport IC3 Plays Key Role in City's Visionary Plan to Advance Worker Skills
full story here
CLEVELAND, May 3 /PRNewswire/ --

Certiport CEO, David Saedi, today joined Cleveland Mayor Jane L. Campbell at the Ashbury Computer Center in ribbon cutting ceremonies launching the city's initiative to offer technology training, financial literacy, and Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3 (R)) to 30,000 low-income residents over the next five years. IC3 was chosen as a measurement of success for the city's "Computer Learning in My Backyard (CLIMB)" program because of IC3's stature as a global standard for digital literacy, offering recipients a portable credential to distinguish themselves and to enter or advance in the workplace.