Conference on "The Digital Age" and Its New Challenges Set for April 4-5 at Brandeis
MASSCAP and the Asset Development Institute of the Center on Hunger and Poverty at the Heller School, Brandeis University, will present a major conference on April 4-5, 2002 at Brandeis in Waltham, Massachusetts. The conference's focus will be the challenges of the Digital Age for low-income people, community action agencies, and other community-based organizations. It will examine different impacts of information technology (IT) on the economy, social issues, low-income people, and organizations.
Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary and Brandeis professor, along with Mel King, formerly MIT professor and state legislator, and now spearheading the Technology Center at Tent City in Boston, headline the speakers.
This event is not a conference just for "techies"--it primarily is designed for those interested in: public policy; the role of IT in organizational management and development; community-based efforts to close the digital divide; and IT education and training at community-based organizations. The issues to be covered at the conference are among those that will affect the future of many community-based nonprofits--as well as prospects for low-income people to attain economic self-sufficiency in the emerging Digital Age.
The event will feature 20 workshops with expert panelists on a wide range of issues related to conference themes. An exhibitors' hall is being organized. And candidates for Massachusetts Governor have been invited to speak on the themes of the conference.
The event is presented with the support of the America Connects Consortium and is underwritten in part by the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development.
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