Conference 7.286::digital

2297.0. "Comment to Clinton Admin. on Computing?" by UGETIT::ATKINSON () Mon Dec 28 1992 10:11

	Recieved this in from Internet and thought someone out there 
	might wish to comment to Clinton Administration on Computing.

From:	DECWRL::"[email protected]" 21-DEC-1992 20:21:43.11
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Subj:	CPSR Newsletters solicits suggestions for Clinton Admin. (from [email protected])

Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:58:59 -0800 (PST)
From: [email protected] (Mark Boolootian)
To: [email protected]
Subject: CPSR Newsletters solicits suggestions for Clinton Admin.

        PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS WHEREVER YOU FEEL IT IS APPROPRIATE
               BUT ONLY WHERE YOU FEEL IT IS APPROPRIATE
 
       AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT COMPUTING IN THE FUTURE
 
 This is Gary Chapman, director of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, office
 of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.  I edit The CPSR
 Newsletter, a quarterly publication that goes to all CPSR members and
 about 400 other people, including a lot of policymakers, members of
 Congress, administration officials, etc.
 
 We're going to try something unusual for the next CPSR Newsletter, and
 I'm putting out a call for help.  We're going to publish a special issue
  on "What the Clinton Administration Can Do For The Computing Profession
  and the Public."  I'm sending out this message to ask people to send me
  SHORT contributions to this issue, just brief comments about what the
 new administration can do to help support computing in the United
 States, or perhaps the world.
 
 Here are a few basic guidelines for these submissions:
 
 1.  SHORT MEANS SHORT -- In order to publish as many of these as we can,
  we need to keep each contribution to about 100-150 words, max, one or
 two paragraphs.  In fact, anything longer will probably be eliminated
 out of fairness to others.
 
 2.  YOU MUST IDENTIFY YOURSELF -- Again, briefly, with just your name
 and one line that says something about you, such as Joe Blow or Sally
 Smith, Programmer, BillyBob Corporation, or Centerville, Ohio, or
 something like that, whatever you prefer.
 
 3.  ADDRESS ISSUES OF PUBLIC POLICY -- In order to make these
 contributions relevant to the Clinton administration, they should
 concern issues about which government can or should do something, or
 stop doing, whatever.  These include major issues such as privacy,
 access to information, computer networks like the Internet or NREN, R&D
 priorities, equitable access to computers, intellectual property,
 defense policy, risks to the public, etc.  We're not really interested
 in contributions that are self-serving, parochial, excessively arcane or
  trivial, belligerently and unconstructively critical, and so on.  We
 will favor messages that discuss the intersection of computing and major
  issues of concern to the public at large.
 
 4.  PLEASE INCLUDE A WORKABLE E-MAIL ADDRESS -- In case I have to get
 back to you about the text.  We won't publish e-mail addresses, I
 promise.
 
 5.  GET ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ME BY JANUARY 15, 1993.  My e-mail address
 is [email protected].
 
 This is not limited to people in the United States, although overseas
 contributors will have to make a case for what the Clinton
 administration should do to help international computing -- the focus
 will be on U.S. government  policy.
 
 We're going to try and get this issue into the hands of the key players
 on computing and high tech policy in the new administration.  For the
 most part we already know who those people are, and we're talking to
 them about the issues that CPSR is working on.  This newsletter will
 give them a good impression, we hope, of the concerns of the computing
 profession and people who use computer networks.  Consider this an
 opportunity for a kind of "hard copy" town hall.
 
 Thanks for your help!  Get those messages coming!
 
 Gary Chapman
 Coordinator
 The 21st Century Project
 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
 Cambridge, MA
 [email protected]
 


-- 
Mark Boolootian		[email protected]		+1 510 423 1948
Disclaimer:  My fingers type for me alone.


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From:	DECWRL::"[email protected]" "Gary Chapman" 28-DEC-1992 11:50:42.98
To:	elwood::lane
CC:	
Subj:	Re:  CPSR Newsletter material


Thanks for your interest in Computer Professionals for Social 
Responsibility.  CPSR is the nation's only public interest organization 
for computer professionals and citizens interested in responsible 
computing.  The organization is about ten years old.  There are three 
staffed offices: the headquarters in Palo Alto, California; an office in
 Washington, D.C., and one in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  CPSR also has 
about twenty chapters around the United States that carry on their own 
activities.  

CPSR is supported by tax deductible contributions and membership dues.  
The dues are $50 for a basic, one-year membership; $75 for a regular, 
professional membership; and there are other categories of membership 
including a $1,000 lifetime membership.  Although you can participate in
 CPSR without paying dues or contributing financially, the organization 
does run on the contributions of members and friends -- without 
financial support, CPSR obviously wouldn't exist.  Please consider 
supporting the organization with whatever you can afford. 

Membership in CPSR gets you a subscription to the highly regarded CPSR 
Newsletter, which is published quarterly, and discounts to CPSR events, 
such as the several conferences that the organization sponsors each 
year.  The CPSR Newsletter is more than just a promotional vehicle for 
the organization, like many other nonprofit newsletters.  It is a 
substantial collection of serious articles on public policy issues 
facing the computing profession and the public -- each issue averages 
about twenty-four pages. 

Membership information and summaries of CPSR activities can be found on 
the archive of CPSR's list server.  Information about the list server 
appears below.  If you have any questions about CPSR, please call the 
CPSR National Office in Palo Alto at (415) 322-3778.

     ------------------------------------------------------------

The following is information on the list server for Computer 
Professionals for Social Responsibility.  General information about CPSR
 can be acquired through CPSR's archive, and so can a membership 
application.  The instructions for accessing the archive follow these 
instructions about how to subscribe to the list server.  

CPSR has set up a list server to (1) archive CPSR-related materials and 
make them available on request, and (2) disseminate relatively official,
 short, CPSR-related announcements (e.g., press releases, conference 
announcements, and project updates).  It is accessible via Internet and 
Bitnet e-mail. Mail traffic will be light; the list is set up so that 
only the CPSR Board and staff can post to it.  Because it is 
self-subscribing, it easily makes material available to a wide audience.
 

We encourage you to subscribe to the list server and publicize it 
widely, to anyone interested in CPSR's areas of work.

To subscribe, send mail to:

        [email protected] (Internet) OR
        listserv@gwuvm (Bitnet)

Your message needs to contain only one line:

        subscribe cpsr <your first name> <your last name>

You will get a message that confirms your subscription.  The message 
also explains how to use the list server to request archived materials 
(including an index of everything in CPSR's archive), and how to request
 more information about the list server. 

Please send any CPSR queries to [email protected].

If you have a problem with the list server, please contact the 
administrator:

        Paul Hyland ([email protected] or phyland@gwuvm). 


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Meeting notices of the Boston chapter of the CPSR are posted in topic 10 of
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