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Lead Sponsor

MacArthur Foundation

 

Additional Sponsorship byHumanity United

Rick and Darian Swig

OSI RockRose InstituteSee3 CommunicationsFotoVisionFORA.tvNingFlip VideoMotherJones

SSRI

Maneno

BAVC

Flock

BSR

 

Campus Co-Sponsors

CITRIS

Berkeley Center for New Media

2048 Project

Samuelson Clinic

IHRLC

GIF

WCSC

(List current as of March 26, 2009.)

Individuals and organizations interested in sponsoring The Soul of the New Machine can download our Sponsorship Benefits Sheet and Sponsorship Form for more information.



Conference Schedule

 

MONDAY, MAY 4th

8:30 - 9:30am Registration, Breakfast, Exhibit Hall Open

 

9:30 - 9:45am Welcome: Eric Stover, Human Rights Center

Opening Remarks: John Bracken, MacArthur Foundation

Conference Overview: Camille Crittenden, Human Rights Center
9:45 - 10:30am Opening Plenary Address: "From Mobilizing Shame Toward the Production of Space"
Trevor Paglen, author of Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
10:30 - 10:45am Break

Session I - 10:45am - 12:30pm

“Eye in the Sky”: Geographic Information Systems, Satellite Imagery, Data Security Human Rights in the Spotlight: Digital Photography and Video

Moderator: Patrick Vinck, Human Rights Center

Lars Bromley, Science & Human Rights Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Jhon Goes in Center, AlterNative Solution of the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation

Maggi Kelly, Geospatial Innovation Facility, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Melanie Light, Fotovision

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, WITNESS

Michael Hoffman, See3 Communications

Gilles Peress, Magnum Photos

Glenn Ruga, socialdocumentary.net

Workshop: Building a Global Grassroots Online
David Sasaki, Global Voices

12:30 - 1:30pm Lunch and Exhibit Hall

Session II - 1:30 - 3:15pm

Databases, Data Sharing and Data Security
Animating Human Rights: Games, Animation and Multimedia

Moderator: Hal Roberts, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Judith Dueck, HURIDOCS

Ahmed Motala, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Marek Tuszynski, Tactical Technology Collective

Moderator: Ken Goldberg, Berkeley Center for New Media

Alison Cornyn, Picture Projects

Andrew Schlussel, Ex’pression College

Suzanne Seggerman, Games for Change

Peggy Weil, Gone Gitmo, USC School of Cinematic Arts

 

Workshop: GPS Photography: How to monitor events using GPS, digital photography, and open-source mapping tools

Kevin Koy, Geospatial Innovation Facility

3:15 - 3:30pm

Break

 

3:30 - 5:15pm

Panel: Corporate Responsibility and Complicity

Moderator: Deirdre Mulligan, School of Information, UC Berkeley

Bennett Freeman, Calvert Investments

Leslie Harris, Center for Democracy and Technology

Dunstan Hope, Business for Social Responsibility

Colin Maclay, Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Michael Samway, Yahoo!

Nicole Wong, Google

5:15 - 6:00pm

Reception

 

6:00 - 7:00pm Keynote Speech - James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds and writer for The New Yorker

 

TUESDAY, MAY 5TH

8:30 - 9:00am Breakfast and Exhibit Hall

Session I - 9:00 - 10:45am

Forensic Investigations and New Methods and Technologies
Human Rights On and Off the Internet: Social Networking

Moderator: Eric Stover, Human Rights Center

Luis Fondebrider, Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team

Lance Gima, Alliance of Forensic Scientists

Ute Hofmeister, International Committee of the Red Cross

Thomas Parsons, International Commission on Missing Persons

Moderator: Susan Tenby, NetSquared

Mark Hanis, Genocide Intervention Network

Jason Rosenthal, Ning

Eric Volz, friendsofericvolz.com

 

Workshop: Data Visualization for Advocacy
Marek Tuszynski, Tactical Technology Collaborative

10:45 - 11:15am Break

Session II - 11:15 - 1:00pm

PDA's and Phones for Data Collection
Blogging Human Rights

Moderator: Phuong Pham, Human Rights Center

Ken Banks, Kiwanja.net

Rose Donna, DataDyne

Erik Hersman, Ushahidi

Robert Kirkpatrick, InSTEDD

Steve Wright, Salesforce Foundation

 

Moderator: Xiao Qiang, China Digital Times, UC Berkeley, School of Journalism,

Ron Bigler, Human Rights First

Kirk Boyd, 2048 Project, UC Berkeley

David Sasaki, Global Voices

 

Workshop: Second Life
Nonny de la Peña, Gone Gitmo
Susan Tenby, NetSquared
Bernhard Drax

1:00 - 2:00pm

Lunch and Exhibit Hall

 

2:00 - 4:00pm

Human Rights Media Advocacy: Leadership Panel

Moderator: Jay Harris, Mother Jones

Steve Daigneault, Amnesty International

Emma Daly, Human Rights Watch

Jacquelline Fuller, Google.org

Jonathan Hutson, Physicians for Human Rights

Brett Solomon, Avaaz

 

Workshop

Video Advocacy Training, Sam Gregory, WITNESS

 

4:00pm - 4:30pm

Closing Remarks and Mobile Challenge Award Presentation

 

Schedule current as of April 26, 2009.