NYC Grassroots Media: We these connections and strategies and work together to demand a media system that will link our diverse communities, connect local and international struggles, and fight for social justice across boundaries and beyond borders. Feb 24, NYC
Beyond Broadcast: For 50 years broadcast media have played a powerful role in shaping political culture and mediating citizen engagement in the democratic process. Now a participatory culture is putting the tools of media creation and critique in the hands of citizens themselves. Feb 24, Boston
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Freedom to Connect: F2C is a meeting of people engaged with Internet connectivity and all that it enables, including vendors, customers, regulators, legislators, analysts, financiers, citizens and co-creators. This year, the theme of F2C is how universal connectivity and the plunging capital requirements of information production are changing our fundamental economic and social assumptions. March 5 & 6, 2007, Washington DC
International Computer Refurbisher Summit : This is a great conference for anyone interested in computer repair, receiving equipment for your CTC or students, and meeting refurbishers from around the world who provide equipment to NPOs, NGOs, and underserved communities.March 9, Washington DC
Women, Action & the Media: the Center for New Words is hosting the fourth annual Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) conference, more than 400 participants for a weekend of exchanging our observations, ideas, experiences, opinions, and tools for change—and planning together for action. March 30-April 1st, Cambridge MA (MIT)
Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTEN), April 4-6, Washington DC
Intel Computer Clubhouse International Conference, April 23-25, Chicago
Allied Media Conference The Allied Media Conference is an annual, weekend-long gathering of influential alternative media-makers and committed social justice activists, a unique cross-section of media workers, community organizers, daring filmmakers, ambitious radio producers, serious publishers, skilled web designers, and artists whose work makes revolution irresistible. This year's theme focuses on participatory media that transforms the producer and receiver, "Breaking Silence, Building Movements." June 22-24, 2007, Detroit
Communities and Technology: The Communities and Technologies biennial international conference serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities - both physical and virtual - and information and communication technologies. June 28-30, 2007, Michigan State University
Alliance for Community Media A nonprofit, national membership organization founded in 1976, the Alliance represents over 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access organizations and community media centers throughout the country. It also represents the interests of millions of people who, through their local religious, community and charitable groups, use PEG access to communicate with their memberships and the community as a whole. July 25-28, 2007, Minneapolis, MN
NAMAC: brings together creators, thinkers, policy makers, administrators and funders to hear the most current thinking about the field’s future opportunities, to create a national platform for the media arts, and to strengthen our networks.Oct 17-20, 2007, Austin, TX
National Conference on Media Reform
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External Lists
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Tech Soup: http://www.techsoup.org/community/events/index.cfm