Please join us on April 21, 2005 for a stimulating and significant day hosted by the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University. The School of Law is supporting the conference and law alumni are encouraged to attend and participate.
The Center is hosting an international conference sponsored by Applied Materials and Hewlett-Packard, which will bring together leaders from academia, business, government and non-governmental organizations to explore how to take the digital revolution to the next step. The information infrastructure is creating the vast database of the Internet, but while knowledge is ubiquitous, only a small fraction has become globally available. We lack an institutional base. How can we equitably share knowledge to address social and environmental issues and promote social justice?
Business leaders addressing these critical issues include James Morgan, Chairman of Applied Materials, Howard Charney, Senior Vice President of Cisco Systems, Brooke Partridge, Director of Market and Business Development for Hewlett-Packard, and James Spohrer, Director of IBM’s Almaden Research Center. Joining in the discussions from leading universities will be Calestous Juma, Harvard University, Paul David, Stanford University, Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago, and John King from the University of Michigan. The international perspective will be provided by Karen Delgadillo from Ecuador, Raoul Weiler from UNESCO in Paris and the Club of Rome, Pedro Hepp from Chile, and Roberto Verzola, from the Philippines. Santa Clara University President Paul Locatelli, S.J. will open the conference, Center Executive Director Geoffrey Bowker will set the context and moderate the panels, and John Seely Brown will offer closing remarks.
This event is being held in the Mayer Theatre on the Santa Clara University campus. Learn more and register for the conference at http://www.scu.edu/sts/2005-International-Conference.cfm
