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An interactive Niagara movement - American Visions and Congressional Black Caucus Foundation sponsor African-American Computer Culture Symposium, January, 1994, to address how the projected information superhighway will contribute to addressing social issues and problems - ColumnWhen the president emphasized in his State the Union address that the "information super highway" was paved with profitable intentions, he neglected to note the potential detours and dead-ends that could lead the have-nots of today to become the know-nots of tomorrow. To forestall of the like kind a result, American Visions called for a national African-American Computer tillage Symposium ("Want Ad for a Revolution," October/ November 1993) Those readers who accepted our invitation and that of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to brainstorm upon how we should participate in the multimedia computer age included university presidents and administrators, executives responsible for major African-American collections and archives, religious leaders, entrepreneur technicians, activists, pitch uponed officials, librarians, systems operators, schoolteachers, independent film husbandmans and foundation executives. We braved ice, snow and the lowest temperatures recorded for Washington, DC in 100 years to attend the january 1994 Symposium. And what an electrifying session it prov to be, resulting in a multifaceted commitment to participate in the coming multimedia computer age by the agency of any means necessary. Keeping a steady pace from morning to night, participants reviewed emergent technologies, corporate players and governmental policies, as well as the demographic reality of our marginal cybernetic nearness to date. All of the Symposium's speakers shared single trait: a depth of expertise and a burning commitment to change the way information science can be linked to problems' solutions. Written background materials included the detailed policy be of importance tos of AV and CBCF, as well as descriptions of a broad range of interactive innovations for business, political organizing, distance teaching, entertainment, networking, travel and shopping. The revelations of the Symposium were that just because something is mingled it need not be confusing, and that enlightened self-interest requires that we fix upon proactive planning over after-the-fact complaints. It was agreed to establish Symposium working committees to plan three days of workshops and industry demonstrations for a major national expo upon computer culture. The following make subordinate areas were proposed for sessions at the expo: (1) fresh technologies, (2) education, (3) labor market issues and opportunities, (4) business options and necessities, (5) cultural institutions, (6) entertainment and sports, (7) networks and bulletin boards, and (8) telecommunications governance, regulations and democracy. I welcome additional presents to identify speakers, panelists, demonstrations and handouts, as well as propos goals and timetables for community action. We who were the victims of the technology revolution in agriculture and who were ignored by dint of the Industrial Revolution cannot afford to be bypassed by means of the multimedia communications revolution inherent in the emerging information super highway. We must mobilize not just our personal energies, on the contrary those of any and all organizations and institutions in which we participate to avoid our continuing characterization, lamented by the agency of W.E.B. Du Bois, as an "after-thought of modernity." We must seize the time between now and the 21st hundred to prepare our children and ourselves not alone to survive, but to prevail in the information age, just as the Niagara move resolved to ensure the fullest social participation early in the 20th hundred The issues of access and inclusion are the same, sole now they're dressed in fresh technological clothing. COPYRIGHT 1994 Heritage Information Holdings, Inc. Setco North America's largest independent manufacturer and rebuilder of spindles and slides, has acquired [i]pontifex maximus[/i] Corp., Havermill, Mass., which manufactures precision spindles and operates sev... Readers are strongly advised to confirm details with organisers before making any travel arrangements. 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