Association for Humanistic Psychology 325 Ninth Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415/626-2375 The 1983 annual conference of AHP is being planned around a networking theme conceived by Jessica Lipnack, Jeffrey Stamps (authors of Networking: A First Report and Directory), and others, to be held in Toronto in June 23-27, 1983. The title of the conference is Conscious Networking for Individual and Social Change. Other changes at AHP have brought to the organization new co-presidentselect, Rick Ingrasci and Peggy Taylor, who also write for and publish New Age Magazine. Citizens for Video Democracy PO Box 820 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Citizens for Video Democracy, headed by Duane Elgin, author of Voluntary Simplicity, is addressing the need to increase the knowledge content of mass media. They are presently distributing a petition to call upon national television networks and local stations to allocate one-third of prime-time hours to informational or socially relevant programming. Communitree Group 470 Castro Street, Suite 207-3002 San Francisco, CA 94114 415/861-TREE (voice communication) 415/861-6489 (computer communication) Dean Gengle, with Communi tree recently wrote to update us on Communitree's activities. Communitree offers telecommunications software that allows one to use a microcomputer to form computer mediated communication networks. Several networks have been formed using Communitree, including one in Berkeley which is of general interest (415/548-4683) and one with health information for the disabled (415/325-7tX!6) . Gengle also says that Communitree has been used by an Alaskan political candidate to set up a network among his supporters. Community Memory Project 916 Parker Street Berkeley, CA 94710 415/841-1114 Community Memory has released information about a new relational database system with word-processing facilities, which is being offered by Pacific Software Manufacturing Company, 2608 Eighth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 (415/540-0616). From royalties for licenses to use the software, Community Memory expects to develop a communty pilot project where people would be provided with access to a computer which used Sequiter to facilitate communication networks and information sharing. Peacenet Disarmament Resource Center 942 Market St., Rm. 708 San Francisco, CA 94102 415/495-0526 Peacenet is a group of people involved in using computers and tel~ommunications in the cause of peace. Program goals include developing computermediated communication networks and a database on peace and disarmament issues. Telecommunication Project Gay Press Association PO Box A, Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10011 212/242-6863 The Gay Press Association has launched a research project to determine the use and interest in computers and telecommunications among the Gay and Lesbian communities. The project will study such things as computerized conferencing, Gay information banks, public access to technology and information. Union for Democratic Communications Dept. of Radio-TV-Film Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 A national organization of communication researchers, media producers and activists. The group recently sponsored a conference with workshops on such topics as Political Economy of Telematics, Building Democratic Communication Theory, and Media Use in the Third World. PUBLICATIONS Delicate Bonds: The Global Semiconductor Industry Lenny Siegel Pacific Studies Center 867 W. Dana Street, #204 Mountain View, CA 94041 $2.00,1981 An important perspective on the growing electronic industry through examination of the nature of the worldwide semiconductor industry which includes use of cheap labor in many Third World countries for production of chips and other computer parts. Information Industry Market Place 1982 R.R. Bowker Box 1807 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 $37.50, 1982, 266 pp. A comprehensive directory to the information industry, including lists of information brokers, database publishers machine readable databases, telecommunication networks, library networks and consortia, online vendors, online user groups, reference books and periodicals. Page 5 RAIN Dec. 82/Jan . 83 Microcomputer Buyer's Guide Tony Webster Computer Reference Guide $27.00, 1981, 326 pp. We get a lot of requests at RAIN about how to research the buying of a microcomputer. Mostly the field changes so rapidly that the best guides are people who keep up on the technology. No buyer'S guide is going to be complete or up-to-date but this one gives it a good try. The first chapters provide basic descriptions about computers including discussions about hardware, software, peripheral devices, etc. The rest of the guide is a brand-by-brand discussion of different microcomputers on the market. Other Networks PO Box 14066 Philadelphia, PA, 19123 $15/year, quarterly. This is a good quality, low cost production. The editors know how to put together an interesting, well-rounded sampling of innovative communication networks. From the Alliance of Home Business Women to fanzine types (underground comix and fantasy magazine networks), Other Networks describes them all. There isn't any of the I-am-the-best-Networker-aroundstuff, or center of the mega-network in the sky, just simple service, connecting people to learn from one another. Reset: Notes on Alternate Infonnatics clo Mike McCullough 90 E. 7th St., #3A New York, NY 10009 An informal newsletter about computer and telecommunication grassroots ilctivities. Social uses of the new technology. They, along with the rest of us don't even know what to call it - informatics, telematics, compunication, or something. The most recent issue included a desCription of the Apple Computer Company Grants Program and news from a group called Informatics for the Third World, as well as a Sri Lanka microcomputer club. Uses of Computer and Communication Technologies by Grass-Roots Community Organizations Timothy Haight, Robert Rubinyi, Anna Lucia Zornosa Communication Arts Department University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 608/263-3921 Based on a survey conducted by Timothy Haight and colleagues, this is one of the first analyses of uses of computers among citizen action and communitybased organizations. It's just a start, mind you, but it can give you an idea of some of the political, managerial and technical issues community groups using computers are dealing with.
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