Update on Wed 5 pm: Talking Circle - President Clinton Demo]

[Evans Craig]

This is the issue we must address with the 'Digital Talking Circle.' As quoted
from Clinton's "REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT DIGITAL DIVIDE KICK-OFF":


> We will visit Shiprock, New Mexico, a small town in the Navajo
> Nation, to demonstrate the unique challenges faced by geographically
> remote Indian reservations. 


The Digital Talking Circle process page will be at:
http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/DTC.htm


Evans Craig



Frank Gilfeather wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> "Digital Talking Circle" - symbolically my guess is that we will pass the
> floor around the screen without jumping back to the modertor - so we need to
> pass the virtual right to speak from site to site - perhads west to east or
> something -  it will be agreed to on Sunday's call .  Ironically this is
> basically how the AG functions anyway.  We need to add this language and the
> context to the lore of the AG.  See we gained something already from this
> exercise.  Evan's extended description of a talking circle is at
> http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/DTC.htm.  Clinton will not participate but would
> look in on it in progress - our hope.
> 
> We are still organizing this and feel there is a home run if we pull it off.
> Neal Lane will be in NM with Clinton so we feel there is a good chance this
> will be seen by the President.
> 
> For Monday, we would like to have Larry and Dan if possible at NCSA, a group,
> yet identified at NSF at ACCESS/DC along with Phil, ANL of course, BU, UK,
> MHPCC, UNM of course .  We need to test on Sunday and stand by for a period on
> Monday.  Times will become better focused closer to Monday BUT I personnally
> fear time will overtake the President and he may miss Dine' altogether (Dine'
> is the third stop on his 2.5 hr visit.).  NSF has not been notified so I am
> including Elbert.
> 
> Currently we may set up in the visz lab where the president may go (this
> depends on Neal Lane getting Clinton from the lobby to the visz room) to see a
> PicTel demo by Livermore The idea is to still do the talking circle from the
> visz lab.  I note that the two other demos the president may see are PicTel -
> so if we can pull it off it is a big step foreward for the Alliance AG
> program.  Lane is aware that the current agenda has the president in the lobby
> of Dine' only and that he wants to take Clinton to the visz lab.
> 
> Everyone on site - the Navajo group (represented by Al Kuslikis)and the UNM
> group are working hard - other agencies are joining in.  Bill and our team(s)
> here  have been doing tremoundous things.  We are greatly indebted to many of
> committed folks.
> 
> Frank
> 
> A web site with a reference to the trip is
> http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/4/5/10.text.1
> 
> PS
> 
> Unfortunately i will probably not be present as a family health matter takes
> presidence.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bill Nickless wrote:
> 
> > At 09:09 PM 4/11/2000 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
> > >There is a plan in the works to use the AG in a Digital Talking Circle
> > >with President Clinton, president of Dine' college, Frank G, Rick, Larry,
> > >Dan Reed, folks at ACCESS-DC.
> >
> > Excerpted from http://www.uccan.org/global/interfaith01.htm#5 we read:
> >
> > >5. Talking Circles
> > >The initial challenge in interfaith work is how to establish trust.
> > >Without trust, conversation soon grinds to a halt. How the conversation is
> > >conducted reflects power structures. A guest speaker is still a guest, one
> > >voice among many. How do we break out of the Western Christian model of
> > >conversation? Asked another way, the question becomes "How should we meet
> > >each other?" When this question was posed to Aboriginal communities, the
> > >response was the talking circle. In the talking circle, a sacred emblem is
> > >passed from person to person, and the holder bears the right to speak
> > >without interruption. In such a way, the voices of all those present are
> > >honoured.
> > >·       The talking circle takes time, which may at first be perceived as
> > >a limitation but is actually a strength. It is a model based on completion
> > >and respect, rather than reliance on "authoritative" perspectives.
> >
> > For context, the source of the quotation is the United Church of Canada.
> >
> > I don't know how a Digital Talking Circle would operate on Monday.
> > ===
> > Bill Nickless    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless      +1 630 252 7390
> >
> > PGP:0E 0F 16 80 C5 B1 69 52 E1 44 1A A5 0E 1B 74 F7     nickless at mcs.anl.gov
> 
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