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EVENTS ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: E-GOV holds a conference on Web-Enabling Government -- transforming traditional government operations to integrated, Internet-based environments for improved public sector accessibility, efficiency, and customer service.
AGENDA: Highlight:
12 noon - Delivering Online Citizen Services: A State CIO Perspective
Larry Singer, Former Chief Information Officer and Executive Director,
Georgia Technology Authority
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 1-703-876-5060
WEB ADDRESS: e-gov.com
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO holds its annual Legislative and Grassroots Mobilization conference.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. -Sen. Susan Collins, R-MA
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
12:30 p.m. - Civil Rights Luncheon
Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala.
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency --Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington,
DC
DATE: February 10, 2003
CONTACT: Diane Witiak or John Irvine, 202-639-6419;
WEB ADDRESS: afge.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION holds a legislative rally.
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Monica Epps, 202-467-2950
WEB ADDRESS: appanet.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Statesmen's Forum presents newly elected President Lucio Gutiérrez of Ecuador discussing his policies for addressing political, economic, social, and foreign policy challenges facing his country.
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS: csis.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program entitled Youth Explosion in Developing World Cities: Approaches to Reducing Poverty and Conflict in an Urban Age.
AGENDA: By 2030, it is estimated that over 60 percent of the world's population will live in cities, and that 60 percent of urban dwellers will be under the age of eighteen. Incorporating youth populations into local economies is therefore a necessity for the sustainability of cities in the developing world.
WHO: Speakers include:
Ann Van Dusen, Save the Children
Tarik Yousef, Georgetown University
Barney Cohen, National Academy of Sciences
Marc Sommers, Boston University
Sharon Morris, U.S. Agency for International Development
Amina Rasul, former USIP fellow
Steven Miller, International Labour Organization
Caroline Fawcett, American University
Ellen Brennan-Galvin, Yale University
Rosemary McCarney, Street Kids International
Clementine Fujimura, U.S. Naval Academy
Sarah Thomas de Benitez, International Children's Trust
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, fifth floor conference room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE holds a panel to discuss President Bush's tax cuts.
WHO: The speakers are:
Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel prize in economic science, 2001
Franco Modigliani, winner of the Nobel prize in economic science, 1985
Lawrence Klein, winner of the Nobel prize in economic science, 1980
Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, moderator
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Stephaan Harris, 202-775-0819
WEB ADDRESS: epinet.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE holds a briefing on a new 165-page report entitled "Chesapeake Futures: Choices for the 21st Century." Report, issued by the Chesapeake Bay Program's Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, details three scenarios, depending on choices made in the near future, for the nation's largest estuary.
WHO: The speakers are:
Donald F. Boesch, President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and report's principle author
John R. Greer, Assistant Director for Communications and Public Affairs,
Maryland Sea Grant College
Carl Hershner, Chair, Chesapeake Bay Program's Scientific and Technical
Advisory Committee
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: Edward R. Murrow Conference Room, National Press Club, 13th
Floor, 529 14th Street Northwest, Washington D.C.
CONTACT: 202-662-7095
WEB ADDRESS: seagrantnews.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES holds a news conference to discuss Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA 21) contains a total of $218 billion in new spending, including $175 billion for highways and $41 billion for transit.
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Tom Goodman, 202-942-4222
WEB ADDRESS: naoc.org
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds Bradley Lecture series discussing The Progress Paradox-- Life Gets Better and People Feel Worse featuring Gregg Easterbrook is a visiting fellow for economic studies at the Brookings Institution, as well as a senior editor for the New Republic and BeliefNet.com and a contributing editor for the Atlantic Monthly and the Washington Monthly.
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS: aei.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS holds a program discussing International Cooperation in the War on Terror.
WHO: The speakers are:
United States Attorney General John Ashcroft
Dick Thornburgh, Former United States Attorney General; former Governor of Pennsylvania
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Marieke Beeuwkes, 212-434-9716
WEB ADDRESS: cfr.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NORTHROP GRUMMAN holds a media briefing.
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Michelle Layman, 703-875-8411
WEB ADDRESS: northgrumm.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program entitled A Decade of Russian Regional Democracy: Of the Governors, by the Governors, for the Governors featuring Andrew Konitzer-Smirnov, Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, fifth floor conference room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB National Press Club Forums Committee & Newseum holds a program on anti-Americanism entitled Why They Hate Us: the Rise of Anti-Americanism Around the World.
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE AND COFFEEHOUSE presents Minatta Forna discussing and signing copies of The Devil That Danced On The Water: A Daughter's Quest which is a touching yet memoir of growing up in Sierra Leone immediately after independence.
DATE: February 10, 2003
LOCATION: Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politcs-prose.com
