<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Lisa Schirch</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:lschirch@nd.edu" target="_blank">lschirch@nd.edu</a>></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 12:20 PM<br>Subject: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion<br>To: <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Merle Lefkoff</span><br></div><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Dear Colleagues,<br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><p class="MsoNormal">I am pleased to invite you to the <b>Designing Tech for Social Cohesion Conference on 23-25 February 2023 at San Francisco's Fisherman’s Wharf. </b> This conference is bringing together tech innovators, tech critics, and the peacebuilding community to explore new tech platforms useful to building social cohesion, including individual agency to participate in civic life, building bridges between divided groups, and supporting citizens in relating to governing institutions.</p><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Click here for the </span><a href="https://techandsocialcohesion.org/conference/" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">Full Conference Agenda</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. And </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-tech-for-social-cohesion-tickets-473427643827" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">click here to register.</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Please pass on this invitation to your networks. </p><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><u></u><div style="margin:0;padding:0;min-width:100%;background-color:#ffffff;line-height:1.6"><div style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#ffffff;line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden">Join us to explore a new generation of tech products that offer affordances and algorithms that promote prosocial content.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌</div><div style="color:transparent;opacity:0;font-size:0px;border:0;max-height:1px;width:1px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px!important;display:none!important;line-height:0px!important"><img src="https://default.salsalabs.org/X7e7fd53d-c2c3-4e99-bf4d-caca77659fd4/4d84db72-958c-40ab-975a-2bf3bcbebae6"> </div><center style="width:100%;table-layout:fixed"><table id="m_393121645264465445m_-6426928632071897641m_2595419454162503058m_4222428161674492208sli-background" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td id="m_393121645264465445m_-6426928632071897641m_2595419454162503058m_4222428161674492208sli" style="max-width:960px;margin:0px auto;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0em;width:960px"><table style="max-width:960px;margin:0 auto;width:100%;line-height:1.6;border-width:0;padding:0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr id="m_393121645264465445m_-6426928632071897641m_2595419454162503058m_4222428161674492208id_e29cdd14-b5ba-41b4-968a-2bc187b067a1" style="border-width:0;padding:0"><td style="overflow:auto;margin:1em 0;border-color:#000000;border-width:0px;border-style:none;border-radius:0px;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center;background-size:cover"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><div><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3" face="Arial" color="#6eaddc"><br></font></p><br></div></b><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.<br>Center for Emergent Diplomacy<br><a href="http://emergentdiplomacy.org" target="_blank">emergentdiplomacy.org</a></div><div>Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA</div><div></div><div><br>mobile:  (303) 859-5609<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>