Carl Davidson

Carl Davidson is a public speaker and writer, currently a field organizer and web site editor for the Solidarity Economy Network, ussen.org, 'Progressives for Obama', and Western PA Peace Action. When not on the road, he resides in Beaver County, PA, near Pittsburgh and Wheeling, West Virginia.

Davidson was a founder of Networking for Democracy, a group of grassroots activists working for the past 12 years around the digital divide and other issues raised by the impact of technology on society. He taught computer repair to low-income women, prisoners, ex-offenders, and inner city youth in community technology centers, high schools and after-school programs. He was also a leader in Chicago's peace movement over many years.

He is also the school technology specialist for the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois in Chicago and has worked as a part-time computer science instructor at Jones College Prep High School, the YWCA Women’s Literacy Program and Malcolm X College in Chicago.

Carl was a three-year national board member of CTCNET, a nationwide federation of 1500 community technology centers, and a founder of CTCNET-Chicago. He is also a board member of the Prison Action Committee, and a current national committee member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.

From 1961 to 1967, Carl studied philosophy at Penn State University and the University of Nebraska. In those years, he was a freedom marcher in Mississippi and a national leader of the Students for a Democratic Society.

In the past 15 years, Carl owned a small computer consultancy specializing in the information technology needs of trade unions, nonprofits and public interest groups. He is the managing editor of cy.Rev: A Journal of Cybernetic Revolution, produced by the Chicago Third Wave Study Group.
His work is available for review at www.carldavidson.blogspot.com