BENEDIKT HˇRLIN MEP T h e y h a v e ~ h e k now h o~
    
    but do they have the know-why?'
    
         Reeort on the meeting of 'computer freaks' or~anized by GRAEL
    
                       on 7 and 8 March 1985 in Brussels
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    1. A'ms
    
    To bring together experts and practitioners involved in the use of
    
    computers in grass-roots organizations and Green/alternative parties
    in corope;
    
    Dissemination of information on Community and EP data management and
    consideration of its possibLe use for our members;
    
    Report and discossion on various projects in~ol~ing the use of the new
    mPdia to collect, manage and exchange information;
    
    Consideration of possible areas for cooperation.
    
    . Particieants
    
    Some 30 people from West Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium,
    the Netherlands and Denmark (see List of participants), brought together
    by chance and personal acquaintanceship and representing parties and
    organizations, computer specialists from various cooperatives, alternative
    projects and their associations and independent Leitwingers, whose work
    ;nvolves computers and who are interested in using this knowledge in other
    areas. As opinlon formers and people famiLiar with the national tscene'
    in the v~iriou; countries they wouid be welL able to form the core of an
    alternative computer network in Europe.
    
    3. Pro~ramme
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    As ~xpected, a relativeLy large amount of time was taken up with introductions
    and short presentations of individual projects. The following uses of
    computers were among those cliscassed:
    
    Administration' both by parties for members and finances and business
    
    accounting.
    In the parties this purely organizational, conventional use of EDP is
    either being introduced or has aiready been in operation for one or-two
    years.
    
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