It’s Time for the Compassion Games!

Join SiVIC and other community groups in a coopetition* to turn Silicon Valley into Compassionate Silicon Valley!
*cooperative competition

Compassion Games 2016SiVIC is participating in our second annual “Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest Coopetition”  from September 11th to September 21st, the Days of Global Unity. We invite you to help us challenge and inspire our neighbors to make our community a safer, kinder, more just, and better place to live!

The Compassion Games calls all people from all sectors and all parts of our world to share the vision of justice and equality, and collaborate to create a more connected, caring community. Together as engaged citizens, we can strengthen what’s already working in our communities, and produce a collective impact that is greater than the work each of us, or any one of our organizations, can produce individually.

This year, SiVIC and Compassionate Silicon Valley are embarking on a campaign to have Santa Clara County and all Cities in the County (Silicon Valley) affirm and sign the Charter For Compassion and thereby earn the status of “Compassionate Silicon Valley”, joining many areas of the world who have affirmed the Charter and adopted compassionate policies.

We urge you to personally sign the Charter and the petition to your city/county officials, urging them to affirm and sign the Charter. The Petition form provides the details about the Charter. Please click on this petition link and fill the form which will be your electronic signature.

Check our Compassionate Silicon Valley page for more information on how you and your community can take part, and see the listing of opportunities to participate.

Rethinking Technology as if People Matter

A symposium exploring the effects of the Digital Revolution. A distinguished panel of technologists, writers and Silicon Valley luminaries will explore the effects of the Digital Revolution on people at home, at work, at school and on the road.

Panelists include:

  • Tom Foremski, Editor, Silicon Valley Watcher
  • Nina Horne, Public Policy, City of Oakland
  • Tapan Parikh, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Information
  • Richard Whitaker, Editor, Conversations.org
  • Panel Facilitator: Tom Mahon, Author and Forty-year Silicon Valley Veteran

Sponsored by Interfaith Center at the Presidio in association with AHIMSA, ServiceSpace and the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery.