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cpsr[e84,jmc]		Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

	Computers provide many opportunities for improving our society,
and it is part of the responsibility of computer professionals to
recognize these opportunities and help realize them.  Many organizations
that use computers tend to think mainly in terms of doing their old
activities more cheaply and with less skilled personnel.  They are
less likely to think creatively of how their employees, customers,
clients and students can benefit.  This is especially true of the
public sector and the semi-public sector, e.g. universities, where
the absence of competition and potential bankruptcy tolerates
complacency.

	Ideas about how computers can be used to improve society don't
have an adequate forum yet, and we think that an organization of computer
professionals devoted to recognizing these opportunities and
advocating them would be useful.  We might call such an organization
"Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility".