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Posted: 2008-10-01 Video duration : 22 minutes 49 seconds
David Wiley: iSummit '08 Keynote Address
Open Content: The first decade Read more…
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Posted: 2008-09-19 Video duration : 11 minutes 12 seconds
Erin McKean: iSummit '08 Keynote Address
Language as a Commons Read more…
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Posted: 2008-09-15 Video duration : 22 minutes 17 seconds
Adam Haupt: iSummit '08 Keynote Address
"Enclosing the Commons - for Dummies: Creativity, citizenship and media ownership" In his address, Haupt argues that legal threats issued by SAB Miller and Wiley Publishing to culture jammers Laugh It Off Media and Mail & Guardian Online, respectively, provide important perspectives on democracy and commons enclosure. Both the Wiley "for Dummies" and SAB Miller "Black Labour White Guilt" cases offer insights into corporations' tendencies to employ narrow understandings of IP to protect their own interests - often at the expense of the public interest. However, we should be wary of reducing both media incidents to 'David and Goliath' struggles. The story of commons enclosure and limitations on free speech is not always as dramatic. Media ownership offers one example of the ways in which democracy is perverted and the South African media landscape is no exception in this regard. Read more…
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Posted: 2008-09-15 Video duration : 16 minutes 4 seconds
Jessica Powell: iSummit '08 Keynote Address
"Building connections in the Literacy Community" Many believe that the Internet can play an important role in promoting literacy and education efforts worldwide. It was with that aim that Google, LitCam, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning launched The Literacy Project, which provides a platform through which literacy organisations and teachers can connect and share best practices, tools, and information. This talk will look at the promotion of best practice sharing through the site, as well as address some of the challenges faced across this field, including Internet connectivity, new media literacy, and cultural and language differences. Read more…
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Posted: 2008-09-12 Video duration : 17 minutes 44 seconds
Rishab Ghosh: iSummit 08 Keynote Address
Collaborative Creativity and The Test of Time: Innovation as a product of an ivory tower of individual ownership is not so much a thing of the past as an obsolescence. Many minds sharing freely solve problems faster. Read more…
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Posted: 2008-09-12 Video duration : 20 minutes 20 seconds
Rebecca MacKinnon: iSummit '08 Keynote Speaker
Free Culture and Free Speech: Why strong and vibrant free culture communities are important for freedom of expression: In the democracies of today freedom of expression is often taken for granted when it is particularly fragile. It is a right that needs to be continually exercised, because if it isn't, the space that society provides for it shrinks until the next time someone exercises that right. The communities that subscribe to the ethos of the Commons are important actors in the creation of the space for free expression. Read more…
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Posted: 2008-09-10 Video duration : 22 minutes 35 seconds
David Bollier: iSummit '08 Keynote Address
Social Movements on the Commons: The Commons is one of many social movements active in the world today. Many of them share characteristics with the Commons, but there are significant differences. What can the Commons learn from other social movements and vice versa? Is there a more effective way of doing things and has someone been doing it for ages without the Commons noticing? Read more…
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Posted: 2008-08-22 Video duration : 1 minute 50 seconds
DIY Video Track
Some video clips taken at the DIY Track during the iSummit (recorded on a Nokia mobile phone) Read more…
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