Hi All - some on this list might be interested in this upcoming event.<br><br><br>A N N O U N C E M E N T<br>
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Economies of the Commons 2<br>
Paying the costs of making things free<br>
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International conference, seminar and public evening programs<br>
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Amsterdam & Hilversum<br>
November 11 ? 13, 2010<br>
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Economies of the Commons 2 is a critical examination of the economics
of on-line public domain and open access resources of information,
knowledge, and media (the ?digital commons?). The past 10 years have
seen the rise of a variety of such open content resources attracting
millions of users, sometimes on a daily basis. The impact of projects
such as Wikipedia, Images of the Future, and Europeana testify to the
vibrancy of the new digital public domain. No longer left to the
exclusive domains of digital ?insiders?, open content resources are
rapidly becoming widely used and highly popular.<br>
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While protagonists of open content praise its low-cost accessibility and
collaborative structures, critics claim it undermines the established
?gate keeping? functions of authors, the academy, and professional
institutions while lacking a reliable business model of its own.
Economies of the Commons 2 provides a timely and crucial analysis of
sustainable economic models that can promote and safeguard the online
public domain. We want to find out what the new hybrid solutions are for
archiving, access and reuse of on-line content that can both create
viable markets and serve the public interest in a competitive global
21st century information economy.<br>
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Economies of the Commons 2 consists of an international seminar on Open
Video hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on
November 11 in Hilversum, a two day international conference and two
public evening programs on November 12 and 13 at De Balie, centre for
culture and politics in Amsterdam. The event builds upon the successful
Economies of the Commons conference organised in April 2008.<br>
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Confirmed speakers include:<br>
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Charlotte Hess (Syracuse University - Keynote), Ben Moskowitz (Open
Video Alliance), Simona Levi (Free Culture Forum), Bas Savenije (Royal
Library The Hague), Michael Edson (Smithsonian Commons), Yann Moulier
Boutang (Multitudes), Peter B. Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Harry
Verwayen (Europeana), James Boyle (Duke University), Rufus Pollock (Open
Knowledge Foundation), Jeff Ubois (DTN), Sandra Fauconnier (NIMK),
Volker Grassmuck (USP Sao Paulo), Dymitri Kleiner (Telekommunisten),
Jaromil (NIMK Artlab), Marco Sachy (Erasmus University Rotterdam),
Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne University), Dolf Veenvliet (Blender),
Michael Dale (Open Media for Wikipedia), Lucie Guibault (University of
Amsterdam), a.o.<br>
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Organisers:<br>
Images for the Future Consortium / Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision / De Balie / Institute of Network Cultures University of
Amsterdam, Department of New Media<br>
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For detailed program information check our website:<br>
<a href="http://www.ecommons.eu/" target="_blank">www.ecommons.eu</a><br>
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<br clear="all">Nate Tkacz <br><br>School of Culture and Communication<br>University of Melbourne<br><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/__nate__" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/__nate__</a><br>Homepage: <a href="http://www.nathanieltkacz.net" target="_blank">www.nathanieltkacz.net</a><br>
Current project: <a href="http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/" target="_blank">http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/</a><br>