Just received this very interesting event notice about a "City of Knowledge" conference taking place in various locations all over Brazil this coming Tuesday, August 28:
On Tuesday, August 28, 2007, groups from Brazil, the United
States and France
will join together in Second Life to celebrate knowledge sharing from around the
world with simulcast events from major campuses in Brazil. The conference will
highlight the spread of new knowledge networks and discuss the beginning of a
new economy that values global collaboration and sharing of knowledge.The project celebrates the seventh
anniversary of the City of Knowledge, a
networking program established at the Institute
of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo
and now hosted by its Department of Film, Radio and TV of the School of Communication
and Arts. Participating groups in Brazil
come from the Catholic University of Sâo Paulo, Mackenzie
University, University of Brasilia,
and the Casper Líbero School of Journalism. The USC
Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern
California, the Evergreen State College (Olympia,
USA), the digital art hub Le
Cube (France)
will participate as well as share technological infrastructure.
The conference takes place from 5AM-2PM PST at MLBR Mosaica 1 (teleport SLURL.) The complete message follows after the jump…
On Tuesday, August 28, 2007, groups from Brazil, the United
States and France
will join together in Second Life to celebrate knowledge sharing from around the
world with simulcast events from major campuses in Brazil. The conference will
highlight the spread of new knowledge networks and discuss the beginning of a
new economy that values global collaboration and sharing of knowledge.
The project celebrates the seventh
anniversary of the City of Knowledge, a
networking program established at the Institute
of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo
and now hosted by its Department of Film, Radio and TV of the School of Communication
and Arts. Participating groups in Brazil
come from the Catholic University of Sâo Paulo, Mackenzie
University, University of Brasilia,
and the Casper Líbero School of Journalism. The USC
Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern
California, the Evergreen State College (Olympia,
USA), the digital art hub Le
Cube (France)
will participate as well as share technological infrastructure.
The event will be hosted by the University of Southern
California Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School,
a joint research and professional training organization dedicated to furthering
the study and practice of international public diplomacy.
Of special note is a panel at 1 pm UTC (9
am SLT) on "Talents, Competencies, and Identities on the Internet," with Joshua
Fouts of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Carol-Ann Braun, who does digital
community and public art projects at Le Cube (France) and Jorge Bodanzky, a
documentarist who leads a digital emancipation project in the Amazon region.
Doug Schuler, a well-known social computing activist behind the Seattle
Community Network, will also explore language and action in new digital realms.
We will also be previewing "Digital Culture
and Development", a DVD with a collection of documentaries about digital
emancipation projects in Brazil, an interview with Brazil’s Minister of
Culture, Gilberto Gil, and a videoclip offered as a gift to Claude Lévi-Strauss
in 2005, when the City of Knowledge pioneered the production of mobile content
by local, underserved communities in the Center-West, North and Northeast of
Brazil.
Background on City of Knowledge 2.0
New communicative and cognitive rights
come to the fore as networks reflect civic intelligence and action geared by citizens
as well as companies and other innovative organizations. The emergence of new creative
commons is another example of capitalist development associated to the social appropriation
of digital networks in the Web 2.0.
The City of Knowledge 2.0 augments the
experience of collective knowledge creation and becomes a nonprofit public
interest territory in Second Life, functioning as an incubator of social,
educational, environmental and cultural projects and initiatives.
Individuals, organizations and even
nations which are incapable of creating and managing its icons and avatars will
not benefit from new social production forms.
Specific objectives of City of
Knowledge 2.0
- TO CREATE a new field of knowledge creation and communicative practices where
the information economy and the audiovisual arts converge for the benefit of
public interests, promoting income distribution and innovation in creative
industries; - TO ORGANIZE a pro bono space (collaborative, nonprofit, open and free) where
social entrepreneurship can be incubated through strategic management of knowledge,
copyright and technological innovation; -
TO DISTRIBUTE the costs, risks, benefits and opportunities generated by this
pro bono space, promoting an equitable adaptation to the information society
paradigm; -
TO EMANCIPATE individuals and collectives as a result of collaborative projects
able to generate investment opportunities, income, occupation and identity.
For a complete event schedule, visit http://www.cidade.usp.br/blog/category/eventos/
Event date: August 28, 2007 9:00 am – 6:00
pm UTC, (5 am SLT-2 pm SLT)
Where: Brazil
Amphitheater, USC
Annenberg Island
Contact:
In Brazil: Gilson Schwartz – gilson.schwartz@gmail.com
BenTV Tibbett in SL
In the U.S.: Joshua Fouts – fouts@usc.edu or 213-740-1786
Schmilsson Nilsson in SL