[Cc-hk] Upload! 'Creative Commons': Opportunities for Public Life, Work and Play in Hong Kong 3.0

Haggen So haggenso at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 21:31:00 EST 2009


The Journalism and Media Studies Centre <http://jmsc.hku.hk> kindly invites
you to a public seminar...

*Upload! 'Creative Commons': Opportunities for Public Life, Work and Play in
Hong Kong 3.0 *

*Speaker:* Mr. Pindar Wong, Co-Public Lead of Creative Commons Hong Kong
*Date:* Monday, November 30, 2009
*Time:* 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
*Venue:* T5 Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong<http://www.hku.hk>

Local Internet pioneer and entrepreneur Pindar Wong discusses the
challenges, opportunities and responsibilities facing Hong Kong's first
digital generation. The talk will focus on 'Creative
Commons'<http://creativecommons.org/>,
a progressive copyright system that allows to share, remix, reuse and upload
digital materials -- legally. How can 'Creative Commons'  create new
commercial and cultural opportunities by changing our copyright culture
from 'No you can't'  to 'Yes you Can!'? How can 'Creative Commons' be used
to open up access to our cultural archives such as those held by public
service broadcasters like RTHK?

Mr. Pindar Wong is the past Chairman of the Asia and Pacific Internet
Association; the Executive Committee Chairman of the Asia Pacific Regional
Internet Conference on Operational Technologies; Advisor to the Asia Pacific
Networking Group; and international advisory board member of the UNDP's
Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme. He is also the Chairman of
VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd., an Internet infrastructure consultancy, and
Co-Public Lead of Creative Commons Hong Kong. Previously he co-founded Hong
Kong's first licensed ISP in 1993, was the alternate chair of Asia Pacific
Network Information Centre, and was appointed by the Internet Architecture
Board to the Policy Oversight Committee. He served as the first Vice
Chairman of ICANN's Board of Directors in 1999, was elected to the Board of
Trustees of the Internet Society (2003), and served on the Board of the
Public Interest Registry (2006). Prior to his involvement in pioneering
commercial Internet services, he was a doctoral candidate and Sir Edward
Youde research fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Before gaining his doctoral fellowship, Mr. Wong was briefly a banker after
graduating with first class honors in computing science from Imperial
College London.

This event will be offered in the framework of the MJ course "Critical
Issues in Journalism and Global Communications".

Admission is free, all are welcome.

For more details on Creative Commons and its collaboration with the
Journalism and Media Studies Centre, see http://hk.creativecommons.org/

To learn more about the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, please visit
our website, http://jmsc.hku.hk
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