[Icommons] iSummit '08 keynote videos: New releases

Daniela Faris daniela at icommons.org
Tue Sep 16 04:50:20 EDT 2008


http://icommonssummit.org/summit_blog/2008/09/isummit-08-keynote- 
videos-new.html

We have two new iSummit '08 keynote videos to add some inspiration to  
your week.

Adam Haupt discusses corporations' tendencies to employ narrow  
understandings of IP to protect their own interests often at the  
expense of the public interest, and to the detriment, not only of  
innovation and creativity, but also of basic human rights and  
essential democratic values. He uses two case studies from South  
Africa: One involving a legal battle between culture jammers, Laugh  
It Off and South African Breweries, and the other a 'media moment'  
based on a stand-off between Wiley Publishers of "for Dummies" fame  
and newspaper, The Mail and Guardian. Find out more by watching this  
video here.

Jessica Powell presented The Literacy Project, a platform through  
which literacy organisations and teachers can connect and share best  
practices, tools, and information. She discusses the project in the  
context of the high illiteracy rate worldwide and looks at the  
challenges faced across this field, including Internet connectivity,  
new media literacy, cultural and language differences, as well as the  
innovative solutions and best practises that are helping more people  
read every day. Watch this video here.

Next up for release are the keynote addresses by Paul Keller and  
Hiroaki Kitano. We'll be sure to keep you posted through this mailing  
list, or subscribe to the RSS feeds for our video site or the summit  
blog.

Please note that if you were at the iSummit '08 in Sapporo and took  
film footage of any events or happenings, please share this footage  
on our summit video site at: http://video.icommonssummit.org

Also if you'd like to see the slide shows from all the keynote  
presentations, take a look at the iSummit '08 event space on  
Slideshare, and once again, if you attended the event and presented  
in one of the labs, please share your presentations here too for  
those who couldn't make it to the event.


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