[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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