On day 2 of 2gether08 Jon Gisby offered up some thoughts on how we can - and must - transform our outmoded perceptions of what consitutes public service media using new participatory media. 4IP is plainly at the forefront of these developments. The *formal* launch will take place later this autumn but [...]
I have organised dozens of events and meet ups of one kind or another over the past few years with a focus on emerging technologies, education and social innovation so 2gether08 felt like something like the culmination of many years of work. Often people ask me what my goals are, in terms of outcomes [...]
It is commonplace to go on about the affordances of new technologies and how in the right hands they can allow us to overcome economic impediments that curtailed our ability to connect, collaborate, share and converse to do in Clay’s lovely phrase ‘big things for love’ . 2gether feels a bit like that. In just [...]
One of the things that is making the development of 2gether so exciting and - if I am honest - challenging is the element of offering up to participants the invitation to develop over 75% of the over 100 hours of the content we are slating at festival. This is seriously testing the potential and [...]
2gether has been an idea that has been tumbling around in my head for a few years now. How do get together the diverse communities of people I routinely meet in the course of my professional life;