Several recommendations that came up during the Open e-culture round table discussion are presented in this third and last blog on this particular topic. Mind that this is just the start of a discussion that will be continued online and during the State of Social Media Summit (28th-29th of October). Your comments are most welcome!

In this second blog on the Open e-culture round table we recently organised (see first blog for an introduction on open e-culture initiatives) several challenges are presented regarding the development of the movement in the near future. It became clear from the discussion that the goals and ambitions of open initiatives still give rise [...]

Last friday, august 9th, we hosted in association with creative commons a conversation on open e-culture and the challenges for the near future. The participants shared their valuable knowledge based on a wide variety of experiences as Digital Pioneer, activist, policy-advisor, social entrepreneur and the like. The discussion resulted in fundamental and urgent questions that [...]

While the Gay Parade pre-started the party last Friday night, we had a great dinner with digital pioneers, artists, researchers, activists and programmers and talked about the state of open e-culture in the Netherlands. Thank you all for your contributions! And thank you Sebastiaan for making pictures, you can see the whole set here.

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Tonight we are hosting a round table session on social media and open culture in cooperation with Creative Commons Netherlands. Together with different stakeholders working as researcher, activist, programmer, digital pioneer in the field of open e-culture media projects, we will address the following questions:

In what ways has the open – [...]

In the last few weeks we have been busy making a questionnaire for all pioneers who have been supported since the beginning of the Digital Pioneers program in 2002. Today we sent the questionnaire to some 180 people in our network! And now we are hoping for a big response to make some more sense [...]

In our search for the state of social media we presented initiatives working on the theme of migration and identified their challenges (see previous blogposts). During the round table conversation several ideas for possible solutions came up we would like to share with you:

Create valuable networks of initiatives and people active on the theme of [...]