UPGRADING THE EXISTING ECO-NETWORKS
Check out on the wiki Session 26 at ScienceOnline2011. Who can participate: scientists, IT folks, ecologists, environmental/climate/green activists/organizations world wide, artists, educators, social media practitioners, everyone interested in below described. Governm.institutions and NGO’s world wide are more than welcome to join us, partcipate and support. Feel free to contact me (danica [at] danicar [dot] org) if you want to co-moderate (ASAP, now!) and collaborate in the creative socio-techno session. Use the hashtag #scio11 on twitter, and spread the word. Thank you!
This collaborative, participatory and highly interactive session has the the goal to gather scientists, geeks, ecologists, environmental folks/organizations, artists who deploy digital technologies, participate in virtual communities, and promote the civic and environmental consciousness with the care for local and international eco-systems. How is possible to upgrade, foster the networks of interdisciplinary scientists, IT people and artists for environmental sustainability? What kind of creative social media participatory tools are established and used so far? What are the barriers for using such social web tools and what would make easier to use them, for fostering better communication, creative and collaborative practices?
The session will emphasize the usage of digital technologies for new ideas and projects incorporated before the conference and presented during the session, with the online live stream. It will involve the audience on the web as well, and through the program moderators with the group will create the multimedia snippets (social media crowd sourced material) that we will use during the session. I need co-moderators, if you are creative, social media oriented in your field of work, environmentally and civic conscious, and want to raise the awareness of your work and make the difference even for a day, this highly participatory session. I want to show how the power of human will and knowledge with the deployment of social media and digital technologies can make a difference.
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Danica Radovanovic
Social Web researcher, Web activist
PhD in Internet studies and communications
www.danicar.org
www.twitter.com/danicar
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