Knight Commission member danah boyd posted to Twitter from the Chicago Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy meeting:
You can watch the live webcast by clicking the top link on today’s Commission agenda page.
Do you have thoughts to share with the Commission? Leave a comment below or Twitter @knightfdn.
Until 5 PST today, you can watch the live webcast of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy from Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. Videos from yesterday’s Knight Commission Community Forum are on Flickr here.
If you’re in the NYC area this evening, there is an informational event tonight from 7 - 9pm at CUNY Journalism School, Room 308, about the $5 million this year in the News Challenge, a yearly contest about innovative digital news delivery. The Facebook invite has more details. Future News Challenge events will be listed on this blog soon.
Questions? Thoughts? Let us know in the comments–
Until 5 PST this afternoon, you can watch the live webcast of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy Community Forum at Google.
Archived video will live on the Knight Commission site, and smaller clips are in a Flickr set and below, some highlights from the media panel that just finished a few minutes ago:
Linda O’Bryon, Chief Content Officer, KQED Public Television talks about QUEST content collaboration:
Knight Commissioner Andrew Mooney asked about journalism business models:
And Jim Bettinger, director of the Knight Stanford Fellows answered:
Knight Commissioner Michael K. Powell brought up “information snacking”:
And Raj Jayadev, Founder, Silicon Valley De-Bug talked about the internet as a gateway:
Posts on the speakers are on the new Knight Commission blog.
What do you think about journalism business models and information snacking based on the videos above?
Knight Commissioner danah boyd asked the distinguished guests of first community forum panel at the Knight Commission meeting at Google about push/pull strategies:
How do you think push/pull works in local news and information dissemination?
Today is the Knight Commission Community Forum at Google, the third meeting of the Knight Commission, a group of “luminaries assembled to recommend both public and private measures that would help American communities better meet their information needs.”
The day is just beginning here:
To follow along, the discussion is being webcast live here and the proceedings are being blogged by Kristie Wells of Social Media Club and Josh Wilson.
The Knight Twitter account will also have updates throughout the day; ask questions in the comments below and on Twitter.
Knight Commission member danah boyd speaks on e-literacy at the Forum on Communication and Society at the Aspen Institute:
danah boyd on e-literacy from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
This conference, sponsored by Knight, brings together some of the brightest minds in media. Below is a partial list of attendees.
The Paris Hilton video response to the McCain ad definitely got everyone’s attention here and has been discussed as one example for the changed nature of media in the 2008 election. I’m posting more detailed conference notes (in a stream-of-consciousness style too lengthy for this blog) at www.mytribune.com.
Leonard Witt posted an interview today with Knight Foundation consultant Mike Maidenberg on the new Knight Community Information Challenge.
Here’s an excerpt:
Leonard Witt: Tell me a little about the Knight Community Information Challenge, why is Knight involved and for what end?
Mike Maidenberg: Knight Foundation is deeply interested in how information flows in physical communities. We know the power of the web in specialized fields. What we are trying to understand and experiment with is how the web can be used to tie local communities together, with the newspaper a model from the past.
Read the entire article on PJNet, and find out more about the challenge on the official site.
What other questions do you have for Mike about the Community Information Challenge?
Nathaniel Whittemore of the Do Good Well blog on the new Knight Community Information Challenge:
“…the implication for the Knight grant might be that smart community foundations find ways to help their communities tap into existing citizen-led or socially concerned news networks and become human filters and hubs for the information most relevant for their daily lives.”
The rest of the post offers distinctions between communities, networks, depth, and breadth.
Do you think community foundations should tap into existing networks or develop new ones?
In a recent speech, Knight CEO and president Alberto Ibargüen announced a new media innovation strategy and four projects that are part of this strategy.
You can read the entire speech here; abbreviated descriptions of the four projects (they share similar names) are below.
Knight News Challenge (newschallenge.org)
The Knight News Challenge funds ideas that use digital media to deliver news and information to geographically defined communities.
This is a yearly contest about the future of local news delivery (and includes projects in a range of media areas such as mobile, video, and microfunding).
Knight Commission on Information Needs (knightcomm.org)
The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, in partnership with the Aspen Institute, will propose public policy that will facilitate meeting those needs.
This is a new group with fifteen members that will make recommendations in 2009 about core community information needs.
Knight Center of Digital Excellence (knightcenter.info)
The Knight Center of Digital Excellence is a not-for-profit consultancy to help communities across the United States ensure digital access to every citizen.
This is sometimes called “universal access,” and the goal is to accelerate digital access projects across the U.S.
Knight Community Information Challenge (informationneeds.org)
Community Foundation initiatives to meet the information needs of their communities are matched by funds from Knight Foundation.
This is to help community foundations use media and technology to deliver information to their communities.
Questions? Leave a comment below.
Youth digital culture scholar danah boyd is one of the fifteen members of the new Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.
Today, she is at the Newseum for the Commission’s first meeting; below, she talks about her work and the information lifestyle she hopes to voice for the group:
Video by V.P. of Communications Marc Fest
You can watch the Commission’s live webcast until 5 pm ET today here.
What questions do you have for danah and the other members of the Commission?
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