I’m looking forward to tomorrow, as a gang of folk from DIUS’s engagement team (led ably by Steph) and I will be spending the day reporting from the All Together Now event in London.
Hosted by Channel 4, DIUS and BECTA, the event’s convener, Steve Moore says:
the focus of this event is not specifically about next media or future technology it is instead focused on what people – particularly young people – are doing now with the tools and platforms that exist NOW! In my view the scaffolding has come down. We are the tools to connect with millions of people, access to most of our accumulated knowledge with two clicks of a mouse and ability to give voice publicly to our thoughts and ideas without permission. The egalitarian ideals that drove the development of networked computing that helped foster the internet and helped created the Web have now been matched by an infrastructure of massively popular technologies. Altogether Now resolutely focuses on what people are doing with these new affordances, how they bringing themselves and their peers into experiments in what is possible and all of this is happening now. It is teenagers that are at forefront of these developments. It is students who are pioneering and making amazing stuff so this event is about watching, listening to what is happening out there right now. Participatory culture is alive, vibrant and it’s implications are at once profound and present.
It should be a great day. We are going to be videoing, photographing, twittering and blogging away like nobody’s business, and all the results will (wifi permitting) be published on the event’s social network as soon as we can.
You are of course welcome to join the network and add your stuff, or if you prefer working in your own space, just tag your content with atn09 and we’ll pick it up.
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Shame, I do enjoy following the DavePress live reporting of these events and usually learn so much but I’m offline for most of the day tomorrow. It Sounds like an interesting event, I’ll pick up the story on the Ning group.
Have a good un.