C:II - Creativity: Innovation and Industry, Leicester - Thursday 6 December 2007
| 6 December 2007 |
A conference to enhance creativity, innovation, and productivity, taking place at the The City Rooms in Leicester.
Speakers:
Margaret Boden: What is Creativity?
Claudia Eckert: How can we be more creative?
Frank Boyd: How does innovation happen?
Toby Moores: How is creativity managed?
Workshops:
Facebook for business
Tools for online collaboration and management
Technology to assist creativity
Techniques for improving creativity
This event is organised and run by Creativity East Midlands and the East Midlands New Tehnology Initiative (NTI) Creative Industries Centre for Knowledge Exchange.
Creativity: Innovation and Industry is supported by the Institute of Creative Technologies and De Montfort University.
No commentsIOCT Salon - Bill Thompson, ‘Open Publishing and Closed Minds’ - Leicester, Thursday 6 December, 6-7pm
| 6 December 2007 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Thursday 6th December 2007, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (doors open at 5.30pm for drinks)
at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (see http://www.ioctsalon.com/directions.htm for map and directions)
This event is free and open to the public, however places are limited - email info /at/ ioctsalon.com to reserve a seat.
Download the flyer for this event (PDF)
According to the Open Knowledge Foundation, ‘a piece of knowledge is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it’. This sounds simple enough, but underneath the slogan lie hard decisions about ownership, authority and, inevitably, cost. Those who live by writing may not wish their work to be freely available, while publishers of academic journals argue that changes to the current subscription model will threaten the ability of researchers to share knowledge.
Join Bill Thompson to discuss the nature of knowledge in the network society.
About Bill:
New media pioneer Bill Thompson is a journalist, commentator and technology critic based in Cambridge, England. He has been working in, on and around the Internet since 1984.
He currently has a weekly column which appears in the technology section of the BBC News website, and contributes to other publications both on and off-line, including The Guardian, The Register and The New Statesman. He writes a monthly column for new net users for BBC WebWise, and a technology column for Focus magazine
Bill appears weekly on ‘Digital Planet’ (formerly called ‘Go Digital’) on the BBC World Service and occasionally on other BBC radio and television programmes.
Bill is the editor and systems administrator for the Working 4 an MP website.
He is a visiting lecturer at City University where he teaches Online Journalism in the Journalism Department, and an external editor for openDemocracy.net.
Links:
andfinally.com - Bill Thompson’s home on the web
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