The iSummit '08 team in Johannesburg is proud to announce the release of the official keynote addresses from the event in Sapporo.In the first batch of releases we have uploaded the presentations by Jamie King, David Bollier, Rebecca MacKinnon and Rishab Ghosh to a variety of online video sharing sites.
In Jamie King's presentation, "No License for these Territories", he discusses the innovative distribution model of Steal this Film, and his views on open business models for film. He also discusses the League of Noble Peers' voluntary donation network Vodo.net, which is being developed as a way to make it easier for artists to receive donations online. Watch this video here.
David Bollier's keynote address, "Social Movements on the Commons" explores the momentum that the Free Culture movement has achieved in the realms of digital citizenship, and how it has developed into an economic and political force in its own right. He challenges the movement to start looking outside of the information and culture space to start collaborating with other commons that are being hampered by market enclosures, in fields such as the human genome project, biodiversity, civic spaces and many more. Watch this video here.
In "Free Culture and Free Speech: Why strong and vibrant free culture communities are important for freedom of expression", Rebecca MacKinnon discusses the challenges that Internet activists face in countries such as China, and the role that the free culture community can have in amplifying their voices and in assisting in making the Internet a truly democratic and free platform. Watch this video here.
In his presentation titled "Collaborative Creativity and The Test of Time", Rishab Ghosh asks why, in a world driven by "rational self-interest", people participate in collaborative endeavours such as open source software development and Wikipedia projects. He answers this question through his "cooking pot model" - watch this video here to find out what proportion of potatoes and fish make a tasty digital stew.
The next line-up of videos to be released include keynote addresses by Adam Haupt and Jessica Powell. Best subscribe to the RSS feeds for our video site or this summit blog or join the iCommons mailing list for the latest release announcements.
Please note that if you were at the iSummit '08 in Sapporo and took film footage of any events or happenings, please share this footage on our summit video site at: http://video.icommonssummit.org
Also if you'd like to see the slideshows from all the keynote presentations, take a look at the , and once again, if you attended the event and presented in one of the labs, please share your presentations here too for those who couldn't make it to the event.
Picture: Jamie King at the iSummit '08 by , CC BY-SA 2.0
