Be The Media's David Mathison will deliver the keynote address at the Alliance for Community Media (West) conference.
The conference will be held at the Cable Center in Denver, Colorado from October 24-25, 2008, and is appropriately titled: “Access Without Borders: New Frontiers in Community Media,”
According to the ACM West website:
“We’re hoping to inspire folks in our movement to more fully embrace the efficiencies, the community media tools, and the participatory aspects of using technology to generate future (and present) self-sufficiency, increased community engagement, and save time and money."
"We will be highlighting the new media technologies that can be incorporated into the workflow of Public Access Television and Community Technology Centers. Denver Open Media is leading the efforts that allow access centers to operate on a streamlined, user-driven model and is integrating the efforts of other National ACM members, like Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) and Cambridge Community Television (CCTV)."
Check out their technology-infused vision at www.denveropenmedia.org.
Or view this video by Denver Open Media and ED Tony Shawcross:
Key conference sessions will be on:
- Community Engagement
- Using the Web to Educate, Promote, and Fundraise
- Innovative Uses of Government and Educational Channels
- Technology Without Borders, Content Sharing, and Standards
- Public Policy Partnering and Outreach
* Click here for the full schedule.
* Go here
to register
for the conference.
* Go here for more about the Alliance for Community Media – Western Region.
Access without Borders needs The White Space !
Pleeeeeze check this out asap.
Please access the websites below, contact your congresspeople, send this everywhere you can, and get everyone to contact their
congresspeople.
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If you are in the U.S., call your Senators and Representative! Ask
your friends and recipient lists to make calls. The broadcasters are making an incredible last-minute push here. If they can get a delay on this vote, they have an excellent chance of derailing the entire process.
It's time to act! Go to: http://www.main.nc.us/whitespaces
Click on the "Action Alert" and use the Free Press "Open White
Spaces for Everyone" link. By typing in your zip code, the secure
site will give you the local phone number for your members of
Congress.
It all comes down to the next two weeks. If we can get this to an FCC meeting for a vote on November 4, we believe we have the
votes. But it is getting to that Nov. 4 vote that is the tricky part.
One week ago, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced that the agency's engineers concluded that vacant TV channels -- known as "white spaces" -- can be used to extend high-speed wireless Internet access
to hard-to-reach rural areas and underserved urban neighborhoods, without harming over-the-air TV signals.
http://www.internetnews.com/mobility/article.php/3778381/FCC+Says+White+Spaces+Can+Work+for+Net+Access.htm
Martin said that the FCC would vote on opening the "white spaces" on
Nov. 4, less than two weeks away.
But then, last Friday, the National Association of Broadcasters
(NAB) filed an emergency appeal to block the Nov. 4 vote!
WE NEED YOUR HELP!! The NAB is pressuring key members of Congress to
force the FCC to delay its Nov. 4 vote.
Please tell your representatives in Congress to reject the
NAB's desperate delaying tactics -- and let the FCC vote!!
Posted by: David Rubinson | October 25, 2008 at 12:41 AM