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SUMMARY:Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
DESCRIPTION:The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era.  How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How is the very idea of the library changing?  These and related questions will engage our distinguished panelists\, who represent both research and public libraries and two of whom serve on the steering committee for the Digital Public Library of America. \nRobert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard\, Director of the Harvard University Library and one of America’s most distinguished historians. He serves on the steering committee of the Digital Public Library of America and has been a trustees of the New York Public Library since 1995. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books\, Darnton defended a NYPL plan to liquidate some branches in the system while renovating the main Fifth Avenue branch. The essay sparked a number of responses. In November of last year\, Darnton provided a status report on the DPLA. Darnton is the author of many influential books including The Case for Books\, Past\, Present\, and Future and The Great Cat Massacre. \nSusan Flannery is director of libraries for the City of Cambridge and past president of the Massachusetts Library Association.
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LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:New Media in West Africa
DESCRIPTION:(Note time.) \nThis forum launches the Futures of Entertainment 6 conference at MIT. Despite many infrastructural and economic hurdles\, entertainment media industries are burgeoning in West Africa. Today\, the Nigerian cinema market–“Nollywood”–is the second largest in the world in terms of the annual volume of films distributed behind only the Indian film industry. And an era of digital distribution has empowered content created in Lagos\, or Accra\, to spread across geographic and cultural boundaries. New commercial models for distribution as well as international diasporic networks have driven the circulation of this material. But so has rampant piracy and the unofficial online circulation of this content. What innovations are emerging from West Africa? How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa\, and across the continent? What does the increasing visibility of West African popular culture mean for this region–especially as content crosses various cultural contexts\, within and outside the region? And what challenges does West Africa face in continuing to develop its entertainment industries? \n \nDerrick N. Ashong leads the band Soulfège\, a group that produces an eclectic blend of hip-hop\, reggae\, funk\, world beat and West African highlife music and has been featured in such major media as MTV Africa and NPR. Also known as DNA\, which is the name of his blog\, Ashong hosted Oprah Radio’s The Derrick Ashong Experience and Al-Jazeera English’s social media TV show The Stream. \nFadzi Makanda is a business  development manager in the New York office for iROKO Partners\, a distributor of African—and particularly Nollywood—entertainment. Makanda leads the development and execution of U.S. advertising sales strategies for the company. \nColin M. Maclay is the managing director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Both as co-founder of Harvard’s International Technologies Group and at Berkman\, Maclay’s research pairs hands-on multi-stakeholder collaborations with the generation of data that reveal trends\, challenges and opportunities for the integration of communications technologies in developing communities. \nRalph Simon is founder of the Mobilium Advisory Group\, which studies innovation in mobile usage in such countries as Nigeria\, Kenya\, Uganda and South Africa. He has served as an executive at Capitol Records\, Blue Note Records\, and EMI Music\, and he co-founded the Zomba Group with Clive Calder of South Africa. Simon earned the title “Father of the Ring Tone” when he created the first ring tone company in 1997.
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LOCATION:MIT Building E25\, Room 111\, 45 Carleton Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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