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The third and final COMMUNIA conference will be held in Torino on Monday-Wednesday 28-30 June 2010 (just before the start of the EuroScience Open Forum 2010).
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University and Cyberspace: Reshaping Knowledge Institutions for the Networked Age
  
Co-organized by the Nexa Center (Politecnico di Torino) and Berkman Center (Harvard University), the conference will focus on "Universities & the commons/cyberspace" (final title is yet to be decided, while an abstract will be published shortly).
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Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge - using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches - derived from and for the networked world.
 
 
This early announcement is a note to SAVE THE DATE, but also an invitation to COMMUNIA members, academic institutions and/or other stakeholders involved in the future of universities and the open commons to start planning and getting involved in the event preparation.
 

Revision as of 21:14, 14 June 2010


Events

Conference in Torino, Italy

2010/06/28

http://www.communia-project.eu/conf2010


University and Cyberspace: Reshaping Knowledge Institutions for the Networked Age

Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge - using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches - derived from and for the networked world.