[FoME] FoME Symposium 2012: "From Online Activism to Offline Action", Oct. 29-31, Berlin

[Christoph Dietz]

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SAVE-THE-DATE – NOTICE

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
and the "Forum Medien und Entwicklung" (FoME)

invite you to the 7th FoME-Symposium

>From Online Activism to Offline Action
Digital Media and Democratic Space

Monday, October 29th – Wednesday, 31st , 2012
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

All over the world Internet-based media have been redefining the public
sphere. Political activists are using social media to transfer their
protests and campaigns on to digital platforms, conquering new
territories of democratic space. 

But in many countries those in power are trying to reclaim the newly
created venues and avenues with acts of online-censorship and state
regulation of the Internet; often assisted by Western companies. From
Asia to the Arab World, from Latin America to Africa: old struggles are
fought on new terrain. At the same time the structure of the net itself
is under threat from authoritarian states and dominant Internet
companies. What, if any, regulation is needed to retain the Internet as
a public sphere? 

At the FoME[1]- Symposium of 2012 media experts, development
practitioners and researchers from four continents are invited to
discuss this critical contestation of the democratic sphere and share
their experiences.

Focal topics will be:
•	  The framework of internet governance
•	  The role of digital media in enlarging democratic space
•	  The new media’s dependence on traditional political struggle
•	  The translation of online activism into sustainable political
action.

On the evening of October 29th we will start with a keynote speech on
Internet governance as it relates to our topic of safeguarding or
enlarging democratic space. A panel discussion and questions from the
audience will conclude this session open to the public.

During the following 1 ½ days of the FoME-Symposium international
speakers and invited participants will then be discussing the political
usage of new or social media – and its limitations. Why and how do
certain practices work whilst others fail? And what about the
sustainability of online and on-the-ground democratic engagement beyond
„facebook revolutions“ and the public glare?

Speakers will include:

Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation (confirmed)
Evgeny Morozov, Stanford University (to be confirmed)
Guy Berger, UNESCO (confirmed)
James Deane, BBC Media Action (to be confirmed)
Juanita Leon, La Silla Vacía, Colombia (to be confirmed)
Ory Okolloh, Google, formerly Ushahidi (requested)
Moez Chakchouk, Tunisian Internet Agency (requested)

Invitation will follow. Program and registration process will be
announced in August under:
www.forum-medien-entwicklung.de or www.fesmedia.org 

[1] The German "Forum Media and Development" (Forum Medien und
Entwicklung) is a network of institutions and individuals active in the
field of media development cooperation, including: Catholic Media
Council (CAMECO), Deutsche Welle Akademie, Friedrich-Ebert-Stftung
(FES), International Institute for Journalism (IIJ),
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media in Cooperation and Transition
(MICT), new thinking communications, n-ost Network for Reporting on
Eastern Europe, Reporters without Borders, Robert Bosch Stiftung,
Zuerich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur (ZHAW).


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Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., Vorstandsvorsitzender: Dr. Peter
Struck,
geschäftsführendes Vorstandsmitglied: Dr. Roland Schmidt, Godesberger
Allee 149, D-53175 Bonn, Tel. ++49 (0)228/883-0, Berliner Anschrift:
Hiroshimastr. 17, 10785 Berlin, mailto: info at fes.de


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