F2C Speaker Sascha Meinrath, from eComm
F2C speaker Sascha Meinrath gave a Keynote talk at the recently-held eComm conference. From the transcript on the Emerging Communications (eComm) Blog:
Unfortunately, media creation and the documentation and telling of our stories without the information dissemination component are entirely impotent. When Malcolm Matson asked the question, “Who will control local connectivity,” he exposed the fundamental question facing civil society at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Because what I learned quite quickly is that even when we created media, and documented local injustices, we had no means in our local community to disseminate this vital information to the rest of our local community. In essence, we were locked out of a public discourse. We were locked out, systematically disenfranchised from the media.
The solution that we came up with, and the reason why I ended up in Washington, D.C., consulting with power brokers and forward thinking decision makers was that we needed to not only create alternative media dissemination systems, but we needed to implement fundamental changes to civil society, before it collapsed under the weight of its own ignorance and inequity.
Come explore the creative alternatives to media dissemination, distributed communications, and other fundamental changes with Meinrath and other participants at F2C this month.
