| 5 | | The Global Digital Mobilization Project will organize hundreds of groups and individuals around the world who are planning events to coincide with the next [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COP16 COP16] to live video cast their projects to a single web site. Through international organizing, extending existing software to hand-held devices, traininig, and outreach, GDMP will help redefine the meaning of "global convergence": from a central, geographically defined event open to a small percentage of the population to a geographically diverse event accessible to everyone. After COP16, our experiences, software, and materials will be made available for future global convergences as part of an effort to redefine how we collaborate internationally. |
| | 5 | The Global Digital Mobilization Project will organize hundreds of groups and individuals around the world who are planning events to coincide with the next [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COP16 COP16] to live video cast their projects to a single web site. Through international organizing, extending existing software to hand-held devices, training, and outreach, GDMP will help redefine the meaning of "global convergence": from a central, geographically defined event open to a small percentage of the population to a geographically diverse event accessible to everyone. After COP16, our experiences, software, and materials will be made available for future global convergences as part of an effort to redefine how we collaborate internationally. |
| 11 | | Now, in 2010, we have become victims of our success. With World Social Forums bringing together over 150,000 people, we are reaching the limits of face-to-face gatherings. Furthermore, as attention is turning to issues of climate change, the environmental side effects of air travel and temporary concentrations of large numbers of people are impossible to ignore. And lastly, even brining together 150,000 people in one place on represents a miniscule fraction of both the world and the number of people with access to the Internet. |
| | 11 | Now, in 2010, we have become victims of our success. With World Social Forums bringing together over 150,000 people, we are reaching the limits of face-to-face gatherings. Furthermore, as attention is turning to issues of climate change, the environmental side effects of air travel and temporary concentrations of large numbers of people are impossible to ignore. And lastly, even brining together 150,000 people in one place on represents a tiny fraction of both the world and the number of people with access to the Internet. |
| 23 | | * Corporate interests have seized on the potential for video on demand, creating easy to use tools like those found on youtube for uploading video in proprietary formats. These tools have both captured the attention of the world while at the same time excluding collaborative-thinking techies via proprietary protocols, proprietary software, and corporate controlled data |
| 24 | | * The technical and bandwidth restrictions of live video streaming have been insurmountable until recently. The major advances made so far, via web sites like ustream, are, like YouTube, pursuing proprietary and restrictive formats and software |
| | 23 | * Corporate interests have seized on the potential for video on demand, creating easy to use tools like those found on YouTube for uploading video in proprietary formats. These tools have both captured the attention of the world while at the same time excluding collaborative-thinking techies via proprietary protocols, proprietary software, and corporate controlled data |
| | 24 | * The technical and bandwidth restrictions of live video streaming have been insurmountable until recently. The major advances made so far, via web sites like Ustream, are, like YouTube, pursuing proprietary and restrictive formats and software |
