I think the We Media Global Forum made a good impression on Nitin Desai, special advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and a keynoter at the We Media Global Forum. At a pre-IGF public hearing in Geneva today, he said: So I was in a meeting recently in London which was organized by the BBC, […]

OK, I’m ending my post-London silence. I’ve been in recovery mode, catching up on sleep, reflecting and thinking a lot about what happened at the We Media Global Forum in London. Richard Dreyfuss spoke there about the power and danger of speed, and about the need for reflection and civil discourse. Response to Richard was […]

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NOTE: The Wiki for The WeMedia Call to Action is now available. Click here to learn more.Listen to the session: Call to Action | The We Media Global InitiativeModerated by William C. Weiss (Media Center) and Andrew Nachison (Media Center), with Jeff Belk (QUALCOMM), Jean-Marie Colombani (Le Monde), Graeme Ferguson (Vodafone), Scott Heiferman (Meetup), Dr. […]

Most of the sessions from We Media are now available for download in mp3 format. Sessions with audio uploaded include the following: Wednesday May 3, 2006 | BBC Television Centre | West London 13.40 Big Idea 2 | Media and Civic DiscourseWith Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and Activist | Download MP3 14.10 Citizen Journalism Forum | […]

The day after the forum, the BBC held it’s own internal meeting to digest and reflect some of the We Media thinking, with a panel chaired by Richard Sambrook, director of global news. The contributors were : Rebecca MacKinnon of Global Voices: Dan Gillmor, Director of the Center for Citizen Media and Author of We […]