As I write this, I’m sitting at my computer with my jaws scraping the floor. Why? Because the BBC and Reuters have decided to broadcast the We Media Global Forum across their global channels, and the potential viewer numbers I’m hearing are 200 – even 300 – million people around the world. Okay, I can’t bend my mind around that, so I’m just going to tell you that the potential audience reach is more than 100 million people.
100 million… That’s a lot of people – quite an audience for Andrew and Dale to evangelize about the Digital Age’s implications and opportunities, and for our partners to express their commitment to a better-informed society. So, uh, the We Media program had better be pretty good…
We’re working our hardest to make sure it is. Get program details and register for the Global Forum here.
Let me give you a brief update:
To remind you, The We Media Global Forum will take place May 3-4, 2006, in London, hosted by the BBC and Reuters. It will bring together about 250 trailblazers of the connected society – the thinkers, innovators, investors, executives and activists seeking to tap the potential of digital networks connecting people everywhere – for the purpose of uncovering, exploring and generating new ideas, products, services, policies or relationships that uncover and harness the power of mass collaboration.
Day 1 will unfold in a soundstage at the BBC Television Center; Day 2 will be conducted at the Canary Wharf global headquarters of Reuters.
Confirmed participants include:
o Richard Dreyfuss, Actor and Activist
o Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters
o Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC
o Scott Heiferman, Founder and CEO, Meetup.com
o Carolyn McCall, CEO, Guardian Newspapers
o Shoba Purushothaman, CEO, The NewsMarket
o Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm (via satellite)
And …
o Rafat Ali, CEO and Editor, Paid Content
o Angela Beesley, Board Member, Wikimedia Foundation
o Jeff Belk, SVP Marketing, Qualcomm
o George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times of London
o David Brain, European President & CEO, Edelman
o Suw Charman, Executive Director, Open Rights Group
o Jean-Marc Coicaud, United Nations University, New York
o Dan Gillmor, Author, We The Media
o Sue Howard, Executive Director, Australian Broadcasting Corp.
o Wadah Khanfar, Managing Director, Al Jazeera
o Rhami Khouri, Editor, Lebanon Daily Star
o Dr. Michael Kraig, Stanley Foundation
o Rebecca MacKinnon, Co-Founder, Global Voices
o Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News, BBC
o Dave Sifry, CEO, Technorati
o Karen Stephenson, President, Netform
o Bill Weiss, CEO, The Promar Group
o Emma Williams, Director, Digital Content Coalition