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The "Platform for open cultures in open societies" – an initiative of World Culture Forum Alliance (WCFA), Ars Electronica, Austrian UNESCO-Commission and development-policy initiatives – would like to announce the following events held on Monday, September 5th in the context of Ars Electronica Festival.
In a globalized world, issues connected with cultural memory and diversity as well as problems of cultural sustainability and human development take on new and more sharply defined contours. The role of media literacy in sustainable development and the cultural aspects of the so-called digital divide will be discussed by international experts and stakeholders also looking at WSIS II in Tunis.
Monday, 5.9.2005, 15:00 - 17:00
Brucknerhaus, Symposium Room
Panel Discussion "From Information Societies to Knowledge-based Societies: Sustainable Development or the Deepening of the Digital Divide?"
With: Geetha Narayanan (Director Srishti School for Art, Design and Techology, India), Derrick de Kerckhove (Marshall McLuhan Institute, Canada), Erik Möller (WikiMedia Foundation, Germany), Margit Niederhuber (Expert on Development and Culture, Austria), Garry Neil (INCD - International Network for Cultural Diversity), Peter M. Rantasa (Executive Director World Culture Forum Alliance, Austria)
Moderator: Andreas Hirsch (Austria)
The event is realized in a cooperation between Ars Electronica and World Culture Forum Alliance and is part of Ars Electronica Festival 2005.
Admission with Festival Pass or Single Ticket.
Monday, 5.9.2005, 17:00 - 19:00
Brucknerhaus, electrolobby Kitchen
Open Forum "Cultural Sustainability and the Digital Divide - Positions for WSIS II Tunis 2005"
Admission free.
Monday, 5.9.2005, from 20:00
HMH Galerie Kunstereignisse, Ottensheimerstraße 25, Linz-Urfahr
Mulonga Soundbridge Rewind: CD Presentation/Party with Otto Lechner & Windhund Trio
Information about the World Culture Forum Alliance:
http://www.wcfalliance.org/
Feedback and questions:
Andreas Hirsch - andreas.hirsch@wcfalliance.org
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