Upcoming Events
The Media Education Summit 2010 will provide valuable insights into the opportunities and challenges facing media education both now and in the future. The summit builds on previous successful meetings, both of which attracted over 150 delegates from more than 65 Higher Education Institutions, as well as government representatives.
Organised by the Broadband Stakeholders Group and Value Partners this conference focuses on the impact of net neutrality (the concept of the internet being a level playing field for internet traffic). It will explore what this debate means in practice for those developing, delivering or using internet services. The agenda is available online and outlines the consumer, technical, commercial and regulatory issues that will be covered and the speakers including Alex Blowers, Ofcom; Richard Feasey, Vodafone; Andrew Heaney, TalkTalk; Kip Meek, BSG; Simon Pitts, ITV; Jean-Jacques Sahel, Skype; and Sean Williams, BT Group plc. This event costs £125 + VAT and is aimed at senior commercial, technical and policy representatives. To attend the event, email Claire Bradbury at BSG or telephone 020 7331 2036.
To find out more about net neutrality see Ofcom's recently published paper on net neutrality and have your say on the issues raised in this discussion paper.
By bringing together the creative, technical and educational communities, Futurelab is pioneering ways of using new technologies to transform the learning experience.
This event is intended to bring leading figures from schools, colleges and government together to debate how to make learning more playful.
Speakers include: Lord Jim Knight; Mark Prensky; Stephen Heppell; and, Kieron Kirkland. Tickets costs £135 and attendees can register online.
This is a one-day symposium for the presentation and discussion of new research into how young people are using media in their everyday lives, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which the opportunity to make and share media material online does, or does not, make a difference. Speakers include Dr Fatimah Awan, University of Westminster; Alicia Blum-Ross, University of Oxford; Ranjana Das, LSE, University of London; Dr Caroline Dover, University of Westminster; Prof David Gauntlett, University of Westminster.
There are further slots available for speakers to present their own research in this area. Please email D. Gauntlett for details. This event is part of the AHRC-funded project, 'Young people's mediaworlds', based at the University of Westminster. Email University of Westminster for event and ticket information.
A one-day symposium for the presentation and discussion of new research into how young people are using media in their everyday lives, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which the opportunity to make and share media material online does, or does not, make a difference.
This one day conference will shed light on the current online issues, the world of young people and technology, the risks they face and how the education community can mitigate those risks and help young people to enjoy the virtual world safely.
Polish (Nobody’s Children Foundation and NASK) and German (klicksafe.de) Safer Internet Centers have announced the 4th International Conference “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online”. The conference will bring together approx. 500 representatives from the education sector, NGOs, law enforcement, government and industry. It will address a wide variety of issues relating to children and young people’s safety online, such as the use of social networking sites and mobile phones, privacy, sexting, online gaming, educational strategies, etc. The aims of the conference are to raise awareness of the new challenges and opportunities in fighting online threats and to help share best practices across different sectors. Sessions will be led by recognised international experts in the field of child protection.
This is a practical marketplace event showcasing how local authorities can achieve the triple win of improving lives, driving down cost and delivering efficient services. Driven by the local government sector this event will bring together colleagues to share best practice and demonstrate how to use readily available digital technology to deliver effective and efficient local public services.
Now in its third year, this conference will explore the importance of Next Generation Networks and the promotion and deployment of broadband across Europe in view of the Digital Agenda for Europe, including digital inclusion strategies. This event will provide a platform for interactive debate on the challenges ahead and will explore innovation for future services, real-life applications and case studies.
More information including the agenda, registration details and costs are now available on the conference website. To find out about speaking and partnership opportunities email Amanda Strevens or telephone +32 (0) 2 534 11 79.
The International Institute of Communications (IIC) Annual Conference is internationally renowned for its incisive analysis of key trends and discontinuities in the communications market and the regulatory and public policy issues that help to shape the telecommunications, internet, media and content industries.
This year’s Conference, which takes place at Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I, Barcelona, is entitled ‘Trends in Global Communications: Riding the next digital wave’. It will take as its backdrop the continuing and challenging process of transformation affecting the communications sector and will offer original insights from leading practitioners and debate critical issues.
Beyond 2010 is a two day conference which brings together the digital and mobile technologies already transforming the delivery of public services across the world.
The event is designed to give real life examples of best practice; the chance to benchmark progress, and tap into a network of joined up digital thinking that will help find effective solutions to the challenge of delivering enhanced public services for less.
Registration details and costs are available on the Beyond 2010 conference website and the event can also be followed on Twitter.
The 2010 edition of the Safer Internet Forum will take place in Luxembourg on the 21-22 October. This year the Safer Internet Forum will focus on the results of two major research projects funded by the Safer Internet Programme: EUKidsOnline II, which surveyed children and parents in 25 European countries about internet use, and European Online Grooming Project, the first European research project that studies the characteristics and behaviour of sexual offenders who have used the internet to groom young people.
FOSI's Fourth Annual Conference & Exhibition, "Internet Freedom, Safety & Citizenship: A Global Call to Action," will take place on November 9-10, 2010 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC. with an international audience of policymakers, industry leaders, educators, legislators, law enforcement, Internet safety advocates, teachers and technologists.
Online safety experts will discuss the most current issues on this year’s panels including Cyberbullying, Sexting, and Law Enforcement, as well as the global impacts of new media and technology, especially in areas of regional interest such as Latin America and the Middle East.
This conference will be a major gathering for all teachers, teacher trainers, researchers, policy-makers and media professionals interested in teaching and learning about the media. It is jointly organised by the Media Education Association and the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, London, in partnership with Ofcom.
Bringing together practitioners in all levels of the 3-19 education system with researchers in the fields of education, literacy and media technologies, the Conference will provide a unique opportunity to share information, evidence and ideas about media teaching and learning at different age-levels.
There will be an ‘academic’ strand of papers and debate, and a ‘CPD’ strand of workshops, as well as major keynote speakers and discussion panels. An exhibition of resources, hardware and software from educational publishers, media industries and other service providers will provide information on new ways to support learning and teaching about the media.
The 2nd Annual European E-Commerce Conference will bring together a broad, high-level group of stakeholders to debate the policy and business dimensions impacting upon e-commerce and will seek to provide significant input into the policy formation process. It is expected that over 200 delegates will attend including the EU and international press and the event will run over one day.
Past Events
The public launch of the Family Online Safety Institute's Professional Edition of the Global Resource & Information Directory (GRID) is taking place at the House of Lords later this month.
As consumers think about how they access different types of content in the home, on which device, which platform and how they move it between devices within the home, there has never been a more important time for industry to share and debate its vision for the UK digital home.
This conference will address the following topics:
- How different types of content will be accessed via which technology
- How content providers are tailoring content for the different devices/platforms
- What type of connectivity is required in the home and how it will be delivered
- The next generation of digital devices for the home
- Selling the 'digital home' - the retail perspective
Aberystwyth Arts Centre is hosting the fifth Digital Storytelling Festival on 16 June. The Festival programme includes talks by international guest speakers, presentations and workshops by leading organisations in the field of digital storytelling.
Digital storytelling is an emerging movement that uses new digital tools to help people from all backgrounds tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. The DS5 Digital Storytelling Festival is aimed at inspiring and encouraging both individuals and groups already working in digital storytelling and those new to its exciting possibilities.
Five years ago, a major conclusion of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s (KFF) second national survey of U.S. young people’s media use was that time available to devote to media had finally hit a ceiling … at about 6 hours 20 minutes daily. The ensuing half decade, however, has brought new communication technologies that allow nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives. Donald Roberts, the Thomas More Storke Professor Emeritus in Stanford University’s Department of Communication who has served as a principal investigator on all three KFF national surveys, will discuss the findings of the most recent study.
