III EUROPEAN CONFERENCE: “NET SOCIETY: NETWORKS & SOCIAL INNOVATION” The registers of it, will receive the documentation needed for their participation.
“It is an innovative spirit, ideas and creativity that move the world and allow societies to progress.”
1. PRESENTATION.
ARTECHMEDIA, in collaboration with EUSKO EUROPA, have been organizing various Meetings, Forums, European and International Conferences related to the arts, innovation and digital culture. The aim of these meetings is to reflect upon and take a lateral view of the changes in contemporary society in different fields, especially in art, culture, science, innovation and technology, and their cross-cutting relationships. Through these debates, proposals have emerged that revolve around the drive towards the development of the Knowledge Society and Economy. These activities have involved around 500 speakers from all over the world and has been supported by more than 70 institutions and organizations within Spain, the Basque Country and throughout the world.
Activities:
Encounters ARTECHMEDIA 06. On 9th museums & art centers. it have involved over 100 speakers.
Venues:
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MNCARS
Museo Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa
Presidencia del Gobierno de Canarias
Museo Da2
Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo
Artium Fundación
BilbaoArte
Centro Párraga
Es Baluard Museo d´Art i Comtemporani de Palma
Centro de Cultura Contemporáena de Barcelona. CCCB
I International Conference ARTECHMEDIA 07. Art & Digital Culture. Venues:
Ministery of Culture
Instituto Cervantes
Casa de América
International Forum ARTECHMEDIA Córdoba 08. Art, Science, Technology, Innovation & Society.
II International Conference ARTECHMEDIA Barcelona 09. Venues:
Barcelona Activa
Casa Asia
I European Conference “Creativity, Innovation, Digital Culture & Citizens Participation on the European Construction. 09”. Venue:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
II European Conference “Strategies for the development of Europen Digital Space 010”. Venues:
Chamber of Commerce of Bilbao
European Commission. Representation in Spain, Madrid
European Parliament at Brussels
II European Conference “Net Society”. 2011.
2. CONSIDERATIONS
The call for the III European Conference “Net Society” was proposed in order to respond to the expectations and synergies generated among the speakers, sponsors and collaborators of the meetings organized by ARTECHMEDIA in order to develop new collaborative, cross-cutting environments between culturally innovative sectors that would impact on all of society.
Above all, one of the proposals debated and supported at these meetings was the creation of the Global Net Society Institute based on the strategic alliance between art, culture, education, science, innovation, technology, business, institutions and civil society.
3. III EUROPEAN CONFERENCE.
Today we are faced with a panorama of uncertainties at a global, cultural, political, social and economic level and as such we have the opportunity and the obligation to respond with imaginative initiatives to develop new social and cultural models in response to the crisis and new paradigms and opportunities that the digital era offers all of society in Europe and the world at large.
The main objectives of the European Conference are to analyse and propose new environments for social innovation in response to a world in the process of radical change. These proposals for the future will be sustained through education, research, entrepreneurship and creativity. We need to make a clear commitment to the society of knowledge and the development of technological infrastructures, stable alliances between creators and other innovative sectors in science, technology and the boost for digital culture that is participative, democratic and socially responsible.
The title of this III European Conference takes into consideration some of the fundamental aspects of current culture, politics, economy and society within the European Union and the world related to the Net Global Society.
a) Structure
Organization by: ARTECHMEDIA in collaboration with EUSKO EUROPA
Directed by: Montse Arbelo & Joseba Franco
Venues:
MADRID. 25th october. EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Representation in Spain
BILBAO. 28th october. BIZKAIA ARETOA. Basque Country University. EUSKAMPUS
BRUSELAS. 10 november. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
b) Sponsors Institutionals
Ministery of Culture
Secretary of State on Europa Union. Ministery of Foreings Affairs
Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
Spanish Foundation for Science & Technology. FECYT. Ministery of Science & Innovation
Lan Ekintza-City Council of Bilbao
EUSKAMPUS. Excellence Campus of Basque Country
European Parliament
European Commission. Representation in Spain
c) Conference Programme
The Conference is directed to those responsible for formulating and developing cultural and scientific policy in innovation and technology in the Basque Country, Spain and Europe, for artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, universities, young people and the general public.
It is a meeting point and a way to raise awareness at a social, institutional, artistic, scientific and business level, of the challenges and opportunities that the digital age and ICT offers the creative world and society as a whole through the necessary innovative change in the branches of knowledge and the economy that will frame the future of Europe and the world.
The III European Conference will be held in the three participating cities of the II Conference: Bilbao, Madrid and Brussels and will be held in October/November 201
There will be 40 speakers, institutional and business representatives from innovative European sectors, and organized into a number of cross-disciplinary roundtables.
One of the proposals presented at the conference will be the creation of the Global Net Society Institute based on the alliance between art, culture, education, science, innovation, technology, business, institutions and other emerging sectors of society, for debate and approval at the roundtables and working groups. The debates will be public and attendance will be free.
A space for the presentation and promotion of projects related to art, science, and technological innovation in Spain and throughout Europe.
Before the conference, online work will be carried out among the speakers and public participation will be opened up via social networks.
d) Aims
DEVELOPMENT of Global Net Society Institute.
CONSOLIDATE a specific space for reflection and collaboration at a European level for the dissemination of Innovation, Creativity and Digital Culture.
PROMOTE the development of cultural, scientific and technology innovation infrastructures and the training of the general public in areas of creativity and science.
DRIVE cultural, social and innovation cooperation within the EU and the alliance between Art, Science, Technology, Business, Institutions and Society for the development and consolidation of what has come to be known as the “economy of knowledge”.
COLLABORATE with universities, research and development centres, creators, technology innovation corporations, institutions etc. in order to facilitate research, information exchange, and co-production of projects.
COORDINATION of cultural, scientific and innovative policies within the EU.
e) Lectures, round tables & work´s group
Lectures.
Presentations of artistic and innovative projects.
Public round tables.
Work meetings.
f) Sectors & invited institutions
Institutions from 27 countries of EU
Foundations, artists, museums and art contemporany of EU.
Scientific & Tecnologhy centers, universities corporations, enterprises…
Mass media & networls of digitals production
Observatories & Art Council, Science and International Cooperation
g) Web & telematic services
The web site of the European Conference will offer detailed information about the event. It will be used to coordinate the Expert Committee and the speakers offering a weblink to the institutions and organizations related to art and digital culture. It will included summaries, presentations and proposals, and updates.
h) Presentation of Innovation & Exhibition European Digital Art
The latest tendencies in art, research and science will be presented and exhibited
i) Summary of the main conclusions of the II European Conference
We feel we have reflected in a general sense the high standard of the speakers who participated at the II European Conference. They represent a wide range of sectors in the fields of art, knowledge in science and technological knowledge and the economy. It is also important to underline the opportunity offered by the subjects under debate, to discuss the changes currently taking place in our economic and cultural models and also to highlight the support of the organizations and institutions that have made this initiative possible.
The objectives proposed in the II European Conference, especially the creation of the Global Net Society Institute for the development of the Arts, Innovation, and Digital Culture have been positively viewed by the speakers.
There is a shared view that current organizational, institutional and business structures are designed to respond to the needs of the 20th century society but are not so easily suited to the digital culture that is more cross-disciplinary, participative and global. As such, we need to consider creative and cultural innovation in all sectors as the central issue to drive and develop society and the knowledge economy.
In light of these considerations, an agreement has been established to form a Group of Experts whose aim it is to draw up a document that will tackle the organizational issues, aims, governance, sponsorship etc. of the Institute based on the stable alliance between Art and Culture, Science, Innovation, Technology, Business, Institutions and other emerging and innovative sectors of society.
Call for the 2011 III European Conference in which the document will be presented by the Group of Experts.
j) Global Net Society Institute
Development of the Arts, Innovation, and Digital Culture. We agree that the majority of current institutions and organizations both in Europe and internationally are designed to respond to the circumstances and needs of societies from the last century. And these societies today have been immersed in an extraordinary transformation, especially through the development of ICT.
The Internet Civilisation in the digital era, cross-disciplinary, inclusive, collaborative and global, breaks the pigeonholes and compartmentalization between sectors of society and the old boundaries have been turned into communication highways. In their development the alliance of Art, Culture, Science, Innovation, Technology, Business, Institutions and other spheres of Society has become essential. This collaboration is no longer an empty statement but has become a launching platform for the generation of a new society, culturally and economically based on knowledge and sustained by the internet and global networks.
As a consequence of this, we need to consider Digital Culture specifically as a new way to understand and interpret our reality and current society. The creation of this Organisation will help us to think about and articulate proposals in a coordinated, cross-disciplinary manner that will drive and consolidate the Alliance between innovative sectors that will allow us to comprehend and give a voice to the future that has become our present.
The Institute will drive the Knowledge Society, make it more just, democratic, participative, socially responsible, where creation, distribution, and manipulation of information will form an important part of the economic and cultural activities. Centred on the individual, integrating and aimed at development in which everyone can create, consult, use and share information and knowledge. So that individuals, communities, and the general population can reach their full potential through sustainable development and by improving their quality of life through the knowledge society and innovation.
The challenge for individuals that develop within all areas of human activity is to live in accordance with the demands of this new type of society, to be informed and updated, to innovate, but above all, to generate ideas and knowledge.
Vision
The vision of the Global Net Society Institute is to become the key driver in the development of the Web Society in the 21st century, to be cross-disciplinary, creative, participative, socially responsible, and inclusive within the Basque Country, Spain, Europe and throughout the world, to have a positive impact on creative, scientific and technological culture and on the knowledge society.
Mission
The mission of this organization is to drive capacity in innovation in European and global society by articulating the mechanisms that promote its participation and effective collaboration, through transparent governance, committed and responsible, with the aim of finding new robust solutions to the grand challenges of Europe and the world in the new digital age of the Society and Economy of Knowledge.
Taking into account the complexity of the social changes, the institute will develop a work plan aimed at simplifying, ordering, organizing and promoting knowledge and designing an architecture for the new Net Society.
Objectives and functions.
The aim of the Institute is to constitute itself as a European, web-based public-private organisation, and to develop its functions and aims. It will be independent, neutral, with executive capacity and will be promoted by persons, institutions, organizations, european & internationals corporations from the fields of art and culture, science, innovation, technology, communication, and, in general, by all those related to Digital Culture.
All sectors and collaborating institutions will be represented within the Institute.
Positive Experiences.
Online work will be developed in order to share information and knowledge, as a vital element for the development of the envisaged aims. Success factors will include reciprocity, confidence, learning of best practices, the association from inception of preferential links and a decentralized design with interactive hubs.
But the Institute will also work at an individual level and trust between members from the different teams. In order to support this, various annual meetings will be called.
There is a need to source financing in order to assure autonomy.
The need to develop critical mass foresighting. It is important to consider relationships and collaborations with other European and international organizations that are developing similar aims.