Roundtable meetings

The 6th International roundtable will take place in September 2010 as part of the fabulous PICNIC Festival in Amsterdam http://www.picnicnetwork.org/2010/index.html

In addition to the one day roundtable on Saturday 25th September, we are also hosting three-workshop sessions as part of the main festival that will be open to anyone to attend. Dates for these workshops are Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th September.

Details of the sessions are still in panning but will include presentations by Charles Leadbeater talking about issues from his recent Cloud Culture publication http://www.counterpoint-online.org/cloud-culture-promise-and-danger/ by the British Council's Counterpoint thinktank http://www.counterpoint-online.org/

If you are interested in attending either the Roundtable or the workshops please get in touch with Jane Finnis

Thanks to the continued support of TELDAP, Culturemondo, NZLive.com and Te Ara: the encyclopedia of New Zealand hosted the 5th international roundtable in Wellington on Wednesday 25th November 2009.

The roundtable focussed on two major items of discussion:

• How do we measure the economic and social value of cultural websites? This will raise issues of metrics, evaluation etc.
  Speaker:Seb Chan, Powerhouse Museum
• A report on the recent survey of sites carried out by Culturemondo.
  What trends, issues and future directions are suggested by the survey?
  Speaker: Jane Finnis, Culture24

Attendance at the roundtable was from a mixture of those running cultural websites and services within New Zealand, plus several international guests from The Netherlands, Taiwan, Australia and Luxembourg.

The roundtable took place the day after New Zealand's National Digital Forum