The Future of our Digital Commons
On Thursday February 3, 2005, from 10 AM to 4 PM CROSSTALKS and DISC present
The Future of our Digital Commons.
The event is a day seminar based on the release of the 1st VUB CROSSTALKS book:
�How Open is the Future?� and presenting the DISC educational program for 2005.
The seminar starts with a series of interdisciplinary, confronting and
complementing talks on economic, social and cultural scenarios inspired by Free
& Open Source Software. The speakers are Jan Cornelis (Vice-rector Research
VUB), Philippe Vincke (Dean Faculty Applied Sciences ULB & President of DISC),
Bruno de Vuyst & Liv Steuts (Lawfort), Dirk Tombeur (Microsoft) and Melanie
Carly (Creative Commons). Place: Promotiezaal D201. Introducing Jean-Michel
Dalle (Paris Dauphine & Paris VI, president of the French n�1 Public Incubator
Agoranov) who will give an extra talk about �Open� Innovation at 2 PM. Place:
Aula QD.
Registered participants will receive the CROSSTALKS book and are invited for
lunch at noon and for a coffeebreak at the end of the seminar. How Open is the
Future? (VUB PRESS) is released under a Creative Commons License and will be
online from the 5th of February on. Ordering books can be done at
www.vubpress.be.
Registration:
http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/
Carlos Gershenson...
Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
�Knowledge brings more questions than answers�
