MediaBerkman

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Berkman.TV is back with its latest episode! This week Berkman’s managing director Colin Maclay discusses public media in the digital age with Public Radio Exchange’s Jake Shapiro.

Together, they address the future of public broadcasting through the lens of the Beyond Broadcast conferences, demographics, business models, web interaction, and more. Jake also makes his prediction for the biggest news in public radio this year.

While Jake and Colin discuss the needs and challenges of the public broadcasting industry, Doc Searls help wrap things up by bringing the perspective of Project VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) into the fold. As Doc explains, it is through this inverted relationship that he hopes institutions, such as NPR, PBS, and others will be able to encourage and streamline participation with their audience, giving them a sustainable “business model,” of sorts.

For an extended, uncut conversation between Colin and Jake, click here and stay tuned for the next episode of Berkman.TV!

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor of Electrical Engineering and co-founder of the Telecommunications and Computer Networking Group at the Indian Institute of technology at Madras, explores the factors that have contributed to, and characterized the rise of India over the past decade, and the challenges that lie ahead for the world’s largest democracy.

In this edition of AudioBerkman, Professor Jhunjhunwala offers his unique perspective on this process and in particular the role of new technologies, policies, and business models. Through his working creating information and communication technologies, incubating start-ups, collaborating with national and international companies, advising on national technology policy and preparing the engineers and leaders for tomorrow, Professor Jhunjhunwala has become a true academic entrepreneur, helping shape the present and the future of his University, his nation, and indeed the developing world.

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Produced by Colin Maclay and Colin Rhinesmith.

Attribution: Music from this episode of AudioBerkman was sampled and remixed using a track from Antony Raijekov titled Moment of Green.

AudioBerkman brings you inside the World Summit on the Information Society the enormous UN-sponsored convention held in December 2003. WSIS brought together a staggering number of international diplomats, scholars, activists, and government officials for discussions about the future of information and communications technologies (ICTs). How do you make sense of a milestone this big? The scholarly journal, Information Technologies and International Development, asked exactly this question in January by issuing a call for papers for an issue devoted to making sense of WSIS. AudioBerkman follows Colin Maclay, a Berkman Center fellow and contributor to the journal, as he and ITID editors sift submissions and try to evaluate the legacy of WSIS. (running time: 9 min)

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