[spectre] Fwd: Conf. 'Open Knowledge, Free Culture' Phnom Penh
Andreas Broeckmann
ab at mikro.in-berlin.de
Mon Dec 21 16:33:45 CET 2009
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:05:34 +0700
From: tilman baumgärtel <mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net>
Subject: CONFERENCE “OPEN KNOWLEDGE, FREE
CULTURE" at Royal University of Phnom Penh,
Department of Media and Communication
“OPEN KNOWLEDGE, FREE CULTURE"
A Conference on the Sharing of Knowledge
The conference is sponsored by Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic
Exchange Service, DAAD).
I. TOPIC OF THE CONFERENCE
The rise of "free software" in the last couple of
years is one of the most significant paradigm
shifts of the "information society" in the early
21st century. Instead of guarding their
intellectual property rights, the developers of
open source software freely share and distribute
their creations, and have even developed business
models out of it.
They are part of a larger "culture of sharing"
that extends beyond the realm of computer
software. Taking advantage of the capability to
digital media to share information
internationally and for negligible costs, this
kind of "free culture" has given developing
countries like Cambodia access to tremendous
sources of information and "free culture".
This conference will discuss the cultural and
political implication of the "Open-Source"-model
from the point of view of a developing country.
It will question the effectiveness of the
international regime of Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) and Copyright, that often interferes
with the free proliferation of knowledge and look
at alternatives to the current status quo in
terms of IPR.
The event brings together scholars and experts
from Cambodia, Indonesia, Germany and the
Philippines to look at a number of cultural
practices that are based on the free sharing of
information in such different fields as music,
computer software, and different online media.
Please see the attached program for details.
II. CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Location: Royal University of Phnom Penh,
Institute of Foreign Languages, Meeting Hall, IFL
campus, Russian Blvd, Toul Kork Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Date: January 8th, 2010, 8:00 AM - 12:00 NN
Admission is free
7:30 - 8:00 AM
Registration
8:00 - 8:15 AM
Welcoming Remarks from Hannelore Bossmann,
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst,
Ho-Chi-Minh-City
Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel (DAAD), lecturer,
Department of Media and Communication, Royal
University Phnom Penh
8:15 - 10:00 AM
PANEL I
Moderator: Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel (DAAD),
Department of Media and Communication, Royal
University Phnom Penh
Roberto Verzola, University of the Philippines
Under-mining Abundance in the Information Sector (Keynote)
Norbert Klein, The Open Institute, Phnom Penh
Open Source and Open Knowledge
Tharum Bun, blogger, contributor to Global Voices
Online, Asian Correspondent and the Phnom Penh
Post
Blogging in Cambodia
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 12:00 NN
PANEL II
Moderator: Tieng Sopheak Vichea, Acting Head,
Department of Media and Communication, Royal
University Phnom Penh
Maria Mangahas, PhD., Associate Professor,
Department of Anthropology, University of the
Philippines
The case of 'Hello Garci' and other digitized
'scandals!': ICT and video anarchy in the
Philippine context
Yuka Narendra, Independent Researcher and Musician, Jakarta
Tales from the Phonographic Oceans: The Story of
"Yess Records", 1977-1988, Bandung, Indonesia
Dr. Lilawati Kurnia, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia
Can We Own Music? Technology and Inequalities in
Case of Dangdut Music in Indonesia
Contact:
Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel (DAAD)
Department of Media and Communication
Royal University of Phnom Penh
Russian Federation Boulevard,
Tel/Fax: 855-23-884 408
Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net
--
Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel
Check out my blog:
THE INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN FILM STUDIES
The Cinema of the Philippines, Thailand,
Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia
et al
http://southeastasiancinema.wordpress.com
“OPEN KNOWLEDGE, FREE CULTURE"
A Conference on the Sharing of Knowledge
Contact:
Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel (DAAD)
Department of Media and Communication
Royal University of Phnom Penh
Russian Federation Boulevard,
Tel/Fax: 855-23-884 408
Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net
The conference is sponsored by Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic
Exchange Service, DAAD).
I. TOPIC OF THE CONFERENCE
The rise of "free software" in the last couple of
years is one of the most significant paradigm
shifts of the "information society" in the early
21st century. Instead of guarding their
intellectual property rights, the developers of
open source software freely share and distribute
their creations, and have even developed business
models out of it.
They are part of a larger "culture of sharing"
that extends beyond the realm of computer
software. Taking advantage of the capability to
digital media to share information
internationally and for negligible costs, this
kind of "free culture" has given developing
countries like Cambodia access to tremendous
sources of information and "free culture".
This conference will discuss the cultural and
political implication of the "Open-Source"-model
from the point of view of a developing country.
It will question the effectiveness of the
international regime of Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) and Copyright, that often interferes
with the free proliferation of knowledge and look
at alternatives to the current status quo in
terms of IPR.
The event brings together scholars and experts
from Cambodia, Indonesia, Germany and the
Philippines to look at a number of cultural
practices that are based on the free sharing of
information in such different fields as music,
computer software, and different online media.
II. CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Location: Royal University of Phnom Penh,
Institute of Foreign Languages, Meeting Hall, IFL
campus, Russian Blvd, Toul Kork Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Date: January 8th, 2010, 8:00 AM - 12:00 NN
Admission is free
7:30 - 8:00 AM
Registration
8:00 - 8:15 AM
Welcoming Remarks from Hannelore Bossmann,
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst,
Ho-Chi-Minh-City
Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel (DAAD), lecturer,
Department of Media and Communication, Royal
University Phnom Penh
8:15 - 10:00 AM
PANEL I
Moderator: Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel (DAAD),
Department of Media and Communication, Royal
University Phnom Penh
Roberto Verzola, University of the Philippines
Under-mining Abundance in the Information Sector (Keynote)
Norbert Klein, The Open Institute, Phnom Penh
Open Source and Open Knowledge
Tharum Bun, blogger, contributor to Global Voices
Online, Asian Correspondent and the Phnom Penh
Post
Blogging in Cambodia
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 12:00 NN
PANEL II
Moderator: Tieng Sopheak Vichea, Acting Head,
Department of Media and Communication, Royal
University Phnom Penh
Maria Mangahas, PhD., Associate Professor,
Department of Anthropology, University of the
Philippines
The case of 'Hello Garci' and other digitized
'scandals!': ICT and video anarchy in the
Philippine context
Yuka Narendra, Independent Researcher and Musician, Jakarta
Tales from the Phonographic Oceans: The Story of
"Yess Records", 1977-1988, Bandung, Indonesia
Dr. Lilawati Kurnia, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia
Can We Own Music? Technology and Inequalities in
Case of Dangdut Music in Indonesia
III. ABSTRACTS
Under-mining Abundance in the Information Sector (Keynote)
Roberto Verzola, University of the Philippines
Roberto Verzola will present a framework for
analysis that encompasses his extensive
experience in information technology,
agriculture, and environment advocacies. He will
suggest that the emergence of the information
economy has raised awareness
about the phenomenon of abundance in information
and information services. He will further claim
that abundance may also be observed in
agriculture, natural resources and the
environment. He will discuss several situations
where abundance is actually
being undermined to create artificial scarcity.
Finally, he will propose a new approach to
economic studies that take both abundance and
scarcity into account.
Open Source and Open Knowledge
Norbert Klein, The Open Institute, Phnom Penh
In my presentation I will talk about the start of
my involvement in Open Source and Open Knowledge
in my attempts to open the door for a Cambodian
colleague to get access to an international
scholarship that required access to e-mail. At
that time, e-mail was not yet available in
Cambodia - so I created the first Internet
Service Provider in Cambodia in 1994. Though
there was then e-mail, but not yet in Khmer. It
was then that I discovered Unicode, an open
standard in computer research and in the computer
industry that was to allow computers to represent
and manipulate text expressed in more and more of
the world's writing systems consistently. I will
describe the codification of the Khmer script in
Unicode, and the subsequent development of Khmer
software and the introduction to Open Source
software in Cambodia, and will eventually argue
in favor of keeping standards and protocols in
computer communication open.
Blogging in Cambodia
Tharum Bun, blogger, contributor to Global Voices
Online, Asian Correspondent and the Phnom Penh
Post
Abstract to follow
The case of 'Hello Garci' and other digitized
'scandals!': ICT and video anarchy in the
Philippine context
Maria Mangahas, PhD., Associate Professor,
Department of Anthropology, University of the
Philippines
The phenomenon of 'scandals' as digital objects
that are 'made', copied, shared, bought and sold,
and 'pirated' has become quite prominent in the
Philippine context in the last 5 years. Digitized
'scandals' are being made out of various forms of
candid recordings, and scandalous materials are
being creatively remixed and turned into spoofs.
This is happening within the context of thousands
of conversations, communication exchanges, blogs
and broadcasts among networks of Filipinos, now
made possible by diverse ICTechnologies, and
whose circulation (both locally and globally) is
near impossible to regulate and control. This
paper focuses on 'scandals' as a unique genre of
digital product that has gained presence in
everyday life among Filipinos. It will discuss
especially those 'scandals' which may feature
persons in positions of authority or high social
status apparently engaged in improper or
inappropriate behavior. The 'Hello Garci' case
involved the highest official in the land, and
allowed people to explore further the potential
of ICT in creative political action, with
continuity to the evolving political tradition of
'people power'. We can view the 'scandal'
phenomenon participated in by Filipinos as both
commentary and action, playing no small part in
the reproduction of the national imaginary.
Tales from the Phonographic Oceans: The Story of
"Yess Records", 1977-1988, Bandung, Indonesia
Yuka Narendra, Faculty of Communication, University of Mercu Buana, Jakarta
Cassette is the most common medium used in
Indonesian music industry since the seventies
until now. The growth of the production of
cassette in Indonesia was started since the local
record companies initiated the reproduction (and
duplication) of non-Indonesian vinyl albums to
cassettes and released them in the music market
in the early seventies. Each one of those record
companies then confined themselves in specific
genres. One of those companies was "Yess," which
was founded by three young vinyl-collectors in
Bandung, West Java. After a few years of
operation, Yess took its mark as an unpopular and
non-commercial subgenres in rock, such as
progressive rock, experimental rock and new age.
Through such non-mainstream musical knowledge and
cassette consumption, the consumers of Yess
collectively imagined a particular condition of
Indonesian modernity. This imagination of
modernity was a paradox to what was being
narrated by global capitalism and the state at
that time. Therefore, as a pirate of foreign
vinyl records, we need to reconsider on Yess'
position and reconfigure the meaning of music
piracy in a more multidimensional manner. It
could not be valued and regarded normatively as
immoral pirates who stole other's intellectual
property rights. Conversely, Yess played a
significant role in constructing Indonesian
youth's intellectuality and furthermore, produced
a great deal of "Indonesian newborn
intellectuals."
Can We Own Music?
Technology and Inequalities in Case of Dangdut Music in Indonesia
Dr. Lilawati Kurnia
Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta
Science and technology are instrumental to the
creation and maintenance of inequality within and
between societies . Science and technology do not
merely cause or alleviate inequality but are more
profoundly implicated in social relations to
distribution and access. The term distribution is
used in its dynamic meaning which refers to the
process of producing and re-producing
inequalities . Inequality is the unequal
distribution of something people value, such as
income, health, entertainment and power. The
average person would regard going into a store
and pocketing a tangible piece of physical
property is as something essentially different
from copy piracy. The human mind finds the
concept of intellectual property much more
abstract, slippery, and nebulous than the concept
of physical property. When most consumers buy a
book or CD recording, their perception is of
having purchased a physical item more than the
concept of its intellectual content. Of course, a
CD, the cost of the physical medium represents a
small fraction of the purchase price, but the
perception is still that property is something
one can see and touch and keep, even for people
who intellectually know better. With the example
of the Dang-Dut (pronounced dunk-doot) I will
show that the music itself is a construction of
many cultural elements and has been used and
reused by so many people with different cultural
backgound for ages. It is the technology that has
made music to be “owned" by some and in that so
created inequalities in the society of the world.
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