Opening Address at National Digital Forum 2012

1. Opening Address
Vikram Kumar @vikram_nz

2. “When faced with a totally new situation,
we tend always to attach ourselves to the
objects, to the flavor of the most recent
past.
We look at the present through a rear view
mirror. We march backwards into the
future.”
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore,
The Medium is the Massage, 1967
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3. TED Talks- Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_p_campbell_weaving_narratives_in_museum_galleries.html
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4. “When faced with a totally new situation,
we tend always to attach ourselves to the
objects, to the flavor of the most recent
past.
We look at the present through a rear view
mirror. We march backwards into the
future.”
Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore,
The Medium is the Massage, 1967
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5. could
should
Don’t extrapolate the past to define the future
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6. kaumātua
Conceptually, is the future of the GLAM sector
the kaumātua of New Zealand?
Kaumatua smoking a pipe, Taupo. Whites Aviation Ltd :Photographs.
Ref: WA-12476-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
http://beta.natlib.govt.nz/records/22718289
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7. A medium affects the society in which it
plays a role. Not by the content delivered
through it, but by the characteristics of the
medium itself.
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8. 1. Ubiquitous
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9. UC CEISMIC QuakeStories
http://www.quakestories.govt.nz/
HITLabNZ CityViewAR (Augmented Reality)
http://www.hitlabnz.org/index.php/products/cityviewar
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10. 2. End-to-end principle,
layered architecture
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11. Intelligent Agents need
Metadata, Relationships
Images Explorers
Books Space Shuttle
Events Transit of
Stories Venus
People Mt Cook
Captain James Cook
on a Semantic Web
Source http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3149051974
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12. 3. Everyone can be
a producer
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13. Source http://pinterest.com/phyllis333/good-books/
Source http://www.digitalnz.org/
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14. 4. Openness
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15. Deep Engagement
Source http://www.thekermadecs.org/news-and-blogs/blog-vulnerable-communities Source http://www.ourfarsouth.org/
Source https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/
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16. 5. Bottom-up
evolution
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17. New Areas of Collaboration
Source until 2013 http://tvnz.co.nz/tvnz7learninghub
Source http://www.londonartcollege.co.uk/
Source http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/online/short/subject.php?course_subject=History_of_Art
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18. 6. Global, universal
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19. Source http://www.webbs.co.nz/
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20. And yet, sometimes, the Internet is
simply about communications
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21. From the British Museum's Parthenon collection
True-to-life, 3D printing assembly
Cosmo Wenman http://www.cosmowenman.com/
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22. Final Words
Are we marching backwards into the
future?
What future do you want?
Use the next 2 days to fit the pieces
together.
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23. Thank you
except slide 3 and 6
Vikram Kumar
CE, InternetNZ
Email: vikram@internetnz.net.nz
Twitter: @vikram_nz 23