march 26 - 28, 2008 toronto, canada
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DemoCamp/ICE08 Blogging Contest @ ICE08Congratulations to the ICE08/DemoCamp Blogging Contest Winners!Mark Kuznicki: http://remarkk.com/ Chris Ragobeer: http://www.ragobeer.com/
Remarkk.com - March 14Innovation. Creativity. Enterprise.
A vision for Canada’s future in digital and interactive media and technology… In 2018, Canada has embraced its role as a model power of digital innovation and become a key node in the emerging global network economy. Accelerating technological change has altered human behaviour patterns and radically reduced the transaction costs of communication, negotiation and enforcement between and among firms and individual creators. The web is us. We are increasingly aware of each other, our interdependency and the artifacts of our physical lives made digital. We are also rediscovering lost aspects of ourselves through our heightened relationship with the Other. Canada’s digital citizens have embraced the creative age and are rediscovering their individual creative agency, sense of purpose and values. Significant private and public investment in ultra-broadband fibre and the continuous march of accelerating technological change is reducing the cost of moving bits towards zero, both over fixed and wireless networks. This inevitable technosocial reality has reconfigured the relationship between creator, content and audience. Infinitely abundant digital content itself has been transformed. Content is currency, signal and signifier of resources that are naturally scarce: attention, the rare and valuable relationship between creator and audience, unique experiences of transcendent collectivity and the appreciation of rare social and physical objects of culture. Canada’s media and technology industry underwent a painful transformation process, remaking the supply chain from a few large companies into open commercialization networks of micro-enterprises building social web tools and embracing the economics of abundance. The new Canadian broadband and media conglomerates embraced their roles as pools of brand-power and capital within a broader open commercialization ecosystem. They shifted their business models and attention towards the edges, embracing the 1% as important to their future adding new venture investment arms attached to their innovation groups. Together, this tightly interwoven but loosely structured network economy is accelerating through time, projecting the cultural creative values of Canadians into a hopeful shared global future.
ragobeer.com - march 8
The future is me. | ICE08We Twitter to people, Facebook with friends, Google for information and Blog about news that becomes old by the time we click Submit. Yes, we live in a world of constant communication and rapid-fire information exchange. The future of the tech and media landscape in Canada is what we envision it. It is within all of us to create: the best photographs in the world have yet to be taken, the most influential companies have yet to be started, and the most entertaining media has yet to be appreciated. I believe that I hold the key to Canada's future in the media and technology world, just as much as you should believe YOU hold the key as well!
Our innovation will come from places of deep thought, great inspiration, and solutions to problems aching among the masses. We won't create hoverboard's like in Back to the Future, or conquer the shyness problem anytime soon. We will, however, continue to create meaningful things that bring people closer together. Whether it be through discussion, interaction, or flame wars on Google Chat, we will create the media we want to see. Our creativity will spawn from the necessity of personalization and uniqueness. I may want to be like Mike, but I can't. I can't be like anybody else and my creations will be a result of me being me. People will more and more evolve within themselves. It will be a difficult enterprise -- one that will be cautioned by critics. But the more difficult the undertaking, the richer the return. We will be challenged by a bar set too high and maybe even boundaries that were not meant to be broken. I say to hell with it, start creating! The people who will be leading us forward are the ones who are showing their face. The David Crow's, the Jay Goldman's, the Stuart Macdonald's, the Mathew Ingram's, and of course the me's: the people who participate in the discussion, the people who drive results in the products and services they create, and the people who grow the community around them by getting others involved. The future is in all of us to create. The future is ME. .
ABOUT THE DEMOCAMP/ICE08 BLOGGING CONTEST
Innovation. Creativity. Enterprise. ICE 2008 is the platform for showcasing and discussing these themes, bringing together the best in digital media in Canada and abroad. ICE08 looks across the media and tech landscape, identifying the trends and issues that will shape our digital future. We want to know what that future looks like to you – who are the leaders, what are the brightest ideas, and with what tools will the future in Canada be created? What’s your vision?
The Blogging Contest @ ICE08 is an initiative of Democamp Toronto and Interactive Ontario, as part of the collaboration: DemoCamp @ ICE08
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