[Sigia-l] Lansdown Lecture: BBC 2.0 - Time to re-invent the British Broadcasting Corporation? -- LONDON Wed 25 April at 16:45

[Stephen Boyd Davis]

What does technological change do to the strategies of a major broadcaster?
I hope this is of interest to the list.

Stephen

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Lansdown Lecture: BBC 2.0 - Time to re-invent the British Broadcasting
Corporation? 
Speaker: Jon Kingsbury, Head of External Supply, BBC Future Media &
Technology

+ Date: Wednesday 25 April 2007

+ Time: 4:45pm for one hour

+ Location: Middlesex University, London, EN4 8HT
    Cat Hill Campus: Room 97.

Admission is free.

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Lansdown Lecture: BBC 2.0 - Time to re-invent the British Broadcasting
Corporation?
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Jon Kingsbury, Head of External Supply, BBC Future Media & Technology

BBC 2.0 - Time to re-invent the British Broadcasting Corporation?

With the explosion of multi-channel television and radio, the rise of the
internet and a creative wave of digital technology, is it time to re-invent
the BBC's public services?

Jon Kingsbury explores why the BBC needs to change radically and what its
options are for the next 5 years.

About the speaker
Jon Kingsbury is Head of External Supply at BBC Future Media & Technology.
His job is to champion the use of external innovation within the
organisation. He has been at the BBC for seven years holding a number of
senior editorial/commissioning roles. In 2003 he supported Philip Graf in
his independent DCMS review of the BBCs online services.

Prior to the BBC, Jon helped launch and then run the Channel 4 website,
www.channel4.com.

He is a graduate of Middlesex University and Imperial College, London.


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Any enquires to Stephen Boyd Davis:  s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk

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Forthcoming Lansdown Lectures:



+ Paul Brown - Tuesday 1 May 2007
Paul Brown, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience
and Robotics and Department of Informatics, University of Sussex on
Drawbots: Computational Intelligence, Creativity and Cognition

Paul will talk about the Drawbots project and the philosophical and artistic
issues of mechanised artwork, set in the context of his own long-term
artistic investigations.


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Stephen Boyd Davis 
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts  EN4 8HT
United Kingdom 
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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The Centre's Web Pages are at http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/
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