Open Doors
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Open Doors,
Programming Civil Society Media in the Netherlands, An Exemplary Guide, by Syb Groeneveld
This book builds on the Digital Pioneers fund that gives financial and organisational support to civil society initiatives on the Internet. Since December 2002 the fund has supported 136 projects out of 938 applications in the Netherlands.
The first part of this book analyses how civil society enters and opens the media landscape of commercial and public service media. It explains how organisations, groups and projects which fit into the basic non-state non commercial model of civil society, produce media and e-services. They form a new online social midfield.
After this introduction the book describes 22 civil society media projects that are supported by the Digital Pioneer Fund. It shows how the combined activities of small-scale
organisations on Internet have a huge impact. These 22 Digital Pioneer projects were plotted on the imaginary map of main railroads in the Netherlands. This eight railroad lines represent the eight different segments of Dutch civil society. Some major Civil Society Media trends are also indicated on the respective lines. Moreover key intersections between the trends can be discovered as well as projects running parallel to more than one segment of society.
A further analysis of the projects and their services is made in chapter four. The book introduces the term 'Civil e-services' which refers to services that are not market or profit driven but intended to have value for specific community of users. It turns out that many Civil Society Media projects transform to social entrepreneurs which develop, implement & market succesful civil e-services.
In the
'The way it works' section
of the book, the methodology of the Digital Pioneer programme is
explained. Apart from being a financier of the projects, the specific
ways in which projects are scouted, selected, advised on and monitored
within the programme are discussed. Aggregated data of the projects and
financial statistics are presented to further clarify how the programme
has stimulated social innovation on the Internet.
'Open Doors' finishes with a vision of what is needed to nurture the development of a strong, independent and pluriform media landscape that acknowledges the role of small-scale civil society media (CSM) initiatives:
- Stimulate CSM in start-up/production
- Create & build stronger relations within CSM
- Foster exchange knowledge & skills between CSM
- Provide hallmark for civil e-services
- Promote cooperation CSM with commercial and public media
- Assure use open standards/software/content
- Start extensive research and monitoring programme to identify and upscale successful projects
Read this book as a practical and inspirational guide. It is meant for anyone interested in understanding how social innovation, peer production and grass root projects work in an open online environment.
Amsterdam, 28 September 2007
Syb Groeneveld
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syb@sybski.ru
About the Author
The author, Syb Groeneveld (1971), initiated the Digital Pioneers fund in 2002. Syb is interested in anything that has to do with transformations: from nation states, legal systems to media environments.
A political scientist by training, he has focused over the past few years on copyright and Internet. Since 2004 he has been co-public project leader for Creative Commons in the Netherlands. This initiative offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. CC has built upon the ‘all rights reserved’ of traditional copyright to create a voluntary ‘some rights reserved’ copyright.
Since September 2007 Syb has lived and worked in Moscow. He runs his own blog at www.sybski.ru
Colophon
Published by: Knowledgeland, P O Box 2960, 1000 CZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, www.knowledgeland.org + 31 20 5756 720
Author: Syb Groeneveld
Editor: Jane Milne-Colling
Design, illustrations & photos: Karin Langeveld, Trapped in Suburbia, www.trappedinsuburbia.nl
Printed by: Drukkerij Moretus. www.moretus.nl
ISBN: 978-90-78236-04-7
Tags: 1. Civil society, 2. Social innovation, 3. Open business models, 4. Media policy
This publication was made possible by the generous support of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
© Copyright, Stichting Nederland Kennisland, Amsterdam, 2007
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