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Find out about NBPC's Technology Now, New Media conference

The National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) in partnership with public television station, WGBH, is convened on the WGBH campus in Boston, Mass, with an influential group of content-producers, technology strategists and architects and public television leaders to look into the future of public media produced by and for people of color in the new digital world.

Hip hop and new media pioneer, and former Media That Matters Film Festival host, Chuck D. of Public Enemy, PBS president, Paula Kerger, and award-winning ABC and NPR journalist, Michel Martin, gave keynote addresses throughout the conference calling on a bold, new and diverse media. Other attendees include filmmaker and MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient, Louis Massiah, Orlando Bagwell of The Ford Foundation, Andrea Taylor of the Microsoft Corporation, John Henry Thompson, one of the chief architects of Macromedia, and Keith Brown, executive vice president of BET News.

Details on all funded projects for NBPC’s inaugural Technology & New Media Institute session can be found here: NBPC Announces Winners for 2006 Technology & New Media Institute

We look forward to presenting these projects in better detail with the coming weeks, and hope to help them blossom into spectacular examples of the true potential of new media.

Check out what was talked about at the conference, post your comments and find out how you can collabore in upcoming events around New Media with the NBPC, visit the conference blog The Technology Now conference blog was compiled in collaboration with selected students from historically black colleges and universities - Maxine Bowen, Wendell Hassan Marsh & Kenneth Cummings.

"NBPC believes that the Internet, portable devices and all related digital media offer the potential to engage a truly diverse American public in innumerable and wide-ranging conversations about all aspects of American society. But we realize that, in order for this to happen, media makers of color -- interested in telling stories that would otherwise be left untold in purely commercial media outlets -- must be equipped with the skills and tools needed to take advantage of the latest digital production and distribution technologies," says Jacquie Jones, Executive Director of NBPC. To that end, concurrently with NBPC's Technology Now! Leadership Summit, NBPC is holding a three-day hands-on, interactive, new media skills development workshop for independent filmmakers from around the country."

Starts12/06/2006
Ends01/31/2007
IssuesGender/Women, Media, Politics/Government, Racial Justice, Censorship, Digital Divide, Digital Media, Fair Representation, Media Literacy
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Posted on December 11, 2006 in Event / Call to action by Anayansi