Round Table Social Media
Censorship and freedom
Citizens in the Middle East and North Africa have been fighting censorship for decades. With the emergence of the Internet and the growing use of social media, opportunies for freedom of speech have increased where they were most needed. We will have renowned bloggers and experts on online activism share the background of online citizen spaces and networks in repressive contexts like Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, the way governments also have used tools such as Twitter bots and Facebook identity policies and the work of citizens, companies and organizations to defend online freedom through tools such as Tor, speak2weet and different Android projects that protect users.
Sami Ben Gharbia (Tunisia) Tunisian activist, blogger and political refugee living in the Netherlands since 1998. He returned to Tunisia in February 20111 after the revolution. He studied Law and Literature in Tunisia before being force to exile. He is the co-founder of the award-winning collective blog Nawaat.org. Sami also serves as Advocacy Director for Global Voices, an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world. Sami is also the author of the French-language forthcoming book titled Borj Eroumi XL, Journey in a hostile world.
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Round Table
The Mediterranean Basin in pictures
This group of photographers will showcase their works in an informal meeting. It's an opportunity to learn the stories behind the images and the techniques used to obtain them. We will be able to observe landscapes, faces and the daily life of the Mediterranean for a visual perception of what surrounds us firsthand.
Speakers:
Victoriano Izquierdo(Spain) is a photographer and blogger in elpais.com, with a blog called Pixel Shooting. Computer engineering student, he collaborates for the German agency Bilderberg, Britain's The Wideangle and Getty Images. Besides he has been editor of the Gizmodo blog about photography XatakaPhoto.
Manila Harizi (Albania) Manila has studied communication and has just finished her masters on translation and interpreting. Throughout her University years her passion for photography has developed as her understanding of the portrayal of human stories and emotions through the said art has grown. She has been working as a photographer for German Associations and for international projects. See her portfolio at: www.manilaharizi.blogspot.com
Ronen Goldman (Israel) an Artist and Conceptual Photographer. He is specialized in creating "Photo-Dreams" - conceptually constructed photographs illustrating his various dream states. He utilizes this type of photography also for commercial advertising needs- representing musicians, artists, bands and other organizations. A Series of his photos has been part of the "World Press Photo" Exhibition held at the'Eretz Israel Museum' In Tel Aviv.
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Workshop Video
Creativity 360º
The participants of this workshop have been give their first steps into 360º video, an immersive way to record. Lead by Antonio V. Garcia-Serrano, project director of Zakato Fotografía Interactiva, they have discovered the techniques and secrets of omnidirectional video, its possibilities and limitations while they have been recording and have been editing a video with these characteristics. Open your mind to 360 video world and learn all you ever want to know about this newest technique looking back conference through Campus TV.
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Conference Social Media
Wael Abbas: Internet and the changes in Egypt
Wael Abbas, a journalist, blogger and Egyptian human rights activist is considered by the BBC one of the most influential people in the Arab world. Among other awards he has been recognized with the “Egyptians Against Corruption” award, which, together with dissemination of irregularities and abuses of the Mumbarak government, led to him generating many enemies in the administration. In 2007 he was elected “Personality of the Middle Easy” by CNN and a year later he was awarded the prestigious Hellman/Hammett Human Rights Watch (2008). Wael has played an important role in the demonstrations in Tahrir Square in Cairo in 2011, which lead to the departure of Mumbarak’s government. He has traveled to many countries to participate in conferences on the Egyptian revolution and the role of social networks and the Internet in the political changes of the Arab world.
Speaker: Wael Abbas (Egypt) has blogged about and collaborated with press to document the harassment against women and has published numerous videos of police brutality and threats in his country, activities that have led to the conviction of Egyptian police torture. He has also been harassed by the Egyptian government and his accounts on YouTube and Yahoo were closed for a while. Wael has followed to political activities in Egypt who had gone unnoticed and ignored by traditional media, such as demonstrations demanding changes in the country or labor strikes, posting videos that show how to rig elections and the violence used by police against peaceful demonstrators.
Round Table Journalism
Traditional Media, Citizen media and new media
The Internet has increased the opportunity for feedback, sharing and exchanging in all fields. In the rapidly changing world of online media development, journalists have a unique opportunity to engage their audience through new tools that allow for participation, but there are also big challenges regarding the business model for journalism and media in a context of crisis of traditional formats. We will discuss how traditional media are transforming themselves to adapt to the digital space, how they coexist with new media that are born digital and with the growing number of citizen media that have filled a very important communication gap within repressive contexts.
Ponentes: Oscar Espritusanto (Spain), founder PeriodismoCiudadano.com. Communications Association President Citizen, which aims to foster the promotion and development of all measures that contribute to the development of public communication. Advisor and consultant from CDTInternet.net , the center of technology diffusion.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldinis (Palestine), digital producer and co-host of “The Stream” a new online community with a daily TV show on Al Jazeera that taps into the extraordinary potential of social media to help us understand the world's untold stories. Before joining Al Jazeera, he worked as a reporter and producer for PBS’s award-winning documentary series Wide Angle and The New York Times. In 2008, his Masters Thesis earned him a Webby Award for “Defining Middle Ground: The Next Generation of Muslim New Yorkers”. Ahmed's work has been featured in a series of online publications including Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Huffington Post and Washington Week.
Hisham Almiraat (Morocco), medical doctor and blogger. He is passionate about citizen media and writes about good governance, human rights, online activism and anything else related to his native Morocco. He is co-founder of TalkMorocco.net, an online forum advocating free speech and cultural dialog. He also co-founded Mamfakinch.com, a pro-democracy militant website promoting citizen journalism. Hisham is a contributing author for Global Voices, an organisation of well over 300 volunteer bloggers and translators dedicated to covering citizen media stories from across the globe.
Juan Luis Sánchez (Spain), Journalist and expert in communication and digital strategy. Co-founder of New Journalism Human digital media, led by Javier Bauluz, Pulitzer Prize. He has worked in the Cadena SER, has been head of Own Production and Digital Communication at Expo Zaragoza and he has combined coordination work with the realization of their own news content.
Olga Rodríguez Francisco (Spain), she has developed her professional carreer in media such as Cadena SER, El País, Cuatro and CNN +. She is currently working with the newspaper Público as a reporter and columnist but also with RNE and periodismohumano.com, among others. During her career, she has worked in Afghanistan, U.S., Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mexico, Syria, and Yemen, among others. She has been awarded with the Prix International Press Club for Best Work Report for her reporting from Gaza and Ciudad Juarez in 2006, Peace Pen in 2005, collective Prize Ortega y Gasset in 2003 and Turia Award for Best Media Contribution in 2003 for her informative work from Baghdad, from where she covered the entire invasion of Iraq.
Round Table Animation
Drawing lines turn into stories
United States, Japan, Canada ... When we speak of great references in animation field, these names always come to our minds. But, in recent decades, the situation is changing and smaller companies are increasingly appearing and are able to stand up to multinationals. They have a unique style of design, great stories to tell and a great quality without question. This panel will discuss creative process, how a Mediterranean company works and how it's not longer necessary to be on the other side of the world to work in a reference company.
Speaker: Gabriel García, (Spain) Co-supervising animator on Kandor Graphics and Co-director of the Master in Animation 3D characters. Supinfocom graduate, one of the most renowned European school of animation and 3D. In 2005, after having directed his first short film "Workin'Progress", arrived at Kandor Graphics where, in short, becomes Animation Supervisor of "The Missing Lynx," the first movie of the company and Goya Award for Best animated feature in 2008. Later, he oversees the short film "The lady and the reaper" with which not only Kandor got its second Goya Award in 2009, but the Oscar nomination. Gabriel Garcia's relationship with Kandor Graphics is confirmed by the co-supervision feature animation currently in production, "Goleor" (working title). In addition, he is co-director of the Master in 3D animation for characters that Kandor Graphics is organizing with the University of Granada.
Mohanad Hasan (Egypt) DArt director, composer and expert in motion graphics. His graduation film "Nour" was awarded by the Jury at the Nacional Cinema Festival of El Cairo and winner at the Cinema Festival START of Baku. He has been working at studios such as TimeCode Post Production; DS Animation Studio o Graphic Aroma.
Candas Sisman (Turkey) Founder of Silo 1 company, with his friends. Since 2006 he has received many awards such as an honorary mention from Ars Electronica in Computer Animation/ Film /VFX category and Video and Sound Design best prize at Rome Viedram Festival .He has participated at many important festivals like Nemo Digital Arts and Film Festival and Fiber Audiovisual network Festival. Candaş Şişman recently realized Yekpare projection mapping with Deniz Kader and Nerdworking within İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture activities and performed Stereoscopic Audiovisual among Babylon Audiovisual Monday activities.
Moderator:Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (Spain), filmaker and graphic designer, a visual communicator whose work moves freely between art and design. His clients include multinational companies such as MTV and artists and institutions like the National Dance Company. In 2006, he won the artistic creation scholarship of FABRICA, the center of visual communication research of Benneton Group, through which he has collaborated with the magazine COLORS and participated in the traveling exhibition curated by the Centre George Pompidou in Paris.
Round Table Revolution Creativity
Redefining the world
The last decade has been a time of change in which many concepts have been redefined to suit the times. Initiatives and projects have emerged that are transforming the world and creating new ideas for changing minds. At Campus Party Millennium, meet some of these initiatives who seek to change the world using technology.
Speakers: Open Bank (Ismail Chaib, Argelia) OOpen Bank is a project of social entrepreneurship, an international initiative that seeks to obtain transparency in the financial industry. This project is led by Ismail Chaib, a leading technology blogger and social media enthusiast.
"YaLa - Young Leaders" (The Peres Center for Peace, NGO), a Facebook-based movement aimed at young people in the Middle East to foster discussion and create an agenda and a vision of peace together, focusing on the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis.
Francisco Polo (Spain), Founder of Actuable and the new Director for Spain of Change.org, the largest online activism platform in the world. Actuable is an online community of people and organizations joining forces to fight against injustice by saying to governments, companies and other major players in our changing society what we want. In addition, Francisco was the coordinator of Amnesty International in Barcelona at the age of 20 years and promoter of the Activist campaign Say NO to Cluster Bombs
Moderator:Jose A. Corraliza (Spain) Professor of Social and Environmental Psychology and Director of the Department of Social Psychology and Methodology of the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has led several research projects to study the social implications on sustainability, ecological responsibility and the redefinition of urban environments.
Conference Tecnology and Peace
From Internet for Peace to Augmented Democracy
Riccardo Luna is the developer of the Internet Initiative for Peace. He was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, and argues that the Internet was born for peace, is free, democratic and interactive. Despite efforts to silence its voice, the web has spread all over the world. It has become the largest communication platform that humanity has ever know.
Speaker: Riccardo Luna (Italy), Italian journalist and writer, is editor for innovation at La Repubblica. Luna was the editor of Wired Magazine Italy until 2011. His career is dotted with many achievements, such as the foundation of the first periodical devoted to college students, Campus, or the newspapers Rome, the first devoted to a computer. In 2001, during his time at The Republic, he spent several months traveling the world and in Silicon Valley to study the Internet revolution with the gurus of the digital revolution (Google, Ebay, Microsoft).
Round Table Creativity
Digital Creatives presented by Yorokobu
Creativity has evolved from a concept into the realm of publishers and artists to become the base of changes in a world that evolves at the speed of light. In these turbulent times, the success or failure of new proposals for change depends entirely on the creative and innovative capacity worldwide. In this roundtable we will talk about digital creativity in all its fields, with a review of what is being done and what can be done in art, ecology, urban planning, social issues...
Speakers: Mar Abad (Spain) is the cofounder of the content company Brand & Roses. She is the editor of the Yorokobu journal and deputy director of the magazine Ling. Previously, Mar spent several years as a journalist (AP, CNN Atlanta, Cars, Five Days…) and in advertising (Wysiwyg, McCann Erickson).
Maya Zankoul (Lebanon) graphic/UX-UI designer and illustrator, mostly known for her sarcastic cartoons and comics published in her books and webcomic blog, Amalgam. Among her work is the avatar creation app zankoulizer.me and her comic blog mayazankoul.com. She is the founder of design studio Maya Zankoul Design who works in mobile apps design, illustration for magazines and visual art..
Pedro Mujica (Spain), CEO and founding partner of Wecolab, a Co-creation lab dedicated to Research Design Trends and interactive experiences on mobile devices, Web and Social Media. Engineer in Computer Science for the past 14 years, has worked as Creative Director of Technology at major interactive media agencies for global brands like Coca-Cola, Nike, Microsoft, Audi or Volkswagen.
Ries Straver (Holland) is a creative consultant and video maker with a background in art, design and carpentry. His work ranges from documenting the experiential momentum to scripted, concept based narrative and interactive installations. He has written, produced and directed dozens of independent and commissioned video related projects, and screened internationally to high critical acclaim for his unique blend of cultural commentary and nuanced humor. Currently, Ries Straver works as Head of Media at Fabrica, Benetton's Communication Research Center, where he leads a team of international video makers, animators, and motion designers.
Round Table Social Media
Private vs Open Source Networks
Social Media like Facebook, Youtube or Twitter have brought visibility and room for expression to citizens in repressive contexts. These platforms, however, pose challenges to activists, who share their activity and information on spaces where they do not have full control of their data and privacy. In this context, open source platforms have emerged to grant users full control of their data, freedom and privacy, although that means reaching to a lower number of citizens. We will discuss with representatives of different social platforms to discover advantages, threats and opportunities of the different options.
Speakers:
Leila Nachawati (Spain) is a
contributor to Global Voices Online, International Aerco Representative
(Spanish Association of Community) and blogger in Journalism Human. She also
collaborates with Al Jazeera. She has worked on various social projects with
NGOs such as the Movement for Peace, Disarmament and Liberty. Lelia is
interested in new forms of communication and in the defense of human rights,
with a special tie to freedom of expression.
Patricia Cartes (Spain) started working on the technology industry in 2006 when she joined Google's Webspam team. After building an expertise in site integrity, she joined Facebook's User Operations team in February 2009 to lead our support efforts for Southern Europe. She's also managed our Intellectual Property, Safety and Policy teams in EMEA, focusing on legal issues as well as suicide prevention and content policies. She graduated from Universitat Pompeu Fabra with a degree on Translation and Interpreting.
Alexandra Haché (Spain) Sociologist, PhD in social economics and researcher on ICT for the public good. She contributes to Lorea, a project developing free and federated social networks self-managed by civil society and designed to reclaim our technological sovereignty. She is a founding member of the cyberfeminist activist research Donestech which investigates relationships between women and technology. She recently completed a post-doctoral position for the JRC-IPTS where she investigated the european field of digital inclusion and social inclusion through ICT.
Enric Senabre (Spain) is a member of the Platoniq, where he is part of the team that dynamize Goteo.org, a collective financing platform for open source projects and open licenses. It is also associate professor of Media Studies at the UOC, deputy director of the Observatory for the CyberSociety and active member in various online communities such as Mozilla or Wikipedia.
Activity Photography
Photowalk around Granada
Lovers of photography always have a camera in hand, looking for the perfect shot. During Campus Party Millennium, we invite you to take to the streets and explore the hidden corners of the city of Granada; immortalizing the moments, objects and details that catch your attention.
Coordinator: Alex Casado (Spain), works as a digital creative. He has experience creating 3D content and video production, both shooting and editing or postproduction. He has produced and directed projects in a wide audiovisual sector, like engineer companies in Dubai or companies that collaborate in CEAMA with the University of Granada. CEAMA is the place where aero and hydrodinamic tests for sport science (skiing, sailing, cycling and so on) takes place. He has also shooted music videos for bands like Lorimeyers and festivals such as Granada Byte Festival. He is currently working as an active partner at Cuacs Study, developing projects like Europan or the content distribution platform.
Conference Music
Live as an independent artist – and as a political artist
Rayess Bek is a reference when we talk about music and Internet. In this lecture he will try to answer two questions: Is it possible today to live as an independent artist? What does it mean to be a political artist? What is the link between those 2 questions? Since the music industry is decreasing, musicians are struggling to live from their music. Some say Internet is taking over record labels and record stores. Will the artist survive without this economical infra structure? Is there new ways of selling music or shall we re-think the music itself? Can an artist function like a small company? Do underground political artists have more chance to survive than the mainstream artists? Based on his experience in Europe and the Arab world, he will try to give some answers to these questions.
Speaker: Rayess Bek (Lebanon) In a time when all the rappers in the Middle East lunched English and French albums, Wael (aka Rayess Bek) decided to flip the script and rap in Arabic. His lyrics – always bright, sharp and committed – they talk about Lebanon, its crisis, its war, his youth and disillusionment with the politics of the new generation. Rayess Bek and his new band, The Rayess Bek Orchestra, blend traditional instruments and electronic bases to create orchestral hip-hop with his own label.
Round Table Social Media Health
Health 2.0. From strategy to reality
Nowadays, there are many strategic concepts that are put on the table, there are many actors who build this new scenario and independently contribute to spread the ideal and the strategy. This panel aims to unite the three major players in the world Health: Healthcare Professionals, Managers, Management, Technology, Business and Health Sector Patients, who are already involved in the development and implementation of realities. Participants in this table are fully involved with all new technologies 2.0 and believe in them as one of the most valuable tools in the health paradigm shift.
Speakers:Julio Mayol (Spain) es is Director of the Innovation Unit of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos, where he is Head of the Section of General Surgery and Digestive Diseases. He also serves as Professor of Surgery at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Jesus Mari Larrañaga Garitano (España)Director Gerente de la Comarca de Bilbao de Atención Primaria, del Servicio Vasco de Salud
Luis Jaime Gómez Vázquez (Spain)Managing Director of the Primary Care of Bilbao County, Basque Health Service Jaime Luis Gómez Vázquez (Spain) Strategy Consultant of Technology Innovation . Ehealth technical advisor at the Technical Secretariat of Health of the Basque Government. Founder and Director of Business Development of Mandarinna Consulting and Solutions Architect in the enterprise project management EVM.
Mónica López Lázaro. (Spain) Communication manager of GAES Hearing Centres.