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IRG meeting

Last Thursday I attended a meeting put together by the IRG in Madrid. Interesting Agenda.

For those of you in media who look to find the big European picture, it seems to revolve around this project. 

For those of you interested in media & how its archive of recordings might look, it's here.  OK, GP needs more work. (any decent interface designers out there?)

I should point out that IRG is a pow wow for reps from most European countries and/or Ministeries. Read their Roadmap 2010 to get an idea of their ideas of where the pennies should be spent on e-infrastructure. If you're in media, then right down the back of the roadmap is a little paragraph which might speak to you (as much as it did for me). 

3.8 New User Communities

e-IRG recommends that the members states, European Comission and the sustainable e-infrastructre initiatives propose and provide mechanisms that will;

*Identify partners and colaborative processes to support the organisational development of new user communities.

Lastly, in the very last paragraph of 3.9 International Collaboration it says;

The empowering of European experts should be matched with policy-level actions to align procedures, to maximise information exchange, and to strengthen cooperation in international matters.

Considering what we've been through with "helping" TF-Media members to align with the Opencast guys, we an only hope the management of terena, internet2, apan and their intercontinental peers might get into the swing of things. i.e. Helping their global peer groups find one another, at the right time and providing the e-infrastructure in which they can attract their communities of interest.

Tags: media
Posted at 06:12PM Jun 22, 2010 by simon fenton - jones  |  Comments[0]