19May2012

Rhodes Forum

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About Rhodes Forum

Every autumn since 2003 the ancient Greek island of Rhodes hosts a session of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilization" called the Rhodes Forum that brings together public figures and statesmen, academics, religious figures and representatives of the arts, mass media and business spheres from all over the world. The sessions of the WPF "Dialogue of Civilizations" proved the urgency and efficacy of the Forum by brining the focus of world public opinion to the problems of intercultural dialogue and the need to work out instruments to make interaction among cultures and civilizations possible. The results achieved by the Forum give a hope for further harmonization of international relations and strengthening of stability in the world.

International Community

The participants of the Forum’s programs or Rhodes Forum claim that the dialogue of cultures and civilizations is quite possible. According to Vladimir Yakunin, the World Public Forum was constantly working in an international atmosphere of events that seemingly proved quite the opposite. But meeting at the Forum’s events the representatives of different civilizations have reaffirmed each time that beyond political sphere a dialogue on the level of civil society is not only desirable and necessary, but it is also practically possible. "Now the logic of Forum’s development has led us to the need of making this dialogue more substantial; in a way that would generate the functioning structures of a dialogue. Dialogue of Civilizations is called upon to develop a new culture of international partnership, co-operation and interaction, it has to foster new values and bring in new goals to the international community" — said Vladimir Yakunin.

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World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations"

The World Public Forum (WPF) “Dialogue of Civilizations” is a deliberative-consultative body that unites into a single network various international and national nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), representatives of public and state institutions, civil society organizations and faith-based groups, academics, representatives of cultural, spiritual, business, and media spheres from different countries, members of diverse civilizations and cultural traditions, and individuals who share the principles of openness mutual respect which form the basis of the contemporary dialogue of civilizations.

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Rob Kranenburg (BE/NL), Founder of Council, a Think tank on the Internet of Things, Lecturer and researcher at Fontys Applied Sciences, Eindhoven and Liepaja University (MA new media)

van Kranenburg is an innovation and media theorist involved with negociability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubicomp and rfid (radio frequency identification), the relationship between the formal and informal in cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy. He is selfemployed.
Relevant work
January 2010: Projectmanager for the EU project SHARE IT (PEOPLE)
November- December 2009: Evaluator/Expert for the European commission on FP7 Call 5
April 2009 – Founder of Council, a thinktank for the Internet of Things http://www.theinternetofthings.eu
Semester teacher, MA Media Academy, Genk, fall 2009
Semester teacher Frank Mohr, april may 2009
Member of Kenniskring Lectoraat Ambient Intelligence, Fontys, january 2008 -
Head of Programme Public Domain, Waag Society, oct 2007 – april 2009
Co-Programmer of the Conference Recalling RFID (de Balie, 2007)
Programme Manager Interim & Co-director VP 2003- 2006
Teamcoch Medialab Amsterdam, 2006 (0.2)
Senior Lecturer EMMA Interaction Design MA, HKU, Hilversum, 2005-2006 (0.2)
Expert for "Digital Territory (DT) – 2004-2006
Concept definition and implications" for the Cybersecurity team at IPTS (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies), one of seven European Commission research institutes, based in Seville.
Editor of Doors of Perception 7 Flow, 2002.
Programme coordinator media education at the Balie, a centre for cultural and political debate 2000-2002
Teacher/ coordinator at the University of Amsterdam, 2000-2002
Relevant Cultural Policy
Artistic Director of the Sinagpore Agenda, ASEF, 2008
http://singaporeagenda.wordpress.com/about/ Helsinki Agenda
Jury expertise
Member for the ASEF New Media Call, November 2009.
Member of Local Host Programme Committee ISEA2006, and 2009 (Belfast) International Programme Committee ISEA2006 (jury) and cochair of the Working Group Education of the Pacific Rim New Media Committee 2006.
Member of the Scientific Committee of Mobilefest 2006, Sao Paulo
External expert adhoc Committee Media Education Raad voor Cultuur, 2004- 2008
Jury Dutch Internet Society ISOC Awards 2001-2002
Jury Dutch Ministery of Education, ICT and Culture, 2001-2002
Member of the (national) Steering Committee on Media Education 2001-2002

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