Digital City Project with Marc Canter (founder Macromedia - ex silicon valleyite

Click here to register: http://bit.ly/47h7x0

Sept. 2 - 6:30-8:30

Chocolate Cafe - 1855 Northwest Blvd
Columbus, OH 43212-1631
(614) 485-2233

The Digital City project will focus on three areas: workforce development, creating on-line interactive multimedia and building an open platform of shared servers and open data for all to utilize. Marc Canter (original founder of Macromedia) will be leading the effort, teaching a course at CWRU and forming a 'Regional Alliance' to help fund and foster matching 'haves' to 'have nots'. The idea is to use social media to get ex-auto workers, welfare moms, senior level nurses and a wide range of trainees 'comfortable' using computers - and then intern them to experts in a wide range of job skills. All jobs in the future will require basic tech skills and the Digital City project will open source the software necessary to get trainees comfortable - around the world. The Pilot in here in Ohio so come and meet Marc and see how you can help make this happen!

About Marc:
Marc Canter is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produces People Aggregator, a social networking tool with source available (but not under an open source license).Previously, he was a founder of the company that became Macromedia. His blog, Marc's Voice, frequently critiques other Internet luminaries and competitors, such as Mark Zuckerberg.Known for his boisterous appearances at technology conferences, Canter makes no secret of his left-leaning politics, identifying himself as a "red diaper baby" (i.e. politically left-wing since infancy) at the 2005 Gnomedex meeting in Seattle.

Canter is also a contributor to many open standards efforts and advocates for end-user controlled digital identities and content - being a co-founder of the "Identity Gang",and a co-signer of the Social Web Users' Bill of Rights.He has consulted with global corporations including PCCW and Intel and has written on the multimedia industry, micro-content publishing and social networking.

Sept. 2 - 6:30-8:30

Chocolate Cafe - 1855 Northwest Blvd
Columbus, OH 43212-1631
(614) 485-2233