Conference Reports


Day 1, 12th January, 2010

9:00 – 9:45 Opening Session

  • Nishant Shah (CIS)
  • Geert Lovink (INC)
  • Rut Jesus & Anne Goldenberg Artists

9:45 – 12:15 Session 1 Wiki Theory

  • Pramod Nayar Hyderabad
  • Stuart Geiger
  • Beatriz Martin
  • Dipti Kulkarni
  • Geert Lovink (INC)

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch


13:15 – 15:00 Session 2 Global Politics of Exclusion

  • Mark Graham Trinity
  • Graham Trinity
  • Alok Nandi Architempo
  • Dror Kamir
  • Asha Achuthan

15:00 – 15:15 Tea/Coffee Break


15:15 – 16:45 Session 3 Critique of Free and Open

  • Linda Gross
  • Heather Ford
  • Elad Wieder
  • Nathaniel Tkacz
  • Sunil Abraham

16:45 – 17:30 Round table

19:30 Conference Dinner for all presenters and organisers



Day 2, 13th January, 2010

7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast


9:00 – 11:30 Session 4 Wikipedia and Education



  • Usha Raman
  • Eric Ilya Lee
  • Roy Krovel Oslo
  • Ivan Martinez
  • Nupoor Rawal & Srikiet Tadepalli
  • Amie Parry

11:30 – 11:45 Tea/Coffee break


11:45 – 13: 30 Session 5 Wikipedia and The Place of Resistance

  • Louis Suarez-Potts
  • William Buetler
  • Anas Tawileh
  • Yi-Ping Tsou
  • Tejaswini Niranjana

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:30 Session 6 Wikipedia and Critique of Western Knowledge Production

  • Johanna Niesyto
  • Eric Zimmerman
  • Shunling Chen
  • Stian Haklev
  • Anja Kovacs

16:30 – 16:45 Tea/Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:30 Session 8 Wikipedia and Art

  • Isaac Mao
  • Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern
  • Rut Jesus and Anne Goldenberg
  • Shai Herdia


17:30 – 18:00 Synthesis: Round Table