The
Tompkins County Public Library, in participation with the Finger Lakes
Environmental Film Festival, will host “The Collaborative Web: Using the
Internet to Create a Brighter Future,” a discussion by Swidjit Founder Alex
Colket, Saturday March 31 at Noon in the BorgWarner Community Room.
A Cornell alum and environmental activist, Colket will discuss how the internet—through organization, cooperation and unity-- can be used to repair the environmental, social and economic problems plaguing the nation. His talk will focus on the emergence of the collaborative economy, a peer-to-peer marketplace, where technology restores, with ease, old-market behaviors such as trading, sharing and local currency.
During this hour-long presentation, Colket will also provide an overview of Swidjit, his newly-developed social media tool that aims to facilitate the “economy of the future,” and answer questions from the audience.
Colket is a board member for Sustainable Tompkins and the founder of the brain game website, http://www.playwithyourmind.com.
Launched in 1997, The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. For more information or a schedule of 2012 FLEFF events, visit http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/FLEFFfilms2012/.
For more information about Library programs, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
A Cornell alum and environmental activist, Colket will discuss how the internet—through organization, cooperation and unity-- can be used to repair the environmental, social and economic problems plaguing the nation. His talk will focus on the emergence of the collaborative economy, a peer-to-peer marketplace, where technology restores, with ease, old-market behaviors such as trading, sharing and local currency.
During this hour-long presentation, Colket will also provide an overview of Swidjit, his newly-developed social media tool that aims to facilitate the “economy of the future,” and answer questions from the audience.
Colket is a board member for Sustainable Tompkins and the founder of the brain game website, http://www.playwithyourmind.com.
Launched in 1997, The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College embraces and interrogates sustainability across all of its forms: economic, social, ecological, political, cultural, technological, and aesthetic. For more information or a schedule of 2012 FLEFF events, visit http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/FLEFFfilms2012/.
For more information about Library programs, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
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