Web2Rights goes into Europe
December 4th, 2008 by neilI thought I’d better report in from Online Educa in Berlin, where the Web2Rights team have been presenting the IPR toolkit and showing the just released Web2Rights video.
It’s been a busy week for publicity, the Guardian published a full page article about the Web2Rights project in it’s Digital Student supplement. JISC also released the Web2Rights video, this has really made an impact at Online Educa and every time I go to the JISC stand I see someone watching it on the kiosk displays
We had two sessions at Online Educa today.
I was doing a demonstration of the toolkit at the JISC stand, and this was followed by Derek Stephens running an hour long session of a presentation of the project and a Q&A session.
Web2Rights on the JISC stand
Posters going like hotcakes
Derek showing the toolkit
Neil and Derek face the audience of 50 IPR participants
The theme that came from both sessions was that a Web2rights approach would be applicable to a number of European countries and that there are plenty of people wanting to take the toolkit further. We has offers of support for this from Norway, the Netherlands and Germany.
The enthusiasm the particpants had for IPR and the great feedback we had on the toolkit was great (and somewhat unexpected), we gave out 100 IPR posters and it looks like the discussions will be continuing for sometime.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:26 am
The session was indeed surprising as most others were limited to 10-20 minutes, but the participants were clearly very interested in Web2Rights and stayed for a lengthy discussion, despite a couple of technical problems I had with the presentation (despite checking it endlessly before hand :-). Neil kindly joined me on the panel and that helped a lot with the various questions. Overall a great opportunity to showcase the project and the JISC staff on the stand were really helpful. So maybe we can move toward a European version(s).