28 and 29 August 2007 at Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Just what will a fast-changing digital landscape mean for audiences, content creators, broadcasters, platform providers and policy makers?
If we peer into a crystal ball, is there a broadcasting-led but happily converged future, giving boundless content, with viewers increasingly in control of their own digital communities?
OR is this the sad end of free-to-air broadcasting as we know it, with audiences splintered across multiple platforms and Kiwi voices drowned in a sea of global content?
What do we need to do to get to where we want to be?
The New Broadcasting Futures: Out of the Box conference held in Wellington on 28 and 29 August 2007 grappled with the big meaty question: how can New Zealand achieve diversity through digital broadcasting. Hosted by Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey, the conference featured a heady mix of international keynote speakers, workshops, case studies, technology demonstrations and panel discussions.
The conference was also a cross-platform, multi-media project in itself. A team of digital media creatives (Victoria Univesity of Wellington School of Design students) took up the challenge of using the conference as the focus for a project, undertaken before and during the event, with a final presentation session on the second day.
The conference was sponsored by:
