The Internet has fundamentally changed the way we live, work and communicate.
 It has had a profound impact on all areas of the economy, including the creative industries.  Both Internet and digitization have opened up myriad possibilities for collaboration; online platforms have given people the tools and resources they need to organize themselves in new ways.

It's enabled people to create and distribute their own content and create content with others. It has democratized the creation of creative content, and in so doing, challenged traditional industry models in film, music and publishing. New stars are rising from YouTube and MySpace; writers and artists are showcasing their works on blogs and websites; and online tools such as wikis are enabling a new kind of collaboration. There are platforms for information, for connecting (including social networking sites), for co-production and funding (or crowd funding). New platforms, projects and collaborations are popping up all over the globe.

The impact of digitization on the creative industry, part 1
Today at 4pm-6pm CET at Waag Society/UCAM

This meeting we focus on art and design practitioners in Brazil and the Netherlands:

- What are their ideas about the impact of digitization on the creative industry? How do they prepare for the constantly changing professional field?
- What is happening in Brazil? What is happening in the Netherlands?
- What can the creative industry in the Netherlands and in Brazil gain from each other in terms of new ideas, new expertise, new business or new production chains?
- Is there interest in closer connections between the 2 countries and is there interest in experimenting with new digital and online possibilities like the facilities of Dialogue Cafe, which enables artist and designers to start an intercultural/ international collaboration?


In this meeting we will explore the professional field of art and design in Brazil and the Netherlands and their mutual interest. We will look for possibilities to tighten the relations between Brazil and the Netherlands by initiating a collaboration project between artist, designers and art foundations like Funarte in Brazil and Sica and Premsela in the Netherlands, using the facilities of Dialogue Cafe.

Participants:

• Sica (Ellen Sluis), Dutch Centre for International Cultural Activities, about the project Cultural Mapping Brazil
• Waag Society (Ivonne Dings) about Down-loadable design. a project in collaboration with Droog Design, with focus on new ways of collaboration, production, and distribution and a new perspective on ownership.
• Rogerio Lira, graphic designer
• Paul Comenencia - Consul-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
• Washington Fajardo - Subsecretary  of Cultural Heritage, Urban Intervention, Architecture and Design of Rio de Janeiro.
• Maristela Rangel - FUNARTE (Fundação Nacional de Artes)

For more information contact waag@dialoguecafe.org or ucam@dialoguecafe.org

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we are delighted to announce our forthcoming event with SIFE - Student in Free Enterprise - on Friday 19th November at Dialogue Cafe Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro.

Student in Free Enterprise or SIFE, is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to mobilize university students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders.

4pm-6pm (CET), Friday 19 November
Doors open at 3.45pm CET, with drinks from 6pm-7pm CET.
Location: Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam/ UCAM, Rua da Assembléia, 10, Centro, Rio de Janeiro. Entrance is free/ please send an email to christine@waag.org or ucam@dialoguecafe.org, if you would like to join.

Students form teams at their university campuses and apply business concepts to develop outreach projects that improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in need. There's an annual series of regional forums so the teams present the results of their projects, the evaluation is done by business leaders serving as judges. To date, SIFE operates in 39 countries worldwide, with 48,000 students working on 8,700 Team Community Projects and volunteering a total of 4,900,000 hours. 

The national champion team advance to the prestigious SIFE World Cup. In addition to the community aspect of the program, SIFE's leadership and career initiatives create meaningful opportunities for learning and exchange among the participants as well as the placement of students and alumni with companies in search of emerging talent.

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Dialogue Café has invited the teams from Rio de Janeiro and Amsterdam, to meet each other, discuss about the different local challenges in business areas, and to exchange experiences about being part of the SIFE network. In Rio de Janeiro, the team from CEFET will talk to students from SIFE Netherlands.

To find out more about SIFE visit: www.sife.org

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we are delighted to announce our forthcoming event, "All about Arts & Crafts/ New online platforms for sales and collaboration" which will take place on 25th November between Dialogue Cafe Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro.
               
By invitation of Dialogue Café Rio the artisan, design consultant and researcher, Claire Santanna Freeman, will be discussing the challenges for sustainable development of artisanal products in Brazil presented in her book "The productive chain on the Economy of Arts & Crafts in Brazil" (to be published in December) and her last findings in the field of fair trade, sustainable and solidarity production and retail.

Claire S. Freeman, creative producers of handcrafts in Amsterdam and experts that know everything about sales and collaboration platforms like etsy.com and fablab.org will talk about handcrafts and creative ideas to produce, sell, collaborate and work with sustainable resources.

4pm-6pm, Thursday the 25th of November
Doors open at 3.45pm and drinks after the event from 6pm to 7pm. 
Location: Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam/ UCAM, Rua da Assembléia, 10, Centro, Rio de Janeiro
Entrance is free/ please send a mail to christine@waag.org if you want to join

More about the book of Claire Santanna Freeman:
Her book, winner of the Brazilian Association of Cultural Managment monograph thesis 2010 contest, discusses artisans, artisanal product and consumer relationships; discusses Arts & Crafts, Cultural Management, Cultural Economy and Solidarity Economy concepts; presents contemporary democratic possibilities for artisans participation in Brazilian Public Politics; describes Arts & Crafts Economy´s productive chain phases and its presence at the World Wide Web. Through an analysis and statistics research of the decade that ends in 2010 and an experience on teaching and consulting services (2006 to 2008) the present study objectives are: serve as a base for Artisans e Cultural Managers on their search for democratic and sustainable solutions that will benefit these small producers; serve as an aid on planning integrated actions with, directly or indirectly involved, partners on this productive chain; contribute to this particular economy field that lacks with theoretical material approaching the various relevant questions here presented and finally propose a Solidarity Artisans Net Management Model.

More about our participants:

• Etsy enables people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers.The Etsy community spans the globe with buyers and sellers coming from more than 150 countries. Etsy sellers number in the hundreds of thousands.
• At Fablab Amsterdam anyone can realize their ideas, and with the aid of high tech equipment transforming those ideas into prototypes and products. The concept of Fablab was developed by Neil Gershenfeld from MIT during a class 'How to make almost anything'. It's an abbreviation of Fabrication Laboratory.
• The (Un)limited Design Contest functions as an experiment in Open Design - the sharing of creative work in the same manner as open source software. It allows people to use the designs made by others, copy these and even adapt the designs on the conditions that work is attributed, not used commercially, and used with same license.
• Waag Society develops creative technology for social innovation. The foundation researches, develops concepts, pilots and prototypes and acts as an intermediate between the arts, science and the media. Waag Society cooperates with cultural, public and private parties.

More about Dialogue Café
Dialogue Café uses state of the art video conferencing technology to enable face-to-face conversations between diverse groups of people from around the world so that they can share experiences, learn from each other and work together to make the world a better place.