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From Co-Existence to Conviviality A leap into Direct Reality By Gilbert Cattoire www.directreality.com Spring 1995, Sarajevo What were 3 journalists and a telecom engineer doing in Sarajevo in March ‘95, with laptops and satellite phones, building a satellite IP link ? ►A web forum between Sarajevo & the “Rest Of The World” Sarajevo Alive - Sarajevo Online ► The Official Project A gesture of solidarity with the local daily Oslobodjenje. Official assignement was to interview a few selected personalities Political debates were to be avoided. Sarajevo Alive - Sarajevo Online ► Backed ►& by Unesco a Syndication of 30 international newspapers (La Stampa, El Pais, Süd Deutsche Zeitung, Yomiuri Shimbun, The Guardian,…) Sarajevo Alive - Sarajevo Online ► The Accident The team took the decision to let any inhabitant express themselves on whatever topic they wanted All postings were published unedited and uncensored Sarajevo Alive - Sarajevo Online ► The resulting content was a breakthrough in war journalism: A besieged city's online diary, updated daily, to which people all over the world responded spontaneously. Sarajevo Alive - Sarajevo Online ► Access to the service was easy The website was updated twice daily via email The feed was also available via a mailing list ► Emotional response was overwhelming. Internet as a medium was beyond doubt the “hottest” of all. From Co-Existence to Conviviality ► Enabled by digital communications, the audience fits quite naturally as an integral part of the information process, influencing the course of events as they happen. ► Journalism is evolving away from its mandatory lecture mode to include conversations and actions. A Leap into Direct Reality ► Because exposure to news is disintermediated, allowing participants to participate and litteraly direct reality from a personal, first-hand perspective, as opposed to the passive mass media experience were reality is being directed for you. ► And because this leads to no less than a new political proposition. New cultures, new social interactions are pushing people through the Internet door, from coexistence to conviviality. From Co-Existence to Conviviality ► ...there is more to news than zapping ► ...there is more to politics than blind alleys ► Of course we all knew all this all the time. ► But where was it for so long? And where are we going? From Co-Existence to Conviviality ► the Internet is an “evolution catalyst” blogs are a perfect illustration, Wikis (watch out for them) are even more symptomatic. From Co-Existence to Conviviality ► both the offer and the demand for such direct experiences are reaching people beyond the usual sphere of “social activists”... ► ... at least expanding it to a new degree A Leap into Direct Reality ► “Let everyone talk, publish everything (don’t edit), favour dialogues”: the spontaneous principles that let Sarajevo Online make the news have since become mainstream with blogs. ► Making webloging technology available to anyone was indeed a genial intuition. Communicate + Collaborate = Participate ► People are willing to participate if they are given the means to collaborate and communicate. ► Sounds obvious but was hardly ever the case until the Internet came along. Communicate + Collaborate = Participate ► It feels good to know that there’s more to progress than the emerging reality of intelligent machines. ► We’re direct. still in the evolutionary game, live and