Blueprint Building congress at RJI-Mizzou

[Paul Trevithick]

For the past two years embers of the Information Card community have been active participants in working with Bill Densmore and the Journalism community on promising use cases and intersections. The ICF's first E.D. Charles Andres attended the first  of Bill's events a couple years ago in Missouri, and I've attended some meetings in D.C. and other places. 

In 12 days the next opportunity to explore the intersection of i-cards, trust frameworks, user-centric identity and the world of online Journalism presents itself. 

See http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Infotrust

Bill is looking for ICF members who could participate and help move this forward as founders, builders and architects.

--Paul

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bill Densmore <dens...@infotrust.org>

Date: June 11, 2010 5:07:42 PM EDT

Subject: REMINDER: 12 days until Blueprint Building congress at RJI-Mizzou -- join us or sign up for updates

NEWSPAPER CONSORTIUM TO UNVEIL PLAN FOR MANAGING INFO USAGE/PAYMENTS;
INFORMATION TRUST ASSOCIATION IDEA BROACHED JUNE 23-25 AT MISSOURI

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- What will finance journalism in the digital age?

More than 18 months of research, six months developing a business plan, and
multiple open meetings set the stage for a major announcement on June 24 at the
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of
Journalism.

On that day, a task force of U.S. newspaper publishers and state press
associations will unveil a 148-page business plan for the American Newspaper
Digital Access Corp., a news-industry consortium for managing information usage
and payments on the web.

At the same time, RJI will lay out a proposal for a non-profit standard- and
protocol organization, the Information Trust Assocation, and seek input on how
it should be governed and supported.

TO REGISTER:
http://www.infotrust.org

TO JOIN OUR MAILING LIST:
mailto:upd...@infotrust.org

"From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information" is an
action congress for trust, identity and Internet information commerce serving
newspapers and beyond.

"These ideas have been in the oven for awhile, but neither is completely
baked," says Bill Densmore, a consulting researcher at Reynolds who is helping
with "Blueprint to Building." "Consider joining us in Columbia from Wed.
afternoon, June 23 through Fri. afternoon, June 25, to lend a hand in the
kitchen."

Among fellow "chefs" will be members of the Multistate Digital Task Force,
experts from The Associated Press (to talk about AP Exchange and other
intiatives) and several vendors, including CircLabs Inc., Clickshare Service
Corp., CentraMart Inc., and GeoTel Corp.

For more than 15 years, there's been a need for a clearing house and
infrastructure to manage identity and digital information commerce on the web.

If you are a news, magazine or other publishing executive, a technologist
working in the areas of trust, identity management or information commerce, a
resarcher with important data on those topics, or a citizen concerned about the
future and sustainability of journalism, you should attend "From Blueprint to
Building" -- or ask for email updates.

TO LEARN MORE:
SEE: http://wwww.rjiblog.org/blueprint-congress

TO PRINT A ONE-PAGE FLYER:
http://www.newshare.com/blueprint.pdf

TO RECALL THE RESEARCH START:
http://www.newshare.com/blueprint-2008.pdf

WHEN/WHERE
============

June 23-25, 2010 / Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of
Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Full registration, including meals: $95.00.

WHY
==========

Eighteen months ago, about 60 people gathered on the American prairie and set
out to describe a blueprint for a new information economy that would be based
upon trust, identity and commerce. On June 24, at that same prairie meeting
spot, some of them will start building it. Do you want to be among the 80
founders, architects and builders? You're invited.

BACKGROUND
=============

This is not a conference, or a summit. It's a public ***congress*** -- of news
and information service providers -- organized by U.S. state press associations
and the Reynolds Institute, an ideas-experiments-research center affiliated
with the Missouri School of Journalism, the nation's oldest.

In this ultra-fast-moving information ecosystem, we have two intentions:

-- Consider establishing a non-profit collaborative that will specify
standards, platforms and protocols for a digital information marketplace;
supporting investment and partnering with operating companies and,

-- Define and start raising money for an operating company or association that
answers to, and primarily serves and benefits, ***all*** America's newspapers
-- and is focused on profitably sharing, protecting and managing their digital
content.

WE'RE OPEN
===============

Questions? Do you have a paper or presentation you want to add to our
pre-congress reading list? Materials about a service or product you'd like to
have made available? Contact us at be...@infotrust.org


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Bill Densmore, Consultant
Reynolds Journalism Institute
201 RJI Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia MO 65211
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