reinvention

from bramilo.weblogs.com

I launched Intercreate (http://www.intercreate.net) on 10 January 2002.

Intercreate is a web portal about community cultural development and new technologies. It provides spaces and facilities for online sharing of information, discussion of issues, and for hosting online CCD events. Intercreate hopes to assist artists, technologists, and others interested in community cultural development to make things and solve problems together online.

As specified in my Fellowship plan, a “community arts portal will be set up as a venue to explore and foster CCD online, particularly through facilitating the sharing of information and discussion of issues related to CCD and new technologies, and through hosting online CCD events. Intercreate is that community arts portal.

The portal is basic and does not have much content at the moment. I announced the setting up of Intercreate on several mailing lists (including ccd_debate, ccd_interns, o18) and emailed some contacts, inviting contirbutions. Intercreate, I explained, is a community-driven site and as such depends on content input from users.

I’m hoping many users sign up and use the space, although I am not expecting this to happen in a month or two.

Intercreate also seeks to complement the National CCD Web Site, www.ccd.net. That site, scheduled for launching in March 2002, has broader coverage of CCD matters while Intercreate focuses on the CCD and new technologies issues. To maintain the complementation between the two sites, Intercreate will seek to focus on its own areas of interest through the selection of topics and activities it hosts and facilitates; broader CCD matters will be referred to www.ccd.net.

I’m a member of the Steering Committee of the National CCD Web Site. The development of Intercreate was informed by discussions about the nature of the National CCD Web Site. The Steering Committee is aware of the plan to set up Intercreate and lines of communication are open for coordination between the two sites.

For more information on Intercreate, visit www.intercreate.net.