GK3 online interactions
08-Nov-09
During the year 2007 I had the opportunity to work with the organization team for the 3rd Global Knowldge Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. GK3 would bring together over 2,000 visionaries, international leaders, practitioners and policy-makers to engage on different conferences and activities around three themes: Emerging People, Emerging Markets, and Emerging Technologies.
As part of GK3. we planned a variety of online interactions and online events will engage a broader audience, leveraging a suite of collaborative technologies to link face-to-face events with expert and grassroots voices from around the globe. The idea behind the interactions website (developed in Drupal) was to amplify the voices of those who would not make it to the conference in person. We tried to take advantage of web video, audio, voice over IP, mailing lists and other media to communicate with a wide audience of practitioners in different continents. We used Skype, podcasts, twitter and youtube to integrate media that people were already using as part of their daily work.
During the event, GK3 online published photographs, videos, interviews, audio files and accounts of the sessions from the conference floor in Malaysia. Some of the materials and archive information can still be found on the site, at GK3onlineinteractions.net


