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2 The University of Toronto’s Knowledge Media Design Institute : KMDI  Designing & critiquing the media, technologies and policies of the Knowledge Society  At the nexus of Design ▪ Technology ▪ Social and Human Sciences  Intellectual incubator http://kmdi.utoronto.ca … UofT’s first Virtual Institute (1995)

3 A few facts :  More than 65 faculty from > 25 disciplines  30 Masters & PhD students & 8 KMDI Fellows  Visiting Professor and Senior Fellows Program  Partnerships with government & industry. Characterised by: Human centredness Interdisciplinarity Collaboration Innovation …21st Century Network Organisation Project 2 Project 1 Project 3

4 Collaboration Environments for Work & Learning Design Use Evaluation 15 years of research: KITL

5 Some projects  ePresence Interactive Media  NECTAR: Network for Effective Collaboration Technologies through Advanced Research ePresence Live! ePresence Media ePresence Open Source Consortium

6 KMDI’s Project Open Source | Open Access Interactive media OS OA $500,000 3-year Project on the phenomenon of ‘openness’ open.utoronto.ca open.utoronto.ca

7 Student Experience Programs Project OS|OA Awards  Up to $2000/student  over 40 projects, Supervised by faculty, with undergraduates and graduate students working in all aspects of ‘openness’ MediaGenerator –KMDI & Institute for Communication & Culture (UTM) –Undergraduate student-led, graduate and faulty supported project to imagine the student media of the 21 st Century http://mediagenerator.cahttp://mediagenerator.ca

8 Further information: Professor Gale Moore Director KMDI gmoore@kmdi.utoronto.ca info@open.utoronto.ca

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