After the Digital Agenda Assembly in Brussels

1,300 participants, 24 parallel workshops and several plenary sessions made up the Digital Agenda Assembly held in Brussels on 16 and 17 June, to which we were invited as a result of the Museu Picasso’s co-organizing of Europeana hackathons. The discussions gave rise to a wealth of proposals for ways of improving Europe’s digital ecosystem and making it more open, innovative and competitive. In a nutshell: more content, more accessible. This means ‘content’ in the dual sense of creating new material and digitizing existing, and ‘accessible’ in the broadest sense of the term, capable of being accessed, understood, co-created and reused by users in open and interoperable systems. Transparency, innovation and openness were the key concepts of the get-together.

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Art Museums and Social Networks Fill the MUSAC

The auditorium full, the adjacentbig-screen viewing room full as well, a total of 600 connections to the live streaming broadcast, and a really massive participation on Twitter demonstratedthe high level of interest in the topic and the willingness to learn and share among practising and trainee members ofthe museological professions.

The façade of the MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in León, which hosted the one-day Workshop on Social Networks and Contemporary Art Centres and Museums, 1 April 2011. Photo: Conxa Rodà

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