Guardian’s Activate NYC Conference Off to a Slow Start
A rapid-fire Power Point presentation, a call for revolution, but little said
“I want to thank our panelists for teeing up what will be a great day of debate,” said Emily Bell, the director of Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Thursday morning as she concluded the opening session of the Guardian's Activate New York conference at the Paley Center for Media.
Bell may have been a little too positive. Despite an impressive roster of panelists—including MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Frog Design’s Robert Fabricant, and Internet activist and Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig—the opening addresses and panel debate (“How do we create a better world through the networked world?”) yielded little more than extended elevator pitches and abstract celebrations of philanthropy.
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