Call for Participation: Crowdfunding@Civilmedia 2011

Radiofabrik, the community radio station in Salzburg, has organised the UnConference Civilmedia for many years now. The next event “Community Media for Social Change” will take place April 14-16 at a new location at Salzburg University’s “Science & Arts Centre”.

I have the pleasure to host the thematic stream about Crowdfunding on Saturday morning, April 16.

Financing community media activities has always been a challenge. But with the rise of the Internet and Social Media new options are explored. Crowdfunding closely related to crowdsourcing describes the co-operation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money together in order to support efforts initiated by other people or organisations. The term Crowdfunding is usually applied to raising money for planned future projects whereas the term Social Payment refers to small remunerations for content already produced.
Crowdfunding & Social Payment are an innovative and still experimental approach to finance (online) content and projects utilising Web 2.0 paradigms. Among well-known platforms are Kickstarter.com, Kachingle.com and Flattr.com.
This Civilmedia stream is looking forward to contributions like:

• Good practice Crowdfunding for community media and other domains
• Crowdfunding platforms
• Social Payment systems
• Compatibility with community media ethics
• Participation, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding

The intention of this stream is to give an overview on existing projects and to try to develop ideas for further action. Please submit your proposal to David Röthler david {at} roethler.at
Please, post your proposal/abstract as well to http://wiki.civilmedia.eu/index.php/Crowdfunding_%26_Social_Payment
This stream will be transmitted live online through a video conference system. Anyone interested can follow and contribute online as well
Online resources: http://www.delicious.com/davidro/crowdfunding http://www.delicious.com/davidro/crowdsourcing

I am specifically interested to discuss as well aspects of crowdsourcing and social commerce in regard to Crowdfunding and social payments. As Civilmedia is EU-funded there is the possibility to cover your travel and subsistence costs partly. For those not able to come to Salzburg online participation and presentation will be made possible via online conferencing (Adobe Connect).

From webinar friedrich-ebert-stiftung februar 2011