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<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">CALL
FOR COLLABORATORS<br>
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<big><b>VISUALIZAR'09: PUBLIC DATA, DATA IN PUBLIC<br>
</b></big></font></font><b><font color="#000000"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">International Project Development
Workshop and International Seminar</font></font></b><br>
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>November
12 to 27, 2009 at </b></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain)</b></font></font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><br>
</b></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Deadline for registrations:
November 11, 2009<br>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://medialab-prado.es/visualizar">http://medialab-prado.es/visualizar</a><br>
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</font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This
new
edition will focus on the implications of using data structure
visualization to aid in public processes of decision-making. </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The goal is to offer new ways to
make public data available to everyone, in formats that make it
possible to reuse them
and foster citizen innovation processes. Topics such as water wasting,
patent registrations, Internet piracy, H1N1evolution or the use of
social networks in politics will be addressed.</font><font
color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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</font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Collaborators
can join any of the developing teams that will carry out
the selected proposals, depending on their particular interests and
skills, thus contributing with their knowledge and skills and at the
same time learning from the other group members and from the leading
tutors: Ben Cerveny (Stamen), Aaron Koblin, and Manuel Lima, with the
support of Bestiario collective.<br>
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</font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Collaborators' profile: </font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The call is
aimed at artists, engineers, programmers, </font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">software
developers, </font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">designers, film & video
makers, architects, hackers, psychologists, sociologists, journalists,
ecologists, physicists, chemists, biologists or any other person
interested in participating in the development of selected proposals.<br>
<br>
</font></font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Medialab-Prado
will cover for the stay of a limited number of participants.</font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br>
</font></font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">No
entry fees.<br>
<br>
</font><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Event
directed
by José Luis de Vicente.</font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>More information and online
submission form: </b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://medialab-prado.es/article/visualizar09_call_for_collaborators">http://medialab-prado.es/article/visualizar09_call_for_collaborators</a><br>
visualizar (at) medialab-prado.es<br>
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Venue: <b>Medialab-Prado</b><br>
Plaza de las Letras<br>
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid (Spain)<br>
T. +34 914 202 754
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Nerea García Garmendia
Comunicación / Press
Medialab-Prado
Área de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Plaza de las Letras
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid
Tfno. +34 914 202 754
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:difusion@medialab-prado.es">difusion@medialab-prado.es</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.medialab-prado.es">www.medialab-prado.es</a>
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