Keynote Speaker--1:30 to 2:00 PM
Following
lunch, we'll
return to the auditorium to hear our keynote speaker Dirk Koning, Executive
Director of the Community Media Center of Grand Rapids, MI. Dirk, who has
guided GRCMC from a $50,000 a year public access cable television station to a
$2 million per year operation including two television stations, a radio
station, a computer center, civic network, media archive center and research
institute, lectures extensively around the world on community media issues,
serves on several national boards and edits Community Media Review
magazine. In his keynote address, he will look back at the roots of
community media in the early 70's and share his vision for community media of
the future.