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A lab is a space dedicated to a specific theme, project, or medium, and is an overarching ‘track’ that will run during the iSummit programme. Different session formats will take place within the labs. When submitting your session idea for the iSummit ‘08, you should choose a lab that best suits the theme of your proposal.

Open Education: A track dedicated to knowledge-sharing among open education practitioners and the development of new global initiatives to spread open educational tools, policies and practice to countries around the world.

To connect with this lab’s participants, join the mailing list at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/icic

Creative Commons Japan: A Japanese-language track coordinated by the ccJapan team to debate and discuss the commons in relation to Japan, and to plan how to spread ideas about Free Culture and the Commons.

(Mailing list coming soon!)

Open Business: A track designed to both introduce newcomers to the basic concepts of open business tools and practices such as the newly-launched CC+ protocol as well as to collaborate on new global initiatives that will further the goals of the open business community.

To connect with this lab’s participants, join the mailing list at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/isummitbusiness

Commons research: A track dedicated to the ‘First International Research Workshop on Free Culture’. This lab will gather academics and researchers who are interested in furthering scholarship in the Commons and Free Culture, providing a space for them to share the results of their work and develop ideas for further collaboration.

To connect with this lab’s participants, join the mailing list at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-research

Local context global commons: A track that will showcase regional and local approaches to the concept of Free Culture around the world - and will highlight initiatives such as Wikipedia and Global Voices that are developing innovative approaches to the localisation of global projects.

To connect with this lab’s participants, join the mailing list at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/isummitglobalcommons

DIY video: A track that will showcase (through screenings), discuss and analyse (through screening discussions) the intersection between the Commons and do-it-yourself video production around the world.

To connect with this lab’s participants, join the mailing list at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/isummitvideo

Feel free to subscribe to any of the lab mailing lists that are of interest to you. Join the list to decide which lab would best suit your submission proposal. The lab list will be used to coordinate between participants of the lab and to introduce lab participants to one another, to develop specific goals for the overarching labs and to discuss next steps after the iSummit. Once you have subscribed to a lab list, introduce yourself and your programme idea to other participants.

Pictures: Lonely education, by willgame on flickr.com, CC BY-NC 2.0; Japanese art, by P!gGi on flickr.com, CC BY 2.0; coins, by Maddie Digital on flickr.com, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; research, by suttonhoo on flickr.com, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0; globe, by Kieran Lynam on flickr.com, CC BY 2.0; you’re on Candid Camera!, by Odd Bod on flickr.com, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0