Report on the Forum on Quaero

On: October 4, 2007
Print Friendly, PDF & Email
About Erik Borra
Erik Borra is assistant professor in Journalism and New Media at the University of Amsterdam.

Website
http://www.erikborra.net    

As part of Open-Search, I was invited to participate in the Forum on Quaero at the Jan van Eyck Acadamie in Maastricht, September 29 and 30, 2007. The purpose of the forum was to question and investigate the European intentions to build a search engine and, broader, to investigate the cultural, political, and philosophical issues related to information search and access. It turned out to be a critique on centralized search engines and a plea for systems like Open-Search: decentralized, open and privacy respecting. My elaborate report and impression of the two day forum on Quaero can be read at the Open-Search Blog.

Comments are closed.