ABC Pool is a social media site where people can share and engage with creative work and collaborate with the people who make it. It’s a place to upload images, text, audio, and video. Anyone, any age, anywhere can contribute to Pool.
ABC Pool is run by the Australian public broadcaster and has a number of projects to which people can contribute independently or co-create with others. It’s a place to meet collaborators, and Creative Commons licensing provides a way for people to share work in a safe legal framework.
The project introduces new forms of Web 2.0 public media with the ABC as curator of citizen/audience contributions.
User-led innovation is the foundation of ABC Pool’s culture.
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Established by
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio Multiplatform and Content Development
Started on
August 2008
Outcomes
Collaborative projects that bring the ABC into partnership with with citizens, community groups, government and education organisations. Projects like My Tribea large scale collaboration between ABC Pool, the making public, the education sector and external media and communication industry partners.
Creative Commons rights frameworks for citizens and ABC to enable remix and re-use in a safe legal framework.
ABC Innovation Blue Sky and Australian Gov 2.0 Task force Innovators awards (Large Agency).
Release of ABC Archives and News footage under Creative Commons licences for community re-use.
In the view of the Taskforce, ABC Pool was a great example of a publicly-funded agency using Web 2.0 tools to revolutionise the way it does business. (see http://gov2.net.au/blog/2009/11/19/structured-brainstorming-winners/)
ABC Pool has strong working relationships with The ARC Centre for Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at QUT, the QUT Faculty of Law - Open Access Knowledge Law project and Creative Commons Clinic, RMIT, Australasian Centre for Interaction Design (ACID). Most recently CCI established a PhD scholarship to research the role of the community manager within ABC Pool, ACID developed design proposals for Pool's new website. and RMIT has created work integrated learning programs.
Media: Amateur Hour The Age Newspaper (Cover story) A2 section 08/08/09
Report: "Pool is unique in the world in regards to its position at the intersection of conventional broadcasting media and participatory media. This intersection is a new territory for media agencies, and is expected to uncover and deal with challenges that will be relevant to the whole media industry." Pool User Research, Australian Centre for Interaction Design, Interim Report, 2009. p10.
Addition details or information
ABC Pool is based on open source content management framework Drupal.
Drupal is notable for having specific eGov features, superior accessibility standards and has been chosen for the rebuild of the US whitehose.gov site.
Categories
Topics: Communication, Community, and Education.
Types: Gov 2.0.
Jurisdictions: Federal.