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SUMMARY:Digital public service infrastructures for culture: is a non-comme
 rcial mandate possible? The dotPublic case study
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DESCRIPTION:This talk explores whether it is possible to imagine and devel
 op genuinely non-commercial digital public infrastructures for culture in 
 increasingly platformized media environments. Today\, cultural production 
 and circulation are largely dependent on corporate platforms whose busines
 s models rely on data extraction\, algorithmic visibility and market-drive
 n forms of sustainability. Within this context\, independent audio creator
 s and small production companies face growing difficulties in maintaining 
 cultural autonomy\, economic viability and public visibility outside comme
 rcial ecosystems.\n\nDrawing on debates around Digital Public Infrastructu
 res (DPI)\, Digital Public Spaces (DPS) and Public Service Media (PSM)\, t
 he talk revisits how public service mandates might be extended beyond cont
 ent provision towards the infrastructures of the internet itself. Particul
 ar attention will be paid to dotPublic\, a project proposing a new “publ
 ic service layer of the internet” guided by civic values\, trust\, perma
 nence and accountability rather than commercial imperatives.\n\nBy examini
 ng emerging public and non-commercial infrastructural initiatives\, the se
 ssion will reflect on the possibility of building digital environments tha
 t support culture as a public good rather than as a purely market commodit
 y. The talk contributes to ongoing discussions on internet governance\, cu
 ltural policy and the future of public service in digital societies.\n\n \
 n\nIgnacio Gallego is Associate Professor in the Department of Communicati
 on at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is a member of the Audiovis
 ual Diversity Research Group where he coordinates the line on Production\,
  distribution and consumption of sound-musical content. He completed his d
 octoral thesis on Podcasting as a means of distribution of sound content i
 n 2010. Gallego co-directs the Master in Music Industry and Sound Studies 
 at UC3M\, directs the contents of the Estación Podcast festival and is co
 -chair of the MARS (Music\, Audio\, Radio & Sound) Working Group of the IA
 MCR.\n\nHe is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the OII and he is rese
 arching on the impact and transformation of digital infrastructures on the
  distribution of and access to music\, podcasts and other audio content.\n
 \nTony Ageh is Executive Director of dotPublic\, a research and civic infr
 astructure project developing enforceable standards and a new top-level do
 main for public-serving institutions\, anchored at Trinity College Dublin\
 , where he is also Adjunct Assistant Professor.\n\nHe has held senior lead
 ership roles across media\, libraries\, and digital innovation in the Unit
 ed Kingdom and the United States. At the BBC he led the team that created 
 BBC iPlayer and later served as Controller of Archive Development\, where 
 he oversaw the corporation’s archive strategy. He has also held senior c
 reative and digital leadership roles at the Guardian and Observer newspape
 rs. He subsequently served as Chief Digital Officer at the New York Public
  Library\, where he led major programmes in digitisation\, access\, and pu
 blic engagement.\n\nHis work focuses on the intersection of public institu
 tions\, technology\, and access to knowledge. Through dotPublic\, he is de
 veloping a model for trusted\, publicly governed digital infrastructure\, 
 working with partners across academia\, civil society\, and the cultural s
 ector. He co-leads the dotPublic research programme at Trinity College Dub
 lin’s ADAPT Centre with Professor Dave Lewis.
LAST-MODIFIED:20260611T122620Z
LOCATION:Schwarzman Centre - Room 20.228 OII\, Radcliffe Observatory Quart
 er Woodstock Road    OX2 6GG
SPEAKER:Dr Ignacio Gallego (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)\, Tony Ageh 
 (dotPublic and trinity College Dublin)
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