8.  Developing Collaborative Strategies

If there's an answer to the growing concentration of media ownership in the US, it may well lie in increased collaboration among those organizations and individuals--in the nonprofit sector especially--who are largely ignored by the existing mainstream media.  By pooling resources, sharing information, and working together to insist that local organizations not only have a voice in the community but also access to a digital platform for that voice, we can help realize the promise of the broadband revolution.  Nationally, the Creative Commons offers model structures for resource sharing, evident in such online projects as the Internet Archive's collection of film and video and its live music archive.  At the state/local level, Portal Wisconsin demonstrates the power of networked cultural assets.