Help Coordinate The Emerging Media Community of Practice
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planning augmented reality sustainable development research forecasting coordinatingThaumazo is a nonprofit focused on bringing people together to ideate, create and document projects aimed at the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The Emerging Media Community of Practice (EM CoP) is a University of British Columbia initiative intended to bring together researchers, developers, designers, and educators committed to building a community of practice focused on the development of emerging media technologies for human good.
Thaumazo is supporting EM CoP in developing a coordinator role to help build their membership, organize regular meetings of their membership and develop other opportunities for members to share knowledge and ideas, and to collaborate.
EM CoP’s work fits under UN SDG 4.4:
Quality Education:
By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
The student will:
- Facilitate the planning & coordination of regular meetings of the EM CoP Membership
- Organize and meet with the EM CoP organizing committee and the EM CoP advisory committee. These committees consist of academic and industry leaders from across Canada with a focus on emerging media.
- Contact potential presenters.
- Update and maintain existing EM CoP materials.
- Propose and develop initiatives that help support EM CoP’s core purposes:
1. Provide a forward-looking forum in which we share current projects and bring expertise to forecasting and shaping the future of this area - 2. Provide a stimulating environment in which we solve concrete challenges in and around immersive technology concerning education and research
- 3. Provide a strong network to bring opportunities to collaborate across different communities that care about the role of virtual/augmented reality in education and research
The student will be in contact with the advisory and organizing committees for guidance and support.
The student will also have some logistics support from UBC’s Emerging Media Lab, for items such as website updates.
About the company
Charitable Purpose:
To address global challenges (as outlined by the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals), by initiating, facilitating and encouraging collaborative projects, by creating, collecting and curating technical and informational resources and by building and facilitating community for the benefit of humankind.
Mission
Our mission is to provide support to people passionate about working to make the world better - in their personal growth, their professional skills, experience and network, and their projects and opportunities to creatively bring their passion to bear on practical work in the world.
Our work is to make it ever easier for people of any age, background, skillset and domain of interest to work successfully and in the way they choose to improve their world.
This mission is accomplished through resources, community, partnerships and projects.