The mission of the Participatory Culture Foundation is to build an open and democratic television platform - built on creativity and collaboration:
Television is the defining medium of our culture. There's now an opportunity to create a television culture that is fluid, diverse, exciting, and beautiful. Built by people working together.
The platform is open-source and built on open-standards. This matters because it keeps video flowing freely. When you lock people in to closed, proprietary services, you lose everything that makes the internet work.
Television is moving online. Will it be the same narrow, top-down cultural stagnation that we see on traditional television? All the major media and computer companies are clamoring to control video online. If they succeed it will be a disaster.
We don't have to spend years playing catch-up. Open-source and open-standards can lead this fight for the future of video online.
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