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Expert Workshops at CITS are opportunities for leading thinkers with common interests to explore new approaches in a workshop setting.

Newspaper 2.0 was a one-day workshop in 2007 to explore challenges and opportunities in the new Internet-enabled newspaper marketplace. The workshop brought together journalists, scholars and leading thinkers who shared a common interest in the future of daily and weekly journals with a particular interest in Santa Barbara as a region where new approaches might be explored.

Information from the UCSB Visitors' Center

Santa Barbara Airport is the recommended way to get to Santa Barbara.

Taxi services in Santa Barbara:
* City Cab (805) 968-6868
* Blue Dolphin Cab (805) 962-6886
* Rose Cab (805) 564-2600
* Yellow Cab Co. (805) 963-4111

The Design Charrette will be held at the Upham Hotel, located in downtown Santa Barbara. Please mention the Center for Information Technology and Society when booking. Call 1-800-727-0876 for reservations.

Address:
1404 De la Vina Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Design charrettes are designed to be immersive experiences that move quickly and require full engagement. That means our schedule is different than most events you have attended in two ways: (1) it is fully packed with what appears to be a breakneck pace, and (2) instead of formal breaks where group energy across all groups dissipates, we will ask that individuals excuse themselves for a short break whenever they need a break while their groups continue working. Lunch will be the only large group break.

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The SB Forums on Digital Transitions offers a place to meet, discuss, and learn about social dimensions of the digital communications revolution in a workshop-style setting. The Forum brings together leading thinkers from universities, industry, media, foundations, and the not-for-profit world to exchange ideas about the dynamic interplay among information technology, social activity, and human psychological processes.

The Santa Barbara Forums bring together leading thinkers from universities, industry, media, foundations, and the not-for-profit world to exchange ideas about the dynamic interplay among information technology, social activity, and human psychological processes. Discussion and deliberation-focused panels, expert workshops, and design charrettes examine cutting-edge trends and long-term social transformations resulting from the use of information technologies, as well as exploring how to improve engineering with social insights.

Digital Transitions

Expert Workshops

Design Charrettes