Production Portfolio:
Robert B. Aikens & Associates
LLC: Currently, Dr. Aikens is, among other responsibilities,
developing a Web presence and communications strategy for
this national commercial real estate development company.
Visit the new corporate Web
site to observe how the company is using technology to
sell it's product (main-street life-style centers) to it's
customers (national and local retailers).
KQED Digital Content Strategy Project
and KQED Civic Space: From 2000 to 2002, Dr.
Aikens led digital content strategy at KQED, the largest public
telelvison and public radio broadcater in Northern California.
KQED Civic Space was a pioneering effort to gather visionaries
and imagine the potential of 21st Century public media.
KQED & QUEST: Launched
in 2007, Quest integrates television, radion and interactive
programming to explore science and the natural environment
in the Bay Area. KQED raised $7.5 million to build this project,
which involves content partnerships with other major institutions
in the community. This project developed directly out of the
Digital Content Strategy Project that ran from 2000 to 2002.
KQED and California Stories:
A second outcome of the Digital Content Strategy Project is
California Stories, an innovative multi-platform program effort
in partnership with the California Council for the Humanities.
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Mapping the Assets:
Previously, Dr. Aikens led Mapping the Assets, a project sponsored
to the Ford Foundation,
the
Markle
Foundation and the Goldsmith
Foundation. Working with former NBC News and PBS President Lawrence
Grossman and others, the team set out to ttransform Connecticut Public
Television & Radio
into an interactive hub for content from major regional cultural,
civic, and educational
institutions.
---------- Nexus: The Policy and Ideas Network: Dr. Aikens has
been deeply involved in European politics, acting as developer for Nexus
- The Policy and Ideas Network. In February 1997, Dr. Aikens helped
Nexus develop the UK's first virtual think-tank. As part of this effort
the team ran an online consultation on the nature of the "Third
Way" between "old left" and "new right" in
collaboration with the Prime Minister's Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street.
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Minnesota E-Democracy: Well before work in Connecticut,
Dr. Aikens co-founded Minnesota E-Democracy, the first interactive
political site on the
Net. At MN E-Democracy in 1994, Dr. Aikens produced two Electronic
Debates
[E-Debates]. Candidates for the United States Senate and Governorhip
of Minnesota responded to questions and rebutted each others responses
on the
internet. These were forwarded
into
a forum in which
over 700 citizens participated. In 1996 he again acted as Director
and Producer of the E-Debates. The team also developed on-going
partnerships with the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the League of Women
Voters of
Minnesota,
Minnesota Public Radio, and others.
From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Aikens worked with Minnesota E-Democracy as
a volunteer, suggesting
they
were creating an important
model
for digital
age
deliberative democracy. The results of these experiments formed the
basis of Aikens's
Ph.D..
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UK Citizens Online Democracy: Dr. Aikens
is also a founding member and Board Director of UK Citizens Online
Democracy, which was the UK's first national online democracy
service.
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