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GAMI is the toolkit for news media to embrace transformation, drive innovation, maximize success, and quickly advance the best talents and innovations to the market GAMI connects news professionals, technologists and entrepreneurs in digital media, with bright new talents in universities and media labs worldwide

Newspaper companies have only begun to scratch their innovation potential.

To succeed, they have to learn to look at markets in new ways. They must invest to create new capabilities and rethink the way they work individually and collectively.

CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN

Professor of Business Administration

A change accelerator

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WAN-IFRA, the global network of newspapers and news publishers and technology providers, is opening its network to a broad array of innovation partners: public and private research centres, media labs, start-ups and innovative technology providers, venture capital, and research funding partners to create a comprehensive ecosystem of innovation in news media. Because we believe that news media businesses have only begun to scratch their innovation potential, we encourage them to unlock this potential by teaming up with the incoming generation of talents educated in some of the most advanced engineering universities and J schools around the world. If you wanted to sum up the past decade of the news

ecosystem in a single phrase, it might be this:

Everybody suddenly got a lot more freedom. The

newsmakers, the advertisers, the startups, and,

especially, the people formerly known as the audience

have all been given new freedom to communicate,

narrowly and broadly, outside the old strictures of the

broadcast and publishing models. The past 15 years

have seen an explosion of new tools and techniques,

and, more importantly, new assumptions and

expectations, and these changes have wrecked the old

clarity. The value chain of news organisations has

exploded. This transformation has been boosted by

innovation in both end user technologies and

professional practices, often driven by academic

research and advance collaboration between

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established companies and emerging technology

providers. Legacy news orgnaisations must embrace

this opportunity, and evolve from a culture that is at

times insular, guarded and top-down in its decision

making to one that is collaborative, intellectually

curious and driven by experimentation.

Our Programme

The Global Alliance for Media Innovation (GAMI) aims

to build up an ecosystem where news parofessionals

can imagine and create the next generation of news

products and services. The environment for our

industry for the future is one of constant change and

innovation. This change needs to be both faster and

broader. Our industry requires a reliable flood of new

technologies, products, business models, and talents.

We are witnessing the future of news media being

invented right now, all around the globe, by hundreds

of companies, universities, and entrepreneurs.

However, their separate efforts, research, prototypes,

and roll-outs receive inconsistent attention and analysis.

Many good ideas fail only because of a lack of

development support. Others get hyped beyond their

real value. Vital lessons and examples are not being

widely enough, or rapidly, enough disseminated. GAMI

tracks, sources, and shares these strategic resources to

the beneift of bth technology entrepreneurs and the

news organisations. Our mission is to know what

applied research and innovation efforts are in the works

with growth potential for the news media industry, and

to advance those projects and innovations to the

market.

The Alliance OFFERINGS Rapidly advance the best news media innovations and talents to market

KNOW What applied research and innovation efforts are in the works with potential value to the news media industry

GAMI is a catalyst and a curator

for emerging technology and

service providers and research

labs with growth potential in the

news media sector. It keeps the

news publishing international

community up to date about latest

trends and actionable research

programs. It promotes the

adoption of innovative solutions

by media companies

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CONNECT Those various efforts to partners and resources so that they might reach their potential

GAMI’s brain trust, including its

partners and affiliate members,

screen sand maps international

technology and consumer

innovation best practices and

players.

It serves as disseminator and

technology transfer platform, be it

by raising awarness on cutting

edge initiatives published on our

blogs, or solutions, developers,

enablers, and projects connected

SHARE R&D resources and apply to collective calls for R&D international funding programmes

We facilitate technology transfer

between research and business

by setting up research teams

collaborating on national and

international calls. We provide

news organisations with services

to access international pre

competitive, multi disciplinary

research and innovation

programs initiated by private and

public funding partners,

particularly the Horizon 2020

European R&D framework

DEVELOP Technology and skill set roadmaps to execute innovation in your business organisation

So news organisations can

self-assess where they are

compared to others and

better see the steps they

could take to improve

capabilities or execution on

engagement and/or revenues

SERVICE OFFERING

Critical news and insights on

best practices, periodical

Technical reports, online

knowledge and business

platform.

SERVICE OFFERING

"Media Innovation Map" online

business platform, knowledge

sharing conferences, hands on

workshops, and meet-up sessions.

SERVICE OFFERING

Coordination and support

actions on collaborative

international and national

research & innovation

programmes.

SERVICE OFFERING

Training, Education

programs, coaching and

knowledge transfer

platforms.

 

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Start the conversation with our international brain trust of partners: Medias Suisses, NextMedia Norway, The Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Newspapers, AFP Agence France-Presse, RBS, The Sacramento Bee, Yedioth Ahronoth,, Rossiya Segodnya, Zaman Group, Independent Media (Pty) ltd, EPFL, Université de Neuchâtel, University Central Lancashire (UCLAN), iMinds Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Aalto University Business School, NTNU Trondheim, PUCRS Porto Alegre, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) University of Texas at Austin….and many others. Want to learn more? Contact Stephen Fozard, Director miHUB * stephen.fozard@wan-ifra.org

An initiative open to all WAN-IFRA members, GAMI offers Partner programs to academic and research centers, as well as Advertising packages and Prime spots to suppliers.

Benefits USER AFFILIATE MEMBER PARTNER

Media Innovation Map (upload and consultation)

1 free pass to the Hub’s international and local programme of events

“Tech Briefs” Access granted to the HUB special reports

Discount of up to 50% on all WAN-IFRA event participation

Full WAN-IFRA member benefits

Governance participation to the HUB’s future activities

Up to 6 free passes to all WAN-IFRA / MiHUB joint-events

Your organization and its affiliates are featured at selected industry events

Granted access to miMAP premium program

Promotional package in miHUB publications (blogs, reports, magazine..)

international R&I programs : Consortium coordination for application

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Cooperate,    do  business  with,  get  together,  hook  up,  interface,  join  forces,  boost  projects,  co-­‐create,  team  up,  work  with  partners,  co-­‐produce,  generate  economy  of  scale,  attract  new  talents,  create  synergies,  reduce  risk…  

n for news organisations GAMI is your toolkit to embrace transformation, drive innovation, reduce risk, and advance the best talents, products and services to the market ➽ Learn about the next trends and anticipate what

will be the next disruption for the news industry.

➽ Map the market of potential tech partners that will contribute to your new revenue streams.

➽ As new possibilities of information gathering, sense-making and distribution proliferate, organisations are taking advantage of working methods unavailable even 10 years ago : GAMI offers you tailored training programmes to coach your team to those new methods

➽ Team-up with business partners, build co-fund your next generation of news services and products by joining calls for international public-private R&D programs.

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n for tech entrepreneurs GAMI maps the media innovation ecosystem, and connects the community of tech entrepreneurs, research labs and media businesses worldwide

➽ Distribution Channels for your products and

services (Expo, Global and regional events, online business platform).

➽ Expand your market exposure to an international audience of digital business developers in the news industry.

➽ GAMI helps you identifying curators and mentors in the news industry.

➽ Join international calls for research programs and fund your development program through public-private partnerships.

n for academic medialabs

You have the talents, the skills, and the xpertise that drive the future of the digital sociaty and you are looking to intensify your capacity to tranfser these technologies and talents to the market and grow the relevance of your academic programmes

➽ Identify your industrial partners to boost your technology transfer units.

➽ Build up your research projects with international business and academic partners.

➽ Advance your talents, entrepreneurs supported in your incubators or tech accelerators to the market.