As my London self, I’ve done some work with the always-rad #media2012 folks lately. #media2012 is a collaborative project aimed at using London’s 2012 Olympics to help create a positive, citizen-focused media legacy in the region. Says #media2012: “We propose to build artist-led community media hubs around the UK and in London during Games time, which will draw in stories from the Nations and Regions, affecting the core media narrative about the Games and building a new media legacy for the Olympic Movement.”

My participation has included representing #media2012 as a student citizen journalist at the [very official] PODiUM conference for higher education and the Olympics [see a story on our participation here, and my photos from the event here], and I’m looking at other ways to involve the collaborative’s potential in London pre-Olympics community building. The reason I’m such a big fan of #media2012 [outside of the awesome people who started it, including Andy Miah and Jennifer M Jones] is because it reminds me of the work all of us Vancouver community organizers did with the W2 Media + Culture House to build citizen empowerment around Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics. Here’s hoping #media2012 can build an even more successful coalition of cool and empowered folk in 2012!