DOM Vision

Denver Open Media is a project of the Open Media Foundation, a NonProfit Corporation formerly known as Deproduction.  The following explanation of the organization's vision/mission was written in our first years, before launching Denver Open Media, but is still the best explanation for the vision of the organization.

The Open Media Foundation is focused on communications technologies because these technologies of the media, web and TV, have become the dominant forms of social communication. These are the mediums through which most of our social values are shaped and shared. Traditionally, this media has been created by a very privileged few, for consumption by the many, and constructed within a framework that is, at its core, designed entirely to serve advertisers and commercialism.

That "commercial" side of mass communications has a place. We are not interested in combating it (or anything else). We do, however, feel that the commercial media approach is neglecting and dismissing significant human needs to communicate and connect around topics and interests that do not necessarily serve commercial interests. The Open Media Foundation exists to fill that void, and to put the power of the media and technology into the hands of the community.

OMF is not, and has no capacity to be, the voice of the disenfranchised. We are not here to speak for others, but only to help provide them with the services, education, and tools they need to speak for themselves. We provide a spectrum of services and resources that enable individuals and nonprofit organizations to reach across the globe and find others with an interest in connecting and communicating about any issue. We believe the world would be a better place if the barriers to free speech and communication were removed, and if the social dialogue truly represented the diversity of the people.