In the last three decades, a Common Ground has been paved in developing technologies that seek to remove the barriers to scholarly communication. In each phase, we had built media platforms to support spaces for multidisciplinary dialogue before such approaches were in vogue. These approaches connected international voices when disciplines were too often isolated in national silos and supported an agenda of access and equality by offering pathways and opportunities for diverse voices in Humanities and Sciences.

We now propose another kind of intervention to build a scholarly communication infrastructure for a blended future of knowledge production and learning.

Our blended model seeks to transcend physical boundaries by offering a platform to extend in-person conference content online while ensuring that the online-only delegates are offered equal participatory and experiential spaces within the platform. At the same time, the model offers participants a legacy resource to which they can return in the Event application, with access to a social space in our community application where fellow participants can keep connected long after the conference ends.