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The community-focused approach of Architecture for Humanity in Haiti

Eric Hunting reacts to this article in Shareable about architectural reconstruction efforts in Haiti: “Cameron Sinclair is well known as one of the chief proponents of the new socially responsible architecture movement that has been sweeping across the design community over the past decade. It is no surprise to find he and Architecture for Humanity so [...]

When states become hollow, they become brands

Excerpt from an analysis of the Obama approach by Naomi Klein: “Obama has gone much further, turning the White House into a kind of never-ending reality show starring the lovable Obama clan. This too can be traced to the mid-90s branding craze, when marketers grew tired of the limitations of traditional advertising and began creating three-dimensional [...]

Links for 2010-02-08 [del.icio.us]

  • Never mind the Edupunks…
  • Works – Weblogsky: Jon Lebkowsky's Weblog
  • Science in the Open » Blog Archive » Peer review: What is it good for?
    It hasn’t been a real good week for peer review. In the same week that the Lancet fully retract the original Wakefield MMR article (while keeping the retraction behind a login screen – way to go there on public understanding of science), the main stream media went to town on the report of 14 stem cell scientists writing an open letter making the claim that peer review in that area was being dominated by a small group of people blocking the publication of innovative work.
  • Leading-ship: reshaping relationships at work « NewUnionism’s Blog
    In an effort to develop an alternative model of leading, a work-in-process began some years ago, seeking to develop a model based on equally-balanced relationships in the workplace. The term “leading-ship” was introduced into this debate by myself in 2006(1). The neologism was considered necessary because the term “leadership” had become so laden with associations, assumptions, perceptions and beliefs that yet another modified interpretation could never help establish a qualitatively new model. If real change were necessary, I felt it must involve a reorientation of language and terminology as well — a paradigm shift to help make the unthinkable thinkable, the unconceivable conceivable. The term leading-ship embodies the function of leading through personalized and internalized processes that involve every person in the workplace. Put simply, leading-ship consciously manifests itself as a contrast to leadership.
  • Slashdot IT Story | 95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus
    it found was that a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam."
  • Germany plans enquiry into the digital society - P2P Foundation
    On 14th January the Christian Democratic Union and its Union partner in the German government the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU) proposed setting up an Enquete Commission to examine the implications of the Internet on society. Amongst other things, the Commission will be asked to look at initiatives for providing free access to publicly-funded research. Could this announcement be connected with the e-petition in support of Open Access (OA) launched in Germany last November? Does it herald a change of heart about OA on the part of the German government?
  • Destructive Creation: Internet Disintermediation and the Rise of Efficiency « Generation Bubble
    If Google and its ilk deliver humanity to a post-scarcity paradise by supplanting costly, ponderous brick-and-mortar institutions with cheaper, more efficient virtual ones, what will humanity do with the surfeit of leisure such a transition entails?
  • P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Virtual and physical p2p spaces as a policy against the meltdown
    What do you do when you find yourself with a lot more time and a lot less money on your hands than you’re used to? That may be the most important question of 2010
  • P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Dean Baker’s proposals for the Obama stimulus package
    Great example of how stimulating/promoting/funding open and participatory processes makes economic and policy sense.
  • P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » 20 proposals to get beyond the crash
    20 ideas for building a more stable, more local, and more fair economy. “Governments need to act,” says Executive Director of nef, Steward Wallis, “not to shore up and rebuild the old financial system but to help build a new system that serves society instead of acting as its master.”
  • Exchange, justice and injustice — keimform.de
    In a recent post Oekonux participant Raoul Victor from France deals with the question, if it is possible to have »no commercial injustice”. Here is the main part of the post
  • Welcome to the CiviCRM 3.1 Demo | CiviCRM 3.1 Demo Site
    CiviCRM is a community-based open source project to build constituent relationship management functionality for the nonprofit, advocacy and nongovernmental sectors.
  • CiviCRM (en)
    CiviCRM is a powerful web-based relationship management system. It allows you to record and manage information about the various people and organisations that are important to your organisation. CiviCRM is more than just an address book It also allows you to track your interactions with those people and organisations and to get them to engage with, and potentially give money to, your organisation through your website. The information you gather is all stored in one place but you can access it from almost anywhere.

An extraordinary bibliography on participation

Bibliography of one of the three main paradigms constituting the P2P ethos: open and free input, participatory processes of value creation, and commons oriented output. See: * Bibliography: Understanding participation: A literature review. Pathways through Participation explains: “Our project looks at participation in a very broad way, and covers a wide range of participatory activities that are often viewed [...]

Panarchical governance: towards a state that isn’t a state

We have opened the door on the notion 1) that the state could participate in the new networks as a legitimate actor, or 2) that the state could decentralize to the point of being a network itself. Certainly states participate in networks already, but for many global networks the impetus to their formation is the [...]
 

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Exactly Richard. Obama managed to leverage the openness meme with a generic promise of "change" which many interpreted as change in the direction of more openness and more participation of the governed in the business of governing. What a pity he di…
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Absolutely Sepp. Indeed, the way I see it is that the natural extension of all the free and open movements is some form of open source government. A couple of years ago I interviewed Joe Trippi, who was Howard Dean's campaign manager when Dean ran f…
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Interesting development and a good direction to take. Certainly government funded research should be available to the funders? And we might go further. What government does (plans, actions, decisions etc.) should be openly available to those for w…
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On 14th January the Christian Democratic Union and its Union partner in the German government the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU) proposed setting up an Enquete Commission to examine the implications of the Internet on society. Amongst o…
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Richard Poynder

Germany plans enquiry into the digital society

On 14th January the Christian Democratic Union and its Union partner in the German government the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU) proposed setting up an Enquete Commission to examine the implications of the Internet on society. Amongst other things, the Commission will be asked to look at initiatives for providing free access to publicly-funded research. Could this announcement be connected with the e-petition in support of Open Access (OA) launched in Germany last November? Does it… Continue

Posted by Richard Poynder on February 7, 2010 at 8:22pm — 3 Comments

Michel Bauwens

Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Barcelona from 26-29 of March 2010

Via Enric Senabre Hidalgo :



Dear friends,





We would like to request for your participation in the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, taking place in Ba

Continue

Posted by Michel Bauwens on February 6, 2010 at 3:52pm

Michel Bauwens

Ponoko announcement: World’s easiest making system now available in the EU

Derek Elley of Ponoko send us the following announcement and adds why it is important:

- US creators (like ESTY and Adobe users) can ship their products to EU customers at 85% less cost, and with less environmental impact.


- Shipping costs between the US and EU are reduced from $60 to $9 for for smaller goods.



- A new global distribution network for goods is increasingly taking shape - you now ship designs for local production.


Our online marketplace… Continue

Posted by Michel Bauwens on February 5, 2010 at 10:30am

Michel Bauwens

Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative

Via Johanna Niesyto, http://www.protest-cultures.uni-siegen.de:

Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative


Date: 26-27 March 2010



Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Am… Continue

Posted by Michel Bauwens on February 5, 2010 at 10:04am

Kevin Chilton

Sourceforge site testing volunteers

Sourceforge are seeking volunteers to help perform site testing from around the
globe. At present, we need testers in Asia (East and Southeast), Africa,
South America, Australia, and Antarctica (seriously).

You can learn about the Beacon tool we use at
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/beacon.

If you can help us out, we'll give you $10 via PayPal monthly for up to six months. Contact
Daniel Hinojosa (danie… Continue

Posted by Kevin Chilton on February 4, 2010 at 1:09pm

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