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Michel Bauwens GOVERNANCE OF THE GLOBAL COMMONS BY THE PEOPLE: A UN LOBBY

Via James Quilligan, a message from Lisinka Ulatowska Dear Friends, I forgot to add my email address. It is ulatowska@versatel. nl. A growing number of organizations are planning a dialogue with Governments, a cooperative lobby, starting with the CSD in May 2010 to see how the Global Commons (those areas of the world and human experience that are vital to the well-being of humanity and the Planet) can be stewarded so that all--people and whole planet can prosper. James Quilligan of the Global… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 9, 2009 at 7:19pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens ORGANIZED NETWORKS - Renewable Network Meeting and Workshop Programme in Riga, Decembrer 4-5

Via Rasa Smite ORGANIZED NETWORKS - Renewable Network Meeting and Workshop Programme Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5, 2009 10.00-18.00 * Themes and Working Groups will include: "sustainable networking" - discussing politics, strategies and models of building sustainable network (with on-line participation of Ned Rossiter, author of the book "Organized Networks" ) "design for resilience" (on-line interview with John Thackara / Founder of Doors-of-Perception) case study: "distrib… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 9, 2009 at 2:03pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture: Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces

Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces URL = www.oppositionalarchitecture.com New York, November 12--21, 2009 Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (York Stop on the F Train) The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the r… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 7, 2009 at 4:20pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity 25-28 March 2010, Barcelona, Spain

Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity 25-28 March 2010, Barcelona, Spain Call for abstracts ECONOMIC DEGROWTH TODAY The second international conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity is planned towards the end of March 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. It is organised by the Institute of Science and Environmental Technology (ICTA), Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (w… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 2, 2009 at 6:39pm — No Comments

Kevin Chilton ISOC - Next Generation Leaders Programme

The Internet Society Next Generation Leaders programme is a unique blend of coursework and practical experience to help prepare young professionals from around the world to become the next generation of Internet technology, policy, and business leaders. Programme entrants will complete a tailored eLearning course, covering the essential topics required for effective interactions and relationships within the Internet ecosystem, as well a… Continue

Added by Kevin Chilton on November 2, 2009 at 3:11pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens MEDIA ECOLOGIES AND POSTINDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION 3rd November, 2009 IUniversity of Salford, Manchester

Via Phoebe Moore: MEDIA ECOLOGIES AND POSTINDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION 3rd November, 2009 Innovation Forum University of Salford, Greater Manchester 8.30 – 9.00: Coffee & Welcome Atrium, ground floor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00 – 10.00: Morning Keynote Address Conference Room 1, 1st Floor Michel Bauwens Founder, P2P Foundation Dhurakij Pundit University International College, Bangkok, Thailand An infrastructure for Open Everything The co… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 30, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens First International Workshop on "Cultural Commons", Torino 29-30 January 2010

Call for papers First International Workshop on "Cultural Commons" Organized by the Silvia Santagata Research Centre Torino 29-30 January 2010 Deadline Submissions of the extended abstracts: deadline : 20th of November 2009. Theoretical contributions as well as case studies are welcome. The workshop is open to scholars, doctoral students and young researchers, from economics, sociology, law and other related fields. Please submit abstracts to: centrostudi@css-ebla.it. The deadline for exte… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 29, 2009 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens An alternative primer on national and international copyright law in the global South: eighteen questions and answers

NEWS RELEASE FROM THE COPYSOUTH RESEARCH GROUP OCTOBER 2009. What are the basic nuts and bolts (and traps and dead ends) of copyright law? Who owns copyright (hint: it is usually not the author)? What rights do users have? Do international copyright conventions work in the interest of the peoples of the world, and, if not, why not? These are a few of the questions that are taken up and answered in “An alternative primer on national and international copyright law in the global South: eighteen… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2009 at 8:42am — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Call for Contributions Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation

Call for Contributions: Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010) 30 June – 2 July, 2010, Leeds, UK URL = http://www.dico.unimi.it/OD2010 Sponsored by: The Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione Università degli Studi di Milano and the Public Sphere Project. The widespread diffusion of the Internet and a growing trend towards democratisation worldwide have… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 26, 2009 at 9:22am — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Open Hardware Camp, UK, December 4

Via Vinay Gupta: URL = http://openhardware.eventbrite.com/ - Open Hardware Camp – Collaborative Strategies and Challenges of Making Things the Open Source Way Organized by: 40Fires in partnership with Nesta Location: Nesta HQ Date: 4th of December Time: 10:00 – 20:00 This is an event to bring key projects, their participants and stakeholders together in the emerging field of Open Hardware development, organized by 40Fires in partnership w… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 22, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Marco Fioretti's starts Italian webinar on free software and digital culture

Via Marco Fioretti: Greetings, next december I'll start teaching an online course. The main topics are summarized here: http://stop.zona-m.net/digital-culture-online-course-parents-teachers-and-everybody-else The course discusses in depth many of the issues mentioned in these talks:… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 21, 2009 at 9:56am — No Comments

Michel Bauwens CLEAR Village Lab: a strategy for a real-life sustainable village

Via Franz Nahrada: http://www.clear-village.org/lab The CLEAR Village Lab is a three-day, immersive event gathering together passionate professionals from a variety of disciplines to create the masterplan strategy for a real-life sustainable village. The intention of this initiative is not to build a ‘perfect place’, but rather to foster a dynamic, living community which embraces principles, technologies and forms of governance that allow for a m… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 21, 2009 at 5:25am — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Call for papers - Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in the Networked Society

Info at http://cfp.org/wordpress/ The 20th annual ACM Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is pleased to announce our call for participation, soliciting proposals for sessions and topics at the conference as well as volunteers to help us organize and publicize it. CFP is the leading policy conference exploring the impact of the Internet, computers and communications technologies on society. We focus on topics such as freedom of speech, privacy, digital rights and responsibilities, free c… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 20, 2009 at 5:20am — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Creatives 4NN - European Campaign for Net Neutrality

Via Gianfranco, press office of Scambioetico Creatives 4NN - International Campaign A few hours after the cancellation by the Telecoms Package amendment 138, REFF and Scambioetico movement start off to "Creatives for Net Neutrality - Creatives 4NN. The amendment was the last of the package under discussion in Bruxelles by these days, to protect the privacy and freedom of information and expression. Recognizing cyberspace as the privileged place of contemporary conflict, "Creatives fo… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 19, 2009 at 4:21pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens New book about neotraditional approaches to the economy: God’s Economy: Redefining the Health & Wealth Gospel

From the publisher: About: God’s Economy: Redefining the Health & Wealth Gospel. By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. Zondervan, 2009 In , God’s Economy: Redefining the Health & Wealth Gospel (Zondervan, 2009). Wilson-Hartgrove delivers an often uncomfortable, sometimes shocking and altogether redemptive message about living in a God-centered and others-centered economy. Readers will be challenged by his fresh, radical approach taken from Jesus’ teachings thousands of years ago. Autho… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 16, 2009 at 3:52pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Documentation of the 4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes

Via Sonia Díez Thale. Medialab Prado URL = http://www.medialab-prado.es Dear friends, It’s a pleasure to announce that we have just published in our web the documentation of the 4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes: the videos of the presentations, for the moment only in their original version but in the near future also translated, and the papers, in Spanish and English, that can be downloaded separately in pdf format. There’s still the Spanish version of the Bodó Balazs tex… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 10, 2009 at 10:14am — No Comments

Chris Pinchen Citilab Model?

Citilab is an open question and, therefore, there are as many different answers as there are people who form a part of this project. All those who recently attended the CCCB (Barcelona’s Centre for Contemporary Culture) so that the illustrious Ramon Sangüesa, director of Innovation at Citilab, could explain to us what sort of project it is, and what it can contribute as a cultural model, certainly the thing that nobody expected was for a man of more than 90 summers, (the eldest “citilaber“) to m… Continue

Added by Chris Pinchen on October 8, 2009 at 8:13pm — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Global Privacy Standards in a Global World; November 3, 2009 in Madrid, Spain

Via our seriously rocking friend in Barcelona, Celia Blanco: The Public Voice, an international civil society coalition, will discuss: Global Privacy Standards in a Global World; during its conference on November 3, 2009 in Madrid, Spain, to be held in conjunction with the 31st Annual International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners. Prominent advocates and experts from the academic, consumer, digital rights and labor communities will discuss with public officials a… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 8, 2009 at 7:33pm — No Comments

Silke Helfrich Telepathology - a life saving commons?

Access to Pathology Expertise: How can we turn this luxury into a global commons? This is the question asked by Jacques Paysan from Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH during the World Commons Forum held in Salzburg on September 29/30. The success of medical treatment crucially depends on accurate diagnosis by an experienced pathologist. This is particularly true for tumour surgery, transplantation medicine, and diagnosis of infections. In a nutshell: No diagnosis, no therapy! Just imagine: You have… Continue

Added by Silke Helfrich on October 2, 2009 at 10:47am — No Comments

Michel Bauwens Repression against shack dwellers movement in South Africa

Via Richard Pithouse: If you have not heard Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers movement of which I spoke often at Crotoff, has been attacked in the Kennedy Road settlement by an armed mob chanting ethnic slogans and backed, fully, by the ANC. Many were beaten and two were killed. As the community defended itself spontaneously two of the attackers were also killed - with their own weapons. The police refused to intervene and then arrested eight of the local Abahlali leaders in the settlem… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 1, 2009 at 4:17am — No Comments

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