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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 9, 2009 at 7:19pm —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 9, 2009 at 2:03pm —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 7, 2009 at 4:20pm —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 2, 2009 at 6:39pm —
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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…
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Added by Kevin Chilton on November 2, 2009 at 3:11pm —
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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
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 30, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 29, 2009 at 12:24pm —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2009 at 8:42am —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 26, 2009 at 9:22am —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 22, 2009 at 10:00am —
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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:…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 21, 2009 at 9:56am —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 21, 2009 at 5:25am —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 20, 2009 at 5:20am —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 19, 2009 at 4:21pm —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 16, 2009 at 3:52pm —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 10, 2009 at 10:14am —
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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…
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Added by Chris Pinchen on October 8, 2009 at 8:13pm —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 8, 2009 at 7:33pm —
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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…
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Added by Silke Helfrich on October 2, 2009 at 10:47am —
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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…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 1, 2009 at 4:17am —
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