A call by Marco Fioretti, mfioretti@nexaima.net :

Michel,



I would like to ask you a favour, since you know lots of people in

Europe interested in these things. As you may remember, the second

part of the Open Data research I'm working on consists of an online

survey. That survey IS ready in all the required languages, all done

by a translation agency. Unfortunately, we just realized that…

Via Franz Nahrada:

ERCA – the European Rural Community Association (an association of village

movements in Europe) – organises an International Village Conference in

cooperation with Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation in 2011.

It will take place on 13th and 14th of May in the rooms of the Rosa-Luxemburg-

Foundation in Berlin.

The conference has two central aims:

First of all, experiences of the village movements from other European…

Via Mary Beth Steisslinger:

Hello Friends Around the World, thought you might be interested in participating in the next Common Course online, beginning the end of January, 2011.   

I am putting this out to people i know who are working towards sustainability and justice in various fields.  I think you will find that the commons movement provides means to operationalize sustainability and enable transparency,…

Via Marco Fioretti:

"Open Data, Open Society is a report I wrote for the Institute of

Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. The report represents the

first part of a research project (1) financed through the DIME network

(Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe), as part of DIME Work

Package 6.8, coordinated by Professor Giulio Bottazzi.



The report discusses the current and potential role, in a truly…

Via Kevin Flanagan:

Reset Ireland is a grassroots initiative to facilitate conversation for real social, political and economic change through developing an action plan for open government and media reform. Many conversations about political reform are all ready taking place in Ireland. Reset Ireland is an opportunity to knit these conversations together. A call to action for an alternative Ireland.



Whats this about?



Like many people witnessing the…

Via Kevin Carson:

Here is a link to the new P2P Research email list:

http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation



It is a mailman list like the present one, and the subscription

procedure is quite simple and straightforward.



If you wish to remain a member and continue to receive messages,

please click on the link and subscribe…

new book links insect behaviour to social ‘webs’

insect logic is seen behind contemporary media technologies and network society

 …

Via Biens Communs: http://bienscommuns.org/blog/?p=1180

The World Social Forum and the World Forum on Science and Democracy will be two opportunities for the commoners to interact with other civic and social movements.

A list of discussion is now open for volunteers at :…

Via Mayo Fuster-Morell:

7th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics (IDP 2011): Net Neutrality and other challenges for the future of the Internet



Barcelona, 11-12 July, 2011



Presentation



Net Neutrality, the general principle that the network must remain

neutral as to the contents transmitted over it, avoiding any

discrimination based on the nature or the origin of the data, has become

a hot topic…

Tere Vaden writes:

the eCars - Now! (http://www.sahkoautot.fi/eng) community is about to launch publishing its material, and needs to adopt an open source hardware licensing scheme. Do you know of any

*actually functioning* open source hardware license? It seems that, for

instance, http://www.ohanda.org/

is still in its early stages. The eCars…

Via Daniel Araya:

daniel@jgse.org

Vol 1, No 2 (2011)

Globalization 2.0

This issue of the Journal of Global

Studies in Education will focus on the rapid growth of newly

industrializing countries (NICs) in the context of education and

socioeconomic development. In 2003, Goldman Sachs published a startling

report on the growth of NICs in which Brazil, Russia, India, and…

Via Multitude:

"Multitude Project provided the movement against Tom Flanagan with an

infrastructure of communication, collaboration and coordination. This

infrastructure is already up and running, ready to be populated by the

2,286 Facebook subscribers. You can also join this movement.

https://sites.google.com/site/firetomflanagan/home



Multitude Project also…

Via David Bollier:

I am thrilled to announce the launch of my new blog/website, www.Bollier.org.  It will be the primary showcase for my latest discoveries, adventures and reflections about the commons as I step off in some new directions.  I invite you to become a regular reader, get the RSS feed, put me on your blogroll and pass this news along to friends. 



Although I am no longer associated with On the…

The following is an excerpt from:

War, Conflict and Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction

The special issue of Digital Icons at http://www.digitalicons.org/

Blame it on the Russians: Tracking the portrayal of Russians during cyberconflict incidents

From Athina…

Our friend and colleague

Athina Karatzogianni

contributed a paper (4.9) on Russian hackers, various cyberconflicts, and media implicating them in the Climategate hack, which is part of an interesting issue of the journal Digital Icons:

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Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

Issue 4:…