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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… Continue

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

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,… Continue

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

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 19, 2009 at 16:21 — No Comments

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 16, 2009 at 15:52 — No Comments

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… Continue

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

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… Continue

Added by Chris Pinchen on October 8, 2009 at 20:13 — No Comments

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 8, 2009 at 19:33 — No Comments

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… Continue

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

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… Continue

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

CFP: A critical view on Peer-to-Peer energy production and distribution

Via Vasilis Kostakis

URL = http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=1399

Call for papers - p2p energy production and distribution

We invite contributions for our upcoming special issue entitled “A critical view on Peer-to-Peer energy production and distribution”.

It can be argued that a shift to a P2P-based, sustainable society would be based on a set of inter-related infrastructures:

* A distributed communication and coordination… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 30, 2009 at 11:24 — No Comments

The future of EU Internet may be sealed tonight.

La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release

Permanent link:

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/act-now-the-future-of-eu-internet-may-be-sealed-tonight

Act now to save Net neutrality!

*** Brussels, September 28th - The first conciliation meeting on the

Telecoms Package will take place tonight at 9:30PM. In this meeting, 27

Members of the European Parliament and 27 representatives of the Council

of EU will decide on the future of… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 28, 2009 at 9:07 — No Comments

Net Neutrality: EU must neither give up competitiveness nor freedoms.

La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release

Permanent link:

http://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-eu-must-neither-give-up-competitiveness-nor-freedoms

Net Neutrality: EU must neither give up competitiveness nor freedoms.

*** Paris, September 23rd - La Quadrature du Net sent a letter to the

French ministers in charge of the Telecoms Package [1] to ask them to

protect Net neutrality in the European Union, as they enter… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 25, 2009 at 3:35 — No Comments

update on the CopySouth Research Group

Release from the CopySouth Research Group, 23 September 2009.

The CopySouth Research Group (CSRG), which was established in 2005 and has published its well-known Dossier in English and Spanish, is making two changes to its activities.

First, CopySouth is creating a new e-mail list for the discussion and debate of copyright and related issues in the global South. It intends to connect scholars, activists, artists, and government officials who take a critical view of… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 23, 2009 at 6:55 — No Comments

Book: "American Guru" exposes spiritual authoritarianism and exploitation of Andrew Cohen

David Lane reviews a very important book.

Via Frank Visser's Integral World site, http://www.integralworld.net/lane9.html

William Yenner, American Guru: A Story of Love, Betrayal and Healing-former students of Andrew Cohen speak out, Epigraph Publishing, 2009.

My first encounter with an Andrew Cohen devotee occurred several years ago when one of the editors of their slick magazine, What is Enlightenment? (now called, EnlightenNext), wrote me a personal… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 21, 2009 at 12:00 — 7 Comments

Autonet aims to replace internet

Via Magius:

Autonet is a project to create a wireless, global internet that can

provide more reliability than corporate phone companies by being

community based and freely licensed.

The cutting off access to The Pirate Bay by BT in the UK (

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/251609/bt-blocks-off-pirate-bay.html ) is

just another sign of the beginning of the end. The fact that the Great

Firewall of China exists signals that the internet is already… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 21, 2009 at 3:12 — No Comments

Economic Abundance: An Introduction

Economic Abundance: An Introduction

Most principles of economics texts are predicated narrowly on the concept of scarcity, but that is only one aspect of economics. This supplemental text for basic and intermediate level undergraduates provides a serious discussion of the concept of abundance—what it means, how we can move toward it, and what keeps us from doing so. For additional information and to view the table of contents, please click here… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 20, 2009 at 12:16 — No Comments

What is the Common Conference

What is the Common?

An International Conference

http://www.kurrents.org/conf/index.html

10-11 October 2009

University of Gothenburg

Sweden

Submission deadline: September 5

Contact: info@kurrents.org

Keynotes

David HarveyYitzhak LaorJacques RancièreAntonio Negri

The list of keynotes may be subject to changes

New Sessions

• The Iranian Revolution 30 Years Later

• Constructing the Common in Contemporary… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 20, 2009 at 12:03 — No Comments

We Must Protect Net Neutrality in Europe!

We Must Protect Net Neutrality in Europe!

Organizations from all around Europe share their concern of seeing Net

Neutrality being sacrificed during the conciliation procedure of the

directives of the EU Telecoms Package. They sent this letter to the

Members of the European Parliament, urging them to take decisive action

in order to guarantee a free, open and innovative Internet, and to

safeguard the fundamental freedoms of European… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 17, 2009 at 10:42 — No Comments

Launch of www.100kGarages.com

Via Derek Elley , September 16, 2009, MEDIA RELEASE

Ponoko and ShopBot announce partnership

More than 20,000 online creators meet over 6,000 digital fabricators

San Francisco, CA – The launch today of www.100kGarages.com begins a new chapter in how things are made and distributed, enabling anyone with an Internet connection to get almost anything custom made and delivered from local state-of-the-art digital makers.

The website is a partnership between… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 17, 2009 at 9:30 — No Comments

World Politics and Popular Culture Conference, Newcastle University, 19th and 20th of November

From: Steve Erdal

Date: 2009/9/10

Subject: World Politics and Popular Culture Conference

To: Steve Erdal

Dear all,

My name is Steve, and I'm new to the Business Development Team at Newcastle University. Dr Simon Philpott asked me to drop you a line to let you know about the World Politics and Popular Culture Conference, taking place on the 19th and 20th of November.

The Conference is a wide-ranging discussion on how popular culture makes the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 16, 2009 at 9:29 — No Comments