OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA CAMP 2011 ===============================

Info via http://blog.okfn.org/2011/09/02/call-for-participation-open-government-data-camp-2011/

Open Government Data Camp is the world’s biggest open data event. It brings together civil servants, developers, NGOs and others for two

days of talks, workshops and project sprints.

The camp has…

The School of Commoning has just published “Voices from the Commons,” a new video you can find here at the home page of the Campaign for Commons Literacy. 

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Future Learning Spaces, the 7th annual Designs on E-learning 2011 conference, will be held at Aalto University in Helsinki. Finland in September 2011.

More at http://www.designsonelearning2011.com/

We will be exploring future learning spaces, from four different perspectives, each led by an expert innovator.

Michel…

Pixelache workshop: How to co-design an Open Design community (Helsinki, Finland) - updated

Massimo Menichinelli has been invited by Pixelache to host a workshop about how to…

Via Jose Murilo:

CulturaDigital.Br - International Festival - December 2-4th - Rio de Janeiro

 

Open Call

More than an event for the exhibition of ideas and projects, the CulturaDigital.Br Festival is a space for encounters between agents of digital culture from Brazil and all over the world — producers and activists who operate in the intersection between culture, politics, technology.



From December 2-4th, MAM-Rio and Cine…

Via Jay Cousins:

A brilliant opportunity for the Maker community has arisen in Berlin, we have 4 spaces in one weekend, we aim to bring together representatives from different groups in Berlin to share their skills and knowledge and to co create a festival with the public. If you'd like to get involved or know anyone who would, please feel free to contact me.

Info via…

Via George Por:

The Campaign for Commons Literacy is definitely progressing although not as rapidly as we would like it. So far the http://www.indiegogo.com/CommonsCampaign page with our video got 2935 page views; we have 14 crowdfunders who donated a total of $946; our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/SchoolOfCommoning attracted 144…

some background on another project I'm working on. A community-managed, completely open secure communication infrastructure for the masses:

    GPLv3 is great for Open Innovation, but it is not enough to protect our communication rights

Open Data, Open Society is a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations by for the Laboratory of Economics and Management of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa.

The first report of the project, released in October 2010 under a…

Via Istvan Rado:

There will be a conference on sufficiency economy to be held on 18-19 October in Bangkok -

Website www.sufficiency-conference.org

Via Andrew Paterson (Helsinki): +358 504023828, agryfp [-at-] pixelache.ac .

More info via http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/pixelversity/programme-2011/coop-camp/

Coop Camp is a trans-disciplinary weekend of events that aims to connect the non-formal (and cultural) practices of cooperation in Pirkkanmaa and wider Finland, with the more formal organisational and academic…

The School of Commoning, a London-based commons education group has launched last night the Campaign for Commons Literacy,

Inspired by the upsurge of interest in the international commons movement, and in the UK, ideas presented by Blue Labour, the School of Commoning plan to host two fringe events at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, 25 -29 September. They will be the ‘Managing Local and Global…

Preliminary statement and translation by Simona Levi:

Oxcars and FreeCultureForum 2011 (27.30 october 2011)

Networks for a R-evolution

What the Internet has made for us and what we can do for him ;-).



2011 is the year of the emergence of consciousness of global network. The widespread use of social and digital networks has led to a leap in quality to citizen empowerment and has rised virally civil society in many parts of the…

Pixelache workshop: How to co-design an Open Design community (Helsinki, Finland)

Massimo Menichinelli has been invited by…

Via Heidi Stevenson, Editor, Gaia Health :

A stunning theft of our rights is happening now—right under our collective noses. We're losing the right to manage our personal health as we see fit. It's a right so basic that no one ever thought to list it among the rights of free speech and assembly. Who could ever have imagined that something so basic might come into question?

That, though, is exactly what is happening. Some of us try to do battle, but we've been focusing…

Via Gustaf Björksten:

Hi all,



This is a call to all you hackers out there working on projects in the

blackout resilient technology area. Come hang for five days in an

open-air camp with a group of like-minded folks and work on bringing

these technologies to fruition for the ongoing benefit of humanity. This

hackathon will be in Finowfurt, Germany (near Berlin) from August 10-14,…

Open call for the lulz:



'Deleuze and The Lulz: Radical Emergence ... for the lulz' is a bold interdisciplinary journal that aims to challenge orthodoxies, encourage debate, invite controversy, seek new applications, propose new interpretations, and - above all - make new connections in the growing pack of researchers who study Deleuze, and the lulz..for the lulz.



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