Unconference for Social Good Chiang Mai 



February 23rd



Connecting Travelers, IT experts and Business Professionals with Non-Profit Organizations in S.E. Asia. 



Join like minded professionals in a day of idea sharing, networking and collaboration to seek more effective ways of helping the most disadvantaged in the world.





Background



Business has undergone a major…

CHANGING CITIES’

Spatial, morphological, formal, & socio-economic dimensions

Skiathos, Greece, 18-21 June 2013

special session on

Collective ventures, solidarity economy and the urban space

Call for Papers

Concepts and practices related to social and solidarity economy, complementary currencies, time banks, consumers’ cooperatives, cooperatives of production and distribution, social management of water, social management of…

MORE INFOS : Http://www.wj-s.org

NOUVELLE PUBLICATION/ NEW PUBLICATION MCD#69 " NET ART - WJ-SPOTS#2" Les artistes s'emparent du réseau Artists take over the network

The artists, critics, researchers and curators invited to contribute to this publication are giving us the keys, references and insights to comprehend the various art forms that coexist on the net, in its interstices and its peripheries. From an artistic point of…

via Hervé Le Crosnier



http://cfeditions.com/Turner

C'est avec le plus grand plaisir que je vous annonce la

        sortie du livre :



        Aux sources de l'utopie numérique :

        De la contre-culture à la cyberculture,

        Stewart Brand, un homme d'influence

        par Fred Turner

       …

via Silke Helfrich:

Event in the American Academy in Berlin:

Creative Commons is turning 10 this year in December. We would like to invite you to an evening lecture on December 4, 7:30 pm, where the author, activist, and co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, Academy fellow David Bollier, will discuss "The Commons as a New/Old Paradigm of Governance, Policy and Political Action" at the…

Via Janice Figueiredo:

via Isidro Laso Ballesteros

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=8835*/

With a budget of around €80 billion, the EU’s new programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020 (2014- 2020), is part of the drive to create new growth and jobs in Europe. It will place a particular focus on innovation, relying on a number…

After request by Glyn Moody, I'm putting this communication here on Ning as well.

Dear friends,



I feel it is really imperative that I write a book about the p2p transformations, and I plan to do this in the 2nd half of 2013. The problem is I can't afford to take time off without income, but lecturing tours pretty much preclude the concentration necessary for writing a…

This is the initial announcement of the project by Clovis Lima of IBICT.

More will follow. Please note this will evolve into a distributed project that will allow remote participation by grassroots groups as well.

Please send Portuguese-language info requests to:

"clovis lima" <clovismlima@gmail.com>, "Vinicius Braz Rocha" <vr.self.media@gmail.com>,

Invitation below in Portuguese:

Mapa P2P…

Below, is the general release for Global Concept Exchange:



I would like to extend an invitation to join us online via Adobe Connect for the Global Concept Exchange on Friday, November 16th from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT. The event showcases London new media collective Furtherfield with founders Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow for a live discussion of community–based cultural production.



Joining the online panel will be new media artists from the US,…

via Yvette Dubel:

Some time back I had written a blog post about the need to find places of connection in our various concepts of what a better world is. In real practical terms, building infrastructure that works for more people means provoking conversations about how individuals see a better world working. Most importantly developing new understandings of the roles individuals play and the meaning found in them has…

This year the TedXBrussels theme is Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes (or BANG BANG!). The digital world and the real world are interconnected like never before. You can send off online for a personal genome readout and control physical objects with your mind. Computer thinking is driving medicine, music and play. With brain-computer interfaces now used in nuclear power stations and bio hackers doing lab biology in their garages, BANG BANG is a concept whose time has come. BANG BANG means the…

via Jérémie ZIMMERMANN:

"Here is finally a presentable version of

the "ACTION PLAN FOR COPYRIGHT REFORM AND CULTURE IN THE XXIst CENTURY"

that was started during last Free Culture Forum amongst representatives

from FCF, Communia, Polish activists, LQDN and others.



It is the first iteration of a commenting round that we hope will be

fruitful and will…

via Matt Boggs:

via http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/barcelona-15m-newsletter-nr-14-3/

The xarxa d’economia solidaria (supportive economy network) began 20 years ago, as a link between Catalan and Brasilian cooperatives.

This supportive economy as a new way of producing, distributing and consuming, is proposed as a viable and sustainable alternative to…

via the 

BARCELONA #15M Newsletter nr 31

URL = http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/barcelona-15m-newsletter-nr-31/

F.E.S.C.: THE 1st FAIR OF SOLIDARITY ECONOMY IN CATALUNYA 

On October 27th…

via the 

BARCELONA #15M Newsletter nr 31

URL = http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/barcelona-15m-newsletter-nr-31/

1.  FOUR DAYS OF DIGITAL CULTURE, NETWORKS AND DISTRIBUTED POLICY IN…

via Daniel Araya:

Technopolis: Smart Cities in the Knowledge Economy

Editor: DANIEL ARAYA

Description

There are over 400 cities with a population of more than one million people today, and close to 20 cities with a population of more than 10 million people. Over the next 20 years cities will support between 3.5 and 5 billion inhabitants. This remarkable urban growth has created vast policy and planning challenges…

via tomislav medak:

via John Boik:

I am happy to announce that Principled Societies Project website is now live. The project is a science-based effort to design and test pioneering systems of finance, economics, and governance that improve well-being and speed the transition to a sustainable society. The goal is to create fully functional, metro-scale pilot trials in which the impacts of new systems can be assessed. Systems to be tested include local currencies, socially responsible…