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Seminar: technology and the alterglobalization movement

Via Mayo Fuster Morell,

Subject: [Network] WSF - Belem // SOCIAL FORUMS 2.0?: TOWARDS NETWORKED POLITICS: TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE

- Please help to spread the word. Thank you -

Seminar during the World Social Forum 2009 - Belem (Brazil)

SOCIAL FORUMS 2.0?: TOWARDS NETWORKED POLITICS: TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLDEGE

Friday 30th January 2009 - Second Slot (12hpm-15hpm)

* Seminar description: The techno-tools provided by the Social Forums… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 28, 2009 at 10:30 — No Comments

New Commons video

Via Caitlin Graf, The New Press

The New Press and OnTheCommons.org are pleased to announce a new collaborative video project which addresses the commons—the theory that, according to Peter Linebaugh, “vests all property in the community and organizes labor for the common benefit of all.” The Commons video is being featured on The Nation's website at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090126/commons_video?rel=hp_mediaband

Animated with whimsy and style by artists Molly… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 22, 2009 at 11:55 — No Comments

Recent Changes Camp in Portland, Feb 20-22

"Jack Herrick" :

Here is an invitation to the Recent Changes Camp Conference, being held in

Portland, Oregon on Feb 20-22 that might interest some folks here:

Wiki, open technology, free culture and collaboration enthusiasts from

around the world are all invited to this year's

RecentChangesCamp,

taking place Feb 20-22 in Portland, Oregon, USA. Full invitation at:

http://2009rcc.org/wagn/invitation

Held every year since 2006 (and twice in… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 20, 2009 at 12:35 — No Comments

Via David Bollier: Dear Friends of the Commons, I am pleased to report that my new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, has been published by New Press. For …

Via David Bollier:

Dear Friends of the Commons,

I am pleased to report that my new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, has been published by New Press. For more info -- and downloads of a Creative Commons-licensed version -- you may go to www.viralspiral.cc. Printed copies are available for purchase from the usual stores and online retailers.

Best,

David

Begin… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 19, 2009 at 13:45 — No Comments

Scholarships for complementary currency designers

(via Helen Titchen Beeth)

From: Kathleen Battke

Date: Fri 16 Jan 2009 19:49:05 GMT+01:00

Dear friends,

The economic self-destruction process we are experiencing now, this crisis is definitely too valuable a chance for us to waste – and many of us do their best to ease the pain of transformation in and around us.

Gaia U wants to support visionaries of more efficient and healthy moneys to realize their complementary currencies projects in an… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 17, 2009 at 4:11 — No Comments

The economy of Open Source - when self-identification is not efficient.

Via Zbigniew Lukasiak: The economy of Open Source - when self-identification is not efficient.

According to "The Wealth of Networks" Open Source as an example of

Peer Production is governed by an economy of self-identification

significantly different from the traditional money market economy with

it's own quirks and inefficiencies:

"the self-identification that is central to the relative information

efficiency of peer production is not always… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 17, 2009 at 0:00 — No Comments

Kevin Carson writes to Obama

Contribution from Kevin to Change.gov, you can vote for it here: http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=087800000004xQ3

Easing the Transition to an Alternative Economy

"If we want to replace the present centralized economy of waste production and planned obsolescence, it's an inescapable fact that a great deal of excess manufacturing capacity cannot be saved. In my opinion it's a mistake to try to prop it up through expedients like the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 16, 2009 at 8:08 — No Comments

A new language for hackers?

Conference Review,via Tatiana Bazzichelli

(from IDC mailing list, January 2008)

* A Reflection on the Activist Strategies in the Web 2.0 Era: Towards a new language criticism, by Tatiana Bazzichelli:

"I would like to share with the IDC readers a personal review of the past Activism-Hacking-Artivism Camping, the first collective meeting of the Italian aha@ecn.org mailing-list, which focuses on hacktivism and netculture. I would also like to propose some… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 16, 2009 at 7:58 — No Comments

Research positions related to commons-based strategies in various industries

Via Matthew Cooperrider:

From: Solon Barocas

To: DCC Idea Exchange

Subject: [mcc-talk] Yochai Benkler Cooperation Research Opportunities

Please, help me to circulate this among your friends, students and networks.

Thank you. Carolina

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships/cooperation

Cooperation Research RA Opportunities

Cooperation Project Research Opportunities: 3 positions

The Cooperation Project is a Berkman… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 9, 2009 at 12:27 — No Comments

Musicians can prosper in the age of free music

Thomas Greco alerted me to an interesting overview blog posting by Eyal Matsliah, who reviews different income streams for music practitioners providing their basic music for free.

Eyal writes:

"I've written a paper about music sharing in which I make the claim that music sharing actually adds to the value of the music, and that even if music is shared freely, musicians can still support themselves through many other income streams:

donations, legal downloads,… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 5, 2009 at 9:29 — 1 Comment

DIYNGO: using renewable energy for ICT expansion in developing countries

Via Tim Barker:

Hello everyone! I hope all are well? Since Tim and Michel have both recently asked for a quick update on DIYNGO to help disseminate our work, please find below a short text I just wrote. It was a little hurried but I think encapsulates where we are at for the time being. If you have any comments please do let us all know - you could hit "reply to all"? It would also be nice if we could please consider having a group chat or a group Skype call or some such please as… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 30, 2008 at 1:13 — No Comments

An appeal to develop a new p2p business metric

We are reproducing this important appeal by French researcher Serge Soudoplatoff.

See also for more background at http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Metrics and http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Metrics

Contact via serge at almatropie.org

Serge Soudoplatoff:

“I am a French researcher, professor, and entrepreneur working on the topic of the impact of Internet in real life : on business, corporate, customer relationship, etc…

I would… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 18, 2008 at 15:59 — No Comments

Solidarity Economy conference in Austria; February 2009

Via Dante-Gabryell Monson :

http://www.solidarische-oekonomie.at/

20.-22. Febr. 2009

Vienna, 1180 Peter-Jordan-Straße 82, Boku

" Everybody is invited to arrange workshops, open group discussions, films, performances, etc.

We´d like to suggest to use participative formats rather than frontal lectures.

Alongside a very agile globalization-critical movement many different projects of a solidarity economy gain importance. Our hope… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 18, 2008 at 15:45 — No Comments

A new chapter is available in the Ethical Economy book project: Ch 2. The Ethical Economy is Already Here

Via Adam Arvidsson:

Ch 2. The Ethical Economy is Already Here:

This chapter analyses a number of pertinent contemporary phenomena, like knowledge and brand management, the problem of ‘intangibles’ and the increasing recourse to user led innovation and other forms of Open Business, to argue that, at least in this cutting edge manifestations, the contemporary information economy is no longer ‘capitalist’ in the strict sense of that term . Instead corporations… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 17, 2008 at 11:13 — No Comments

Volunteer computing at BOINC

Via Stefan Merten:

Hi list!

You may have heard of `SETI@home`_. Several years ago this project

asked volunteers all over the Internet to donate their excess

computing power to search for signals from extraterrestrial life

forms.

Today there is BOINC_ which makes such `volunteer computing`_ projects

easy and gives them a common technical platform:

Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure

diseases,… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 15, 2008 at 9:22 — No Comments

Book review of: Cyber Conflict and Global Politics

Just published by kevin carson, list member: http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2008/12/book-review-cyber-conflict-and-global.html

Thanks for forwarding and supporting the members of our research community!!

Book Review: Cyber Conflict and Global Politics

Athina Karatzogianni, ed. Cyber Conflict and Global Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 2009).

Athina Karatzogianni's work first came to my attention through her participation in the P2P… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 10, 2008 at 17:08 — No Comments

The Emerging Internet Economy

Via David Isenberg:

Plug into the Emerging Internet Economy . . .

. . . at F2C: Freedom to Connect, March 30 & 31,

2009 in Washington DC. Details at

http://freedom-to-connect.net

Extremely early price, $295 in effect

through 12/31/08. Register here:

http://freedom-to-connect.net/#register

F2C: Freedom to Connect 2009 presents the people

of the Internet who enable economic growth,

strengthen democracy, facilitate creativity… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 6, 2008 at 2:55 — No Comments

T(h)inkering with hardware workshop in Chicago

via daniel arraya:

From: Vincent LaConte

To: dan@levelsixmedia.com

Sent: Wed Dec 3 17:12

Subject: Fwd: Thinkering with Hardware workshop Jan 17

As the boundaries between the design of objects, information and environments continues to blur, teams creating the interactive products and services of the future will need increasingly sophisticated methods for prototyping and exploration with hardware as well as software. Join the IIT Institute of Design on… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 4, 2008 at 5:24 — No Comments

Defending the threat to the public-ness and the egalitarian nature of the Internet

From: "Guru"

Date: Sat, November 29, 2008 20:08

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Dear friends,

Many of us tend to take the commons and the public nature of the

Internet, critical pre-requisites for an open net, for granted. However,

increasing corporatisation and control of the Internet are strongly

threatening these fundamental characteristics of the Internet as we know

it. In this context, six civil… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 29, 2008 at 20:42 — No Comments

Support the Entrepreneur Commons

Via Marc Dangeard:

I need your help raising the attention on an idea I have submitted on

Change.org:

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/sponsor_a_structure_for_entrepreneurs_to_support_entrepreneurs

As you may know, I am currently working on the Entrepreneur Commons

(www.entrepreneurcommons.org), trying to foster collaboration between

entrepreneurs as way to create an inclusive selection process for

funding, rather than the competitive models… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 29, 2008 at 16:18 — 1 Comment