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New service innovation center in Amsterdam

Via Mark de Jong,

This press release is related to participation in business processes, co-creation and codesign.

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The University of Amsterdam and the VU University Amsterdam will launch one of the first European university centers for service innovation: the Amsterdam Academic Centre for Service Innovation (AMSI). Innovation is a major characteristic of the service economy. There is an increasing need for managers who possess expertise in both business… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 10, 2008 at 15:11 — No Comments

A very important essay on a policy for abundance and the commons in the physical world

Via Roberto Verzola:

URL = http://rverzola.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/verzola-on-abundance1.pdf

I have just finished a piece that puts under a single theoretical

frameworks disparate issues like software, books, music, video,

inventions, agriculture, natural resources, the Internet etc. The unifying

concept is abundance.

This new piece extends my earlier analysis of ICT and society contained in

my book Towards a Political Economy of… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 10, 2008 at 15:01 — 6 Comments

Kevin Carson: an industrial policy for Obama

From Kevin Carson, via email:

My response to the solicitation of ideas at change.gov:

INDUSTRIAL POLICY

As always, my recommendations center on a theme of pursuing green ends

with libertarian means.

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 9, 2008 at 2:50 — 4 Comments

Open Digital Villages as Multi-purpose centers for p2p and sustainability convergence

Via Jeff Buderer:

"For me the key point I try to emphasize is this idea of developing nodes

of convergence - that is how can we come together in centers and or

ecovillages that can help us to better synergize. This does not have to

be a life long or long term commitment but rather a focus on how we can

pool our resources on making the urban systems more compact and

sustainable and community friendly/human scale (thus reducing the impact

on rural regions… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 7, 2008 at 9:23 — 1 Comment

The Art of Participation exhibition in San Francisco

Via Kevin Flanagan:

There is exhibition at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art called

'The Art of Participation' which looks at the history of participatory

practice in contemporary art. For a good 50 years now artists have

challenged the 'institution' of art, blurring the boundries between

art and life, artwork and audience. In a way as these artistic

practices which at one time (60's&70's) where 'radical' and

'antagonistic' have become… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 7, 2008 at 4:08 — No Comments

Launch of Resistance Studies Network

Via Geert Lovink,

More info at http://resistancestudies.org/

Announcement:

In an attempt to remedy the lack of academic study in the field of resistance to power and its social transformation the School of Global Studies at Göteborg University has launched this Resistance Studies Network.

With the help of networking, collaborative conferences, research and publication projects and thematic educational events, this network hopes to deepen the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 6, 2008 at 3:28 — No Comments

Seminar on networked politics

Dear everybody!

During the last month a group of us have been trying to organise a working seminar on Networked Politics and Technology in the Bay Area. We are making the most of the fact that some of us are at present in the US. It has taken some time to get everything organised. Now we can confirm it. It will take place in Berkeley on the weekend of the 6th and 7th of December 2008. It will be hosted by the School of Information – UC Berkeley. We are also organising a public event… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 3, 2008 at 23:20 — No Comments

Discussing the ethical economy, chapter 1

Let's participate in discussing Adam Arvidsson's very important draft book, starting with chapter 1. One month is dedicated to discussing this chapter.

Here's the announcement:

“We’re proud to announce a new website for the Ethical Economy book project. At www.ethicaleconomy.com, you can download a final version of the first chapter that introduces and summarizes the argument (the second chapter, The Ethical Economy is Already Here, on how capitalism is no longer… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 3, 2008 at 23:02 — 10 Comments

Launch of Open Science Mailing List

(also check out: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Science)

Via the Open Knowledge Foundation:

After discussions with Cameron Neylon of Open Wetware and Kaitlin Thaney

of Science Commons we set up an open science mailing list. As far as we

could tell, there wasn't a general mailing list for people interested

open science. Hence the new list aims cover this gap, and to strengthen

and consolidate the open science community.

We hope it… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 3, 2008 at 7:45 — No Comments

Announcing the Open Cafe

Via Nathan Cravens:

From http://opencafemain.wikispot.org/:

"The Open Cafe fuses the age old tradition of the potluck with the contemporary Open Source movement to share company, food, drink, and more in a community environment created anew with every day. A wiki page maintained by a community describes each day's menu and schedule of events for a physical location in your area. You, the participant, can establish a location, make the menu and event schedule as you please,… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 1, 2008 at 6:43 — No Comments

You Think For Yourself but You Act Like Your Friends

This was sent to us by Auren Hoffman of http://blog.summation.net

Text:

You Think For Yourself but You Act Like Your Friends

It is important to understand how homophily changes the way we think

Birds of a feather tend to shop together. That we know. They also tend to talk together and walk together; and who their friends are affects more than just what type of jeans they buy. Their friends have the capacity to affect their tastes, activities, and their… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 1, 2008 at 3:33 — No Comments

The hidden epistemological biases of virtual worlds, and how they hurt natural ecology

see Website: http://cabowers.net/

key argument: our virtual environments carry hidden and implicit messages about the (pseudo)abundance of the world, and undermines sustainability consciousness,

Michel

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Chet Bowers

Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:00 PM

Subject: Exploring mutual interests

To: michelsub2004@gmail.com

Hi Michel:

Many thanks for sending information about where… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2008 at 22:54 — No Comments

Opening of FLOSS Manuals bookstore

FLOSS Manuals (http://www.flossmanuals.net) is proud to announce the

opening of our new Book Store. Not only can you now buy our high quality

manuals about Free and Open Source Software as books, but you can also

host the store on your own website! The FLOSS Manuals Book Store can be

nested in your website with a few easy lines of code pasted into your

webpages. The Book Store has been designed to fit neatly into navigation

bars and the sidebar of blogs and it can… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2008 at 0:29 — No Comments

Transforming Our Financial System ... From the Bottom Up

The central bankers of the world are planning to meet in Europe to

redesign the financial system from the top down. From Friday, October

24 through Tuesday, October 28, a diverse group of permaculturists,

entrepreneurs, community leaders, and investment strategists are

gathering in Hohenwald, Tennessee, to transform the financial system

from the bottom up, contributing to efforts that are spreading

virally, creating liquidity and economic… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 27, 2008 at 0:25 — 2 Comments

New Book: Leadership from Below

From the author/publisher site, for more info, see http://www.leadershipfrombelow.com/about.html

The Internet generation of interculturally minded, socially networked leaders is redefining the workplace. Management is slow to respond. Whether you are changing the rules, or watching the rules change, you need to read this book. How can you ground your leadership in the here and now?

Asian philosophy — with concepts like ba, Zen, feng shui, and ki — is becoming increasingly… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 26, 2008 at 13:10 — No Comments

The Equal Dignity Organizational Concept

From Rune Kvist Olsen:

Request the full document at rukvol@online.no

Now is the time to communicate and forward the message of ”The Equal Dignity Organizational Concept” as a mean to rebuild corporate trust throughout the world. This appeal can be seen as one of the ultimate reactions to the global shift in corporate and economic history of this tumultuous times inflicted with substantial changes and transformations of how our systems in society are functioning. As… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 23, 2008 at 17:32 — No Comments

New book: Baudelaire in Cyberspace

Baudelaire in Cyberspace

Dialogen over kunst, wetenschap en digitale cultuur

Antoon Van den Braembussche & Angelo Vermeulen

:: preface Henri Beunders

:: graphic design Joris Van Aken & Raf Vancampenhoudt

:: ASP, Brussels, 262 pp, with color illustrations, in Dutch

:: order on http://www.vubpress.be

This publication is a collection of ten in-depth dialogues between art philosopher Antoon Van

den Braembussche and Angelo Vermeulen. In these… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 22, 2008 at 23:40 — No Comments

New Book: Organising and Disorganising: A Dynamic and Non-Linear Theory of Institutional Emergence

Organising and Disorganising criss-crosses the conventional divisions between complexity theory, ecology, sociology, anthropology and political science, weaving an intriguing and fertile theory of systems behaviour which emphasises dynamical change over static classification. With characteristic wit, Michael Thompson uncovers a plethora of uninhabited intellectual niches for ambitious scholars to colonise.

Following his previous seminal work in this area (see panel on right),… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 17, 2008 at 10:28 — No Comments

Metagovernment and the People2020 project

Via Paul Codd McDonald, whom I met in Barcelona last week,

More info via paulcoddmacdonald@gmail.com

Here is a link to the open source democracy project I mentioned. I am a founding committee member and can act as a liaison for you with the project, or introduce you to the rest of the committee if you want to get more closely involved.

See http://www.metagovernment.org

Here are some other related projects we have come across over the last 6 months or… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 15, 2008 at 2:37 — No Comments

BUY-IN NOT BAILOUT - GLOBAL PUBLIC RESCUE

From: avaaz@avaaz.org

Subject: Thanks for buying in, not bailing out

Thank you for adding your voice to the campaign for buy-ins and a global public rescue plan, instead of bailouts which benefit reckless financiers most. The petition will be delivered to Finance Ministers of the G7 countries in Washington by the end of the week, and to a Global Crisis Summit including many heads of state in November.

We do need as many people as possible to join our call, so that we… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 10, 2008 at 13:24 — No Comments