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Call for cooperation with Aquila99: 1st wikiTV Festival G99 proposals for a sustainable World, L'Aquila, 8 - 10 July 2010

Via "Giuseppe Silvi" <giuseppesilvi@yahoo.it>,



More details at http://www.laquila99.tv/wiki/index.php?title=1st_wikiTV_Festival_G99_proposals_for_a_sustainable_World



1st wikiTV Festival G99 proposals for a sustainable World, L'Aquila, 8 - 10 July 2010

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Added by Michel Bauwens on May 24, 2010 at 10:23 — No Comments

Creation of the Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance

OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware

and design. It was first drafted at the GOSH!-Grounding Open Source

Hardware summit at the Banff Centre in July 2009.



One of the first goals of the project is to build a service for

sharing open hardware designs which includes a certification model and

a registration. Recently we are working on getting an OpenHardware[TM]

off the ground.



OHANDA is work in process. The process is open… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on May 23, 2010 at 11:46 — No Comments

CopySouth Research Group conference in Rio, June 2010

15 May 2010



The CopySouth Research Group (CSRG) invites you to attend and join in the debates at its international conference on copyright to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of June.



The issues to be discussed include: 1) file sharing, copyright ‘piracy’ and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); 2) musicians and the copyright system; 3) cultural diversity and North-South knowledge flows; 4) Electronic books, Google books, and Sciello books; 5) access to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on May 16, 2010 at 9:46 — 1 Comment

Free Culture between Commons and Markets: Approaching the Hybrid Economy? October 8-9, 2010 at the Free University Campus in Berlin,

The Free Culture Research Conference presents a unique opportunity for

scholars whose work contributes to the promotion, study or criticism of a

Free Culture, to engage with a multidisciplinary group of academic peers

and practitioners, identify the most important research opportunities and

challenges, and attempt to chart the future of Free Culture.

[...]

It is hosted jointly by the Free University of Berlin and the Max Planck

Institute for the Study of… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 29, 2010 at 13:43 — No Comments

Great new book on the future of education, learning and knowledge sharing: WIKI WORLD!

Book: Wikiworld: Political Economy of Digital Literacy, and the Road from Social to Socialist Media. Juha Suoranta - Tere Vadén.



URL = http://wikiworld.wordpress.com/



Description

"In the digital world of…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on April 27, 2010 at 9:33 — No Comments

Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform" November, 1st and 2nd, 2010 in Berlin/Germany

Via Silke Helfrich:



Save The Date for the International Commons Conference (ICC)

"Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform"

November, 1st and 2nd, 2010

in Berlin/Germany



For information please contact:

Silke Helfrich, helfrich@boell.de ; phone: 0049-3641-509536





Berlin, April 23, 2010



Dear all,



Greetings from the Heinrich Böll Stiftung (hbs),…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on April 25, 2010 at 11:11 — No Comments

Important conference: DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media

DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media

Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Affairs

University of Toronto

Nov 12-14, 2010



http://diycitizenship.com/



Call for papers/presentations: due May 20, 2010



Plenary speakers include: Anne Balsalmo, Suzanne de Castell, Ron Deibert, Paul Dourish, Henry Jenkins, Jennifer Jenson, Natalie Jeremijenko, Steve Mann, Trebor… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 20, 2010 at 13:15 — No Comments

New Film: Patent Absurdity

Via Peter Brown <info@fsf.org>





Subject: [FSF] New Film: Patent Absurdity



Independent filmmaker Luca Lucarini has just published his new film

'Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system'



http://patentabsurdity.com/



The film was supported by a grant from the Free Software Foundation and

made possible by the Associate Membership of the Free… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 18, 2010 at 10:29 — No Comments

Report from the Forum of Cultural Industries' counter-summit in Barcelona

-- Special thanks for the colaboration to Michel Bauwens, Jeremie Zimmermann, Ignasi Labastida, YProductions --



Thanks to all, the civil response to the summit of Ministers of Culture from the 27 European Union countries and their meeting with the Forum of Cultural Industries was a massive success.



The civil society succed to desactivate the lobbies discours.



Down below a report of the last struggle, but first the incredible amount of material has been produced over… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 8, 2010 at 7:08 — No Comments

Call for Papers: Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in Wikis, Tampere, Finland. September 6-8, 2010

Via Tere Vaden:



Call for papers (open until May 15., 2010):





Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in Wikis



A session in The 2nd International Power & Knowledge Conference, Tampere, Finland. September 6-8, 2010

http://tinyurl.com/yfvgyh6



The collective knowledge creation on various wiki-sites, including the massively popular Wikipedia, is having a profound effect on the social and epistemological conditions of… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 7, 2010 at 10:30 — No Comments

Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and Networked Learning, Special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media (CFP)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and Networked Learning



Editors of a Special Issue

Michael A. Peters, University of Illinois

Daniel Araya, University of Illinois



Developments in information and communications networks not only define globalization but are changing the format and density of the flows of knowledge, research and creativity. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have become a particularly important factor in this process. Serving as platforms for… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 1, 2010 at 18:41 — No Comments

JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science

Via Coturnix at http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/03/the_new_issue_of_journal_of_sc.php



Issue available via http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/09/01



The new issue of Journal of Science Communication is now online (Open Access, so you can download all PDFs…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on March 24, 2010 at 5:34 — No Comments

Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and Networked Learning, Special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media (CFP)

Via Daniel Araya:



CALL FOR PAPERS

Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and Networked Learning



Editors of a Special Issue

Michael A. Peters, University of Illinois

Daniel Araya, University of Illinois



Developments in information and communications networks not only define globalization but are

changing the format and density of the flows of knowledge, research and

creativity. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have become a particularly important

factor in… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 17, 2010 at 22:13 — No Comments

Exploring Produsage: A Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (CFP)

Via Axel Bruns:



Exploring Produsage



A Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia



Call for papers





The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles of users and contributors within social media environments. Participants in open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and Second Life are no longer merely consuming or using preproduced material, but… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on March 15, 2010 at 5:31 — No Comments

a Flickr group call Sharing Illustrated to create a pool of Creative Commons images, photos, and videos that anyone can use to talk about sharing, peer-to-peer production

Via: Neal Gorenflo



I've started a Flickr group call Sharing Illustrated to create a pool of Creative Commons images, photos, and videos that anyone can use to talk about sharing, peer-to-peer production,

alternative economy, and the commons. The idea is to empower

communicators of all stripes with high quality images about sharing.


You're invited to join the group and share your images. It's really easy. First,…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 24, 2010 at 11:25 — No Comments

Innovating through commons use: community-based enterprise

Via Erling Berge and Frank van Laerhoven



New Issue Announcement : Volume 4, Issue 1| June 2010



Editors-in-Chief Frank van Laerhoven and Erling Berge are pleased to

announce the publication of Volume 4, Issue 1 (2010) of the International

Journal of the Commons.



We invite you to visit our website at:…



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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 24, 2010 at 8:32 — No Comments

Towards a P2P Seed Bank?





Via Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado:



Hi there,



First of all, we would like to thank you indeed for your hard work

promoting the Commons and P2P forms of production and organisation. We

are the group behind ourproject.org and we would like to give some

diffusion to some of our P2P initiatives. We believe that the P2P

Foundation Wiki is the appropriate forum to do so.



In the first place, we launched an organic seed bank where we would like

to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 23, 2010 at 17:56 — No Comments

Introducing the OpenKollab Ecosystem Pooled Fund: a collaborative approach to funding early stage social ventures

Via Suresh Fernando:



OpenKollab's is developing infrastructure and processes to support its larger

mission of Connecting Projects To Solve Massive Social Problems. In

service of this larger end, we are developing the Ecosystem Pooled Fund initiative,

the objective of which is to develop a model to provide financing… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 18, 2010 at 8:04 — No Comments

Conference on Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility





06 September 2010 — 10 September 2010 European Science Foundation





Conference on Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 17, 2010 at 14:30 — No Comments

Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Barcelona from 26-29 of March 2010

Via Enric Senabre Hidalgo :





Dear friends,





We would like to request for your participation in the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on February 6, 2010 at 15:52 — No Comments

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