Chris Pinchen's Blog (15)

 

We are delighted to announce the kickoff of the P2PValue Project in which the P2P Foundation will be collaborating for the next three years.

Here is the project outline:

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The P2P Foundation is pleased to repost below the official post from Orange announcing "The report "Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy", coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation".

During this month we will be serialising the report here, or you can download it immediately!

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ExploitHub Authors Can Now Split Their Payouts with Selected Charities.

ExploitHub, the first legitimate marketplace for validated, non-zero-day exploits, announced today the introduction of the ExploitHub Charities and Causes Program. This program allows Authors that submit exploits and other products to the ExploitHub market to split their revenue with selected charities.

Three initial charities may now receive donations via the ExploitHub revenue split mechanism as of…

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Registration now open – register here

On & Off Welcome!!!! Benvinguts i benvingudes!!!…

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La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release

Permanent link: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/respectmynet-name-and-shame-operators-attempts-to-control-the-net



RespectMyNet: Name and Shame Operators' Attempts to Control the Net



*** Paris, September 22nd, 2011 —Civil society groups today launched an online platform to help…

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Hivos (The Hague) and The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore) consolidate their 3 year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in the 4 book collective "Digital AlterNatives with a cause?". This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen,asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and…

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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…

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Societing Summer School2nd Edition Social Movements and Social Innovation in the Mediterranean. In many ways, the Mediterranean has been in the shadow of the history of 20th century. But now it emerges anew. The uprisings in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt surprised everyone with the vigor and energy. They might very well spread to Greece, Italy and Spain.

At any rate…

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We are very pleased to announce that our Choke Point Project has been selected as 2011 winner of [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant as part of the …

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ChokePoint Project

This project is meant for people curious about transparency and control of the networking technologies, their use and abuse by nation states and corporations leading towards new tool sets being produced to distribute connectivity beyond traditional powers. Telephony and the Internet have had a huge impact on society,…

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Citilab is an open question and, therefore, there are as many different answers as there are people who form a part of this project. All those who recently attended the CCCB (Barcelona’s Centre for Contemporary Culture) so that the illustrious Ramon Sangüesa, director of Innovation at Citilab, could explain to us what sort of project it is, and what it can contribute as a cultural model, certainly the thing that nobody expected was for a man of more than 90 summers, (the eldest “citilaber“) to… Continue

InnovaCamp Mediterrane@ is a BarCamp to explore innovation, especially within the Mediterranean region. It is a participatory space where the atendees share experiences, ideas & networking and will take place in Citilab-Cornellà, Barcelona from 22-24th of May. The event is free and everybody is welcome to attend and participate.



You can present your project at InnovaCamp in many… Continue

Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the McLuhan Program of Culture and Technology in the University of Toronto was recently interviewd at Citilab- Cornellà - watch the interview here, read the transcript: English,… Continue

I met Michel Bauwens at UrbanLabs which took place at Citilab in Cornellà, Barcelona. He kindly agreed to record an interview for the PodCamp Barcelona Podcast, but due to his hectic schedule it was impossible to do until recently. I finally caught up with Michel when he was in Amsterdam and we recorded this conversation over… Continue