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From: Oliver Ressler
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
A film by Oliver Ressler
118 min., 2009
“What is democracy?” is not one question, but is actually two questions.
On the one hand, the question relates to conditions of the current,
parliamentary representative democracies that are scrutinized critically
in this project. On the other hand, the question traces different
approaches to what a more democratic system might look like and which
organizational forms it c…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 25, 2009 at 10:37am —
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La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release
Permanent link:
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/telecoms-package-a-missed-opportunity-for-citizens-rights
Telecoms Package: A Missed Opportunity for Citizen's Rights
*** Paris, November 24th, 2009 - There is no reason to celebrate the
general outcome of the Telecoms Package. The final text voted today is
far from satisfactory: while it includes…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 24, 2009 at 11:12am —
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Via Robin :
A loose network of nomads, skillsurfers, hackers, open space fanatics and hospitality exchange addicts is hosting a conference on (postmodern/neo)nomadic culture, with a strong focus on setting up spaces/bases/places that are open for nomads. The conference takes place in Berlin from the 20th to the 30th of November, or maybe even longer. And in New York from the 5th to the 6th of December See
http://sharewiki.org/en/she
With this initiativ…
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La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release
Permanent link:
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/one-more-breach-to-net-neutrality-in-europe-time-to-legislate
One more breach to Net neutrality in Europe: Time to legislate
*** Paris, November 19th, 2009 - In Spain, the mobile operator Vodafone
is launching a new offer that violates the fundamental principle of Net
neutrality. This is one mo…
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https://ftacademy.org/announce/3
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"The Free Technology Academy Opens its Doors!"
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1. Available courses
The Free Technology Academy opens its doors to students. The
registration process for the first 2 courses has already started. The
courses currently open are "The concepts of Free Software and Open
Standards" and "The GNU/Linux Operating Syst…
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via La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release
Permanent link:
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-worldwide-net-restrictions-without-public-debate
ACTA: Worldwide Net restrictions without public debate
*** Paris, November 12th, 2009 - Since Spring 2008, The European Union,
the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a
few other countries have been negotiating a trad…
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BRAZIL AS CLIMATE LEADER – DO THE MATH
from Jim Garrison and Emilia Queiroga
As the world prepares for Copenhagen, there is a vacuum in climate leadership, which Brazil has just filled. The combination of its commitment to reduce Amazonian deforestation by 80% by 2020 and CO2 emissions by 36% - 39% by 2020 puts Brazil light years ahead of the rest of the world and clearly the world leader in addressing the escalating crisis of global warming.
Since deforestation accounts for roughly 60% of Br…
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A huge international coalition has come together to campaign for respect for the civil rights of citizens and artists in the digital era.
Today they will be launching internationally the "Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge".
This initiative constitutes the beginning of an unprecedented offensive of civil society in defense of the fundamental rights in response to the pressure of the lobbies of the culture industry on the European Parliament and national parliaments.
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 14, 2009 at 3:41pm —
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Copyright Watch:
http://www.copyright-watch.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release
For Immediate Release: Friday, November 13, 2009
International Activists Launch New Website to Gather and
Share Copyright Knowledge
Anyone Can Track National Copyright Laws Globally with
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and other
international copyright experts joined together tod…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 13, 2009 at 8:08pm —
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Dear friends,
I hope we can count on you to defray some of the legal costs of the P2P Foundation, which James has been funding so far.
Apart from existing as a informal network, if we want to attract funding for research projects and other activities such as conferences, we also need a legal structure, which exists in the Netherlands. This is why we achieved a first selection for a EU FP7 grant, which will fund 3 researchers as of march 2010; and why Phoebe is now leading another one, which wi…
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Via James Quilligan, a message from Lisinka Ulatowska
Dear Friends,
I forgot to add my email address. It is ulatowska@versatel. nl.
A growing number of organizations are planning a dialogue with Governments, a cooperative lobby, starting with the CSD in May 2010 to see how the Global Commons (those areas of the world and human experience that are vital to the well-being of humanity and the Planet) can be stewarded so that all--people and whole planet can prosper. James Quilligan of the Global…
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Via Rasa Smite
ORGANIZED NETWORKS - Renewable Network Meeting and Workshop Programme
Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5, 2009
10.00-18.00
* Themes and Working Groups will include:
"sustainable networking" - discussing politics, strategies and models of building sustainable network
(with on-line participation of Ned Rossiter, author of the book "Organized Networks" )
"design for resilience" (on-line interview with John Thackara / Founder of Doors-of-Perception)
case study:
"distrib…
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Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture
Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces
URL =
www.oppositionalarchitecture.com
New York, November 12--21, 2009
Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(York Stop on the F Train)
The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has
increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due
to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the
r…
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Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity
25-28 March 2010, Barcelona, Spain
Call for abstracts
ECONOMIC DEGROWTH TODAY
The second international conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity is planned towards the end of March 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. It is organised by the Institute of Science and Environmental Technology (ICTA), Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (
w…
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Via Phoebe Moore:
MEDIA ECOLOGIES AND POSTINDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
3rd November, 2009
Innovation Forum
University of Salford, Greater Manchester
8.30 – 9.00: Coffee & Welcome
Atrium, ground floor
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9.00 – 10.00: Morning Keynote Address
Conference Room 1, 1st Floor
Michel Bauwens
Founder, P2P Foundation
Dhurakij Pundit University International College, Bangkok, Thailand
An infrastructure for Open Everything
The co…
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Call for papers
First International Workshop on "Cultural Commons"
Organized by the Silvia Santagata Research Centre
Torino 29-30 January 2010
Deadline
Submissions of the extended abstracts: deadline : 20th of November 2009.
Theoretical contributions as well as case studies are welcome. The workshop is open to scholars, doctoral students and young researchers, from economics, sociology, law and other related fields. Please submit abstracts to: centrostudi@css-ebla.it. The deadline for exte…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 29, 2009 at 12:24pm —
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NEWS RELEASE FROM THE COPYSOUTH RESEARCH GROUP OCTOBER 2009.
What are the basic nuts and bolts (and traps and dead ends) of copyright
law? Who owns copyright (hint: it is usually not the author)? What rights do
users have? Do international copyright conventions work in the interest of the
peoples of the world, and, if not, why not?
These are a few of the questions that are taken up and answered in “An
alternative primer on national and international copyright law in the global
South: eighteen…
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Call for Contributions: Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010)
30 June – 2 July, 2010, Leeds, UK
URL =
http://www.dico.unimi.it/OD2010
Sponsored by: The Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, Dipartimento di
Informatica e Comunicazione Università degli Studi di Milano and the Public Sphere Project.
The widespread diffusion of the Internet and a growing trend towards democratisation worldwide have…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 26, 2009 at 9:22am —
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Via Vinay Gupta:
URL =
http://openhardware.eventbrite.com/
- Open Hardware Camp –
Collaborative Strategies and Challenges of Making Things the Open Source Way
Organized by: 40Fires in partnership with Nesta
Location: Nesta HQ
Date: 4th of December
Time: 10:00 – 20:00
This is an event to bring key projects, their participants and stakeholders together in the emerging field of Open Hardware development, organized by 40Fires in partnership w…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 22, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Via Marco Fioretti:
Greetings,
next december I'll start teaching an online course. The main topics
are summarized here:
http://stop.zona-m.net/digital-culture-online-course-parents-teachers-and-everybody-else
The course discusses in depth many of the issues mentioned in these
talks:…
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