Featured Blog Posts – February 2011 Archive (12)

The following was also endorsed by the P2P Foundation:

 

Original via http://fcforum.net/sustainable-models-for-creativity/declaration

 

Free/Libre Culture Forum Declaration

[For details, see the extended version]

We can no longer put off…

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Via Olivier Auber:

 

Please donate via http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/projects/generateur-poietique

 

THis fundraising campaign is about raising money for some talented developers in order to make a massively multi-player and very serious game, that everyone can use for free, on their mobiles and on the InternetWhy…

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Subject: [knowledgelab] A counter-G20 on Open Data, Open Governement and No More Bullying

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A counter-G20 on Open Data, Open Governement and No More Bullying



When: November 3-4 2011

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Via Volker Ralf Grassmuck:

 

From what we know about Ana de Hollanda so far, she is void of any political vision. There is also no indication that she is grasping the fundamental transition of culture in the digital revolution that she would have to steer her country through; of the potential it holds for education and public creative expression by potentially all, for development and access to knowledge and for making use of the competitive advantage Brazil has in vying for a…

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Via Silke Helfrich:

 

Dear all,



thank You so much for undersigning the Open Letter to Brazilians

President Dilma Rousseff in support of the work of the Brazilian society

and government for the cultural commons!



It took us some time (actually our whole stay in Dakar at the World

Social Forum) to craft the letter, to collect first signatures (yours)

and to prepare the launch. Therefore, sorry for the delay in responding

your mails…

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Via Jan Servaes:

 

Radio and new participatory journalisms around the World:

Understanding Convergence in News Cultures

Special issue of

Telematics and Informatics

 http://ees.elsevier.com/tele/

 

 Edited by Dr. Last Moyo

Senior lecturer, Media Studies, University of Witwatersrand, P Bag 3,…

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Via Andreas Exner:

 

Thanks to efforts from Christian Siefkes and Stefan Meretz, the new weblog



http://demonetize.it/



could be opened.



I feel that demonetization is present within different sorts of debates,

including commons, solidarity economy and basic income as a transformation

strategy, but that it should be made more visible as a paradigm in "its own

right".…

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Via  José Carlos Mota:

 

The civic project 'No economic recovery without cities [& citizens]' (*) is launching a challenge of creating a global list of  'blogs [or sites] of streets, neighbourhoods, villages or cities’ promoted by citizens or groups of citizens that whish to think collectively about the future of the places they live and/or work.

The…

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Via Alessandro Caiani:



Here you find a call, addressed to researchers all over Europe, to support the student movement in Pavia (Italy) that is trying to create a mutualistic self-organized space in their city.



On Friday 28th of January, students occupied a structure of the University abandoned since 2003. The aim of this action is to create inside that building a range of self-organized autonomous welfare services for students and precarious young workers: a copypoint, a… Continue

Via Frederic Sultan:

 

Workshop of copyright issues at the World Social Forum  (Dakar, Senegal)  

 

Tuesday, 8 February                   16h00 to 19h00



 

A workshop to examine the negative effects of copyright on the peoples

of Africa, including Senegal, and how these restrictive laws prevent the

sharing of knowledge and culture. We will look at how copyright impacts

negatively on libraries, schools and students, musicians and…

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Via Frederic Sultan:

 

(source: http://bienscommuns.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dakar)

 

Seminar on Africa with strong commons connotation:

 

GRAP SEMINAR

WSF DAKAR

2011

07/02/2011



       Africa and the Crisis of Civilization: ruptures and challenges





       

08/02/2011





I. Search for…

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