March 2013 Blog Posts (7)

via Lisinka Ulatowska

more info, Commons Action,  Commons Cluster for the United Nations, at http://www.commonsactionfortheunitednations.org/un-rep-training/

The UN Training Part II will take place on Wednesday, April 3^rd  9:00-11:00…

Via Orsan Senalp:

The international seminar ‘Networked Labour: Rethinking labour in an age of networks’. We are

now please to confirm that the seminar will be held in Amsterdam between 7-9 May 2013.



Our work will be focusing on the changing worlds of labour and

production, and emerging new movements, political actors and their politics. We will mainly be discussing these topics in relation to the accelerating developments in the ICTs. Our hope is to create…

Next month I will be in Minneapolis to speak about the relationships between p2p/Open(standards, software, education, manufacturing...) and Catholic Social Doctrine at this symposium. I will present a paper titled "Catholic Social Thought and the Openness Revolution: natural travel companions".

I will have some time both before and after the event, so it would be great to meet other people interested in…

via Tero Toivanen a href="mailto:tero.tapio.toivanen@gmail.com" target="_blank">tero.tapio.toivanen@gmail.com>

CFP: The Political Economy of the Commons (Seminar at the University of Helsinki 25th May 2013)



In the past two decades the commons has become a widely debated concept within various academic disciplines, such as environmental studies, social sciences, law and…

Natasha Akib of StartSomeGood writes:

"I thought you might be interested in a short ebook we've just published which showcases ten of the social entrepreneurs who raised funds through crowdfunding on our site last year, and their goals and predictions for this year.

The entrepreneurs interviewed for Let’s Start Some Good:…