Featured Blog Posts – June 2010 Archive (14)

A personal email message, via the intersession of Gordon Cook:



Eva writes:



"I have been involved with election integrity for over 25 years and this is what I have observed.



While the issue is certainly vast in scope, extremely complex, intractable, and politically sensitive, the core systemic problems have not been honestly defined and widely recognized.



The mainstream media has failed miserably, with a few notable exceptions, to keep the general public… Continue

The open data movement is growing apace. What better demonstration of this than news that the UK coalition government is making its Combined Online Information System (COINS) freely available on the Internet, inviting people not only to access the data but to re-use it…

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Via Carolina Botera:



he project is called ESCUELA VIRTUAL DE DEPORTES (EVD) http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes/



This was thought initially as a traditional open virtual school devoted to Colombian sports trainners to improve and share their knowledges on the idea that this will improve some sports public policies especially related with social and health issues, by using elearning strategies.… Continue

New donation pool to raise funds for Ripple development



A new donation pool has been created to raise funds for development of the Ripple project, with an initial contribution of $500.00. The final amount will be donated to the Ripple project to support the development of a standalone Ripple server to provide open decentralized payment through the Ripplepay site as well as other services using Ripple. All content created will be released under an open license.



Ripple is an… Continue

If you want to support this project, go here at Kickstarter:



http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/harrisonweber/stocky-the-next-movement-in-stock-design-photograp



Via Harrison Weber:



"Lets forget about what we think of as a stock photography or stock design website. Lets create a new environment where creators can share things they’ve

done with other… Continue

On June 16th the Icelandic Parliament unanimously passed a proposal

tasking the government to intoduce a new legislative regime to protect

and strengthen modern freedom of expression, and the free flow of

information in Iceland and around the world. There is full government

support for the initiative and its objectives.



Birgitta Jonsdottir, the chief sponsor in parliament of the IMMI

proposal said: "Iceland will become the inverse of a tax haven; by

offering… Continue

You are invited to the following event:

Open Science Summit 2010



Date:

Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM

- to -… Continue

Via Axel Bruns:



Dear colleague,



Apologies for the somewhat impersonal nature of this email.



You'll be aware of my work on the concept of produsage over the past few years, chiefly in the book Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (New York: Peter Lang, 2008).



I am writing to you now to let you know about the second and final CFP for a special issue of the journal New Review of Hypermedia… Continue

Via Julian Assange:



WikiLeaks may be under attack.



You were generous enough to write to us, but we have not had the labor resources to respond.



Your support is important to us. Please read all of this email to understand what is going on. We apologize for not getting back to you before. It is not through any lack of interest on our part, but an enforced lack of resources.



One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, has been… Continue

Via Adam Arvidsson:



This is a first announcement of our upcoming Summer school on ‘Finance and Ethical Economy’ in Cava di Tirreni, on the Amalfi coast outside Naples- one of the most beautiful places in the Mediterranean. …



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International Commons Conference

The International Commons Conference, “Constructing a Commons-Based Policy Platform,” will be held in Berlin, Germany, on November 1 and 2, 2010. The event, is being convened by

the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a publicly financed non-profit organization

affiliated with the German Greens, but working independently with various

partners through its 25 worldwide offices.

The conference seeks to…

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Via Mamading Ceesay:



On Tuesday June the 15th, London Creative Labs (founded by London

Leader Sofia Bustamante) will be running the first ever Social

Startup Labs in Vauxhall, South London. Participants will learn by

doing how the community can work together to create and grow social

businesses that provide or enable much needed employment opportunities

for all and make their neighbourhoods better places to live, work and play!



Thanks to sponsorship by the… Continue

Third CopySouth Workshop



International Conference on Copyright Issues



http://copysouth.org/portal/rio ● copysouth.rio2010@gmail.com







The CopySouth Research Group (CSRG) invites you to attend and join in

the debates at its three day

international conference on copyright to be held in Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil at the end of June.



It is an important moment to discuss these issues. Around the… Continue

"This summer, scientists, hackers, students, patients, and activists

will convene to discuss the future of our science/technology paradigm.

Topics include:Synthetic Biology, Gene Patents, Open Data, Open Access, Microfinance

for Science, DIY science, DIY Biology, Alternative Funding for Science,

Open Source Drugs, Patent Pools, Open Health/Medicine, Patient Advocacy for Innovation

Ready for a rapid, radical reboot of the global innovation system for a…

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