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Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative

Via Johanna Niesyto, http://www.protest-cultures.uni-siegen.de:

Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative

Date: 26-27 March 2010

Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 5, 2010 at 10:04 — No Comments

Please support the CubeSpawn fundraising project!

Hi, This is James Jones,

I am currently developing an Open Source hardware project, called "CubeSpawn" to build small, light duty manufacturing equipment to help individuals make things locally. To get the project funded I have applied to a Pepsi sponsored Grant program.

All you need to do to support the idea, is vote for it to get it into the top ten listings To vote, go here:… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on February 2, 2010 at 4:59 — No Comments

Special issue on renewable and distributed energy infrastructures

From: Rasa Smite

we have extended deadline for ENERGY publication - now it is March 31, 2010,

CALL FOR PAPERS:

ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy.

Acoustic Space (Issue nr. 8)

"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed."

(The law of conservation of energy)

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture is seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 29, 2010 at 9:23 — No Comments

Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict Research Group, conference in Hull

More info at http://virt3c.wordpress.com/about/

The Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict Research Group (VIRT3C) is about passionate collaborative production and exploring the strengths and weakness of peer technology and open projects. VIRT3C will bring leading cybertheorists, internet, peer production and social networking experts together for knowledge-sharing, and collaboration in interdisciplinary academic… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 27, 2010 at 7:00 — No Comments

Volunteers Needed To Help Map the Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystem

An appeal by Suresh Fernando, that is worthy of our support,

contact him via suresh@radical-inclusion.com

In case you are not aware, OpenKollab, the Forward Foundation and the P2P Foundation are collaborating on mapping out the Distributed Manufacturing space in some detail.

The benefit to you is that you will:

* Learn about the Distributed Manufacturing space

* Learn about P2P networks

* Learn about the OpenKollab Ecosystem Pooled… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 6, 2010 at 5:02 — 3 Comments

Restoring animals as peers through totemic kinship: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson

Book: A Reenchanted World: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson.

Introduction

James William Gibson:

"1, The culture of enchantment creates symbolic, totemic kinship ties with wild animals. It does not erases human-animal differences, but clearly links them in human-animal kinship ties.

2. Consecrating land--restoring enchantment or sacredness to lands and waters--is a collective act. Consecration changes the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 6, 2010 at 2:36 — 1 Comment

P2P Etiquette

I am hopefully not breaking P2P etiquette here, but my Kickstarter project funding seems to be stalled.

If I am to make further progress this year, I need to make this work.

So, I am requesting that you consider 5 or 10 dollars for the project, its is less about the amount, than about attracting a show of interest and support. This is a reasonably small sum, and you'll all have access to the full plans when they are published in march 2010. Equally important is for interested… Continue

Added by James Jones on January 3, 2010 at 2:00 — 1 Comment

Observations on "Open Everything"

I was finally able to slow down enough from catching up on things and do a little exploring of the P2P site. And so, had the chance to watch Mr. Bauwens TEDx “Open Everything” presentation .

I was most taken by the observations about the shifts between periods of acceptable norms in society, and their reflected effects on the structure of governance. Especially as it relates to the current transition.

A more concise analogy might be that small independent bubbles form at… Continue

Added by James Jones on December 27, 2009 at 20:00 — 1 Comment

Editorial "from Ecorev 33 : Thinking after capitalism with André Gorz"

Via Emmanuel Dessendier, editor in chief of Ecorev:

Two years ago, a few days before our patron André Gorz and his wife passed away, he had sent us his last text.

EcoRev’s present issue pays tribute to this great thinker and father of political ecology. It is special also in the sense that it is published ten years after the original issue, which focused on “Surviving capitalism”. Yet, this tribute does not want to regard the “Gorzian philosophy” as sacred.… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 27, 2009 at 1:09 — No Comments

Entropy is not what it use to be (English)

Dr. Deborah Gordon's video at TED's

"The conversation between pairs is possible in a culture like ours in childhood because is Matristic from which we have obtained the experience of…

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Added by Carlos Boyle on November 24, 2008 at 19:07 — No Comments

Call for Papers Internet Research 11.0 - Sustainability, Participation, Action

The 11th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)

October 21-23, 2010 University of Gothenburg/Chalmers University of

Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

The challenge of this conference is to find multiple avenues for

participation and action towards a sustainable future. In a society

increasingly aware of social and ecological imbalance, many people now

see information and communication… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 15, 2009 at 9:18 — No Comments

Education as a Commons

Via Stevphen Shukaitis, Autonomedia Editorial Collective, http://www.autonomedia.org

Beneath the University, the Commons

A conference at the University of Minnesota

April 8-11, 2010

// Antioch 05.08 // Rome 10.08 // Athens 12.08 // New York City

12.08 // Helsinki 03.09 // Zagreb 05.09 // Heidelberg 06.09 // London

06.09 //Santa Cruz 09.09//

Seemingly discrete struggles over the conditions of… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 1, 2009 at 6:15 — No Comments

International coalition for civil rights of citizens and artists in the digital era

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 14, 2009 at 15:41 — No Comments

Important fundraising appeal for the P2P Foundation - help us stay running

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 10, 2009 at 5:30 — No Comments

GOVERNANCE OF THE GLOBAL COMMONS BY THE PEOPLE: A UN LOBBY

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… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 9, 2009 at 19:19 — No Comments

Creatives 4NN - European Campaign for Net Neutrality

Via Gianfranco, press office of Scambioetico

Creatives 4NN - International Campaign

A few hours after the cancellation by the Telecoms Package amendment

138, REFF and Scambioetico movement start off to "Creatives for Net

Neutrality - Creatives 4NN. The amendment was the last of the package

under discussion in Bruxelles by these days, to protect the privacy

and freedom of information and expression.

Recognizing cyberspace as… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 19, 2009 at 16:21 — No Comments

Global Privacy Standards in a Global World; November 3, 2009 in Madrid, Spain

Via our seriously rocking friend in Barcelona, Celia Blanco:

The Public Voice, an international civil society coalition, will discuss: Global Privacy Standards in a Global World; during its conference on November 3, 2009 in Madrid, Spain, to be held in conjunction with the 31st Annual International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.

Prominent advocates and experts from the academic, consumer, digital rights and labor communities will discuss… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on October 8, 2009 at 19:33 — No Comments

What is the Common Conference

What is the Common?

An International Conference

http://www.kurrents.org/conf/index.html

10-11 October 2009

University of Gothenburg

Sweden

Submission deadline: September 5

Contact: info@kurrents.org

Keynotes

David HarveyYitzhak LaorJacques RancièreAntonio Negri

The list of keynotes may be subject to changes

New Sessions

• The Iranian Revolution 30 Years Later

• Constructing the Common in Contemporary… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 20, 2009 at 12:03 — No Comments

Developing the Virtual Society: Conflict in Adoption of Collaborative Networks 19-20 March in Hull

After Leuven, 2006; Nottingham, 2007; Manchester 2009 (April and November 3), this will be the fourth conference dedicated to P2P Research!!

A special thanks to Dr. Athina Karatzogianni for making it possible.

More information: http://virt3c.wordpress.com/

Call For Papers

The Inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference of the Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict (VIRT3C) Research Group at the University of… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on September 3, 2009 at 3:40 — No Comments

Call for papers - P2P energy production and distribution

Via Vasilis Kostakis:

Call for papers - P2P energy production and distribution

Info at http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=1399

We invite contributions for our upcoming special issue entitled “A critical view on Peer-to-Peer energy production and distribution”.

It can be argued that a shift to a P2P-based, sustainable society would be based on a set of inter-related infrastructures:

* A distributed communication and… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on July 16, 2009 at 7:41 — No Comments