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via Yvette Dubel:

Some time back I had written a blog post about the need to find places of connection in our various concepts of what a better world is. In real practical terms, building infrastructure that works for more people means provoking conversations about how individuals see a better world working. Most importantly developing new understandings of the roles individuals play and the meaning found in them has…

This year the TedXBrussels theme is Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes (or BANG BANG!). The digital world and the real world are interconnected like never before. You can send off online for a personal genome readout and control physical objects with your mind. Computer thinking is driving medicine, music and play. With brain-computer interfaces now used in nuclear power stations and bio hackers doing lab biology in their garages, BANG BANG is a concept whose time has come. BANG BANG means the…

via Jérémie ZIMMERMANN:

"Here is finally a presentable version of

the "ACTION PLAN FOR COPYRIGHT REFORM AND CULTURE IN THE XXIst CENTURY"

that was started during last Free Culture Forum amongst representatives

from FCF, Communia, Polish activists, LQDN and others.



It is the first iteration of a commenting round that we hope will be

fruitful and will…

via Matt Boggs:

via http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/barcelona-15m-newsletter-nr-14-3/

The xarxa d’economia solidaria (supportive economy network) began 20 years ago, as a link between Catalan and Brasilian cooperatives.

This supportive economy as a new way of producing, distributing and consuming, is proposed as a viable and sustainable alternative to…

via the 

BARCELONA #15M Newsletter nr 31

URL = http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/barcelona-15m-newsletter-nr-31/

F.E.S.C.: THE 1st FAIR OF SOLIDARITY ECONOMY IN CATALUNYA 

On October 27th…

via the 

BARCELONA #15M Newsletter nr 31

URL = http://acampadabcninternacional.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/barcelona-15m-newsletter-nr-31/

1.  FOUR DAYS OF DIGITAL CULTURE, NETWORKS AND DISTRIBUTED POLICY IN…

via Daniel Araya:

Technopolis: Smart Cities in the Knowledge Economy

Editor: DANIEL ARAYA

Description

There are over 400 cities with a population of more than one million people today, and close to 20 cities with a population of more than 10 million people. Over the next 20 years cities will support between 3.5 and 5 billion inhabitants. This remarkable urban growth has created vast policy and planning challenges…

via tomislav medak:

via John Boik:

I am happy to announce that Principled Societies Project website is now live. The project is a science-based effort to design and test pioneering systems of finance, economics, and governance that improve well-being and speed the transition to a sustainable society. The goal is to create fully functional, metro-scale pilot trials in which the impacts of new systems can be assessed. Systems to be tested include local currencies, socially responsible…

The P2P Foundation is pleased to repost below the official post from Orange announcing "The report "Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy", coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation".

During this month we will be serialising the report here, or you can download it immediately!

Source:…

A message from Lynne DeSilva-Johnson:

More info: EXIT STRATA CREATORS COLLECTIVE

http://exitstrata.com

We need to evolve our legal systems.. cc all commoners, peer to peer peeps, evolutionaries and everyone who sees this. Check the trailer out and support the creation of this timely documentary. Peoplefundit!!!!

http://www.peoplefund.it/wild-law-documentary/…

via Marc Joffe:

Think Tank Identifies Potential Debt Crisis With Open Source App

— Macdonald-Laurier Institute publishes Canadian government bond study based on predictive analytics modeling software —

SAN FRANCISCO  -- Oct. 18 – Canadian provinces face substantial long term credit risk, according to a study published today by the …

Xnet (http://whois--X.net ) presents the 2012 oXcars and Free Culture  Forum (FCForum)



25 October 2012- 8.30pm - Sala Apolo, Barcelona (Carrer Nou de la  Rambla, 113)

The oXcars, the greatest free culture event of all time, turns five  this year. Once

again, it will be held at Sala Apolo in Barcelona  (Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 113) on 25

October, from…

Please see the following announcement for the 2nd International Conference

on Complementary Currency Systems for June 19-22 2013



http://www.iss.nl/research/conferences_and_seminars/periodic_conferences_deb

ates_and_seminars/chose_language/



contact: …

via Marilyn Mehlmann:

(more info via mmehlmann@gmail.com)

Dear all,…

via Ruby van der Wekken:

info: <rubyvdwekken@gmail.com>, 

Finnish version via https://www.facebook.com/events/294626617318493/

"Program of the Commons Day, Friday 28.9



Co-organised day on peer-to-peer production and commons by Commons.fi- online journal, Helsinki Timebank and the University of Helsinki



All events are…

From a review of the book, "Who Stole the American Dream" by Robert Steele:

The book opens with reflections of Arnold Toynbee on how civilizations fall, from schisms of the society and schisms of the soul. Being an admirer of George Will's collection entitled "Statecraft as Soulcraft," this resonates with me.



The author chooses to start his account in the 1970's, focusing on Justice Powell and the memorandum that created the…

Via Azad Qalamdar:

"the "Hamari Boli Initiative", an opensource People-to-People collaboration and Language Planning enterprise aimed at Hindi-Urdu (the erstwhile Hindustani. Lingua franca of South Asia & 2nd most spoken lanuage in the world) Script, Style, Style, Status & Lexical reform and modernization. 



a full-scale Language Planning initiative,…