Via Wouter Tebbens:

Dear friends and colleagues,



maybe you've heard it already: we have been working to set up an online community about Free Technology. A community portal hosted by the Free Technology Academy, completely based on Free Software and integrated in its online campus. It's an informal social networking space where people can participate in (and create) groups to learn, discuss and work together about Free Technology.



Some examples of…

At Last, a Human Right to Water

(submitted by lisinka.ulatowska)

Good news for thirsty people around the globe: The UN affirms the right to safe and clean drinking water.

by Daniel Moss

posted Jul 30, 2010…

Colombia, chronicle of a Social Controversy Foretold

Translated by Carolina Mejía

Original in spanish By Carolina Botero

Following the trend of other laws currently being enforced by other countries attempting to regulate ISP’s responsibility for copyright infractions made through the internet (known as…

The Open Hardware Summit Call for submissions is open. Deadline is June

24th. Please RT, forward and blog!

This post is also available on the open hardware summit

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Thanks !

 

Open Hardware Summit 2011 – Call for…

The Philosophy of Peer Learning

Educational Philosophy and…

Via Hervé Le Crosnier:

Bonjour,



       Les biens communs de la connaissance forment

       un contexte majeur dans lequel nous pouvons réfléchir

       à l'avenir des "sociétés de la connaissance"



       Deux événements nous y incitent en ce mois de juin :



       - la parution du livre/référence "Libres Savoirs :

         les biens communs de la…

Via Bertram Niessen:

After the infamous declarations of the Minister for Public Administration and Innovation Renato Brunetta http://anna-marchi.blogspot.com/2011/06/worse-part-of-italy-post-pc-story.html against precarious workers, bottom-up social movements are meeting in Rome, near the parliament, next Sunday.

If you want to follow the story on social…

More info via http://www.indiegogo.com/International-HackerSpaces-Conference-Lima-Peru

The International FabLab Conference organized by MIT's Center for Bits & Atoms will take place in Lima ,…

RADICAL ANIMAL

We love new stuff - but we're killing the planet...What's to be done?…

International Forum of Social and Solidarity Economy 2011



June 10th, 2011 – The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), the Québec Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (ARCQ) and the Chantier de l’économie sociale are happy to announce their collaboration on the occasion of the International Forum of Social and Solidarity Economy (FIESS), which will take place from October 17th to 20th, 2011, in Montreal. As the official radio broadcasters of the FIESS,…

Mathieu ONeil:

Expanding the frontiers of hacking

Bio-punks, open hardware, and hackerspaces



A special issue of Critical Studies in Peer Production

Edited by: Johan Soderberg and Alessandro Delfanti



Call: 500-word abstract

Both theoretical and empirical contributions accepted



During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with software development. This is now changing as…

Via Mayo Fuster:

THERE ARE REASONS; ONCE AGAIN, TAKE THE STREET 19th June, hour: 19:00 (GMT+1)

ALL STREETS AND SQUARES OF SPAIN AND EUROPE NO TO THE EURO PACT:

We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers.

The EURO PACT: New attack on democracy ONCE AGAIN.

ONCE AGAIN, the EU leaders endorse a policy misleading the public to the benefit of large financial corporations, instead of defending the citizens. On 27th…

Via Mayo Fuster:

People of the World, rise up!!! Take the square!!! Take the streets!!! #Globalrevolution



CALL FOR ACTIONS JUNE 19TH: (English, Arabic, French. Portugues, Bulgarian, Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Japanish, German, Castellano, Euskera, Català, Gallego)



(ENGLISH)



Call for actions June 19th: People of the World, rise up!!!

We are the outraged, the anonymous, the voiceless. We were there, silent but alert, watching. Not gazing…

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (GMT+1000)

Register via http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1791194511

Place:

Hub Melbourne

Level 3

673 Bourke St…

Via Suresh Fernando:

Request publication via suresh2323@gmail.com

Google doc version via:

* https://docs.google.com/do…

Via Amit Basole:

CALL FOR PARTICPATION

LOKAVIDYA JAN ANDOLAN

(PEOPLE’S KNOWLEDGE MOVEMENT)

FIRST INTERNATIONAL…