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Unconference for Social Good Chiang Mai Feb 23 2013

Unconference for Social Good Chiang Mai 



February 23rd



Connecting Travelers, IT experts and Business Professionals with Non-Profit Organizations in S.E. Asia. 



Join like minded professionals in a day of idea sharing, networking and collaboration to seek more effective ways of helping the most disadvantaged in the world.





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Business has undergone a major…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 17, 2013 at 10:41 — No Comments

CFP: Conference in Greece on Collective ventures, solidarity economy and the urban space

CHANGING CITIES’

Spatial, morphological, formal, & socio-economic dimensions

Skiathos, Greece, 18-21 June 2013

special session on

Collective ventures, solidarity economy and the urban space

 

Call for Papers

 

Concepts and practices related to social and solidarity economy, complementary currencies, time banks, consumers’ cooperatives, cooperatives of production and distribution, social management of water, social management of…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 16, 2013 at 12:42 — No Comments

NEW PUBLICATION MCD#69 NET ART: Artists take over the network

MORE INFOS : Http://www.wj-s.org

NOUVELLE PUBLICATION/ NEW PUBLICATION MCD#69 " NET ART - WJ-SPOTS#2" Les artistes s'emparent du réseau Artists take over the network

The artists, critics, researchers and curators invited to contribute to this publication are giving us the keys, references and insights to comprehend the various art forms that coexist on the net, in its interstices and its peripheries. From an artistic point of…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 11, 2012 at 13:30 — 1 Comment

Aux sources de l'utopie numérique : De la contre-culture à la cyberculture

via Hervé Le Crosnier



http://cfeditions.com/Turner

C'est avec le plus grand plaisir que je vous annonce la

        sortie du livre :



        Aux sources de l'utopie numérique :

        De la contre-culture à la cyberculture,

        Stewart Brand, un homme d'influence

        par Fred Turner

       …

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 10, 2012 at 14:30 — No Comments

Dec. 4: Commons evening in Berlin with David Bollier and Silke Helfrich

via Silke Helfrich:

Event in the American Academy in Berlin:

Creative Commons is turning 10 this year in December. We would like to invite you to an evening lecture on December 4, 7:30 pm, where the author, activist, and co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, Academy fellow David Bollier, will discuss "The Commons as a New/Old Paradigm of Governance, Policy and Political Action" at the…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 28, 2012 at 21:11 — No Comments

Collaborative Economy workshop by Michel Bauwens in Sao Paulo - December, 1st

Via Janice Figueiredo:

 

Dear colleagues,
 
Bauwens will be in Sao Paulo this coming week-end. If you know folks who will be in Sao Paulo, there will…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 28, 2012 at 12:38 — No Comments

Digital Agenda Priorities to strengthen the environment for web-entrepreneurs in Europe

via Isidro Laso Ballesteros

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=8835*/

With a budget of around €80 billion, the EU’s new programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020 (2014- 2020), is part of the drive to create new growth and jobs in Europe. It will place a particular focus on innovation, relying on a number…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 17, 2012 at 15:43 — No Comments

Announcing a P2P Theory and Action book for 2013

After request by Glyn Moody, I'm putting this communication here on Ning as well.

Dear friends,



I feel it is really imperative that I write a book about the p2p transformations, and I plan to do this in the 2nd half of 2013. The problem is I can't afford to take time off without income, but lecturing tours pretty much preclude the concentration necessary for writing a…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 16, 2012 at 23:10 — No Comments

Announcing the P2P Rio WikiSprint

This is the initial announcement of the project by Clovis Lima of IBICT.

More will follow. Please note this will evolve into a distributed project that will allow remote participation by grassroots groups as well.

Please send Portuguese-language info requests to:

"clovis lima" <clovismlima@gmail.com>, "Vinicius Braz Rocha" <vr.self.media@gmail.com>,

Invitation below in Portuguese:

Mapa P2P…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 16, 2012 at 13:14 — No Comments

Invitation for a live discussion of community–based cultural production

Below, is the general release for Global Concept Exchange:



I would like to extend an invitation to join us online via Adobe Connect for the Global Concept Exchange on Friday, November 16th from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT. The event showcases London new media collective Furtherfield with founders Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow for a live discussion of community–based cultural production.



Joining the online panel will be new media artists from the US,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 15, 2012 at 20:03 — No Comments

"Meaning of Life" art-performance project, call for participation

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…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 13, 2012 at 12:08 — 1 Comment

TedXBrussels Nov. 12 theme is: Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes

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…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 10, 2012 at 8:05 — No Comments

Action Plan for Copyright Reform and Culture in the XXIst Century‎

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…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 9, 2012 at 16:36 — No Comments

Seminar: Technologies and Strategies for an Emerging Participatory Culture

via Matt Boggs:

Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547: HCI Seminar)

http://hci.st/seminar



9 November, 2012

12:50-2:05 pm, Gates B01



Eric Paulos, UC Berkeley

Hybrid Assemblages, Environments, and Happenings: Technologies and Strategies for an Emerging Participatory Culture

This talk will present and critique a body of work…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 8, 2012 at 16:27 — No Comments

XES: AN ALTERNATIVE CATALAN-BRAZILIAN ECONOMY IN PROGRESS

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…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 8, 2012 at 16:03 — No Comments

F.E.S.C.: the 1st fair of solidarity economy in Catalunya

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…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 8, 2012 at 15:59 — No Comments

Four days of digital culture, networks and distributed policy in Barcelona

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…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 8, 2012 at 15:55 — No Comments

Call for Papers: Technopolis: Smart Cities in the Knowledge Economy

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…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 6, 2012 at 18:11 — No Comments

Conference in Zagreb: "Economy of Crisis Capitalism and Ecology of the Commons"

via tomislav medak:

 

Multimedia Institute, Center for Labor Studies, Right to the City Zagreb and Heinrich Böll Stiftung Croatia are inviting you to the conference:
"Economy of Crisis Capitalism and Ecology of the Commons"
22.-24. November 2012, Zagreb, Goethe Institut (Vukovarksa str. 64) / MAMA (Preradovićeva str. 18) / http://commons.mi2.hr
The commons…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 6, 2012 at 17:27 — No Comments

Principled Societies Project website is now live

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…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on October 25, 2012 at 10:51 — No Comments

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