Vinay Gupta writes:
The Council of Europe to _fund an unconference in Strasbourg_ with a dramatically P2P component. Basically, we're doing a social network analysis of the web site, and then inviting the maximum number of people who want to meet each-other - i.e. it's a fully P2P selection process, not in the simple "competitive voting" sense, but in the sense of "maximizing the number of desired meetings in a set of possible invitees" - it's *really* decentralized in basic…
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Via Carolina Botero:
This week the Colombian Executive introduced a draft law it says is required to implement its obligations under the Colombia-US Free Trade Agreement. The Congress has been called upon to do the necessary paperwork in three weeks to have the law in place before President Obama visits Cartagena…
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Request full copy of the essay from author via
Rune Kvist Olsen at
This paper is an introduction to Humanistic Management where the individual human being is the core and essential force in creating and adding values in societies, in communities…
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The open-hardware movement got a tremendous boost today when WIKISPEED, an innovative automotive company building modular, high-performance cars using agile design principles, and Open Source Ecology (OSE), a group committed to providing free plans and processes necessary for building the global economy, announced that they are teaming up to revolutionize transportation in the developing world.
Taking on traditional, proprietary manufacturing R & D, the two companies aim to…
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Marcelo Vieta:
As some of you know, I have recently started a post-doctoral fellowship at the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises
(affiliated with the the University of Trento), in Trento, Italy ( www.euricse.eu).
Most of you also know that…
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By Jakob Rigi
(Associate Professor ; Central European University ; Budapest)
A brief response to Chris Land’s and Steffen Bohm’s Short Essay: “They are exploiting us! Why we all work for Facebbok for free” (see: http://oowsection.org/2012/02/22/they-are-exploiting-us-why-we-all-work-for-facebook-for-free/)
The gist of the…
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• Friday, March 2nd, 13.30 - 16.00 – INEB platform, Ruen Roi Chanam, 666, Charoennakorn Road, Klongsarn, Bangkok:
Lecture by Dr. David R. Loy
An Opportunity to meet with David Loy directly and discuss with
him current streams and new initiatives in Buddhism (in English).
David R. Loy is a Buddhist philosopher
who writes on the interaction between
Buddhism and modernity. He has been
practicing Zen since 1971 and…
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The Economics of Abundance: Toward Greater Freedom, Equity andSustainability
Talks by Wolfgang Hoeschele, Summer 2012
In his book on the Economics of Abundance, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Economics_of_Abundance, Wolfgang Hoeschele develops an alternative to our present scarcity-based economy in which only things that are scarce can fetch a profit and are therefore valued,…
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Artena (Rome, Italy) - 15–23 July 2012
An authentic sustainable design must…
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via Andrew Paterson:
Open Call: Camp Pixelache 2012
We are organising a more compact edition of Pixelache Helsinki Festival called 'Camp Pixelache' during on 11-12 May 2012, based on previous Camp Pixelache experiments. The main venue for the event is Arbis, the Swedish-language adult education centre located close to the Finnish National Museum, in central Helsinki.
Camp Pixelache 2012 is designed around one main unconference day on Saturday 12.5, with…
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Organized with the assistance of Layne Hartsell:
"Sponsored by P2P Foundation and Seoul Global Study Group
When: Tuesday, February 14th at Mountain Lanna, located 60 km north of Chiang Mai.
Where: Haebarakki Farm and Mountain Lanna
Schedule:
2pm: Visit to Haebarakki (Sunflower) Farm, an early stage permaculture farm.
3pm: Visit to a small forestry management center, with tree nursery (also, great…
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You may have noticed from the buzz on the Web that the OKFN shared quite an announcement this morning. On September 17-22 this year, global communities will be descending on the shores…
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Via Silke Helfrich:
"The Green European Foundation is organising, with support of the Belgian Green foundations Oikos and Etopia, a congress discussing the commons, as a new organisational concept of managing natural resources and of developing new forms of cooperation.
The financial and economic crisis brought both the markets and the nation states into a deep systemic crisis. The congress starts from the premise that part of the solution to these crises will be found outside…
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Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age
By Philippe Aigrain, with contribution of Suzanne Aigrain
Sharing cultural works benefits authors, culture and public
In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works
between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on
the future of culture itself. Sharing provides a new view of the value
of peer-to-peer sharing of digital works. Taking stock of…
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via the Commoning mailing list:
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:22:26 +0200
Statement by those who occupied the common
28 January…
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Sent by Richard Pithouse:
http://www.mahala.co.za/reality/take-back-the-common/
Take Back the Common
Thursday, January 26th, 2012 by Christopher McMichael
This Friday communities around the Cape will march from Athlone
stadium to Rondebosch commons for a three day ‘occupation’. The aim is a public space to discuss solutions to a range of issues: housing,rent…
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Via over forty organisations, networks and social movements from at least seven European countries are committed to attending the forum. This will be a real opportunity to build European networks and campaigns that will take concrete forms in follow-up meetings in Spain, the UK, Romania, Bulgaria and France in the next months to continue the work begun in Rome. The emphasis on concrete campaigns will be the starting point to engage in a reflection on the revision of the EU Treaties, to…
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Via Silke Helfrich:
Im Juni 2012 wird im Kulturhof im Thüringischen Bechstedt die 1. deutschsprachige Sommerschule für Commons stattfinden, auf die ich mich jetzt schon freue. Das vorläufige Programm, das sich…
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