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Fwd: [witfor] Tender for $35 laptop project canceled: Economic Times: Jan 19
by Michel Bauwens 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Satish Jha <satish.jha(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:57 AM Subject: [witfor] Tender for $35 laptop project canceled: Economic Times: Jan 19 To: Just to share with you how the decision making process in a developing country (this one even called an emerging and sometimes "emerged" economy) makes the country lose, keeps poor from getting up and claim their place under the sun and how we keep 95% people sub-educated, if at all.. It pays to do nothing, do your own thing rather than do the right thing!! 18 Jan, 2011, 11.54PM IST, Harsimran Julka & Gulveen Aulakh,ET Bureau Tender for $35 laptop project cancelled *Read more on »*kapil sibal<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topics.cms?query=kapil%20sibal> |hcl infosystems<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/hcl-infosystems-ltd/stocks/companyid-10…> |$35 laptop<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topics.cms?query=$35%20laptop> NEW DELHI: The government's ambitious $35 laptop project has hit a roadblock. The tender for the $35 laptop termed 'Sakshat' has been cancelled, and the government is now issuing a new tender, as the earlier vendor failed to furnish a bank guarantee of Rs 60 crore. The $35 laptop was scheduled to be launched by January 15, 2011. According to sources close to the project, HCL Infosystems<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/hcl-infosystems-ltd/stocks/companyid-10…>was selected as a vendor for the $35 laptop. A mail being circulated inside the Ministry of HRD seen by ET says that 'the vendor shortlisted for the delivery of these devices has started listing some additional, unacceptable, conditions.' A senior official in the Ministry leading the project told ET that the vendor did not agree to furnish a Rs 60 crore bank guarantee, which is required under the government's General Financial Rules, 2005. A bank guarantee indemnifies the government in case a vendor fails to deliver the project. As a result, MHRD cancelled the previous order and has re-advertised. "Yes, we have re-issued a new tender. The matter will be sorted out in a few weeks," the official said. "The Sun will rise in 2011," he added. Largest domestic PC maker HCL Infosystems however said it had only bid for the latest Expression of Interest in the tender, and had no information of a decision being taken. "We congratulate the Government for their vision on the $35 Tablet. We have no information of a decision being taken. When government was seeking collaboration, we were one of the first to partner it," a company statement said. It's imperative to note that Minister for Human Resource and Development Kapil Sibal in a ceremony last year had announced that the laptop will be launched by January 15, 2010. The government had also allocated $6.5 million for the ambitious project. The initial order was for a 100,000 tablets, to be based on Google's Android operating system. A spokesperson from the Ministry of HRD said that the $35 laptop project is on schedule and now it plans to launch the laptop in the mid of 2010. "It was HCL who had claimed the launch to be around January, 2011," the spokesperson said. According to a government source, the laptop components alone were costing the vendor Rs 5700 without taking into account the import duties and logistics. The government was however planning to sell it at Rs 1500 per piece. "Disagreement on the financial cost with the vendor led to the tender cancellation," said a source close to the project. The government is also planning to take help of IIT alumni in sourcing components from new suppliers from Taiwan and Korea regarding the project. Tech analysts however say that components alone cost higher than $35 price and it would be difficult for suppliers to meet the price without subsidy. "The microprocessor and screen would alone costs over $35 in the market," said Vishal Bhatnagar, IT analyst with Gartner Inc. *It's not the first time that MHRD has failed to deliver. 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video : distribution of information in networks
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

http://vimeo.com/18169802 http://deemeetree.com/current/communities-togetherness/ A talk on synchornized distribution of information in networks by Dmitry Paranyushkin at TEDxKreuzberg in Berlin on the 9th of December 2010. Gephi software (gephi.org <http://www.gephi.org/>) was used to create visualizations and netvizz app was used to import the Facebook graph into Gephi. You can find more information about the methods demonstrated in this talk in my article "Communities and Togetherness" on deemeetree.com/current/communities-togetherness/ <http://deemeetree.com/current/communities-togetherness/> also see : http://vimeo.com/17507027

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Re: [P2P-F] Distributed Network Concept
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Infrastructure ; http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology; http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Standard Dear Raffael: your initiative is very timely, since after Wikileaks there has been a fast-growing recognition of the need for a 'true internet' (as doug wrote recently in shareable) I'm not a techie myself, and our community is not a hacker community, but it seems to me from reading/scanning your document, that you have thought through many implications, and have an integrated understanding of what needs to happen. What we can do is help you publicize, as our wiki is well consulted, and our blog is a top 2% retweeted blog globally, Perhaps you could consider a series, technically sound but for laypeople, for the blog, and you can use our wiki for more detailed technical articles. We just created http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Infrastructure to monitor specifically distributed projects. It seems to me that a detailed mapping of what is already there, what needs to be done, would be very useful to the larger community, and perhaps it will coalesce at some point in funding possibilities. I also would applaud any regular newsletter which monitors progress on the realization of such a 'true internet' .. Please feel free to update: http://p2pfoundation.net/Project_Starfish Perhaps you recognize some of the names in cc, Sepp is our own 'pointman' for reporting on distributed projects, Michel On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Raffael Kemenczy <raffael(a)kemenczy.at>wrote: > Dear Mr Bauwens, > > After having compiled a concept on how to enable the creation of a > world-wide user-controlled network based on a distributed architecture and > presenting it to people at the Chaos Communication Conference last december > (Project Starfish <http://kemenczy.at/index.php/starfish> (Concept<http://kemenczy.at/files/Starfish%20Concept.pdf>/ > Video <http://bit.ly/hkjO4Q>)), I was referred to your P2P Foundation as a > point to share the information I have collected. I would kindly ask you to > look through the concept, which focuses on the social and psychological > aspects and possibilities of such a distributed network, while also giving > information on technological issues. I am currently looking for the best way > to further share/publish this information and find collaborators to continue > to work on the concept and especially its realisation, as my personal > technical and financial capabilities are limited. I see the production of > actual user-controlled hardware able of establishing a distributed network > without the help of any companies or institutions as a vital part of the > process. > > I am looking forward to your reply. > > Kind regards, > > Raffael Kéménczy > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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mobile phones incompatible with organic life
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dutch-study-confirms-mobile-electro-magnetic-… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: New answer to "Are social networks the new platforms for social activism?"
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

well said Sam! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quora <noreply(a)quora.com> Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:48 PM Subject: New answer to "Are social networks the new platforms for social activism?" To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com [image: Quora]New answer to "Are social networks the new platforms for social activism?" *Sam Rose*: I don't think social networks are the "new" platforms for social activism. Social networks definitely are platforms for social activism, though. Many people do not realize that activity among participant activists online usually happens across a diverse range of "Technologies of Cooperation", not limited to social networks, but also including self and service hosted blogs, wiki sites, social bookmarking services, email discussion groups like google groups, yahoogroups and mailman email lists, open source software like statusnet, and emerging services like quora. Social networks are only a part of the total picture. *To see the question page with all answers, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/Rd5CXzYp* Thanks, The Quora Team We sent you this email because you are following this question. To stop following it, click this link: http://www.quora.com/l/quP9kGPz/_STOP_FOLLOWING To control which emails we send you, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/P3aGJZiY This email was sent by Quora, a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. To disable all email from Quora, visit the following link: http://www.quora.com/l/K3HE3bvA -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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human givens approach and ubuntu psychology
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

http://www.vimeo.com/754995 I'm very impressed, not with the intro, but with the speech itself that starts after a few minutes, a socially-aware, community-friendly, therapeutic approach which links subjective, ecological and social concerns .. is anyone familiar with this trend? -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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The Emerging Economy of Personal Fabrication
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

http://bit.ly/eqxlcZ Factory @ Home: The Emerging Economy of Personal Fabrication One of a Series of Occasional Papers in Science and Technology Policy -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: <edu-factory> College Bubble Set to Burst in 2011
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:48 PM Subject: Fwd: <edu-factory> College Bubble Set to Burst in 2011 To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> excerpt : * * *College is the only thing in America that never declined in price during the panic of 2008. It actually rose in price substantially.* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gigi Roggero <conricerca(a)hotmail.com> Date: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:52 PM Subject: <edu-factory> College Bubble Set to Burst in 2011 To: "edufactory(a)listcultures.org" <edufactory(a)listcultures.org> * http://www.inflation.us/collegebubble.html College Bubble Set to Burst in 2011* The National Inflation Association believes that the United States has a college education bubble that is set to burst beginning in mid-2011. This bursting bubble will have effects that are even more far-reaching than the bursting of the Real Estate bubble in 2006. College education could possibly be the largest scam in U.S. history. NIA's advice to the youth of America today is to think for yourselves. Don't get suckered into overpaying for a college degree that is worthless because everyone else has one. College is only worth attending if you plan on actually learning something there. If you are only going to college because you think a piece of paper is going to help you find a job, you would be much better off skipping college and entering the workforce right now at any entry level job. Your experience will benefit you more than any piece of paper. The median U.S. home price is currently $170,600, down 26% from its peak of $230,200 in July of 2006. The Dow Jones is currently 11,672, down 18% from its peak of 14,198 in October of 2007. Oil is currently $91 per barrel, down 38% from its peak of $147 per barrel in July of 2008. After the financial panic of 2008, the U.S. saw a collapse in the prices of just about all assets, goods, services, and commodities. Between lost stock market and home equity wealth, Americans lost $10.2 trillion in paper wealth in 2008, and have only recouped a fraction of it since then. College is the only thing in America that never declined in price during the panic of 2008. It actually rose in price substantially. The annual tuition for a private four-year college was $21,235 in the 2005-2006 school year. Despite Real Estate beginning to collapse in late-2006, college tuition rose by 4.6% in the 2006-2007 school year to $22,218. Despite the stock market beginning to collapse in late-2007, college tuition rose by 6.7% in the 2007-2008 school year to $23,712. Despite oil and other commodities collapsing in late-2008, college tuition rose by 6.2% in the 2008-2009 school year to $25,177. Even after the Dow Jones crashed to a low in early-2009 of 6,469, college tuition still rose by 4.4% in the 2009-2010 school year to $26,273. Annual tuition for a private four-year college in America is now $27,293, up 29% from five years ago. Meanwhile, the employment situation in the U.S. has deteriorated. There are currently 130.7 million non-farm jobs in America, down 3% from 134.5 million U.S. non-farm jobs in December 2005. 3.8 million jobs have been lost, while the U.S. population has grown by approximately 14 million people during the same time period. We would need to have seen the creation of 6.7 million non-farm jobs just to stay even, but now we are 10.5 million jobs short. All across America, thousands of students are graduating law school each year with $250,000 in debt, but with no jobs at law firms available to them. 15,000 attorney and legal staff jobs have disappeared since 2008, yet 43,000 law degrees are being handed out each year. Law degrees are losing their value faster than the U.S. dollar is losing its purchasing power. Lawyers are non-producing workers that do nothing to create any real wealth for society. The artificially high incomes of lawyers are made possible entirely by inflation, which steals the wealth from hard working goods producing middle-class Americans and transfers it to those who add no real value to society. The service sector currently makes up 76.9% of the U.S. GDP. Agriculture, which in 1933 made up 28% of GDP, currently makes up only 1.2% of GDP. The wealth of any country is primarily created at first from the production of food, oil, and precious metals. Secondly, wealth is created from the manufacturing of real consumer goods. After a country generates wealth by producing real things and builds a large domestic pool of savings, it can begin growing a service based economy, just so long as it has enough savings to support it. During the past decade, an unprecedented number of Americans went to school to become lawyers, because they thought if they became a lawyer they would immediately become rich. 60% of the U.S. Senate and 37% of the House of Representatives are lawyers. The reason we have so many lawyers in Washington is so that they can pass as many new harmful laws and regulations as possible, in order to provide enough work for all of their lawyer friends. All of the needless legislation that is passed each year in order to provide work for lawyers, has the devastating unintended consequence of destroying what little is left of the free market. Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy, but it is now nearly impossible for a small businessman with limited financial resources to build a large successful corporation in any sector, because their legal costs would eat up all of their profits. Many law students got suckered into going to law school due to deceptive marketing practices. Some law schools are advertising that 90% of graduates are employed within one year of graduating. Sure, maybe 90% of law school graduates were employed a year later, with half of them working at McDonald's, but no law school degree is required for that. Schools are using dozens of unethical tactics to manipulate their numbers while encouraging alumni to falsify the surveys they fill out about their employment situation. Just like we are now seeing countless class action lawsuits against mortgage companies that misled customers about the loans they signed up for, we will soon see a massive number of lawsuits filed against colleges that lied about their job placement rates and average starting salaries of graduates. (At least there will be some work for law school graduates.) Most Americans today are sheep who believe that the key to success and happiness in life is following the same career paths as everybody else. While everybody went to school to become a lawyer, nobody went to school to become a farmer because Americans didn't see any money in farming. With prices of nearly all agricultural commodities soaring through the roof in 2010 and with NIA expecting this trend to continue throughout 2011, the few new farmers out there are going to become rich while lawyers are standing at street corners with cups begging for money. The college tuition bubble has been fueled by the U.S. government's willingness to give out easy student loans to anybody who applies for them. If it wasn't for government student loans, the free market would force colleges to provide the best quality education at the lowest possible price. By the government trying to make colleges more affordable, they have actually driven prices through the roof. Colleges have been encouraged to spend recklessly on wasteful construction projects, building new libraries, gyms, sports arenas, housing units, etc. Colleges spent $10.7 billion on construction projects in 2009. Although this is down from an average of $14.7 billion per year colleges spent on construction projects from 2005 to 2007, colleges are still struggling to pay off their old construction related debt. When interest rates start to rise, it will add further upside pressure to college tuition prices. College students borrowed $106 billion in total student loans for the 2009-2010 school year, up from $96 billion in 2008-2009, $94 billion in 2007-2008, $87 billion in 2006-2007, and $83 billion in 2005-2006. Total student loan debt in the U.S. currently stands at $830 billion and now exceeds credit card debt. President Obama's new student loan bill that was passed last year now makes the government the primary lender to students. By taking the free market out of the student loan business and allowing students to receive loans from the government at artificially low interest rates, colleges will be encouraged to spend more recklessly than ever. None of this wasteful spending is doing anything to improve the quality of education in America. Over a year ago when NIA was filming 'The Dollar Bubble' in Los Angeles, violent riots broke out at UCLA over a 32% increase in college tuitions (from $7,788 to $10,302). We went to the protest in order to video tape the shocking footage to show you. While we were there we remember thinking to ourselves, why on earth are these students protesting at all? If tuitions are rising by 32% and they are unhappy about it, why don't they quietly and peacefully enroll someplace else for college next semester. If not enough students enroll into UCLA, the university will be forced to either dramatically cut their costs or shut down. UCLA decided to completely ignore the riots and went ahead with the 32% rise in tuitions. Did the students decide to enroll someplace else? Nope, most of them simply took out larger student loans and went back to UCLA. In fact, UCLA reported that they received a record amount of freshman applicants for the next semester. With all of the technological advancements taking place around the world today, the cost for a college education should be getting cheaper. Americans today can purchase just about any type of product they want over the Internet for substantially less than they can find it in a retail store. When the U.S. dollar collapses and the college bubble bursts, NIA predicts we will see a boom in online education where Americans take all of their courses over the Internet from the comfort of their own home at a fraction of the cost of traditional college. Later this year, NIA is going to be producing a documentary about America's college education crisis and the college tuition bubble that is about to burst. In the weeks ahead, NIA is going to begin searching for people who deserve to be featured in our documentary. If you are a college student, a recent college graduate, or a current or ex-college professor with an extremely shocking, interesting, and important story that the whole world needs to know about in what will be the most viewed college documentary in world history, please send an email to collegebubble(a)inflation.us. We would also love to hear from any NIA member who has any ideas of topics that we should cover in this new documentary. Please send all ideas and suggestions to collegebubble(a)inflation.us. This will truly be one of the most important documentaries NIA has ever produced. We need to change the mindset in America that only those with college degrees have any chance of becoming successful. Americans have become so brainwashed that even after graduating college with over $50,000 in debt and not being able to find a job, many of them are wasting even more years of their life and getting even deeper into debt to attend a graduate school, for a master's degree that is just as worthless as a bachelor's degree. It is like comparing a $10 bill (master's degree) to a $1 bill (bachelor's degree), they are both worthless pieces of paper with no intrinsic value. NIA believes that any recent high school graduate with $30,000 saved for college who invests that money into silver and becomes a minimum wage apprentice for the next 4 years, will likely have enough money in 4 years to buy a median priced U.S. home. Not only that, but they will have work place experience that is far more valuable than the worthless college degrees of any of their friends. We must work hard to educate America to the truth if our country is going to have the wherewithal to survive the upcoming bursting college bubble and Hyperinflationary Great Depression. It is important to spread the word about NIA to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, if you want America to survive hyperinflation. Please tell everybody you know to become members of NIA for free! _______________________________________________ edufactory mailing list edufactory(a)listcultures.org http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/edufactory_listcultures.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: IBM "Smarter City" ? - can we collaborate with IBM for p2p OpenSource/Libre solutions ?
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:58 AM Subject: IBM "Smarter City" ? - can we collaborate with IBM for p2p OpenSource/Libre solutions ? To: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com Does any of you know - or is any of you involved in the IBM Smarter City Program ? some links : http://www.thesmartercity.com/ http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/cities/index.html I am looking forward to distributed approaches, and this kind of planning and urban emergency response project looks pretty centralized till now http://www.fastcompany.com/1712443/building-a-smarter-favela-ibm-signs-up-r… Could IBM and the Rio de Janeiro politicians be interested in supporting open source / libre software , and empower populations for their own p2p shared and accessible data by all and for all, as to enable response to "mudslides and floods"... IBM has an understanding of OpenSource approaches... * * *http://www.ibm.com/ibm/governmentalprograms/ipossw.html* *excerpt :* * * *Policy IBM believes that open source software should be leveraged as a part of a national IT architecture but open standards are the true facilitators of a smarter, more agile and transparent government.* To whom will the "multi-billion upgrade" benefit ? Perhaps such projects already exist ? In this case, I have the impression it sounds pretty centralized... but I am not sure if they will use closed standards, closed databases, and centralized "control rooms"... ----------------------- http://www.fastcompany.com/1712443/building-a-smarter-favela-ibm-signs-up-r… Building a Smarter Favela: IBM Signs Up RioBY GREG LINDSAY<http://www.fastcompany.com/user/159824>Mon Dec 27, 2010 A new operations center features an impressive high-tech centerpiece--a weather forecasting system built atop IBM Research’s “Deep Thunder” software and tailored to Rio’s climate and topography. IBM is announcing this morning an agreement with the city of Rio de Janeiro to build a “Single City Operations Center,” or what amounts to a control room for the sprawling megalopolis. The center will draw upon data from dozens of municipal departments and public agencies. While the system will initially focus on predicting the kinds of mudslides and floods that killed hundreds last April<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2010_Rio_de_Janeiro_floods_and_mudslides> and left 15,000 homeless, it’s designed, ultimately, to monitor and respond to any type of emergency--just in time for the city to host both the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The deal is IBM’s most ambitious smarter city project to date; previous efforts have tended to be single-purpose programs in developed cities, such as a congestion pricing scheme for London or water management in Dubuque. But Rio is a different situation--a bona fide megacity in one of the world’s fastest growing economies, in the midst of a multi-billion dollar infrastructure upgrade ahead of the World Cup. Although financial terms were not disclosed, the deal illuminates just how indispensable IBM hopes to become to the daily operations of Rio--and how it plans to do the same for cities everywhere. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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recommending hosting service for Open House & Garden 2.0?
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Dear Leopold, for the p2p-f list, it is by self-registration at http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation tino can help with the p2p-urbanism list making a weblog using wordpress is really easy, but you need a host. Can someone recommend a hosting service to Leopold? Michel On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:40 PM, leopold zyka <leopold.zyka(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Dear MIchel, > > > here are the 2 lists stefano and I are involved in: > > p2p-urbanism-world-atlas" <p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com>, > > "p2p-foundation" <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org>, > Thank you ! > Do I have to subscribe or do I send my emails to this addresses ? > > > I"m not sure what software that I'm using you are specifically referring > to, > Yes I ment prezi and mindmaster. > > Do you see any possibility to make a Weblog ? > Or do you have any suggestion where to host it ? > > regards, Leopold > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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