February 2011 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

open art funding ?
by Michel Bauwens 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Hi Kevin, thanks for checking this out: http://yokudo.com/yokudo/Home.html -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

1 0

public art
by Michel Bauwens 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

hi kevin, something to check? see http://trustart.org/ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

1 0

Traditional Indigenous Knowledge listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage, in the Colombian Amazon
by Michel Bauwens 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

http://www.gaiafoundation.org/content/highlights-2010-and-path-ahead Dear Carolina, I wonder if you had any comment on this? Is this a good thing? Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

5 11

Fwd: How We'll Fund 21st Century Social Movements
by Franco Iacomella 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

-------- Mensaje original -------- Asunto: [OK] How We'll Fund 21st Century Social Movements Fecha: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:01:27 -0800 De: Suresh Fernando <suresh2323(a)gmail.com> Hi Everyone, As many of you know I've been working on identifying and developing innovative models in both the open collaboration space as well as the social finance space. The common theme that underlies all of my recent work is the realization of the power of networks and networked communication to radically alter how communities form, how people interact with each other etc. In that spirit I am pleased to say that I am working with Joe Brewer and the Cognitive Policy Works <http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/about-us/>team to launch a crowdsourcing campaign to finance the development of a strategy to develop social movements. The details can be found here <http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-how-we-ll-fund-21st-century-social-movem…>. Be sure to check out the video <http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-how-we-ll-fund-21st-century-social-movem…>! * Using Crowdsourcing and Collaboration Principles to Build Social Movement*s The objective of the campaign is to finance the development of a Strategy Handbook that addresses the following questions: * /What are the most promising funding models and how do we start to use them?/ * /Why aren’t more effective models available for funding social innovation?/ * /What crowdsourcing and mass collaboration infrastructure is available to coordinate the activity of literally thousands of social innovators and activists that are working on similar problems?/ * /What success stories can we point to?/ * /What do we need to do in order to start building the infrastructure and funding models to mobilize thousands of social innovators and activists?/ * Longer Term Strategy* Upon completion, the handbook will be made freely available to everyone under a Creative Commons license. If the crowd pays for it, the crowd will own it. Also note that it is our plan not simply to research and develop a handbook in support of financing and developing social movements, we also plan to practice what we preach by working towards the implementation of the plan that we develop! Please take the time to review our proposal and contribute to the development of the handbook! All contributions are greatly appreciated!! Regards, -- *Suresh Fernando * BLOG <http://sureshf.posterous.com/>, YOUTUBE <http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum>, OK WEBSITE, <http://openkollab.com>OK FAN PAG <http://goog_1343289408>E <http://www.facebook.com/openkollab?ref=ts#%21/openkollab>,OK GROUP <http://groups.google.ca/group/openkollab>, OK-WE <http://www.wiserearth.org/group/openkollab>, PHILOSOPHY, <http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com> TWITTER, <http://twitter.com/sureshf> FACEBOOK, <http://facebook.com/suresh.fernando>WOTW FAN PAGE <http://www.facebook.com/tedxvancouver?v=wall#%21/pages/The-Way-Of-The-Warri…> LINKEDIN <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=412718&authType=name&authToken=GrUl…>, SLIDESHARE <http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf> / //'The counter cultural revolution was a rhizomatic meshwork of loosely-coordinated, loosely-affiliated struggles. The goals of these struggles weren’t always complimentary, but the struggles were aligned and together they staged a mass offensive to shatter the status quo'/. - from The Coalition of the Willing

1 0

3d printing in economist
by Michel Bauwens 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

From: Eugen Leitl <eugen(a)leitl.org> Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM Subject: [tt] Three-dimensional printing from digital designs will transform manufacturing and allow more people to start making things To: tt(a)postbiota.org http://www.economist.com/node/18114221?story_id=18114221&CFID=162367227&CFT… The printed world Three-dimensional printing from digital designs will transform manufacturing and allow more people to start making things 3D printing Feb 10th 2011 | FILTON | from PRINT EDITION FILTON, just outside Bristol, is where Britain’s fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners was built. In a building near a wind tunnel on the same sprawling site, something even more remarkable is being created. Little by little a machine is “printing” a complex titanium landing-gear bracket, about the size of a shoe, which normally would have to be laboriously hewn from a solid block of metal. Brackets are only the beginning. The researchers at Filton have a much bigger ambition: to print the entire wing of an airliner. Far-fetched as this may seem, many other people are using three-dimensional printing technology to create similarly remarkable things. These include medical implants, jewellery, football boots designed for individual feet, lampshades, racing-car parts, solid-state batteries and customised mobile phones. Some are even making mechanical devices. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Peter Schmitt, a PhD student, has been printing something that resembles the workings of a grandfather clock. It took him a few attempts to get right, but eventually he removed the plastic clock from a 3D printer, hung it on the wall and pulled down the counterweight. It started ticking. Engineers and designers have been using 3D printers for more than a decade, but mostly to make prototypes quickly and cheaply before they embark on the expensive business of tooling up a factory to produce the real thing. As 3D printers have become more capable and able to work with a broader range of materials, including production-grade plastics and metals, the machines are increasingly being used to make final products too. More than 20% of the output of 3D printers is now final products rather than prototypes, according to Terry Wohlers, who runs a research firm specialising in the field. He predicts that this will rise to 50% by 2020. Related topics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Using 3D printers as production tools has become known in industry as “additive” manufacturing (as opposed to the old, “subtractive” business of cutting, drilling and bashing metal). The additive process requires less raw material and, because software drives 3D printers, each item can be made differently without costly retooling. The printers can also produce ready-made objects that require less assembly and things that traditional methods would struggle with—such as the glove pictured above, made by Within Technologies, a London company. It can be printed in nylon, stainless steel or titanium. Click to manufacture The printing of parts and products has the potential to transform manufacturing because it lowers the costs and risks. No longer does a producer have to make thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of items to recover his fixed costs. In a world where economies of scale do not matter any more, mass-manufacturing identical items may not be necessary or appropriate, especially as 3D printing allows for a great deal of customisation. Indeed, in the future some see consumers downloading products as they do digital music and printing them out at home, or at a local 3D production centre, having tweaked the designs to their own tastes. That is probably a faraway dream. Nevertheless, a new industrial revolution may be on the way. Printing in 3D may seem bizarre. In fact it is similar to clicking on the print button on a computer screen and sending a digital file, say a letter, to an inkjet printer. The difference is that the “ink” in a 3D printer is a material which is deposited in successive, thin layers until a solid object emerges. The layers are defined by software that takes a series of digital slices through a computer-aided design. Descriptions of the slices are then sent to the 3D printer to construct the respective layers. They are then put together in a number of ways. Powder can be spread onto a tray and then solidified in the required pattern with a squirt of a liquid binder or by sintering it with a laser or an electron beam. Some machines deposit filaments of molten plastic. However it is achieved, after each layer is complete the build tray is lowered by a fraction of a millimetre and the next layer is added. And when you’re happy, click print The researchers at Filton began using 3D printers to produce prototype parts for wind-tunnel testing. The group is part of EADS Innovation Works, the research arm of EADS, a European defence and aerospace group best known for building Airbuses. Prototype parts tend to be very expensive to make as one-offs by conventional means. Because their 3D printers could do the job more efficiently, the researchers’ thoughts turned to manufacturing components directly. Aircraft-makers have already replaced a lot of the metal in the structure of planes with lightweight carbon-fibre composites. But even a small airliner still contains several tonnes of costly aerospace-grade titanium. These parts have usually been machined from solid billets, which can result in 90% of the material being cut away. This swarf is no longer of any use for making aircraft. To make the same part with additive manufacturing, EADS starts with a titanium powder. The firm’s 3D printers spread a layer about 20-30 microns (0.02-0.03mm) thick onto a tray where it is fused by lasers or an electron beam. Any surplus powder can be reused. Some objects may need a little machining to finish, but they still require only 10% of the raw material that would otherwise be needed. Moreover, the process uses less energy than a conventional factory. It is sometimes faster, too. There are other important benefits. Most metal and plastic parts are designed to be manufactured, which means they can be clunky and contain material surplus to the part’s function but necessary for making it. This is not true of 3D printing. “You only put material where you need to have material,” says Andy Hawkins, lead engineer on the EADS project. The parts his team is making are more svelte, even elegant. This is because without manufacturing constraints they can be better optimised for their purpose. Compared with a machined part, the printed one is some 60% lighter but still as sturdy. Form follows function Lightness is critical in making aircraft. A reduction of 1kg in the weight of an airliner will save around $3,000-worth of fuel a year and by the same token cut carbon-dioxide emissions. Additive manufacturing could thus help build greener aircraft—especially if all the 1,000 or so titanium parts in an airliner can be printed. Although the size of printable parts is limited for now by the size of 3D printers, the EADS group believes that bigger systems are possible, including one that could fit on the 35-metre-long gantry used to build composite airliner wings. This would allow titanium components to be printed directly onto the structure of the wing. Many believe that the enhanced performance of additively manufactured items will be the most important factor in driving the technology forward. It certainly is for MIT’s Mr Schmitt, whose interest lies in “original machines”. These are devices not constructed from a collection of prefabricated parts, but created in a form that flows from the intention of the design. If that sounds a bit arty, it is: Mr Schmitt is a former art student from Germany who used to cadge time on factory lathes and milling machines to make mechanised sculptures. He is now working on novel servo mechanisms, the basic building blocks for robots. Custom-made servos cost many times the price of off-the-shelf ones. Mr Schmitt says it should be possible for a robot builder to specify what a servo needs to do, rather than how it needs to be made, and send that information to a 3D printer, and for the machine’s software to know how to produce it at a low cost. “This makes manufacturing more accessible,” says Mr Schmitt. The idea of the 3D printer determining the form of the items it produces intrigues Neri Oxman, an architect and designer who heads a research group examining new ways to make things at MIT’s Media Lab. She is building a printer to explore how new designs could be produced. Dr Oxman believes the design and construction of objects could be transformed using principles inspired by nature, resulting in shapes that are impossible to build without additive manufacturing. She has made items from sculpture to body armour and is even looking at buildings, erected with computer-guided nozzles that deposit successive layers of concrete. Some 3D systems allow the properties and internal structure of the material being printed to be varied. This year, for instance, Within Technologies expects to begin offering titanium medical implants with features that resemble bone. The company’s femur implant is dense where stiffness and strength is required, but it also has strong lattice structures which would encourage the growth of bone onto the implant. Such implants are more likely to stay put than conventional ones. Working at such a fine level of internal detail allows the stiffness and flexibility of an object to be determined at any point, says Siavash Mahdavi, the chief executive of Within Technologies. Dr Mahdavi is working on other lattice structures, including aerodynamic body parts for racing cars and special insoles for a firm that hopes to make the world’s most comfortable stiletto-heeled shoes. Digital Forming, a related company (where Dr Mahdavi is chief technology officer), uses 3D design software to help consumers customise mass-produced products. For example, it is offering a service to mobile-phone companies in which subscribers can go online to change the shape, colour and other features of the case of their new phone. The software keeps the user within the bounds of the achievable. Once the design is submitted the casing is printed. Lisa Harouni, the company’s managing director, says the process could be applied to almost any consumer product, from jewellery to furniture. “I don’t have any doubt that this technology will change the way we manufacture things,” she says. Other services allow individuals to upload their own designs and have them printed. Shapeways, a New York-based firm spun out of Philips, a Dutch electronics company, last year, offers personalised 3D production, or “mass customisation”, as Peter Weijmarshausen, its chief executive, describes it. Shapeways prints more than 10,000 unique products every month from materials that range from stainless steel to glass, plastics and sandstone. Customers include individuals and shopkeepers, many ordering jewellery, gifts and gadgets to sell in their stores. EOS, a German supplier of laser-sintering 3D printers, says they are already being used to make plastic and metal production parts by carmakers, aerospace firms and consumer-products companies. And by dentists: up to 450 dental crowns, each tailored for an individual patient, can be manufactured in one go in a day by a single machine, says EOS. Some craft producers of crowns would do well to manage a dozen a day. As an engineering exercise, EOS also printed the parts for a violin using a high-performance industrial polymer, had it assembled by a professional violin-maker and played by a concert violinist. Both EOS and Stratasys, a company based in Minneapolis which makes 3D printers that employ plastic-deposition technology, use their own machines to print parts that are, in turn, used to build more printers. Stratasys is even trying to print a car, or at least the body of one, for Kor Ecologic, a company in Winnipeg, whose boss, Jim Kor, is developing an electric-hybrid vehicle called Urbee. Jim Kor’s printed the model. Next, the car Making low-volume, high-value and customised components is all very well, but could additive manufacturing really compete with mass-production techniques that have been honed for over a century? Established techniques are unlikely to be swept away, but it is already clear that the factories of the future will have 3D printers working alongside milling machines, presses, foundries and plastic injection-moulding equipment, and taking on an increasing amount of the work done by those machines. Morris Technologies, based in Cincinnati, was one of the first companies to invest heavily in additive manufacturing for the engineering and production services it offers to companies. Its first intention was to make prototypes quickly, but by 2007 the company says it realised “a new industry was being born” and so it set up another firm, Rapid Quality Manufacturing, to concentrate on the additive manufacturing of higher volumes of production parts. It says many small and medium-sized components can be turned from computer designs into production-quality metal parts in hours or days, against days or weeks using traditional processes. And the printers can build unattended, 24 hours a day. Neil Hopkinson has no doubts that 3D printing will compete with mass manufacturing in many areas. His team at Loughborough University has invented a high-speed sintering system. It uses inkjet print-heads to deposit infra-red-absorbing ink on layers of polymer powder which are fused into solid shapes with infra-red heating. Among other projects, the group is examining the potential for making plastic buckles for Burton Snowboards, a leading American producer of winter-sports equipment. Such items are typically produced by plastic injection-moulding. Dr Hopkinson says his process can make them for ten pence (16 cents) each, which is highly competitive with injection-moulding. Moreover, the designs could easily be changed without Burton incurring high retooling costs. Predicting how quickly additive manufacturing will be taken up by industry is difficult, adds Dr Hopkinson. That is not necessarily because of the conservative nature of manufacturers, but rather because some processes have already moved surprisingly fast. Only a few years ago making decorative lampshades with 3D printers seemed to be a highly unlikely business, but it has become an industry with many competing firms and sales volumes in the thousands. Dr Hopkinson thinks Loughborough’s process is already competitive with injection-moulding at production runs of around 1,000 items. With further development he expects that within five years it would be competitive in runs of tens if not hundreds of thousands. Once 3D printing machines are able to crank out products in such numbers, then more manufacturers will look to adopt the technology. Will Sillar of Legerwood, a British firm of consultants, expects to see the emergence of what he calls the “digital production plant”: firms will no longer need so much capital tied up in tooling costs, work-in-progress and raw materials, he says. Moreover, the time to take a digital design from concept to production will drop, he believes, by as much as 50-80%. The ability to overcome production constraints and make new things will combine with improvements to the technology and greater mechanisation to make 3D printing more mainstream. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

2 1

Fwd: "The Society of the Night"
by Michel Bauwens 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

THANKS Dante, interesting: The Society of the Night is a form of "Festivalist" self-organization of people living at night, using the same urban infrastructure as "The Society of the Spectacle" living during the day. It is a parallel society, with its own festivalist economy. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:47 AM Subject: "The Society of the Night" To: http://sharewiki.org/en/The_Society_of_the_Night -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

2 2

Fwd: Idioticon - Ideas for Organisations
by Michel Bauwens 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michelle Smith <admin(a)triarchypress.com> Date: Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:29 PM Subject: Idioticon - Ideas for Organisations To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Dear Michel Few people are familiar with both the first two ideas in our Idioticon (see right), and even fewer fully understand their relevance to organisations. The first idea (*The Edge of Chaos*) is best known to medical researchers and complexity theorists but should be much more widely understood. Complexity science has shown that healthy organs and organisms (for example, our hearts and muscles) often exist in conditions of uncertainty and near-chaos, while regularity and stability can indicate an impending heart attack, muscle seizure or degenerative disease. The second comes from social anthropology and the work of Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille. *The Accursed Share* (La Part Maudite) suggests that economic theory is more revealing when it focuses on excess (and what we do with it) rather than on scarcity (and how we manage it). Both these fascinating ideas have multiple implications for the way in which we order our lives, for our society at large and for the many human organisations within it. Read the full idioticon entries for *The Edge of Chaos<http://triarchypress.blogspot.com/2011/02/edge-of-chaos.html> * and for The Accursed Share<http://triarchypress.blogspot.com/2011/02/idioticon-accursed-share.html>. (And please let us know <admin(a)triarchypress.com?subject=Idioticon> if you have any suggestions for ideas and terms that we should add to the Idioticon.) ------------------------------- *About Triarchy Press* Triarchy Press <http://www.triarchypress.co.uk/pages/triarchy.htm> is an independent publisher of books and pamphlets, focusing on organisations, how they work and the way we work in them. admin(a)triarchypress.com ~ www.triarchypress.com *Idioticon* *Triarchy's Glossary of Ideas* An Idioticon (or Idiotikon) is simply a glossary - one covering a particular field of thought. At Triarchy Press, we're building an Idioticon [adding new terms each week] of the most interesting ideas used in Systems Thinking, Complexity and Cultural Theory and the other areas of organisational thinking that we specialise in. Each term offers useful ideas and insights for anyone trying to improve the way that their organisation - or even society at large - works. Above all, each term reminds us to look at the bigger picture. Visit the Idioticon <http://triarchypress.blogspot.com/p/idioticon.html> This message was sent to michelsub2004(a)gmail.com from: Triarchy Press | Station Offices | Axminster, Devon EX13 5PF, United Kingdom Email Marketing by [image: iContact - Try It Free!]<http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186> Manage Your Subscription <http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=11844980&l=8220&s=CH3A&m=55…> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

1 0

Fwd: mapping production systems
by Michel Bauwens 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Dear Tomas, if you have time, Mappeo might be of interest to present to our p2p blog, see: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <orsan(a)tie-netherlands.nl> Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:05 AM MAPPEO - mapping of the production process [labour orfanising and action tool]: http://youngunionactivists.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/presentation-on-mappeo-…

1 0

Fwd: Call for Papers: Surviving a Cyberattack -- From Phishing to Cyberwar
by Michel Bauwens 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cutter Consortium <cgenerali(a)cutter.com> Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:28 AM Subject: Call for Papers: Surviving a Cyberattack -- From Phishing to Cyberwar To: "michelsub2004(a)gmail.com" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Call for Papers Cutter IT Journal Robert N. Charette, Guest Editor Abstract Submission Date: 2 March 2011 Articles Due: 8 April 2011 Surviving a Cyberattack: From Phishing to Cyberwar Some argue that a cyber-Armageddon -- or a "digital Pearl Harbor" -- may be just around the corner, while others counter that while cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously, the overall cyberthreat and its consequences are vastly overblown and are merely a convenient excuse to sell over-priced security software and consulting. The quotes below represent just a small range of views regarding cyber-related threats and their potential impacts on society. "America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity -- it's now clear this cyberthreat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation. It's also clear that we're not as prepared as we should be, as a government or as a country." President Barack Obama, May 2009 Securing Our Nation's Cyberinfrastructure "The threat [of cyberwar] is increasing in scope and scale, and its impact is difficult to overstate. Industry estimates the production of malicious software has reached its highest level yet, with an average of 60,000 new programs or variations identified each day. Some of these are what we define as advanced persistent threats, which are difficult to detect and counter." James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence Testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, February 2011 "We may already have seen early versions of cyberwars in Estonia and Georgia, possibly perpetrated by Russia. It's hard to know for certain, not only because such attacks are often impossible to trace, but because we have no clear definitions of what a cyberwar actually is." "Do the 2007 attacks against Estonia, traced to a young Russian man living in Tallinn and no one else, count? What about a virus from an unknown origin, possibly targeted at an Iranian nuclear complex? Or espionage from within China, but not specifically directed by its government? To such questions one must add even more basic issues, like when a cyberwar is understood to have begun, and how it ends. When even cybersecurity experts can't answer these questions, it's hard to expect much from policymakers." Bruce Schneier, Author *It Will Soon be Too Late to Stop the Cyberwars *, Financial Times of London December 2010 "It is unlikely that there will ever be a true cyberwar. The reasons are: many critical computer systems are protected against known exploits and malware so that designers of new cyberweapons have to identify new weaknesses and exploits; the effects of cyberattacks are difficult to predict -- on the one hand they may be less powerful than hoped but may also have more extensive outcomes arising from the interconnectedness of systems, resulting in unwanted damage to perpetrators and their allies. More importantly, there is no strategic reason why any aggressor would limit themselves to only one class of weaponry." *Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk* OECD/IFP Project, January 2011 So what are the valid cybersecurity threats posed to individuals, businesses and governments and what strategies and approaches can be taken to mitigate these threats? The May 2011 issue of Cutter IT Journal will explore this topic and try to separate some of the wheat from the chaff as pertains to security threats from current and potential cyberweapons -- ranging from email phishing, PC viruses and botnets to targeted attacks such as that highlighted by the recent Stuxnet episode to a full-scale cyberwar -- the OECD report cited above not withstanding. Cutter IT Journal invites useful, well-reasoned debate and analysis on the risks posed by cyberweapons and how such risks can or should be identified, categorized, assessed, mitigated or "survived." We are very interested in international perspectives on this issue and we encourage those from around the globe to tell us their perspectives. As an example, the Australian government in October of 2010 warned businesses and individuals that they were going to be on their own in case of a major cyberattack; the government was going to be too busy trying to defend its own systems to help anyone else. If a cyberattack does hit Australia, what can businesses and individuals do to protect themselves? TOPICS OF INTEREST MAY INCLUDE (but are certainly NOT limited to) one of more of the following topics, which are NOT ranked in any particular order: *What are the risks from cyberweapons, and how should they be compared against other types of risks such as hurricanes, floods, blizzards or terrorist attacks? *What can or should individuals and or corporations do to protect themselves from cyberweapons, now and in the future? How does a technology like cloud computing increase or decrease the threat? * What should governments do to protect themselves from cyberweapons? Do they have an obligation to protect more than government systems? If so, where should the boundaries be drawn? *What exactly is a cyberwar? Why is cyberwar so difficult to define? What are its distinguishing characteristics? Is one likely, and if so, will its impact be devastating? Will cyberwar only occur in conjunction with "traditional" war, as the OECD report argues? *Is the cyberthreat, especially that at the "top-end," over-hyped? Why or why not? *What will the cyberweapon landscape of the future, say in 2025, look like? What types of defenses will be used against such cyberweapons and the vast increase in the number of individuals, businesses and governments capable of wielding them? What will cyberweapon targets look like (i.e., a digital system environment with the increased use of smart grids)? *How much should cybersecurity be focused on finding technology solutions vs. understanding the human side of the cyberthreat? *Is governmental focus on cyberwar distracting from what some argue are more important and realistic cyberthreats -- like the theft of corporate or governmental intellectual property or disinformation campaigns against corporate competitors? *Should software vendors be liable for the security quality of their software? Should the software be required to meet certain security standards prior to its availability? *What are the five biggest myths about cybersecurity -- e.g., the five biggest myths of the cyberthreat? *Should governments have the right to "switch-off" the Internet as a means to combat a cyberattack? How can these rights be protected from abuse? Should governments be able to "retaliate" in the event of a cyberattack? Should there be treaties defining cyberwarfare? *How does protection against cyberweapons affect civil liberties and innovation? What, if anything, should be done to ensure nothing will impinge upon civil liberties and innovation in the name of security? *How are individuals at risk in terms of cyberweapons being used against them? How much should individuals worry about phishing or virus attacks directed toward them say by cybercriminals vs. a planned attack on their country's infrastructure? Again, we are encouraging reasoned debate on these topics, and others that may not be in the above list in the cybersecurity domain. TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE IDEA Please respond to the Guest Editor, Robert Charette at charette[at]itabhi[dot]com with a copy to itjournal[at]cutter[dot]com by 2 March 2011. Please include an extended abstract and short outline showing the major discussion points. ARTICLE DEADLINE Accepted articles are due by 8 April 2011. EDITORIAL GUIDELINES Most Cutter IT Journal articles are approximately 2,500-3,500 words long, plus whatever graphics are appropriate. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact CITJ's Group Publisher, Christine Generali at cgenerali[at]cutter[dot]com or the Guest Editor, Robert Charette at charette[at]itabhi[dot]com. Editorial guidelines are available at << http://www.cutter.com/content-and-analysis/journals-and-reports/cutter-it-j… >> AUDIENCE Typical readers of Cutter IT Journal range from CIOs and vice presidents of software organizations to IT managers, directors, project leaders, and very senior technical staff. Most work in fairly large organizations: Fortune 500 IT shops, large computer vendors (IBM, HP, etc.), and government agencies. 48% of our readership is outside of the US (15% from Canada, 14% Europe, 5% Australia/NZ, 14% elsewhere). Please avoid introductory-level, tutorial coverage of a topic. Assume you're writing for someone who has been in the industry for 10 to 20 years, is very busy, and very impatient. Assume he or she will be asking, "What's the point? What do I do with this information?" Apply the "So what?" test to everything you write. PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES We are pleased to offer Journal authors a year's complimentary subscription and five copies of the issue in which they are published. In addition, we occasionally pull excerpts, along with the author's bio, to include in our weekly Cutter Edge e-mail bulletin, which reaches another 8,000 readers. We'd also be pleased to quote you, or passages from your article, in Cutter press releases. If you plan to be speaking at industry conferences, we can arrange to make copies of your article or the entire issue available for attendees of those speaking engagements -- furthering your own promotional efforts. ABOUT CUTTER IT JOURNAL No other journal brings together so many cutting-edge thinkers, and lets them speak so bluntly and frankly. We strive to maintain the Journal's reputation as the "Harvard Business Review of IT." Our goal is to present well-grounded opinion (based on real, accountable experiences), research, and animated debate about each topic the Journal explores. PLEASE FORWARD THIS CALL FOR PAPERS TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT HAVE AN APPROPRIATE SUBMISSION. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

1 0

new radical uni to be launched in UK
by Michel Bauwens 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

via thomas greco On 02/15/2011 2:11 AM, John Papworth - 4WR wrote: k 14 February 2011 At last we are up and running. Only a new university approach can begin to do justice to the enormity of the crisis that is now knocking the foundation of civilisation everywhere; one that focuses on the real cause of the crisis, that everywhere power is out of control because it is deployed in aggregates far too large to be controlled by anyone. We now have the means of establishing a radical global website university, a brotherhood and sisterhood of scholarship of a wide range of disciplines all uniquely focussed on the problems of the practical application of the human scale – whether in terms of health, education, economics, banking, information, art, money, architecture, planning, transport, penal reform, religious belief or whatever. Think what this means! The radical movement is currently powerless to halt the onrush of the current moves to boardroom fascism, social collapse and war because it lacks the theoretical equipment with which to engage. Ultimately it is ideas which dominate history, we now have the means to equip ourselves to take our place. This is where you come in with your special concern. Is it money systems? Secessionism? Tribalism? Communalism? Agriculture? Energy? Food? Now is your opportunity to establish your own self-governing university college which will be in contact with scholars around the world, producing papers and proposals we can promote on our website as a matter of course. And think too of the political implications, especially in countries still in the grip of political medievalism! We shall be helping to defend our radical friends everywhere by countering censorship and police persecution by means not previously available to us. An interim University Council has been established, one which will operate in website terms and increase its representative governing character in accordance with the response. Please indicate if you wish to become an active member, whether you can be listed as a lecturer, a librarian, a convenor, college principal, a Patron or in any other capacity; in which case please give full details of your qualifications, published works, general interests and any other details that will assist. We are seeking here to serve a truly historic need; there is no reason at all why an independent global radical consciousness should not, using modern technology, establish itself as a significant and important factor in the rapidly developing maelstrom of modern political and economic events. Our lack is nothing but our leave. In due course we shall announce a formal launching and issue a press statement on our objectives. Meanwhile… Over to you. JOHN PAPWORTH B.Sc.(Econ.). ACTING CHANCELLOR. How can I help? Patron Lecturer (Subject) Language Librarian (Please state language) College Head (Subject{s}) Student (Subject <s>) Donor NAME: __________________________ Titles: ________________ ADDRESS: _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Email: _________________________________________________ Please send to: *The Acting Chancellor,POBox2410,Swindon,SN5 4XN, England.* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

1 0