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Re: [P2P-F] ICTs and Community Relief in the Japanese Emergency - Sahana
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Don Cameron <dg_cameron(a)bigpond.com> Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:57 AM Subject: RE: FW: [FIS2167H] Colleagues: Re: ICTs and Community Relief in the Japanese Emergency - Sahana To: Izumi AIZU <iza(a)anr.org>, Terra Friedrichs <terraf(a)compuserve.com>, Kyle Mathews <mathews.kyle(a)gmail.com>, Tobias Eigen <tobias(a)kabissa.org>, Michael Gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com>, sara(a)unglobalpulse.org, clift(a)publicus.net, Ravi Palepu <ravi.palepu(a)gmail.com>, kirkpatrick(a)un.org, Mark Koester < mwkteacher(a)gmail.com> Cc: ci-text-cis(a)vancouvercommunity.net Izumi, Should you wish to introduce Sahana to your team we have a Japanese language demonstration site of Sahana Eden capabilities available at: http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/index?_language=ja By brief background; Sahana is FOSS and evolved from efforts of a core group of Sri Lankan developers and global disaster experts during the SE Asian Tsunami. Sahana has since grown into a true global FOSS project widely utilised for localised information management and recoveries during the Haiti Quake, Peru, Yogjakarta, Leyte, Pakistan, Servodaya and others, and is now adopted by the City of New York Office of Emergency Management as result of post 911 requirement determinations. General info: http://sahanafoundation.org/ I wish you good luck in your efforts, Don -----Original Message----- From: izumiaizu(a)gmail.com [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Izumi AIZU Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 2:41 AM To: Terra Friedrichs Cc: ci-text-cis(a)vancouvercommunity.net Subject: Re: FW: [FIS2167H] Colleagues: Re: ICTs and Community Relief in the Japanese Emergency I have started a mailing list on Monday now some 20+ members subscribed. Only one is from Sendai city government, from inside. Others include central gov guys, some local gov outside, cloud and software developpers, etc. But this list is only in Japanese. Many others are trying to implement services - almost on the fly without much coordination, and this is quite anticipated so that I proposed to have coordination team. I have already introduced ushahidi and ChristChruch forum to this list and waiting for the reaction. I also am trying to reach others working in the field. So, yes, will try, is my short answer/ izumi 2011/3/16 Terra Friedrichs <terraf(a)compuserve.com>: > Izumi, do you have lists or organizations or contacts that we can post? > That was/is/has been very helpful in Haiti. the government provides lists > of contacts for various roles (ie. medical, food, etc). Also, any lists of > locations for people to get services. We post all of that, too... > > Terra > > On 3/16/2011 10:42 AM, Izumi AIZU wrote: >> >> Hi, on the one hand, yes, the situation is chaotic, >> but, there are also many people inside Japan doing the >> work quietly and rationally. The chaos is not ALWAYS >> that bad, I mean it creates something new. >> >> Of course, still I do appreciate your spreading the word >> and getting ideas back. It is very encouraging to know >> how others have done, say in Christchurch or Thailand. >> >> izumi >> -- 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

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Fwd: [FIS2167H] Interesting Blog on Social Media and the Crisis in Japan
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:56 AM Subject: [FIS2167H] Interesting Blog on Social Media and the Crisis in Japan To: ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net Interesting but very preliminary... Not sure what it tells us. http://idisaster.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/social-media-and-the-japan-earthqu ake-and-tsunami-what-we-can-learn/ M -- 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

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CSPP, where is this project going?
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

I'm publishing this on the 27th in the p2p blog: Critical Studies in Peer Production: where is this project going?<http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=14831> [image: photo of Michel Bauwens] Michel Bauwens 27th March 2011 By my own reckoning at least 18 months ago, a project was started to build a scientific and theoretical journal<http://p2pfoundation.net/Critical_Studies_in_Peer_Production>to publish studies on peer production and P2P Theory. Very quickly, it seems the original team focused on process, for example coming up with an innovative open peer review process<http://cspp.oekonux.org/journal/peer-review> . However, it seems really strange that after so much time, the site is nearly empty of content, while at the same time, we have been able to spot 40 high quality essays, linked here <http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Essays>. So we sincerely hope that CSPP will finally focus on content, which is so richly available in the p2p research community. One interesting item, unfortunately at this time, the only item, is a very interesting debate on Actor-Network-Theory, see here<http://cspp.oekonux.org/debate/ant-power> . -- 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

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Re: [P2P-F] prince of networks and grid group theory
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Dear Nathaniel, Thank you very much for your comments and attachments, I look forward to news of your completed phd research, for mentioning on the p2p blog, just for info, p2p in the sense we are using at the p2p foundation is not per se linked to the internet, it's essentially a relational dynamic, one of the four mentioned by Alan Page Fiske and which he calls communal shareholding, the only thing we are saying is that this particular dynamic, is expanding as the time/space limitations change through new technological affordances as for foucault and Latour, is your summary is true, one would have to dismiss the big phase transitions that have already occured in the past, such as the massive changes involved in the shift from feudalism to capitalism ... I can hardly believe they would deny such overwhelming historical realities ?? or has anything changed in human nature and social structures to make what was once a regular occurence, into an impossibility? in my almost non-existent knowledge of latour, one thing that struck me as p2p was the relationship with objects, Michel On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:08 PM, nathaniel tkacz <nathanieltkacz(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Michel, Jussi, P2P list, > > My PhD thesis is somewhat of an ANT-informed analysis of political > openness, read through the case study of Wikipedia. I wish it were done, so > I could give you a sense of what an ANT account of P2P might look - although > I'm by no means a faithful disciple! I see ANT more as a method-ontology: it > is a set of claims about reality that in turn proposes a particular type of > analysis. There is most definitely a politics to it, but it's not really > activist. Indeed, I would suggest that for Latour, much like Foucault but > for different reasons, massive change of the type envisioned by p2p is not > possible. > > Anyway, I won't get into it unless there is a desire to have a conversation > about it. I've attached Prince of Networks, Reassembling the Social and also > John Law's After Method. > > A few quick pointers: > > ANT has nothing to do, like Jussi wrote, with the Internet. Actor-Network > is a statement about reality. > > Harman's book is an exposition of the philosophy that underpins Latour's > work. It's definitely helpful, but it's a very particular take. > > If I was to read an explication of ANT I would start with John Law's After > Method. I think it's better than Reassembling the Social. > > Finally, although it's not an explication of ANT and P2P, I recently had a > well-intentioned but heated debate with Johan Soderberg and Mathieu O'Neil > over at the CSPP Journal about ANT and activism. You can find it here: > > http://cspp.oekonux.org/debate/ant-power > > It seems that in Europe ANT has quite a bad wrap and is seen as an apology > for capitalism or anything else conservative or boring. Here in the land of > Oz, the cultures seem more fresh and lively and more philosophical. Latour > is read in the tradition of Deleuze, Serres, Foucault (for me anyway) and > other process-based thinkers. > > Let me know if you want anything more, I have quite the catalogue! > > Best > > > > Nate Tkacz > > School of Culture and Communication > University of Melbourne > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__ > > Research Page: http://nathanieltkacz.net > > Current project: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/ > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> thanks Jussi! >> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Parikka, Jussi < >> Jussi.Parikka(a)anglia.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear Michel >>> >>> well, I am biased, as I have always liked Latour's work - even if its not >>> without its problems. I have been glancing at Prince of Networks, but would >>> also recommend Reassemblign the Social by Latour himself; in terms of P2P, >>> there interesting texts include that is called something like "On the >>> difficulty of ANT", which is written as if an interview, and makes the point >>> that actor-network-theory is not necessarily about "networks" in the >>> concrete sense we often think they are... >>> >>> >>> http://books.google.de/books?id=DlgNiBaYo-YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=reassem… >>> >>> So definitely no direct translation to P2P perhaps, but that might make >>> the task to think P2P through only more interesting... to use Latour to >>> think of the various levels, scales, actants of which P2P is constituted: >>> from human actions to legal frameworks, physical infrastructures to social >>> desires, all meshed and mixed... >>> >>> best >>> J >>> >>> ______________________________________________________ >>> Dr Jussi Parikka >>> Director of CoDE: The Cultures of the Digital Economy-institute >>> Reader in Media Theory & History >>> Co-Director of Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital) >>> Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK) >>> >>> T: 0845 196 2851 (direct in UK) >>> F: +44 (0)1223 417707 >>> >>> http://jussiparikka.net >>> http://www.anglia.ac.uk/code >>> http://www.anglia.ac.uk/arcdigital >>> >>> *Book news*: Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology is >>> published by University of Minnesota Press: >>> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/P/parikka_insect.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Michel Bauwens [mailto:[email protected]<michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >>> ] >>> Sent: Wed 16/03/2011 6:10 >>> To: p2p-foundation >>> Cc: Andy Robinson; phoebe moore; Samuel Rose; Paul B. Hartzog; Parikka, >>> Jussi >>> Subject: prince of networks and grid group theory >>> >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> I have a question: should I read Prince of Networks, a biography of Bruno >>> Latour, as perhaps constitutive of p2p-oriented theorizing? So the >>> question >>> really is: should I know more about Latour? >>> >>> I have only found a version which seems not copy-able or even printable, >>> see >>> >>> http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_780980544060_Prince_of_Networ… >>> , can this be hacked or has anyone access to another version? >>> >>> My second question is for Paul: could you have a look at the theory and >>> book >>> mentioned below? Comments would be very welcome, >>> >>> Michel >>> >>> >>> >>> via >>> >>> http://charlesvanderhaegen.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/einstein-capitalism-soc… >>> >>> This brings me to the subject of a theory - it sails mainly under the >>> name >>> Cultural Theory but also Theory of Plural Rationality, Grid-Group Theory, >>> Theory of Socio-Cultural Viability and even Neo-Durkheimian Institutional >>> Theory - of which the foundations were lead by Mary Douglas, and >>> courageously further developed by her followers, the leading researcher >>> of >>> which is Michael Thompson. >>> >>> I strongly recommend the book he edited with Marco Verweij: "Clumsy >>> Solutions for a Complex World: Governance, Politics and Plural >>> Perceptions" >>> published by Palgrave. >>> >>> It is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to >>> alleviate pressing social ills so often derail, and how effective, >>> efficient >>> and broadly accepted solutions to social problems can be found. >>> >>> It takes its cue from the idea that our endlessly changing and complex >>> social worlds consist of ceaseless interactions between four organising, >>> justifying and perceiving social relations. Each time one of these >>> perspectives is excluded from collective decision-making, governance >>> failure >>> inevitably result. Successful solutions are therefore creative >>> combinations >>> of four opposing ways of organising and thinking. The book shows the >>> force >>> of these theoretically sophisticated, yet simple and practical ideas for >>> a >>> number of pressing issues from around the World. >>> >>> To introduce you to the matter, you might follow the link hereafter. It >>> will >>> lead you to what is substantially the first chapter of the book: >>> https://mercury.smu.edu.sg/rsrchpubupload/3224/SMUPreprint.pdf >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> -- >>> Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email >>> management service - >>> www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems >>> >>> EMERGING EXCELLENCE: In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, >>> more than 30% of our submissions were rated as 'Internationally Excellent' >>> or 'World-leading'. >>> Among the academic disciplines now rated 'World-leading' are Allied >>> Health Professions & Studies; Art & Design; English Language & Literature; >>> Geography & Environmental Studies; History; Music; Psychology; and Social >>> Work & Social Policy & Administration. >>> Visit www.anglia.ac.uk/rae for more information. >>> >>> This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the above named >>> recipient(s) only and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error >>> you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to >>> anyone: please reply to this e-mail to highlight the error and then >>> immediately delete the e-mail from your system. >>> >>> Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not >>> necessarily represent the views or opinions of Anglia Ruskin University. >>> >>> Although measures have been taken to ensure that this e-mail and >>> attachments are free from any virus we advise that, in keeping with good >>> computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus >>> free. Please note that this message has been sent over public networks which >>> may not be a 100% secure communications >>> >>> Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email >>> management service <http://www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> P2P Foundation - Mailing list >> http://www.p2pfoundation.net >> https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >> >> > -- 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

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Re: [P2P-F] indig commons
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

thanks Mark, Michel On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Video Vortex Reader II (p.81-94): > > http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/vv-reader > > note page 158 top left paragraph some indigenous commons concepts > -- 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

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social network theories
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Tom, Paul, thanks for having a look into these suggestions from Carlos: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/fvega/Articulos-Propios/Annales-08.pdf ; http://www.eui.eu/Personal/fvega/Articulos-Propios/JEDC2006.pdf blog commentary would be very welcome, 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

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Important: list of p2p foundation people
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Dear friends, spurred by franco, I started an ambitious http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Foundation_People page if you want to be on it and aren't, see glaring misssing people, want to add your bio on our wiki, etc.. please let me know, 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

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Contactcon website launched
by Michel Bauwens 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Topic: Contact Summit in NYC - October 20<http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-interne…> Venessa Miemis <venessamiemis(a)gmail.com> Mar 16 04:42AM -0700 ^<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#12ec17cef5e195bc_digest_top> hi all! as you may know, i got this discussion group going as a way to spark conversation, relationships, and collaboration leading up to our Contact event this fall. we've finally got the website up and running. please share it among your communities, and i hope to see you there! http://www.contactcon.com/ - venessa you can follow updates on twitter - @contactcon -- 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

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Re: [P2P-F] prince of networks and grid group theory
by nathaniel tkacz 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi all - sent below email yesterday but it bounced because of the pdf attachments. if anyone wants copies of the books i mention i can email directly. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:08 AM, nathaniel tkacz <nathanieltkacz(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Michel, Jussi, P2P list, > > My PhD thesis is somewhat of an ANT-informed analysis of political > openness, read through the case study of Wikipedia. I wish it were done, so > I could give you a sense of what an ANT account of P2P might look - although > I'm by no means a faithful disciple! I see ANT more as a method-ontology: it > is a set of claims about reality that in turn proposes a particular type of > analysis. There is most definitely a politics to it, but it's not really > activist. Indeed, I would suggest that for Latour, much like Foucault but > for different reasons, massive change of the type envisioned by p2p is not > possible. > > Anyway, I won't get into it unless there is a desire to have a conversation > about it. I've attached Prince of Networks, Reassembling the Social and also > John Law's After Method. > > A few quick pointers: > > ANT has nothing to do, like Jussi wrote, with the Internet. Actor-Network > is a statement about reality. > > Harman's book is an exposition of the philosophy that underpins Latour's > work. It's definitely helpful, but it's a very particular take. > > If I was to read an explication of ANT I would start with John Law's After > Method. I think it's better than Reassembling the Social. > > Finally, although it's not an explication of ANT and P2P, I recently had a > well-intentioned but heated debate with Johan Soderberg and Mathieu O'Neil > over at the CSPP Journal about ANT and activism. You can find it here: > > http://cspp.oekonux.org/debate/ant-power > > It seems that in Europe ANT has quite a bad wrap and is seen as an apology > for capitalism or anything else conservative or boring. Here in the land of > Oz, the cultures seem more fresh and lively and more philosophical. Latour > is read in the tradition of Deleuze, Serres, Foucault (for me anyway) and > other process-based thinkers. > > Let me know if you want anything more, I have quite the catalogue! > > Best > > > > Nate Tkacz > > School of Culture and Communication > University of Melbourne > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__ > > Research Page: http://nathanieltkacz.net > > Current project: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/ > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> thanks Jussi! >> >> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Parikka, Jussi < >> Jussi.Parikka(a)anglia.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear Michel >>> >>> well, I am biased, as I have always liked Latour's work - even if its not >>> without its problems. I have been glancing at Prince of Networks, but would >>> also recommend Reassemblign the Social by Latour himself; in terms of P2P, >>> there interesting texts include that is called something like "On the >>> difficulty of ANT", which is written as if an interview, and makes the point >>> that actor-network-theory is not necessarily about "networks" in the >>> concrete sense we often think they are... >>> >>> >>> http://books.google.de/books?id=DlgNiBaYo-YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=reassem… >>> >>> So definitely no direct translation to P2P perhaps, but that might make >>> the task to think P2P through only more interesting... to use Latour to >>> think of the various levels, scales, actants of which P2P is constituted: >>> from human actions to legal frameworks, physical infrastructures to social >>> desires, all meshed and mixed... >>> >>> best >>> J >>> >>> ______________________________________________________ >>> Dr Jussi Parikka >>> Director of CoDE: The Cultures of the Digital Economy-institute >>> Reader in Media Theory & History >>> Co-Director of Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ArcDigital) >>> Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK) >>> >>> T: 0845 196 2851 (direct in UK) >>> F: <%2B44%20%280%291223%20417707>+44 (0)1223 417707 >>> >>> http://jussiparikka.net >>> http://www.anglia.ac.uk/code >>> http://www.anglia.ac.uk/arcdigital >>> >>> *Book news*: Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology is >>> published by University of Minnesota Press: >>> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/P/parikka_insect.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Michel Bauwens [mailto:[email protected]<michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >>> ] >>> Sent: Wed 16/03/2011 6:10 >>> To: p2p-foundation >>> Cc: Andy Robinson; phoebe moore; Samuel Rose; Paul B. Hartzog; Parikka, >>> Jussi >>> Subject: prince of networks and grid group theory >>> >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> I have a question: should I read Prince of Networks, a biography of Bruno >>> Latour, as perhaps constitutive of p2p-oriented theorizing? So the >>> question >>> really is: should I know more about Latour? >>> >>> I have only found a version which seems not copy-able or even printable, >>> see >>> >>> http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_780980544060_Prince_of_Networ… >>> , can this be hacked or has anyone access to another version? >>> >>> My second question is for Paul: could you have a look at the theory and >>> book >>> mentioned below? Comments would be very welcome, >>> >>> Michel >>> >>> >>> >>> via >>> >>> http://charlesvanderhaegen.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/einstein-capitalism-soc… >>> >>> This brings me to the subject of a theory - it sails mainly under the >>> name >>> Cultural Theory but also Theory of Plural Rationality, Grid-Group Theory, >>> Theory of Socio-Cultural Viability and even Neo-Durkheimian Institutional >>> Theory - of which the foundations were lead by Mary Douglas, and >>> courageously further developed by her followers, the leading researcher >>> of >>> which is Michael Thompson. >>> >>> I strongly recommend the book he edited with Marco Verweij: "Clumsy >>> Solutions for a Complex World: Governance, Politics and Plural >>> Perceptions" >>> published by Palgrave. >>> >>> It is a powerful and original statement on why well-intended attempts to >>> alleviate pressing social ills so often derail, and how effective, >>> efficient >>> and broadly accepted solutions to social problems can be found. >>> >>> It takes its cue from the idea that our endlessly changing and complex >>> social worlds consist of ceaseless interactions between four organising, >>> justifying and perceiving social relations. Each time one of these >>> perspectives is excluded from collective decision-making, governance >>> failure >>> inevitably result. Successful solutions are therefore creative >>> combinations >>> of four opposing ways of organising and thinking. The book shows the >>> force >>> of these theoretically sophisticated, yet simple and practical ideas for >>> a >>> number of pressing issues from around the World. >>> >>> To introduce you to the matter, you might follow the link hereafter. It >>> will >>> lead you to what is substantially the first chapter of the book: >>> https://mercury.smu.edu.sg/rsrchpubupload/3224/SMUPreprint.pdf >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> -- >>> Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email >>> management service - >>> www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems >>> >>> EMERGING EXCELLENCE: In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, >>> more than 30% of our submissions were rated as 'Internationally Excellent' >>> or 'World-leading'. >>> Among the academic disciplines now rated 'World-leading' are Allied >>> Health Professions & Studies; Art & Design; English Language & Literature; >>> Geography & Environmental Studies; History; Music; Psychology; and Social >>> Work & Social Policy & Administration. >>> Visit www.anglia.ac.uk/rae for more information. >>> >>> This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the above named >>> recipient(s) only and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error >>> you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to >>> anyone: please reply to this e-mail to highlight the error and then >>> immediately delete the e-mail from your system. >>> >>> Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not >>> necessarily represent the views or opinions of Anglia Ruskin University. >>> >>> Although measures have been taken to ensure that this e-mail and >>> attachments are free from any virus we advise that, in keeping with good >>> computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus >>> free. Please note that this message has been sent over public networks which >>> may not be a 100% secure communications >>> >>> Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email >>> management service <http://www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> P2P Foundation - Mailing list >> http://www.p2pfoundation.net >> https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >> >> >

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M-PESA: Economics without money
by dimitzortzis＠gmail.com 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

This is old but I just read about it yesterday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11793290 I think this is a great idea. It can work greatly with alternative currencies since it eliminates the need to print money or use some other form of money. With this system a new alternative currency could start circulating in no time in some community. -- Dimitris

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