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social media in emergencies
by Michel Bauwens 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Dear Tomas, Axel Bruns and his team at QUT's Mapping Online Publics has done ongoing research on the use of twitter and social media in emergencies such as the Queensland floods, the NZ earthqauke etc .. see http://www.mappingonlinepublics.net/2011/02/10/twitter-events-in-perspectiv… for an example http://www.mappingonlinepublics.net/2011/03/16/twitter-in-the-christchurch-… I think it is important to present this to a wider global public, and wonder if you could report on it? 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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Fwd: [Commoning] Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Becky Lentz, Dr. <roberta.lentz(a)mcgill.ca> Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:51 PM Subject: [Commoning] Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law To: "commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de" <commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de > Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law SAVE THE DATE: August 25-27, 2011 American University Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC, 20016 Please mark your calendars and plan to participate in one of the most important meetings on international intellectual property law of the year. American University Washington College of Law (WCL) will host the first annual Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property August 25-27, 2011. The Global Congress will be co-hosted by WCL¹s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Fundação Getulio Vargas¹s Center for Technology and Society (Brazil), the American Assembly at Columbia University, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (Geneva), and the Institute for Global and International Studies at George Washington University. The Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property is being created as an alternative forum to the annual industry-organized Global Congress Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, which was one of the main incubators for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and other components of the ongoing enforcement agenda in international intellectual property law. The enforcement agenda has come under increasing scrutiny from public interest advocates and independent researchers, including through the recently released Media Piracy in Emerging Economies report http://piracy.ssrc.org/the-report/. Taking these research and advocacy interventions as a starting point, the Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property will serve as a site for the sharing of research, ideas and policy proposals for how international intellectual property law should be constructed to better protect the full range of global public interest concerns. The tentative schedule is as follows: August 25, 3-6pm Keynote Addresses: Framing the Current Moment Keynote addresses will be webcast live and will be followed by a gala welcoming reception. August 25, 9am-6pm Public Interest Intellectual Property Workshops: Building the Knowledge Base The day will feature a series of works-in-progress research presentations on the themes of promoting new thinking on international intellectual property enforcement and mapping a range of best practices and policy options to ensure that national and international intellectual property systems protect and serve a broad range of public interest concerns. In addition to contributions analyzing options from within intellectual property doctrine, contributions will be sought from parallel fields that constrain intellectual property abuses such as competition law, consumer protection law, price control regimes, etc. August 25, 7-10pm Dinner cruise on the Potomac river. August 26, 10am-3pm Congress Deliberations: Creating a Positive Agenda for International Intellectual Property Law Congress delegates will be invited to deliberate over policy proposals and action plans that chart a positive future for international intellectual property law. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Participation in the Global Congress is being recruited from scholars, policy advocates and public officials from across the globe, with a particular emphasis on the representatives of interests from developing countries. Presentations and papers are being sought on any topic relevant to the mapping and analyzing of new thinking on intellectual property enforcement and the consideration of positive proposals that respond to the developmental and other public interest challenges associated with the globalization of intellectual property and the rising enforcement agenda. TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS Through the generous support of financial sponsors of the Congress, to include the International Development Research Centre, Open Society Foundation and Google Inc., a limited number of partial and full travel scholarships will be available for selected participants accepted to contribute research papers at the Congress. As funding is limited, travel scholarships will be awarded with preferences for applicants who lack sufficient institutional funding to otherwise participate and with preferences for applicants from developing countries and those who raise contributing funds from other sources. Priority applications to be considered for travel funding are due July 1, 2011. The final date for submission of proposals to present research at the Congress will be due July 15, 2011. Registration for self-funded attendees not presenting research will remain open until approximately three weeks before the event or until the maximum number of participants is reached (approx. 100 delegates max). APPLICATION SITE All applications will be accepted via an online form that will be available at http://infojustice.org/global-congress by April 15, 2011. Questions and inquiries can be addressed to sflynn(a)wcl.american.edu and mpalmedo(a)wcl.american.edu. Early expressions of interest in presenting research at the Congress are welcomed to the above email addresses. PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES Finalized papers will be considered for publication in the PIJIP digital commons working paper series (http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/) in the fall of 2011 as well as for a symposium issue of a law review in winter, 2012, TBA. Sean M Fiil Flynn Associate Director Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property American University Washington College of Law Washington D.C. 20016 _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de http://lists.wissensallmende.de/mailman/listinfo/commoning -- 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] l'economie citoyenne
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Dear Ira, I was not familiar with that particular instance, and would be interested in english language material if you want me to spread the word more, but here already in cc two potentially interested audiences, hope all is well, I'm on the road until April 5, with nearly zero internet time, Michel On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Ira Mollay <ira(a)mollay.net> wrote: > Hi Michel, > > I'm not sure whether you have already come across "Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie", a > model for an economy that aims at maximizing social benefit instead of > profit. The movement was started here in Austria by Christian Felber and his > book , "l'economie citoyenne" will be published in France on 6 April. > > We have several teams here working on making things very concrete and, in > particular, on balance sheets that include the social and environmental > impact. 50 enterprises are pioneering it this year and will present their > balance sheets to the public in autumn. They are now looking for enterprises > in France (or the French-speaking world) to act as pioneers in their country > as well. > > There is already a French version of the website on > http://www.gemeinwohl-oekonomie.org/fr/ > > Maybe you see ways of spreading the information to relevant target groups. > > Cheers and enjoy the beach :-) > Ira > > > -- 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] biocentric news services
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

thanks Mark On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > By ClimateArk & New Earth Rising, projects of Ecological Internet > http://www.climateark.org/ & http://www.newearthrising.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

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business models of diy craft
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Hi Massimo, can you also republish this one on our blog, say april 10 or after? Michel see http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2011/open-design/business-models-for-diy-craft/ -- 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] re p2p resources
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Dear Lee, very interesting article, would you be interested in republishing this in our p2p blog? also, please note we have a http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Researchcategory, which should have information about your research, let me know, Michel On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Lee Worden <worden.lee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings Michel - > > My appreciation for the research and services you're providing - I'm > finding the p2p blog posts and daily links very useful. I want to share > this with you, from my new blog project: > > Thresholds and abrupt social change > http://leeworden.net/lw/thresholds-1 > > Maybe you'll find it interesting or worth sharing. > > Many thanks - > > Lee Worden > > Biology Dept. > McMaster University > Environmental Science, Policy and Management > UC Berkeley > -- 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: <nettime> "Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

thanks Dante, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:56 AM Subject: Fwd: <nettime> "Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> excerpt from message below : "be taken offline in coming weeks due to budget cuts by Congress. Perhaps things like electronic government, software platforms and public accountability were just fads, anyway." "Update:. We're hearing from several places that there's a potentially viable effort to save these sites and organizations. Here (http://bit.ly/i16ldO) is one perspective on that and you can also see the Sunlight Foundation's Save the Data (http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/) petition. Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_7_other_sites_... " ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu(a)xs4all.nl> Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:20 PM Subject: <nettime> "Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down To: nettime-l(a)kein.org Hi all, I can't resist a good quote from Oh Brave New World: 'Art, Science- You seem to have paid a fairly high price for your happiness', said the Savage, when they were alone. 'Anything else?' 'Well, religion, of course,' replied the Controller. 'There used to be something called God -... Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) We believe that influence is the ability to drive people to action -- "action" might be defined as a reply, a retweet, a comment, or a click. - http://klout.com/ Announcer enters the stage: breaking news from the house of Power: I am a Rock, I am an Island Bystander: Can you define power? Street cleaner: The claim of states to rightfully assign arbitrary numbers to people, animals and plants and lampposts wedded to the claim of corporations to arbitrarily assign copyright and intellectual property over simple blocks of data that were simple noise, freely booming loud to all. Power is to hold the decision to decide what is data and what is noise. All power is temporary. Announcer enters the stage: Well, this is the breaking news: "Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut By Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 31, 2011 2:45 PM / 30 Comments Two years ago the incoming Obama administration launched a number of ambitious websites (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives /datagov_finally_launches_looks_nice_but_short_on_d.php) , most notably Data.gov (http://data.gov) , that were dedicated to offering public and government data to the outside world. The stated intention was to foster transparency and offer a platform for the development of new software and services. It appears those experiments may be over for now. Today the Sunlight Foundation (http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/31/budget- technopocalypse-deepens-transparency-sites-will-go-dark-in-a-few-months/) and Federal News Radio (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798) reported that the public projects Data.gov, USASpending.gov, Apps.gov/now, IT Dashboard and paymentaccuracy.gov as well as a number of internal government sites including Performance.gov, FedSpace and many of the efforts related the FEDRamp cloud computing cybersecurity effort would be taken offline in coming weeks due to budget cuts by Congress. Perhaps things like electronic government, software platforms and public accountability were just fads, anyway. Update:. We're hearing from several places that there's a potentially viable effort to save these sites and organizations. Here (http://bit.ly/i16ldO) is one perspective on that and you can also see the Sunlight Foundation's Save the Data (http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/) petition. Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_7_other_sites_... " Chorus: So what are we looking at here? "What we are looking at here is the decline of imperial powers which had once stretched around the globe. In these circumstances, the inquisitorial bureaucracy which we have observed, bedevilled by minutiae which by any objective standards are meaningless, seems incomprehensible. Yet the emphasis on the steady accumulation of pieces of paper betrays a mentality unable to deal with the reality before it: the reality was of an empire and society in precipitous decline: unable to face it, the inquisitorial mentality took refuge in useless documents designed the honour and nobility of the nation. In such circumstances opinions which diverged from the chosen picture of reality were unwelcome. The truth perhaps hurts most - and provokes most anger in - those whose are increasingly distant from it. Thus in Spain in particular the broad current of European though groping towards the Enlightenment in the latter 17th century was unpalatable and had to be prevented from polluting the nation. The movement of scientific enquiry, raised on the shoulders of Bacon, Desc artes, Locke and Spinoza, was a direct challenge to the inquisitorial world view. The Inquisition could sense from afar that there was an ideology which could deal it a mortal blow in a way that the conversos and the moriscis never had. The Inquisition was right to be suspicious, for some of the more importnant roots of this ideology did indeed penetrate back to the very people whom the inquisitors had pursued remorselessly for so long, the conversos. The development of the scientific world view was in fact deeply connected with the waves of persecution which the Inquisition had first unleashed in Spain at the end of the 15th century, 200 years before this era of decline." (Green, Toby. Inquisition, Reign of Fear. Pan Books, 2008, p. 257) Bystander: Oh my, I think you are a few hundred years off! ha ha Street sweeper: After all, it is quite logical that these programs would stop. At one point you run up against a wall when you ask for opening up databases. At that moment you will hear that this particular kind of data cannot be 'open' or 'disclosed'. After two years of opening up what can be opened up according to 'officials' you seem to hit a glass wall. That wall is 'state interest'. Then we ask: Hey but aren't we the state? Ah not quite, it seems. Just keep asking and the beast will eventually have to show itself. Singer: (Van Morrison: paraphrasing: You can take all that data from the USA put it in a big brown bag for me sail it right round these seven oceans drop it straight into the deep blue sea she's as sweet as Tupelo Honey just like honey baby from the bee you can't stop us on the road of freedom and while you at it closing all your fences, leave the lights on in Bradley Manning's cell and give him a good nights sleep then go look for the bees they are leaving salut! Rob # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.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

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Fwd: using market and state forms in the context of p2p social change
by Michel Bauwens 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

2 interesting posts on mechanics for resource-based economic systems, discussing Red Star a 1908 novel and the Cybersin experiment in Chile in the 70's, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <orsan(a)tie-netherlands.nl> Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:55 PM Subject: Re: using market and state forms in the context of p2p social change To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> I found them, this is the first one http://nightsoflabour.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/mining-potentials-in-capital… and this one is the second http://nightsoflabour.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/cybersyn-further-thoughts-fo… and she is Demet Dinler, I know her from Ankara based historical materialist Praksis and met her once at HM conference in London. hack the state and roughtheory blogs she were reffering seems also interesting!

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state of FLOSS for open currencies in 2010
by Michel Bauwens 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Dear Matthew, I wonder if you could send us a summary of your conclusions of your essay here, http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_%2815%29_files/16%20Slater.pdf, for publication in the p2p blog? thanks for considering it, 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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latam currency experiences
by Michel Bauwens 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hi Eli, I wonder if you could present these to our blog? see http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_%2815%29.html Michel Complementary Currencies for Sustainable Local Economies in Central America Erik Brenes D 32-38 After more than a decade of researching, implementing and supervising complementary currencies projects in the region, the Social Trade Organisation Central America (STRO-CA) has accumulated many lessons learnt and developed complementary currency methods along with strategies to stimulate its circulation, but most of all to create stable, diversified and resilient local economies in the cities where projects are in research, execution and/or supervision. This report introduces the STRO-CA approach to complementary currency development, and reflects on ten years of currency innovation and development in Central America. <http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_%2815%29_files/08%20Place.pdf> Community Currency Progress in Latin America (Banco Palmas) Christophe Place D 39-46 After losing its lawsuit against a community bank issuing a community currency, the Central Bank of Brazil has just started a cooperation agreement with the National Secretary for Solidarity Economy of the Labour Ministry of Brazil to support and develop the current 51 community banks and their own social currency in order to reach about 300 by 2012, becoming an exemplary model. This world premiere central bank support associated with one of the highest amount of community currency systems of Latin America brought Brazil as a significant site of experimentation in this field. Furthermore, some daring innovations seem to confirm this position in a long-term future unless this normative control of a centralized institution decreases the creativity. Indeed, sustainable economic orientation still needs creative tools, associated to an ethical vision, to decrease material consumption dependence and increase post-materialist values exchange: community currency transformation to an effective grassroots innovation for sustainability, prosperity and democracy seems to be necessary. -- 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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