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Re: [P2P-F] new: dark matter blog
by Michel Bauwens 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

thanks gregory, Michel On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:25 AM, gregory sholette <gsholette(a)gmail.com>wrote: > dear friends, > *The Revolution is not a Tea Party* > http://www.darkmatterarchives.net/?page_id=502 > > yours, > > greg -- 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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an integral p2p infrastructure
by Michel Bauwens 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Mark, I copy your nextnet conversation here as well, it seems to me you have thought through an 'integral' or integrated p2p infrastructural strategy? as you say, "a global information technology requirements specification, in very broad outline, for a paradigm shift tool-set." is that available somewhere in a more formal article, for eventual publication? what is the underlying logic holding all those different points/aspects together? Michel Mark Roest <marklroest(a)gmail.com> Jul 31 12:20PM -0700 ^<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#13182cf62cd0ab56_digest_top> Hello Jurai, Rasmus and Michel, There are some other dimensions that the discussion is not really reflecting yet. The 20-planet scenario has a major fork in its path. This fork can be played out differently in different places, and the aggregate impacts of the choices can, in turn, have ecosystem, eco-region, biome, and global scale system-disrupting or system-restoring impacts. Nature plays the last hand -- we don't. Our functional purpose here, on Gaia, is to be stewards of all our relations (the rest of life), to live on the surpluses, and to create and share collective and universal consciousness. Most traditional, indigenous, relatively intact cultures would also say something roughly equivalent to, it is to maintain continuity with the contributions of the ancestors, and co-create the future with them and with the Great Spirit / Life Force. The nature of the fork is whether we coalesce around our higher selves (think of what infants and close friends and pets inspire in us) or our lower inheritance from chimpanzees (taking over adjacent territories -- killing the males to take the females and the choice food). What I have written below is a global information technology requirements specification, in very broad outline, for a paradigm shift tool-set. Left-wing or populist organizing is fundamentally about bringing people together and educating them so they cannot be exploited or oppressed by sociopathic, racist greed-heads. If we combine this with a few other fundamental pieces, we have a chance to save the world: 1. Education in how to come from and express compassion and altruism effectively (curriculum by Stanford School of Medicine's CCARE program, in collaboration with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and other Tibetan Buddhist scholars). The curriculum has now spread to 2000 schools in the U.S.. Similarly, a program called the Causes of Happiness. This needs to be 'mashed' with education (#6 below) and peacemaking, as well as community, political and economic organizing, as it changes perspective in these areas. 2. Uncensored information about corporations and governments run by greed, and individuals and political groups driven by hostility (Project Censored, now collaborating with over 40 universities, and other efforts) 3. Scientific understanding of habitat loss, ecosystems, carbon and water cycles, the soil food web, Permaculture solutions (why do they work? where?), etc. 4. A way of organizing information so we can see the part that is potentially useful to us in the eco-regions and cultures we live and work in. It is a combination taxonomy and / or tag system that covers eco-regions and cultures, problem types, solution integration options, universals (the basics of life support, human biology and instinctual, emotional, and spiritual nature), threats, conditions and opportunities, and much else, in a Geographic Information / Digital Earth Imaging System, to which everyone has read and write access at the content level, with the content having an audit trail and peer review -- as well as expert review. 5. An extension of the economic input-output analysis beyond dollars in and dollars out at each transformation. It needs to also carry and report physical types and units of inputs, hours and intensities of different kinds of labor, waste and byproducts, quality standards (e.g. organic, non-gmo, fair trade), and who controls processes and transactions. It also needs to be mashed with the Geographic Information / Digital Earth Imaging System. 6. A digital education system, translated and localized for all cultures, that fully empowers people to reach their potential individually and collectively. SugarLabs, which provided the user interface for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO computer, has one of many efforts in this direction. It should be built around #1, #3, #4, #5, #7 & #8 in terms of content access, and organizing skills should be taught, and their use encouraged. For reference, check out the ethnic studies program that the racist Arizona legislature and governor banned financial support for this year. There are others. 7. A health and well-being process that is place-based, culture-supportive, unified and fully diverse, which is supported by a Health Care Knowledgebase mashed with the VistA EHR (Electronic Health Record) health information management system <WorldVistA.org>. It needs to fully empower all the indigenous healers (often 1 per 100 people in rural Africa, where western trained doctors may be 1 per 100,000 to 1 per million). 8. A taxonomy and database of appropriate, sustainable technologies, integrated with the information systems supporting the other topics and organizing initiatives. It should be the information support system for ubiquitous technology incubators which are devoted to fine-grained distribution of the power to produce in harmony with nature, from its surplus. The incubators should work with communities to develop cooperatives where possible, and small businesses that work in progressively larger networks as a fall-back position. The incubators should also be integrated with the Unified Field Bank system <http://unifiedfieldbank.com/mission.html >, providing a 'lens'-like system through which community assets can be used to generate the capital needed to transform the economy, at the scales needed for each different technology and food production system. In each of these major topic areas, we need to do an Agile-style evolution of tools and content, in a large, open process that includes ample, 'hosted' and facilitated opportunity for cross-fertilization among topics and technologies. Charrettes (see National Charrette Institute, Portland, Oregon) need to be an integral part of the processes. There is more, but this is enough for today. Regards, Mark Roest www.DesignEarth.net <http://www.designearth.net/> -- 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] P2P Foundation
by Michel Bauwens 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

thank you jasmine, transmitting to our list, Michel On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Jasmine Hall <jasmine.hall83(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Michel, > > > > We posted an article that we thought you and your readers might be > interested in having a look at, *“**10 Gaming Trends That Are Transforming > Higher Ed**” *( > http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/07/31/10-gaming-trends-that-are-transfor… > /). Just thought I'd let you know that you would be interested in > featuring or mentioning it in your blog. > > > > > > Thanks for your time! > > Jasmine Hall > -- 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] State of the Future--who's doing well and who isn't
by Michel Bauwens 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

thanks I will check! On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Makes points for both of us! > > > http://www.kurzweilai.net/2011-state-of-the-future?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Da… > > > > -- > Ryan Lanham > rlanham1963(a)gmail.com > Facebook: Ryan_Lanham > 3 Waterfall Close > Virginia Water, Surrey UK > GU25 4QD > > > > -- 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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spanish 15m strategic consultations keen on commons and p2p input
by Michel Bauwens 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

See: https://red.democraciarealya.es/pg/groups/59275/15s-hub-meeting/ -- 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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barcelona 15m hub calls for participation, including by p2p-f friends
by Michel Bauwens 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

see: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=228692007173174 15-18S Hub Meeting by Quod LiBe Tat <https://www.facebook.com/QuoDLiBeTaT> on Monday, August 1, 2011 at 7:04pm Dear friends and mates, For those of us who have experienced 15M movement firsthand, last weeks have been intense. Our daily life has been happily colonized by radical and diffuse political practices, which has been capable of initiating the debate and showing the advanced state of decomposition of representative politics and its servility to economic interests. Today, new mobilizations are occurring in many places which continue with the long fall of fighting and struggle against austerity policies and the later spring of revolts in blossom in Iceland and the Mediterranean shores. Next autumn, lots of real conflicts will cross the world. Attempts to stop radical and democratic movements in the Arab world, and the sanction of austerity policies in Europe, are the closest examples to us. But we know they are not the only ones. We are experiencing together an attack to global society which targets existence as to make it precarious in the name of a very restricted and dominant elite interests. In the European frame, all these austerity and cutting policies directly affect the foundations of different forms of the European welfare state, which in spite of their differences are the result of many previous struggles. The rights we currently enjoy were not granted by the dominant political class throughout the time. It was social movements, as the proletarian, which achieved the incorporation of a more human and fair perspective of society through mobilizations and other actions. Nobody has given us anything for free; we cannot tolerate anyone to snatch the political and social conquests accomplished so far. We have a historical legacy to defend together. Because of these reasons, we are working, from the different DRY (Democracia Real Ya!) nodes, on the global mobilization on October 15th against austerity policies and to build real democratic practices from the bottom up. We would like October 15th to be a territory, inhabited and shared by many people, colectively built, where we can denounce the crisis of power and start building concrete alternatives against material conditions and precariousness of lifestyles. We consider this to be done through meeting and debate among multiple networks, social movements and processes, which are challenging power arrogance in this common struggle cycle. That is why we propose building up a meeting together from 15th to 18th September. A kind of Hub Meeting where we can talk about this cycle of mobilizations and find possible connection, collaboration and convergence joints between the struggles in which we are taking part. Because of all above stated, we offer, from Barcelona, to provide the necessary infrastructure which allow us to carry out the meeting and therefore to be able to share analysis, perspectives and strategies to design together a long fall against a global power which each and every day seems, in our opinion, closer to its own twilight. The different networks, groups and movements, which want to take part in this meeting, will be also able to organize parallel and autonomous meetings everyday. They will have access to the necessary logistic means as places to gather and accommodation, etc (yet to determine) To make the set-up of this meeting the most collective possible, we suggest that you use, as a shared space, the group “15S Hub meeting”: https://red.democraciarealya.es/pg/groups/59275/15s-hub-meeting/ To access this tool you must first log on at https://red.democraciarealya.es/ and join the “I” team where the “15S Hub meeting” subgroup is enabled. As a first way to organize preparatory work, we suggest the following categories: Participating Groups and Networks; Contents; Working Methodology; Logistics and Calendar. Participating Groups and Netwroks: a list of participants with a brief introduction. Contents: collecting proposals of workshops and issues threads. Methodology: proposal and discussion of working methodologies with the tool online and for the meeting itself. Calendar: organization of days and times of the meeting. Logistics: available and necessary resources to carry out the activities and their management. If you are interested in participating, we’ll appreciate if you can send us an email to 15ShubMeeting(a)gmail.com in order to construct a list of participants (and their networks) and to planify the resources that we need. Hoping to meet you in Barcelona, and on the net, Best wishes, DRY Barcelona DRY appears in January 2011 as a citizen mobilization platforms coordinator within a context influenced by the silent Icelandic revolution, the Arab spring and the European mobilizations cycle against austerity policies, which are being implemented as an excuse for their necessity in the context of the current economic and financial crisis, which affects all of us. In this frame, DRY called for a first demonstration last May 15th (15M) to denounce that “we are not merchandise in bankers and politicians hands”. With this mobilization, the precarious ones -workers, students, pensioners, inmigrants...- and different social groups took politics back from the violence of Capital. DRY has actively participated in the “#acampadas” (campsites) movement. DRY supports and actively works on the building up of mobilizations on October 15th on a global level. -- 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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organic self-certification
by Michel Bauwens 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Dear Sepp, I think this is an important development, could you find out more, and eventually mention it on the blog, see http://www.miiu.org/wiki/AgriTrue_Farmers -- 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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