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Fw: Off-Grid Financing
by robert searle 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John Fullerton <jfullerton(a)capitalinstitute.org> To: Robert Searle <dharao4(a)yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Monday, 16 July 2012, 22:30 Subject: Off-Grid Financing To forward this email, click here. Off-Grid Financing The ramifications of the Libor scandal--what Warren Buffett glibly called a can of worms that affects the whole world--grow by the day. Criminal indictments of individuals, even if firms are too big to indict, appear to be in the making as the tsunami’s shock waves are about to spread to many of the usual suspects. One can only imagine the trial lawyers licking their chops. Has there ever been a class action lawsuit on behalf of the whole world? Central bankers and regulators, understandably panicked at the height of the crisis, may have been complicit in some of the distortions in an effort to create the pretense of financial system stability. However, like the so-called “war on terror,” we find the war on financial system collapse is filled with ends-justifying-the-means moral and legal questions. Read more at The Future of Finance. Evergreen Cooperatives Launch New Website and Are Featured in Brancaccio Documentary The Evergreen Cooperatives, the subject of a Capital Institute Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economystudy published last year, are profiled, along with other community-wealth-building projects, in the newly revised documentary Fixing the Future by David Brancaccio. To attend one of the screenings that will be held in many American cities on July 18th and 19th visit thissite. Also pay a visit to The Evergreen Cooperatives’s enhanced websitefeaturing videos and the latest Evergreen news. ________________________________ Another Summer Visit to the Capital Institute Archives In June 2010 we posted a profilewith More for Mission’s then director Lisa Hagerman to find out how the organization, launched in 2007 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Meyer Memorial Trust and the F.B. Heron Foundation, was working to help foundations better align their investments with their underlying mission. Since we posted our profile in June 2010, the organization grew to a total membership of 96 foundations. In May 2012 M4M and Program Related Investment Makers Network (PRI) combined to form the Mission Investors Exchange. The merger of the PRI Makers Network and More for Mission was the end result of a long-standing relationship between the two organizations that were initially focused on different areas of the mission-investment spectrum. Read more at This Week at Capital Institute. ________________________________ John on GritTV Laura Flanders’s interview with John Fullerton on making finance safe for the planet went live online last week. In it, Flanders asks penetrating questions about the Newtonian groundings of neoclassical economics and finance, reaching full employment without economic growth, and the role of dematerialization in a sustainable economy. John’s responses detail the underlying theme of Capital Institute’s work: structuring a financial system that helps us stay within biophysical limits and puts us on a path toward a fairer distribution of wealth. The video has since been distributed on Laura Flanders’s siteas well as numerous other outlets including CurrentTV, The Nation, and Truthout. Watch the video at This Week at Capital Institute. What We're Reading One-third of all counties in the United States are part of a USDA declared natural disaster area, but almost no one in political office is willing to say why: climate change. An article from The Atlantic outlines all the facts. U.S. Declares the Largest Natural Disaster Area Ever Due to Drought ________________________________ Comment of the Week "[A] consequence for any complex system is that entropy increases whenever the folly of our hubris in thinking we are in control becomes evident." -Geoff Chesshire, Economics as if the Laws of Thermodynamics Mattered ________________________________ Quote of the Week “How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?” -Donella Meadows To unsubscribe from this email list, click here. 73 Arch Street, 3rd Floor Greenwich, CT 06830 United States

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Fw: [gang8] Fwd: World Economics Association - Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3 - June 2012
by robert searle 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Michael Hudson <michael.hudson(a)earthlink.net> To: gang8(a)yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, 16 July 2012, 22:48 Subject: Re: [gang8] Fwd: World Economics Association - Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3 - June 2012 I saw Sebastian at the Soros INET conference in Berlin in April, and I usually see him and Hansjorg in October at the Berlin Boeckler conference. I just got back from Istanbul and Split (Croatia), with record-setting heat (29 C.). Michael On 7/16/12 4:40 PM, "Arno Mong Daastoel" <amd(a)daastol.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > Hope you are all fine! > > Notice the article of a "former" (?) gang8ster. Sebastian > > >Christian Kellermann, Sebastian Dullien and Hansjörg Herr: “the market is a good > servant, but a bad master of any society. It must be given clear tasks, clear rules and > clear limits in order to provide for the basis and frame for the project of a Good Society.” > > - and the siocial credit author Victoria: > > >Victoria Chick: “It takes self-confidence to dismiss keeping up with the Joneses and > base ones self-esteem on other values” > > btw: > Stay away from Norway: We are experiencing a wet and "green winter" > So much for climate warming .... > ;-( > > I worked two weeks - 12-15 hours a day - carrying cement and stones - by the ocean in my birth town Krageroe > - building jetties and loosing weight! Truly amazing summer houses!!! (for the rich) > My pudding body really got beaten up! > Spent the last week recovering with friends on the local pubs - all with their own jetty! (the pubs) > ;-) > > Arno > > > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: World Economics Association - Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3 - June 2012 > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:03:25 -0400 > From: World Economics Association <contact(a)worldeconomicsassociation.org> mailto:[email protected] > Reply-To: World Economics Association <contact(a)worldeconomicsassociation.org> mailto:[email protected] > To: amd <amd(a)daastol.com> mailto:[email protected] > > World Economics Association > > >World Economics Association <http://p.feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=56496096&f=763931&c=4196249> - Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3 – June 2012 > > > > >________________________________ > > <http://p.feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=65952426&f=763931&u=20971015&c=4…> > World Economics Association Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3– June 2012 > is now available as a pdf file for download here <http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/763931/4534930/0/http://worldeconomicsassoci…> > http://worldeconomicsassociation.org/Newsletter/Issue2-3.pdf <http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/763931/20971015/4196249/http://worldeconomic…> In this issue > > * Editorial: Theory as framing Stuart Birks > * Update on WEA Conferences > * Conference: Sustainability > * Worries about models > * WEJ name now to WER > * Economic Thought—journal update > * Positive linking—networks > * Different perspectives an a changing world > * Renewal of economics as a social science > * The GFC and complex social repercussions > * Confessions of a pluralist textbook author > * WEA Ethics conference > * Another road for Europe > * Rio+20/UNDP-IPC > * Green Economics Conference > * WEA update > * The importance of rhetoric > * WEA Conference—Rethinking financial markets > * Hodgson’s “Neglected Problem” > * Contacts and Announcements > WEA online conferences (in September and October 2012) > > Rethinking Financial Markets <http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/763931/20971015/4196249/http://rfconference2…> . > You are invited to register and participate. 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Fw: Off-Grid Financing
by robert searle 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John Fullerton <jfullerton(a)capitalinstitute.org> To: Robert Searle <dharao4(a)yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Monday, 16 July 2012, 22:30 Subject: Off-Grid Financing To forward this email, click here. Off-Grid Financing The ramifications of the Libor scandal--what Warren Buffett glibly called a can of worms that affects the whole world--grow by the day. Criminal indictments of individuals, even if firms are too big to indict, appear to be in the making as the tsunami’s shock waves are about to spread to many of the usual suspects. One can only imagine the trial lawyers licking their chops. Has there ever been a class action lawsuit on behalf of the whole world? Central bankers and regulators, understandably panicked at the height of the crisis, may have been complicit in some of the distortions in an effort to create the pretense of financial system stability. However, like the so-called “war on terror,” we find the war on financial system collapse is filled with ends-justifying-the-means moral and legal questions. Read more at The Future of Finance. Evergreen Cooperatives Launch New Website and Are Featured in Brancaccio Documentary The Evergreen Cooperatives, the subject of a Capital Institute Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economystudy published last year, are profiled, along with other community-wealth-building projects, in the newly revised documentary Fixing the Future by David Brancaccio. To attend one of the screenings that will be held in many American cities on July 18th and 19th visit thissite. Also pay a visit to The Evergreen Cooperatives’s enhanced websitefeaturing videos and the latest Evergreen news. Another Summer Visit to the Capital Institute Archives In June 2010 we posted a profilewith More for Mission’s then director Lisa Hagerman to find out how the organization, launched in 2007 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Meyer Memorial Trust and the F.B. Heron Foundation, was working to help foundations better align their investments with their underlying mission. Since we posted our profile in June 2010, the organization grew to a total membership of 96 foundations. In May 2012 M4M and Program Related Investment Makers Network (PRI) combined to form the Mission Investors Exchange. The merger of the PRI Makers Network and More for Mission was the end result of a long-standing relationship between the two organizations that were initially focused on different areas of the mission-investment spectrum. Read more at This Week at Capital Institute. John on GritTV Laura Flanders’s interview with John Fullerton on making finance safe for the planet went live online last week. In it, Flanders asks penetrating questions about the Newtonian groundings of neoclassical economics and finance, reaching full employment without economic growth, and the role of dematerialization in a sustainable economy. John’s responses detail the underlying theme of Capital Institute’s work: structuring a financial system that helps us stay within biophysical limits and puts us on a path toward a fairer distribution of wealth. The video has since been distributed on Laura Flanders’s siteas well as numerous other outlets including CurrentTV, The Nation, and Truthout. Watch the video at This Week at Capital Institute. What We're Reading One-third of all counties in the United States are part of a USDA declared natural disaster area, but almost no one in political office is willing to say why: climate change. An article from The Atlantic outlines all the facts. U.S. Declares the Largest Natural Disaster Area Ever Due to Drought Comment of the Week "[A] consequence for any complex system is that entropy increases whenever the folly of our hubris in thinking we are in control becomes evident." -Geoff Chesshire, Economics as if the Laws of Thermodynamics Mattered Quote of the Week “How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?” -Donella Meadows To unsubscribe from this email list, click here. 73 Arch Street, 3rd Floor Greenwich, CT 06830 United States

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Fw: [gang8] Report on Select Committee proceedings
by robert searle 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Hugh Whinfrey <market(a)svarsmaal.dk> To: gang8(a)yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, 13 July 2012, 23:14 Subject: Re: [gang8] Report on Select Committee proceedings For what it's worth there is an interesting analysis of Barclay's actions and the LIBOR scandal that is getting a lot of circulation around the Internet. It concludes, at least to my surprise in that I would have expected the article to be busy demonising all banks everywhere, with "Barclays clearly knew how bad the whole situation was – being the last ones to see the horror that was Lehman’s books - and were likely the only counterparty in the proceedings who acted in an informed, financially responsible manner." Among other places, you can find it here: http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1342184400.php Hugh __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (5) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group The gang8 list is devoted to Creditary Economics. To unsubscribe, email: gang8-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___

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Gillis on complex systems
by Kevin Carson 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Tweeted by @rechelon July 13: Yep, to outlaw encryption you've gotta outlaw noise. Anything dynamic is a threat to the state, including the universe. https://twitter.com/rechelon/statuses/223663386733461504 https://twitter.com/rechelon/statuses/223663386733461504 Control necessitates suppressing anything more complex than the center can process. The logic of the state is the death of everything. https://twitter.com/rechelon/statuses/223664157231284224 My response: And suppression itself is a form of control--i.e, an attempt by the center to control something more complex than it can process. https://twitter.com/KevinCarson1/status/223857580429152256 -- Kevin Carson Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory, Research Associate Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org "You have no authority that we are bound to respect" -- John Perry Barlow "We are legion. We never forgive. We never forget. Expect us" -- Anonymous Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com

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Fw: [gang8] the-transition-of-lending-power-between-banks-in-endogenous-monetary-theory
by robert searle 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Dirk Bezemer <d.j.bezemer(a)rug.nl> To: gang8(a)yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2012, 11:46 Subject: [gang8] the-transition-of-lending-power-between-banks-in-endogenous-monetary-theory good stuff: http://andrewlainton.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/the-transition-of-lending-pow… -- Dirk J Bezemer Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics& Business University of Groningen www.rug.nl/staff/d.j.bezemer __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group The gang8 list is devoted to Creditary Economics. To unsubscribe, email: gang8-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___

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Fw: C2C: Hot Climate Seminar Line-up and C2C Workshops
by robert searle 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Eban Goodstein <climate(a)bard.edu> To: dharao4(a)yahoo.co.uk Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2012, 22:29 Subject: C2C: Hot Climate Seminar Line-up and C2C Workshops To view this message in your browser, click here C2C Fellows / National Climate Seminar / Bard 7.12.12 Dear friends and colleagues, It’s hot. It’s going to get hotter. And despite the politics of the moment, extreme weather will eventually drive a national consensus on climate action. In the meantime: Bard CEP’s National Climate Seminar provides a regular source of current information and engagement-- twice monthly interviews with top climate scientists, political leaders, economists, artists, advocates, and policymakers. Join us live or listen afterwards online. This fall, we will hear from green business pioneer Hunter Lovins on Rio +20; U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Climate Politics*; RFF economist Dallas Burtraw on the future of the CAA; Center for Biodiversity and Conservation scientist Dr. Eleanor Sterling on Climate & Biodiversity; and Climate Solutions KC Golden on Coal Exports. See below or visit our website for the complete listing of speakers and dates. CEP is also sponsoring five C2C Fellows weekend training workshops for aspiring sustainability leaders in business and public policy. These trainings focus on skills development, including fund-raising and communication. Graduates of the weekend workshops are eligible for scholarships to CEP’s masters programs in environmental policy, climate science and policy, and green business, as well as $1,000 scholarships for follow-on leadership trainings. Students can apply now: the cost of the weekend trainings is $30 including food and lodging. Please pass the word along! Dates Venue City Oct. 26 - 28 University of Tennessee Chattanooga, TN Nov. 30 - Dec. 2 Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Feb. 22 - 24 UC Boulder Boulder, CO Mar. 15 - 17 TBA Apr. 12 - 14 TBA Thanks for the work you are doing, Eban GoodsteinDirector, Bard CEP & Director, Bard MBA in Sustainability ________________________________ National Climate Seminar / Fall 2012Climate Seminar calls are Wednesdays at 12pm EST and held twice monthly via conference call. Assign the half-hour calls to your students for a chance to hear top scientists, analysts, and political leaders discuss climate and clean energy solutions. Date Presenter Conversation Sep. 4 Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions Rio, Deja Vu? Sep. 18 Bernie Sanders*, U.S. Senator for Vermont Climate and the Election Oct. 3 KC Golden, Climate Solutions Coal Exports: Just Say No? Oct. 17 May Boeve, 350.org Social Movements & Politics Nov. 7 Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future Clean Air Act, Next Steps Nov. 21 Kim Knowlton, NRDC Climate and Human Health Dec. 5 Eleanor Sterling, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, AMNH Climate Change & Impacts on Biodiveristy *Invited ________________________________ Sponsors The National Climate Seminar is organized and run by Bard CEPwith media partner, Island Press, publisher of The Climate Solutions Consensus (2011)edited by David E. Blockstein and Leo Wiegman, and made possible by a grant from the Clif Bar Family Foundation. 40% of car trips are within two miles of your home: take Clif Bar's 2 Mile Challengeand ride or walk instead! ________________________________ Follow this link to update your communication preferences: Contact Preferences PO Box 5000 30 Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 12504, United States Campaign ID: 533000003078181 | Contact ID: 533000000775684

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Fwd: PeerPoint Requirements Definition -- Section 1. Identity Management
by Poor Richard 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

The following is an excerpt from a recent addition to the *PeerPoint Open Requirements Definition and Design Specification Proposal* (currently a shared Google Doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TkAUpUxdfKGr_5Qio2SlZcnBu_sgnZWdoVTZuD_…) The PeerPoint project is an open and collaborative effort to develop requirements, standards, and specifications for peer-to-peer internet technologies that will promote fair and sustainable societies. On-going updates to this topic will be made at the above link. Your collaboration is invited! - PR -------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet(a)googlegroups.com> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-interne… PeerPoint Requirements Definition -- Section 1. Identity Management<http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-interne…> The first step in defining the problem space of identity management is to define identity. What is it? From The Free Dictionary< http://www.thefreedictionary.com/>(tfd.com) *identity*: 1. The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known *PeerPoint Terms and Definitions* - *entity*: anything that has a definite, recognizable identity, whether a person, group, organization, place, object, computer, mobile device, concept, etc. [image: Identity conceptual view] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Identity-concept.jpg> - *attribute*: any characteristic, property, quality, trait, etc. that is inherent in or attributed to an entity. An entity has one or more attributes and an attribute has one or more values. For example "the sky (entity) has color (attribute) of blue (value)." This entity-attribute-value (EAV) model is sometimes called a "triple" as in the Resource Description Framework (RDF). An attribute (which is also a kind of entity) may have attributes of its own. These are often logically nested in a hierarchical fashion. For example, an address may be an attribute of a company but also an entity with attributes of street, city, state, etc. An entity may have multiple instances of the same attributes, such as multiple aliases or addresses. (Different programming languages, protocols, frameworks, and applications may organize the entity-attribute-value model differently; or use different terms such as object for entity or property for attribute; but this is probably the most generic approach.) [image: Rdf-graph3]<http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rdf-graph3.png > - *identity*: a definitive and recognizable set of attribute-value pairs (or entity-attribute-value triples) for a particular entity. The set of attribute-value pairs may be partial or exhaustive, depending on the intended purpose of the identity construct. - *identification (ID)*: a dataset (value, record, file, etc) which represents the most concise amount of information required to specify a particular entity and distinguish it from others. An ID may be local to a particular context, such as a company employee ID or inventory number, or it may be universal. Examples of universal ID are Global Trade Item Numbers (GITN) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Trade_Item_Number> and uniform resource identifiers (URI) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Resource_Identifier> The ID typically consists of a smaller quantity of data than the full identity dataset and only represents or refers to the full identity. *Identity management problem space* The PeerPoint requirements will explore various parts of the Identity Management <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management> problem space, all of which overlap or interpenetrate each other: 1. description 2. classification 3. identity provisioning and discovery (directory services, including identity & directory linking, mapping, and federation) 4. authentication (validation/verification, security tokens, security token services) 5. authorization (access control, role-based access control, single sign-on) 6. security (anonymity, vulnerabilities, risk management) *1. Description* Description is meant here in its most general sense as the entire set of attributes and values that describe an entity, and not simply a "description" box or field in a record. This is the aspect of identity management which establishes the attributes and values by which an entity is typically recognizable or known in a particular context. A description can attempt to be exhaustive, but in most cases it is only as complete as required for its intended purpose in a given application. PeerPoint requirements - Identity management functions should be consistent across all PeerPoint applications, so the requirements should be implemented as part of a PeerPoint system library from which all applications, middleware, API s, etc. can call the necessary functions. Interfaces or connectors must be provided for non-PeerPoint-compatable systems. - There are many methods in existing software applications, protocols, and frameworks to describe the identity of entities. The PeerPoint identity management solutions must inter-operate with as many of these as possible. For that reason the PeerPoint descriptions of entities must be as generic, modular, composable, and extensible (open-ended) as possible. - PeerPoint user interfaces (UI) must allow users to extend and customize entity descriptions in as intuitive a manner as possible without reducing or destroying the interoperability of the descriptions with those of other platforms. One approach is to provide user input forms with the most common or universal attributes for various types of entities, combined with fields for additional user-defined attribute-value pairs as well as simple tags. - In both standardized and customizable parts of entity descriptions, the UI should provide as much guidance as possible about the most typical names and/or value ranges for attributes without locking the user in to these "preferred" or popular choices. One of the most basic entities in social networking systems is the person, member, or user account. The identity description for such an entity is commonly called a "user profile." User profiles are also found in most applications that involve online collaboration. The most primitive form of user account consists of a user ID (or UID) and a password, where both the ID and password are simple alphanumeric strings. But increasingly, user accounts for social and collaborative applications include elaborate user profiles. Facebook is a good example, having one of the most extensive user profiles of any internet application. This is a partial screenshot of Poor Richard's Facebook Profile <https://www.facebook.com/po.richard?sk=info> The information in a Facebook User Profile is organized into numerous logical categories. Some not shown above include the user's friends, Facebook groups to which the user belongs, and a personal library of documents and images. Other profile sections include unlimited free-form text. Many of the profile data categories such as "Arts and Entertainment" may include unlimited numbers of "likes" or tags. These are added via an intuitive interface in which the user begins typing something such as a-r-e-t-h-a- -f-r-a-n-k... and as the user types, a list of matching tags is displayed and continuously updated with each keystroke, showing possible matches from the Facebook database. If no match is found by the end of typing, the entered tag label is displayed as-is with a generic icon. Facebook's database of entities in the various categories is created and maintained primarily by Facebook users who create Facebook "pages" for people, groups, companies, products, movies, authors, artists, etc. Other social network sites have profile features not found in the Facebook User Profile. Google + adds a feature to the "friends" data category called "circles" and a homepage feature called "hangouts". Google + users can organize friends into user-defined categories called circles that inter-operate with other Google apps, and can create live audio-video chat groups with user-defined membership. LinkedIn has additional profile data categories for resumes, cvs, and employment references, recommendations or testimonials. In addition to users, on various social networks accounts may be created for special-interest groups, fan clubs, companies, organizations, and topic pages of all kinds. The structures of the profiles for different types of accounts on different networks vary widely. Very limited, generic profiles are also hosted by services such as Gravatar <http://en.gravatar.com/>and About.me < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About.me>. Sample Gravatar <http://en.gravatar.com/> profile: OpenID Simple Registation <http://openid.net/specs/openid-simple-registration-extension-1_0.html> is an extension to the OpenID <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID> Authentication protocol that allows for very light-weight profile exchange. It is designed to pass eight commonly requested pieces of information when an End User goes to register a new account with a web service. Gravatar and OpenID SR are simple examples of what PeerPoint will call a meta-profile. PeerPoint requirements: - the capability to create and maintain meta-profiles for any type of entity - intuitive user interface for creating, customizing, and maintaining meta-profiles - allow the creator of a profile to determine where any portion of it is stored and with whom any portion of it is shared - capability to synchronize the PeerPoint meta-profile with profiles in non-PeerPoint applications *2. **Classification: "people, places and things"* Different kinds of entities have different kinds of descriptions, so an important part of the identity management problem is the problem of sorting things into various categories. Sorting things into categories or classes is often called categorization or classification. Classification systems are often called taxonomies. Examples might include the index of an encyclopedia, a library card catalog, or a glossary of internet terms. In the case of information systems, the term ontology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28information_science%29> means "a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations." "An ontology renders shared vocabulary and taxonomy which models a domain with the definition of objects and/or concepts and their properties and relations. Ontologies are the structural frameworks for organizing information and are used in artificial intelligence< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence>, the Semantic Web <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web>, systems engineering <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering>, software engineering <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering>, biomedical informatics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_informatics>, library science <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_science>, enterprise bookmarking <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_bookmarking>, and information architecture <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture> as a form of knowledge representation< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation> about the world or some part of it. The creation of domain ontologies is also fundamental to the definition and use of an enterprise architecture framework <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_architecture_framework >. Another related term in information systems is namespace <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namespace_%28computer_science%29>, often used in relation to wiki structures and directory services <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_service>. In identity management, two of the main systems of categories, or taxonomies, would be categories of entities and categories of attributes. Attributes are themselves categories of values (the attribute "color" is a category of colors: red, blue, green, etc.). Examples of high-level categories of entities might include: - people - groups - organizations - places - internet technologies - devices Examples of very high-level categories of attributes could include: - Material properties <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_properties> - Chemical properties <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_property> - Physical properties <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_property> - Mental properties <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_properties> - Economic attributes These taxonomies become semantic web< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web> ontologies <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29> when they are defined in machine-readable protocols such as: - Resource Description Framework< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework>(RDF) - Web Ontology Language< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language>(OWL) - Extensible Markup Language <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML> (XML) - Simple Object Access Protocol <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP>(SOAP) - Description of a Project <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOAP> (DOAP) (an RDF schema <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema> and XML <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Markup_Language>vocabulary to describe software project) - Service Provisioning Markup Language< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Provisioning_Markup_Language>(SPML) is an XML <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML>-based framework, being developed by OASIS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OASIS_%28organization%29>, for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information between cooperating organizations - Friend of a friend <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_%28software%29>(FOAF) (a machine-readable ontology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29>describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. *Linked Data* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data> One great advantage of machine-readable ontologies is the ability to semantically link data across the web. *Linking open-data community project* The goal of the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach< http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semantic_Web_Education_and_Outrea…>group's Linking ( . . . ) [The preceding was an excerpt from a recent addition to the *PeerPoint Open Requirements Definition and Design Specification Proposal*(currently a shared Google Doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TkAUpUxdfKGr_5Qio2SlZcnBu_sgnZWdoVTZuD_…) The PeerPoint project is an open and collaborative effort to develop requirements, standards, and specifications for peer-to-peer internet technologies that will promote fair and sustainable societies. On-going updates to this topic will be made at the above link. Your collaboration is invited! - PR]

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Fw: McDonald's
by robert searle 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: David Talbot - 38 Degrees <action(a)38degrees.org.uk> To: dharao4(a)yahoo.co.uk Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2012, 15:36 Subject: McDonald's Dear friend, “Loving it: Huge tax breaks for Olympic sponsors” Imagine seeing that headline on the front of your paper in the final countdown to the Olympic opening ceremony. As the eyes of the world focus on London, this is the perfect opportunity to expose the corporate sponsors who’ll be dodging tax during the games. The UK's winning Olympic bid included huge tax breaks for sponsors. As a result, massive multi-nationals like Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Adidas stand to make a tax-free fortune. [1] Experts think the UK could be losing tens of millions. [2] As sponsors, these companies will be banking on loads of positive media exposure. Let’s use that to our advantage, turn the tables, and roll out a massive petition demanding they pay their fair share. If the petition is big enough, and attracts enough media attention, it could be the first step in scaring these image-conscious companies into refusing their gold-plated tax break. Can you add your name to the petition to the heads of these big companies demanding they turn down their Olympic tax dodge? http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/m/74c054ee/2d40752f/5c15aeac/467021b3/3239… The whole reason these gigantic companies are involved in the Olympics is for the image boost it’ll provide. A tarnished brand is their PR team’s worst nightmare. So what’ll scare them most is our huge petition being covered in the media, and high-profile hand-ins at their flagship stores. Sources tell us a few of the sponsors may already be rattled. Let’s show them their Olympic tax-dodge isn’t worth the PR damage by piling into the petition and sharing it with friends. 38 Degrees members keep on voting to tackle tax-dodging. Together, we’ve forced it onto the political agenda. Now it’s time to focus in on the companies who stand to make the biggest profits. A massive public outcry demanding that these Olympic giants pay their fair share could be the first step in putting an end to corporate tax-dodging. Let’s start with McDonald’s. If you sign the petition today, we’ll deliver it this Friday to a high profile McDonald’s restaurant on Oxford St. Can you sign the petition now? http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/m/74c054ee/2d40752f/5c15aeac/467021b3/3239… Thanks for being involved David T, Robin, Belinda and the 38 Degrees team NOTES [1] Ethical Consumer: The Great Olympic Tax Swindle http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/m/74c054ee/2d40752f/5c15aeac/467021ac/3239… [2] False Economy blog: The Great Olympic tax swindle http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/m/74c054ee/2d40752f/5c15aeac/467021ad/3239… ________________________________ Unsubscribe: If you no longer wish to be part of our movement and receive our emails you can unsubscribe here. This email was sent to dharao4(a)yahoo.co.uk. 38 DEGREES Registered Company No. 6642193

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Fwd: [Escuelacommons] sesión Wolfgang Hoeschele & Economia de la Abundancia
by Wouter Tebbens 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

I just published a summary on Wolfgang Hoeschele's book Economics of Abundance, http://ur1.ca/9rih4 He'll be with us at the Escuela de los Commons in Barcelona on August 3rd. If you happen to be around, you're most welcome to join in. cheers, Wouter -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Escuelacommons] sesión Wolfgang Hoeschele & Economia de la Abundancia Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:00:23 +0200 From: Wouter Tebbens <wouter(a)freeknowledge.eu> Reply-To: escuelacommons(a)lists.contrast.org Organization: Free Knowledge Institute To: Escuela de los commons <escuelacommons(a)lists.contrast.org> Hola todxs, acabo de publicar un resumen del libro Economics of Abundance de Wolfgang Hoeschele. Por si no tienes tiempo leerlo (o dinero para comprarlo, que su editorial no colabora con la economia de la abundancia), aqui va: http://freeknowledge.eu/blog/wouter/wolfgang-hoeschele-economics-of-abundan… Os recuerdo los detalles de la sesión: Fecha: 3 de Agosto 2012 Seminario: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM + Tapas despres de seminari Lloc: http://www.vilaweb.cat/ (amb aire acondicionat) Podeis circular entre otros compañeros comuneros o posibles interesados. Será en inglés la sesión. un abrazo, -- Wouter Tebbens -- Free Knowledge Institute ---- http://freeknowledge.eu/ Free Technology Academy ----- http://ftacademy.org/ http://campus.ftacademy.org/community/pg/profile/wouter Microfactoria Blog: http://microfactoria.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Escuelacommons mailing list Escuelacommons(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/escuelacommons

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