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Fwd: Honouring a Theology of Land - 3 conference latest
by Michel Bauwens 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Challen <peterchallen(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:28 PM Subject: Honouring a Theology of Land - 3 conference latest To: *Herewith the sites for registration and for options for making a donation for the three spring conferences* * * *PLEASE HELP us by inviting and attracting representatives of our great faith traditions to share in the exploration of COVENANT AND CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS, expressing how life is gift;* *and **turning our rich rhetoric about the universality of mono-theistic faith into tangible applications, * *to which we can all contribute.* * ////////////////////////////* * *Are the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions fulfilling their foundation mission – the honouring of a Covenant of property rights in land that excluded the right to exclusive monopoly of a minority, but gifted to be shared by all - and if not, what should be done about it? These three conferences are designed to examine how the three Abrahamic faiths laid the foundations for a moral economics in which nature was to be shared for the common good. **· **The conferences, held in London churches, will reveal that Jesus identified the rent of land as the sacred source of revenue for the community. What should be done to encourage religious leaders to honour that advocacy by the people who adhere to the Christian faith?**** **· **Islamic scholars elaborated the principles of Land Taxation a thousand years before Adam Smith – can this history be reintegrated into the ethics of Islamic economics?**** **· **The Covenant with God came at a price – a moral code of conduct. Can this Covenant solve the territorial dispute over the Holy Land today? The Chief Rabbi spoke recently of the Covenant requiring us 'to serve and conserve' the earth. *'A THEOLOGY OF LAND AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS'* ////////////////////////////// 1] April 6th 10-4 at St Mary, Aldermary, City of London Honouring the Theology of the Land : *GOD & THE GOOD LIFE: THE AUDIT [1st of 3] - **250 places* Register on *http://god-and-the-goodlife.eventbrite.com/* ///////////////////////////////// 2] May 4th 10-2 at Christ Church North Southwark Honouring the Theology of the Land : *GREAT AWAKENINGS: THE APPLICATION [2nd of 3] - **150 places* *Registration on ** **http://theologyofland2of3.eventbrite.com* /////////////////////////////// 3] June 1st 10-2 at St James, Piccadilly Honouring the Theology of the Land : *HOLY LAND: THE AFFIRMATION [3rd of 3] - **250 places* Registration on http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5506287454** * *///////////////////////////// Registration and donations can also be directly to *P B Challen* by this email address or to P B Challen 21 Bousfield Rd. London SE14 5TP Charitable contributions can be made to 'THE LAND RESEARCH TRUST', c/o Peter Challen 21 Bousfield Rd.London SE14 5TP, thus gaining us the tax advantage. The Land Research Trust is Charity No.327041 www.landresearchtrust. org <http://www.landresearchtrust.%20org/> ** ** -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Inequality like you wouldn't believe! (and more...)
by Michel Bauwens 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Atlee <cii(a)igc.org> Date: Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:05 AM Subject: Inequality like you wouldn't believe! (and more...) To: undisclosed list <cii(a)igc.org> Dear friends (especially in the U.S., but elsewhere as well), We constantly hear that there is not enough money for all sorts of government and nonprofit programs and projects that would make our lives better (or even bearable). Too many of us know that there is not enough money in our family budgets to make ends meet. And we're told there is not enough money to pay down the national debt (itself a controversial fiscal strategy) unless we cut things back even further. Pundits and politicians say "We're sorry, but our nation is collectively broke." But that's a lie. The United States, as a nation, is not running out of cash. There is PLENTY of money. Check out this remarkable video that makes it crystal clear where that money is. (Dan Drasin, who sent it to me, had only three letters in his message: OMG...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QPKKQnijnsM Aside from its message of profound income inequality - which inspires a response of "This is unfair!" - there are two other very important points to realize about this situation: 1. That much money buys influence -- LOTS of it. Imagine how many people you can hire at minimum wage to do street-level political work for you. Imagine the amount of advertising space you can buy in magazines, newspapers, TV and online - not just to shape the public's views with your ads, but to make the news media dependent on you for revenue. Imagine how many favors you can do for politicians, how many lobbyists and professional consultants and PR people you can hire. We're not talking yachts and mansions here. We're talking about controlling what happens in a democratic republic (that doesn't happen to be as sovereign as it thinks it is). We're talking about buying policies that will give the policy-purchaser even more money and power. 2. Notice how much more powerful this chart-based video story is than a list of numbers. Notice how superbly it communicates what it is trying to say. Think of how hard it is for our minds to comprehend billions and nanometers and -- heaven help us -- parts per million (ppm). Notice what it takes for us to become "informed voters" and how easy it is to manipulate us until we are. Think about how the excess wealth in (1) above makes it easy for the super-rich side of every political argument to do the market research that reveals what will shape how our 10,000 year old bodyminds react to different presentations and messages -- and then to make just the right chart or just the right video to spin millions of us voters in their direction. What would it take to change that? What would it take for us to support the chart-makers and video-makers and researchers and visionaries and organizers that are working to reclaim democracy for ordinary people? What will our world look like if we don't support them? What will it look like if we do, and if we succeed, and if we use our reclaimed political and governmental and economic systems to create a fabulous world for our grandchildren? What, indeed! Coheartedly, Tom ________________________________ Tom Atlee, The Co-Intelligence Institute, POB 493, Eugene, OR 97440 site: http://www.co-intelligence.org / blog: http://tom-atlee.posterous.com Read EMPOWERING PUBLIC WISDOM - http://empoweringpublicwisdom.us THE TAO OF DEMOCRACY - http://www.taoofdemocracy.com and REFLECTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY ACTIVISM - http://evolutionaryactivism.com Please support our work. Your donations are fully tax-deductible. http://co-intelligence.org/donations.html ________________________________ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Open Government and Democracy
by Michel Bauwens 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Tiago Peixoto posted: "The International Budget Partnership (IBP) has recently released the results of the Open Budget Survey 2012, which measures “the state of budget transparency, participation and oversight in 100 countries around the world”. In the survey report, the author" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on *DemocracySpot* <http://democracyspot.net/author/tiagopeixoto/> Open Government and Democracy<http://democracyspot.net/2013/03/07/open-government-and-democracy/> by Tiago Peixoto <http://democracyspot.net/author/tiagopeixoto/> The International Budget Partnership (IBP) has recently released the results of the Open Budget Survey 2012<http://internationalbudget.org/what-we-do/open-budget-survey/>, which measures “the state of budget transparency, participation and oversight in 100 countries around the world”. In the survey report, the authors highlighted the positive relationship between budget transparency and democracy: A democratic political system is a significant factor that supports budget transparency (...) In fact, a switch from autocracy to democracy is typically associated with an improvement in a country’s OBI score by almost 20 points, after controlling for other variables. In addition, transparency seems to depend much more on current levels of democracy than on how long a country has been a democracy: for countries in transition, this means that rapid improvements in transparency can be achieved without having to wait for slow processes of learning and adaptation. This adds to a growing body of literature showing that democracies (and electoral competition) are indeed more transparent than other types of regime. If the relationship between democracy and openness comes across as obvious, it also opens space for some questions about the open government movement and its strategy to promote transparency. [image: Screen Shot 2013-03-07 at 00.42.12]<http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-world> Political Rights and Civil Liberties in 2013 - Freedom House Transparency, it seems, is one of the vital signs of well-functioning democracies. Chronic lack of transparency, on the other hand, emerges as the symptom of flawed democracies or authoritarian regimes. If this logic is correct (and the evidence suggests it is) advocating for transparency would correspond to treating the symptoms of a disease, rather than preventing it in the first place. This is not to say that promoting transparency reforms (e.g. open data, open budgets) is a useless act. Treating a symptom is not a problem in itself: it alleviates the pain and may even prevent further complications. But neglecting to treat the cause of the symptom is surely a bad practice. This begs a fundamental question: are open government advocates efficiently channelling their energy and resources when asking for more transparency from governments that have little or no inclination to democracy? Or are they failing to strike a balance which combines a focus on transparency with more fundamental reforms that promote, for instance, free, fair and competitive elections? Granted, transparency and democracy are mutually reinforcing: it is difficult to think of a democracy without informed consent. And even well-established democracies still have a long way to go towards more transparency. But, for instance, going as far as considering<http://www.quora.com/Does-open-government-require-a-democracy>that open government may blossom in non-democracies seems questionable to me. All the technology and transparency in the world is unlikely to realize its full potential in the absence of fundamental political rights and civil liberties. It might be time to start focusing on the role that political regimes play in promoting values that are dear to the open government movement, such as transparency, participation and collaboration. And democracy – or lack thereof – is the elephant in the room. *** Further reading *Alt, J. E., Lassen, D. D., & Rose, S. (2005). "The causes of ﬁscal transparency: Evidence from the US States." IMF Staﬀ Papers, 53(Special Issue), 30–57.<http://www.imf.org/external/np/res/seminars/2005/arc/pdf/alt.pdf> * Alt, J. E., & Lowry, R. C. (2010). "Transparency and accountability: Empirical results for US States." Journal of Theoretical Politics, 22(4), 379–406.<http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9468172/Alt_Transparency.pdf?seq…> Hollyer, J. R., Rosendorﬀ, B. P., & Vreeland, J. R. (2011). "Democracy and transparency." Journal of Politics, 73(4), 1191–1205.<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1750824> Rosendorff, B. Peter, and James Raymond Vreeland. (2004). “Democracy and Data Dissemination: The Effect of Political Regime on Transparency.” Working Paper, Yale. <http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jrv24/transparency.html> Rosendorff, B. Peter and Doces, John A. (2006). "Democracy and Transparency". Swiss Political Science Review, 12 (3), 99-112.<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1003053> Wehner, J. and de Renzio, P. (2013) "Citizens, Legislators, and Executive Disclosure: The Political Determinants of Fiscal Transparency." World Development, 41, 96-108. <http://personal.lse.ac.uk/wehner/obi.pdf> *Tiago Peixoto <http://democracyspot.net/author/tiagopeixoto/>* | March 7, 2013 at 12:44 pm | Categories: Budget Transparency<http://democracyspot.net/?cat=4450881>, democracy <http://democracyspot.net/?cat=43837>, elections<http://democracyspot.net/?cat=31174>, governance <http://democracyspot.net/?cat=16505>, Open Budgets<http://democracyspot.net/?cat=45013723>, Open Government <http://democracyspot.net/?cat=35173009>, transparency<http://democracyspot.net/?cat=636>| URL: http://wp.me/p2Hk8h-8a Comment<http://democracyspot.net/2013/03/07/open-government-and-democracy/#respond> See all comments<http://democracyspot.net/2013/03/07/open-government-and-democracy/#comments> Like<http://democracyspot.net/2013/03/07/open-government-and-democracy/?like_act…> Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions<https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=d89dc32c4a12fec349077fdd06f0d327&email…>. *Trouble clicking?* Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://democracyspot.net/2013/03/07/open-government-and-democracy/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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by robert searle 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

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Fwd: Call for Contributions for Technopolis: Smart Cities bk
by Michel Bauwens 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Provisional CFP, see below, proposals to be sent to daniel.araya(a)singularityu.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Araya <daniel.araya(a)singularityu.org> Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:22 PM Subject: Call for Contributions To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> *Technopolis: Smart Cities and Learning Ecologies in the Knowledge Economy* *Description* As cities grow in concentration and influence they are taking a central role in a global knowledge economy. By 2050, seventy percent of the world’s population will live in cities. Today there are already over 400 cities in the world with a population of more than one million people, and close to 20 cities with a population of more than 10 million. This remarkable urban growth has created vast policy and planning challenges related to infrastructure, governance and sustainability. With more political, economic, and technological importance than ever before, many leading cities have begun introducing “smart systems”. The concept of the smart city as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse in recent years. Despite its expanding influence, however, there is little consensus on the precise meaning of a “smart city”. One reason for this is that the term means different things to different disciplines. For some, the concept of the smart city refers to advances in sustainability and green technologies. While for others, it refers to the deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as next generation infrastructure. This edited volume focuses on a third strand in the discourse on smart cities, specifically public policy and social learning systems in a knowledge economy. What is the potential of smart cities to become platforms for bottom-up civic engagement in the context of next generation communication, data sharing, and application development? Through affordances in sensor technologies, data analysis, and urban design, new policies and planning have the potential to leverage newer and richer forms of democracy. Greenfield (2006), for example, proposes the idea of linking ubiquitous computing to “open public objects" that can facilitate new forms of citizen informatics. At the same time, smart technologies deployed in the design of smart cities should be evaluated in terms of the ways in which they enable (or curtail) new urban “literacies” and emergent social practices. What are the consequences of layering public spaces with computationally mediated technologies? Foucault’s notion of the “panopticon” (a metaphor for a “surveillance society”) illustrates the dangers inherent in *too much*governance. **** ** ** In conjunction with issues related to power grids, transportation networks and water distribution systems, there is a growing discussion on smart cities as ecosystems for cultural creativity and user-driven innovation. This edited volume is especially focused on exploring the potential of smart cities as “collaboratories” for democratization. This includes social practices and institutions that facilitate open innovation (Henry Chesbrough), commons-based peer production (Yochai Benkler), and collaborative consumption (Rachel Botsman). **** *Editor’s Biography* Daniel Araya is a Research Fellow in Learning and Innovation with the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). His research explores the confluence of public policy, technological innovation and learning. He is also a Research Associate with the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at the University of California and a Research Affiliate with the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. His newest books include: *Higher Education in the Global Age* (2013, Routledge), *The New Development Paradigm* (2013, Peter Lang), and *Education in the Creative Economy* (2010, Peter Lang). ** ** *Contributors* ** ** *Carlo Ratti* An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. As well as being a regular contributor to the architecture magazine Domus and the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, he has written for the BBC, La Stampa, Scientific American and The New York Times. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.**** * * *Juval Portugali* Juval Portugali is Professor of Human Geography at Tel-Aviv University. He is the Head of the Environmental Simulation Laboratory (ESLab) and of the Environment, Society and Planning Graduate Program of Tel Aviv University. He received his BA degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, did his MA studies at the Technion Haifa, and received a London University PhD from The London School of Economics and Political sciences. His research integrates complexity and self-organization theories, environmental-spatial cognition, urban dynamics and planning in modern and ancient periods. His publications include: *The Construction of Cognitive Maps*, Kluwer, 1996 (Ed.); *Self-Organization and the city*, Springer, 2000; *Complex Artificial Environments. Springer Complexity Series*, 2005 (Ed.); *Complexity, Cognition and the City*, Springer, Complexity Series 2011; *Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age*, Springer, Complexity Series 2012 (Ed.).**** *Bill Cope *Bill Cope is a Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an Adjunct Professor in the Globalism Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is also a director of Common Ground Publishing, developing and applying new publishing technologies. He is a former First Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in Australia. His current research interests include theories and practices of pedagogy, cultural and linguistic diversity, and new technologies of representation and communication. He is currently working on a project investigating the next generation of ‘semantic web’ technologies. *Mary Kalantzis* Mary Kalantzis is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before this, she was Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education. She has been a Board Member of Teaching Australia: The National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership, a Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee, Vice President of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia and a member of the Australia Council’s Community Cultural Development Board.**** ** ** *Michelle Selinger * Dr Michelle Selinger is the Director of Education Practice for the Global Public Sector practice of the Cisco System’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Her focus is primarily on education transformation in all areas of education and skills development. Prior to joining IBSG, she was the education strategist for Cisco’s social investments in education, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative. Michelle has extensive experience of working with governments and education bodies and institutions around the world in developing, developed and emerging economies on strategies for technology-enabled education reform. This includes a focus on the role of formal education systems in preparing the workforce of tomorrow. Michelle has an academic background and prior to joining Cisco, she was the director of the Centre for New Technologies Research in Education at the University of Warwick, UK, a research and multimedia centre dedicated to research and development in ICT. She has worked in traditional, distance, and online education in all sectors from primary schools to universities, as well as in vocational education and training. **** *Kevin Franklin *Kevin D. Franklin holds a Doctorate of Education in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco. He is the former Executive Director of the University of California System-wide Humanities Research Institute, and Deputy Director of the University of California San Diego, Supercomputer Center (SDSC). He is now Executive Director of the University of Illinois Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Franklin is co-chair of the HASS Research Group for the Open Grid Forum (OGF), and a member of the Worldwide University Network Grid Advisory Board (WUN). He leads a number of international research activities including the Advanced Research and Technology Collaborative for the Americas (ARTCA) which he co-founded in 2007. He is a Special Advisor to the Costa Rica-United States Foundation (CRUSA) and the Centro Nacional de Alta Technologia. In 2010, HPCwire named Franklin one of the top 12 people to watch in Supercomputing.**** ** ** *Fernando Hernandez* Fernando Hernandez is Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (ICHASS) at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and Professor Emeritus at the California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). During his tenure at CSULA he served as Department Chair and Assistant Dean of School and Community Affairs for the College of Education. He is a founding member of the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas, the Costa Rica Center for High Technology (CeNAT) and the Costa Rica United States Foundation (CRUSA). ** *Kevin Stolarick* Kevin is the Research Director at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He has held faculty positions at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and for over a decade worked with technology in the insurance industry as a manager of strategic projects. He has also worked as a researcher at the Heinz School's Software Center, one of the Sloan Industry research centers, and as a “special sworn researcher” the Census Data Research Center and a “deemed employee” at Statistics Canada.**** * * *Nigel Jacob* With an extensive background in collaborative, citizen-facing technology projects, Nigel Jacob co-founded the Office of New Urban Mechanics - a civic innovation incubator within Boston’s City Hall. He also serves as Mayor Menino's advisor on emerging technologies. In both of these roles, Nigel works to develop new models of innovation for cities in the 21st century. Prior to joining the City of Boston in 2006, Nigel worked for and launched a series of technology start-ups in the Boston area. In recognition of his work in Boston, Nigel was named a Public Official of the year in 2011 by Governing **** Magazine.**** ** ** *Michel Bauwens* Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with various researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has co-produced the 3-hour TV documentary Technocalyps with Frank Theys, and co-edited the two-volume book on anthropology of digital society with Salvino Salvaggio. He is currently Primavera Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and external expert at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008, 2012). Michel is a member of the Board of the Union of International Associations (Brussels), advisor to Shareable magazine (San Francisco) and to Zumbara Time Bank (Istanbul). He functions as the Chair of the Technology/ICT working group, Hangwa Forum (Beijing, Sichuan), to develop economic policies for long-term resilience, including through distributed manufacturing. He writes editorials for Al Jazeera English and is listed at #82, on the Post-Carbon Institute (En)Rich list.**** ** ** *Tarun Wadwa* Tarun Wadwa is a research fellow with Singularity University, where he studies digital identification systems and their impact on public distribution, banking and governance. He is also senior research associate with the Think India Foundation, where he analyzes the issues and challenges that India is facing due to urbanization and a researcher with the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory think tank focused on the intersection of technology trends and geopolitics. He is also on the Transparency and Privacy, and Cybercrime/Malware Advisory Boards for the Lifeboat Foundation. He is a contributor to Forbes, Singularity Hub, and The Huffington Post. His work has been published in several major media outlets and he has given talks at major universities, conferences and related events. **** ** ** ** ** - - - - - - - - - - Daniel Araya Research Fellow Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.danielaraya.com -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: You + the death and rebirth of Journalism (and democracy)?
by Michel Bauwens 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Atlee <cii(a)igc.org> http://www.realitysandwich.com/evolving_partner_state_ethical_economy? -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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MA in Social Media @ University of Westminster
by Christian Fuchs 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

MA in Social Media, University of Westminster Dear colleagues, The University of Westminster has announced a new MA in Social Media that is now open for application. The goal is that students acquire skills and knowledge for being critical and reflective social media experts in research and working life. If you know students or others, who are interested in social media or such a degree, then it were great if you could forward them the announcement. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/subjects/journalism-and-mass-communica… https://www.facebook.com/MASocialMedia If they have further questions, they can contact either me or my fellow Course Leader, Prof. Graham Meikle (g.meikle(a)westminster.ac.uk) Best, Christian Fuchs -- Christian Fuchs Professor of Social Media University of Westminster Communication and Media Research Institute c.fuchs(a)westminster.ac.uk Tel +44 (0) 20 7911 5000-7380 http://fuchs.uti.at

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Fwd: change how we organise. change the world.
by Michel Bauwens 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liam Barrington-Bush <liam(a)concretesolutions.org.uk> Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:21 PM Subject: change how we organise. change the world. To: David <happyseaurchin(a)gmail.com> ** Want your organisation to be more like people? You can help this book to see the light of day! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=30e4fddeac0f0c81451f69653&id=3dfa8440c9…>. Welcome to The MoreLikePeoplist! *(Not sure you should be here? The footer will explain why you are and how to unsubscribe.)* The crowd-funding campaign to publish my recently finished book, ‘Anarchists in the Boardroom: How social media and social movements can help your organisation to be more like people’ has just gone live and the response has been amazing! *Almost $700 has been pledged to help this project see the light of day and it's only been live for a few hours!* 'Anarchists in the Boardroom' wants to change how we organise for good in the world. *Pledge now to make sure the book gets published!*<http://concretesolutions.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=30e4fddeac0f0c8…> For too long, voluntary sector, NGO, community organisations and social enterprises have unquestioningly adopted the organising structures of industrialism, even when these approaches have been at odds with the values they are trying to create in the world. As the 21st Century rolled-around, this incompatibility become all-the-more stark, as not only were our organisational structures at odds with our values, they were also not very effective at navigating the networked, social world we have found ourselves in. Anarchists in the Boardroom looks to the organising patterns found on social media, and the practices of so many recent social movements (from Occupy, to the Arab Spring) and lays the foundations for a journey from the past to the future of organising for good. But it won’t see the light of day without your support If the campaign is to take off, *it will need those of you who have some experience of the importance of these ideas to stand up, chip in and spread the word.* If money is short, tell a friend or two about the campaign. 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