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by Örsan Şenalp 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Google's CEO's evil ideas.. Types of enforced bargaining conversation on Assange - http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/5222

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Call for Papers, Final Symposium of the ADAM project (October 2-3, 2014, Paris)
by Francesca Musiani 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Dear colleagues, this Call for Papers may be of interest to some of you. We are looking forward to receiving your proposals! Kind regards Francesca *Call for Papers, Final Symposium of the ADAM project** - **October 2-3, 2014, MINES ParisTech (Paris, France)* *<< Reclaiming the Internet >> with distributed architectures:** rights, technologies, practices, innovation* The research program ADAM (Distributed Architectures and Multimedia Applications, adam.hypotheses.org) studies the technical, political, social, socio-cultural and legal implications of distributed network architectures. We invite paper proposals for the ADAM final symposium, in French and/or English, in the form of a 500 to 800 word abstract. Read the full Call for Papers here: http://adam.hypotheses.org/1939 -- *Appel à communications pour le colloque final du projet ADAM* 2-3 octobre 2014, MINES ParisTech *Architectures distribuées et réappropriations de l'Internet :** droits, techniques, usages, innovation* Le programme de recherche *ADAM - Architecture distribuée et applications multimédias *(adam.hypotheses.org) étudie les implications techniques, politiques, sociales, socio-culturelles et légales des architectures de réseau distribuées. Nous sollicitons des propositions de communication pour le colloque final du projet, en français et/ou en anglais, sous la forme d'un résumé de 500-800 mots. Lisez l'appel à communications dans son intégralité: http://adam.hypotheses.org/1937 *ADAM Project Team and Program Committee/* *Equipe du projet ADAM et comité de programme* Maya Bacache, Département SES, Télécom ParisTech Danièle Bourcier, CERSA, CNRS Primavera De Filippi, CERSA, CNRS Isabelle Demeure, INFRES, Télécom ParisTech Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, ISCC, CNRS Annie Gentès, CoDesign Lab, Télécom ParisTech François Huguet, CoDesign Lab, Télécom ParisTech Alexandre Mallard, CSI, MINES ParisTech Cécile Méadel, CSI, MINES ParisTech Francesca Musiani, CSI, MINES ParisTech -- Francesca Musiani Postdoctoral researcher Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/> MINES ParisTech 60, Boulevard Saint-Michel 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France Co-Chair, ESN-IAMCR <http://iamcr.org/s-wg/cctmc/esn> | Outreach officer, GigaNet <http://giga-net.org> Projet ANR ADAM - Architectures distribuées et applications multimédias<http://adam.hypotheses.org/> Internet Policy Review @ HIIG Berlin <http://policyreview.info/> Personal website <http://www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/People/musiani/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!
by Christian Fuchs 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

The information society, the Internet and the media are today largely controlled by large corporations such as Google and Facebook and a state-industrial complex. The control mechanisms unveiled by Edward Snowden, the closure of and attack against public service media, repression against critcal journalists, online platforms and activists, and a highly centralised Internet and media economy are characteristic for this situation. We live in an unfree information society with limits to expression and an unfree Internet. Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression Declaration that demands a free Internet, free media and a free information society! The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression Sign: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_Declaration_on_Freedom… More information and videos of talks from the Freedom of Information Conference: http://freedom-of-information.info/ https://www.youtube.com/user/transformeurope/feed ----------------------- The 2014 Vienna Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression This petition can be signed online at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/The_2014_Vienna_Declaration_on_Freedom… We, the speakers of the Vienna 2014 International Conference “Freedom of Information Under Pressure. Control – Crisis – Culture” (comprised of international academics, media practitioners, librarians, experts of open culture and public space, activists, critical citizens, lawyers and policy makers), sign the following Declaration on Freedom of Information and Expression: Having met in Vienna of Austria on 28 February and 1 March 2014 and having discussed the challenges of freedom of information in the light of the recent surveillance revelations and the increase in censorship and prosecutions of media, journalists and whistle-blowers in Europe and beyond, we express our deep concern and appeal for public vigilance to defend freedom of information and expression as key democratic rights. We consider Edward Snowden’s revelations as a wake up call. His story is not about one man leaking classified information; rather it is about privacy, civil liberties, power and democracy. But also about the future of the Internet itself, the nature of democratic oversight - and much more. We condemn the existence of a surveillance-industrial complex, in which the American, British and other European states’ intelligence services conduct mass surveillance of the Internet, social media, mobile and landline telephones, in co-operation with communications corporations such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Skype, Yahoo!, Aol as well as private security firms. We express our solidarity and support to whistle-blowers, journalists and organisations, including Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian and others, for their efforts towards fostering transparency and public accountability. We denounce their oppression and prosecution that we consider as a major threat to freedom of information. We observe a great paradox of the media in the 21st century: although more people than ever have the means to express themselves freely, there are huge power asymmetries that favour corporate and state control of the media: journalists in Europe and many other regions face an alarming increase in violent attacks, intimidation, legal threats and other restrictions on their work. Among the important factors of this paradox are the growth of anti-terrorism laws and new nationalisms, the fusion of political, economic and media power, and the weakening of the authority of critical and high-quality media, including independent media, investigative journalism and public service media. Furthermore, the Internet and social media are largely controlled by corporations and there is not enough material support for alternative Internet and media projects. This mix seems to represent an existential challenge to critical media, independent journalism and to the established framework of international laws and safeguards for press freedom and the freedoms of expression, speech, information and opinion. We point out that the current crisis and austerity policies have a serious negative effect on important democratic freedoms. The official political reactions to the crisis have given grounds for the further centralisation of corporate, state and media power that undermine the freedom of information and further the prosecutions of citizens, activists, journalists and the media. We particularly condemn attempts to limit or close down critical, independent and public service media. The Greek government’s closure of the public service broadcaster ERT is in this respect a particularly alarming development. We stress that under the conditions of corporatisation and bureaucratisation, the potentials created by access to information and public knowledge are hampered. In many countries and at a transnational level we lack adequate laws for the transparency of corporate and state power and citizens’ access to information about it in order to hold those in power accountable. A particularly alarming development of the limitation of freedom of information can be found in the world of libraries: large corporate publishers tend to license access to academic and literary works only in expensive bundles and make the access to easy-to-use e-books difficult and expensive. The result is a limit of public access to cultural works so that people have more and more to rely on purchasing books and articles, which is a matter of purchasing power that disadvantages many citizens. The corporate power of publishing houses thereby limits the public’s right to inform itself. We consider that the right of access to information can promote citizens’ civic and political participation by raising their levels of trust in political and policy-making institutions, while it can fight phenomena such as lobbying and corruption. Open access to public and digitised knowledge and scholarly research is also crucial for the continuous education of the broader public and professionals, the promotion of cultural production and diversity and the preservation of the historic and collective memory. New social media, libraries and archives can and should play an important role in this field. We are convinced that freedom of information is a value worth struggling for and that the current framework and developments strongly threaten freedom, democracy and basic civil liberties. A free culture, a free economy of information and a free polity of information are possible! First signees: Antonis Broumas (Attorney at law, Digital Liberation Network, Greece) Arne Hintz (Lecturer, University of Cardiff, UK) Augustine Zenakos (Journalist, UNFOLLOW magazine, Greece) Barbara Trionfi (Press Freedom Manager, International Press Institute) Christian Fuchs (Professor of Social Media, University of Westminster, UK) Dimitris Tsapogas (Researcher, University of Vienna, Austria) Gerfried Sperl (Journalist, PHOENIX, Austria) Gill Phillips (Director of Editorial Legal Service, The Guardian, United Kingdom) Joachim Losehand (Scholar, VIBE!at, Austria) Kostas Arvanitis (Journalist and Director, Sto Kokkino Radio, Greece) Kostas Efimeros (Publisher, The Press Project, Greece) Lisa Schilhan (VÖB, University of Graz, Austria) Mariniki Alevizopoulou (Journalist, UNFOLLOW magazine, Greece) Minas Samatas (Professor, University of Crete, Greece) Miyase Christensen (Professor, Stockholm University, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, London School of Economics, UK) Nikolaus Hamann (Vienna Public Libraries, KRIBIBI, Austria) Paloma Fernández de la Hoz (Catholic Social Academy, Austria)

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Fwd: [members] academic torrents
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karthik Iyer <karthix(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:19 AM Subject: [members] academic torrents To: P2PValue Project Members List <members(a)lists.p2pvalue.eu> www.mysciencework.com/news/11123/academic-torrents-bringing-p2p-technology-… this is the website for the tool( trackers ) : http://academictorrents.com/about.php -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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: [opennetcoalition] Net Neutrality: A Great Step Forward for the Free Internet!
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <contact(a)laquadrature.net> Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:24 AM Subject: [opennetcoalition] Net Neutrality: A Great Step Forward for the Free Internet! To: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net Themes: NET NEUTRALITY, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, EUROPEAN SINGLE MARKET FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, FIRST READING, PILAR DEL CASTILLO VERA, NEELIE KROES La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-a-great-step-forward-for-the… Net Neutrality: A Great Step Forward for the Free Internet! *** Brussels, 3 April 2014 -- Today the European Parliament adopted in first reading the Regulation on the Single Telecoms Market [1]. By amending the text with the proposal of amendments [2] made by the Social-Democrats (S&D), Greens (Greens/EFA), United Left (GUE/NGL) and Liberals (ALDE), the Members of the European Parliament took a historic step for the protection of Net Neutrality and the Internet commons in the European Union. La Quadrature du Net warmly thanks all citizens, organisations and parliamentarians who took part in this campaign, and calls on them to remain mobilised for the rest of the legislative procedure. *** After years of inaction and only a few months before the end of her term in office, EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes [3] presented a proposal for the regulation of the Telecom Single Market in Europe in September 2013. Although it claimed to contain a real defence of Net Neutrality, it in fact introduced a version of the principle that stripped it of all real meaning. Despite much criticism [4], Kroes rushed [5] the adoption by the European Parliament so that it could be voted before the European elections [6] of May 2014. This positive vote is the direct result of a very strong citizen mobilisation [7] and the constructive work of Amelia Andersdotter (Greens/EFA - SE), Catherine Trautmann (S&D - FR), Petra Kammerevert (S&D - DE) and Marietje Schaake (ALDE - NL). The adopted text contains a rigorous definition of Net Neutrality and grants it a normative scope [8]. While allowing telecom operators to develop offers of Internet access with a quality of service optimised for specific applications that could not run effectively on the so-called "best-effort" Internet, this text provides a good framework for "specialised services" that ensures non-discrimination between the providers of such applications [9]. Even if some amendments that aimed to give the text greater coherence and clarity or lay out stronger enforcement mechanisms were not adopted, the text passed today represents a clear victory for the protection of the free Internet. This is especially true in comparison of Neelie Kroes' original proposal. La Quadrature du Net warmly thanks all citizens and organisations who took part in this campaign for Net Neutrality, as well as the MEPs who fought hard for the free Internet in the last days of their mandate. In the coming weeks, as the legislative procedure on the regulation will proceed to its next phase, we must maintain the greatest vigilance. It is now to the Council of the European Union (which, along with the European Parliament, is the EU co-legislator), to deliberate next 5 and 6 juin of this year. As national governments are easily influenced by dominant telecom groups, continued public interest and mobilisation is now necessary to ensure that the improvements to the text achieved today are not dismantled [10]. "Today's victory on Net neutrality is the most important one for the protection of freedom online in Europe since the rejection of ACTA in July 2012. The EU Parliament made clear that the Internet commons should be free of corporate capture, and remain a space where freedom of communication and innovation can thrive. We warmly thank all organisations, citizens, and members of the EU Parliament who worked to achieve this result. We should now all remain watchful for the remainder of the procedure, as the text now goes to the EU Council where many national governments will seek to undermine Net neutrality provisions so as to please their homegrown telecom oligopolies. Even though we won today, the fight for the free Internet continues!" concluded Félix Tréguer, co-founder of the advocacy group La Quadrature du Net. * References * 1. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A7-… 2. https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/Voting_List_1st_Plenary_Net_Neutrality 3. Neelie Kroes is the European Commissioner for "Digital Agenda". In the months following her appointment as Commissioner in 2010, her position on the question of Net Neutrality evolved from unmitigated support to an alignement with the demands of telecom operators' lobbies. 4. A leaked criticism of a draft by Viviane Reding's services says for example that "such limited possibilities of accessing Internet content and services of their choice would run counter to the stated objectives of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.": http://www.edri.org/NN-negativeopinions The European Data Protection Supervisor wrote in a press release published on 15 November that Neelie Kroes' proposal voids the principle of Net Neutrality "of substance" "because of the almost unlimited right of providers to manage Internet traffic". 5. https://www.laquadrature.net/en/kroes-unacceptable-anti-net-neutrality-law-… 6. http://wepromise.eu/ 7. The number of phone calls to MEPs for this vote even surpassed the one for the final vote on ACTA in 2012. 8. See articles 2.14, 23.1 and paragraph 1. 9. See articles 2.15 and 23.2. 10. For instance, only a few hours before today's vote, the French government joined the corporate lobbies to support a definition of "specialised services" that is incompatible with a real definition of Net Neutrality an the principle of non-discrimiation. This provides an idea of what will be the forces at work in the Council. It is therefore essential not to let this topic leave the public eye and collectively remind national governments of where the public interest lies in the Net Neutrality debate: http://www.laquadrature.net/fr/pcinpact-neutralite-du-net-la-france-plaide-… ** About La Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net ** Press contact and press room ** contact(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0) 972 294 426 https://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room _______________________________________________ Opennetcoalition mailing list Opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net https://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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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From the Communism of Capital to a Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism
by Vasilis Kostakis 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

A few contradictions, a paradox, a critique and an alternative regarding the future of the Commons-oriented economies. This might be of interest: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/561 *Abstract: * Two prominent social progressive movements are faced with a few contradictions and a paradox. On the one side, we have a re-emergence of the co-operative movement and worker-owned enterprises which suffer from certain structural weaknesses. On the other, we have an emergent field of open and Commons-oriented peer production initiatives which create common pools of knowledge for the whole of humanity, but are dominated by start-ups and large multinational enterprises using the same Commons. Thus we have a paradox: the more communist the sharing license used in the peer production of free software or open hardware, the more capitalist the practice. To tackle this paradox and the aforementioned contradictions, we tentatively suggest a new convergence that would combine both Commons-oriented open peer production models with common ownership and governance models, such as those of the co-operatives and the solidarity economic models. -- Dr. Vasilis Kostakis Research Fellow Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance Research Director P2P Lab: http://p2plab.org

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Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Mass Surveillance: French Spooks and Telcos Hand in Hand
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <contact(a)laquadrature.net> Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:11 PM Subject: [fcf_discussion] Mass Surveillance: French Spooks and Telcos Hand in Hand To: fcforum_discussion(a)list.fcforum.net Themes: SURVEILLANCE, PRIVACY, ORANGE, FRENCH INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, LUSTRE, EDWARD SNOWDEN, SAFE HARBOR La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/mass-surveillance-french-spooks-and-telcos-… Mass Surveillance: French Spooks and Telcos Hand in Hand *** Paris, 24 March 2014 -- Since May 2013, consecutive revelations have increasingly exposed the extent and severity of the extralegal surveillance activities conducted by French authorities. It is time for the French government to break its deafening silence on this issue and allow for an open and democratic debate on the extent of its surveillance practices. This is all the more important following the "Loi de programmation militaire" [1] and these recent revelations [2] regarding the cooperation of network operator Orange with French intelligence services. France must make it a priority to revise its current legislation in order to respect international law on privacy. *** In the 21 March article "Espionnage : comment Orange et les services secrets coopèrent" (Espionage: How Orange and the secret services cooperate), the French newspaper Le Monde sheds more light on the Internet surveillance practices of French authorities exposed by documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The article [3] details the collaboration between Orange and the French external intelligence service (DGSE), which was granted "unobstructed and complete access to its network and the data passing through it" outside any legal framework and without court oversight. This follows previous revelations of the massive data transfer between the French intelligence services and the US American National Security Agency (NSA), codenamed Lustre [4], and of the collaboration of Alcatel-Lucent, Amesys and other companies in putting in place an international system of data collection [5] directly from the Internet backbone. The feebleness of reactions by French politicians to these revelations reflects their astonishing hypocrisy. President François Hollande's political overtures have been empty, demanding unsuccessfully a US-EU no-spy agreement to limit eaves-dropping on political leaders and supporting Angela Merkle's call for a "European Internet". In the same time, Hollande refused to advocate for measures that would be effective in protecting the personal data of European citizens, such as the suspension of the EU-US Safe Harbor [6] agreement proposed by the European Parliament [7]. The government's political spin [8] advertising its actions on digital matters should not fool anyone: The proposed bill on "digital freedoms" announced [9] a year ago, is likely to be mostly repressive in nature (the word "freedom" seems to have been dropped from the bill's title), while Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault is promoting harmful policies on e-mail encryption [10]. What is more, French political leaders have granted themselves unprecedented surveillance powers via the scandalous "Loi de programmation militaire" [1] and refused to participate in the European Parliament Inquiry into the Snowden revelations [11]. "For months now, revelations have been met with the deafening silence of the French administration, which is trying to escape any debate on Internet mass surveillance. In view of the mounting evidence that surveillance has gone out of control, the government must face public scrutiny. The moment has come for all institutional actors - be it François Hollande, the government, the parliament, the judiciary or even the data protection authority - to finally face their duties to put an end to these serious breaches of fundamental rights and hold their perpetrators accountable", declared Felix Tréguer, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net. "Beyond the necessary debate on Internet surveillance and the sovereignty of our infrastructure, only through the use of free and open software, end-to-end encryption and decentralised services will it be possible to regain control over our communications. France must also reform current legal provisions on surveillance to conform to international law [12] and establish adequate oversight of intelligence services", concluded Benjamin Sonntag, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net. * References * 1. https://www.laquadrature.net/en/final-adoption-of-generalised-surveillance-… 2. http://www.laquadrature.net/en/rt-snowden-leak-shows-french-telecom-giant-c… 3. http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2014/03/20/dgse-orange-des-liai… 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_%28treaty%29 5. http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/10/21/france-in-the-nsa-s-c… 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Privacy_Principles 7. https://www.laquadrature.net/en/european-commission-must-listen-to-parliame… 8. http://www.pcinpact.com/news/86409-l-executif-prepare-offensive-communicati… 9. http://www.lesechos.fr/entreprises-secteurs/tech-medias/actu/0203381114149-… 10. http://www.numerama.com/magazine/28502-les-e-mails-de-france-seront-chiffre… 11. The report by the Committee Inquiry, adopted 12 March, indicates that "the British and French Parliament have declined participation" and lists both director generals of Internal and of External Security (DGSE and DGRI) as having declined to participate: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A7-… 12. https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text ** About La Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net ** Press contact and press room ** contact(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0) 972 294 426 https://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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: "Neo-Ayllu" ? - South America / Andes - self-governance of original nations
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:13 PM Subject: "Neo-Ayllu" ? - South America / Andes - self-governance of original nations To: "econowmix(a)googlegroups.com" <econowmix(a)googlegroups.com> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayllu Renouveau Actuellement, cette forme d'organisation sociale et politique reprend de l'importance dans de nombreuses communautés autochtones, tout particulièrement en Bolivie. À titre d'exemple, l'influence grandissante du Conseil National des Ayllus et Markas du Qullasuyu (CONAMAQ) sur la scène politique de Bolivie en est une bonne illustration3<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayllu#cite_note-test-3> . // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Ayllus_and_Markas_of_Qulla… National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu CONAMAQ was founded on March 22, 1997, with the purpose of restoring the self-governance of "original nations" including "collective rights to land and natural resources, re-definition of administrative units and self-determination exercised through indigenous autonomies and direct representation in state institutions."[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Ayllus_and_Markas_of_Qulla…> CONAMAQ is a member of the National Coordination for Change<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coordination_for_Change>, and of the Andean Coordination of Indigenous Organizations. It was a member of the Pact of Unity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pact_of_Unity> in Bolivia from its founding until December 2011.[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_Ayllus_and_Markas_of_Qulla…> -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Michel Bauwens 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Week <dew(a)assai.com.au> Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:05 PM Subject: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net>, Anna Cicognani < annacico(a)gmail.com>, Michi Bier <pach(a)entelchile.net> Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7468.html The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Marginal-Cost-Society-Collaborative/dp/1137278463 QUOTE In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism. Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has propelled it to greatness but is now taking it to its death--the inherent entrepreneurial dynamism of competitive markets that drives productivity up and marginal costs down, enabling businesses to reduce the price of their goods and services in order to win over consumers and market share. (Marginal cost is the cost of producing additional units of a good or service, if fixed costs are not counted.) While economists have always welcomed a reduction in marginal cost, they never anticipated the possibility of a technological revolution that might bring marginal costs to near zero, making goods and services priceless, nearly free, and abundant, and no longer subject to market forces. *David comments: Really? Rifkin uncovered this paradox? Marx must be spinning in his grave.* Now, a formidable new technology infrastructure--the Internet of things (IoT)--is emerging with the potential of pushing large segments of economic life to near zero marginal cost in the years ahead. Rifkin describes how the Communication Internet is converging with a nascent Energy Internet and Logistics Internet to create a new technology platform that connects everything and everyone. Billions of sensors are being attached to natural resources, production lines, the electricity grid, logistics networks, recycling flows, and implanted in homes, offices, stores, vehicles, and even human beings, feeding Big Data into an IoT global neural network. Prosumers can connect to the network and use Big Data, analytics, and algorithms to accelerate efficiency, dramatically increase productivity, and lower the marginal cost of producing and sharing a wide range of products and services to near zero, just like they now do with information goods. The plummeting of marginal costs is spawning a hybrid economy--part capitalist market and part Collaborative Commons--with far reaching implications for society, according to Rifkin. Hundreds of millions of people are already transferring parts of their economic lives to the global Collaborative Commons. Prosumers are plugging into the fledgling IoT and making and sharing their own information, entertainment, green energy, and 3D-printed products at near zero marginal cost. They are also sharing cars, homes, clothes and other items via social media sites, rentals, redistribution clubs, and cooperatives at low or near zero marginal cost. Students are enrolling in free massive open online courses (MOOCs) that operate at near zero marginal cost. Social entrepreneurs are even bypassing the banking establishment and using crowdfunding to finance startup businesses as well as creating alternative currencies in the fledgling sharing economy. In this new world, social capital is as important as financial capital, access trumps ownership, sustainability supersedes consumerism, cooperation ousts competition, and "exchange value" in the capitalist marketplace is increasingly replaced by "sharable value" on the Collaborative Commons. Rifkin concludes that capitalism will remain with us, albeit in an increasingly streamlined role, primarily as an aggregator of network services and solutions, allowing it to flourish as a powerful niche player in the coming era. We are, however, says Rifkin, entering a world beyond markets where we are learning how to live together in an increasingly interdependent global Collaborative Commons. -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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 Value Networks from an economic perspective
by Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

This is a simple presentation that wants to show the difficulties that arise when someone wants to fulfill the promises that the Open Value Network makes. https://www.sharelatex.com/project/533c08c51f4ffa391dd2f772 Feel free to comment. -- Sincerely yours, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis

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