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cfr new bk by Michael Chorost to lecture at Duke, March 14
by Michel Bauwens 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nancy Holliman <nancy.holliman(a)duke.edu> Date: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:35 PM Subject: Save the date: Michael Chorost to lecture at Duke, March 14 To: Hastac <hastac(a)duke.edu> *"Michael Chorost is not only a clear and concise science writer, but also a visionary." --New York Times, 2/14/2011* * * Dear colleagues: HASTAC is pleased to announce a return visit by the lively, thought-provoking and influential science writer and futurist, Michael Chorost, on *March 14, 2011 from 12-1 pm* in Bay 4, Room C105 of the Smith Warehouse at Duke University. Lunch will be provided. Chorost will read from his new book,* Word Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet*. His first book, *Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human* depicts and analyzes his experience with hearing loss and his decision to get a cochlear implant<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/cochlear-implant/overv…> in 2001. The *Times* writes: "In that eloquent and thoughtful book, [Chorost] refers to himself as a cyborg: He has a computer in his skull, which, along with a second implant three years ago, artificially restores his hearing." In *World Wide Mind*, Chorost takes this idea a step further to explore the possibilities and implications of integrating humans and computers, outlining how brain implants could "read" from and "write" to the human brain to create sensory and emotional forms of communication. Brand-new neural technologies like optogenetics have made this conceptually feasible. They could lead to the emergence of a *World Wide Mind*, a new form of intelligence composed of people and machines working together. Sparkling, accessible, and dryly funny, Chorost's book offers a provocative take on the future of the Internet and humanity. The reading will be immediately followed by a Q&A and discussion led by students in Cathy Davidson's courses, "This is Your Brain on the Internet" and "Twenty-first Century Literacies." Any and all are welcome to linger and to participate in the discussion (also held in Room C105, from 1:00-2:30). We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting lecture! The book will be available for purchase and the author will sign copies after the event. Sincerely, The HASTAC Team at Duke University *Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory* www.hastac.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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new facebook page
by Michel Bauwens 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Dear friends, just discovered this, http://es-la.facebook.com/pages/Michel-Bauwens/143137875703604, and not sure who initiatied it? in any case, thanks for eventually 'liking' it, Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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Fwd: [P2P-URBANISM WA] Call for applications - Editorial Board - Journal of Biourbanism
by Michel Bauwens 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alessia Cerqua <alessia.cerqua(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:04 PM Subject: [P2P-URBANISM WA] Call for applications - Editorial Board - Journal of Biourbanism To: p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com The *International Society of Biourbanism* (ISB) invites applications from members to form a new Editorial Board. The Editorial Board will work on a voluntary basis and consist of the managing editor, the editor of the website, and the appointed members. The Board will develop the publications strategy, content, and vision of the ISB's different publications (Journal of Biourbanism, newsletter, web). It will guarantee the disciplinary, thematic, and geographic diversity and outreach as well as the scholarly excellence of ISB publications. Members should be available to participate actively and be committed to close collaboration, both in order to define the content and profile of the publications as well as to perform executive tasks related to the publications. Members should be well connected in their field(s) of expertise. The first priorities of the Board will be to initiate the publication of the Journal of Biourbanism, and to assist the development of the website. The call for application is open to all ISB members. Applications should consist of a CV and a covering letter specifying the candidate's appropriate skills and qualities. Applications should be emailed to Journal of Biourbanism, JBU(a)biourbanism.org, and received no later than 31st March 2011. The search committee will appoint the members of the Board by the end of April 2011. It will ensure that board members have diverse and complementary qualifications and backgrounds and that the composition of the Board guarantees an outlook beyond the traditional centers of International academia. Applications should be emailed to: Journal of Biourbanism: JBU(a)biourbanism.org Web: www.biourbanism.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "P2P-Urbanism World Atlas" group. to register to the group http://cityleft.blogspot.com/ To post to this group, send email to p2p-urbanism-world-atlas(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/p2p-urbanism-world-atlas?hl=en -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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Article : Egypt Takes a Step Back From IMF Ways
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

http://www.truth-out.org/egypt-takes-a-step-back-from-imf-ways67925 Egypt Takes a Step Back From IMF Ways Saturday 20 February 2010 by: Emad Mekay | *Inter Press Service | Report*<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54544> Cairo - Egypt could soon be looking for a new economic model – one that will be different from the traditional system that has been promoted for years by international financial institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the reign of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. "Lots of Egyptians after the revolution realized the level of injustice against them, and that they were being ripped off for many years," Abulezz Al-Hariri, a former opposition member of parliament, told IPS. "They started asking for their rights," he added. "This cabinet is just trying to cater to that immediate realization." Since the mid 1980’s, the World Bank, the IMF, and USAID have sought to encourage policies that limit the role of government in the economy, cut budget deficits, and give more influence to the private sector and corporations. Under pressure from the public following the success of the January revolution, the government of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq - originally appointed by Mubarak but kept by the military to run the everyday affairs until new elections are held - quickly rolled back some of the controversial policies. Many of the moves announced over the past few days are designed to be a quick fix to the economic situation faced by millions of Egyptians who are eager to enjoy concrete benefits of the 18-day revolution in which 365 protesters died. The new government has announced that all citizens are eligible to apply for monthly portions of sugar, cooking oil, and rice. The previous cabinet, which was comprised of businessmen and former corporate executives, had frozen the rations. This decision overturned the previous policy of providing monthly rations only to those who prove they are poor through a lengthy process of paperwork and red tape. Last week, new finance minister Samir Radwan said that the country will not change its current subsidies system, which offers reduced food prices for some 65 million Egyptians. Furthermore, the new government promised to offset any extra cost in food prices that might accompany rising prices internationally. Radwan put the initial cost at 2.8 billion Egyptian pounds (about 425 million dollars). Under the new policies, the health ministry will offer free health care 24 hours a day at public hospitals. Days before the Jan. 25 revolution, the Mubarak regime had limited free health care hours from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm. Temporary workers who have spent at least three years working for the government will now be given permanent contracts that carry higher salaries, and benefits such as pension plans, and health and social insurance. Many municipalities also saw long lines of applicants after the interim government said that it will offer subsidized housing for young people on an expedited basis. And on Wednesday, the Central Bank of Egypt said it will be a "guarantor" to achieve the demands of banking sector employees, which include curbing top management compensation packages and salaries as well as offering greater benefits for employees. But while the new measures remain limited, their implementation has raised questions about whether Egypt may be heading back to its strong socialist past, which flourished under the rule of former president Gamal Abdelnasser, who ran the country in 1950’s and 1960’s. Some officials say that the new programmes constitute an initial reaction from a team known for its pro-capitalist background and are only temporary. "We are not moving back to a socialist past," Amina Ghanem, deputy finance minister, told IPS. "We are just trying to extinguish fires." "We are not going to lose our reforms," said Ghanem, who was also deputy to outgoing finance minister Youssef Botrous Ghali. "We want people to work and not take charity from the government." For measures already announced, the interim government will find funding by re-allocating spending to more high-priority areas, rather than re-making the Egyptian economy, she said. "Instead of spending now on, say, for example, landscaping, we’ll re-channel that money to more urgent needs," she explained. Al-Hariri, a member of the left-of-centre Tagammu Party, agreed that the current interim government is not taking a U-turn away from capitalist policies inspired by Western financial institutions. "Their measures are just like tranquilizers; something to kill the pain but not cure anything," he said. Al-Hariri added that past policies under Mubarak were not effective and that any future government should find an alternative. He recommended long- term plans to create more jobs, and what he called "real industries" and "real investments". Confiscating wealth looted by cronies of the former regime, more egalitarian distribution of wealth, gradual taxation, better government oversight, and placing "a reasonable ceiling" on profitability of goods and services sold to the public are among the measures that should restore an economic balance to society, he said. Mamdouh Al-Wali, a business writer with the Al-Ahram Daily newspaper, said Egypt’s path towards a new economic direction will be fraught with dangers from deeply-rooted interests, such as businesses, former regime symbols, and international financial institutions. "A future new government, even though elected, may not be able to resist all that counter-pressure," he told IPS. "The change will be hard."

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Gli arabi e la rivoluzione dal basso
by Bertram Maria Niessen 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

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Fwd: <nettime> Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks
by Michel Bauwens 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

thanks DAnte, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:43 PM Subject: Fwd: <nettime> Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:13 AM Subject: <nettime> Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks To: nettime-l(a)kein.org The exploits of Anonymous to hack the systems of firms providing spying services to governments and corporations suggest that the WikiLeaks mini-era has been surpassed. Much of WikiLeaks promise to protect sources is useless if the sources are not whistleblowers needing a forum for publication. Instead publishers of secret information grab it directly for posting to Torrent for anybody to access without mediation and mark-up by self-esteemed peddlers of protection, interpretationa and authentication, including media cum scholars. Arstechnica descriptions of the how the Anonymous hack are the best reading of Internet derring-do yet and far exceeds the much simpler version of WikiLeaks carefully bruited as if precious but is not according to Daniel Domscheit-Berg's revelations. AnonLeaks.ru is a remarkable advance of WikiLeaks. And promises much more by the same means and methods most associated with official spies -- NSA and CIA run the Special Collections Service to do exactly that kind of criminal aggression, along with black bag burglaries, surveillance and bugging. Contractors hiring ex-spies do much of this highly classified work as well and invent and supply the gadgets and front organizations required. Not least of importance of the Anonymous hack and the many preceding it is the revelation of how commercial firms have been exploiting public ignorance of their spying capacity. That they are themselves vulnerable is a surprise to them, as it must be to those who hire them and, in the case of governments, provide legal cover for criminal actions. This is not news, to be sure, for it has been alleged and reported on for decades but mostly in technical journals and conferences where offerers strut their malwares to buyers of perfidium. Imagine that instead of the many iterations of Wikileaks now appearing to receive and publish documents, that more of the Anonymous-type hacks simply steal the family jewels of the spies, officials, lobbyists and corporations believing they own the territory in order to show the extent of their secret predations on the public. The digitization of vast archives of government, commercial and non-governmental organizations to facilitate their hegemony provides a bounty to be hacked repeatedly despite attempts to prevent it by vainly inept cybersecurity agencies and firms. The cyber officials yell, hit the Internet Switch. Too late, too late. Anonymous controls the switch. Sure, Anonymous can be compromised with sufficient hostile and friendly inducements, but so can the predators, perhaps moreso the latter. I like that venerable Anonymous and the promise it offers as the Nymous authoritatives of secrecy frantically attempt to ban its privilege. For the WL era dutifully enshrine Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, give them Medals of Freedom as icons of what led to the rise of Unnamables worldwide. I commend Ketih for that unbreakable domain name. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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please note hijacking of our address ...
by Michel Bauwens 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

http://p2p.foundation.net/Category:Peergovernance -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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Fwd: FUNDING p2p movements
by Michel Bauwens 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-well-fund-21st-century Dear friends, thanks for helping the above fundraising campaign, and to facebook/twitter it as well, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Suresh Fernando <suresh2323(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:39 AM Subject: Re: FUNDING p2p movements To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Here it is... http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-well-fund-21st-century It would be great if you can get this message out! We still have a long way to go... On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Suresh, > > feel free to also publish this on our ning blog, and we'll push it from > there, > > > http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-how-we-ll-fund-21st-century-social-movem… > > -- > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: > http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; > http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/ > > > > > > > -- *Suresh Fernando * BLOG <http://sureshf.posterous.com/>, YOUTUBE<http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum>, OK WEBSITE, <http://openkollab.com>OK FAN PAG <http://goog_1343289408>E<http://www.facebook.com/openkollab?ref=ts#%21/openkollab> , OK GROUP <http://groups.google.ca/group/openkollab>, OK-WE<http://www.wiserearth.org/group/openkollab>, PHILOSOPHY, <http://sureshfernando.wordpress.com> TWITTER, <http://twitter.com/sureshf> FACEBOOK, <http://facebook.com/suresh.fernando>WOTW FAN PAGE<http://www.facebook.com/tedxvancouver?v=wall#%21/pages/The-Way-Of-The-Warri…> LINKEDIN<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=412718&authType=name&authToken=GrUl…>, SLIDESHARE <http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf> * **'The counter cultural revolution was a rhizomatic meshwork of loosely-coordinated, loosely-affiliated struggles. The goals of these struggles weren’t always complimentary, but the struggles were aligned and together they staged a mass offensive to shatter the status quo'*. - from The Coalition of the Willing -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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rheingold Uni
by Michel Bauwens 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

http://www.rheingold.com/university Hi Sam, perhaps you can highlight Howard's new initiative on our blog? hope you have the time! -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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FUNDING p2p movements
by Michel Bauwens 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Dear Suresh, feel free to also publish this on our ning blog, and we'll push it from there, http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-how-we-ll-fund-21st-century-social-movem… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/

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