---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:56 PM Subject: Fwd: [knowledgelab] A counter-G20 on Open Data, Open Governement and No More Bullying To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> via martin, via knowledgelab ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: j.martin.pedersen <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM Subject: [knowledgelab] A counter-G20 on Open Data, Open Governement and No More Bullying To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> -------- Original Message -------- A counter-G20 on Open Data, Open Governement and No More Bullying When: November 3-4 2011 Where: Tunisia, venue tba More information soon. In Cannes, Governments will try to "close" the Net with intellectual property protection enforcement. We'd like a real "G20 du Net" with people that make the Internet and not only lawyers that try to close it. This shadow G20 says we have had enough of those old sad stories of competition, bullying, citizen bashing and killing. We believe a time has come for collaboration of ordinary people, dancing in the streets and saying hello to our neighbours and we want the simple and hackable devices and infrastructure that go with that. Tunisia can become an exemplary cybernetic country and hackers can help - dismantling the net censorship infrastructures - rebuilding a full decentralized infrastructure that could guarantee the freedom of speech. - leapfrog into wireless, NFC, Zigbee, open hardware business models and Internet of Things We want to discuss with the people on the ground and be led by them in setting up hackerspaces throughout the Arab world. Contact: Olivier Laurelli <[email protected]> Salut! Rob ps It is becoming all the more obvious that it is the very idea of a state as an organizational form that is prolonging all this violence. This idea also does strange things to people, probably appealing to their potential for being part of something 'bigger'. The very notion of scale as a factor for success can now seen to be synomymous. Psychologists specialized in the behaviour of larger groups of people try to explain the relative ease with which one is able to exert influence over masses by assuming "a causal force which bears on every member of an aggregate, and also for each individual there is a large number of idiosyncratic causes (Stinchcombe, 1968: 67 -68n) He continues: "Now let us suppose that the idiosyncratic forces that we do not understand are four times as large as the systematic forces that we do understand....As the size of the population increases from 1 to 100, the influence of the unknown individual idiosyncratic behavior decreases from four times as large as the known part to four tenths as large as the known part. As we go to an agggregate of a million, even if we understand only the systematic one-fifth individual behavior as assumed in the table, the part we do not understand of the aggregate behavior decreases to less than 1 percent (0.004)." This shows how top down power works and why scaling itself has become such an important indicator in such a system of 'success'. Imagine you want to start a project or 'do something' with your friends or neighbours, say 5 people. This means that you have to take into account before you do anything - state a goal, negociate deliverables, or even a first date on which to meet for a kickoff - that all five people relate to huge idiosyncracies and generic forces that have to be aligned or overcome before you can even say 'Hello'. This shows how difficult it is to 'start something'. Understanding the nature of these social relations in the above terms show how difficult it is to script moments of fundamental change, as hierarchical systems by the very fact that they are top down can concentrate on managing systematic forces relatively effortlessly. That which they can not predict or control remain lone dissident, strange or abnormal voices, or 'sudden events'. With the internet these idiosyncracies have been able to organize and raise their weight in the ratio, and the internet of things will allow these even further, bringing the sensornetwork data sets individuals can handle to them on their devices. This acceleration of weak signals into clusters, organized networks and flukes can not be managed anymore by formats that are informed by and that inform systematic forces as the nature of these forces has changed. People will start seeing more tales of sharing and collaboration. The tables are turning. Pretty soon people will start seeing competition for what it is: bullying. And as we have changed the relative weight of the ideosyncracies ( read: us) we can only expect brute force ( as we witness now) in the immediate future, but this will show itself to be impotent in the longer run, see: http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/kranenburg_collaborati... # 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: [email protected] -- http://commoning.wordpress.com "...I thought we were an autonomous collective..." _______________________________________________ knowledgelab mailing list [email protected] https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/knowledgelab -- 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/