[P2P-F] News Challenge Submission - Build a Global Platform for Transition to an Open Knowledge Society

Mon Mar 17 19:35:02 CET 2014

That's a fantastic initiative, congrats to taking this on,
and I believe the Knight Challenge to be the right platform!

Let's hope for great results.

2014-03-17 12:23 GMT-05:00 Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan at gmail.com>:

> Show your support for the submission to the Knight News Challenge to build
> on the experience of the floksociety.org project and create a global
> platform for transition to an open knowledge society. You can help by
> spreading the word or show a little love by applauding the project and
> others on
> www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/a-global-platform-for-research-and-collaboration-for-transition-policies-to-an-open-knowledge-society
>
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> In ONE sentence, tell us about your project to strengthen the Internet for
> free expression and innovation.
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> We're working to create a permanent, expandable platform for open
> technology-focused policy making, as free technical infrastructures can
> only exist in the favourable context of a more open society.
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> Who will benefit from what you propose? What have you observed that makes
> you think that?
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> The project has the potential to empower and transform local policy and
> decision-making processes through our open knowledge platform. Following
> the global responses we have received, we believe that the time is right
> for an expanded effort rooted in various locations, in order to refine
> locally-adapted policy models, validated by local input and experience. A
> truly open Internet doesn't only depend on the interconnection of bottom-up
> open technologies, but also requires policy frameworks that are favourable
> to their adoption and maintenance. Cities, regions, nation-states and
> supra-national entities will be able to benefit from collaborative open
> policy-making, learning from each other's experiences.
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> What progress have you made so far?
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> FLOKS' collaborative efforts have already produced 10 draft policy
> proposals toward an integrated transition program, the first effort of its
> kind. Our documents on Human Capabilities, Commons Oriented Productive
> Capacities, Social Infrastructure and Institutional Innovation, Open
> Technical Infrastructures, and Commons Infrastructure for Collective Life
> may be viewed (under the heading of Research - Streams) on the FLOKSociety
> wiki (en.wiki.floksociety.org). These proposals will be presented and
> discussed at a global-local summit in Quito at the end of May 2014.
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>
> Show your support for a global platform for transition to an open
> knowledge society on
> www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/a-global-platform-for-research-and-collaboration-for-transition-policies-to-an-open-knowledge-society
>
> Our friends from the P2P Lab in Greece have also made a submission - The
> P2P Urbanism Platform: From the Social to the Urban Web
> https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/the-p2p-urbanism-platform-from-the-social-to-the-urban-web
>
> source -
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/knight-news-challenge-submission-a-global-platform-for-transition-to-an-open-knowledge-society/2014/03/17
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