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