<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Penny travlou</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sp.travlou@gmail.com">sp.travlou@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:06 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Invitation: Commons Technology and the right to a Democratic City<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">\</div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">From: "Nesta Events" <<a href="mailto:events@nesta.org.uk" target="_blank">events@nesta.org.uk</a>><br>Date: 27 Apr 2016 11:54<br>Subject: Invitation: Commons Technology and the right to a Democratic City<br>To: "Bezdomny" <we@options.limited><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><u></u>
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<div style="width:460px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:normal"><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Democracy Lab:</strong> 23–27 May, 2016, Medialab-Prado Madrid<br>
<strong>D-CENT international conference:</strong> 27-28 May, 2016, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid</span></span></div>
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<div style="width:460px;margin-top:0;font-size:14px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px"><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=29cd7c9785&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">D-CENT</a> invites you to an exciting week-long programme of activities which showcase and celebrate the results of the D-CENT project.</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">During the past two years, D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens Engagement Technologies) has been working to transform democracy in a very concrete way: helping movements, cities, and political parties to build technologies, methods and tools that can make the democratic system more in-sync with collective aspirations of the 21st century. <br>
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To showcase and celebrate the D-CENT <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=ac0c67988e&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">tools</a>, and <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=fcc83581ce&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">project results</a>, a week-long programme of activity is taking place from the 23–28 May in Madrid, Spain. The programme is divided into a <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=62a32468dc&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">Democracy Lab</a> (23–27 May) and an <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=07a5d92969&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">International Conference</a> (27–28 May). <br>
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The event is organised by <strong><a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=b381fbb044&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">D-CENT</a>, <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=3b65f894d0&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">Nesta</a>, <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=0ebb4d7623&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">Medialab-Prado</a>, <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=0240a6c936&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia</a>, <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=acd6d29e5e&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">City of Madrid</a>, <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=8138e293dc&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">City of Barcelona</a></strong><br>
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<strong>Democracy Lab 23–27 May (Medialab-Prado, Madrid)</strong><br>
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">The five-day Democracy Lab will deliver workshops, hackathons and open sessions to develop, think and design tools, processes and strategies for democratic participation. <br>
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The week will include sessions hosted by, among others: <strong>D-CENT </strong>partner organisations;<strong> </strong>Yago Bermejo Abati<strong>, LaboDemo; </strong>Irina Bolychevsky<strong>, Redecentralize; </strong>Pablo Aragon<strong>, IN3 Open University of Catalonia; </strong>Members of the Consul Team<strong>, Madrid City Council; </strong>Xabier Barandiaran<strong>, University of the Basque Country; </strong>David Cabo and Eva Belmonte<strong>, Fundació Civio; </strong>Juan Carlos Madroñal and<strong> Más Democracia.</strong><br>
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<u>Open Call: </u>As part of the Democracy Lab, we are holding an <a href="http://nesta.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=110e8d2ab290d69703e25782d&id=8880521e79&e=d07c312210" style="text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;color:#df0573" target="_blank">Open call</a> for sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. Apply to get involved. The deadline is the 29th of April. <br>
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<strong>International Conference 27–28 May (Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid) </strong><br>
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Prompting discussion on network democracy, new forms of citizen participation and digital commons in democratic Cities, the International Conference will showcase the success of the European D-CENT project and look at the future of digital democracy.<br>
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The conference will take the form of a series of presentations panels and roundtable discussions covering: Growing collective platforms and digital democracy in Europe; Empowering citizens: towards new forms of democracy; Beyond surveillance capitalism: Towards democratic alternatives; Post-capitalism, digital commons and democratic cities; Direct Democracy: New opportunities in the Digital Age for reinventing politics; Building a network of Cities of Change; Freedom and technology self-determination in the era of digital surveillance and Hacktivism for democracy.<br>
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Speakers include: <strong>Carlos Prieto del Campo, </strong>Museo Reina Sofia;<strong> Francesca Bria,</strong> D-CENT;<strong> Fabrizio Sestini, </strong>European Commission DG Connect;<strong> Raquel Rolnik, </strong>University of São Paulo;<strong> Manuela Carmena, </strong>Mayor of Madrid;<strong> Paul Mason, </strong>The Guardian;<strong> Julian Assange, </strong>Wikileaks;<strong> Franco Bifo Berardi, </strong>writer and philosopher;<strong> Evgeny Morozov, </strong>author; <strong> Trebor Scholz,</strong> the New School;<strong> Andi Gross,</strong> Atelier pour la Démocratie Directe;<strong> Theo Schiller, </strong>Philipps University Marburg;<strong> Paolo Gerbaudo, </strong>King’s College London;<strong> Renata Avila, </strong>Web We Want Foundation;<strong> David Miranda, </strong>Youth House.</span></span></div>
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