I´m extremely happy to announce this initiative, which will enable people interested in p2p dynamics to more easily appeal for research funding. Below is a short announcement from Athina Karatzogianni, please ask for the document that she is referring to in her email listed below. If you are involved with research, academic or not, please… Continue reading
Date archives "April 2009"
Should we be afraid on online spying: Privacy vs. transparency
Sepp Hasslberger contributed the following comment in Facebook: “a friend in Sweden just wrote to me (after I had asked him if he has a facebook profile) asking: “… do you really want the NSA + Pentagon to know about all your friends.” My reply was this … and I’d like to share it with… Continue reading
Open Companies need Trust Metrics
The company E Text Editor is pledging to transform itself to an Open Company, and has written an interesting blog article on its transformation strategy, from which we are excerpting below. Excerpt: “Imagine you had a company like this. Totally open. No concept of bosses or employees. Anyone could join in at any time, doing… Continue reading
Open letter on p2p rights to European Parliament
This open letter from the Opennet Coalition to the European Parliament in defense of network neutrality and other internet freedoms was also signed by myself and Celia Blanco: (I´m doing this in a hurry on an airport PC, this draft may be subject to further improvement) Dear Member of the European Parliament, We wish to… Continue reading
Data retention endangers democracy
From the Open Rights Group Data retention endangers democracy Posted by Jim Killock in Data Retention, Privacy at April 6th, 2009 European legislation that came into force today requires internet service providers to retain details of user’s emails, net phone calls and other web traffic. This requirement, imposed on all all EU states, is a… Continue reading
James K. Galbraith’s proposals for the meltdown
This excellent analysis by James K. Galbraith (republished from here), “No Return to Normal”, which appeared in the Washington Monthly, starts with a devastating analysis of the Geithner plan. The second part, which we are reproducing, contains a set of alternative proposals. James K. Galbraith: “A brief reflection on this history and present circumstances drives… Continue reading
Slideshare presentation on P2P
Short version, the references to borrowed slides are in the notes field of the original: Understanding P2P View more presentations from urbanlabs.
The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory
Today John Geraci of DIYcity is a guest blogger for O’Reilly Radar. The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory Guest blogger John Geraci has spent the last six years making life in cities better with the use of web technologies. His latest project, DIYcity.org, has web developers and urban planners all over the… Continue reading
How do societies change? (2): video
Very short video summarizing the P2P hypothesis, done in Barcelona on March 31, in English:
DIYcity Challenge #7: Open Data!
From DIYcity DIYcity Challenge #7: Open Data! Submitted by John Geraci on 2 April 2009 – 3:40pm. Lots of city agencies all over the world have data online that is accessible to humans in readable format, yet isn’t accessible to other computers and programs via an API. Some agencies don’t have the means to turn… Continue reading
Franz Nahrada: How do societies change?
This one was one of the great lectures (and there were many) at the 4th Oekonux Conference. Social change is interpreted as a set of more appropriate and ever more integrated alternative patterns, that may replace the obsolete ones. The full text draws on McLuhan and Christopher McLuhan and ends with examples of such patterns…. Continue reading
The Collaborative Web between open and closed science
Alessandro Delfanti reminds us of a special issue of the Journal of Science Communication, which has not lost its relevance: “The June 2008 issue of the on line, open access journal JCOM (Journal of Science Communication) addressed the relationship between web and open science. The title of this issue’s commentary is “Collaborative Web between open… Continue reading
The emergence of hacker spaces worldwide
Via Wired: “There are zillions of people around the world doing this,” says Altman, referring to the swell of interest in do-it-yourself projects and hacking. “It’s a worldwide community.” At the center of this community are hacker spaces like Noisebridge, where like-minded geeks gather to work on personal projects, learn from each other and hang… Continue reading
Replacing crowdsourcing with smartsourcing
The government can serve a vital role as convener – bringing together smart people from a variety of viewpoints to collaborate and debate online over particular policy initiatives. These policy discussions – whether in wiki or blog format – can be kept transparent and open to the public’s view, but as we have seen during… Continue reading
Video: Introduction to Peer Production
Here’s a lecture explaining our research focus, i.e. emerging peer production, peer governance, and peer property formats. The lecture was given at the University of Massachussets in Amherst, invited and organized by Professor Jan Servaes of the College of Social and Behavior Science Center for Communication for Sustainable Social Change, and appeared on local public… Continue reading
ACTA – Sharing equals Counterfeiting?
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) warns that ACTA, the planned Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which is being negotiated behind closed doors between the EU, US, Japan and other countries, may criminalize the normal sharing of documents and information. Drafts of the agreement being discussed are shared with industry lobbyists, but neither the… Continue reading