Date archives "September 2011"

Michel Bauwens at Designs on E-Learning

Michel Bauwens will be giving a keynote speech about Networked Spaces on September 28th as part of the Future Learning Spaces, the 7th annual Designs on E-learning 2011 conference taking place at Aalto University in Helsinki. Finland from September 27-30, 2011. Check out the progamme for more details http://www.designsonelearning2011.com/programme  

Wikileaks And The Battle Over The Soul Of The Networked Fourth Estate

* Article: Yokai Benkler, A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks And The Battle Over The Soul Of The Networked Fourth Estate, forthcoming Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 66 pages The netdefenses blog reviews the draft version of the forthcoming essay: “Parts I and II tell the story of Wikileaks, the release of the documents, and… Continue reading

The next issue of eLearning Papers will be devoted to Designing for learning. Send your contribution!

The 27th edition of eLearning Papers will focus on Designing for learning. How can teachers develop new approaches to the design of learning activities and whole curricula that takes account of the new complex, technologically enhanced learning contexts? Published five times a year, the eLearning Papers journal aims to make innovative ideas and practices in… Continue reading

The current Indian model of development vs. Gandhi’s proposals on Trusteeship

The following is excerpted from the lecture by Ramaswamy Sudarshan (UNDP.org) at the “RE-THINKING PROPERTY: pathway to a Well-Being Society” conference in Bangkok, in August 2011. “In India we have steadily raised the economic growth rate from what was once called the ‘Hindu rate of growth’ – 3 percent in honour of the Hindu Trinity… Continue reading

Subversive apps help citizens fight state silencing

The P2P Foundatation’s ChokePoint Project was recently the subject of  a feature article in the New Scientist: WHEN the Egyptian authorities realised protesters were using the internet to organise themselves in January, they came up with a simple solution: in an instant they disconnected the nation, cutting off anti-government dissidents from an invaluable resource. The outage… Continue reading

Why cooperative banking is better than microfinance: ownership and control matters!

‘Phil’ disputes the myth that Yunus’ microfinance proceeds from the German cooperative banking system. Though there is a tenuous historical link (excerpt 1), microfinance fails to empower the poor (excerpt 2). See also: A new systematic review of the evidence on microfinance, published last week, is dynamite for the world’s most popular development policy. Madeleine… Continue reading

Healthy selfishness and partnership parenting

Excerpted from the site “Enjoy Parenting.com“. Scott Noelle: “Conventional thinking has it that if children get “too much” of what they want, they’ll become narcissistic adults who only care about themselves. But this thinking is locked inside the box of the “dominator paradigm,” where you “win” by exploiting, excluding, or defeating others. Outside the dominator… Continue reading

Open Reciprocal Production, Resource-based economics and the World Game

Eric Hunting dives into the history of resource-based economics, in an online email to Dante Monson: “The idea of netention systems, and especially the extension of that into that Global Survival System, seems a very promising and ambitious attempt to reduce to software the principles of Buckminster Fuller’s World Game and Jacque Fresco’s Cybernation. This… Continue reading