Reposted from iasc-commons.org: PLEASE NOTE: CHANGED DATES! WORKSHOP WILL TAKE PLACE ON JUNE 21-22, 2018 EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: FEBRUARY 25, 2018 The organizers of the IASC Workshop ‘Social mobilization and the commons: a virtuous circle?’ welcome proposals and letters of interest for this workshop. Theme The frontiers of theory and research on the commons have notably… Continue reading
Our friends at Artfarm in Hvar pinged us to highlight their donations campaign. Read the text below to get a feel for their project, or visit them at the fantastically named starwingartists.com ArtFarm: Since 2013, when we bought 1300 m2 of land and small stone house, Artfarm has been our international project combining art and organic… Continue reading
The FairShares Model enables you to (re)design companies, cooperatives, associations and partnerships to fully recognise and reward enterprise founders, workforce members and users/customer who invest natural, human, social, intellectual, manufactured and financial capital. We recognise that wealth is generated by stewarding nature to enhance human skills and capabilities, building relationships between people, enabling them to generate and share ideas that stimulate goods to meet human,… Continue reading
Bitcoin was created to be a new kind of money rooted in a vision of a market not bound by geography, banks and governments. Despite the intentions of its creators, Bitcoin is not money. It was designed with a faulty understanding of money, and as a result has a bug, a kind of a short… Continue reading
Julia Reda, writing in her own blog, warns of the dangers of the new EU copyright law. Please share this video and text widely. Julia Reda: For months now I’ve been raising the alarm about the plan to limit the freedom to link that has been slowly but surely making its way through the EU legislative process. The… Continue reading
Which knowledge, skills and learning environments can boost Open Design & Manufacturing at meaningful scale? How can OD&M become the ground of collective experimentation and co-creation between Universities, Makerspaces and Enterprises? OD&M is a Knowledge Alliance dedicated to create and support communities of practices around the Open Design & Manufacturing paradigm, making the most of openness, sharing and… Continue reading