* Book: Reputation-based Governance. Lucio Picci. Stanford University Press, 2011. URL = http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20267 Description: Author Lucio Picci uses interdisciplinary tools to argue that the intelligent use of widely available Internet technologies can strengthen reputational mechanisms and significantly improve public governance. Based on this notion, the book proposes a governance model that leans on the concept of… Continue reading
How Technological Design Incorporates Social Values
Excerpted from Asaf Bar-Tura: “Technologies are not innocent. They embody human values. And the way we design them determines winners and losers among us. … Looking … back, over the past two centuries, we see that technology has also produced a perplexing dynamic. As comedian CK Louis describes our technological progress: “Everything is amazing and… Continue reading
Open Spectrum of Knowledge
To view the full sized image CLICK HERE. A beautiful design by Ana Raquel Riedel von Teschenhausen. “After visiting the OKCon – Open Knowledge Conference in September 2013 I was overwhelmed by so many inputs on ‘openness’ and since I had to deliver a report on the conference for novice people on the subject, I’ve… Continue reading
The Politics of Inclusive Capitalism (2)
Excerpted from Chris Mackin: “Inclusive capitalism may not sell well with professors and pundits, but it appears to have some genuine appeal at the grass roots with “Main Street” business owners and across a surprisingly wide spectrum of political opinion. There are actually indications that these ideas can unite or at minimum enforce a practical… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Open Hardware Round Table / Commons and Economics Conference 2013
Interview conducted by Michel Bauwens with Joe Justice, Smàri Mc Carthy, Jaromil Rojo, Anna Seravalli and Chris Watkins. An interview produced by Alain Ambrosi, at the Economics and the Commons Conference which took place in Berlin from 22 to 24 May 2013. This video and the original footage are made available to you by Remix… Continue reading
New Book: Thrivability Breaking Through to a World that Works by Jean Rusell
This is first in a two part series introducing Jean Russell’s inspiring and visionary new book “Thrivability Breaking Through to a World that Works” now available from Triarchy Press. Below is a short summary followed by the introduction from the book. “Something about thriving speaks to our inner sense of harmony, abundance, greatness, generativity, aliveness,… Continue reading
Reinventing Real-Time Social and Political Movements
Douglas Rushkoff, author of the book Present Shock, in a Google Hangout organized by the Reinventors Network, about how to think about the new breed of real-time social and political movements. Watch the video here:
Book of the Day: Moral Origins
Moral Origins. By Christopher Boehm. By Jag Bhalla: Christopher Boehm in Moral Origins concludes, after intensive analysis of 50 representative hunter-gatherer cultures, that our ancestors likely experienced a “radical political change,” evolving from a hierarchic “apelike ‘might is right’…social order,” to become more egalitarian. About 250,000 years ago, their survival became a team sport because… Continue reading
New Report Summarizes the Economics and the Commons Conference 2013
Republished from Jessica Conrad in Shareable magazine: (see the original for more links) “The Heinrich Boll Foundation just released a detailed, educational, and inspiring report summarizing the international conference it hosted in Berlin, Germany May 22-24, 2013. Two hundred commoners from around the globe converged at the Economics and the Commons Conference (ECC) to explore… Continue reading
Crowd-sourcing radiation levels – Russian start-up turns smart phones into multi-purpose radiation detectors
Will radiation levels in the future be crowd-sourced? Russian inventor and Intersoft Eurasia CEO Vladimir Yelin seems to think so. He has developed a cheap smart-phone add-on that can be either retrofitted or directly incorporated into your phone. The software that comes with the DO-RA radiation meter can report radiation levels automatically to a central… Continue reading