Dutch-language presentation held in Amersfoort, on April 14, 2013, in the Studium Generale series of De War cultural center in Amersfoort. Thanks to Harmen Zijp for the invitation and for putting the video online. Watch the video: Michel Bauwens over de Open Revolutie from Harmen Zijp on Vimeo. “We beleven op dit moment een wereldwijde… Continue reading
Infrastructuring for Opening Production
* Article: Infrastructuring for opening production, from participatory design to participatory making? Anna Seravalli. Read the article here:
Keep DRM Out of HTML5 Standards
Danyl Strype: “A group of companies, including Microsoft, Google, NetFlix and the BCC, are attempting to build what I call crippleware (“DRM” or “Digital Rights Management”) into HTML5 – the open standards which define the Web – with a proposal called EME (Encrypted Media Extensions). It’s very important that the W3C (the World Wide Web… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: Fossil Fuel Resistance
Excerpted by BILL MCKIBBEN: “Americans got to see some of this movement spread out across the Mall in Washington, D.C., on a bitter-cold day in February. Press accounts put the crowd upward of 40,000 – by far the largest climate rally in the country’s history. They were there to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, which… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Oregon Commons
The Oregon Commons, a project “working to inspire appreciation, stewardship and advocacy” for all that Oregonians share. “Oregon Commons hosts workshops to help people explore the diversity of their local commons, and partners with Portland State University on a capstone class, Reclaiming the Commons, which engages students in service learning projects.” Co-founder Paula Manley is… Continue reading
Movement of the Day: GIVE, the global villages movement
GIVE aims for Globally Integrated Village Environments, and is an initiative by Franz Nahrada to promote the expansion of Global Villages Here below, Franz explains its sevens strategic imperatives: “Our seven themes in detail: (1) Global Villegiatura – Trans Market Economies “In a time when fewer and fewer productive industries supply the global markets with… Continue reading
Events: Le Printemps des Laboratoires #1 – COMMUNE, COMMUNITY, COMMON
Le Printemps des Laboratoires #1 COMMUNE, COMMUNITY, COMMON A guided public conversation around the ideas of Commune, Commons and Community. Two ‘Masters of Ceremonies’ journalist Jade Lindgaard and art critic and curator Thomas Boutoux will coordinate meetings and lead the audience, or rather, the members of this temporary community, through a series of artistic, performative,… Continue reading
A dutch-language presentation on the p2p economy
““Design is beter een gemeenschapsgoed”, zegt Michel Bauwens. Open design, waarbij een gemeenschap parallel producten en diensten ontwikkelt, kan niet alleen snel resultaat leveren maar is typisch ook duurzamer. Dat is alvast één les die we onthouden van de boeiende workshop met Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) die shiftN en Plan C samen organiseerden. Je kan… Continue reading
Commons: The constitution of society beyond market and state
To read the original in German see http://www.boell.de/calendar/VA-viewevt-de.aspx?evtid=12704 We live in a time when markets fail and traditional political institutions are incapable of solving pressing issues of social and ecological transformation. This is where the international Commons movement comes in. Renowned pioneers of this movement call for a paradigm shift to overcome the limitations of… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: the Future of Crowd Work
* Article: Kittur, Aniket, Nickerson, Jeffrey V. , Bernstein, Michael S. , Gerber, Elizabeth M., Shaw, Aaron, Zimmerman, John, Lease, Matthew and Horton, John J., The Future of Crowd Work (December 18, 2012). 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Coooperative Work (CSCW 2013). Here is the Abstract: “Paid crowd work offers remarkable opportunities for improving… Continue reading