I have recently created a page on our wiki, to serve as a portal entry to different proposals to have open licenses that have a stronger element of social equity built-in. Check our entry here, to have access to Patrick Godeau’s IANG License, Patrick Anderson’s ideas on User Ownership, and Dmytri Kleiner’s proposal for a… Continue reading
Is Europe getting mature for partner state policies?
Partner state policy is an approach in which the state enables and empowers user communities to create value themselves, and which also focuses on the elimination of obstacles. There seems to be a lot happening on the policy front recently, or at least in terms of how influential observers are starting to think about the… Continue reading
Why Generics are good for publich health policy (P2P in Australia 4)
Report from a conference on Aids in Sydney, forwarded by Frederick Noronha. Learn from Brazil and Thai drug licences, say MSF. Generics sustain access to anti-HIV drugs, argues Médecins Sans Frontières Article by Imelda Albano and T. V. Padma, 25 July 2007, Source: SciDev.Net [SYDNEY] Developing countries can learn from the experiences of Brazil and… Continue reading
Conference: Changing forms of Work Organization, London September 19, 2007
We are forwarding this announcement for our UK readers: Event: Changing Forms of Organisation: Implications for Leadership and Leadership Development – hosted by the Work Foundation, London, taking place on Wednesday 19 September 2007 from 9.30am to 4.00pm Speakers include: Gerard Fairtlough, author of The Three Ways of Getting Things Done, ex-CEO Shell Chemicals UK,… Continue reading
The tagmash innovation at LibraryThing
Some time ago, Howard Rheingold asked what the members of the CooperationCommons would propose as innovations for the Delicious social bookmarking site. My suggestion was that we should have a tool to link related tags together, as different people choose different tags to denote similar knowledge objects. So a tool that would look for tags… Continue reading
From Open Source Scooters to Johannite Gnostics (P2P in Australia 3)
I had a very interesting conversation with Tim Mansfield, who designs distributed social media infrastructures with a stress on its social, and not just technological, dynamics. I was very impressed by his thorough understanding of the matter, and very much intrigued by his blog , which I led you discover by yourself . Next in… Continue reading
Limitations of the current peer review model in science
M. Guedon has a good summary of why the current peer review model is limiting the spread and updating of knowledge: Excerpt: 1. The present system is too rigid, too unwieldy to permit such small-scale, yet potentially crucial interventions. To make the proper corrections, one would have to republish and perhaps even go through the… Continue reading
From Democracy to peer governance. Australia 7-10th August
Idealistic vs. naturalistic approaches to social change (p2p in australia 2)
We continue our report on our Australian encounters. At the Ark Group conference on knowledge management, where we gave a keynote and a workshop. We particularly appreciated the lecture of Dave Snowden (see his Cognitive Edge blog). Interesting for me was his approach to change dynamics, distinguishing idealistic and naturalistic approaches. My definite feeling is… Continue reading
Lawrence Lessig blasts expropriation of creators by Lucasfilm in the Star Wars remix project
An important editorial by Lessig in the Washington Post , in which he blames the advice of lawyers for the practice of ‘sharecropping’ creators. A significant excerpt, calling for a new approach by the legal profession: “Upload a remix and George Lucas, and only Lucas, is free to include it on his Web site or… Continue reading
Launch of Open Business Guide
The OpenBusiness Guide v1.0 is online! OpenBusiness.cc, an international initiative with partners in Brazil, South Africa and the UK, supported by the Open Society Institute, International Development Research Centre Canada, Ford Foundation and Arts Council England, has collected examples of new business models and processes that focus on: * lowering the costs of market entry… Continue reading
From counterpublics to minipublics (P2P in Australia 1)
One of the advantages of touring the world for lectures, is that you are meeting many interesting people. Australia has been the occasion for a particularly rich series of encounters. Our first meeting was with Brian Martin at the University of Wollongong. Brian is an advocate for nonviolent tactics, with a particular interest in the… Continue reading
D.I.Y. online media publishing how-to: P2P Audiovisual Guide restructured – “one paragraph” overview
Our P2P Audiovisual Guide now with a “one paragraph” content overview, text restructured, updated and split onto subpages for a better browsing and reading experience. Let us know how you find it, what could be improved, what might still be missing… And if you find it useful: please link it in your favourite bookmark sharing… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Publicity’s Secrets. By Jodi Dean (1)
Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002) The book discusses subjectification (how we become human subjects) in terms of a drive toward celebrity and is a critique of the role of media in technoculture, warning for the ideological usage of the drive for transparency. Today, we would like to introduce… Continue reading
Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
1) Social Ecology and Communalism, by Murray Bookchin (From the AK Press website) “We are standing at a crucial crossroads. Not only does the age-old ‘social question’ concerning the exploitation of human labor remain unresolved, but the plundering of natural resources has reached a point where humanity is also forced to politically deal with an ‘ecological… Continue reading