Comments on: Should #OccupyWallStreet Protesters Lay Claim to the New Top-Level Domains for Cities? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/should-occupywallstreet-protesters-lay-claim-to-the-new-top-level-domains-for-cities/2011/11/22 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:06:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Tom Lowenhaupt https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/should-occupywallstreet-protesters-lay-claim-to-the-new-top-level-domains-for-cities/2011/11/22/comment-page-1#comment-486922 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:06:07 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=21164#comment-486922 Great to see David Bollier’s informative article reposted.

For those in the New York area, there’s a meeting on the topic this coming Monday, November 28, from 6-8 PM at 60 Wall Street, the Atruim. Here’s the meeting notice from the Campaign for the Commons working group.

This will be the first face-to face-meeting of this working group. (We first scheduled this meeting on November 17, but concerns about crowds from the Day of Action, resulted in the Atrium being closed.)

We’ll start with a brief review of the commons, including the newest commons, city-TLDs – .boston, .rome, .paris, .london, .mumbai, .nyc, etc. (Like .com and .org but just for these cities.)

Then we’ll turn our attention to how we can best create an awareness of the foundation role the commons play in society and of the need to nurture them. We’ll look to how the group might fit within Occupy Wall Street structure: might nurturing the commons might be part of the Occupy movement’s vision? And can city-TLDs serve as engines to advance the functioning of democracy globally.

City-TLDs have been called open greenfields for new local governance structures by David Bollier, a leading thinker on the commons. There’s a timeliness to the “city-TLDs as engine” idea with the first ever application window for them opening early next year. And as of now, there’s no leadership, awareness, or cooperation by global cities. See this Countdown clock for more on the timing. Should we Occupy this void?

Hope to see some of you there.

Tom

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