Tim Stock 2010
Teemu Arina (Finland) February 2008
Reference: The Future of the Internet
Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice
Jon Lebkowsky is, among many things, contributing editor of Extreme Democracy (Lulu.com, 2005). His briefing below brings up many points, among which three stand-out:
1. There is no lack of intelligence–what is lacking are the tools for achieving extreme democracy in the face of a tsunami of noise and electronic pollution, with five core functional requirements: gather data, analyze data, generate options, choose/vote, and implement.
2. The principle challenge to democracy at this point in time is not from governments, but rather from those corporations that presume to “own” the Internet and all content irrespective of who generates it.
3. Freedom Box (and what we have begun calling the Autonomous Internet) are an alternative–while he does not go into detail it is clear that there is a sufficiency of both money and knowledge to create a distributed Autonomous Internet.
Briefing Online (Downloadable, No Notes)
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Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance — Carol Gilligan Speaks at MIT
Advanced Cyber/IO, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Movies
VIDEO: Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance Carol Gilligan April 24, 2009 Time: 1:10:34
Carol Gilligan is an ethicist and psychologist currently appointed as a University Professor at the New York University. She received an A.B. in English literature from Swarthmore College, a masters degree in clinical psychology from Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Her landmark book, In A Different Voice (1982) is described by Harvard University Press as “the little book that started a revolution.” Following In A Different Voice, she initiated the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and co-authored or edited 5 books with her students: Mapping the Moral Domain (1988), Making Connections (1990), Women, Girls, and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance (1991), Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, (1992) and Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationships (1995). She received a Senior Research Scholar award from the Spencer Foundation, a Grawemeyer Award for her contributions to education, a Heinz Award for her contributions to understanding the human condition and was named by Time Magazine as one of the 25 most influential Americans. Her more recent publications include The Birth of Pleasure: a New Map of Love (2002), Kyra: A Novel (2008), and, with David A. J. Richards, The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (2009).
Review: Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women’s Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education
Review: The Deepening Darkness–Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy’s Future
1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm)
Solar-Powered Internet Hot Spots–Anywhere
Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence
SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone
Linux and open technologies deliver the Internet anywhere
Summary: In many parts of the world, the power grid is shoddy, computers are scarce, and connectivity is even rarer. Thus, as with many other modern practices and technologies, populations are increasingly bifurcated into the “computing haves” and the “computing have-nots.” But many are addressing the divide. SolarNetOne is a turnkey Internet hotspot—power, computers, and satellite uplink—you can install virtually anywhere, for less than the cost of a subcompact car.
Phi Beta Iota: This is not to be confused with OpenBTS and $2 a month cellular service, but it does appear to be promising. Read more at the IBM developerWorks page for SolarNetOne.
Collective Impact: Alignment & Powerful Results
Gift Intelligence, Worth A Look
Greetings! I hope this finds you well. There is a new reality upon us. We all sense it and we each experience it in our own unique way. We are more connected than ever and are discovering new ways to combine our power that are literally changing the world. Witness the youth-led, networked revolution started in the Middle East demonstrating the power of collective action.
We don't have to all agree on everything to advance our vision for a just and sustainable world. We can make this happen by participating in networks that promote the social good.
“Individually we’re a drop; together we’re an ocean.”
What we need are supportive, transparent networks that offer mutually reinforcing activities such as educating, informing, communicating, transacting, and sharing.
I recommend two such networks:
Ideal Network: Saving is Good; but Saving While Giving is Ideal!
The Ideal Network combines group buying with giving back to local causes. This social enterprise makes daily deals meaningful and grew out of our work on the Interra Project
For each sale, 25% of the purchase price goes to support local community projects. Yes 25%!
We launched four weeks ago in Seattle and have already generated more than $4,000 dollars in support of 16 great causes:
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How Neocon Central Worked for Muammar Qadhafi
02 Diplomacy, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government
Laura Rozen, Politico, 21 February 2011
As several Libyan diplomats Monday denounced their country’s four-decade ruler Col. Muammar Qadhafi for unleashing the army against anti-government protesters, U.S. consultancies that have worked to burnish Libya’s and Qadhafi’s U.S. image were laying low.
Several consulting, law and lobbying firms have moved in to advise the Libyan government and energy interests since U.S. sanctions were lifted on Libya in 2004, some of which have since canceled their contracts, according to Justice Department records.
Fahmy Hudome International canceled its contract with the Libyan government in 2007. The Livingston Group canceled its $360,000-per-year lobbying contract with the Libyan government as well as one with an associated Qadhafi charity in September 2009, following the hero’s welcome Libyan leaders gave for the convicted Lockerbie bomber upon his release in August 2009 from a Scottish prison on humanitarian grounds. Justice Department records indicate the law firm White & Case LLP has been registered since 2008 to represent Libya regarding a litigation matter.
One of the more unlikely figures to have advised a firm which has worked to burnish Libya's image and grow its economy is not registered with the Justice Department. Prominent neoconservative Richard Perle, the former Reagan-era Defense Department official and George W. Bush-era chairman of the Defense Policy Board, traveled to Libya twice in 2006 to meet with Qadhafi, and afterward briefed Vice President Dick Cheney on his visits, according to documents released by a Libyan opposition group in 2009.
Perle traveled to Libya as a paid adviser to the Monitor Group, a prestigious Boston-based consulting firm with close ties to leading professors at the Harvard Business School. The firm named Perle a senior adviser in 2006.
The Monitor Group described Perle’s travel to Libya and the recruitment of several other prominent thinkers and former officials to burnish Libya’s and Qadhafi’s image in a series of documents obtained and released by a Libyan opposition group, the National Conference of the Libyan Opposition, in 2009.
Phi Beta Iota: In fairness to the Neocons, there is no real difference between the two parties that vie for control of the public purse to favor private ends. US Government support for dictators, criminal gangs, and selected terrorist groups has always been “bi-partisan” and completely devoid of any public benefit.
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Diversity in Wholeness: “We were made different to complete each other…”
Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Dear friends,
Two remarkable presentations of our common humanity and shared predicament showed up in my email today. One is one of the most beautiful and intense videos I've ever seen and the other is a glimpse of the global spirit infusing the current uprisings in very diverse nations.
Blessings on our shared Journey…
Coheartedly,
Tom
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1. The Human Planet … A spectacular video trailer of the BBC's ONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ&vq=large
Its fast-paced images of the archetypal energies and challenges of human life on Earth are riveting!
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2. From Cairo to Madison: Hope and Solidarity are Alive
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/21-11
by Medea Benjamin
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And a closing word for U.S.Americans, from Ralph Nader:
“In a country that has so many problems it doesn't deserve and so many solutions that it doesn't apply; all things are possible when people begin looking at themselves for the necessary power to produce a just society.”
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