EVENT: 20 Jan 2016 London Call for Papers Decentralizing the Commons and the Internet

Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now become clear that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open …

Jean Lievens: Commons Strategies Group

The Commons Strategies Group The Commons Strategies Group (CSG) is a partnership to help advance the commons in diverse settings — both in theory and practice. Working on four continents, we catalyze and assist commons-based projects, activism, research and public education with a great variety of partners.

Robert Steele: New Chapter on Augmented Human Intelligence with Man-Machine Integrity

ROBERT STEELE: I am interested in hearing from anyone who wishes to share sources and perspectives relevant to the below planned work that has been commissioned for a 2016 publication. I am especially interested in having one or more major information technology companies in this space subsidize several months of research. Title: “Augmented Human Intelligence …

Hypothes.is: Coalition of 40+ Scholarly Publishers

On Tuesday, we announced a major new initiative to bring this vision to reality, supported by a coalition of over 40 of the world’s essential scholarly organizations, such as JSTOR, PLOS, arXiv, HathiTrust, Wiley and HighWire Press, who are linking arms to establish a new paradigm of open collaborative annotation across the world’s knowledge. Read full first …

Sepp Hasslberger: Mosaic Social — Facebook & Google Killer?

What would it take to bring the social net under OUR control… here’s a project Mosaic.Social This is a first draft of a proposal to design and build a user friendly, egalitarian, and decentralized social platform that enables and inspires a mass of cooperative participants to come together as a powerful movement.   . . .  …

UNASUR: Agencia de Fuentes Abiertas (de technologia)

Para el Secretario General de UNASUR: esta idea ha sido presentado a los líderes de los Estados Unidos de América y probablemente será ignorado. Esta sería una excelente iniciativa con la que comenzar la moderna independencia y auto-sostenible prosperidad de las Américas. Les deseo todas las posibilidades en el futuro. Respetuosamente, Robert David STEELE Vivas MEMORANDUM …