Event: 26-27 Jun Victoria BC Canada Youth, Governance, Peace-Building and the Role of the Social Media

Youth, Governance, Peace-Building and the Role of Social Media June 26-27, 2012 Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and an Online Global Webinar “Young people everywhere deserve the power to get information, to connect and to ask hard questions – about justice, equality and opportunity. Our job is to listen …

Michel Bauwens: Renewables Changing Energy Market in 5 Years

Michel Bauwens How renewables will change electricity markets in the next five years Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser Science Direct, 3 June 2012 Abstract Photovoltaic (PV) cells, onshore wind turbines, internet technologies, and storage technologies have the potential to fundamentally change electricity markets in the years ahead. Photovoltaic cells are the most disruptive energy technology as they allow …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Anonymous Internet / UnderNet Beyond Investigators Cost of Cybercrime (PDF) Cybercrime and Terror Cyber Dissidents Handbook Declassifying CT Ops in Yemen and Somalia – No Mention of Drones Has the Drug Industry’s Grip On Health Care Become a Pharmageddon Mexican Cartels – How They Make Their Billions Obama Report on Global Deathcraft Sun’s Eruption on …

Tom Atlee: Emerging Economics #3 – The Sharing Economy

Emerging Economics #3: The Sharing Economy Dear friends One of the key features of “the new economy” is sharing.  More and more people are sharing housing, cars, bikes, tools, meals, skills, money, books, ideas, music, energy, recreation, projects, transportation, knowledge, problem-solving, visions, jobs, ownership, clothes, stories, time… Sharing is a resource in hard times as …

Howard Rheingold: Collaborative Information Filters

Learning Collaborative Information Filters (PDF) Automating filtering via machine learning is an up-and-coming research category for infotention — Howard ” “Predicting items a user would like on the basis of other users’ ratings for these items has become a well-established strategy adopted by many recommendation services on the Internet. Although this can be seen as …

David Isenberg: SPIEGEL – The President of Disappointments

Worth reading. SPIEGEL 06/14/2012 05:49 PM The President of Disappointments How Obama Has Failed to Deliver By Ullrich Fichtner, Marc Hujer and Gregor Peter Schmitz Barack Obama entered the White House as a savior. But he hasn’t delivered. The ideological chasms in the US are as deep as they have ever been, with Republicans blocking the …

Tom Atlee: Occupy Adopts Open Everything Meme

Occupy Rio+20 Publishes Open Source Imperative The following statement will be presented by the Earth Summit WG to the United Nations as a participating group in the Rio+20 conference in Brasil. The Open Source Imperative Hello World, We Who Occupy The Earth thank the UN for supporting civil society through granting us “interested party” status …