Graphic: Peer to Peer Governance
Citizen-Centered, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Strategy-Holistic CoherenceGraphic: Conversation Prism
Citizen-Centered, ICT-IT, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Liberation Technology Stakeholders…
09 Justice, 11 Society, Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, IO Technologies
Preliminary List of Stakeholders
Appropedia
Brave New Software
Creative Commons
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Free Network Movement
Free Software Foundation
FreedomBox
Future Forward Institute
New America Foundation
Open Source Ecology
P2P Foundation
Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium
Tor Project Anonymnity Online
Unhosted–Open Web Standard for Decentralizing
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Phi Beta Iota: We disagree on the inclusion of the New America Foundation–they are not stakeholders as much as beltway “think-tank” opportunists, and too heavily reliant on proprietary hooks going nowhere. New Software Foundation has been changed to Free Software Foundation. We would add to the above list:
Autonomo.us
Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference
Cook Report on Internet Protocol
Free Internet
GNU Operating System
Liberation Technology Project (Standford University)
NetZero Free Dial-Up Internet Access
Technology Liberation Front
Many others will be identified over time.
See Also:
Autonomous Internet [Open, Free, Distributed]
Next Net, Transitional Net, Autonomous Net
Charles Wyble: Autonomous Free Internet
Reference: Internet Freedom–and Control
Graphic: Open Process
Capabilities-Force Structure, Citizen-Centered, ICT-IT, Innovation, Multinational Plus, Strategy-Holistic Coherence, Tribes
Event: 14-16 June DC Computers, Freedom, and Privacy–the Future is Now
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The 21st annual Association for Computing Machinery's “Computers, Freedom, and Privacy” conference invites proposals for this year's conference. This year's conference theme is Computers, Freedom, and Privacy: The Future is Now. We encourage multi-stakeholder participation in the conference as speakers, proposal submitters, and attendees that represent the diverse global community of organizations and professionals who work on policy, technology and law. Proposals that focus on the information society and the future of technology, privacy, innovation and law should be submitted following the guidelines outlined below.
We seek panel proposals that take advantage of this year's location in Washington DC. Experts, the public and policy makers each have a part to play in innovation and in moving policy and technology forward, while preserving basic rights and freedoms.
Deadlines: 15 March early bird submissions to organize panel or workshop, 1 May final deadline.
An alternative event with an alternative cast of contributors, is ContactCon in NYC 20 October.
Serious (Honest) Thinking About US Budget
03 Economy, 07 Health, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military
Dear friends,
The three articles below describe major approaches to addressing the deficit — for health care, taxes and the military — that would have a greater impact on America's budget woes than ANYTHING being currently negotiated by Congress and the Obama Administration. Even better, these three things would, if implemented, actually improve the quality of life in the U.S., instead of degrading it, as so many of the current proposals would do. They give a taste of some excellent thinking emerging from the fringes of this “budget crisis” debate.
[After I wrote this I was alerted to another very interesting “People's Budget” recently released with little coverage in the mainstream media, which I recommend to those interested in alternatives.]
When I imagine a Citizens Jury, a Citizens Assembly, or any other randomly selected body of citizens convened to deliberate about the “budget crisis”, this is the kind of information I believe they should be exposed to. We don't need to undermine public health to create affordable health care. We don't need to undermine the wealth of the nation to have a reasonable tax system. We don't need to endanger American security to have a strong, affordable military.
We just need to think a bit outside of the boxes that most mainstream media, pundits, politicians and partisan activists (intentionally) put our minds in, and ask ourselves “What's the REAL problem here — and what would ACTUALLY solve it?”
How to Save a Trillion Dollars
Taxes on the Wealthy: New Top Brackets Needed for the Have Mores
Want to improve US national security? Cut the defense budget.
Continue reading “Serious (Honest) Thinking About US Budget”
US Government Bails Out and Pardons Wall Street, Sends Barry Bonds to Jail–What’s the Difference?
03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests
Barry Bonds Faces Jail Time While Wall Street Execs Sit Pretty
What’s the difference between Barry Bonds and Goldman Sachs executives? The later was fortunate enough to be questioned by incompetent lawmakers while Bonds ended up in a courthouse with an actual jury and prosecutors.
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“The Goldman guys may have worse batting average than Barry Bonds but they were better educated by their lawyers about they should shouldn’t say. They also had the benefit of being questioned by incompetent people who had no idea about the financial nomenclature at the heart of their allegations,” Singer says.
For more on why and how Wall Street has avoided criminal charges and jail time check out today’s story in the New York Times about how regulators have, in some cases, willingly protected banks and their executives.
Of course, Matt Taibbi’s Why Isn’t Wall Street In Jail? is also a must-read.
