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Rickard Falkvinge: SWARM – Chapter 9 in The Tactical Manual to CHanging the World

Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World. Chapter Nine. Posted: 01 Oct 2013 04:37 AM PDT Swarm Management:  As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming a little part of it in order to change it …

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Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 66 Semtember 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 66, September 2013 Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation’s monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 70,716 other activists. That’s 1,090 more than last month! View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2013/september Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience …

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Owl: Hedges, Others, Predict US Financial Collapse in 2014

Collapse is Soon, says Hedges, and Others Predict it for 2014 “It is estimated that total derivative exposure of the financial system is between one quadrillion and one and a half quadrillion. A quadrillion is 1,000 trillion dollars and it has largely collapsed.The entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of all the world’s countries in 2011 …

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Patrick Meier: Seven Principles for Big Data & Resilience

Seven Principles for Big Data and Resilience Projects Authored by Kate Crawford, Patrick Meier, Claudia Perlich, Amy Luers, Gustavo Faleiros and Jer Thorp, 2013 PopTech & Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellows.  The following is a draft “Code of Conduct” that seeks to provide guidance on best practices for resilience building projects that leverage Big Data and Advanced Computing. These …

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Event: 23-27 OCT 13 Austria Elevate Open Everything

FESTIVAL HOME PAGE Wednesday, 23.Oct Dom Im Berg 20:00-22:00 Opening Show: Elevate Open Everything? Thursday, 24.Oct Forum Stadtpark 12:00-13:00 Is an open society a free society? 13:30-15:30 Open Democracy 16:00-17:30 Open Source Economy 18:30-20:30 Open Everything? 21:00-23:00 Google and the World Brain (ES,UK/2013) Friday, 25.Oct Forum Stadtpark 09:30-11:30 Commons-based peer production 12:00-13:30 Linux, Apache, Firefox, …

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Jean Lievens: Workshop Report on Use of Mass Collaboraiton in Disaster Management

Workshop report explores use of mass collaboration in disaster management The growing use of social media and other mass collaboration technologies is opening up new opportunities in disaster management efforts, but is also creating new challenges for policymakers looking to incorporate these tools into existing frameworks, according to a new report from the Commons Lab …

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