Commons, Enclosure, and the Politics of Gentleness
Michel Bauwens: Few people have studied the protocols and processes of enclosures as Anthony McCann has, and this very interesting podcast represents an overview of years of study and insight into the matter. Recommended! As Anthony says:
Open government and citizen participation: an empirical analysis of citizen expectancy towards open government data
Bernd W. Wirtz, Jan C. Weyerer, and Michael Rösch in the International Review of Administrative Sciences: “Citizens are at the heart of open government, and their participation represents a fundamental principle of the latter.
Presenting FundAction, a participatory grant making platform
Welcome to the FundAction blog; please, make yourself at home!
We are a new peer-to-peer fund. We are run by a community of activists seeking social change in all corners of Europe. We are currently supported by a group of four funders.
Our activities are grounded in the following values:
Peer to peer respect
We learn from and with each other without hierarchy. We trust each other, and view respect as the root of good collaboration.
Openness and Inclusivity
The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline
Emily Badger in The New York Times: “Most theories for the great crime decline that swept across nearly every major American city over the last 25 years have focused on the would-be criminals.
Participatory Budgeting: Does Evidence Match Enthusiasm?
Brian Wampler, Stephanie McNulty, and Michael Touchton at Open Government Partnership: “Participatory budgeting (PB) empowers citizens to allocate portions of public budgets in a way that b
Bot.Me: A revolutionary partnership
PWC Consumer Intelligence Series: “The modern world has been shaped by the technological revolutions of the past, like the Industrial Revolution and the Information Revolution. The former redefined the way the world values both human and material resources; the latter redefined value in terms of resources while democratizing information.
Open Source Hardware Collaboration Survey – How people work together to design open source products
How do people work together to design open-source hardware products? What is the level of openness, trust and collaboration within such projects? Do the communities share common goals and visions and how do they allocate workloads? These are some core questions related to demystifying open-source hardware projects that Robert Mies and Jérémy Bonvoisin try to answer in the research project entitled “OPEN!
Zojuist verschenen: Van Meme tot mainstream van Nadine Roestenburg
Nadine Roestenburg, Van meme tot mainstream: internetkunst, esthetiek en offline luxe in een postdigitale wereld, Mu Eindhoven, 2017, 19,95 euro, te bestellen via de MU website: http://www.mu.nl/nl/shop/van-meme-tot-mainstream.
Join Us at the Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges Conference
Tom Llewellyn: The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges kicks off this weekend at The New School and Civic Hall in New York City, New York. The annual event — now in its third year — will bring together a diverse group of experts who are pushing the platform co-op movement forward.
The Commons in Latin America: Struggles, Policies and Research
The Commons in Latin America: Struggles, Policies and Research is a two day conference taking place in December 12th and 13th 2017 in Amsterdam. The following information is extracted from the conference website.
The concept in construction
Pull the Plug on Internet Spying Programs
Every day, the U.S. government sweeps up the emails, text messages, and other online communications of millions of innocent Americans. Congress has a chance to rein in this unconstitutional spying when a key surveillance authority expires at the end of this year.
Científicos analizaron desafíos de la genética para la conservación
El Campus Sur de la Universidad de Chile congregó a investigadores de reconocidas instituciones de Brasil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile y Francia para analizar el impacto de las nuevas aproximaciones de la genética enfocada en el área de la conservación ambiental y generar mayor colaboración a nivel regional.En los últimos veinte años, el problema de la pérdida de diversidad biológica y la extinción de especies debido a la actividad humana ha generado interés por buscar soluciones, tanto en el desarrollo de técnicas analíticas para identificar las causas del problema como en t
Estudiantes de Quemchi y de Pedagogía intercambian experiencias
En lo que es la primera parte de esta iniciativa impulsada por dicha Facultad, doce estudiantes secundarios se encuentran visitando y desarrollando actividades en la Casa de Bello, mientras que en los próximos días será un número igual de estudiantes de Pedagogía en Educación Media en Biología y Química los que llegarán hasta Chiloé para realizar su práctica temprana, acompañados por cinco académicos.
Crean la primera aplicación chilena para la identificación de aves
BuscAves es el nombre de la App gratuita que están desarrollando un grupo de profesionales de la Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias (FAVET), liderados por la académica Valeria Rojas.
BANCH: 72 años difundiendo la danza contemporánea en Chile y el mundo
Creado a mediados de los años '40 con el objetivo de impulsar el desarrollo de la cultura y en particular de la danza en nuestro país, el Ballet Nacional Chileno (BANCH), primer conjunto de su tipo en Chile, ha desarrollado una importante labor de difusión artística a lo largo de 72 años.
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