“Re-imagining the left through an ecology of the commons: towards a post-capitalist commons transition” (Michel Bauwens and Jose Ramos) was recently published by the journal Global Discourse (Routledge, Taylor and Francis) as an exploratory proposal for a comprehensive commons transition movement and strategy that twines an ontology of human evolutionary forms with strategies for commoning. It is intended as a stepping stone discussion in the context of post-capitalist / commons transition.

Pani Haq Samti’s ‘People’s Campaign’ had the dual aim of mobilizing public opinion to oppose the privatisation of water supplies in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and securing the distribution and re-establishment of water as a right.
In Mumbai, the right to water in people’s settlements (known as slums) was revoked in 1996 when the Maharashtra Urban Development Department instructed all municipal corporations to stop water infrastructure being installed in them.

The P2P Lab is happy to announce the launch of
“The cultiMake project: Crowdsourcing open source agricultural solutions”,
celebrating the gathering of designers, makers and farmers who are adapting to the digitised world.
Where: Habibi.Works, Ioannina (Greece)
When: From Monday, July 30th to Friday, August 3rd.

Renee Sieber and Rachel Bloom at SocArXiv Papers: In many ways, a precondition to realizing the promise of open government data is the standardization of that data. Open data standards ensure interoperability, establish benchmarks in assessing whether governments achieve their goals in publishing open data, can better ensure accuracy of the data. Interoperability enables the use of off-the shelf software and can ease third party development of products that serves multiple locales.

Brian W. Head at Policy and Society: “Rittel and Webber boldly challenged the conventional assumption that ‘scientific’ approaches to social policy and planning provide the most reliable guidance for practitioners and researchers who are addressing complex, and contested, social problems.

Paper by Kristen Eichensehr: “U.S. technology companies are increasingly standing as competing power centers that challenge the primacy of governments. This power brings with it the capacity to bolster or undermine governmental authority, as well as increasing public demands for the companies to protect users from governments. The companies’ power raises serious questions about how to understand their role.

About: “The Data Transfer Project was formed in 2017 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want.

If we don’t quickly create a new economy that isn’t based on constant expansion, we’re going to run out of planet.


 
Playing for Team Human today, recorded live on the floor at the Personal Democracy Forum 2018, are Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff. Moira and Ben will be showing us how the tech industry’s promise to build less harmful products and programs is just capitalism’s way of proving that love means never having to say, “I’m sorry.”

Youth and privacy in the Americas: Datos Protegidos, Chile How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This blog post is part of a series showcasing the work of different organizations at the intersection of youth development, digital rights, and online safety. Quick facts Who: Jessica Matus from Datos Protegidos What: Research, workshops, litigation Mission/vision: To promote, defend and educate about the right to privacy […]

El profesor Kukuljan, reelecto el pasado 5 de junio, agradeció a la comunidad de la Facultad de Medicina y señaló que la articulación de ésta será uno de los elementos fundamentales de su nuevo periodo. Con la presencia del ministro de Salud Emilio Santelices y el alcalde de Cerro Navia, Mauro Tamayo, se realizó este viernes 06 de julio la ceremonia de asunción del decano Manuel Kukuljan, correspondiente a su segundo periodo a la cabeza de la Facultad de Medicina.

By bringing broadband to new areas, community networks can help end discrimination, fight climate change, and feed the hungry of the world, says a report newly available as an ebook.

As eleições ainda estão por vir, mas você provavelmente já se deparou com anúncios de políticos na internet, não é? A comunicação digital profissionalizou ainda mais as campanhas eleitorais online, que passam a fazer parte de um trabalho constante construção e lapidação da imagem dos candidatos. Pensando nisso, neste Bytes de Informação Jaqueline Resmini Hansen, Joscimar Silva e Davi Brocanelli, nossos convidados do CEPPI – Centro de Pesquisas em Política e Internet comentam sobre o uso de redes sociais nas campanhas eleitorais. Assista:

Im Rahmen der Promotionsfeier zeichnet Dekan Prof. Dr. Nikolaj Klöcker auch die Doktorarbeit von Dr. Maren Weilandt mit dem Preis für die beste Dissertation 2017 aus. Die Arbeit, die am Institut für klinische Neurowissenschaften der Medizinischen Fakultät der HHU entstand, beschäftigt sich mit der funktionellen Bedeutung bestimmter Hirnregionen und ihrer Verbindung untereinander vor allem im Hinblick auf depressive Erkrankungen.

Darüber hinaus können auch Fragen zu urheberrechtlichen Themen, zu Verlagsverträgen und zu Möglichkeiten der Zweitveröffentlichung eines bereits publizierten Werkes an die ULB gerichtet werden. 
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Letztes Mal schon fertig, hier noch im zweiten Bauabschnitt des Campus-Baus (bis ca. 1975): Die neue Zentralmensa als Baustelle - ein Blick vom Dach des Gebäudes 23.01 in Richtung Universitätsstraße, 1973.

Nithin Coca: Egushi Shintaro is a researcher, author, and organizer, focusing on urban policy, rural revitalization, and civic economy projects. Originally from Fukuoka prefecture in the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, Shintaro is now based in Tokyo.

In late June 2018 I spent a week in the City of Mexico (CDMX), to support the municipal government with a variety of foresight related challenges, through its Laboratorio Para La Ciudad (City Lab).
The Lab was founded and is led by Gabriella Gómez-Mont, as the experimental arm / creative think tank of the Mexico City government, reporting to the Mayor. It is highly innovative in its techniques and strategies for urban development.

There’s just the couple of sessions to highlight on the last day of IETF 102 before we wrap up for the week.

Women and girls are significantly less likely to choose ICT (Information and Communication Technology) studies than men. There are many reasons for this. Barriers to access, but also retention in ICT studies are complex as they are often related not only to economic but also to social and cultural barriers.
A lot of initiatives are being developed worldwide to break these barriers, and at the Internet Society we believe that only if we join efforts we can overcome them and help to close the digital gender gap.