This article from George Monbiot contains a vital insight, to complement our earlier postings on increased corporate functional governance as explained by Frank Pasquale.

Book by Safiya Umoja Noble: “Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society.

Here’s the problem: The founders of “Mietshäuser Syndikat” (tenements syndicate), a network of cohousing projects in Germany, observed many self-organized cohousing projects struggle and fail. Some couldn’t overcome the challenges in the critical early phases, in terms of dealing with legal issues, finances, and group dynamics, while others created commercially exploited housing projects against their original intentions.

Rachel Botsman at the Guardian: “…Once seen as saviours of democracy, those titans are now just as likely to be viewed as threats to truth or, at the very least, impassive billionaires falling down on the job of monitoring their own backyards.

Dorota Mokrosinska at the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence: “Among the classic arguments which advocates of open government use to fight government secrecy is the appeal to a “people’s right to know.” I argue that the employment of this idea as a conceptual weapon against state secrecy misfires.

For over a year now we in the Sarantaporo.gr nonprofit organization have been in contact with Internet Society in meetings, over online interactions, and through in-person collaboration with people of the organization who visited our village last summer. From the beginning we saw that Internet Society is an organization which we share a lot of common elements with in terms of vision, and that its network is a natural space for our Community Network to be a part of.

Adding to the body of existing tools and training material on cooperative development, ILO now launches Think.Coop, a new training tool for those interested in cooperation and its benefits for improving businesses of potential members.

Book edited by Julia Schwanholz, Todd Graham and Peter-Tobias Stoll: “In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the ‘Internet of Things,’ this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political participation, political election campaigns and political regulation of the Internet.

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The following open letter — signed by Harvard and MIT-based faculty, staff, and researchers — is directed to the Massachusetts Legislature to inform its consideration of risk assessment tools as part of ongoing criminal justice reform efforts in the Commonwealth.

Publication Date

9 Feb 2018
External Links: Read the letter on Medium

A Constituição norte-americana é democrática? A provocante pergunta é título do livro de Robert Dahl que chega ao Brasil por meio FGV Direito Rio e da Editora FGV. A obra do renomado cientista político americano questiona até que ponto a Constituição norte-americana promove metas democráticas e revela os elementos potencialmente antidemocráticos do texto, em vigor desde 1787.
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A Constituição norte-americana é democrática? O Dr. Joaquim Falcão, Professor de direito constitucional da FGV Direito Rio, discute a provocante pergunta, que é título do livro de Robert Dahl e que chega ao Brasil por meio da FGV Direito Rio e da Editora FGV. A obra do renomado cientista político americano questiona até que ponto a Constituição norte-americana promove metas democráticas e revela os elementos potencialmente antidemocráticos do texto, em vigor desde 1787.
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Felipe Recondo - Sócio-fundador do JOTA, site de informações jurídicas: “Para entender a crise política de 2016 é necessário entender também as atuações e omissões do Supremo, para ver como o supremo atuou como árbitro ou como interferiu na crise.”
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Diego Werneck Arguelhes, professor da FGV Direito Rio: “Em 2016, mais do que nunca, o Supremo esteve no centro da vida política nacional.”
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Für ihre Karnevals-Premiere hat sich die Augenklinik etwas Besonderes ausgedacht: Lebensgroße Augen werden die Truppe begleiten. Im Rosenmontagszug hat sie die Nummer 18.01 und läuft direkt hinter dem Prunkwagen der „KG vom Niederrhein“.Alte Hasen im Karnevalstreiben sind dagegen die Kollegen der Neurochirurgie: Bereits zum zweiten Mal laufen sie bei einem Düsseldorfer Veedels-Umzug mit.

In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

„Im Rahmen des Bauantrages wurde auch eine vorzeitige Fassadenprüfung speziell hinsichtlich des Brandschutzes durchgeführt. Unser Bettenhaus West hat mit acht Etagen und einer Höhe von ca. 30 Metern den Status eines Hochhauses, wie es bei vielen anderen Krankenhäusern ebenfalls der Fall ist. Angesichts der bevorstehenden Teilsanierung des Gebäudes konnten wir  in sehr enger und konstruktiver Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bauaufsichtsamt und der Berufsfeuerwehr der Stadt Düsseldorf nun Planungssicherheit und Transparenz zu den seinerzeit verbauten Materialien schaffen“, so Dr.

Commercial sharing platforms have reshaped the transportation and housing sectors in cities and raised challenges for urban policy makers seeking to balance market disruption with community protections. Transformational sharing seeks to strengthen the urban commons to address social justice, equity and sustainability. This paper uses Transformative Social Innovation theory to develop a comparative analysis of Shareable’s Sharing Cities Network and Airbnb’s Home Sharing Clubs.

In dem Workshop wurde der Tango mit seiner „multimodalen Sprache“ (als Musik, Text, Tanz und gesellschaftliches Ereignis mit seinen spezifischen Codes) aus Sicht verschiedener Fachrichtungen betrachtet. Wie manifestiert sich der Tango Argentino, seit 2009 UNESCO-Welterbe, im Zeitalter der Globalisierung?

Capitalism swims like a shark. And upon the shark’s fin an exciting prospect is dancing: commons-based peer production.
This is the prospect we’ve been trying to understand for the last decade. In the next two years, we aim to ground our ideas for a commons transition on stronger empirical evidence.
The main questions we’ll try to answer, which make for four different projects, follow:

Open source products are essential to build a more sustainable, fair and circular economy

Take a look at this project by some of the people in our network. If you’d like to support it, please click on this page to contribute.
How does open source creates social and sustainable impact? If we make products open source this will bring benefits in different manners: