Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? What if more of us did? This week, we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist, whose organization, The City as Living Laboratory, strives to empower people to create not the cliché of the sustainable city, she says, but places of living and breathing, creative sustenance. Then we speak to scholars Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh about the promises of “commoning” for our environment – and our social health.

Landwehr, 1968 in Heilbronn geboren, studierte nach dem Abitur von 1990 bis 1995 Geschichte, Germanistik und Rechtswissenschaft in Augsburg, Freiburg, Basel und Dublin. 1999 wurde er in Freiburg mit einer Arbeit über die Implementation frühneuzeitlicher Policeyordnungen promoviert. 2003 wechselte er als Juniorprofessor für Europastudien an die  Heinrich-Heine-Universität. Nach der Habilitation 2005 wurde Landwehr 2008 auf die Professur für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit am Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften berufen.

Originally posted on Medium on 21st January 2019.

I frequently encounter a notion, among those drawn to cooperatives, that a cooperative should be an amorphous, faceless collective in which old-world skills and norms of leadership can be discarded. How does this work out for them? Not well.

Originally posted on LabGov.City on 21st February 2019, written by Monica Bernardi, The Urban Media Lab

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Internetabhängigkeit kann eine Verhaltenssucht darstellen. Ab wann sprechen wir von einem Missbrauch im Sinne einer psychischen Störung? Wie können wir diese möglichst frühzeitig erkennen? Welche Behandlungsansätze kann die Psychotherapie als Hilfestellung für Betroffene anbieten?.

Taxing the Internet: A social media tax in Uganda has prompted many users to quit those same sites, The Guardian reports. The tax, intended to raise government revenues and discourage “idle talk,” amounts to 200 Ugandan shillings, or about U.S. 5 cents, per day. More than one million people have quit taxed mobile apps, the story says.

On Monday 4th March 2019, Catherine Stihler, the new chief executive of Open Knowledge International, will deliver a keynote speech – Fighting for a more open world – at the Open Belgium 2019 conference in Brussels. Read the speech below and visit the Open Belgium website or follow the hashtag to learn more about the event.

This post by Marco Quaglia is cross-posted from Shareable

Digital connectivity plays an anchor role in unlocking innovation and prosperity around the world, but increasing cyber threat is a roadblock to collective path of progress.
The article by Dr. R. Seetharaman was published in the Gulf Times on February 24, 2019.

World Kashmir Awareness (WKA) Board in its meeting on February 23, 2019 regrets the death of 45 Indian soldiers recently killed at Pulwama, Kashmir.
The blog post was published in Kashmir Watch on February 25, 2019. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.

Gurshabad Grover participated in the fifteenth meeting of the Information Systems Security and Biometrics Sectional Committee (LITD 17) of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which was conducted online on February 26.
Some of the things we discussed included:

More than 30 organisations and industry bodies, including Ficci, CII and the Cellular Operators Association of India, have written to the Electronics and IT Ministry (MeitY), urging it not to ban online content related to the Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS).
The article by Press Trust of India was carried in the Times of India on February 28, 2019.

Across the Planet Young People are Mobilizing

“I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.” 16 year – old Greta Thunberg at Davos – January 2019

Towards a Co-operative CommonWealth: Transition in a Perilous Century

Yesterday, February 28, 2019, dozens of civic leaders, civil servants, and students gathered at New York University’s new building in downtown Madrid to hear leaders from Spain’s largest municipalities discuss the social and equitable challenges created by the housing market pressures in their respective cities.

Você já deve ter brincado de lego alguma vez na vida. Já pensou em como cada bloco tem versatilidade para integrar diferentes estruturas? É assim que dados abertos funcionam – mas em vez de brinquedos, com eles se constroem retratos da realidade. Nesse post especial do Open Data Day, data que ocorre há 9 anos e celebra iniciativas ao redor do mundo, vamos falar sobre como dados abertos podem ajudar a construir democracia.
 
A diferença entre dado e informação

What
a pleasant surprise to learn that some people at the United Nations –
specifically, its Inter-Parliamentary Union – want to know more about
how commons might be relevant to the “multilateral system” of
international governance and assistance.   

I was happy to oblige by participating on a conference panel last Friday, February 22, called “The
Multilateral System in the Public Eye: The Impact of Mass
Communications.” (The conference itself was entitled “Emerging
Challenges to Multilateralism: A Parliamentary Response.”)

Seit der einstimmigen Entscheidung der Hochschulwahlversammlung der HHU am 4. Dezember 2018 steht fest: Prof. Dr. Stefan Marschall wird zum 1. März 2019 Prorektor für Internationales und Wissenschaftskommunikation. Neben der Weiterführung der Internationalisierung und Ausbau der zahlreichen Partnerschaften mit Universitäten außerhalb Deutschlands wird ein Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeit die stärkere Vernetzung der HHU mit der Politik, mit Verbänden und NGOs sein.

Page Type: Eventlunch27 marzo 2019
Marc Perrin (CNAM, Centro Nexa)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 27/03/2019 - 13:00 to 14:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

On Wednesday, February 27, SMEX officially launched its online freedom of expression (FoE) case database, Muhal (muhal.org), at its Masaha space in Beirut.
Muhal is SMEX’s ongoing, evidence-based campaign to document detentions and arrests related to online freedom of speech in Lebanon. SMEX Executive Director Mohamad Najem presented attendees with the platform, explaining its aim, research methodology, and user interface.