A BRICS Political Response to the Unsustainable Unipolar Global Internet

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Global Citizen, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks

A BRICS Political Response to the Unsustainable Unipolar Global Internet    by Parminder Jeet Singh*   In part because the time is short, I will completely eschew the conventional vocabulary and discourse that is currently employed for discussing Internet governance (IG) and go directly to the heart of the matter. …

The Next System Project: Can We Imagine a Future Worth Fighting For?

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, SRI/ESG News, Global Citizen, Wealth of Networks

The Next System Project: Can We Imagine a Future Worth Fighting For? Creating the kind of society—and world—we’d like now and for future generations. Read more » > TECH Creative Commons Launches Open Business Models Initiative Helping entrepreneurs, organizations, and governments to use Creative Commons licenses and still generate income. …

CSRwire News Alert – General Mills approach to advancing a sustainable supply chain

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Global Citizen, Wealth of Networks

More Secret Videos from Chevron Whistleblower Show Ecuadorian Villager Asking for Help Oil Giant Never Provided Published: Apr 17, 2015 – 01:20 PM EST OAKLAND, Calif., Apr. 17 /CSRwire/ – Amazon Watch has released more secret video footage from a Chevron whistleblower today, showing an Ecuadorian villager asking for help …

This month, ILSR offers insight into how our projects connect to this month’s events, research, and news stories. –> Look Inside!

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Wealth of Networks

This month from ILSR: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) relied heavily on ILSR research for its recently issued new rules on Community Broadband Networks. Read our insight.  Our article on how neighborhoods are developing their own commercial real estate has been widely discussed. Read the article. TODAY is the deadline for signing …

Managing Digital Assets

Jay OwenWealth of Networks

Here is a weblink to it on the Aspen Institute Communications & Society Program’s InfoTech conference webpages: http://infotech.aspeninstitute.org/Roundtable-on-Information-Technology/2014/report

Court rules that there are no checks and balances

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Reforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions, SRI/ESG News, Global Citizen, Sustainability News, Resource Efficiency, Greentech, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks, Beyond GDP, Crowdfunding, Nature/Biomimicry, Transforming Finance

Financial Reform Newsletter March 20, 2015 Court rules that there are no checks and balances when the Executive Branch settles cases, even those that caused the worst financial crash since 1929 and caused the worst economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s, costing the US more than $12.8 trillion: …

FINANCE: SOEs Squash Ant Financial Valuation

Jay OwenWealth of Networks

                                                         DAILY NEWSLETTER                                                           March 2, 2015 FINANCE: SOEs Squash Ant Financial Valuation   Yet another report has come out about an ongoing private placement by Ant Financial, saying the financial services affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) is now planning a domestic ipo in 2017. That’s a little later …