This new book by my longtime friend Jeremy Rifkin (see him on our TV show on “THE FUTURE OF WORK” at www.EthicalMarkets.tv) is his magnum opus. On getting my review copy of his Empathetic Civilization, we chatted about his concepts of this rising consciousness among humans and compared it with …
Shareable magazine on the Rise of a Sharing Industry
One of the top trends for 2009, selected by Shareable magazine: (go to that original article for the links mentioned below) “This year saw the founding of services like Rentalic, Share Some Sugar, and Neighborgoods—all of which rely on the web and mobile technologies to facilitate neighborhood-level sharing. In 2009, …
P2P Foundation: Towards a global innovation commons against climate instability
We are enthusiastic about the huge potential of the GLOBAL INNOVATION COMMONS and Dr. David Martin’s initiative. – Ed David E. Martin, an intellectual property activist who works with many developing countries, argues that a great many green technologies are already in the public domain and ready to be developed. …
Avaaz.org – Copenhagen: “The elephant is moving”
Dear friends, It’s been a tough ending to an amazing week. In all-night negotiations, leaders have reached a weak agreement in Copenhagen that fails to set the emissions targets needed to prevent catastrophic global warming. The agreement was stronger on funding, but it was not binding, and set no urgent …
P2P Foundation
“P2P Foundation” – 3 new articles A spiral evolution towards communal forms? Commons-based Peer Production, Education, and the issue of Open Accreditation The Internet in Numbers
Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals
Announcement (Extension: Second set of deadlines) ======================================================= 1. The 8th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2010 (http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/PISTA) ======================================================= 2. The 4th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2010 (http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/IMSCI) ======================================================= Both conferences will be held collocated (at the same time and the …
Leonardo Energy: The Web Community for Sustainable Energy Professionals – 25 Predictions on low carbon electricity
Prediction markets: the wisdom of the crowd A prediction market makes use of the collective wisdom of its contributors to produce answers to uncertain questions. It is organised in the form of a stock market, with virtual money to stimulate participation. Participants – or ‘traders’ – can earn virtual money …
P2P Foundation Updates
Strong IPR regimes counterproductive for climate change technology transfers SciDev summarizes the conclusions from a new report undertaken by Asian research institutes: “The notion that climate technology cannot be transferred to a developing country unless it has strong intellectual property laws — a cherished belief among developed countries — has …
A Green Knowledge Society: An ICT policy agenda to 2015 for Europe’s future knowledge society
A study for the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, Government Offices of Sweden by SCF Associates Ltd Final Report September 2009 Download the report (PDF)
Free Press Media Reform Daily
The Dirty Truth about Rural Broadband Verizon and other ISPs routinely present rural consumers as their primary concern, suggesting that they are doing all they can to bring them broadband. To call these ISPs hypocritical would be a gross understatement. While they purport to be committed to broadband deployment for …