Open Source Ecology. Open Source Ecology. From Italy to Iceland: The Promise of Digital Direct Democracy. The use of the Internet as a means of spreading political ideas and organizing social movements has sent shockwaves throughout the political establishment over the last few years.
And as political and economic elites scramble to seize total control over what is currently a free, transparent and equal online environment, citizen activists and other individuals are paving the way for a new type of political mobilization never yet seen. Their tactics include direct democracy and a complete disregard for current political parties. The movement that has perhaps best embodied this trend is “Il movimento cinque stelle,” or the Five Star Movement in Italy. Beppe Grillo, the leader and main spokesman of M5S, has built the movement's status and influence chiefly through one medium: the Internet. What began as a blog for his political ranting evolved into a formidable political movement. You Publish.
US Defender Of Internet Freedom, Keen On Protecting IP Rights. For the third year in a row, the United States mission to the United Nations in Geneva brought together human rights activists from different parts of the world in an effort to promote internet freedom.
At a press briefing, a senior US State Department official described efforts to address challenges to freedom on the internet, and said that intellectual property in the context of internet is a complicated issue. The Internet Freedom Fellows program, whose first round dates back to 2011, is organising events in Geneva, Washington DC, and Stanford University (California), from 4-15 March. The aim of the programme is to bring “human rights activists from across the globe to Geneva, Washington, and Silicon Valley to meet with fellow activists, U.S. and international government leaders, and members of civil society and the private sector engaged in technology and human rights.,” according to the US mission website. Participatory politics: Processing power. Rio grande do sul participarory budget. The Brazilian Workers Party and the participatory budget in Rio Grande do Sul.
By Ben Reid August-April 2003 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, no. 23 -- Many of the most important mass struggles today are occurring within Latin America—in Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil.
These countries vary considerably in their political and economic crises. Peer To Patent. If you have landed at this page thinking you were going to the Peer To Patent working page (formerly www.peertopatent.org), it is because the project has completed its mission.
The goal of Peer To Patent has been to demonstrate that citizen-expert could make a meaningful contribution to identifying useful prior art relevant to the examination of pending patent applications. After running two pilots in the U.S. (from 2007-2009 and 2010-2011), there can be little doubt as to the value of opening the prior art search process to volunteers. Mission. About us - Public-i. We pioneered webcasting in the public sector over a decade ago.
At that time the concept of opening up the council chamber to public viewership was met with significant concern, and we began working with some forward-thinking clients who wanted to challenge the status quo and experiment with how technology could help the ways in which they interact with the public. Times have changed. Today, openness and transparency in public matters are fundamental expectations – and the way people interact with each other has radically evolved.
Social media has become central not only to the way we communicate or share ideas, as a broadcast channel, but more importantly to the way in which we interact, collaborate and network – it’s conversational. As Europe’s leading provider of strategies and technologies that support democratic engagement, Public-i continues to be at the centre of a network of thought leaders and technology experts who are breaking new ground to navigate that change.
Madison. The Internet is not a Surveillance State… In his March 16, 2013 opinion column on CNN.com, Bruce Schneier called the Internet a “surveillance state”.
Direct Democracy, 2.0. Angelika Warmuth/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Members of the Pirate Party attended a conference in Neumünster, Germany, last month.
I FIRST took real notice of the Pirates last summer during the campaign for city elections in Berlin. German electioneering is quaint, even faintly musty by American standards. Political advertising mostly takes the form of full-color head shots of the candidates hung on light posts and telephone poles with interchangeable slogans about working for a brighter future. Liquid Democracy e.V. Better Than Free. [Translations: Belarusian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish] The internet is a copy machine.
At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. Our digital communication network has been engineered so that copies flow with as little friction as possible.
Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government. Time For A Slow-Word Movement - Forbes.com.