Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government. Open data. Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration. Be The Change Earth Alliance. Our Model for Social Change Our model for social change was developed over the course of several years, and continues to evolve as we explore the frontiers of the social change movement.
About the Program: Welcome. Watch this!
Underneath the mad scramble of materialist consumerism, like subterranean streams of consciousness . . . ever stronger peaceful resistance movements and counter cultures [are gathering], in which young people are already taking the lead. Joan Abbott-Chapman, 2000 The Redfish School of Change is a non-profit program designed for people who want to lead the way in creating ecological sustainability and social equity in their communities.
Each student enters the program with a proposed Community Action Project (CAP) that they develop during the course of our unique field experience, and then work to implement after the program is over. Freetronics. How To Design, Develop and Run a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) Collaborative Consumption is Overrated. Don't get me wrong, I like collaborative consumption.
I think Airbnb makes the world a more interesting place, allowing people have more authentic travel experiences. I love TaskRabbit. I use it all the time for errands. I've written about tool libraries for MAKE Magazine. I get it. But I still think collaborative consumption is overrated compared to the other side of the sharing economy coin: collaborative creation. HackerspaceWiki. Catarina Mota: Play with smart materials. catarina's things. Www.drivemycarrentals.com.au/carhire. Car rental — Canmore, AB, Canada. Getaround - Peer-to-peer car sharing and local car rental. Search Whipcar for Montreal, canada. Dear customers and friends,
Open-source, open world. Open Source Blueprint for a Sustainable Civilization. One Community is open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing everything needed to simultaneously address all the challenges currently facing humanity and build 7 different sustainable village prototypes for sharing it.
The 7 village prototypes will be the first of a global cooperative of self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs purposed to share and spread this model for comprehensive sustainability and collaborative global change for The Highest Good of All. Our initial focus is the following areas: MindMyHouse - Bringing home owners and house sitters together. Kiva. Babyloan - Microcredit Solidaire. OuiShare - Creative community for the Collaborative Economy. Two fantastic years of crowdfunding for the platform Ulule. A few weeks ago, one of the European crowdfunding leaders celebrated their two year anniversary.
Alexandre Boucherot, co-founder and CEO of Ulule takes us back to the very beginning of this adventure and gives an outlook on 2013. Launched in 2010 in France and now available in 6 languages, with 1500 projects financed and more than 4 million Euros collected, Ulule is an undisputed leader of participative financing in Europe using a reward-based model. Their progress illustrates what an intense year it has been for crowdfunding: several projects collected record sums on Kickstarter, the American JOBS act politicized the subject by promoting equity, the sector was restructured around several professional companies, and, altogether, Ulule collected 3 million dollars in 2012, which is double the sum collected in 2011.
With the crowdfunding market growing and beginning to become a real alternative to traditional financing, its market is becoming more populated and diverse. Oocto – We doing our best to help artists, what about you ? Crowdfunding the commons. Crowdfunding + distributed collaboration Goteo is a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, microtasks and other resources) for encouraging the independent development of creative and innovative initiatives that contribute to the common good, free knowledge, and open code.
We support projects with social, cultural, scientific, educational, technological, or ecological objectives that generate new opportunities for the improvement of society and the enrichment of community goods and resources. Goteo adds collective returns to individual rewards. Invest in civic projects you care about · Neighbor.ly. Bulb in Town - Comment ça marche ? Le financement participatif en trois étapes Découvrez les projets des petits commerces et associations près de chez vous.
Soutenez ce projet et recevez en échange des biens et services exclusifs. Profitez de vos contreparties et du projet que vous avez soutenu. Les avantages du crowdfunding (ou financement participatif) sont nombreux En tant que porteur de projet (commerçant ou association) Vous obtenez un financement dans un contexte peu favorable et à un coût réduit. En tant que contributeur Vous aidez un commerce que vous appréciez dans le cadre d'un projet de développement dont vous profiterez aussi. Squatting : freegan.info. As the housing crisis worsens, it is becoming mainstream knowledge that banks are warehousing empty homes because the buildings have higher apparent value on balance sheets than their actual monetary value on the open market.
As of December 2011, many occupiers in the US and elsewhere are embracing a strategy of taking back those warehoused buildings and using them to use as homes and community centers. Open squatting is still very difficult, with lots of police evictions happening, but the basic skills needed to squat are becoming better known. 2012 could be the year of resurgence of widespread squatting in the US. In New York, Organizing for Occupation (O4O) is sharing skills on how to get in and get fixed up.