Putting Open at the Heart of the Digital Age. Introduction I’m Rufus Pollock. In 2004 I founded a non-profit called Open Knowledge The mission we set ourselves was to open up all public interest information – and see it used to create insight that drives change. What sort of public interest information? In short, all of it. From big issues like how our government spends our taxes or how fast climate change is happening to simple, everyday, things like when the next bus is arriving or the exact address of that coffee shop down the street. For the last decade, we have been pioneers and leaders in the open data and open knowledge movement. But today I’m not here to talk specifically about Open Knowledge or what we do. Instead, I want to step back and talk about the bigger picture. Gutenberg and Tyndale To do that I first want to tell you a story. The second is William Tyndale. Tyndale followed the classic path of a scholar at the time and was ordained as a priest.
Tyndale had an independent mind. Tyndale replied: Internet But … why Openness. Convergence towards the global middle: an emerging architecture for the international human rights movement. The international human rights movement is wrestling with a basic question: if all real change takes place at the local or national level—that is, human rights can only be realized by actual human beings living in specific contexts—what does it mean to be “international”? Indeed, as the movement has shifted focus from developing and strengthening international norms to implementing and realizing rights on the ground, there has been a re-calibrating of the balance between global and local actors. Moreover, some strong NGOs in the global south are actively seeking different sources of authority, knowledge, framing and agenda-setting power. They are challenging northern dominance and developing their own capacity to shape global debates.
At stake is the future effectiveness of the movement in securing rights for people worldwide. Over the past 40 years, the human rights movement has evolved in two directions. The second trajectory involved the international human rights NGO. Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escape the NSA | World news | The Observer. It’s the not knowing that’s the hardest thing, Laura Poitras tells me. “Not knowing whether I’m in a private place or not.”
Not knowing if someone’s watching or not. Though she’s under surveillance, she knows that. It makes working as a journalist “hard but not impossible”. It’s on a personal level that it’s harder to process. “I try not to let it get inside my head, but… I still am not sure that my home is private. Poitras’s documentary about Edward Snowden, Citizenfour, has just been released in cinemas. Bad, not just for Snowden, I say? What’s remarkable is that my conversation with Poitras will be the first of a whole series of conversations I have with people in Berlin who either are under surveillance, or have been under surveillance, or who campaign against it, or are part of the German government’s inquiry into it, or who work to create technology to counter it. People’s reactions in Germany to the Snowden revelations differed to those in Britain or America. “Exactly! Protestforscher im Interview. 26.03.2014: »Kämpfe müssen vielfältig sein«
Diplom-Soziologin Judith Vey ist Gastwissenschaftlerin am Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung in Berlin. Mit ihr sprach Ralf Hutter über die verschiedenen Protestformen des Blockupy-Bündnisses. Bei den Blockupy-Protesten 2013 in Frankfurt am Main wurde auch gegen die Arbeitsbedingungen im Einzelhandel demonstriert. Foto: imago/epd nd: Im Mai stehen wieder Blockupy-Proteste an. Sie haben für Ihre Doktorarbeit ab 2009 die Vorläufer-Protestbündnisse begleitet. Was genau haben Sie erforscht? Vey: Ich habe vor allem Großveranstaltungen und bundesweite Krisendemonstrationen untersucht und evaluiert, welche Gesellschaftsentwürfe aus den jeweiligen Kriseninterpretationen, Forderungen und Strategien folgen.
Wie sind Sie vorgegangen? Was sind die zentralen Ergebnisse Ihrer Forschung? Eine sogenannte große Erzählung soll eine Vielzahl sozialer Milieus zusammenbringen und deren politischem Streben Ankerpunkte in der Vergangenheit und Ziele oder Ideale geben. The Global Resonance of the Real Democracy Movement. In a new paper, ROAR authors Leonidas Oikonomakis and Jerome Roos recount how the struggle for real democracy resonated with activists around the globe. Que No Nos Representan: The Crisis of Representation and the Resonance of the Real Democracy Movement from the Indignados to Occupy By Leonidas Oikonomakis and Jérôme E. Roos European University Institute Paper to be presented at the conference on ‘Street Politics in the Age of Austerity: From the Indignados to Occupy’, University of Montreal, February 21-22, 2013.
“Revolutionary movements do not spread by contamination but by resonance.” ~ Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection Introduction: Real Democracy Now! The year 2011 marked a watershed in the modern history of social movements. From the very start, it was clear that the Spanish indignados, the Greek aganaktismenoi and the American occupiers were not the usual suspects of left-wing politics.
Read more… Jérôme E. The Engagement Pyramid: Six Levels of Connecting People and Social Change. What does it mean to "engage people"? Gideon Rosenblatt talks through six different levels of engagement people can have with your organization, in an article reprinted from Groundwire. Reprinted with permission from Groundwire. You can read more about this organization at groundwire.org, where you'll also find the article "What is your Engagement Superpower?
" One of the things Groundwire does is help environmental organizations build better strategies for engaging people. You can learn more about why they think civic engagement is so critical to building a sustainable society from their Theory of Change, but the short answer is that it builds power – power that influences decisions that shape society and impact the planet.
Civic engagement can mean a lot of different things though – from the casual forwarding of a friend’s email to deep involvement on a board of directors. Our Ladder of Engagement has six rungs, or levels, which are outlined in detail below. Brazil explodes in a furious feast of democracy. Government U-turn on bus fares fails to stem wave of unrest as millions of Brazilians take to the streets in 100 cities in the biggest protests so far. Burning cars in Rio. Violent clashes between police and protesters in Salvador. Security forces desperately trying to keep the angry masses out of Congress and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brasília. A riotous mob looting stores in Porto Allegre. But also smiley faces and a festive atmosphere in São Paulo and dozens of other cities, as people finally encountered each other in the public sphere again — struggling for the right to be heard and for the dignity of ruling their own destiny.
Struggling, in other words, for real democracy. These were just some of the images emerging from Brazil on Thursday night as the country witnessed yet another explosion of popular outrage following Monday’s groundbreaking and historic demonstrations. Photo: Rio de Janeiro, 20/06/2013 Photo: Recife, 20/06/2013 Photo: Salvador, 20/06/2013. The dangerous dreams of Slavoj Žižek. The new politics of the internet: Everything is connected. The new politics of the internet: Everything is connected. Opinion / Interview : Why the middle class is revolting.
Saskia Sassen speaks with a formidable energy. She engages her audience with her extensive research as she takes you through the “architecture” of globalization, the Global Street, cities and financialization. You may not make all the right connections at once but you are riveted. She was in Mumbai recently to inaugurate a workshop on Subaltern Urbanism hosted by Columbia University’s Mumbai Global Centre, with Support from the Women Creating Change Project. She is the Robert S Lynd professor of Sociology at Columbia University and co chair of the Committee on Global Thought. Author of several path breaking books on Globalisation, her five-year project with UNESCO on sustainable human settlements was published as a volume in the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. Excerpts How do you view the recent massive protests in New Delhi? In reality, these kinds of protests are happening all over the world, around specific issues in each country. In short, something is happening.
The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network : Scientific Reports. The role that SNSs play in helping protests grow is uncontested by most media reports of recent events. However, there is not much evidence of how exactly these online platforms can help disseminate calls for action and organize a collective movement. Our findings suggest that there are two parallel processes taking place: the dynamics of recruitment, and the dynamics of information diffusion. While being central in the network is crucial to be influential in the diffusion process, there is no topological position that characterizes the early participants that trigger recruitment. This suggests that whatever exogenous factors motivate early participants to start sending messages, the consequence is that they create random seeding in the online network: they spur focuses of early activity that are topologically heterogeneous and that spread through low threshold individuals.
Our data has two main limitations. The Network Society After Web 2.0: What Students Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street. Web 2.0 is a common buzzword used to describe social media. The term gained traction in the mid-2000s to describe a change in the way people interacted with media online. Rather than simply being passive consumers, individuals could now interact with media, by making mashups with Google Maps or leaving comments on purchases at Amazon. They could blog about issues that were important to them and interact with a community of other like-minded individuals. In short, the promise of Web 2.0 is that individuals were no longer beholden to media corporations but had gained a kind of autonomy. However, this view of Web 2.0 is somewhat different from the original meaning of the term. While this is an improvement on what preceded it, such systems are necessarily closed—see what happened when Apple abandoned Google Maps.
But this isn't the only way of thinking about how networked communities —and the data they produce—should be. Syria's iPhone insurgency makes for smarter rebellion. News from the Aleppo frontline sounded good: Syrian rebels had expected the enclave under their control might be overrun by superior government forces, but instead they stopped the advance and knocked out several armored vehicles, leaving dead Syrian troops on the road. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition But were those reports real?
The answer came within an hour, a couple blocks from that fight in the embattled Salaheddin district, when a rebel in civilian clothes appeared with a beaming smile and a small video camera. His footage clearly showed a smoldering hole in a Syrian armored personnel carrier, and several uniformed soldiers lying dead in the road, where they had taken up firing positions. "He's a hero! " Like so much of the combat footage of this 17-month uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, this was taken by a rebel activist to be loaded onto YouTube. Occupy Wall Street and a New Politics for a Disorderly World.
The global financial crisis has provoked a profound and necessary questioning of the prevailing political and economic orthodoxy. So pervasive is this disillusionment with the current order that it is hard to find anyone prepared to defend it. Disorder is the new order; disequilibrium rules, and old assumptions no longer hold. As Kuhn’s theory might suggest, the rank contradictions of the current political-economic paradigm—gross inequality and massive environmental destruction—are so great that a new paradigm should emerge: a system of thought and method of political action that can address these ills, and indeed offer a better method of organizing and understanding human society. About the Author Carne Ross Carne Ross is the author of The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the... Also by the Author The United States and its allies should be putting pressure on Qaddafi in ways that don't involve violent military intervention.
The tribe of GV. How Networks become Communities | dialogtexte. I just returned from Nairobi, where I took part in the Global Voices Summit 2012. I am still overwhelmed by the real impact a virtual network can have. Gobal Voices is not a virtual network, it is a real community. Community is not created by technical tools. It is made up by humans who belong to a certain group, which follows common values and goals. We should stop thinking, that the virtual world is becoming real. It is the humans who are hugging people that they see for the first time in their live. It is the humans who feel so close to the one sitting next to them in a coference room, because they are working together on the same project, have the same ideas, the same goals. I am very thankful, that I not only belong to one, but to two such networks. Both networks have in common, that they have regular meetings, where the members can meet in person. I am overwhelmed by the closeness that is created by the term „we“.
We are Global Voices. Thank you GV! Keine ähnlichen Beiträge gefunden. Zeynep Tufekci | How Social Media Is Changing the Cultural Landscape - We Are All Digital Immigrants. The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation. Moving beyond the conceptual polarisation of tight-knit vanguardist parties and loose-tie virtual networks, Rodrigo Nunes sifts the residue of last year’s wave of revolts to produce a more nuanced picture of organisational dynamics in the age of Web 2.0 2011 was an exceptional year, one which could – hopefully – come to be remembered in the same breath as 1968 and 1848.
That being so will depend on whether the coming years will fulfil its promise, making it appear retrospectively as the start of something. Understanding the nature of that promise, and the means by which it can be fulfilled, therefore, are part and parcel of making that happen. A key challenge in this regard is to strip what happened in 2011, as much as possible, from false representations, both negative and positive, created by media coverage and the sometimes misleading reflections of protesters. 1.
It is Possible to Have a Mass Movement Without Mass Organisations 2. Image: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 3. Egypt’s revolution: Bread, freedom, social justice and why global solidarity matters. Comrades from Cairo 2012-06-07, Issue 588 Printer friendly version There is 1 comment on this article. cc J RThe Egyptian revolution is important for all struggles against militarized power, exploitation, class stratification, and police violence. Join the resistance to the counter-revolution.
To you at whose side we struggle, From the beginning of the Egyptian revolution, the powers that be have launched a vicious counter-revolution to contain our struggle and subsume it by drowning the people’s voices in a process of meaningless, piecemeal political reforms. Only 18 days into our revolution, and since we forced Mubarak out of power, the discourse of the political classes and the infrastructure of the elites, including both state and private media, continues to privilege discussions of rotating ministers, cabinet reshuffles, referendums, committees, constitutions and most glaringly, parliamentary and now presidential elections. 1. 2. 3. 4.