New sustainable models for creativity
drafted during 4 months by the Free/Libre Culture Forum. Each year, the FCForum brings together key organisation and active voices in the sphere of free/libre culture. It responds to the need for an international arena in which to put together and coordinate a global framework for action, and to the need to defend and expand [...]
Read moreComplex Networks Explained
Film: the future of food.
I am posting this film here because it is the a shocking issue and we don’t hear enough about it. I get very emotional about this issue and emotional is said never to lead good approaches, but emotional we are, and emotion lead our choices. The film is not only about the US and how [...]
Read moreACTA may hamper fight against climate change
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may hamper the fight against climate change by inhibiting the diffusion of green technology, according to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). Behind closed doors, the European Union, United States, Japan and other trade partners are negotiating an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA will contain new international norms for [...]
Read moreBeagle a great TV program.
Beagle: On the future of species The voyage of the HMS Beagle has been described as the most important journey ever made. During his travels, Charles Darwin gathered information and knowledge that would drastically change the way we look at the world. With his book “On the Origin of Species” (1859) Darwin would be the [...]
Read moreImagine there would be an alternative monetary currency for environmental value.
An improvement of the linkage between the economical and the environmental sphere might contribute to a resolution of our current environmental crisis. Potentially, the introduction of the ECO currency can contribute to such a linkage, yet, further study is needed on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the ECO concept. The ECO–currency project explores [...]
Read moreUshahidi – “testimony” in Swahili – is a beautifull idea
Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili), is a location-based service that allows people to tell a central aggregator, essentially, where they are and what they’re doing. Any few false data points are overwhelmed by the aggregate picture, and we get a user-created map of where earthquake victims are located, where terrorists are hiding, where there are food [...]
Read moreBig Brother Awards in Nederland.
Amsterdam, 5 februari 2009 – De grootste privacyschenders van de afgelopen jaren zijn bekendgemaakt. Op vrijdag 5 februari werden tijdens een stampvol symposium de Big Brother Awards 2009 uitgereikt aan Minister Ter Horst, de nieuwe vingerafdrukdatabank, T-Mobile en Vodafone en mobiele naaktscanners van de politie. Met deze prijzen worden elk jaar personen, bedrijven, overheden en [...]
Read moreAs fotos do Astronauta
http://twitpic.com/photos/Astro_Soichi Será que a Amazonia ainda vai estar verde no ano que vem, ou vai estar devastada, cheia de bois brancos fazendo cocô e jogando gas metanol no ar?
Read moreDominant Power: Why The Cloud Tsunami Changes Everything?
Survival Blue-Print Where once fire, brute force, mechanised violence and then wealth through industry and trading were dominant forms of power in the world, information manifest as digital capital is now becoming the dominant power in the 21st century. Those nations and organisations with the greatest freedom of information and means of transmitting it have [...]
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