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Topic: Awareness Research

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Blogs: What is The Commons?

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 03:24 PM

This comes from, "onthecommons.org." The commons is a new way to express a very old idea ¬ñ that some forms of wealth belong to all of us, and that these community resources must be actively protected and managed for the good of all. The commons consists of gifts of nature such as air, water, the oceans, wildlife and wilderness, and shared assets like the Internet, the airwaves used for broadcasting, and public lands. The commons also includes our shared social creations: libraries, parks, public spaces as well as scientific research, creative works and public knowledge that have accumulated over centuries.

Blogs: Seattle Planetwork Forum

Sunday, October 17, 2004 - 08:51 PM

Yesterday's Planetwork forum was a real success. It was an interesting mix of online initiative presentations with one consistent theme being the leveraging of "social" networking technologies for progressive causes. There was genuine enthusiasm for WatershedWeb, both for our watershed focus and the CivicSpace code package features...

Blogs: Be Now Here: Free & Open Networks

Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 02:08 PM

In the concluding paragraphs of the decision, Justice Sidney R. Thomas (9th US Circuit Court, LA) wrote: "[W]e live in a quicksilver technological environment with courts ill-suited to fix the flow of internet innovation....The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to old markets and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through well-established distribution mechanisms," the court wrote. The Ninth Circuit decision is based in part on the fact that P2P networks have significant non-infringing uses, and that they can help artists earn money, The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports.

People: Tom Atlee, Some ways we can be wise

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 04:27 PM

When people talk about wisdom, they often use sight-related words like insight, foresight, discernment, farsightedness, brilliance, reflection, illumination, enlightenment, visionary and seer. "I am writing about wisdom to recover it from esoteric realms and place it solidly in the middle of our collective lives where the world lives or dies, depending on how wise we learn how to be together."

People: Citizen Deliberative Councils

Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 11:14 AM

The evolution in "'Citizen Deliberative Councils' can and should be used in a wide variety of ways to increase the potency of our democracy. Citizen Deliberative Councils can increase both the power of "We the People" and the quality of the decisions made and implemented with that power." -Tom Atlee, Co-Intelligence Institute

Blogs: Common Channels & more

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 02:57 AM

Common Channels is a service for encouraging activity within and amongst online groups. Your group is welcome to sign up for the channels for free. They are working out the details how to set this up on a case-by-case basis. Sign your group up to a channel by providing an email address with permission to send letters to your group. Then let us know the channels that you desire! Write to Andrius Kulikauskas, Minciu Sodas Laboratory.

Emergent Planetary Inter-networking

Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 02:31 AM

The next planetwork Forum will be on Thursday, November 20th from 6:00 to 10:00 pm at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. (link to calendar item)

Planetwork is dedicated to the creation and maintenance of a digital commons, that will strengthen civil society by enabling people to connect, communicate, make transactions, and self-organize in a manner that is consistent with the highest principles of democracy and supports the sustainable restoration and stewardship of our planet.

Projects: Open Source E-voting Aussie-style

Monday, November 03, 2003 - 06:06 PM

While critics grow more concerned each day about the insecurity of electronic voting machines, Australians designed a system two years ago that addressed and eased most of those concerns: They chose to make the software running their system completely open to public scrutiny.

Blogs: New Book on Sustainable Governance

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 12:38 PM

Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society. Recently met the author, Bob Doppelt at a introduction/presentation he gave at the University of Oregon.

Organizations: Planetworkers Unite

Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 11:42 AM

The next planetwork Forum will be on Thursday, October 30th from 6:00 to 10:00 pm at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. (link to calendar item)

This monthly event is an opportunity to update the cultural creative community in San Francisco on how our various projects are progressing and discuss opportunities for greater synergy and collaboration.