iCommons Summit 06 Roundup
By: Heather Ford
What makes a ‘great’ conference? Is it a ‘great’ conference when people like Cory Doctorow say: ‘I’ve been to a lot of conferences and this was truly amazing’? Is it a ‘great’ conference when the event makes the front page of the New York Times Arts and Culture section and when the local media print too many stories to count? Is it a ‘great’ conference when you hear people saying that ‘all their heroes are here’ and that they are having way too much fun to call this ‘work’? Is it a ‘great [...]
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iSummit Faceroll:
Name:
Andrew Rens
Organization:
CcSA Legal Lead
Country:
South Africa
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Coverage:
Reports
Asia Commons: from the iSummit and beyond
July 5th, 2006 by Daniela Faris
After the success of the Asia Commons Conference from 6-8 June in Bangkok, the iCommons Summit served as a meeting space for further discussions amongst Asia Commons rep [...]
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iCommons/Education: for Sidonie?s Generation
June 26th, 2006 by Judy Breck
Shown in the picture here is the lovely daughter of iSummit Artist in Residence Nathaniel Stern, four-week-old South African Sidonie. Her generation will the first to experience fully 21st century education. The Sunday morning Education Commons panel looked at what Sidonie and her contem [...]
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Audio/Video NGO-in-a-box and a New iCommons Collaboration Launched at the iCommons Summit
July 13th, 2006 by Daniela Faris
By: Andrew Lowenthal
The Audio and Video edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of Free and Open Source Software documentation and tutorials for NGOs, non-profits and media activists. Produced by Tactical Tech in c [...]
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Punk commons...
June 29th, 2006 by Andrew Garton
The iSummit has attracted former filmmakers, television producers, lawyers, IT specialists, remix artists and amongst the many more vocations declared here, we even had a “I was once a punk rocker” in our midst. They showed us photos of themselves in dreadlocks just to prove it. A few ho [...]
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Blogs
Libertà di cultura - iSummit a Sapporo
August 29th, 2008
Libertà di cultura - iSummit a Sapporo August 28, 2008 – 5:01 pm Che cosa lo Stato fa, in termini di leggi per proteggere i diritti dei cittadini e incentivare le attività che la Costituzione promuove, dipende da molti fattori. Spesso questo viene visto in due gruppi possibili di scelte: gli stati di origine anglosassone tipicamente fanno il minor numero possibile di leggi (”quello che non è vietato è permesso”); altri invece interpretano uno stato che detta il maggior numero possibile di le
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Live Blogging from iSummit ‘08 in Sapporo
July 30th, 2008
Today (and for all the event) I will be the “official” live blogger for the iSummit 2008, organized by iCommons in Sapporo, Japan. After the success of previous editions in Harvard ‘05, Rio de Janeiro ‘06 and Dubrovnik ‘07, the iSummit comes to Sapporo, one of the most innovation-oriented cities in Japan. I’ll be using Cover it Live for the live blogging and you can follow the keynotes on the iSummit Blog. PS: I will be updating this post later with links to concluded keynotes. This is th
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ISSUMIT 08
July 29th, 2008
El día de ayer colocamos dos post sobre cultura libre y Creative Commons. En este preciso momento, el movimiento de la cultura libre tiene un epicentro en el “iSummit 08” en la ciudad de Sapporo, Japón. Lugar en el que del 29 de julio al 01 de agosto, se reunirán artistas, músicas, entrepreneurs, filántropos, abogados, activistas, geeks, amantes de las tecnología, educadores y “free-thinkers” de todo el mundo; para hablar sobre “cultura libre digital”. El iSummint nación en la Universidad de H
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