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:
Elisabeth Stark
Organization:
Free Culture
Country:
USA
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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
April 7th, 2008
Exit Lessig, enter ItoCreative Commons is undergoing exciting and possibly dramatic changes. There's been an atmosphere of "where now" since Lessig made his announcement that he was going to work less on CC and copyright and more on corruption issues. Related indeed, and not *completely* leaving, but still. This week, CC announced Ito as the new CEO, with James Boyle replacing him as chairman. Since I started working as a journalist in this field, Ito has been one of those "up there" guys, and g
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AV_BR Experimentación audiovisual y cultura libre en Brasil ∙ ARCO’08 Brasil
February 12th, 2008
AV_BR Experimentación audiovisual y cultura libre en Brasil ∙ ARCO’08 Brasil February 12th, 2008 AV_BR Experimentación audiovisual y cultura libre en Brasil ∙ ARCO’08 Brasil 14 y 16 febrero _ 19:00h Comisario: Daniel González. Con la colaboración del Centro Cultural de España en São Paulo En el marco de la participación de Brasil como país invitado en ARCO 2008, MedialabPrado presenta AV_BR Experimentación audiovisual y cultura libre en∙ Brasil ∙ ARCO’08 Brasil, dos jornadas de actividade
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John Barlow explica o fenômeno Orkut no Brasil
February 3rd, 2008
Este vídeo estava guardado desde a época do Seminário Interncional sobre Diversidade Cultural, promovido pelo MinC e pela OEA em setembro do ano passado. Foi quando tive a oportunidade de rever John Barlow, um de meus heróis da rede e com quem tive o primeiro contato no iSummit no Rio, um ano antes. Barlow é um dos fundadores da Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), braço armado da proteção dos direitos civis na rede, e autor de um texto clássico para o ativismo digital: a Declaração de Independ
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