https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Openworld&feedformat=atomP2P Foundation - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T14:15:46ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.40.1https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Lumenes&diff=99783Lumenes2016-06-08T01:16:29Z<p>Openworld: /* Definition */</p>
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=Definition=<br />
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"Mark Frazier's term for seeds of spirit (or replicable patterns of valuing) in the evolution of life: "if a Mind makes memes, and a Body makes genes, then a Spirit makes lumenes"."<br />
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/120497731371323/142086145879148/)<br />
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[[Category:Spirituality]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Nondominium&diff=89656Nondominium2015-01-24T22:18:04Z<p>Openworld: /* Discussion */</p>
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<div>* meaning one: '''= Nondominium – reflects the fact that no country or combination of countries has the power of dominant control over the relevant territory and resources.'''<br />
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* a new form of common property<br />
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=Definition=<br />
<br />
<br />
Chris Cook:<br />
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'''the consensual legal framework agreement within which value may be created, shared and exchanged (P2P) on credit terms by reference to a unit of account (note that a unit of account is NOT a currency).'''<br />
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<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
'''1. Chris Cook:'''<br />
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"Many indigenous peoples, such as American Indians and Australian Aborigines, find it impossible to understand how anyone can own land. Whereas, most religious traditions - including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism - were all founded upon a belief that absolute ownership, particularly of land, is God's alone, and that a tribute should be paid accordingly, such as a tithe.<br />
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I believe that an apt term to describe this proposal's essentially Gandhian approach to the property relationship is as a Nondominium - and my instinct is that such a framework could revolutionize international economic relations."<br />
(http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MI24Dj01.html)<br />
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2. Kurt Laitner ([[Sensorica]]):<br />
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"Nondominium is a framework to accommodate the voluntary registration of productive resources, the value added to them and by using them, and the outputs resulting from their use and modification, whereby all ownership rights in those resources, value added and outputs are transferred to a Custodian established for that purpose. The Custodian in return, acts in accordance with the Custodian Agreement, which is comprised of a Charter, a Value Equation (VE) and Governance Equation (GE), to return a subset of the ownership rights to the members in proportions determined by the Agreement using the ongoing value registered by members in real time. The members agree, by signing the Custodian Agreement, to register all value added to the Nondominium as well as all valuable outputs resulting from use of the Nondominium. Membership in a Nondominium is open to anyone willing to sign the Custodian Agreement.<br />
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The ownership rights granted to members are not divisible, transferable or tradable by the member and the right of the member to register further resources or value added may be withdrawn at any time through the proper exercise of governance rights granted by the Governance Equation. <br />
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The Custodian Agreement may only be changed by unanimous consent of the members, [k1] and the Value and Governance Equations may not be changed retroactively (only changed to apply to contributions on a go-forward basis).<br />
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Dissolution of a Nondominium must be altruistic. Assets may not be divided amongst members but must be gifted to an equivalently or more permissive (equivalently or less private) ownership structure, as appropriate to the nature of the thing itself (i.e. the Commons, open sourced, or donated to charity). Dissolution is subject to unanimous consent of the members."<br />
([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlzPMx698Dmg4SvDMuTWcAWV_eT3aVQb3daQI5C6MGI/edit#heading=h.4mecw6jy5ipt])<br />
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==Modification of Ownership Rights under Nondominium==<br />
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Kurt Laitner:<br />
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"Ownership is conceived as a bundle of rights over a given property. Useful outcomes are possible by adjusting how these rights are bundled. Nondominium specifically adjusts the bundle of rights that are available to members using the value equation and governance equation and the structure of the Custodian who accepts all rights and redistributes them. The Custodian in turn is governed by the members of the Nondominium according to the governance equation.<br />
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All property rights are transferred to the Custodian by the members of the Nondominium through the act of registering a resource or value added into the Nondominium. The Custodian in return grants the members the right to use, alter/improve (add value), and to receive “rents” (more generally reward in any form) based on the value the member has contributed to the Nondominium in proportion to other members. <br />
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Exclusive use is not returned to the members but managed by the Custodian. Non-members may be excluded by the Custodian from use of the Nondominium. Members may be temporarily or permanently excluded from use of the Nondominium as an act of censure (based on agreed upon sanctions) or may be temporarily excluded from use of a portion of the Nondominium in the process of apportioning the use of rivalrous goods. Management (regulation of use) is performed through the fluid governance mechanisms described below. Temporary exclusive use of a rivalrous good (for example a piece of equipment) may be subject to tolls expressed in exchange value terms. <br />
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Withdrawal (including consumption) of a rivalrous good may be subject to provision of exchange value or to a system of account where credit balances must revolve. Destruction of value follows similar logic. Where withdrawal occurs across the boundary of the Nondominium it must be authorized by the appropriate decision making process. Any surplus exchange value realized through internal or external withdrawal shall accrue to the membership through the operation of the Value Equation. <br />
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It is worth noting that the rights to ‘keep’ or ‘abandon’ along with ‘exclude’ are the most problematic of property rights, in particular when applied artificially to non-rivalrous goods. These rights are withdrawn from the system by the Custodian to encourage use and development of resources in a sustainable way in the service of human needs, and to discourage hoarding and financialization of assets. <br />
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Alienation rights are modified to ensure that the Nondominium is only dissolved altruistically."<br />
([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlzPMx698Dmg4SvDMuTWcAWV_eT3aVQb3daQI5C6MGI/edit#heading=h.4mecw6jy5ipt])<br />
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=Characteristics=<br />
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In the Sensorica, [[Open Value Accounting]] nondominium charter:<br />
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* [[Value Equation]]<br />
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* [[Governance Equation]]<br />
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=Governance=<br />
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==Nondominium and the Principles of Governance==<br />
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1. Well Defined Boundaries: As a Nondominium applies to intangible as well as well bounded physical resources, boundaries are defined by whether a person has signed the Nondominium agreement. This is considered an open and largely permeable boundary, but also very clear regarding membership boundaries. Resource boundaries are established through a registry where resources are provided to the Nondominium explicitly. Use value of those resources is made available to members and the use of rivalrous goods are managed by the Custodian. Where a resource of the Nondominium is improved the modified resource is to be registered with the Nondominium. Where an output is created using the Nondominium that output is to be registered with the Nondominium. <br />
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2. Proportional Equivalence between Benefits and Costs: The Value Equation tracks all dimensions of value and reward flows to members based on their relative contributions.<br />
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3. Collective-Choice Arrangements: The governance equation apportions decision making authority to members of the Nondominium in a transparent and predictable way. This ensures those who have a stake in the resource have a say in its use. There is a concern that parties who have a stake in or are affected by the resource are not members or may not have added sufficient value to have standing. This is an ongoing concern.<br />
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4. Monitoring: All actions in a Nondominium need to be intermediated by an information system to be able to capture them and use them in the equations. If relevant use of assets is not being captured or if value added or outputs created are not being registered then sanctions will need to apply. These will be determined through the operation of the governance equation on given decision types. Monitoring mechanisms will need to be created as needed. <br />
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5. Graduated Sanctions: Sanctions will be determined through the operation of the governance equation.<br />
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6. Conflict-Resolution Mechanisms: Mechanisms will be determined through the operation of the governance equation.<br />
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7. Minimal Recognition of Rights: This is an external force, and requires that Nondomium is a recognized legal form in the jurisdictions it operates in<br />
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8. Nested Enterprises: Nondominium is an infinitely nestable structure as Nondominiums can be members of other Nondominiums. Actual nesting will be left as an operational choice."<br />
([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlzPMx698Dmg4SvDMuTWcAWV_eT3aVQb3daQI5C6MGI/edit#heading=h.4mecw6jy5ipt])<br />
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=Example=<br />
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==Nondominium for land==<br />
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As proposed by Chris Cook:<br />
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"Nondominiumis an agreement which not only brings together these stakeholders jointly/collectively to hold land in common but also enables them severally/individually to share the rights and obligations as they may consensually agree. In simple terms, the user of the land pays a rental in money or in kind ('money's worth' such as produce) and a proportion of this flow of value is allocated to a Manager stakeholder group which provides services such as introducing occupiers and investors; dispute resolution; valuation; maintenance or supervision of maintenance.<br />
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It will be seen that the Manager's interests are aligned with those of any Investors who participate in the Nondominium agreement by investing in the value which flows from use of the land. No stakeholder has a dominant or positive right to impose themselves on any other. But stakeholders do have certain veto rights within the agreement to say what may not be done by others.The outcome of the use of what is essentially a 'Co-operative of Co-operatives' is that the Occupier, Investor, Manager, and even the Custodian may all change, but the land is never sold again, remaining in perpetuity within the Nondominium."<br />
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=Discussion=<br />
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Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier:<br />
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"A new legal framework – Nondominium – offers an approach for sharing revenues from resource development in arenas beyond the effective actual (or de jure) control of national jurisdictions. Building upon ideas advanced by Chris Cook, a fellow of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at the University College of London, the new framework focuses on veto rights – rather than recognized ownership claims – to ensure development of common pool resources (or resources with conflicting national ownership) on a basis of mutual benefit. The nondominium approach may have special applicability as a framework for developing space and ocean sea-bed resources to benefit humanity in the near and far future.<br />
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Under a nondominium framework for economic development of Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) resources, each country interested in receiving benefits could appoint a representative to an association of beneficiaries.<br />
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A trustee (custodian) for the CHM would be elected by the representatives to oversee the legal operation of a collective entity. The representatives would also appoint a Manager, for a parallel partnership venture, to identify opportunities to develop the common pool resource in accord with a transparent revenue-sharing formula. Each representative would have power to exercise a veto with regard to the resource development proposal(s) circulated by the manager.<br />
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Once an agreed formula (non-vetoed by the countries) emerged for recognizing needed inputs, and for overall revenue-sharing, the manager of the nondominium partnership would arrange open tenders to seek economic partners to maximize the value of the common pool resources.<br />
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These tenders would be neutral with regard to the nationality or domicile of service providers and investment partners. Revenues from ensuing activities would be distributed to the association members on the originally-agreed basis. Oversight of compliance would rest with the nondominium’s trustee, who could apply Ostrom’s key principles of successful collective choice agreements and monitoring by independent auditors.<br />
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The nondominium framework, in these ways, would conform with the requirements of international law that no country or combination of countries has the power of dominant control over relevant common pool resources.<br />
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It seems particularly suited for easing disputes in highly polarized or contentious settings.<br />
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Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, for example, conflicting claims have arisen among what are now five Caspian-littoral nations (including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan). The Nondominium framework as originally advanced by Cook envisions that the littoral Caspian nations “should form a Caspian Foundation legal entity, and commit to that entity all existing rights in respect of the use, and the fruits of use (usufruct) of the Caspian Sea, and everything on it, in it or under it. The Caspian Foundation would act as custodian or steward and the Caspian nations would have agreed governance rights of veto.”<br />
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As Cook has noted, “the proposed negative or passive veto right of stewardship differs fundamentally from conventional property rights of absolute ownership and temporary use under Condominium. Moreover, it does not confer the active power of control held under common law by a Trustee on behalf of beneficiaries, and the legal complexities and management conflicts which accompany that status.”<br />
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In parallel with the Foundation’s custodial role, a Caspian Partnership framework agreement would be established by the member countries to maximize the value of developing the resources. It would “simply be an associative framework agreement within which Caspian nations self-organize to the common purpose of the sustainable development of the Caspian Sea,” Cook’s has stated. “The Caspian Partnership agreement would comprise a master framework agreement within which a myriad of associative agreements between the Caspian littoral nations individually or severally would be registered.”<br />
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A similar transnational opportunity for application of the nondominium framework exists in the Sudan, with regard to disputed oil reserves between the original country of Sudan and the new breakaway nation of South Sudan. There, a nondominium framework would sidestep the question of ownership of disputed oil resources, in favor of a balanced (i.e. non-vetoed by either side) revenue-sharing system within which private sector investors and partners could then operate. This legal innovation for development of common pool resources could encourage Ostrom’s user association-based systems of economic governance to more rapidly advance in outer space, the oceans, and other Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) areas." (http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/lund2012/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
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==Contrasting Nondominium with Other Forms of Ownership==<br />
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===Nondominium and the Commons===<br />
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Nondominium is to be viewed in contrast with a Commons, which consist of resources which are not owned or not ownable, usually abundant but often depletable / subtractable without governance. They are not excludable or are considered a fundamental human right so must allow free access. Governance of a commons is a voluntary group process that ensures it is maintained or enhanced and not destroyed (such as air and water, or Common Heritage of Mankind (i.e. high seas, antarctica or space). <br />
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Nondominium is not open access. It is open access only to members and even then only when dealing with non-rivalrous goods. Consumption and use of rivalrous goods must be managed by the Custodian and so cannot be considered open access. Nondominium may refer to excludable resources, to which access can be practically limited, and which may or may not be subtractable/abundant.<br />
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Nondominium is not the absence of ownership, but rather a refactoring of ownership rights between the individual member and the Custodian of the Nondominium.<br />
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===Nondominium and Cooperative Ownership===<br />
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Cooperative ownership, based on the Rochdale principles, insists that a cooperative be governed democratically. Members may allocate surpluses for any or all of the following purposes: developing their co-operative, possibly by setting up reserves, part of which at least would be indivisible; benefiting members in proportion to their transactions with the co-operative; and supporting other activities approved by the membership. Members contribute equitably to, and democratically control, the capital of their co-operative. Investors usually receive limited compensation, if any, on capital subscribed as a condition of membership.<br />
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Nondominiums may be a collection of governance modalities, as each decision type within a Nondominium is associated with a Governance Equation that can be modified to approximate democracy or meritocracy or any other form. There is no capital requirement for membership. Capital may only be contributed as use value. Surpluses are distributed to members per the Value Equation and the notion of retained earnings as described in cooperatives is replaced by voluntary reinvestment.<br />
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===Nondominium and Collective Ownership===<br />
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Nondominium is to be viewed in contrast with Collective Ownership, where property is jointly held according to an agreement, which includes member only clubs, and private property held by groups of individuals or by corporations. <br />
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Nondominium ownership is indivisible and non-transferable (except altruistically). There are no shares that can be redeemed or transferred. There is no fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. When one places property or value into a Nondominium, the member retains the beneficial ownership (the right to benefit from the value created by the property) but surrenders exclusive ownership. Ownership rights are not redeemable from the custodian, as no ‘shares’ are issued in response to property donated or value created through the operation of productive assets. Use, usufruct and beneficial ownership rights are distributed to members of the nondominium by the Custodian according to the agreement.<br />
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Nondominium is only excludable based on whether or not a party is willing to sign the Custodian Agreement, not on any other basis. In particular no capital requirements exist for membership.<br />
Nondominium and For Benefit Corporations<br />
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In an article for Harvard Business Review (2011/11) Heerad Sabeti outlines the key characteristics of for-benefit forms:<br />
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“<br />
· '''Primary Characteristics'''<br />
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o Embedded Purpose: A commitment to mission is in the organizations DNA. Fiduciary duty is to purpose.<br />
o Earned Income: Sales of goods and services generate most of the income<br />
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· '''Secondary Characteristics'''<br />
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o Inclusive Ownership: Ownership rights are allocated among stakeholders in accordance with their contributions<br />
o Stakeholder Governance: Decision rights regarding information and control are distributed among stakeholder constituencies<br />
o Fair Compensation: Employees and other stakeholders are compensated in proportion to their contributions<br />
o Reasonable Returns: Limitations on investment returns protect the organization’s ability to achieve its mission<br />
o Social and Environmental Responsibility: Social and environmental performance is constantly improved throughout the stakeholder network<br />
o Transparency: Social, environmental, and financial performance and impact are fully and accurately assessed and reported<br />
o Protected assets: social purpose assets are preserved upon dissolution, conversion, or ownership transfer”<br />
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This description of for-benefit is highly aligned with the Nondominium concept. The points of difference would be in the embedded purpose, where Nondominium does not have restrictions on what this should be, whereas notions of for-benefit are of it solving a social ill. If unemployment, underemployment, and lack of workplace engagement are considered social ills the perhaps the two forms are not so far apart. <br />
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On the points of earned income and related reasonable returns, a Nondominium is free to accept donations or to sell its goods or services, but it is proposed that taking capital in return for equity or control will be against the interests of the Nondominium. If this is permitted to skew value equations or governance equations, it subjects the network to the possibility of capture by financial interests. Debt issued against productive assets (see Kleiner and Bauwens (2014)) being paid back on an ‘as used’ basis with no interest may be acceptable. The point here is that extraction of rents by financial capital is to be disallowed. All returns or surpluses are to be distributed to the membership using the value equation. The membership or a portion thereof may choose to reinvest this exchange value in the form of productive assets and this shall be recognized as a further contribution to the Nondominium as it is used. In such a way financial assets may be used to provide productive assets and may attract a return for its use value through the normal operation of the value equation. Whether or not such use value of assets should be a part of the governance equation is left to an operational Nondominium to decide."<br />
([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlzPMx698Dmg4SvDMuTWcAWV_eT3aVQb3daQI5C6MGI/edit#heading=h.4mecw6jy5ipt])<br />
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=More Information=<br />
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* https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/resilience/2012/01/09/a-stock-answer/ <br />
* Essay: [[Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons]]<br />
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[[Category:Peerproperty]]<br />
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[[Category:OpenCapital]]<br />
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[[Category:Agrifood]]<br />
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[[Category:P2P Law]]<br />
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[[Category:Money]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Nondominium&diff=89655Nondominium2015-01-24T22:15:27Z<p>Openworld: /* Discussion */</p>
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<div>* meaning one: '''= Nondominium – reflects the fact that no country or combination of countries has the power of dominant control over the relevant territory and resources.'''<br />
<br />
* a new form of common property<br />
<br />
<br />
=Definition=<br />
<br />
<br />
Chris Cook:<br />
<br />
'''the consensual legal framework agreement within which value may be created, shared and exchanged (P2P) on credit terms by reference to a unit of account (note that a unit of account is NOT a currency).'''<br />
<br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
'''1. Chris Cook:'''<br />
<br />
"Many indigenous peoples, such as American Indians and Australian Aborigines, find it impossible to understand how anyone can own land. Whereas, most religious traditions - including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism - were all founded upon a belief that absolute ownership, particularly of land, is God's alone, and that a tribute should be paid accordingly, such as a tithe.<br />
<br />
I believe that an apt term to describe this proposal's essentially Gandhian approach to the property relationship is as a Nondominium - and my instinct is that such a framework could revolutionize international economic relations."<br />
(http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MI24Dj01.html)<br />
<br />
<br />
2. Kurt Laitner ([[Sensorica]]):<br />
<br />
"Nondominium is a framework to accommodate the voluntary registration of productive resources, the value added to them and by using them, and the outputs resulting from their use and modification, whereby all ownership rights in those resources, value added and outputs are transferred to a Custodian established for that purpose. The Custodian in return, acts in accordance with the Custodian Agreement, which is comprised of a Charter, a Value Equation (VE) and Governance Equation (GE), to return a subset of the ownership rights to the members in proportions determined by the Agreement using the ongoing value registered by members in real time. The members agree, by signing the Custodian Agreement, to register all value added to the Nondominium as well as all valuable outputs resulting from use of the Nondominium. Membership in a Nondominium is open to anyone willing to sign the Custodian Agreement.<br />
<br />
The ownership rights granted to members are not divisible, transferable or tradable by the member and the right of the member to register further resources or value added may be withdrawn at any time through the proper exercise of governance rights granted by the Governance Equation. <br />
<br />
The Custodian Agreement may only be changed by unanimous consent of the members, [k1] and the Value and Governance Equations may not be changed retroactively (only changed to apply to contributions on a go-forward basis).<br />
<br />
Dissolution of a Nondominium must be altruistic. Assets may not be divided amongst members but must be gifted to an equivalently or more permissive (equivalently or less private) ownership structure, as appropriate to the nature of the thing itself (i.e. the Commons, open sourced, or donated to charity). Dissolution is subject to unanimous consent of the members."<br />
([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlzPMx698Dmg4SvDMuTWcAWV_eT3aVQb3daQI5C6MGI/edit#heading=h.4mecw6jy5ipt])<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Modification of Ownership Rights under Nondominium==<br />
<br />
Kurt Laitner:<br />
<br />
"Ownership is conceived as a bundle of rights over a given property. Useful outcomes are possible by adjusting how these rights are bundled. Nondominium specifically adjusts the bundle of rights that are available to members using the value equation and governance equation and the structure of the Custodian who accepts all rights and redistributes them. The Custodian in turn is governed by the members of the Nondominium according to the governance equation.<br />
<br />
All property rights are transferred to the Custodian by the members of the Nondominium through the act of registering a resource or value added into the Nondominium. The Custodian in return grants the members the right to use, alter/improve (add value), and to receive “rents” (more generally reward in any form) based on the value the member has contributed to the Nondominium in proportion to other members. <br />
<br />
Exclusive use is not returned to the members but managed by the Custodian. Non-members may be excluded by the Custodian from use of the Nondominium. Members may be temporarily or permanently excluded from use of the Nondominium as an act of censure (based on agreed upon sanctions) or may be temporarily excluded from use of a portion of the Nondominium in the process of apportioning the use of rivalrous goods. Management (regulation of use) is performed through the fluid governance mechanisms described below. Temporary exclusive use of a rivalrous good (for example a piece of equipment) may be subject to tolls expressed in exchange value terms. <br />
<br />
Withdrawal (including consumption) of a rivalrous good may be subject to provision of exchange value or to a system of account where credit balances must revolve. Destruction of value follows similar logic. Where withdrawal occurs across the boundary of the Nondominium it must be authorized by the appropriate decision making process. Any surplus exchange value realized through internal or external withdrawal shall accrue to the membership through the operation of the Value Equation. <br />
<br />
It is worth noting that the rights to ‘keep’ or ‘abandon’ along with ‘exclude’ are the most problematic of property rights, in particular when applied artificially to non-rivalrous goods. These rights are withdrawn from the system by the Custodian to encourage use and development of resources in a sustainable way in the service of human needs, and to discourage hoarding and financialization of assets. <br />
<br />
Alienation rights are modified to ensure that the Nondominium is only dissolved altruistically."<br />
([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlzPMx698Dmg4SvDMuTWcAWV_eT3aVQb3daQI5C6MGI/edit#heading=h.4mecw6jy5ipt])<br />
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=Characteristics=<br />
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In the Sensorica, [[Open Value Accounting]] nondominium charter:<br />
<br />
* [[Value Equation]]<br />
<br />
* [[Governance Equation]]<br />
<br />
<br />
=Governance=<br />
<br />
==Nondominium and the Principles of Governance==<br />
<br />
1. Well Defined Boundaries: As a Nondominium applies to intangible as well as well bounded physical resources, boundaries are defined by whether a person has signed the Nondominium agreement. This is considered an open and largely permeable boundary, but also very clear regarding membership boundaries. Resource boundaries are established through a registry where resources are provided to the Nondominium explicitly. Use value of those resources is made available to members and the use of rivalrous goods are managed by the Custodian. Where a resource of the Nondominium is improved the modified resource is to be registered with the Nondominium. Where an output is created using the Nondominium that output is to be registered with the Nondominium. <br />
<br />
2. Proportional Equivalence between Benefits and Costs: The Value Equation tracks all dimensions of value and reward flows to members based on their relative contributions.<br />
<br />
3. Collective-Choice Arrangements: The governance equation apportions decision making authority to members of the Nondominium in a transparent and predictable way. This ensures those who have a stake in the resource have a say in its use. There is a concern that parties who have a stake in or are affected by the resource are not members or may not have added sufficient value to have standing. This is an ongoing concern.<br />
<br />
4. Monitoring: All actions in a Nondominium need to be intermediated by an information system to be able to capture them and use them in the equations. If relevant use of assets is not being captured or if value added or outputs created are not being registered then sanctions will need to apply. These will be determined through the operation of the governance equation on given decision types. Monitoring mechanisms will need to be created as needed. <br />
<br />
5. Graduated Sanctions: Sanctions will be determined through the operation of the governance equation.<br />
<br />
6. Conflict-Resolution Mechanisms: Mechanisms will be determined through the operation of the governance equation.<br />
<br />
7. Minimal Recognition of Rights: This is an external force, and requires that Nondomium is a recognized legal form in the jurisdictions it operates in<br />
<br />
8. Nested Enterprises: Nondominium is an infinitely nestable structure as Nondominiums can be members of other Nondominiums. Actual nesting will be left as an operational choice."<br />
([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlzPMx698Dmg4SvDMuTWcAWV_eT3aVQb3daQI5C6MGI/edit#heading=h.4mecw6jy5ipt])<br />
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=Example=<br />
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==Nondominium for land==<br />
<br />
As proposed by Chris Cook:<br />
<br />
"Nondominiumis an agreement which not only brings together these stakeholders jointly/collectively to hold land in common but also enables them severally/individually to share the rights and obligations as they may consensually agree. In simple terms, the user of the land pays a rental in money or in kind ('money's worth' such as produce) and a proportion of this flow of value is allocated to a Manager stakeholder group which provides services such as introducing occupiers and investors; dispute resolution; valuation; maintenance or supervision of maintenance.<br />
<br />
It will be seen that the Manager's interests are aligned with those of any Investors who participate in the Nondominium agreement by investing in the value which flows from use of the land. No stakeholder has a dominant or positive right to impose themselves on any other. But stakeholders do have certain veto rights within the agreement to say what may not be done by others.The outcome of the use of what is essentially a 'Co-operative of Co-operatives' is that the Occupier, Investor, Manager, and even the Custodian may all change, but the land is never sold again, remaining in perpetuity within the Nondominium."<br />
<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier:<br />
<br />
"A new legal framework – Nondominium – offers an approach for sharing revenues from resource development in arenas beyond the effective actual (or de jure) control of national jurisdictions. Building upon ideas advanced by Chris Cook, a fellow of the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at the University College of London, the new framework focuses on veto rights – rather than recognized ownership claims – to ensure development of common pool resources (or resources with conflicting national ownership) on a basis of mutual benefit. The nondominium approach may have special applicability as a framework for developing space and ocean sea-bed resources to benefit humanity in the near and far future.<br />
<br />
Under a nondominium framework for economic development of CHM resources, each country interested in receiving benefits could appoint a representative to an association of beneficiaries.<br />
<br />
A trustee (custodian) for the CHM would be elected by the representatives to oversee the legal operation of a collective entity. The representatives would also appoint a Manager, for a parallel partnership venture, to identify opportunities to develop the common pool resource in accord with a transparent revenue-sharing formula. Each representative would have power to exercise a veto with regard to the resource development proposal(s) circulated by the manager.<br />
<br />
Once an agreed formula (non-vetoed by the countries) emerged for recognizing needed inputs, and for overall revenue-sharing, the manager of the nondominium partnership would arrange open tenders to seek economic partners to maximize the value of the common pool resources.<br />
<br />
These tenders would be neutral with regard to the nationality or domicile of service providers and investment partners. Revenues from ensuing activities would be distributed to the association members on the originally-agreed basis. Oversight of compliance would rest with the nondominium’s trustee, who could apply Ostrom’s key principles of successful collective choice agreements and monitoring by independent auditors.<br />
<br />
The nondominium framework, in these ways, would conform with the requirements of international law that no country or combination of countries has the power of dominant control over relevant common pool resources.<br />
<br />
It seems particularly suited for easing disputes in highly polarized or contentious settings.<br />
<br />
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, for example, conflicting claims have arisen among what are now five Caspian-littoral nations (including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan). The Nondominium framework as originally advanced by Cook envisions that the littoral Caspian nations “should form a Caspian Foundation legal entity, and commit to that entity all existing rights in respect of the use, and the fruits of use (usufruct) of the Caspian Sea, and everything on it, in it or under it. The Caspian Foundation would act as custodian or steward and the Caspian nations would have agreed governance rights of veto.”<br />
<br />
As Cook has noted, “the proposed negative or passive veto right of stewardship differs fundamentally from conventional property rights of absolute ownership and temporary use under Condominium. Moreover, it does not confer the active power of control held under common law by a Trustee on behalf of beneficiaries, and the legal complexities and management conflicts which accompany that status.”<br />
<br />
In parallel with the Foundation’s custodial role, a Caspian Partnership framework agreement would be established by the member countries to maximize the value of developing the resources. It would “simply be an associative framework agreement within which Caspian nations self-organize to the common purpose of the sustainable development of the Caspian Sea,” Cook’s has stated. “The Caspian Partnership agreement would comprise a master framework agreement within which a myriad of associative agreements between the Caspian littoral nations individually or severally would be registered.”<br />
<br />
A similar transnational opportunity for application of the nondominium framework exists in the Sudan, with regard to disputed oil reserves between the original country of Sudan and the new breakaway nation of South Sudan. There, a nondominium framework would sidestep the question of ownership of disputed oil resources, in favor of a balanced (i.e. non-vetoed by either side) revenue-sharing system within which private sector investors and partners could then operate. This legal innovation for development of common pool resources could encourage Ostrom’s user association-based systems of economic governance to more rapidly advance in outer space, the oceans, and other Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) areas." (http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/lund2012/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
==Contrasting Nondominium with Other Forms of Ownership==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Nondominium and the Commons===<br />
<br />
Nondominium is to be viewed in contrast with a Commons, which consist of resources which are not owned or not ownable, usually abundant but often depletable / subtractable without governance. They are not excludable or are considered a fundamental human right so must allow free access. Governance of a commons is a voluntary group process that ensures it is maintained or enhanced and not destroyed (such as air and water, or Common Heritage of Mankind (i.e. high seas, antarctica or space). <br />
<br />
Nondominium is not open access. It is open access only to members and even then only when dealing with non-rivalrous goods. Consumption and use of rivalrous goods must be managed by the Custodian and so cannot be considered open access. Nondominium may refer to excludable resources, to which access can be practically limited, and which may or may not be subtractable/abundant.<br />
<br />
Nondominium is not the absence of ownership, but rather a refactoring of ownership rights between the individual member and the Custodian of the Nondominium.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Nondominium and Cooperative Ownership===<br />
<br />
Cooperative ownership, based on the Rochdale principles, insists that a cooperative be governed democratically. Members may allocate surpluses for any or all of the following purposes: developing their co-operative, possibly by setting up reserves, part of which at least would be indivisible; benefiting members in proportion to their transactions with the co-operative; and supporting other activities approved by the membership. Members contribute equitably to, and democratically control, the capital of their co-operative. Investors usually receive limited compensation, if any, on capital subscribed as a condition of membership.<br />
<br />
Nondominiums may be a collection of governance modalities, as each decision type within a Nondominium is associated with a Governance Equation that can be modified to approximate democracy or meritocracy or any other form. There is no capital requirement for membership. Capital may only be contributed as use value. Surpluses are distributed to members per the Value Equation and the notion of retained earnings as described in cooperatives is replaced by voluntary reinvestment.<br />
<br />
<br />
===Nondominium and Collective Ownership===<br />
<br />
Nondominium is to be viewed in contrast with Collective Ownership, where property is jointly held according to an agreement, which includes member only clubs, and private property held by groups of individuals or by corporations. <br />
<br />
Nondominium ownership is indivisible and non-transferable (except altruistically). There are no shares that can be redeemed or transferred. There is no fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. When one places property or value into a Nondominium, the member retains the beneficial ownership (the right to benefit from the value created by the property) but surrenders exclusive ownership. Ownership rights are not redeemable from the custodian, as no ‘shares’ are issued in response to property donated or value created through the operation of productive assets. Use, usufruct and beneficial ownership rights are distributed to members of the nondominium by the Custodian according to the agreement.<br />
<br />
Nondominium is only excludable based on whether or not a party is willing to sign the Custodian Agreement, not on any other basis. In particular no capital requirements exist for membership.<br />
Nondominium and For Benefit Corporations<br />
<br />
In an article for Harvard Business Review (2011/11) Heerad Sabeti outlines the key characteristics of for-benefit forms:<br />
<br />
“<br />
· '''Primary Characteristics'''<br />
<br />
o Embedded Purpose: A commitment to mission is in the organizations DNA. Fiduciary duty is to purpose.<br />
o Earned Income: Sales of goods and services generate most of the income<br />
<br />
· '''Secondary Characteristics'''<br />
<br />
o Inclusive Ownership: Ownership rights are allocated among stakeholders in accordance with their contributions<br />
o Stakeholder Governance: Decision rights regarding information and control are distributed among stakeholder constituencies<br />
o Fair Compensation: Employees and other stakeholders are compensated in proportion to their contributions<br />
o Reasonable Returns: Limitations on investment returns protect the organization’s ability to achieve its mission<br />
o Social and Environmental Responsibility: Social and environmental performance is constantly improved throughout the stakeholder network<br />
o Transparency: Social, environmental, and financial performance and impact are fully and accurately assessed and reported<br />
o Protected assets: social purpose assets are preserved upon dissolution, conversion, or ownership transfer”<br />
<br />
This description of for-benefit is highly aligned with the Nondominium concept. The points of difference would be in the embedded purpose, where Nondominium does not have restrictions on what this should be, whereas notions of for-benefit are of it solving a social ill. If unemployment, underemployment, and lack of workplace engagement are considered social ills the perhaps the two forms are not so far apart. <br />
<br />
On the points of earned income and related reasonable returns, a Nondominium is free to accept donations or to sell its goods or services, but it is proposed that taking capital in return for equity or control will be against the interests of the Nondominium. If this is permitted to skew value equations or governance equations, it subjects the network to the possibility of capture by financial interests. Debt issued against productive assets (see Kleiner and Bauwens (2014)) being paid back on an ‘as used’ basis with no interest may be acceptable. The point here is that extraction of rents by financial capital is to be disallowed. All returns or surpluses are to be distributed to the membership using the value equation. The membership or a portion thereof may choose to reinvest this exchange value in the form of productive assets and this shall be recognized as a further contribution to the Nondominium as it is used. In such a way financial assets may be used to provide productive assets and may attract a return for its use value through the normal operation of the value equation. Whether or not such use value of assets should be a part of the governance equation is left to an operational Nondominium to decide."<br />
([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IlzPMx698Dmg4SvDMuTWcAWV_eT3aVQb3daQI5C6MGI/edit#heading=h.4mecw6jy5ipt])<br />
<br />
=More Information=<br />
<br />
* https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/resilience/2012/01/09/a-stock-answer/ <br />
* Essay: [[Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons]]<br />
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<br />
[[Category:Peerproperty]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:OpenCapital]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Agrifood]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Law]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Money]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Using_Nondominion_to_Evolve_from_Local_to_Global_Commons&diff=89654Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons2015-01-24T22:13:47Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
'''* Paper: From Local to Global Commons. Applying Ostrom’s Key Principles for Sustainable Governance. By Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier.'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/lund2012/LC2012-paper94.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
=Abstract=<br />
<br />
"This paper explores a possible new local-to-global system for the <br />
equitable governance of the “common pool resources.” As normally <br />
understood, the “Commons” refers to resources that are owned or shared <br />
among communities. Such resources (forests, fisheries, etc.) when located <br />
within national boundaries are subject to that country’s laws. Areas <br />
beyond national jurisdiction, including the high-seas, Antarctica, the <br />
ocean sea-bed, outer space and the Earth’s environment, are known as <br />
“Common Heritage of Mankind” (CHM) and subject to Public <br />
International Law (PIL). The object and subject of traditional PIL is the <br />
nation-state. However, since the 1972 Conference for the Human <br />
Environment, individuals and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) <br />
have been legally recognized under PIL as having direct responsibility for <br />
protection of the global environment, by working for transparency and <br />
accountability in its management. With this opening for direct <br />
participation by individuals and NGOs in working for sustainable <br />
management of the global Commons, it may be now feasible to extend the <br />
precedents identified by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom for successful <br />
economic governance of local common pool resources to wider CHM<br />
areas. <br />
<br />
A recently developed legal concept – nondominium – offers a <br />
framework for recognizing user rights toward this end. Combining <br />
Ostrom’s principles with this new approach for shared use of the <br />
Commons promises to give a more solid legal grounding for the 5 “As” <br />
(Architecture, Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) in <br />
the governance of the global commons for the benefit of humanity."<br />
<br />
<br />
=Excerpt=<br />
<br />
==[[Nondominium]]==<br />
<br />
Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier:<br />
<br />
"A new legal framework – Nondominium – offers an approach for sharing revenues from resource <br />
development in arenas beyond the effective actual (or de jure) control of national jurisdictions. <br />
Building upon ideas advanced by Chris Cook, a fellow of the Institute for Security and <br />
Resilience Studies at the University College of London, the new framework focuses on veto <br />
rights – rather than recognized ownership claims – to ensure development of common pool <br />
resources (or resources with conflicting national ownership) on a basis of mutual benefit. The <br />
nondominium approach may have special applicability as a framework for developing space and <br />
ocean sea-bed resources to benefit humanity in the near and far future.<br />
<br />
Under a nondominium framework for economic development of CHM resources, each country <br />
interested in receiving benefits could appoint a representative to an association of beneficiaries.<br />
<br />
A trustee (custodian) for the CHM would be elected by the representatives to oversee the legal <br />
operation of a collective entity. The representatives would also appoint a Manager, for a parallel <br />
partnership venture, to identify opportunities to develop the common pool resource in accord <br />
with a transparent revenue-sharing formula. Each representative would have power to exercise a <br />
veto with regard to the resource development proposal(s) circulated by the manager. <br />
<br />
Once an agreed formula (non-vetoed by the countries) emerged for recognizing needed inputs, <br />
and for overall revenue-sharing, the manager of the nondominium partnership would arrange <br />
open tenders to seek economic partners to maximize the value of the common pool resources. <br />
<br />
These tenders would be neutral with regard to the nationality or domicile of service providers <br />
and investment partners. Revenues from ensuing activities would be distributed to the <br />
association members on the originally-agreed basis. Oversight of compliance would rest with the <br />
nondominium’s trustee, who could apply Ostrom’s key principles of successful collective choice <br />
agreements and monitoring by independent auditors.<br />
<br />
The nondominium framework, in these ways, would conform with the requirements of <br />
international law that no country or combination of countries has the power of dominant control <br />
over relevant common pool resources.<br />
<br />
It seems particularly suited for easing disputes in highly <br />
polarized or contentious settings. <br />
<br />
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, for example, conflicting claims have arisen among what <br />
are now five Caspian-littoral nations (including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan). The <br />
Nondominium framework as originally advanced by Cook envisions that the littoral Caspian <br />
nations “should form a Caspian Foundation legal entity, and commit to that entity all existing <br />
rights in respect of the use, and the fruits of use (usufruct) of the Caspian Sea, and everything on it, in it or under it. The Caspian Foundation would act as custodian or steward and the Caspian <br />
nations would have agreed governance rights of veto.” <br />
<br />
As Cook has noted, “the proposed negative or passive veto right of stewardship differs <br />
fundamentally from conventional property rights of absolute ownership and temporary use under <br />
Condominium. Moreover, it does not confer the active power of control held under common law <br />
by a Trustee on behalf of beneficiaries, and the legal complexities and management conflicts <br />
which accompany that status.”<br />
<br />
In parallel with the Foundation’s custodial role, a Caspian Partnership framework agreement <br />
would be established by the member countries to maximize the value of developing the <br />
resources. It would “simply be an associative framework agreement within which Caspian <br />
nations self-organize to the common purpose of the sustainable development of the Caspian <br />
Sea,” Cook’s has stated. “The Caspian Partnership agreement would comprise a master <br />
framework agreement within which a myriad of associative agreements between the Caspian <br />
littoral nations individually or severally would be registered.”<br />
<br />
A similar transnational opportunity for application of the nondominium framework exists in the <br />
Sudan, with regard to disputed oil reserves between the original country of Sudan and the new <br />
breakaway nation of South Sudan. There, a nondominium framework would sidestep the <br />
question of ownership of disputed oil resources, in favor of a balanced (i.e. non-vetoed by either <br />
side) revenue-sharing system within which private sector investors and partners could then <br />
operate.<br />
This legal innovation for development of common pool resources could encourage Ostrom’s user <br />
association-based systems of economic governance to more rapidly advance in outer space, the <br />
oceans, and other Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) areas."<br />
(http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/lund2012/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
See also: [[Nondominium]]<br />
<br />
==From the conclusion==<br />
<br />
"Areas recognized as being the heritage of mankind are defined by treaties as falling outside of <br />
nation-state jurisdiction and ownership, and are to be instead developed on a basis that benefits <br />
all human beings. Their CHM status reflects a shared aim of holding the resources in trust for <br />
future generations, and a corresponding desire to prevent monopolization by individual nation <br />
states or corporations. <br />
<br />
A balanced approach to developing CHM areas appears needed. As private interest grows in <br />
developing outer space resources, and in creating “seasteading” communities on the high seas, <br />
the combination of Elinor Ostrom’s economic governance strategies with nondominium legal <br />
structures can lead to a new basis for common pool resources to be developed on a basis <br />
benefiting all of humanity.<br />
<br />
<br />
Among the open issues to resolve are the following: <br />
<br />
• Will countries with an interest in economic development of CHM resources explore user <br />
associations and nondominium-inspired legal structures to encourage private sector <br />
partnerships for humanities frontiers, on a success-sharing basis?<br />
<br />
• Will they be able to find an equitable (non-vetoed) formula for sharing of revenues from <br />
economic governance of CHM resources?<br />
<br />
• Can some of the revenue-sharing and technology-sharing provisions adopted by the <br />
Seabed Authority be a basis for emergent nondominium frameworks?<br />
<br />
• Should global NGOs take a lead in organizing nondominium partnerships for the CHM <br />
areas, instead of nation states, given that CHM areas are defined as outside state control <br />
and jurisdiction?<br />
<br />
• How can transparent, internationally-respected systems be established to ensure that the 21<br />
rights of future generation and Humanity be protected?<br />
<br />
<br />
Advances in communications and information technologies are bringing new grassroots <br />
participants to international decisionmaking, in contrast to patterns established in past centuries. <br />
<br />
NGOs and civil society are claiming a more active role in international issues. The New <br />
Humanitarian International Order recognizes NGO’s as subjects of the Public International order, <br />
even if they do not have legal personality.<br />
<br />
As the Internet and communication technologies spread, and the participation of civil society and <br />
NGOs in international matters expands, opportunities are emerging to combine Ostrom’s <br />
principles with nondominium legal agreements to ensure a more transparent equitable use of <br />
common pool resources. Together, they offer new promise for realizing the 5 “As” (Architecture, <br />
Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) needed for effective governance of the <br />
Commons for the benefit of humanity.<br />
(http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/lund2012/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
=More Information="<br />
<br />
* C. Cook, [[Nondominium]]: establishing consensus and collaboration for the Caspian nations, The Institute for Security and Resilience, <br />
Resiliblog Editor, on October 4, 2011.19<br />
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<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Law]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Using_Nondominion_to_Evolve_from_Local_to_Global_Commons&diff=83165Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons2014-03-17T16:38:45Z<p>Openworld: /* From the conclusion */ updating link to original .pdf paper</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
'''* Paper: From Local to Global Commons. Applying Ostrom’s Key Principles for Sustainable Governance. By Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier.'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.lund2012.earthsystemgovernance.org/LC2012-paper94.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
=Abstract=<br />
<br />
"This paper explores a possible new local-to-global system for the <br />
equitable governance of the “common pool resources.” As normally <br />
understood, the “Commons” refers to resources that are owned or shared <br />
among communities. Such resources (forests, fisheries, etc.) when located <br />
within national boundaries are subject to that country’s laws. Areas <br />
beyond national jurisdiction, including the high-seas, Antarctica, the <br />
ocean sea-bed, outer space and the Earth’s environment, are known as <br />
“Common Heritage of Mankind” (CHM) and subject to Public <br />
International Law (PIL). The object and subject of traditional PIL is the <br />
nation-state. However, since the 1972 Conference for the Human <br />
Environment, individuals and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) <br />
have been legally recognized under PIL as having direct responsibility for <br />
protection of the global environment, by working for transparency and <br />
accountability in its management. With this opening for direct <br />
participation by individuals and NGOs in working for sustainable <br />
management of the global Commons, it may be now feasible to extend the <br />
precedents identified by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom for successful <br />
economic governance of local common pool resources to wider CHM<br />
areas. <br />
<br />
A recently developed legal concept – nondominium – offers a <br />
framework for recognizing user rights toward this end. Combining <br />
Ostrom’s principles with this new approach for shared use of the <br />
Commons promises to give a more solid legal grounding for the 5 “As” <br />
(Architecture, Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) in <br />
the governance of the global commons for the benefit of humanity."<br />
<br />
<br />
=Excerpt=<br />
<br />
==[[Nondominium]]==<br />
<br />
Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier:<br />
<br />
"A new legal framework – Nondominium – offers an approach for sharing revenues from resource <br />
development in arenas beyond the effective actual (or de jure) control of national jurisdictions. <br />
Building upon ideas advanced by Chris Cook, a fellow of the Institute for Security and <br />
Resilience Studies at the University College of London, the new framework focuses on veto <br />
rights – rather than recognized ownership claims – to ensure development of common pool <br />
resources (or resources with conflicting national ownership) on a basis of mutual benefit. The <br />
nondominium approach may have special applicability as a framework for developing space and <br />
ocean sea-bed resources to benefit humanity in the near and far future.<br />
<br />
Under a nondominium framework for economic development of CHM resources, each country <br />
interested in receiving benefits could appoint a representative to an association of beneficiaries.<br />
<br />
A trustee (custodian) for the CHM would be elected by the representatives to oversee the legal <br />
operation of a collective entity. The representatives would also appoint a Manager, for a parallel <br />
partnership venture, to identify opportunities to develop the common pool resource in accord <br />
with a transparent revenue-sharing formula. Each representative would have power to exercise a <br />
veto with regard to the resource development proposal(s) circulated by the manager. <br />
<br />
Once an agreed formula (non-vetoed by the countries) emerged for recognizing needed inputs, <br />
and for overall revenue-sharing, the manager of the nondominium partnership would arrange <br />
open tenders to seek economic partners to maximize the value of the common pool resources. <br />
<br />
These tenders would be neutral with regard to the nationality or domicile of service providers <br />
and investment partners. Revenues from ensuing activities would be distributed to the <br />
association members on the originally-agreed basis. Oversight of compliance would rest with the <br />
nondominium’s trustee, who could apply Ostrom’s key principles of successful collective choice <br />
agreements and monitoring by independent auditors.<br />
<br />
The nondominium framework, in these ways, would conform with the requirements of <br />
international law that no country or combination of countries has the power of dominant control <br />
over relevant common pool resources.<br />
<br />
It seems particularly suited for easing disputes in highly <br />
polarized or contentious settings. <br />
<br />
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, for example, conflicting claims have arisen among what <br />
are now five Caspian-littoral nations (including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan). The <br />
Nondominium framework as originally advanced by Cook envisions that the littoral Caspian <br />
nations “should form a Caspian Foundation legal entity, and commit to that entity all existing <br />
rights in respect of the use, and the fruits of use (usufruct) of the Caspian Sea, and everything on it, in it or under it. The Caspian Foundation would act as custodian or steward and the Caspian <br />
nations would have agreed governance rights of veto.” <br />
<br />
As Cook has noted, “the proposed negative or passive veto right of stewardship differs <br />
fundamentally from conventional property rights of absolute ownership and temporary use under <br />
Condominium. Moreover, it does not confer the active power of control held under common law <br />
by a Trustee on behalf of beneficiaries, and the legal complexities and management conflicts <br />
which accompany that status.”<br />
<br />
In parallel with the Foundation’s custodial role, a Caspian Partnership framework agreement <br />
would be established by the member countries to maximize the value of developing the <br />
resources. It would “simply be an associative framework agreement within which Caspian <br />
nations self-organize to the common purpose of the sustainable development of the Caspian <br />
Sea,” Cook’s has stated. “The Caspian Partnership agreement would comprise a master <br />
framework agreement within which a myriad of associative agreements between the Caspian <br />
littoral nations individually or severally would be registered.”<br />
<br />
A similar transnational opportunity for application of the nondominium framework exists in the <br />
Sudan, with regard to disputed oil reserves between the original country of Sudan and the new <br />
breakaway nation of South Sudan. There, a nondominium framework would sidestep the <br />
question of ownership of disputed oil resources, in favor of a balanced (i.e. non-vetoed by either <br />
side) revenue-sharing system within which private sector investors and partners could then <br />
operate.<br />
This legal innovation for development of common pool resources could encourage Ostrom’s user <br />
association-based systems of economic governance to more rapidly advance in outer space, the <br />
oceans, and other Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) areas."<br />
(http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/lund2012/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
See also: [[Nondominium]]<br />
<br />
==From the conclusion==<br />
<br />
"Areas recognized as being the heritage of mankind are defined by treaties as falling outside of <br />
nation-state jurisdiction and ownership, and are to be instead developed on a basis that benefits <br />
all human beings. Their CHM status reflects a shared aim of holding the resources in trust for <br />
future generations, and a corresponding desire to prevent monopolization by individual nation <br />
states or corporations. <br />
<br />
A balanced approach to developing CHM areas appears needed. As private interest grows in <br />
developing outer space resources, and in creating “seasteading” communities on the high seas, <br />
the combination of Elinor Ostrom’s economic governance strategies with nondominium legal <br />
structures can lead to a new basis for common pool resources to be developed on a basis <br />
benefiting all of humanity.<br />
<br />
<br />
Among the open issues to resolve are the following: <br />
<br />
• Will countries with an interest in economic development of CHM resources explore user <br />
associations and nondominium-inspired legal structures to encourage private sector <br />
partnerships for humanities frontiers, on a success-sharing basis?<br />
<br />
• Will they be able to find an equitable (non-vetoed) formula for sharing of revenues from <br />
economic governance of CHM resources?<br />
<br />
• Can some of the revenue-sharing and technology-sharing provisions adopted by the <br />
Seabed Authority be a basis for emergent nondominium frameworks?<br />
<br />
• Should global NGOs take a lead in organizing nondominium partnerships for the CHM <br />
areas, instead of nation states, given that CHM areas are defined as outside state control <br />
and jurisdiction?<br />
<br />
• How can transparent, internationally-respected systems be established to ensure that the 21<br />
rights of future generation and Humanity be protected?<br />
<br />
<br />
Advances in communications and information technologies are bringing new grassroots <br />
participants to international decisionmaking, in contrast to patterns established in past centuries. <br />
<br />
NGOs and civil society are claiming a more active role in international issues. The New <br />
Humanitarian International Order recognizes NGO’s as subjects of the Public International order, <br />
even if they do not have legal personality.<br />
<br />
As the Internet and communication technologies spread, and the participation of civil society and <br />
NGOs in international matters expands, opportunities are emerging to combine Ostrom’s <br />
principles with nondominium legal agreements to ensure a more transparent equitable use of <br />
common pool resources. Together, they offer new promise for realizing the 5 “As” (Architecture, <br />
Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) needed for effective governance of the <br />
Commons for the benefit of humanity.<br />
(http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/lund2012/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
=More Information="<br />
<br />
* C. Cook, [[Nondominium]]: establishing consensus and collaboration for the Caspian nations, The Institute for Security and Resilience, <br />
Resiliblog Editor, on October 4, 2011.19<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Law]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Using_Nondominion_to_Evolve_from_Local_to_Global_Commons&diff=83164Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons2014-03-17T16:37:32Z<p>Openworld: /* Nondominium */ update of link to original paper</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
'''* Paper: From Local to Global Commons. Applying Ostrom’s Key Principles for Sustainable Governance. By Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier.'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.lund2012.earthsystemgovernance.org/LC2012-paper94.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
=Abstract=<br />
<br />
"This paper explores a possible new local-to-global system for the <br />
equitable governance of the “common pool resources.” As normally <br />
understood, the “Commons” refers to resources that are owned or shared <br />
among communities. Such resources (forests, fisheries, etc.) when located <br />
within national boundaries are subject to that country’s laws. Areas <br />
beyond national jurisdiction, including the high-seas, Antarctica, the <br />
ocean sea-bed, outer space and the Earth’s environment, are known as <br />
“Common Heritage of Mankind” (CHM) and subject to Public <br />
International Law (PIL). The object and subject of traditional PIL is the <br />
nation-state. However, since the 1972 Conference for the Human <br />
Environment, individuals and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) <br />
have been legally recognized under PIL as having direct responsibility for <br />
protection of the global environment, by working for transparency and <br />
accountability in its management. With this opening for direct <br />
participation by individuals and NGOs in working for sustainable <br />
management of the global Commons, it may be now feasible to extend the <br />
precedents identified by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom for successful <br />
economic governance of local common pool resources to wider CHM<br />
areas. <br />
<br />
A recently developed legal concept – nondominium – offers a <br />
framework for recognizing user rights toward this end. Combining <br />
Ostrom’s principles with this new approach for shared use of the <br />
Commons promises to give a more solid legal grounding for the 5 “As” <br />
(Architecture, Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) in <br />
the governance of the global commons for the benefit of humanity."<br />
<br />
<br />
=Excerpt=<br />
<br />
==[[Nondominium]]==<br />
<br />
Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier:<br />
<br />
"A new legal framework – Nondominium – offers an approach for sharing revenues from resource <br />
development in arenas beyond the effective actual (or de jure) control of national jurisdictions. <br />
Building upon ideas advanced by Chris Cook, a fellow of the Institute for Security and <br />
Resilience Studies at the University College of London, the new framework focuses on veto <br />
rights – rather than recognized ownership claims – to ensure development of common pool <br />
resources (or resources with conflicting national ownership) on a basis of mutual benefit. The <br />
nondominium approach may have special applicability as a framework for developing space and <br />
ocean sea-bed resources to benefit humanity in the near and far future.<br />
<br />
Under a nondominium framework for economic development of CHM resources, each country <br />
interested in receiving benefits could appoint a representative to an association of beneficiaries.<br />
<br />
A trustee (custodian) for the CHM would be elected by the representatives to oversee the legal <br />
operation of a collective entity. The representatives would also appoint a Manager, for a parallel <br />
partnership venture, to identify opportunities to develop the common pool resource in accord <br />
with a transparent revenue-sharing formula. Each representative would have power to exercise a <br />
veto with regard to the resource development proposal(s) circulated by the manager. <br />
<br />
Once an agreed formula (non-vetoed by the countries) emerged for recognizing needed inputs, <br />
and for overall revenue-sharing, the manager of the nondominium partnership would arrange <br />
open tenders to seek economic partners to maximize the value of the common pool resources. <br />
<br />
These tenders would be neutral with regard to the nationality or domicile of service providers <br />
and investment partners. Revenues from ensuing activities would be distributed to the <br />
association members on the originally-agreed basis. Oversight of compliance would rest with the <br />
nondominium’s trustee, who could apply Ostrom’s key principles of successful collective choice <br />
agreements and monitoring by independent auditors.<br />
<br />
The nondominium framework, in these ways, would conform with the requirements of <br />
international law that no country or combination of countries has the power of dominant control <br />
over relevant common pool resources.<br />
<br />
It seems particularly suited for easing disputes in highly <br />
polarized or contentious settings. <br />
<br />
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, for example, conflicting claims have arisen among what <br />
are now five Caspian-littoral nations (including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan). The <br />
Nondominium framework as originally advanced by Cook envisions that the littoral Caspian <br />
nations “should form a Caspian Foundation legal entity, and commit to that entity all existing <br />
rights in respect of the use, and the fruits of use (usufruct) of the Caspian Sea, and everything on it, in it or under it. The Caspian Foundation would act as custodian or steward and the Caspian <br />
nations would have agreed governance rights of veto.” <br />
<br />
As Cook has noted, “the proposed negative or passive veto right of stewardship differs <br />
fundamentally from conventional property rights of absolute ownership and temporary use under <br />
Condominium. Moreover, it does not confer the active power of control held under common law <br />
by a Trustee on behalf of beneficiaries, and the legal complexities and management conflicts <br />
which accompany that status.”<br />
<br />
In parallel with the Foundation’s custodial role, a Caspian Partnership framework agreement <br />
would be established by the member countries to maximize the value of developing the <br />
resources. It would “simply be an associative framework agreement within which Caspian <br />
nations self-organize to the common purpose of the sustainable development of the Caspian <br />
Sea,” Cook’s has stated. “The Caspian Partnership agreement would comprise a master <br />
framework agreement within which a myriad of associative agreements between the Caspian <br />
littoral nations individually or severally would be registered.”<br />
<br />
A similar transnational opportunity for application of the nondominium framework exists in the <br />
Sudan, with regard to disputed oil reserves between the original country of Sudan and the new <br />
breakaway nation of South Sudan. There, a nondominium framework would sidestep the <br />
question of ownership of disputed oil resources, in favor of a balanced (i.e. non-vetoed by either <br />
side) revenue-sharing system within which private sector investors and partners could then <br />
operate.<br />
This legal innovation for development of common pool resources could encourage Ostrom’s user <br />
association-based systems of economic governance to more rapidly advance in outer space, the <br />
oceans, and other Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) areas."<br />
(http://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/lund2012/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
See also: [[Nondominium]]<br />
<br />
==From the conclusion==<br />
<br />
"Areas recognized as being the heritage of mankind are defined by treaties as falling outside of <br />
nation-state jurisdiction and ownership, and are to be instead developed on a basis that benefits <br />
all human beings. Their CHM status reflects a shared aim of holding the resources in trust for <br />
future generations, and a corresponding desire to prevent monopolization by individual nation <br />
states or corporations. <br />
<br />
A balanced approach to developing CHM areas appears needed. As private interest grows in <br />
developing outer space resources, and in creating “seasteading” communities on the high seas, <br />
the combination of Elinor Ostrom’s economic governance strategies with nondominium legal <br />
structures can lead to a new basis for common pool resources to be developed on a basis <br />
benefiting all of humanity.<br />
<br />
<br />
Among the open issues to resolve are the following: <br />
<br />
• Will countries with an interest in economic development of CHM resources explore user <br />
associations and nondominium-inspired legal structures to encourage private sector <br />
partnerships for humanities frontiers, on a success-sharing basis?<br />
<br />
• Will they be able to find an equitable (non-vetoed) formula for sharing of revenues from <br />
economic governance of CHM resources?<br />
<br />
• Can some of the revenue-sharing and technology-sharing provisions adopted by the <br />
Seabed Authority be a basis for emergent nondominium frameworks?<br />
<br />
• Should global NGOs take a lead in organizing nondominium partnerships for the CHM <br />
areas, instead of nation states, given that CHM areas are defined as outside state control <br />
and jurisdiction?<br />
<br />
• How can transparent, internationally-respected systems be established to ensure that the 21<br />
rights of future generation and Humanity be protected?<br />
<br />
<br />
Advances in communications and information technologies are bringing new grassroots <br />
participants to international decisionmaking, in contrast to patterns established in past centuries. <br />
<br />
NGOs and civil society are claiming a more active role in international issues. The New <br />
Humanitarian International Order recognizes NGO’s as subjects of the Public International order, <br />
even if they do not have legal personality.<br />
<br />
As the Internet and communication technologies spread, and the participation of civil society and <br />
NGOs in international matters expands, opportunities are emerging to combine Ostrom’s <br />
principles with nondominium legal agreements to ensure a more transparent equitable use of <br />
common pool resources. Together, they offer new promise for realizing the 5 “As” (Architecture, <br />
Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) needed for effective governance of the <br />
Commons for the benefit of humanity.<br />
(http://www.lund2012.earthsystemgovernance.org/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
=More Information="<br />
<br />
* C. Cook, [[Nondominium]]: establishing consensus and collaboration for the Caspian nations, The Institute for Security and Resilience, <br />
Resiliblog Editor, on October 4, 2011.19<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Law]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Using_Nondominion_to_Evolve_from_Local_to_Global_Commons&diff=65655Using Nondominion to Evolve from Local to Global Commons2012-10-29T03:14:05Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
'''* Paper: From Local to Global Commons. Applying Ostrom’s Key Principles for Sustainable Governance. By Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier.'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.lund2012.earthsystemgovernance.org/LC2012-paper94.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
=Abstract=<br />
<br />
"This paper explores a possible new local-to-global system for the <br />
equitable governance of the “common pool resources.” As normally <br />
understood, the “Commons” refers to resources that are owned or shared <br />
among communities. Such resources (forests, fisheries, etc.) when located <br />
within national boundaries are subject to that country’s laws. Areas <br />
beyond national jurisdiction, including the high-seas, Antarctica, the <br />
ocean sea-bed, outer space and the Earth’s environment, are known as <br />
“Common Heritage of Mankind” (CHM) and subject to Public <br />
International Law (PIL). The object and subject of traditional PIL is the <br />
nation-state. However, since the 1972 Conference for the Human <br />
Environment, individuals and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) <br />
have been legally recognized under PIL as having direct responsibility for <br />
protection of the global environment, by working for transparency and <br />
accountability in its management. With this opening for direct <br />
participation by individuals and NGOs in working for sustainable <br />
management of the global Commons, it may be now feasible to extend the <br />
precedents identified by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom for successful <br />
economic governance of local common pool resources to wider CHM<br />
areas. <br />
<br />
A recently developed legal concept – nondominium – offers a <br />
framework for recognizing user rights toward this end. Combining <br />
Ostrom’s principles with this new approach for shared use of the <br />
Commons promises to give a more solid legal grounding for the 5 “As” <br />
(Architecture, Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) in <br />
the governance of the global commons for the benefit of humanity."<br />
<br />
<br />
=Excerpt=<br />
<br />
==[[Nondominium]]==<br />
<br />
Valnora Leister and Mark Frazier:<br />
<br />
"A new legal framework – Nondominium – offers an approach for sharing revenues from resource <br />
development in arenas beyond the effective actual (or de jure) control of national jurisdictions. <br />
Building upon ideas advanced by Chris Cook, a fellow of the Institute for Security and <br />
Resilience Studies at the University College of London, the new framework focuses on veto <br />
rights – rather than recognized ownership claims – to ensure development of common pool <br />
resources (or resources with conflicting national ownership) on a basis of mutual benefit. The <br />
nondominium approach may have special applicability as a framework for developing space and <br />
ocean sea-bed resources to benefit humanity in the near and far future.<br />
<br />
Under a nondominium framework for economic development of CHM resources, each country <br />
interested in receiving benefits could appoint a representative to an association of beneficiaries.<br />
<br />
A trustee (custodian) for the CHM would be elected by the representatives to oversee the legal <br />
operation of a collective entity. The representatives would also appoint a Manager, for a parallel <br />
partnership venture, to identify opportunities to develop the common pool resource in accord <br />
with a transparent revenue-sharing formula. Each representative would have power to exercise a <br />
veto with regard to the resource development proposal(s) circulated by the manager. <br />
<br />
Once an agreed formula (non-vetoed by the countries) emerged for recognizing needed inputs, <br />
and for overall revenue-sharing, the manager of the nondominium partnership would arrange <br />
open tenders to seek economic partners to maximize the value of the common pool resources. <br />
<br />
These tenders would be neutral with regard to the nationality or domicile of service providers <br />
and investment partners. Revenues from ensuing activities would be distributed to the <br />
association members on the originally-agreed basis. Oversight of compliance would rest with the <br />
nondominium’s trustee, who could apply Ostrom’s key principles of successful collective choice <br />
agreements and monitoring by independent auditors.<br />
<br />
The nondominium framework, in these ways, would conform with the requirements of <br />
international law that no country or combination of countries has the power of dominant control <br />
over relevant common pool resources.<br />
<br />
It seems particularly suited for easing disputes in highly <br />
polarized or contentious settings. <br />
<br />
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, for example, conflicting claims have arisen among what <br />
are now five Caspian-littoral nations (including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan). The <br />
Nondominium framework as originally advanced by Cook envisions that the littoral Caspian <br />
nations “should form a Caspian Foundation legal entity, and commit to that entity all existing <br />
rights in respect of the use, and the fruits of use (usufruct) of the Caspian Sea, and everything on it, in it or under it. The Caspian Foundation would act as custodian or steward and the Caspian <br />
nations would have agreed governance rights of veto.” <br />
<br />
As Cook has noted, “the proposed negative or passive veto right of stewardship differs <br />
fundamentally from conventional property rights of absolute ownership and temporary use under <br />
Condominium. Moreover, it does not confer the active power of control held under common law <br />
by a Trustee on behalf of beneficiaries, and the legal complexities and management conflicts <br />
which accompany that status.”<br />
<br />
In parallel with the Foundation’s custodial role, a Caspian Partnership framework agreement <br />
would be established by the member countries to maximize the value of developing the <br />
resources. It would “simply be an associative framework agreement within which Caspian <br />
nations self-organize to the common purpose of the sustainable development of the Caspian <br />
Sea,” Cook’s has stated. “The Caspian Partnership agreement would comprise a master <br />
framework agreement within which a myriad of associative agreements between the Caspian <br />
littoral nations individually or severally would be registered.”<br />
<br />
A similar transnational opportunity for application of the nondominium framework exists in the <br />
Sudan, with regard to disputed oil reserves between the original country of Sudan and the new <br />
breakaway nation of South Sudan. There, a nondominium framework would sidestep the <br />
question of ownership of disputed oil resources, in favor of a balanced (i.e. non-vetoed by either <br />
side) revenue-sharing system within which private sector investors and partners could then <br />
operate.<br />
This legal innovation for development of common pool resources could encourage Ostrom’s user <br />
association-based systems of economic governance to more rapidly advance in outer space, the <br />
oceans, and other Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) areas."<br />
(http://www.lund2012.earthsystemgovernance.org/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
See also: [[Nondominium]]<br />
<br />
<br />
==From the conclusion==<br />
<br />
"Areas recognized as being the heritage of mankind are defined by treaties as falling outside of <br />
nation-state jurisdiction and ownership, and are to be instead developed on a basis that benefits <br />
all human beings. Their CHM status reflects a shared aim of holding the resources in trust for <br />
future generations, and a corresponding desire to prevent monopolization by individual nation <br />
states or corporations. <br />
<br />
A balanced approach to developing CHM areas appears needed. As private interest grows in <br />
developing outer space resources, and in creating “seasteading” communities on the high seas, <br />
the combination of Elinor Ostrom’s economic governance strategies with nondominium legal <br />
structures can lead to a new basis for common pool resources to be developed on a basis <br />
benefiting all of humanity.<br />
<br />
<br />
Among the open issues to resolve are the following: <br />
<br />
• Will countries with an interest in economic development of CHM resources explore user <br />
associations and nondominium-inspired legal structures to encourage private sector <br />
partnerships for humanities frontiers, on a success-sharing basis?<br />
<br />
• Will they be able to find an equitable (non-vetoed) formula for sharing of revenues from <br />
economic governance of CHM resources?<br />
<br />
• Can some of the revenue-sharing and technology-sharing provisions adopted by the <br />
Seabed Authority be a basis for emergent nondominium frameworks?<br />
<br />
• Should global NGOs take a lead in organizing nondominium partnerships for the CHM <br />
areas, instead of nation states, given that CHM areas are defined as outside state control <br />
and jurisdiction?<br />
<br />
• How can transparent, internationally-respected systems be established to ensure that the 21<br />
rights of future generation and Humanity be protected?<br />
<br />
<br />
Advances in communications and information technologies are bringing new grassroots <br />
participants to international decisionmaking, in contrast to patterns established in past centuries. <br />
<br />
NGOs and civil society are claiming a more active role in international issues. The New <br />
Humanitarian International Order recognizes NGO’s as subjects of the Public International order, <br />
even if they do not have legal personality.<br />
<br />
As the Internet and communication technologies spread, and the participation of civil society and <br />
NGOs in international matters expands, opportunities are emerging to combine Ostrom’s <br />
principles with nondominium legal agreements to ensure a more transparent equitable use of <br />
common pool resources. Together, they offer new promise for realizing the 5 “As” (Architecture, <br />
Adaptiveness, Accountability, Allocation and Access) needed for effective governance of the <br />
Commons for the benefit of humanity.<br />
(http://www.lund2012.earthsystemgovernance.org/LC2012-paper94.pdf)<br />
<br />
<br />
=More Information="<br />
<br />
* C. Cook, [[Nondominium]]: establishing consensus and collaboration for the Caspian nations, The Institute for Security and Resilience, <br />
Resiliblog Editor, on October 4, 2011.19<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Global Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Commons]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Law]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Articles]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Giftegrity&diff=54710Giftegrity2011-10-06T14:42:12Z<p>Openworld: /* Discussion */</p>
<hr />
<div>GIFTegrity is a software that allows to organise the gift economy and non-reciprocal exchange, produced by Timothy Wilken and friends at Synearth.org.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Since it is somewhat complex to explain we start with a indirect citation, followed by the explanation by Dr. Wilken.<br />
<br />
All citations are from http://futurepositive.synearth.net/stories/storyReader$261<br />
<br />
'''Synergic Economist Wayne F. Perg''', Ph. D writes: <br />
<br />
“My concept and understanding of the GIFTegrity is one of a radical move away from trade-oriented or materialistic sort of exchange. In the GIFTegrity there is no accounting, there are no prices, there is no barter (no tit for tat), and there is no medium of exchange! For me, it is the road to a post-monetary, post-barter economy.<br />
<br />
Barter and monetary economies both tie together giving and receiving. One cannot be done in the absence of the other. It is this "tying together" that is the ultimate source of "dead resources" and unemployment. The GIFTegrity frees giving from receiving and receiving from giving and will, as it is implemented, bring all resources to life and eliminate unemployment.<br />
<br />
The GIFTegrity does this by creating transparency, i.e., by creating good information on the SEPARATE giving and receiving actions of all members of the gifting tensegrity. Because there is no trading, only gifts given with no requirment of payment, there are no market prices and no accounting of trades. What there is is an open exchange of information on needs and resources available to fill those needs and ongoing individual negotiations around actions that will meet those needs.<br />
<br />
I see the GIFTegrity bringing the exchange relationships of a living organism to human society. As Elizabet Sahtouris has pointed out, the heart does not hold an auction for the supply of oxygenated blood and it does not withhold blood from those organs who are currently unable to pay.<br />
<br />
I see the GIFTegrity as a powerful new vehicle for first supplementing and then eventually replacing our present exchange economy that relies on money and barter to facilitate exchange.<br />
<br />
I see the GIFTegrity as a powerful step forward from money systems and barter because it separates the acts of giving and receiving whereas both money systems and barter tie giving and receiving together into formal exchange transactions. It is this tying together of giving and receiving that creates "landlocked" resources and unemployment.<br />
<br />
I do not see the GIFTegrity replacing informal, undocumented and recorded giving and receiving within families, groups and communities within which all participants are known to each other and within which trust is well established. In fact, I see the operation of the Gift Tensegrity increasing the number and size of the groups within which informal, undocumented giving and receiving is the norm.<br />
<br />
It is my understanding that, in the GIFTegrity, I do not make any commitment to giving in advance. As a giver, I have access to information on the needs of those who are seeking what I have to give, but potential receivers of my gifts have no access to me as a giver until I offer my gift to that person, organization, or community to which I decide that I would like to give.<br />
<br />
Also, given my big picture vision for the GIFTegrity, I see givers and receivers including organizations (including for-profit businesses) and communities as well as individuals."<br />
(http://futurepositive.synearth.net/stories/storyReader$261)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Discussion=<br />
<br />
'''Timothy Wilken explains:'''<br />
<br />
Tensegrity is the pattern that results when push and pull have a win-win relationship with each other. The pull is continuous and the push is discontinuous. The continuous pull is balanced by the discontinuous push producing an integrity of tension and compression. This creates a powerful self-stabilizing system. The term tensegrity comes from synergic science.<br />
<br />
The gifting tensegrity is a newly invented mechanism for the exchange of human help. Let us begin by describing how a GIFTegrity might be structured and how it could work. Every member of a synergic help tensegrity would participate in two roles. That as a giftor and that as a giftee.<br />
<br />
The continuous pull of the giftees' needs are balanced by the discontinuous push from the giftors' offers of help. Again we see as an INTERdependent life form, there will be times when we will help others and times when others will help us.<br />
<br />
The GIFTegrity works on trust. I give help to those in need and trust that when I am in need there will be those who will give me help. [[Synergic Trust]] was discovered long ago, and was once known as: <br />
<br />
'''The Spiritual Principle Of Giving And Receiving'''<br />
<br />
When we give to one another, freely and without conditions, sharing our blessings with others and bearing each other's burdens, the giving multiplies and we receive far more than what was given. Even when there is no immediate prospect of return, Heaven keeps accounts of giving, and in the end blessing will return to the giver, multiplied manyfold. We must give first; to expect to receive without having given is to violate the universal law. On the other hand, giving in order to receive--with strings attached, with the intention of currying favor, or in order to make a name for oneself — is condemned.<br />
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And while, The Spiritual Principle of Giving and Receiving relies on “Heaven to keep account of giving., the Gift Tensegrity relies on a public database to keep account of giving.and receiving. This database of the synergic help exchange is a public space where the exchanging of help is made visable to all members who are participants in good standing.<br />
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When you join a Gift Tensegrity you sign in and register as a Giftor-Giftee. You will fill out two profiles. The first profile is for your role as a giftor. Your giftor profile is the list of the types of help you would like to give to other members of the synergic help tensegrity.<br />
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The second profile is for your role as a giftee. Your giftee profile is the list of the types of help you would like to receive as gifts from other members of the synergic help tensegrity. A third profile will develop as Giftor-Giftee members use the synergic help exchange. This is the personal history of each member’s giving and receiving. This profile is transparent. It can be seen by all members who are particpants in good standing. It shows all the gifts you have given, all the gifts you have received, and any comments made by other members of the synergic exchange tensegrity that you have interacted with in relation to the exchanging of help. Every exchange generates a Giftor’s comment rating the Giftee, and a Giftee’s comment rating the Giftor.<br />
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Now once a new member has completed their Giftor and Giftee registration and entered all their data into the data base, the computer sorts and matches gifts of help with needs for help.<br />
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Now initially within the Gift Tensegrity, the role of Giftor is active. The role of Giftee is passive. This means that once the computer has completed sorting and matching registered gifts of help with registered needs of help, the lists of matches are presented to the Giftor. These matches are not available for viewing by the Giftee.<br />
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However, the Giftor is free to offer his gift to anyone on the list regardless of the order presented. The Giftor is in control of his giving. Once the Giftor has made his choice and selected a Giftee to receive his offer of help, then the Giftee is notified that an offer of help has been made.<br />
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The Giftee is then presented with a list of offers of help from those Giftors that have selected them for offers. With these offers of help comes access to the profiles of the offering Giftors. The giftee is then free to examine the offer carefully, read the profile of the Giftor and decide whether to accept the offer or not.<br />
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Freedom of choice is an absolute tenet of the GIFTegrity. The Giftor decides when and to whom to offer a gift of help. The Giftee decides when and from whom to accept a gift offer of help. Giftors are unknown to Giftees unless the Giftor offers help. The Giftee is under no obligation to accept an offered gift. At this point the Giftee may contact the Giftor with questions or clarifications about the offer. If the Giftee accepts the offer, than that action is recorded as a synergic help exchange and both profiles are updated. Both Giftor and Giftee can make comments about the interaction then or at a later time if more appropriate. If the Giftee declines the offer of help, the Giftor is notified so they can offer their help to some other member."<br />
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*[[Michel Bauwens]] - [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation]<br />
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[[Image:Michel Bauwens.png|left|Michel Bauwens.png]] Michel Bauwens is a Belgian national working out of Thailand, focusing on a book about P2P Theory which adequately describes and explains current trends, to propose, in dialog with others, sustainable strategies for political and social change, i.e. to achieve a 'commons-based society' that can operate within a reformed market and state. <br />
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His past includes creation of two internet start-ups, the intranet/extranet company E-Com (sold to Alcatel) and the interactive marketing company Kyberco (sold to Tagora holding). He was European Mgr. of Thought Leadership for MarchFIRST, and ebusiness strategy director for Belgacom, Belgium’s leading telco (1999-2002). <br />
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He started his career as information analyst and reference librarian for the United States Information Agency (1983-2000), worked as information manager for British Petroleum (1990-1993) (where he created one of the first virtual information centers and is credited for coining the concept of cybrarian), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language Wave. <br />
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*[http://community-intelligence.com/?q=node/78#George/ George Pór] - founder [http://community-intelligence.com/ CommunityIntelligence], co-founder [http://www.commonslearningalliance.org/ Commons Learning Alliance]<br />
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[[George Pór]] is an evolutionary thinker/activist and strategic learning partner to visionary leaders in business, government and civil society, in matters of communities of practice and innovation-boosting, multi-stakeholder global events and processes. He is a pioneer of virtual communities, knowledge ecology, and collective intelligence research, and a seasoned practitioner of [http://www.presencing.com/presencing-theoryu/theoryu.shtml Theory U], [http://www.theworldcafe.com/ World Café] and the [http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ Art of Hosting]. <br />
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George is passionate about co-creating a world in which the full development of everyone is the goal of the whole. Work as creative self-expression is ceased to be the privilege of the few, and recognized as birthright of the multitude; a world, where all social institutions are designed to increase aliveness, joy, and prosperity for all. He is working for that by designing/advising projects that amplify collective intelligence and wisdom in organizations and social ecosystems. His methodology, the Innovation Architecture, combines social, cognitive, and electronic technologies for resilience, innovation, and regeneration. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Thomas+Benjamin+cryptocracy Thomas Benjamin] - [http://cryptocracy.net/ Cryptocracy]<br />
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[[Thomas Heydt-Benjamin]] researches security and privacy properties of ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems. Thomas brings with him to this work his prior experience in both attacks on and defenses of pervasive computing systems. In 2007 he participated in investigation of new contactless smart credit cards used in the United States, in which the team discovered serious flaws. In 2008 he and colleagues examined security and privacy properties of pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, determining that some aspects of existing designs may present dangerous security vulnerabilities. As a member of the security and cryptography team at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory from 2008 to 2009, Thomas worked with ZRL's famous anonymous credentials systems, inventing several extensions to anonymous credentials. Thomas is currently focused on novel solutions to real world security problems in resource constrained devices similar to the credit cards and pacemakers he has previously studied. Thomas started hacking and exploring computer security systems at age 6 when first exposed to assembler programming on the IBM PC. This early interest lead to formal study of computer science during high school through the Science Honors Program at Columbia University. He then earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Yale University, and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter Marc Canter] - founder Macromedia, founder Digital City Project [http://www.thedigitalcity.org/]<br />
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[[Image:Marc Cantor.JPG|left|Marc Cantor.JPG]] [[Marc Canter]] is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produces People Aggregator, a social networking tool with source available (but not under an open source license). Previously, he was a founder of the company that became Macromedia. <br />
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His blog, [http://marc.blogs.it/ Marc's Voice], frequently critiques other Internet luminaries and competitors, such as Mark Zuckerberg. <br />
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*Suresh Fernando, [[http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home OpenKollab]]<br />
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[[Image:Suresh cropped.jpg|left|Suresh cropped.jpg]] [[Suresh Fernando]]'s primary current project is the development of ProM, a 'dating site' for the climate action movement. The ProM concept is described [http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/project-matching-summary040211final-6843146 here]. The current status of the project is described [http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching here]. As a part of this project, Suresh and the rest of the ProM team are developing the architecture and processes for scalable open projects. <br />
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During the last several years Suresh has been focused on developing innovative solutions and strategies in both the open collaboration and social finance space. He is the co-founder of [http://mudball.net/openkollab/ OpenKollab], a virtual think tank exploring ways of leveraging recent developments in open collaboration processes, peer-to-peer culture, technology infrastructure, interoperability protocols etc. in service of massive social and systemic change. He is also a senior consultant for [http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/about-us/ Cognitive Policy Works]. Suresh is a social innovator who marries innovative strategies and models by fusing a deep understanding of collaboration processes and tools, community building platforms and processes and social finance models. He is also currently providing enterprise cross-boundary collaboration services; assisting organizations to identify the appropriate technology infrastructure and processes to effectively work together across organizational boundaries. <br />
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*[[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Adam+Fisk Adam Fisk]], Founder, [http://www.littleshoot.org LittleShoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]<br />
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[[Image:Adam Fisk cropped.jpg|left|Adam Fisk cropped.jpg]] [[Adam Fisk]] is a P2P bit twiddler who was the lead engineer at LimeWire before founding [http://www.littleshoot.org Little Shoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]. Adam is continuing to work on LittleShoot as well as Brave New Software's first project, the P2P censorship circumvention tool "Lantern." Lantern uses the LittleShoot P2P platform, a decentralized, encrypted, open source and standards-based platform for an Internet with fewer points of control. <br />
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*[[Juraj Bednar]]<br />
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I am attending Contact to meet people. I am a part of kyberia.sk, an active 'underground' community which was originally inspired by a book written by a well known Contact conference organizer :). For me, I expect inspiring people and I hope I can contribute something. If you happen to be in New York before conference, I would love to meet before, one day is not enough!<br />
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*[[Paul B. Hartzog]], Founder, [http://www.Panarchy.com Panarchy]<br />
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[[Image:Paul b Hartzog.JPG|left|Paul b Hartzog.JPG]] [[Paul Hartzog]], one of the coiners of the word "panarchy," is an independent scholar and hacker, and has taught at the University of Michigan's School of Information. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Scott+Heiferman Scott Heiferman] - founder, [http://www.Meetup.com Meetup.com]<br />
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[[Image:Scott Heiferman.JPG|left|Scott Heiferman.JPG]] [[Scott Heiferman]] is CEO and a co-founder of [http://www.meetup.com/ Meetup], a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. <br />
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*[http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/whos-who-in-collective-intelligence-aaron-huslage/ Aaron Huslage] - Originator [http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/reference-aidphone-flybox-for-autonomous-internet/ Aidphone Flybox]<br />
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[[Aaron Huslage]] has been hacking on Internet technologies since 1987, and been a thought leader in the Internet industry since 1993. His greatest talent lies in communicating highly technical information to those who aren’t highly technical. <br />
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He constantly researches new and emerging technologies and the latest system management techniques with an emphasis on very large-scale, low-cost, simple mobile, wireless and public interest communications. Aaron is a member of the organizing committee for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony Conference. He is intimately familiar with Sun Microsystems offerings, and heavily committed to the concept of Open Everything including OpenBTS. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berlin_Johnson Steven Johnson] - author, founder [http://outside.in/ Outside.in]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Venessa+Miemis Venessa Miemis] - media activist and artist, founder [http://www.emergentbydesign.com/ Emergent by Design]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Richard+Metzger Richard Metzger] - founder, [http://www.disinfo.com/ Disinformation] and [http://dangerousminds.net/ Dangerous Minds]<br />
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[[Image:Richard Metzger.JPG|left|Richard Metzger.JPG]] [[Richard Metzger]] (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a television host and author. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Genesis+P-Orridge Genesis P-Orridge] - musician, artist, founder Throbbing Gristle<br />
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[[Image:Gen Castle.JPG|left|Gen Castle.JPG]] Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. <br />
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His early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism and his own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Eli+Pariser Eli Pariser] - founder, [http://www.MoveOn.org MoveOn]<br />
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Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th. (At the time, he was working as a program assistant for the national nonprofit More Than Money.) <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce Mark Pesce] - inventor, technologist, futurist<br />
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[[Image:Mark Pesce crop.JPG|left|Mark Pesce crop.JPG]] [[Mark Pesce]] is an inventor, author and educator, best known for work that fused the World Wide Web with real-time 3D computer graphics; the result, known as VRML (for Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has become an international standard. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Andrew+Rasiej Andrew Rasiej] - co-founder [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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[[Image:Andrew Rasiej.JPG|left|Andrew Rasiej.JPG]] [[Andrew Rasiej]] is a futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum], an annual conference and website about the intersection of politics and technology. <br />
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*[[Sam Rose]] - [http://futureforwardinstitute.com Future Forward Institute]<br />
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[[Sam Rose]] founded a commons-based business model consultancy that builds theory and practice in the open, helping communities and social enterprises create and usefully deploy open source software, open licensed hardware, and open education resources. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rachel+Rosenfelt Rachel Rosenfelt] - founder, The [http://thenewinquiry.com/ New Inquiry]<br />
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[[Image:Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG|left|Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG]] Rachel Rosenfelt is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] - media theorist, author<br />
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[[Image:Doug Rushkoff.JPG|left|Doug Rushkoff.JPG]] [[Douglas Rushkoff]] is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. <br />
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He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. <br />
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Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Micah+Sifry Micah L. Sifry] - co-founder [http://www.personaldemocracy.com Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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*[[Nikos Salingaros]] -- President, [http://grupposalingaros.net/en/home.html Gruppo Salìngaros].<br />
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[[Image:Nikos-NYC1.jpg|left|Nikos-NYC1.jpg]] Nikos Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is an innovative urbanist and philosopher. The author of several books on urbanism and architectural theory, he is one of the pioneers who are defining [http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/%7eyxk833/P2PURBANISM.pdf "P2P Urbanism"] (a free online book). Along with a group of associates, he is creating a bottom-up approach to architecture and urban design based upon shared evidence-based rules, opposing mysticism and the myth of false scarcity of the "architect as creative genius". <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dave+Winer Dave Winer] - founder, [http://www.Scripting.com Scripting.com]<br />
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*Nathan Solomon - [http://thesuperfluid.com superfluid]<br />
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[[Image:NathanSolomon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|NathanSolomon.jpg]] [[Nathan Solomon]] co-founded superfluid with Branimir Vasilic. This initiative grows from their shared obsession with getting shit done, and was conceived to help humans build and coordinate socially-enabled teams for execution of the projects that matter to them, and sometimes to others, without recourse to $. In addition to bringing together the broader superfluid membership, this system facilitates existing communities forming discrete areas within superfluid. <br />
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*[[Mickki Langston|Mickki Langston]] - [http://www.milehighbiz.org Mile High Business Alliance]<br />
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[[Image:MickkiLangston.jpg|left|200px|MickkiLangston.jpg]] Recognizing the need to reclaim our power to create community wealth, [[Mickki Langston]] co-founded the Mile High Business Alliance in 2007. Currently serving as Executive Director, Mickki combines her passion for social and environmental sustainability with her experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur. Her work with the business alliance focuses on organizing local business owners in working together to build a more connected, resilient and healthy local economy that doesn't sacrifice people and the planet for the sake of profit. <br />
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[[File:StevenBrewer.jpg|left|200px|Steven D. BREWER]] [[Steven Brewer]] is the Director of the Biology Computer Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a consultant to faculty on the implementation of technology in support of education. He advocates for technology that empowers students to engage in authentic, collaborative, learner-centered activity that applies science in the real world. BREWER is equal parts scientist, technologist, and educator: whether in the field catching mongooses or tardigrades; with 20 terminal windows open hacking php in a drupal module; or exhorting students to take control of their own education and embrace transformation. He is also is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Esperanto language and a published author of essays, fiction, and haiku in Esperanto.<br />
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*[[Rob Peters|Rob Peters]] - [http://www.standardoftrust.com Standard of Trust]<br />
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[[File:Rob_Peters_200x193.jpg|left|200px|Rob Peters]] [[Rob Peters]] is a recognized thought leader, speaker and writer, for the capture, measurement and utilization of Relationship Capital (“RC”). He has played a significant role in the creation of industry standards and best practices for the capture of RC. Rob was co-chair of the DePaul University School of Digital Media's I.T. Executive Leadership Lab from 2002 through 2006. He was certified by the Relationship Networking Industry Association[http://www.RNIA.org] in January 2010. Rob has been a trusted resource with 25 years of relationship management experience at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Capgemini Financial Services, Headstrong, Keane, Romac International and IBM. Rob’s experience resulted in a passion: helping leaders and companies build, maintain, and validate their online reputations. He founded Standard of Trust in 2010 to deliver on this passion. Relationship Capital (RC) is a score based on promises made and kept by people and enterprises, and on people's opinions and feelings concerning those that make the promises. The score is not made public automatically. Owners decide who can see their RC accounts, and how much they can see. Standard of Trust helps clients capture RC and apply it to leverage their good reputations online.<br />
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*[[Isaac Wilder|Isaac Wilder]] - [http://www.freenetworkmovement.org Free Network Movement]<br />
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[[File:Isaac_wilder.jpg|left|200px|Isaac Wilder]] [[Isaac Wilder]] founded the Free Network Movement in September 2010. Since that time, he has been an active participant in the global conversation regarding next network initiatives. In his role as leader of the FNM, Isaac served as lead architect of a public mesh network called grinnellMIND, currently serving the town of Grinnell, IA. After finishing his second year at Grinnell College in May of 2011, Isaac plans to leave school and pursue free network advocacy full-time. He is also a developer and contributor to the Diaspora project.<br />
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*Devin Balkind - [http://sarapisfoundation.org Sarapis Foundation]<br />
The [[Sarapis Foundation]] believes that access to technology is a human right and that the only way we can secure this right is by creating an entire ecosystem of free/libre/opensource (FLO) technologies people can use to create wealth and wellness for themselves and their communities. <br />
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*[http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] - [http://telecomix.org Telecomix] - '''twitter:''' [https://twitter.com/petewearspants @petewearspants][[Image:Peter_Fein.jpg|200px|left||Peter Fein]] [http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] is an agent with [http://telecomix.org Telecomix], an ad-hoc volunteer disorganization of Internauts who support free communication. Telecomix was instrumental in [http://blog.wearpants.org/we-are-telecomix keeping the internet online in Egypt] during the Jan 25 revolution. We have since been active in fighting censorship in Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Bahrian and elsewhere. Pete is an expert Python programmer and a frequent conference speaker. He is currently developing [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party], a distributed censorship-resistant mirror network. More on Telecomix: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/07/telecomix-arab-spring Guardian (UK)], [http://owni.fr/2011/07/25/telecomix-%C2%AB-hacker-pour-la-liberte-%C2%BB/ Owni (FR)]<br />
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*[http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Antarctica Starts Here.] - [https://twitter.com/virtadpt Twitter] - [http://about.me/drwho Public Profile][[Image:TheDoctor.jpg|left]]<br />
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The Doctor (less formally known as Bryce) was loomed with a 1200bps modem in one hand and a soldering iron in the other. Life started getting interesting when he gave a presentation in defense of Kevin Mitnick for a high school english class, and somehow wound up explaining what PGP was, how it worked, and why it was important. Through his career he's been an IT consultant, a security analyst, a system administrator, a VoIP engineer, a security contractor, a penetration tester, a security researcher, and a professional head scratcher and "Hmm.. that's interesting.."'er. In his spare time the Doctor has taught seminars on practical privacy and anonymity techniques, [https://torproject.org/ Tor], wireless security, penetration testing, information security, and open source intelligence gathering.<br />
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Jonathan is a marketer working to develop a new model for brands in the age of P2P conversation. He has led communications for Nissan, Limited Brands, and Blockbuster, and served on the executive marketing committee Apple's launch of the first iMac. Jonathan [http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Salem-Baskin/e/B001IZXA5S/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 has published three books] (the fourth, on truth in marketing, is scheduled for release in the spring of 2012), writes on leadership for [http://adage.com/results.php?&endeca=1&searchprop=AdAgeAll&return=endeca&search_offset=0&search_order_by=score&search_phrase=jonathan+salem+baskin&D=jonathan+salem+baskin&Nty=1&Ntk=AdAgeAll&N=25+4294951503&Ntt=jonathan+salem+baskin Advertising Age,] and blogs about marketing at Dim Bulb (http://www.dimbulb.net) and historical examples of social experience at Histories of Social Media.<br />
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Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: The Journal for Global Citizens Creating Planetary Civilization and World Community, which is based on evolving interior development and cultural values as they impact globalization and world community. Kosmos Associates, Inc. is also actively involved in the founding of the Global Commons movement with James B. Quilligan of the Global Commons Trust. Nancy won the 2009 Images and Voices of Hope award for journalism as a tool to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation in a global shift to higher-level thinking. In 2004, Kosmos was nominated by Utne for excellence. Her testimony on the human dimension of the United Nations was distributed to the US President and Congress. As a founder of Transpersonal Psychology (late 70s), she served as a spiritual guide to individuals for 20 years. In the late 80s, she began to define the field of global transformation at the United Nations, where she successfully lobbied for elevated global standards in international treaties and co-founded the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000). Working with 78 international organizations in war zones for over two years, she recognized the traumatic effect of war, not only on military personnel, but on their families, communities and service providers. She then designed the first global training programs and workbook on secondary traumatic stress, implemented initially during the Balkan wars and now used internationally. She is a founding member of the Global Commons Initiative, World Wisdom Council, Creating the New Civilization Initiative, 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, WorldShift 2012 (Ervin Laszlo), Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, a Board member of Integral Review and Living Earth TV and a speaker at Mikhail Gorbachev's World Political Forum. <br />
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Greg Belvedere is a librarian, information architect, and writer based in Brooklyn. By day he works at a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library where he has served on the library's reference committee and worked to promote the library's electronic resources. He has recently started working as a freelance information architect in his off hours.<br />
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*[[Mark Frazier]] - [http://Openworld.com Openworld] & [http://MiiU.org MiiU Resilient Community Wiki]<br />
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[[Image:MarkFrazier2011.jpg|200px|left]]I'm president of Openworld, a nonprofit group whose founders have worked on grassroots alternatives to zero-sum politics in 50+ countries. Areas of main current project interest/activity: [http://miiu.org/wiki/Openworld_Game virtual games for actual change], [http://miiu.org/wiki/Charity challenge offers by donors] to spread local resilience, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/crowdmoves "crowdmoves"] to intentional communities, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/microscholarships microscholarship initiatives] to spread skills in struggling areas, [http://miiu.org/wiki/Vesting_students_as_co-owners_of_schools students as co-owners] of entrepreneurial schools, and [http://miiu.org/wiki/Funding_education_with_personal_currencies personal currencies] to fund re-skilling. I'm considering a pilot launch of [http://is.gd/persnlcurrency personal currencies using Augmented Reality] on cell phones, and am active in [http://miiu.org/wiki/Dayton Dayton], Virginia nonprofit [http://miiu.org/wiki/Arts_%26_Business_Connection_of_Dayton groups] to improve the local business climate and attract creative ventures to the area. Earlier in my career, I was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's privatization practice. I'm a graduate of Harvard University and a past Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute, where I researched ways that communities can enable neighborhood associations to take on municipal service responsibilities. I love reading, drawing/architectural design, hiking, flying, square foot gardening, and archery. My Twitter feeds are at [http://twitter.com/openworld @openworld] and [http://twitter.com/peerlearning @peerlearning].<br />
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I'm a writer, anthropologist and activist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I work with transferring web-based ideas such as emergent distributed systems, peer-2-peer networks and open source development practices to local, net-enabled activism. I'm currently involved in: <br />
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I'm attending Contact to share my experiences from these projects and to learn more about the possibilities for using distributed net technology in local projects. <br />
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I have a [http://andreaslloyd.dk/ somewhat dormant blog] which I plan to resuscitate. I plan to write about self-organisation, systems thinking, ecology and community. I also hate writing about myself in the third person.<br />
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I like to make things, usually in the form of web and mobile applications. I'm coming to Contact seeking to learn ways to make small communities more resilient to infrastructure disruptions. In particular, I'm interested in commerce, food production, and communications networks at a neighborhood level.<br />
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Cultivator of Relationships. Community Engager & Builder. Professional Elephant Hunter. Intrapreneur. Social Media Strategist. Renaissance woman. Lover of all things creative, expressive and engaging.<br />
It's all about the dialogue, which is why I love building events & opportunities in my hometown of Stratford, Ontario to support that dialogue (Ignite, TEDx, SocialMediaBreakfasts). I've always been a geek of the curious kind which has most recently translated into my love, embrace and work in social media. I have worked in ICT for the last 12 years in sales, education, operations and program management and am currently a Business Consultant with a national telecommunications carrier in Canada.<br><br />
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Keenan is developing Village Votes, a web site where people can propose policy, edit policy, and vote on their favorite policies. The goal of this site is to improve governance by bringing the best minds to the development of policy and to speed up the rate at which policy gets adopted and implemented.<br />
Keenan believes in Isocracy, or government by equally empowered people. He has lived for the past 28 years in Twin Oaks, a worker-owned cooperative that runs several successful businesses and is run along the principles of Isocracy. Twin Oaks has developed a model of Isocratic governance that allows for all members to set a yearly budget, to expand businesses, to draft policy and to rotate positions of leadership. For over 44 years Twin Oaks has grown and thrived without developing a core of leaders or any sort of power elite by expecting responsibility and empowerment from every member (including children!).<br />
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Mark is the Co-Founder and President of Digital Democracy, a non-profit empowering marginalized groups through innovative technology solutions. His family fled the Soviet Union as refugees and their experience informs and inspires his work training grassroots groups around the world to in protecting their human rights. Mark has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and presented at conferences worldwide on the use of social media and technology to connect local voices and address crisis. He is also a founder of New Words Media, a strategic media firm based in New York and a founder and board-member of Bem, a youth action center in Armenia that uses art and technology to support emerging civil society. He has produced media strategies and directed documentary films in the post-Soviet, USA and Asia.<br />
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*[[Michel Bauwens]] - [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation]<br />
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*[http://community-intelligence.com/?q=node/78#George/ George Pór] - founder [http://community-intelligence.com/ CommunityIntelligence], co-founder [http://www.commonslearningalliance.org/ Commons Learning Alliance]<br />
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[[George Pór]] is an evolutionary thinker/activist and strategic learning partner to visionary leaders in business, government and civil society, in matters of communities of practice and innovation-boosting, multi-stakeholder global events and processes. He is a pioneer of virtual communities, knowledge ecology, and collective intelligence research, and a seasoned practitioner of [http://www.presencing.com/presencing-theoryu/theoryu.shtml Theory U], [http://www.theworldcafe.com/ World Café] and the [http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ Art of Hosting]. <br />
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George is passionate about co-creating a world in which the full development of everyone is the goal of the whole. Work as creative self-expression is ceased to be the privilege of the few, and recognized as birthright of the multitude; a world, where all social institutions are designed to increase aliveness, joy, and prosperity for all. He is working for that by designing/advising projects that amplify collective intelligence and wisdom in organizations and social ecosystems. His methodology, the Innovation Architecture, combines social, cognitive, and electronic technologies for resilience, innovation, and regeneration. <br />
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His academic teaching and research posts included: Université de Paris, UC Berkeley, California Institute for Integral Studies, INSEAD, London School of Economics, and Universiteit van Amsterdam. George lives in London and speaks English, French, Hungarian and Russian. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Thomas+Benjamin+cryptocracy Thomas Benjamin] - [http://cryptocracy.net/ Cryptocracy]<br />
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[[Thomas Heydt-Benjamin]] researches security and privacy properties of ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems. Thomas brings with him to this work his prior experience in both attacks on and defenses of pervasive computing systems. In 2007 he participated in investigation of new contactless smart credit cards used in the United States, in which the team discovered serious flaws. In 2008 he and colleagues examined security and privacy properties of pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, determining that some aspects of existing designs may present dangerous security vulnerabilities. As a member of the security and cryptography team at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory from 2008 to 2009, Thomas worked with ZRL's famous anonymous credentials systems, inventing several extensions to anonymous credentials. Thomas is currently focused on novel solutions to real world security problems in resource constrained devices similar to the credit cards and pacemakers he has previously studied. Thomas started hacking and exploring computer security systems at age 6 when first exposed to assembler programming on the IBM PC. This early interest lead to formal study of computer science during high school through the Science Honors Program at Columbia University. He then earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Yale University, and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter Marc Canter] - founder Macromedia, founder Digital City Project [http://www.thedigitalcity.org/]<br />
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[[Image:Marc Cantor.JPG|left|Marc Cantor.JPG]] [[Marc Canter]] is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produces People Aggregator, a social networking tool with source available (but not under an open source license). Previously, he was a founder of the company that became Macromedia. <br />
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His blog, [http://marc.blogs.it/ Marc's Voice], frequently critiques other Internet luminaries and competitors, such as Mark Zuckerberg. <br />
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Canter is also a contributor to many open standards efforts and advocates for end-user controlled digital identities and content - being a co-founder of the "Identity Gang", and a co-signer of the Social Web Users' Bill of Rights. <br />
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He has consulted with global corporations including PCCW and Intel and has written on the multimedia industry, micro-content publishing and social networking. <br />
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Canter is developing software in the Greater Cleveland area and teaching classes at Case Western Reserve University <br />
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*Suresh Fernando, [[http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home OpenKollab]]<br />
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[[Image:Suresh cropped.jpg|left|Suresh cropped.jpg]] [[Suresh Fernando]]'s primary current project is the development of ProM, a 'dating site' for the climate action movement. The ProM concept is described [http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/project-matching-summary040211final-6843146 here]. The current status of the project is described [http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching here]. As a part of this project, Suresh and the rest of the ProM team are developing the architecture and processes for scalable open projects. <br />
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During the last several years Suresh has been focused on developing innovative solutions and strategies in both the open collaboration and social finance space. He is the co-founder of [http://mudball.net/openkollab/ OpenKollab], a virtual think tank exploring ways of leveraging recent developments in open collaboration processes, peer-to-peer culture, technology infrastructure, interoperability protocols etc. in service of massive social and systemic change. He is also a senior consultant for [http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/about-us/ Cognitive Policy Works]. Suresh is a social innovator who marries innovative strategies and models by fusing a deep understanding of collaboration processes and tools, community building platforms and processes and social finance models. He is also currently providing enterprise cross-boundary collaboration services; assisting organizations to identify the appropriate technology infrastructure and processes to effectively work together across organizational boundaries. <br />
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*[[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Adam+Fisk Adam Fisk]], Founder, [http://www.littleshoot.org LittleShoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]<br />
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[[Image:Adam Fisk cropped.jpg|left|Adam Fisk cropped.jpg]] [[Adam Fisk]] is a P2P bit twiddler who was the lead engineer at LimeWire before founding [http://www.littleshoot.org Little Shoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]. Adam is continuing to work on LittleShoot as well as Brave New Software's first project, the P2P censorship circumvention tool "Lantern." Lantern uses the LittleShoot P2P platform, a decentralized, encrypted, open source and standards-based platform for an Internet with fewer points of control. <br />
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*[[Juraj Bednar]]<br />
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[[Image:Juraj_bednar.jpg|left|Juraj Bednar]] does not like to be described in a paragraph, but he is an entrepreneur since he was 18 and is interested in changing the world for the better, freedom, [http://www.lovek.org/2010/12/jurajs-microworlds.html microworlds and the different around us], artificial intelligence (which he studied at the university), esp. bridging bio and AI worlds in fields like rule based systems ([http://jooray.soup.io/post/23859649/What-if-Theres-no-plan I believe that's how DNA works]) and evolution. Recent more specific interests are Bitcoin (peer to peer currency), [http://loat.sk.cx/ bridging virtual and physical spaces] and a [http://www.progressbar.sk/ hackerspace Progressbar] he co-founded in Bratislava. He also wrote two books and his working on his third, all of them unreadable to all but a small club of Slovak-speaking humanoids.<br />
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I am attending Contact to meet people. I am a part of kyberia.sk, an active 'underground' community which was originally inspired by a book written by a well known Contact conference organizer :). For me, I expect inspiring people and I hope I can contribute something. If you happen to be in New York before conference, I would love to meet before, one day is not enough!<br />
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*[[Paul B. Hartzog]], Founder, [http://www.Panarchy.com Panarchy]<br />
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[[Image:Paul b Hartzog.JPG|left|Paul b Hartzog.JPG]] [[Paul Hartzog]], one of the coiners of the word "panarchy," is an independent scholar and hacker, and has taught at the University of Michigan's School of Information. <br />
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Cofounder of The Future Forward Institute, and recipient of an NSF IGERT to study complex systems, he has a Masters in Globalization and Environmental Politics from the University of Utah, and a Masters in Political Theory from the University of Michigan. <br />
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His work on panarchy hybridizes political philosophy/economy, network culture, complex systems, and critical social theory. His interests include Complexity Theory, Cooperation, International Relations, Environmental Politics, Information Society and Economy, Information Technologies, Sustainable Development, Network Culture, and Ethics. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Scott+Heiferman Scott Heiferman] - founder, [http://www.Meetup.com Meetup.com]<br />
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[[Image:Scott Heiferman.JPG|left|Scott Heiferman.JPG]] [[Scott Heiferman]] is CEO and a co-founder of [http://www.meetup.com/ Meetup], a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. <br />
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As of April 2008, five million people have registered on Meetup. Meetup's investors include eBay, Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther Dyson, and others. <br />
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Prior to founding i-traffic, Heiferman was employed by Sony with the title "Interactive Marketing Frontiersman." In 2005, Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship. <br />
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*[http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/whos-who-in-collective-intelligence-aaron-huslage/ Aaron Huslage] - Originator [http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/reference-aidphone-flybox-for-autonomous-internet/ Aidphone Flybox]<br />
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[[Aaron Huslage]] has been hacking on Internet technologies since 1987, and been a thought leader in the Internet industry since 1993. His greatest talent lies in communicating highly technical information to those who aren’t highly technical. <br />
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He constantly researches new and emerging technologies and the latest system management techniques with an emphasis on very large-scale, low-cost, simple mobile, wireless and public interest communications. Aaron is a member of the organizing committee for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony Conference. He is intimately familiar with Sun Microsystems offerings, and heavily committed to the concept of Open Everything including OpenBTS. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berlin_Johnson Steven Johnson] - author, founder [http://outside.in/ Outside.in]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Venessa+Miemis Venessa Miemis] - media activist and artist, founder [http://www.emergentbydesign.com/ Emergent by Design]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Richard+Metzger Richard Metzger] - founder, [http://www.disinfo.com/ Disinformation] and [http://dangerousminds.net/ Dangerous Minds]<br />
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[[Image:Richard Metzger.JPG|left|Richard Metzger.JPG]] [[Richard Metzger]] (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a television host and author. <br />
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He was the host of the TV show Disinformation (United Kingdom Channel 4, 2000-01), The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com. <br />
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He is currently the host of the online talk show Dangerous Minds. <br />
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He is the author of two books, ''Disinformation: The Interviews'' (2002) which feature unedited interviews with several of the characters and thinkers who were guests on the series and ''Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide To Magick &amp; The Occult'' (2004) an anthology of occult essays. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Genesis+P-Orridge Genesis P-Orridge] - musician, artist, founder Throbbing Gristle<br />
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[[Image:Gen Castle.JPG|left|Gen Castle.JPG]] Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. <br />
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His early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism and his own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. <br />
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Later musical work with Psychic TV received wider exposure, including some chart-topping singles. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Eli+Pariser Eli Pariser] - founder, [http://www.MoveOn.org MoveOn]<br />
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[[Image:Eli Pariser.jpg|left|Eli Pariser.jpg]] [[Eli Pariser]] (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is the former Executive Director of [http://www.moveon.org/?skip=1 MoveOn.org], and the organization's current Board President. <br />
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Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th. (At the time, he was working as a program assistant for the national nonprofit More Than Money.) <br />
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In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition and in November of that year, Moveon.org founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades asked Pariser to join their organization. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce Mark Pesce] - inventor, technologist, futurist<br />
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[[Image:Mark Pesce crop.JPG|left|Mark Pesce crop.JPG]] [[Mark Pesce]] is an inventor, author and educator, best known for work that fused the World Wide Web with real-time 3D computer graphics; the result, known as VRML (for Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has become an international standard. <br />
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The author of numerous articles on science, technology, media and the arts, Pesce has also written five books, including ''The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination'' (Random House, 2000) which presented a roadmap of key 21st century technologies. <br />
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Pesce contends we are entering an ‘era of hyperdistribution’ that will radically change our media ecosystem. Central to this shift is the take-up of p2p filesharing software like BitTorrent that provides the first truly efficient digital media distribution platform based on the principles of swarming. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Andrew+Rasiej Andrew Rasiej] - co-founder [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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[[Image:Andrew Rasiej.JPG|left|Andrew Rasiej.JPG]] [[Andrew Rasiej]] is a futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum], an annual conference and website about the intersection of politics and technology. <br />
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He is also the co-Founder of techPresident.com, an award winning blog that covers how the Obama administration is using the web, and how technology is empowering new levels of citizen engagement throughout the United States. <br />
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*[[Sam Rose]] - [http://futureforwardinstitute.com Future Forward Institute]<br />
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[[Sam Rose]] founded a commons-based business model consultancy that builds theory and practice in the open, helping communities and social enterprises create and usefully deploy open source software, open licensed hardware, and open education resources. <br />
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He is interested in effective knowledge synthesis, and in exploring and developing the concepts of open knowledge, open design, and open business. <br />
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He is involved in a growing list of blogs, wikis, social software experiments and developings, including CoummunityWiki, Meatball Wiki, Cooperation Commons Weblog, Smartmobs Weblog. Sam Rose is also a partner and principle technologist in http://hollymeadcapital.com <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rachel+Rosenfelt Rachel Rosenfelt] - founder, The [http://thenewinquiry.com/ New Inquiry]<br />
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[[Image:Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG|left|Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG]] Rachel Rosenfelt is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry. <br />
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She is also a new media and marketing consultant based in New York. Prior to The New Inquiry she worked at the World Wide Workshop Foundation, rising to Program Manager. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] - media theorist, author<br />
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[[Image:Doug Rushkoff.JPG|left|Doug Rushkoff.JPG]] [[Douglas Rushkoff]] is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. <br />
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He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. <br />
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Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency. <br />
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He has written ten books on media, technology, and culture. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times Syndicate, as well as regular columns for The Guardian of London, Arthur, Discover and the online magazines Daily Beast,[4] TheFeature.com and meeting industry magazine One+. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Micah+Sifry Micah L. Sifry] - co-founder [http://www.personaldemocracy.com Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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He is also the editor of PdF’s new group blog TechPresident, which focuses on how the campaigns are using the web and how the web is using them. Along with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. <br />
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He is the author or editor of four books, the most recent being Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? (John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2004), written with Nancy Watzman. <br />
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*[[Nikos Salingaros]] -- President, [http://grupposalingaros.net/en/home.html Gruppo Salìngaros].<br />
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[[Image:Nikos-NYC1.jpg|left|Nikos-NYC1.jpg]] Nikos Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is an innovative urbanist and philosopher. The author of several books on urbanism and architectural theory, he is one of the pioneers who are defining [http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/%7eyxk833/P2PURBANISM.pdf "P2P Urbanism"] (a free online book). Along with a group of associates, he is creating a bottom-up approach to architecture and urban design based upon shared evidence-based rules, opposing mysticism and the myth of false scarcity of the "architect as creative genius". <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dave+Winer Dave Winer] - founder, [http://www.Scripting.com Scripting.com]<br />
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[[Image:Dave Winer.JPG|left|Dave Winer.JPG]] [[Dave Winer]] in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City. <br />
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Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. <br />
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*Nathan Solomon - [http://thesuperfluid.com superfluid]<br />
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[[Image:NathanSolomon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|NathanSolomon.jpg]] [[Nathan Solomon]] co-founded superfluid with Branimir Vasilic. This initiative grows from their shared obsession with getting shit done, and was conceived to help humans build and coordinate socially-enabled teams for execution of the projects that matter to them, and sometimes to others, without recourse to $. In addition to bringing together the broader superfluid membership, this system facilitates existing communities forming discrete areas within superfluid. <br />
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Nathan created the first digital distribution of AAA game titles, the first wireless in-store distribution of games in the US, has held roles with national ad agencies as Chief Technologist and Executive Producer, and was a cinematography fellow of the American Film Instute. Thoughout his career, he has worked to provide coherent contexts empowering creative and technical execution. His hobby is [http://VeloBase.org VeloBase.org] <br />
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*[[Mickki Langston|Mickki Langston]] - [http://www.milehighbiz.org Mile High Business Alliance]<br />
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[[Image:MickkiLangston.jpg|left|200px|MickkiLangston.jpg]] Recognizing the need to reclaim our power to create community wealth, [[Mickki Langston]] co-founded the Mile High Business Alliance in 2007. Currently serving as Executive Director, Mickki combines her passion for social and environmental sustainability with her experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur. Her work with the business alliance focuses on organizing local business owners in working together to build a more connected, resilient and healthy local economy that doesn't sacrifice people and the planet for the sake of profit. <br />
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[[File:StevenBrewer.jpg|left|200px|Steven D. BREWER]] [[Steven Brewer]] is the Director of the Biology Computer Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a consultant to faculty on the implementation of technology in support of education. He advocates for technology that empowers students to engage in authentic, collaborative, learner-centered activity that applies science in the real world. BREWER is equal parts scientist, technologist, and educator: whether in the field catching mongooses or tardigrades; with 20 terminal windows open hacking php in a drupal module; or exhorting students to take control of their own education and embrace transformation. He is also is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Esperanto language and a published author of essays, fiction, and haiku in Esperanto.<br />
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[[File:Rob_Peters_200x193.jpg|left|200px|Rob Peters]] [[Rob Peters]] is a recognized thought leader, speaker and writer, for the capture, measurement and utilization of Relationship Capital (“RC”). He has played a significant role in the creation of industry standards and best practices for the capture of RC. Rob was co-chair of the DePaul University School of Digital Media's I.T. Executive Leadership Lab from 2002 through 2006. He was certified by the Relationship Networking Industry Association[http://www.RNIA.org] in January 2010. Rob has been a trusted resource with 25 years of relationship management experience at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Capgemini Financial Services, Headstrong, Keane, Romac International and IBM. Rob’s experience resulted in a passion: helping leaders and companies build, maintain, and validate their online reputations. He founded Standard of Trust in 2010 to deliver on this passion. Relationship Capital (RC) is a score based on promises made and kept by people and enterprises, and on people's opinions and feelings concerning those that make the promises. The score is not made public automatically. Owners decide who can see their RC accounts, and how much they can see. Standard of Trust helps clients capture RC and apply it to leverage their good reputations online.<br />
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*[[Isaac Wilder|Isaac Wilder]] - [http://www.freenetworkmovement.org Free Network Movement]<br />
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[[File:Isaac_wilder.jpg|left|200px|Isaac Wilder]] [[Isaac Wilder]] founded the Free Network Movement in September 2010. Since that time, he has been an active participant in the global conversation regarding next network initiatives. In his role as leader of the FNM, Isaac served as lead architect of a public mesh network called grinnellMIND, currently serving the town of Grinnell, IA. After finishing his second year at Grinnell College in May of 2011, Isaac plans to leave school and pursue free network advocacy full-time. He is also a developer and contributor to the Diaspora project.<br />
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*Devin Balkind - [http://sarapisfoundation.org Sarapis Foundation]<br />
The [[Sarapis Foundation]] believes that access to technology is a human right and that the only way we can secure this right is by creating an entire ecosystem of free/libre/opensource (FLO) technologies people can use to create wealth and wellness for themselves and their communities. <br />
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*[http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] - [http://telecomix.org Telecomix] - '''twitter:''' [https://twitter.com/petewearspants @petewearspants][[Image:Peter_Fein.jpg|200px|left||Peter Fein]] [http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] is an agent with [http://telecomix.org Telecomix], an ad-hoc volunteer disorganization of Internauts who support free communication. Telecomix was instrumental in [http://blog.wearpants.org/we-are-telecomix keeping the internet online in Egypt] during the Jan 25 revolution. We have since been active in fighting censorship in Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Bahrian and elsewhere. Pete is an expert Python programmer and a frequent conference speaker. He is currently developing [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party], a distributed censorship-resistant mirror network. More on Telecomix: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/07/telecomix-arab-spring Guardian (UK)], [http://owni.fr/2011/07/25/telecomix-%C2%AB-hacker-pour-la-liberte-%C2%BB/ Owni (FR)]<br />
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*[http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Antarctica Starts Here.] - [https://twitter.com/virtadpt Twitter] - [http://about.me/drwho Public Profile][[Image:TheDoctor.jpg|left]]<br />
The Doctor (less formally known as Bryce) was loomed with a 1200bps modem in one hand and a soldering iron in the other. Life started getting interesting when he gave a presentation in defense of Kevin Mitnick for a high school english class, and somehow wound up explaining what PGP was, how it worked, and why it was important. Through his career he's been an IT consultant, a security analyst, a system administrator, a VoIP engineer, a security contractor, a penetration tester, a security researcher, and a professional head scratcher and "Hmm.. that's interesting.."'er. In his spare time the Doctor has taught seminars on practical privacy and anonymity techniques, [https://torproject.org/ Tor], wireless security, penetration testing, information security, and open source intelligence gathering.<br />
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Jonathan is a marketer working to develop a new model for brands in the age of P2P conversation. He has led communications for Nissan, Limited Brands, and Blockbuster, and served on the executive marketing committee Apple's launch of the first iMac. Jonathan [http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Salem-Baskin/e/B001IZXA5S/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 has published three books] (the fourth, on truth in marketing, is scheduled for release in the spring of 2012), writes on leadership for [http://adage.com/results.php?&endeca=1&searchprop=AdAgeAll&return=endeca&search_offset=0&search_order_by=score&search_phrase=jonathan+salem+baskin&D=jonathan+salem+baskin&Nty=1&Ntk=AdAgeAll&N=25+4294951503&Ntt=jonathan+salem+baskin Advertising Age,] and blogs about marketing at Dim Bulb (http://www.dimbulb.net) and historical examples of social experience at Histories of Social Media.<br />
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Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: The Journal for Global Citizens Creating Planetary Civilization and World Community, which is based on evolving interior development and cultural values as they impact globalization and world community. Kosmos Associates, Inc. is also actively involved in the founding of the Global Commons movement with James B. Quilligan of the Global Commons Trust. Nancy won the 2009 Images and Voices of Hope award for journalism as a tool to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation in a global shift to higher-level thinking. In 2004, Kosmos was nominated by Utne for excellence. Her testimony on the human dimension of the United Nations was distributed to the US President and Congress. As a founder of Transpersonal Psychology (late 70s), she served as a spiritual guide to individuals for 20 years. In the late 80s, she began to define the field of global transformation at the United Nations, where she successfully lobbied for elevated global standards in international treaties and co-founded the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000). Working with 78 international organizations in war zones for over two years, she recognized the traumatic effect of war, not only on military personnel, but on their families, communities and service providers. She then designed the first global training programs and workbook on secondary traumatic stress, implemented initially during the Balkan wars and now used internationally. She is a founding member of the Global Commons Initiative, World Wisdom Council, Creating the New Civilization Initiative, 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, WorldShift 2012 (Ervin Laszlo), Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, a Board member of Integral Review and Living Earth TV and a speaker at Mikhail Gorbachev's World Political Forum. <br />
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Greg Belvedere is a librarian, information architect, and writer based in Brooklyn. By day he works at a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library where he has served on the library's reference committee and worked to promote the library's electronic resources. He has recently started working as a freelance information architect in his off hours.<br />
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*[[Mark Frazier]] - [http://Openworld.com Openworld] & [http://MiiU.org MiiU Resilient Community Wiki]<br />
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[[Image:MarkFrazier2011.jpg|200px|left]]I'm president of Openworld, a nonprofit group whose founders have worked on grassroots alternatives to zero-sum politics in 50+ countries. Areas of main current project interest/activity: [http://miiu.org/wiki/Openworld_Game virtual games for actual change], [http://miiu.org/wiki/Charity challenge offers by donors] to spread local resilience, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/crowdmoves "crowdmoves"] to intentional communities, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/microscholarships microscholarship initiatives] to spread skills in struggling areas, [http://miiu.org/wiki/Vesting_students_as_co-owners_of_schools students as co-owners] of entrepreneurial schools, and [http://miiu.org/wiki/Funding_education_with_personal_currencies personal currencies] to fund re-skilling. I'm considering a pilot launch of [http://is.gd/persnlcurrency personal currencies using Augmented Reality] on cell phones, and am active in [http://miiu.org/wiki/Dayton Dayton], Virginia nonprofit [http://miiu.org/wiki/Arts_%26_Business_Connection_of_Dayton groups] to improve the local business climate and attract creative ventures to the area. Earlier in my career, I was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's privatization practice. I'm a graduate of Harvard University and a past Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute, where I researched ways that communities can enable neighborhood associations to take on municipal service responsibilities. I love reading, drawing/architectural design, hiking, flying, square foot gardening, and archery. My Twitter feeds are at [http://twitter.com/openworld @openworld] and [http://twitter.com/peerlearning @peerlearning].<br />
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I'm a writer, anthropologist and activist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I work with transferring web-based ideas such as emergent distributed systems, peer-2-peer networks and open source development practices to local, net-enabled activism. I'm currently involved in: <br />
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I'm attending Contact to share my experiences from these projects and to learn more about the possibilities for using distributed net technology in local projects. <br />
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I like to make things, usually in the form of web and mobile applications. I'm coming to Contact seeking to learn ways to make small communities more resilient to infrastructure disruptions. In particular, I'm interested in commerce, food production, and communications networks at a neighborhood level.<br />
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Cultivator of Relationships. Community Engager & Builder. Professional Elephant Hunter. Intrapreneur. Social Media Strategist. Renaissance woman. Lover of all things creative, expressive and engaging.<br />
It's all about the dialogue, which is why I love building events & opportunities in my hometown of Stratford, Ontario to support that dialogue (Ignite, TEDx, SocialMediaBreakfasts). I've always been a geek of the curious kind which has most recently translated into my love, embrace and work in social media. I have worked in ICT for the last 12 years in sales, education, operations and program management and am currently a Business Consultant with a national telecommunications carrier in Canada.<br><br />
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Keenan is developing Village Votes, a web site where people can propose policy, edit policy, and vote on their favorite policies. The goal of this site is to improve governance by bringing the best minds to the development of policy and to speed up the rate at which policy gets adopted and implemented.<br />
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Mark is the Co-Founder and President of Digital Democracy, a non-profit empowering marginalized groups through innovative technology solutions. His family fled the Soviet Union as refugees and their experience informs and inspires his work training grassroots groups around the world to in protecting their human rights. Mark has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and presented at conferences worldwide on the use of social media and technology to connect local voices and address crisis. He is also a founder of New Words Media, a strategic media firm based in New York and a founder and board-member of Bem, a youth action center in Armenia that uses art and technology to support emerging civil society. He has produced media strategies and directed documentary films in the post-Soviet, USA and Asia.<br />
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*[[Michel Bauwens]] - [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation]<br />
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*[http://community-intelligence.com/?q=node/78#George/ George Pór] - founder [http://community-intelligence.com/ CommunityIntelligence], co-founder [http://www.commonslearningalliance.org/ Commons Learning Alliance]<br />
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[[George Pór]] is an evolutionary thinker/activist and strategic learning partner to visionary leaders in business, government and civil society, in matters of communities of practice and innovation-boosting, multi-stakeholder global events and processes. He is a pioneer of virtual communities, knowledge ecology, and collective intelligence research, and a seasoned practitioner of [http://www.presencing.com/presencing-theoryu/theoryu.shtml Theory U], [http://www.theworldcafe.com/ World Café] and the [http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ Art of Hosting]. <br />
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George is passionate about co-creating a world in which the full development of everyone is the goal of the whole. Work as creative self-expression is ceased to be the privilege of the few, and recognized as birthright of the multitude; a world, where all social institutions are designed to increase aliveness, joy, and prosperity for all. He is working for that by designing/advising projects that amplify collective intelligence and wisdom in organizations and social ecosystems. His methodology, the Innovation Architecture, combines social, cognitive, and electronic technologies for resilience, innovation, and regeneration. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Thomas+Benjamin+cryptocracy Thomas Benjamin] - [http://cryptocracy.net/ Cryptocracy]<br />
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[[Thomas Heydt-Benjamin]] researches security and privacy properties of ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems. Thomas brings with him to this work his prior experience in both attacks on and defenses of pervasive computing systems. In 2007 he participated in investigation of new contactless smart credit cards used in the United States, in which the team discovered serious flaws. In 2008 he and colleagues examined security and privacy properties of pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, determining that some aspects of existing designs may present dangerous security vulnerabilities. As a member of the security and cryptography team at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory from 2008 to 2009, Thomas worked with ZRL's famous anonymous credentials systems, inventing several extensions to anonymous credentials. Thomas is currently focused on novel solutions to real world security problems in resource constrained devices similar to the credit cards and pacemakers he has previously studied. Thomas started hacking and exploring computer security systems at age 6 when first exposed to assembler programming on the IBM PC. This early interest lead to formal study of computer science during high school through the Science Honors Program at Columbia University. He then earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Yale University, and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter Marc Canter] - founder Macromedia, founder Digital City Project [http://www.thedigitalcity.org/]<br />
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*Suresh Fernando, [[http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home OpenKollab]]<br />
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[[Image:Suresh cropped.jpg|left|Suresh cropped.jpg]] [[Suresh Fernando]]'s primary current project is the development of ProM, a 'dating site' for the climate action movement. The ProM concept is described [http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/project-matching-summary040211final-6843146 here]. The current status of the project is described [http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching here]. As a part of this project, Suresh and the rest of the ProM team are developing the architecture and processes for scalable open projects. <br />
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*[[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Adam+Fisk Adam Fisk]], Founder, [http://www.littleshoot.org LittleShoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]<br />
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[[Image:Juraj_bednar.jpg|left|Juraj Bednar]] does not like to be described in a paragraph, but he is an entrepreneur since he was 18 and is interested in changing the world for the better, freedom, [http://www.lovek.org/2010/12/jurajs-microworlds.html microworlds and the different around us], artificial intelligence (which he studied at the university), esp. bridging bio and AI worlds in fields like rule based systems ([http://jooray.soup.io/post/23859649/What-if-Theres-no-plan I believe that's how DNA works]) and evolution. Recent more specific interests are Bitcoin (peer to peer currency), [http://loat.sk.cx/ bridging virtual and physical spaces] and a [http://www.progressbar.sk/ hackerspace Progressbar] he co-founded in Bratislava. He also wrote two books and his working on his third, all of them unreadable to all but a small club of Slovak-speaking humanoids.<br />
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I am attending Contact to meet people. I am a part of kyberia.sk, an active 'underground' community which was originally inspired by a book written by a well known Contact conference organizer :). For me, I expect inspiring people and I hope I can contribute something. If you happen to be in New York before conference, I would love to meet before, one day is not enough!<br />
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*[[Paul B. Hartzog]], Founder, [http://www.Panarchy.com Panarchy]<br />
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[[Image:Paul b Hartzog.JPG|left|Paul b Hartzog.JPG]] [[Paul Hartzog]], one of the coiners of the word "panarchy," is an independent scholar and hacker, and has taught at the University of Michigan's School of Information. <br />
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Cofounder of The Future Forward Institute, and recipient of an NSF IGERT to study complex systems, he has a Masters in Globalization and Environmental Politics from the University of Utah, and a Masters in Political Theory from the University of Michigan. <br />
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His work on panarchy hybridizes political philosophy/economy, network culture, complex systems, and critical social theory. His interests include Complexity Theory, Cooperation, International Relations, Environmental Politics, Information Society and Economy, Information Technologies, Sustainable Development, Network Culture, and Ethics. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Scott+Heiferman Scott Heiferman] - founder, [http://www.Meetup.com Meetup.com]<br />
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[[Image:Scott Heiferman.JPG|left|Scott Heiferman.JPG]] [[Scott Heiferman]] is CEO and a co-founder of [http://www.meetup.com/ Meetup], a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. <br />
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*[http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/whos-who-in-collective-intelligence-aaron-huslage/ Aaron Huslage] - Originator [http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/reference-aidphone-flybox-for-autonomous-internet/ Aidphone Flybox]<br />
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[[Aaron Huslage]] has been hacking on Internet technologies since 1987, and been a thought leader in the Internet industry since 1993. His greatest talent lies in communicating highly technical information to those who aren’t highly technical. <br />
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He constantly researches new and emerging technologies and the latest system management techniques with an emphasis on very large-scale, low-cost, simple mobile, wireless and public interest communications. Aaron is a member of the organizing committee for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony Conference. He is intimately familiar with Sun Microsystems offerings, and heavily committed to the concept of Open Everything including OpenBTS. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berlin_Johnson Steven Johnson] - author, founder [http://outside.in/ Outside.in]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Venessa+Miemis Venessa Miemis] - media activist and artist, founder [http://www.emergentbydesign.com/ Emergent by Design]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Richard+Metzger Richard Metzger] - founder, [http://www.disinfo.com/ Disinformation] and [http://dangerousminds.net/ Dangerous Minds]<br />
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[[Image:Richard Metzger.JPG|left|Richard Metzger.JPG]] [[Richard Metzger]] (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a television host and author. <br />
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He was the host of the TV show Disinformation (United Kingdom Channel 4, 2000-01), The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com. <br />
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He is the author of two books, ''Disinformation: The Interviews'' (2002) which feature unedited interviews with several of the characters and thinkers who were guests on the series and ''Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide To Magick &amp; The Occult'' (2004) an anthology of occult essays. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Genesis+P-Orridge Genesis P-Orridge] - musician, artist, founder Throbbing Gristle<br />
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[[Image:Gen Castle.JPG|left|Gen Castle.JPG]] Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. <br />
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His early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism and his own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Eli+Pariser Eli Pariser] - founder, [http://www.MoveOn.org MoveOn]<br />
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[[Image:Eli Pariser.jpg|left|Eli Pariser.jpg]] [[Eli Pariser]] (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is the former Executive Director of [http://www.moveon.org/?skip=1 MoveOn.org], and the organization's current Board President. <br />
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Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th. (At the time, he was working as a program assistant for the national nonprofit More Than Money.) <br />
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In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition and in November of that year, Moveon.org founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades asked Pariser to join their organization. <br />
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During the 2004 US Presidential Election, Pariser co-created the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest and raised over $30 million from small donors to run ads and back Democratic and progressive candidates. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce Mark Pesce] - inventor, technologist, futurist<br />
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[[Image:Mark Pesce crop.JPG|left|Mark Pesce crop.JPG]] [[Mark Pesce]] is an inventor, author and educator, best known for work that fused the World Wide Web with real-time 3D computer graphics; the result, known as VRML (for Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has become an international standard. <br />
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Pesce contends we are entering an ‘era of hyperdistribution’ that will radically change our media ecosystem. Central to this shift is the take-up of p2p filesharing software like BitTorrent that provides the first truly efficient digital media distribution platform based on the principles of swarming. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Andrew+Rasiej Andrew Rasiej] - co-founder [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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[[Image:Andrew Rasiej.JPG|left|Andrew Rasiej.JPG]] [[Andrew Rasiej]] is a futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum], an annual conference and website about the intersection of politics and technology. <br />
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He is also the co-Founder of techPresident.com, an award winning blog that covers how the Obama administration is using the web, and how technology is empowering new levels of citizen engagement throughout the United States. <br />
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*[[Sam Rose]] - [http://futureforwardinstitute.com Future Forward Institute]<br />
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[[Sam Rose]] founded a commons-based business model consultancy that builds theory and practice in the open, helping communities and social enterprises create and usefully deploy open source software, open licensed hardware, and open education resources. <br />
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He is interested in effective knowledge synthesis, and in exploring and developing the concepts of open knowledge, open design, and open business. <br />
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He is involved in a growing list of blogs, wikis, social software experiments and developings, including CoummunityWiki, Meatball Wiki, Cooperation Commons Weblog, Smartmobs Weblog. Sam Rose is also a partner and principle technologist in http://hollymeadcapital.com <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rachel+Rosenfelt Rachel Rosenfelt] - founder, The [http://thenewinquiry.com/ New Inquiry]<br />
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[[Image:Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG|left|Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG]] Rachel Rosenfelt is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry. <br />
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She is also a new media and marketing consultant based in New York. Prior to The New Inquiry she worked at the World Wide Workshop Foundation, rising to Program Manager. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] - media theorist, author<br />
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[[Image:Doug Rushkoff.JPG|left|Doug Rushkoff.JPG]] [[Douglas Rushkoff]] is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. <br />
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He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. <br />
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Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency. <br />
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He has written ten books on media, technology, and culture. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times Syndicate, as well as regular columns for The Guardian of London, Arthur, Discover and the online magazines Daily Beast,[4] TheFeature.com and meeting industry magazine One+. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Micah+Sifry Micah L. Sifry] - co-founder [http://www.personaldemocracy.com Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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He is also the editor of PdF’s new group blog TechPresident, which focuses on how the campaigns are using the web and how the web is using them. Along with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. <br />
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*[[Nikos Salingaros]] -- President, [http://grupposalingaros.net/en/home.html Gruppo Salìngaros].<br />
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[[Image:Nikos-NYC1.jpg|left|Nikos-NYC1.jpg]] Nikos Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is an innovative urbanist and philosopher. The author of several books on urbanism and architectural theory, he is one of the pioneers who are defining [http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/%7eyxk833/P2PURBANISM.pdf "P2P Urbanism"] (a free online book). Along with a group of associates, he is creating a bottom-up approach to architecture and urban design based upon shared evidence-based rules, opposing mysticism and the myth of false scarcity of the "architect as creative genius". <br />
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His work on the "networked city" was incorporated into the [http://www.ceu-ectp.eu/index.asp?id=108 "New Charter of Athens"] (European Council of Town Planners, 2003). He collaborated with Christopher Alexander in editing the four-volume [http://www.natureoforder.com/ "The Nature of Order"] and has made fundamental contributions to using Patterns in design. His career began in mathematical physics, working on field theory and thermonuclear fusion before turning his attention to architecture and urbanism. He is a member and on the Committee of Honor of INTBAU, and was voted 11th among the most important urbanists of all time in a 2009 Planetizen poll. <br />
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Trying to explain society's head-long rush towards extinction requires a novel understanding of thought manipulation and media collusion in spreading unhealthy image-based architectural and urban typologies. He introduced the meme explanation for the persistence of anti-patterns in architecture and urbanism, touching upon the controversial relationship between architectural memes, cult mentality, and substitute religions. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dave+Winer Dave Winer] - founder, [http://www.Scripting.com Scripting.com]<br />
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Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. <br />
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*Nathan Solomon - [http://thesuperfluid.com superfluid]<br />
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[[Image:NathanSolomon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|NathanSolomon.jpg]] [[Nathan Solomon]] co-founded superfluid with Branimir Vasilic. This initiative grows from their shared obsession with getting shit done, and was conceived to help humans build and coordinate socially-enabled teams for execution of the projects that matter to them, and sometimes to others, without recourse to $. In addition to bringing together the broader superfluid membership, this system facilitates existing communities forming discrete areas within superfluid. <br />
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Nathan created the first digital distribution of AAA game titles, the first wireless in-store distribution of games in the US, has held roles with national ad agencies as Chief Technologist and Executive Producer, and was a cinematography fellow of the American Film Instute. Thoughout his career, he has worked to provide coherent contexts empowering creative and technical execution. His hobby is [http://VeloBase.org VeloBase.org] <br />
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*[[Mickki Langston|Mickki Langston]] - [http://www.milehighbiz.org Mile High Business Alliance]<br />
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[[Image:MickkiLangston.jpg|left|200px|MickkiLangston.jpg]] Recognizing the need to reclaim our power to create community wealth, [[Mickki Langston]] co-founded the Mile High Business Alliance in 2007. Currently serving as Executive Director, Mickki combines her passion for social and environmental sustainability with her experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur. Her work with the business alliance focuses on organizing local business owners in working together to build a more connected, resilient and healthy local economy that doesn't sacrifice people and the planet for the sake of profit. <br />
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*[http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/faculty/steven-d-brewer Steven D BREWER] - [http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/bcrc Biology Computer Resource Center]<br />
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[[File:StevenBrewer.jpg|left|200px|Steven D. BREWER]] [[Steven Brewer]] is the Director of the Biology Computer Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a consultant to faculty on the implementation of technology in support of education. He advocates for technology that empowers students to engage in authentic, collaborative, learner-centered activity that applies science in the real world. BREWER is equal parts scientist, technologist, and educator: whether in the field catching mongooses or tardigrades; with 20 terminal windows open hacking php in a drupal module; or exhorting students to take control of their own education and embrace transformation. He is also is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Esperanto language and a published author of essays, fiction, and haiku in Esperanto.<br />
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*[[Rob Peters|Rob Peters]] - [http://www.standardoftrust.com Standard of Trust]<br />
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[[File:Rob_Peters_200x193.jpg|left|200px|Rob Peters]] [[Rob Peters]] is a recognized thought leader, speaker and writer, for the capture, measurement and utilization of Relationship Capital (“RC”). He has played a significant role in the creation of industry standards and best practices for the capture of RC. Rob was co-chair of the DePaul University School of Digital Media's I.T. Executive Leadership Lab from 2002 through 2006. He was certified by the Relationship Networking Industry Association[http://www.RNIA.org] in January 2010. Rob has been a trusted resource with 25 years of relationship management experience at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Capgemini Financial Services, Headstrong, Keane, Romac International and IBM. Rob’s experience resulted in a passion: helping leaders and companies build, maintain, and validate their online reputations. He founded Standard of Trust in 2010 to deliver on this passion. Relationship Capital (RC) is a score based on promises made and kept by people and enterprises, and on people's opinions and feelings concerning those that make the promises. The score is not made public automatically. Owners decide who can see their RC accounts, and how much they can see. Standard of Trust helps clients capture RC and apply it to leverage their good reputations online.<br />
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*[[Isaac Wilder|Isaac Wilder]] - [http://www.freenetworkmovement.org Free Network Movement]<br />
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[[File:Isaac_wilder.jpg|left|200px|Isaac Wilder]] [[Isaac Wilder]] founded the Free Network Movement in September 2010. Since that time, he has been an active participant in the global conversation regarding next network initiatives. In his role as leader of the FNM, Isaac served as lead architect of a public mesh network called grinnellMIND, currently serving the town of Grinnell, IA. After finishing his second year at Grinnell College in May of 2011, Isaac plans to leave school and pursue free network advocacy full-time. He is also a developer and contributor to the Diaspora project.<br />
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*Devin Balkind - [http://sarapisfoundation.org Sarapis Foundation]<br />
The [[Sarapis Foundation]] believes that access to technology is a human right and that the only way we can secure this right is by creating an entire ecosystem of free/libre/opensource (FLO) technologies people can use to create wealth and wellness for themselves and their communities. <br />
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We're active in the Northeastern, US - especially NYC and North Eastern Pennsylvania. If you work on FLO projects and need food, shelter and some friends in the NYC area, please reach out to thefolks[at]sarapisfoundation.org.<br />
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*[http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] - [http://telecomix.org Telecomix] - '''twitter:''' [https://twitter.com/petewearspants @petewearspants][[Image:Peter_Fein.jpg|200px|left||Peter Fein]] [http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] is an agent with [http://telecomix.org Telecomix], an ad-hoc volunteer disorganization of Internauts who support free communication. Telecomix was instrumental in [http://blog.wearpants.org/we-are-telecomix keeping the internet online in Egypt] during the Jan 25 revolution. We have since been active in fighting censorship in Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Bahrian and elsewhere. Pete is an expert Python programmer and a frequent conference speaker. He is currently developing [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party], a distributed censorship-resistant mirror network. More on Telecomix: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/07/telecomix-arab-spring Guardian (UK)], [http://owni.fr/2011/07/25/telecomix-%C2%AB-hacker-pour-la-liberte-%C2%BB/ Owni (FR)]<br />
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*[http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Antarctica Starts Here.] - [https://twitter.com/virtadpt Twitter] - [http://about.me/drwho Public Profile][[Image:TheDoctor.jpg|left]]<br />
The Doctor (less formally known as Bryce) was loomed with a 1200bps modem in one hand and a soldering iron in the other. Life started getting interesting when he gave a presentation in defense of Kevin Mitnick for a high school english class, and somehow wound up explaining what PGP was, how it worked, and why it was important. Through his career he's been an IT consultant, a security analyst, a system administrator, a VoIP engineer, a security contractor, a penetration tester, a security researcher, and a professional head scratcher and "Hmm.. that's interesting.."'er. In his spare time the Doctor has taught seminars on practical privacy and anonymity techniques, [https://torproject.org/ Tor], wireless security, penetration testing, information security, and open source intelligence gathering.<br />
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Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: The Journal for Global Citizens Creating Planetary Civilization and World Community, which is based on evolving interior development and cultural values as they impact globalization and world community. Kosmos Associates, Inc. is also actively involved in the founding of the Global Commons movement with James B. Quilligan of the Global Commons Trust. Nancy won the 2009 Images and Voices of Hope award for journalism as a tool to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation in a global shift to higher-level thinking. In 2004, Kosmos was nominated by Utne for excellence. Her testimony on the human dimension of the United Nations was distributed to the US President and Congress. As a founder of Transpersonal Psychology (late 70s), she served as a spiritual guide to individuals for 20 years. In the late 80s, she began to define the field of global transformation at the United Nations, where she successfully lobbied for elevated global standards in international treaties and co-founded the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000). Working with 78 international organizations in war zones for over two years, she recognized the traumatic effect of war, not only on military personnel, but on their families, communities and service providers. She then designed the first global training programs and workbook on secondary traumatic stress, implemented initially during the Balkan wars and now used internationally. She is a founding member of the Global Commons Initiative, World Wisdom Council, Creating the New Civilization Initiative, 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, WorldShift 2012 (Ervin Laszlo), Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, a Board member of Integral Review and Living Earth TV and a speaker at Mikhail Gorbachev's World Political Forum. <br />
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Greg Belvedere is a librarian, information architect, and writer based in Brooklyn. By day he works at a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library where he has served on the library's reference committee and worked to promote the library's electronic resources. He has recently started working as a freelance information architect in his off hours.<br />
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I'm a writer, anthropologist and activist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I work with transferring web-based ideas such as emergent distributed systems, peer-2-peer networks and open source development practices to local, net-enabled activism. I'm currently involved in: <br />
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I like to make things, usually in the form of web and mobile applications. I'm coming to Contact seeking to learn ways to make small communities more resilient to infrastructure disruptions. In particular, I'm interested in commerce, food production, and communications networks at a neighborhood level.<br />
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Cultivator of Relationships. Community Engager & Builder. Professional Elephant Hunter. Intrapreneur. Social Media Strategist. Renaissance woman. Lover of all things creative, expressive and engaging.<br />
It's all about the dialogue, which is why I love building events & opportunities in my hometown of Stratford, Ontario to support that dialogue (Ignite, TEDx, SocialMediaBreakfasts). I've always been a geek of the curious kind which has most recently translated into my love, embrace and work in social media. I have worked in ICT for the last 12 years in sales, education, operations and program management and am currently a Business Consultant with a national telecommunications carrier in Canada.<br><br />
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Keenan is developing Village Votes, a web site where people can propose policy, edit policy, and vote on their favorite policies. The goal of this site is to improve governance by bringing the best minds to the development of policy and to speed up the rate at which policy gets adopted and implemented.<br />
Keenan believes in Isocracy, or government by equally empowered people. He has lived for the past 28 years in Twin Oaks, a worker-owned cooperative that runs several successful businesses and is run along the principles of Isocracy. Twin Oaks has developed a model of Isocratic governance that allows for all members to set a yearly budget, to expand businesses, to draft policy and to rotate positions of leadership. For over 44 years Twin Oaks has grown and thrived without developing a core of leaders or any sort of power elite by expecting responsibility and empowerment from every member (including children!).<br />
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Mark is the Co-Founder and President of Digital Democracy, a non-profit empowering marginalized groups through innovative technology solutions. His family fled the Soviet Union as refugees and their experience informs and inspires his work training grassroots groups around the world to in protecting their human rights. Mark has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and presented at conferences worldwide on the use of social media and technology to connect local voices and address crisis. He is also a founder of New Words Media, a strategic media firm based in New York and a founder and board-member of Bem, a youth action center in Armenia that uses art and technology to support emerging civil society. He has produced media strategies and directed documentary films in the post-Soviet, USA and Asia.<br />
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*[[Michel Bauwens]] - [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation]<br />
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*[http://community-intelligence.com/?q=node/78#George/ George Pór] - founder [http://community-intelligence.com/ CommunityIntelligence], co-founder [http://www.commonslearningalliance.org/ Commons Learning Alliance]<br />
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[[George Pór]] is an evolutionary thinker/activist and strategic learning partner to visionary leaders in business, government and civil society, in matters of communities of practice and innovation-boosting, multi-stakeholder global events and processes. He is a pioneer of virtual communities, knowledge ecology, and collective intelligence research, and a seasoned practitioner of [http://www.presencing.com/presencing-theoryu/theoryu.shtml Theory U], [http://www.theworldcafe.com/ World Café] and the [http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ Art of Hosting]. <br />
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George is passionate about co-creating a world in which the full development of everyone is the goal of the whole. Work as creative self-expression is ceased to be the privilege of the few, and recognized as birthright of the multitude; a world, where all social institutions are designed to increase aliveness, joy, and prosperity for all. He is working for that by designing/advising projects that amplify collective intelligence and wisdom in organizations and social ecosystems. His methodology, the Innovation Architecture, combines social, cognitive, and electronic technologies for resilience, innovation, and regeneration. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Thomas+Benjamin+cryptocracy Thomas Benjamin] - [http://cryptocracy.net/ Cryptocracy]<br />
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[[Thomas Heydt-Benjamin]] researches security and privacy properties of ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems. Thomas brings with him to this work his prior experience in both attacks on and defenses of pervasive computing systems. In 2007 he participated in investigation of new contactless smart credit cards used in the United States, in which the team discovered serious flaws. In 2008 he and colleagues examined security and privacy properties of pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, determining that some aspects of existing designs may present dangerous security vulnerabilities. As a member of the security and cryptography team at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory from 2008 to 2009, Thomas worked with ZRL's famous anonymous credentials systems, inventing several extensions to anonymous credentials. Thomas is currently focused on novel solutions to real world security problems in resource constrained devices similar to the credit cards and pacemakers he has previously studied. Thomas started hacking and exploring computer security systems at age 6 when first exposed to assembler programming on the IBM PC. This early interest lead to formal study of computer science during high school through the Science Honors Program at Columbia University. He then earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Yale University, and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter Marc Canter] - founder Macromedia, founder Digital City Project [http://www.thedigitalcity.org/]<br />
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*[[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Adam+Fisk Adam Fisk]], Founder, [http://www.littleshoot.org LittleShoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Scott+Heiferman Scott Heiferman] - founder, [http://www.Meetup.com Meetup.com]<br />
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*[http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/whos-who-in-collective-intelligence-aaron-huslage/ Aaron Huslage] - Originator [http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/reference-aidphone-flybox-for-autonomous-internet/ Aidphone Flybox]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Venessa+Miemis Venessa Miemis] - media activist and artist, founder [http://www.emergentbydesign.com/ Emergent by Design]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Richard+Metzger Richard Metzger] - founder, [http://www.disinfo.com/ Disinformation] and [http://dangerousminds.net/ Dangerous Minds]<br />
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[[Image:Richard Metzger.JPG|left|Richard Metzger.JPG]] [[Richard Metzger]] (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a television host and author. <br />
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He was the host of the TV show Disinformation (United Kingdom Channel 4, 2000-01), The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com. <br />
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He is currently the host of the online talk show Dangerous Minds. <br />
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He is the author of two books, ''Disinformation: The Interviews'' (2002) which feature unedited interviews with several of the characters and thinkers who were guests on the series and ''Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide To Magick &amp; The Occult'' (2004) an anthology of occult essays. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Genesis+P-Orridge Genesis P-Orridge] - musician, artist, founder Throbbing Gristle<br />
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[[Image:Gen Castle.JPG|left|Gen Castle.JPG]] Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. <br />
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His early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism and his own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. <br />
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Later musical work with Psychic TV received wider exposure, including some chart-topping singles. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Eli+Pariser Eli Pariser] - founder, [http://www.MoveOn.org MoveOn]<br />
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[[Image:Eli Pariser.jpg|left|Eli Pariser.jpg]] [[Eli Pariser]] (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is the former Executive Director of [http://www.moveon.org/?skip=1 MoveOn.org], and the organization's current Board President. <br />
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Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th. (At the time, he was working as a program assistant for the national nonprofit More Than Money.) <br />
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In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition and in November of that year, Moveon.org founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades asked Pariser to join their organization. <br />
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During the 2004 US Presidential Election, Pariser co-created the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest and raised over $30 million from small donors to run ads and back Democratic and progressive candidates. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce Mark Pesce] - inventor, technologist, futurist<br />
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[[Image:Mark Pesce crop.JPG|left|Mark Pesce crop.JPG]] [[Mark Pesce]] is an inventor, author and educator, best known for work that fused the World Wide Web with real-time 3D computer graphics; the result, known as VRML (for Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has become an international standard. <br />
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The author of numerous articles on science, technology, media and the arts, Pesce has also written five books, including ''The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination'' (Random House, 2000) which presented a roadmap of key 21st century technologies. <br />
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Pesce contends we are entering an ‘era of hyperdistribution’ that will radically change our media ecosystem. Central to this shift is the take-up of p2p filesharing software like BitTorrent that provides the first truly efficient digital media distribution platform based on the principles of swarming. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Andrew+Rasiej Andrew Rasiej] - co-founder [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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[[Image:Andrew Rasiej.JPG|left|Andrew Rasiej.JPG]] [[Andrew Rasiej]] is a futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum], an annual conference and website about the intersection of politics and technology. <br />
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He is also the co-Founder of techPresident.com, an award winning blog that covers how the Obama administration is using the web, and how technology is empowering new levels of citizen engagement throughout the United States. <br />
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He is also the Founder a not for profit organization called MOUSE.org focused on 21st century public education, Co-Founder of Mideastwire.com, which translates Arabic and Farsi news and opinion pieces into English, and serves as Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation a Washington DC focused on using technology to help make government more transparent. <br />
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He is also the Chairman of the [http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ NY Tech Meetup], a 15,000 member organization of technologists, venture funders, marketers in New York City. <br />
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*[[Sam Rose]] - [http://futureforwardinstitute.com Future Forward Institute]<br />
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[[Sam Rose]] founded a commons-based business model consultancy that builds theory and practice in the open, helping communities and social enterprises create and usefully deploy open source software, open licensed hardware, and open education resources. <br />
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He is interested in effective knowledge synthesis, and in exploring and developing the concepts of open knowledge, open design, and open business. <br />
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He is involved in a growing list of blogs, wikis, social software experiments and developings, including CoummunityWiki, Meatball Wiki, Cooperation Commons Weblog, Smartmobs Weblog. Sam Rose is also a partner and principle technologist in http://hollymeadcapital.com <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rachel+Rosenfelt Rachel Rosenfelt] - founder, The [http://thenewinquiry.com/ New Inquiry]<br />
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[[Image:Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG|left|Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG]] Rachel Rosenfelt is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry. <br />
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She is also a new media and marketing consultant based in New York. Prior to The New Inquiry she worked at the World Wide Workshop Foundation, rising to Program Manager. <br />
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She holds her degree from Barnard College in the field of Women’s Studies, where online activism and organization for women’s issues sparked her interest in the transformational power of new media. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] - media theorist, author<br />
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[[Image:Doug Rushkoff.JPG|left|Doug Rushkoff.JPG]] [[Douglas Rushkoff]] is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. <br />
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He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. <br />
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Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency. <br />
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He has written ten books on media, technology, and culture. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times Syndicate, as well as regular columns for The Guardian of London, Arthur, Discover and the online magazines Daily Beast,[4] TheFeature.com and meeting industry magazine One+. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Micah+Sifry Micah L. Sifry] - co-founder [http://www.personaldemocracy.com Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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He is also the editor of PdF’s new group blog TechPresident, which focuses on how the campaigns are using the web and how the web is using them. Along with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. <br />
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He is the author or editor of four books, the most recent being Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? (John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2004), written with Nancy Watzman. <br />
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*[[Nikos Salingaros]] -- President, [http://grupposalingaros.net/en/home.html Gruppo Salìngaros].<br />
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[[Image:Nikos-NYC1.jpg|left|Nikos-NYC1.jpg]] Nikos Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is an innovative urbanist and philosopher. The author of several books on urbanism and architectural theory, he is one of the pioneers who are defining [http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/%7eyxk833/P2PURBANISM.pdf "P2P Urbanism"] (a free online book). Along with a group of associates, he is creating a bottom-up approach to architecture and urban design based upon shared evidence-based rules, opposing mysticism and the myth of false scarcity of the "architect as creative genius". <br />
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His work on the "networked city" was incorporated into the [http://www.ceu-ectp.eu/index.asp?id=108 "New Charter of Athens"] (European Council of Town Planners, 2003). He collaborated with Christopher Alexander in editing the four-volume [http://www.natureoforder.com/ "The Nature of Order"] and has made fundamental contributions to using Patterns in design. His career began in mathematical physics, working on field theory and thermonuclear fusion before turning his attention to architecture and urbanism. He is a member and on the Committee of Honor of INTBAU, and was voted 11th among the most important urbanists of all time in a 2009 Planetizen poll. <br />
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Trying to explain society's head-long rush towards extinction requires a novel understanding of thought manipulation and media collusion in spreading unhealthy image-based architectural and urban typologies. He introduced the meme explanation for the persistence of anti-patterns in architecture and urbanism, touching upon the controversial relationship between architectural memes, cult mentality, and substitute religions. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dave+Winer Dave Winer] - founder, [http://www.Scripting.com Scripting.com]<br />
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[[Image:Dave Winer.JPG|left|Dave Winer.JPG]] [[Dave Winer]] in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City. <br />
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Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. <br />
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He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext and Userland Software, a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. <br />
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*Nathan Solomon - [http://thesuperfluid.com superfluid]<br />
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[[Image:NathanSolomon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|NathanSolomon.jpg]] [[Nathan Solomon]] co-founded superfluid with Branimir Vasilic. This initiative grows from their shared obsession with getting shit done, and was conceived to help humans build and coordinate socially-enabled teams for execution of the projects that matter to them, and sometimes to others, without recourse to $. In addition to bringing together the broader superfluid membership, this system facilitates existing communities forming discrete areas within superfluid. <br />
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Nathan created the first digital distribution of AAA game titles, the first wireless in-store distribution of games in the US, has held roles with national ad agencies as Chief Technologist and Executive Producer, and was a cinematography fellow of the American Film Instute. Thoughout his career, he has worked to provide coherent contexts empowering creative and technical execution. His hobby is [http://VeloBase.org VeloBase.org] <br />
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*[[Mickki Langston|Mickki Langston]] - [http://www.milehighbiz.org Mile High Business Alliance]<br />
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[[Image:MickkiLangston.jpg|left|200px|MickkiLangston.jpg]] Recognizing the need to reclaim our power to create community wealth, [[Mickki Langston]] co-founded the Mile High Business Alliance in 2007. Currently serving as Executive Director, Mickki combines her passion for social and environmental sustainability with her experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur. Her work with the business alliance focuses on organizing local business owners in working together to build a more connected, resilient and healthy local economy that doesn't sacrifice people and the planet for the sake of profit. <br />
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*[http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/faculty/steven-d-brewer Steven D BREWER] - [http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/bcrc Biology Computer Resource Center]<br />
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[[File:StevenBrewer.jpg|left|200px|Steven D. BREWER]] [[Steven Brewer]] is the Director of the Biology Computer Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a consultant to faculty on the implementation of technology in support of education. He advocates for technology that empowers students to engage in authentic, collaborative, learner-centered activity that applies science in the real world. BREWER is equal parts scientist, technologist, and educator: whether in the field catching mongooses or tardigrades; with 20 terminal windows open hacking php in a drupal module; or exhorting students to take control of their own education and embrace transformation. He is also is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Esperanto language and a published author of essays, fiction, and haiku in Esperanto.<br />
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*[[Rob Peters|Rob Peters]] - [http://www.standardoftrust.com Standard of Trust]<br />
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[[File:Rob_Peters_200x193.jpg|left|200px|Rob Peters]] [[Rob Peters]] is a recognized thought leader, speaker and writer, for the capture, measurement and utilization of Relationship Capital (“RC”). He has played a significant role in the creation of industry standards and best practices for the capture of RC. Rob was co-chair of the DePaul University School of Digital Media's I.T. Executive Leadership Lab from 2002 through 2006. He was certified by the Relationship Networking Industry Association[http://www.RNIA.org] in January 2010. Rob has been a trusted resource with 25 years of relationship management experience at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Capgemini Financial Services, Headstrong, Keane, Romac International and IBM. Rob’s experience resulted in a passion: helping leaders and companies build, maintain, and validate their online reputations. He founded Standard of Trust in 2010 to deliver on this passion. Relationship Capital (RC) is a score based on promises made and kept by people and enterprises, and on people's opinions and feelings concerning those that make the promises. The score is not made public automatically. Owners decide who can see their RC accounts, and how much they can see. Standard of Trust helps clients capture RC and apply it to leverage their good reputations online.<br />
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*[[Isaac Wilder|Isaac Wilder]] - [http://www.freenetworkmovement.org Free Network Movement]<br />
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[[File:Isaac_wilder.jpg|left|200px|Isaac Wilder]] [[Isaac Wilder]] founded the Free Network Movement in September 2010. Since that time, he has been an active participant in the global conversation regarding next network initiatives. In his role as leader of the FNM, Isaac served as lead architect of a public mesh network called grinnellMIND, currently serving the town of Grinnell, IA. After finishing his second year at Grinnell College in May of 2011, Isaac plans to leave school and pursue free network advocacy full-time. He is also a developer and contributor to the Diaspora project.<br />
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*Devin Balkind - [http://sarapisfoundation.org Sarapis Foundation]<br />
The [[Sarapis Foundation]] believes that access to technology is a human right and that the only way we can secure this right is by creating an entire ecosystem of free/libre/opensource (FLO) technologies people can use to create wealth and wellness for themselves and their communities. <br />
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We're active in the Northeastern, US - especially NYC and North Eastern Pennsylvania. If you work on FLO projects and need food, shelter and some friends in the NYC area, please reach out to thefolks[at]sarapisfoundation.org.<br />
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*[http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] - [http://telecomix.org Telecomix] - '''twitter:''' [https://twitter.com/petewearspants @petewearspants][[Image:Peter_Fein.jpg|200px|left||Peter Fein]] [http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] is an agent with [http://telecomix.org Telecomix], an ad-hoc volunteer disorganization of Internauts who support free communication. Telecomix was instrumental in [http://blog.wearpants.org/we-are-telecomix keeping the internet online in Egypt] during the Jan 25 revolution. We have since been active in fighting censorship in Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Bahrian and elsewhere. Pete is an expert Python programmer and a frequent conference speaker. He is currently developing [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party], a distributed censorship-resistant mirror network. More on Telecomix: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/07/telecomix-arab-spring Guardian (UK)], [http://owni.fr/2011/07/25/telecomix-%C2%AB-hacker-pour-la-liberte-%C2%BB/ Owni (FR)]<br />
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*[http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Antarctica Starts Here.] - [https://twitter.com/virtadpt Twitter] - [http://about.me/drwho Public Profile][[Image:TheDoctor.jpg|right]]<br />
The Doctor (less formally known as Bryce) was loomed with a 1200bps modem in one hand and a soldering iron in the other. Life started getting interesting when he gave a presentation in defense of Kevin Mitnick for a high school english class, and somehow wound up explaining what PGP was, how it worked, and why it was important. Through his career he's been an IT consultant, a security analyst, a system administrator, a VoIP engineer, a security contractor, a penetration tester, a security researcher, and a professional head scratcher and "Hmm.. that's interesting.."'er. In his spare time the Doctor has taught seminars on practical privacy and anonymity techniques, [https://torproject.org/ Tor], wireless security, penetration testing, information security, and open source intelligence gathering.<br />
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Jonathan Salem Baskin - [http://historiesofsocialmedia.com Histories of Social Media]<br />
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Jonathan is a marketer working to develop a new model for brands in the age of P2P conversation. He has led communications for Nissan, Limited Brands, and Blockbuster, and served on the executive marketing committee Apple's launch of the first iMac. Jonathan [http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Salem-Baskin/e/B001IZXA5S/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 has published three books] (the fourth, on truth in marketing, is scheduled for release in the spring of 2012), writes on leadership for [http://adage.com/results.php?&endeca=1&searchprop=AdAgeAll&return=endeca&search_offset=0&search_order_by=score&search_phrase=jonathan+salem+baskin&D=jonathan+salem+baskin&Nty=1&Ntk=AdAgeAll&N=25+4294951503&Ntt=jonathan+salem+baskin Advertising Age,] and blogs about marketing at Dim Bulb (http://www.dimbulb.net) and historical examples of social experience at Histories of Social Media.<br />
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Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: The Journal for Global Citizens Creating Planetary Civilization and World Community, which is based on evolving interior development and cultural values as they impact globalization and world community. Kosmos Associates, Inc. is also actively involved in the founding of the Global Commons movement with James B. Quilligan of the Global Commons Trust. Nancy won the 2009 Images and Voices of Hope award for journalism as a tool to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation in a global shift to higher-level thinking. In 2004, Kosmos was nominated by Utne for excellence. Her testimony on the human dimension of the United Nations was distributed to the US President and Congress. As a founder of Transpersonal Psychology (late 70s), she served as a spiritual guide to individuals for 20 years. In the late 80s, she began to define the field of global transformation at the United Nations, where she successfully lobbied for elevated global standards in international treaties and co-founded the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000). Working with 78 international organizations in war zones for over two years, she recognized the traumatic effect of war, not only on military personnel, but on their families, communities and service providers. She then designed the first global training programs and workbook on secondary traumatic stress, implemented initially during the Balkan wars and now used internationally. She is a founding member of the Global Commons Initiative, World Wisdom Council, Creating the New Civilization Initiative, 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, WorldShift 2012 (Ervin Laszlo), Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, a Board member of Integral Review and Living Earth TV and a speaker at Mikhail Gorbachev's World Political Forum. <br />
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Founder of [http://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home Multitude Project] and of [http://www.sensorica.co/ SENSORICA] (the open enterprise) <br />
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Greg Belvedere is a librarian, information architect, and writer based in Brooklyn. By day he works at a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library where he has served on the library's reference committee and worked to promote the library's electronic resources. He has recently started working as a freelance information architect in his off hours.<br />
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He plans to present an idea for p2p ebook lending software at Contact. The software will make ebooks easy to share, without cheating authors and enraging publishers. Yet, it will do this without using the highly proprietary files favored by most device makers.<br />
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Greg writes about libraries, media, technology, culture, religion, and politics at [http://www.neverspeakinabsolutes.com Never Speak in Absolutes]<br />
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*[[Mark Frazier]] - [http://Openworld.com Openworld] & [http://MiiU.org MiiU Resilient Community Wiki]<br />
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[[Image:MarkFrazier2011.jpg|200px|left]]I'm president of Openworld, a nonprofit group whose founders have worked on grassroots alternatives to zero-sum politics in 50+ countries. Areas of main current project interest/activity: [http://miiu.org/wiki/Openworld_Game virtual games for actual change], [http://miiu.org/wiki/Charity challenge offers by donors] to spread local resilience, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/crowdmoves "crowdmoves"] to intentional communities, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/microscholarships microscholarship initiatives] to spread skills in struggling areas, [http://miiu.org/wiki/Vesting_students_as_co-owners_of_schools students as co-owners] of entrepreneurial schools, and [http://miiu.org/wiki/Funding_education_with_personal_currencies personal currencies] to fund re-skilling. I'm considering a pilot launch of [http://is.gd/persnlcurrency personal currencies using Augmented Reality] on cell phones, and am active in [http://miiu.org/wiki/Dayton Dayton], Virginia nonprofit [http://miiu.org/wiki/Arts_%26_Business_Connection_of_Dayton groups] to improve the local business climate and attract creative ventures to the area. Earlier in my career, I was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's privatization practice. I'm a graduate of Harvard University and a past Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute, where I researched ways that communities can enable neighborhood associations to take on municipal service responsibilities. I love reading, drawing/architectural design, hiking, flying, square foot gardening, and archery. My Twitter feeds are at [http://twitter.com/openworld @openworld] and [http://twitter.com/peerlearning @peerlearning].<br />
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[http://andreaslloyd.dk/ Andreas Lloyd]<br />
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I'm a writer, anthropologist and activist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I work with transferring web-based ideas such as emergent distributed systems, peer-2-peer networks and open source development practices to local, net-enabled activism. I'm currently involved in: <br />
: * [http://kbhff.dk/in-english/ An organic, member-owned, member-run food coop in Copenhagen].<br />
: * [http://borgerlyst.dk/ A movement dedicated to developing new forms of civic and democratic participation and engagement].<br />
: * [http://kollektiv.dk/ An online platform for knowledge sharing, coordination and collaboration between communes and intentional communities in Denmark]<br />
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I'm attending Contact to share my experiences from these projects and to learn more about the possibilities for using distributed net technology in local projects. <br />
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I have a [http://andreaslloyd.dk/ somewhat dormant blog] which I plan to resuscitate. I plan to write about self-organisation, systems thinking, ecology and community. I also hate writing about myself in the third person.<br />
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[http://ckundo.com/ Cameron Cundiff]<br />
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I like to make things, usually in the form of web and mobile applications. I'm coming to Contact seeking to learn ways to make small communities more resilient to infrastructure disruptions. In particular, I'm interested in commerce, food production, and communications networks at a neighborhood level.<br />
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In the past I cofounded and built BeeMe, a loyalty punchcard for mobile devices, specifically tailored for small businesses.<br />
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Twitter: [http://twitter.com/ckundo @ckundo]<br />
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Karen Schulman Dupuis<br><br />
Cultivator of Relationships. Community Engager & Builder. Professional Elephant Hunter. Intrapreneur. Social Media Strategist. Renaissance woman. Lover of all things creative, expressive and engaging.<br />
It's all about the dialogue, which is why I love building events & opportunities in my hometown of Stratford, Ontario to support that dialogue (Ignite, TEDx, SocialMediaBreakfasts). I've always been a geek of the curious kind which has most recently translated into my love, embrace and work in social media. I have worked in ICT for the last 12 years in sales, education, operations and program management and am currently a Business Consultant with a national telecommunications carrier in Canada.<br><br />
[http://www.about.me/karensd About me]<br><br />
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Keenan Dakota - [http://villagevotes.com Village Votes]<br><br />
Keenan is developing Village Votes, a web site where people can propose policy, edit policy, and vote on their favorite policies. The goal of this site is to improve governance by bringing the best minds to the development of policy and to speed up the rate at which policy gets adopted and implemented.<br />
Keenan believes in Isocracy, or government by equally empowered people. He has lived for the past 28 years in Twin Oaks, a worker-owned cooperative that runs several successful businesses and is run along the principles of Isocracy. Twin Oaks has developed a model of Isocratic governance that allows for all members to set a yearly budget, to expand businesses, to draft policy and to rotate positions of leadership. For over 44 years Twin Oaks has grown and thrived without developing a core of leaders or any sort of power elite by expecting responsibility and empowerment from every member (including children!).<br />
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*[[Mark Belinsky]] - [http://www.digital-democracy.org Digital Democracy]<br />
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Mark is the Co-Founder and President of Digital Democracy, a non-profit empowering marginalized groups through innovative technology solutions. His family fled the Soviet Union as refugees and their experience informs and inspires his work training grassroots groups around the world to in protecting their human rights. Mark has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and presented at conferences worldwide on the use of social media and technology to connect local voices and address crisis. He is also a founder of New Words Media, a strategic media firm based in New York and a founder and board-member of Bem, a youth action center in Armenia that uses art and technology to support emerging civil society. He has produced media strategies and directed documentary films in the post-Soviet, USA and Asia.<br />
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[[Category:Conferences]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ContactCon_List_of_Participants&diff=52671ContactCon List of Participants2011-08-09T17:22:52Z<p>Openworld: </p>
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<div>= Confirmed Participants August 2011 (please add your profile if you're definitely coming) =<br />
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*[[Michel Bauwens]] - [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation]<br />
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[[Image:Michel Bauwens.png|left|Michel Bauwens.png]] Michel Bauwens is a Belgian national working out of Thailand, focusing on a book about P2P Theory which adequately describes and explains current trends, to propose, in dialog with others, sustainable strategies for political and social change, i.e. to achieve a 'commons-based society' that can operate within a reformed market and state. <br />
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His past includes creation of two internet start-ups, the intranet/extranet company E-Com (sold to Alcatel) and the interactive marketing company Kyberco (sold to Tagora holding). He was European Mgr. of Thought Leadership for MarchFIRST, and ebusiness strategy director for Belgacom, Belgium’s leading telco (1999-2002). <br />
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He started his career as information analyst and reference librarian for the United States Information Agency (1983-2000), worked as information manager for British Petroleum (1990-1993) (where he created one of the first virtual information centers and is credited for coining the concept of cybrarian), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language Wave. <br />
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*[http://community-intelligence.com/?q=node/78#George/ George Pór] - founder [http://community-intelligence.com/ CommunityIntelligence], co-founder [http://www.commonslearningalliance.org/ Commons Learning Alliance]<br />
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[[George Pór]] is an evolutionary thinker/activist and strategic learning partner to visionary leaders in business, government and civil society, in matters of communities of practice and innovation-boosting, multi-stakeholder global events and processes. He is a pioneer of virtual communities, knowledge ecology, and collective intelligence research, and a seasoned practitioner of [http://www.presencing.com/presencing-theoryu/theoryu.shtml Theory U], [http://www.theworldcafe.com/ World Café] and the [http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ Art of Hosting]. <br />
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George is passionate about co-creating a world in which the full development of everyone is the goal of the whole. Work as creative self-expression is ceased to be the privilege of the few, and recognized as birthright of the multitude; a world, where all social institutions are designed to increase aliveness, joy, and prosperity for all. He is working for that by designing/advising projects that amplify collective intelligence and wisdom in organizations and social ecosystems. His methodology, the Innovation Architecture, combines social, cognitive, and electronic technologies for resilience, innovation, and regeneration. <br />
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His academic teaching and research posts included: Université de Paris, UC Berkeley, California Institute for Integral Studies, INSEAD, London School of Economics, and Universiteit van Amsterdam. George lives in London and speaks English, French, Hungarian and Russian. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Thomas+Benjamin+cryptocracy Thomas Benjamin] - [http://cryptocracy.net/ Cryptocracy]<br />
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[[Thomas Heydt-Benjamin]] researches security and privacy properties of ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems. Thomas brings with him to this work his prior experience in both attacks on and defenses of pervasive computing systems. In 2007 he participated in investigation of new contactless smart credit cards used in the United States, in which the team discovered serious flaws. In 2008 he and colleagues examined security and privacy properties of pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, determining that some aspects of existing designs may present dangerous security vulnerabilities. As a member of the security and cryptography team at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory from 2008 to 2009, Thomas worked with ZRL's famous anonymous credentials systems, inventing several extensions to anonymous credentials. Thomas is currently focused on novel solutions to real world security problems in resource constrained devices similar to the credit cards and pacemakers he has previously studied. Thomas started hacking and exploring computer security systems at age 6 when first exposed to assembler programming on the IBM PC. This early interest lead to formal study of computer science during high school through the Science Honors Program at Columbia University. He then earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Yale University, and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter Marc Canter] - founder Macromedia, founder Digital City Project [http://www.thedigitalcity.org/]<br />
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[[Image:Marc Cantor.JPG|left|Marc Cantor.JPG]] [[Marc Canter]] is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produces People Aggregator, a social networking tool with source available (but not under an open source license). Previously, he was a founder of the company that became Macromedia. <br />
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His blog, [http://marc.blogs.it/ Marc's Voice], frequently critiques other Internet luminaries and competitors, such as Mark Zuckerberg. <br />
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Canter is also a contributor to many open standards efforts and advocates for end-user controlled digital identities and content - being a co-founder of the "Identity Gang", and a co-signer of the Social Web Users' Bill of Rights. <br />
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He has consulted with global corporations including PCCW and Intel and has written on the multimedia industry, micro-content publishing and social networking. <br />
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Canter is developing software in the Greater Cleveland area and teaching classes at Case Western Reserve University <br />
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*Suresh Fernando, [[http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home OpenKollab]]<br />
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[[Image:Suresh cropped.jpg|left|Suresh cropped.jpg]] [[Suresh Fernando]]'s primary current project is the development of ProM, a 'dating site' for the climate action movement. The ProM concept is described [http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/project-matching-summary040211final-6843146 here]. The current status of the project is described [http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching here]. As a part of this project, Suresh and the rest of the ProM team are developing the architecture and processes for scalable open projects. <br />
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During the last several years Suresh has been focused on developing innovative solutions and strategies in both the open collaboration and social finance space. He is the co-founder of [http://mudball.net/openkollab/ OpenKollab], a virtual think tank exploring ways of leveraging recent developments in open collaboration processes, peer-to-peer culture, technology infrastructure, interoperability protocols etc. in service of massive social and systemic change. He is also a senior consultant for [http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/about-us/ Cognitive Policy Works]. Suresh is a social innovator who marries innovative strategies and models by fusing a deep understanding of collaboration processes and tools, community building platforms and processes and social finance models. He is also currently providing enterprise cross-boundary collaboration services; assisting organizations to identify the appropriate technology infrastructure and processes to effectively work together across organizational boundaries. <br />
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*[[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Adam+Fisk Adam Fisk]], Founder, [http://www.littleshoot.org LittleShoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]<br />
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[[Image:Adam Fisk cropped.jpg|left|Adam Fisk cropped.jpg]] [[Adam Fisk]] is a P2P bit twiddler who was the lead engineer at LimeWire before founding [http://www.littleshoot.org Little Shoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]. Adam is continuing to work on LittleShoot as well as Brave New Software's first project, the P2P censorship circumvention tool "Lantern." Lantern uses the LittleShoot P2P platform, a decentralized, encrypted, open source and standards-based platform for an Internet with fewer points of control. <br />
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*[[Juraj Bednar]]<br />
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[[Image:Juraj_bednar.jpg|left|Juraj Bednar]] does not like to be described in a paragraph, but he is an entrepreneur since he was 18 and is interested in changing the world for the better, freedom, [http://www.lovek.org/2010/12/jurajs-microworlds.html microworlds and the different around us], artificial intelligence (which he studied at the university), esp. bridging bio and AI worlds in fields like rule based systems ([http://jooray.soup.io/post/23859649/What-if-Theres-no-plan I believe that's how DNA works]) and evolution. Recent more specific interests are Bitcoin (peer to peer currency), [http://loat.sk.cx/ bridging virtual and physical spaces] and a [http://www.progressbar.sk/ hackerspace Progressbar] he co-founded in Bratislava. He also wrote two books and his working on his third, all of them unreadable to all but a small club of Slovak-speaking humanoids.<br />
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I am attending Contact to meet people. I am a part of kyberia.sk, an active 'underground' community which was originally inspired by a book written by a well known Contact conference organizer :). For me, I expect inspiring people and I hope I can contribute something. If you happen to be in New York before conference, I would love to meet before, one day is not enough!<br />
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*[[Paul B. Hartzog]], Founder, [http://www.Panarchy.com Panarchy]<br />
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[[Image:Paul b Hartzog.JPG|left|Paul b Hartzog.JPG]] [[Paul Hartzog]], one of the coiners of the word "panarchy," is an independent scholar and hacker, and has taught at the University of Michigan's School of Information. <br />
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Cofounder of The Future Forward Institute, and recipient of an NSF IGERT to study complex systems, he has a Masters in Globalization and Environmental Politics from the University of Utah, and a Masters in Political Theory from the University of Michigan. <br />
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His work on panarchy hybridizes political philosophy/economy, network culture, complex systems, and critical social theory. His interests include Complexity Theory, Cooperation, International Relations, Environmental Politics, Information Society and Economy, Information Technologies, Sustainable Development, Network Culture, and Ethics. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Scott+Heiferman Scott Heiferman] - founder, [http://www.Meetup.com Meetup.com]<br />
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[[Image:Scott Heiferman.JPG|left|Scott Heiferman.JPG]] [[Scott Heiferman]] is CEO and a co-founder of [http://www.meetup.com/ Meetup], a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. <br />
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As of April 2008, five million people have registered on Meetup. Meetup's investors include eBay, Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther Dyson, and others. <br />
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Prior to founding i-traffic, Heiferman was employed by Sony with the title "Interactive Marketing Frontiersman." In 2005, Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship. <br />
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In 2004 M.I.T. Technology Review awarded Scott "Innovator of the Year" for his work with Meetup. He graduated from The University of Iowa in 1994 and has posted a photo on his personal Fotolog for every day since 2001. <br />
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*[http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/whos-who-in-collective-intelligence-aaron-huslage/ Aaron Huslage] - Originator [http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/reference-aidphone-flybox-for-autonomous-internet/ Aidphone Flybox]<br />
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[[Aaron Huslage]] has been hacking on Internet technologies since 1987, and been a thought leader in the Internet industry since 1993. His greatest talent lies in communicating highly technical information to those who aren’t highly technical. <br />
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He constantly researches new and emerging technologies and the latest system management techniques with an emphasis on very large-scale, low-cost, simple mobile, wireless and public interest communications. Aaron is a member of the organizing committee for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony Conference. He is intimately familiar with Sun Microsystems offerings, and heavily committed to the concept of Open Everything including OpenBTS. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berlin_Johnson Steven Johnson] - author, founder [http://outside.in/ Outside.in]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Venessa+Miemis Venessa Miemis] - media activist and artist, founder [http://www.emergentbydesign.com/ Emergent by Design]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Richard+Metzger Richard Metzger] - founder, [http://www.disinfo.com/ Disinformation] and [http://dangerousminds.net/ Dangerous Minds]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Genesis+P-Orridge Genesis P-Orridge] - musician, artist, founder Throbbing Gristle<br />
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His early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism and his own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Eli+Pariser Eli Pariser] - founder, [http://www.MoveOn.org MoveOn]<br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce Mark Pesce] - inventor, technologist, futurist<br />
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[[Image:Mark Pesce crop.JPG|left|Mark Pesce crop.JPG]] [[Mark Pesce]] is an inventor, author and educator, best known for work that fused the World Wide Web with real-time 3D computer graphics; the result, known as VRML (for Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has become an international standard. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Andrew+Rasiej Andrew Rasiej] - co-founder [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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[[Image:Andrew Rasiej.JPG|left|Andrew Rasiej.JPG]] [[Andrew Rasiej]] is a futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum], an annual conference and website about the intersection of politics and technology. <br />
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[[Sam Rose]] founded a commons-based business model consultancy that builds theory and practice in the open, helping communities and social enterprises create and usefully deploy open source software, open licensed hardware, and open education resources. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rachel+Rosenfelt Rachel Rosenfelt] - founder, The [http://thenewinquiry.com/ New Inquiry]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] - media theorist, author<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Micah+Sifry Micah L. Sifry] - co-founder [http://www.personaldemocracy.com Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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*[[Nikos Salingaros]] -- President, [http://grupposalingaros.net/en/home.html Gruppo Salìngaros].<br />
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[[Image:Nikos-NYC1.jpg|left|Nikos-NYC1.jpg]] Nikos Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is an innovative urbanist and philosopher. The author of several books on urbanism and architectural theory, he is one of the pioneers who are defining [http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/%7eyxk833/P2PURBANISM.pdf "P2P Urbanism"] (a free online book). Along with a group of associates, he is creating a bottom-up approach to architecture and urban design based upon shared evidence-based rules, opposing mysticism and the myth of false scarcity of the "architect as creative genius". <br />
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[[Image:NathanSolomon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|NathanSolomon.jpg]] [[Nathan Solomon]] co-founded superfluid with Branimir Vasilic. This initiative grows from their shared obsession with getting shit done, and was conceived to help humans build and coordinate socially-enabled teams for execution of the projects that matter to them, and sometimes to others, without recourse to $. In addition to bringing together the broader superfluid membership, this system facilitates existing communities forming discrete areas within superfluid. <br />
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*[[Mickki Langston|Mickki Langston]] - [http://www.milehighbiz.org Mile High Business Alliance]<br />
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[[Image:MickkiLangston.jpg|left|200px|MickkiLangston.jpg]] Recognizing the need to reclaim our power to create community wealth, [[Mickki Langston]] co-founded the Mile High Business Alliance in 2007. Currently serving as Executive Director, Mickki combines her passion for social and environmental sustainability with her experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur. Her work with the business alliance focuses on organizing local business owners in working together to build a more connected, resilient and healthy local economy that doesn't sacrifice people and the planet for the sake of profit. <br />
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[[File:StevenBrewer.jpg|left|200px|Steven D. BREWER]] [[Steven Brewer]] is the Director of the Biology Computer Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a consultant to faculty on the implementation of technology in support of education. He advocates for technology that empowers students to engage in authentic, collaborative, learner-centered activity that applies science in the real world. BREWER is equal parts scientist, technologist, and educator: whether in the field catching mongooses or tardigrades; with 20 terminal windows open hacking php in a drupal module; or exhorting students to take control of their own education and embrace transformation. He is also is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Esperanto language and a published author of essays, fiction, and haiku in Esperanto.<br />
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*[[Rob Peters|Rob Peters]] - [http://www.standardoftrust.com Standard of Trust]<br />
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[[File:Rob_Peters_200x193.jpg|left|200px|Rob Peters]] [[Rob Peters]] is a recognized thought leader, speaker and writer, for the capture, measurement and utilization of Relationship Capital (“RC”). He has played a significant role in the creation of industry standards and best practices for the capture of RC. Rob was co-chair of the DePaul University School of Digital Media's I.T. Executive Leadership Lab from 2002 through 2006. He was certified by the Relationship Networking Industry Association[http://www.RNIA.org] in January 2010. Rob has been a trusted resource with 25 years of relationship management experience at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Capgemini Financial Services, Headstrong, Keane, Romac International and IBM. Rob’s experience resulted in a passion: helping leaders and companies build, maintain, and validate their online reputations. He founded Standard of Trust in 2010 to deliver on this passion. Relationship Capital (RC) is a score based on promises made and kept by people and enterprises, and on people's opinions and feelings concerning those that make the promises. The score is not made public automatically. Owners decide who can see their RC accounts, and how much they can see. Standard of Trust helps clients capture RC and apply it to leverage their good reputations online.<br />
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*[[Isaac Wilder|Isaac Wilder]] - [http://www.freenetworkmovement.org Free Network Movement]<br />
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[[File:Isaac_wilder.jpg|left|200px|Isaac Wilder]] [[Isaac Wilder]] founded the Free Network Movement in September 2010. Since that time, he has been an active participant in the global conversation regarding next network initiatives. In his role as leader of the FNM, Isaac served as lead architect of a public mesh network called grinnellMIND, currently serving the town of Grinnell, IA. After finishing his second year at Grinnell College in May of 2011, Isaac plans to leave school and pursue free network advocacy full-time. He is also a developer and contributor to the Diaspora project.<br />
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The [[Sarapis Foundation]] believes that access to technology is a human right and that the only way we can secure this right is by creating an entire ecosystem of free/libre/opensource (FLO) technologies people can use to create wealth and wellness for themselves and their communities. <br />
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*[http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] - [http://telecomix.org Telecomix] - '''twitter:''' [https://twitter.com/petewearspants @petewearspants][[Image:Peter_Fein.jpg|200px|left||Peter Fein]] [http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] is an agent with [http://telecomix.org Telecomix], an ad-hoc volunteer disorganization of Internauts who support free communication. Telecomix was instrumental in [http://blog.wearpants.org/we-are-telecomix keeping the internet online in Egypt] during the Jan 25 revolution. We have since been active in fighting censorship in Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Bahrian and elsewhere. Pete is an expert Python programmer and a frequent conference speaker. He is currently developing [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party], a distributed censorship-resistant mirror network. More on Telecomix: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/07/telecomix-arab-spring Guardian (UK)], [http://owni.fr/2011/07/25/telecomix-%C2%AB-hacker-pour-la-liberte-%C2%BB/ Owni (FR)]<br />
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*[http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Antarctica Starts Here.] - [https://twitter.com/virtadpt Twitter] - [http://about.me/drwho Public Profile][[Image:TheDoctor.jpg|right]]<br />
The Doctor (less formally known as Bryce) was loomed with a 1200bps modem in one hand and a soldering iron in the other. Life started getting interesting when he gave a presentation in defense of Kevin Mitnick for a high school english class, and somehow wound up explaining what PGP was, how it worked, and why it was important. Through his career he's been an IT consultant, a security analyst, a system administrator, a VoIP engineer, a security contractor, a penetration tester, a security researcher, and a professional head scratcher and "Hmm.. that's interesting.."'er. In his spare time the Doctor has taught seminars on practical privacy and anonymity techniques, [https://torproject.org/ Tor], wireless security, penetration testing, information security, and open source intelligence gathering.<br />
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Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: The Journal for Global Citizens Creating Planetary Civilization and World Community, which is based on evolving interior development and cultural values as they impact globalization and world community. Kosmos Associates, Inc. is also actively involved in the founding of the Global Commons movement with James B. Quilligan of the Global Commons Trust. Nancy won the 2009 Images and Voices of Hope award for journalism as a tool to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation in a global shift to higher-level thinking. In 2004, Kosmos was nominated by Utne for excellence. Her testimony on the human dimension of the United Nations was distributed to the US President and Congress. As a founder of Transpersonal Psychology (late 70s), she served as a spiritual guide to individuals for 20 years. In the late 80s, she began to define the field of global transformation at the United Nations, where she successfully lobbied for elevated global standards in international treaties and co-founded the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000). Working with 78 international organizations in war zones for over two years, she recognized the traumatic effect of war, not only on military personnel, but on their families, communities and service providers. She then designed the first global training programs and workbook on secondary traumatic stress, implemented initially during the Balkan wars and now used internationally. She is a founding member of the Global Commons Initiative, World Wisdom Council, Creating the New Civilization Initiative, 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, WorldShift 2012 (Ervin Laszlo), Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, a Board member of Integral Review and Living Earth TV and a speaker at Mikhail Gorbachev's World Political Forum. <br />
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Greg Belvedere is a librarian, information architect, and writer based in Brooklyn. By day he works at a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library where he has served on the library's reference committee and worked to promote the library's electronic resources. He has recently started working as a freelance information architect in his off hours.<br />
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[[Image:MarkFrazier2011.jpg|200px|left]]I'm president of Openworld, a nonprofit group whose founders have worked on grassroots alternatives to zero-sum politics in 50+ countries. Areas of main current project interest/activity: [http://miiu.org/wiki/Openworld_Game virtual games for actual change], [http://miiu.org/wiki/Charity challenge offers by donors] to spread local resilience, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/crowdmoves "crowdmoves"] to intentional communities, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/microscholarships microscholarship initiatives] to spread skills in struggling areas, [http://miiu.org/wiki/Vesting_students_as_co-owners_of_schools students as co-owners] of entrepreneurial schools, and [http://miiu.org/wiki/Funding_education_with_personal_currencies personal currencies] to fund re-skilling. I'm considering a pilot launch of [http://is.gd/persnlcurrency personal currencies using Augmented Reality] on cell phones, and am active in [http://miiu.org/wiki/Dayton Dayton], Virginia nonprofit [http://miiu.org/wiki/Arts_%26_Business_Connection_of_Dayton groups] to improve the local business climate and attract creative ventures to the area. Earlier in my career, I was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's privatization practice. I'm a graduate of Harvard University and a past Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute, where I researched ways that communities can enable neighborhood associations to take on municipal service responsibilities. I love reading, drawing/architectural design, hiking, flying, square foot gardening, and archery. My Twitter feeds are at [http://twitter.com/openworld @openworld] and [http://twitter.com/peerlearning @peerlearning].<br />
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I'm a writer, anthropologist and activist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I work with transferring web-based ideas such as emergent distributed systems, peer-2-peer networks and open source development practices to local, net-enabled activism. I'm currently involved in: <br />
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I'm attending Contact to share my experiences from these projects and to learn more about the possibilities for using distributed net technology in local projects. <br />
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I like to make things, usually in the form of web and mobile applications. I'm coming to Contact seeking to learn ways to make small communities more resilient to infrastructure disruptions. In particular, I'm interested in commerce, food production, and communications networks at a neighborhood level.<br />
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Cultivator of Relationships. Community Engager & Builder. Professional Elephant Hunter. Intrapreneur. Social Media Strategist. Renaissance woman. Lover of all things creative, expressive and engaging.<br />
It's all about the dialogue, which is why I love building events & opportunities in my hometown of Stratford, Ontario to support that dialogue (Ignite, TEDx, SocialMediaBreakfasts). I've always been a geek of the curious kind which has most recently translated into my love, embrace and work in social media. I have worked in ICT for the last 12 years in sales, education, operations and program management and am currently a Business Consultant with a national telecommunications carrier in Canada.<br><br />
[http://www.about.me/karensd About me]<br><br />
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Keenan Dakota - [http://villagevotes.com Village Votes]<br><br />
Keenan is developing Village Votes, a web site where people can propose policy, edit policy, and vote on their favorite policies. The goal of this site is to improve governance by bringing the best minds to the development of policy and to speed up the rate at which policy gets adopted and implemented.<br />
Keenan believes in Isocracy, or government by equally empowered people. He has lived for the past 28 years in Twin Oaks, a worker-owned cooperative that runs several successful businesses and is run along the principles of Isocracy. Twin Oaks has developed a model of Isocratic governance that allows for all members to set a yearly budget, to expand businesses, to draft policy and to rotate positions of leadership. For over 44 years Twin Oaks has grown and thrived without developing a core of leaders or any sort of power elite by expecting responsibility and empowerment from every member (including children!).<br />
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*[[Mark Belinsky]] - [http://www.digital-democracy.org Digital Democracy]<br />
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Mark is the Co-Founder and President of Digital Democracy, a non-profit empowering marginalized groups through innovative technology solutions. His family fled the Soviet Union as refugees and their experience informs and inspires his work training grassroots groups around the world to in protecting their human rights. Mark has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and presented at conferences worldwide on the use of social media and technology to connect local voices and address crisis. He is also a founder of New Words Media, a strategic media firm based in New York and a founder and board-member of Bem, a youth action center in Armenia that uses art and technology to support emerging civil society. He has produced media strategies and directed documentary films in the post-Soviet, USA and Asia.<br />
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<div>= Confirmed Participants August 2011 (please add your profile if you're definitely coming) =<br />
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*[[Michel Bauwens]] - [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation]<br />
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[[Image:Michel Bauwens.png|left|Michel Bauwens.png]] Michel Bauwens is a Belgian national working out of Thailand, focusing on a book about P2P Theory which adequately describes and explains current trends, to propose, in dialog with others, sustainable strategies for political and social change, i.e. to achieve a 'commons-based society' that can operate within a reformed market and state. <br />
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His past includes creation of two internet start-ups, the intranet/extranet company E-Com (sold to Alcatel) and the interactive marketing company Kyberco (sold to Tagora holding). He was European Mgr. of Thought Leadership for MarchFIRST, and ebusiness strategy director for Belgacom, Belgium’s leading telco (1999-2002). <br />
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He started his career as information analyst and reference librarian for the United States Information Agency (1983-2000), worked as information manager for British Petroleum (1990-1993) (where he created one of the first virtual information centers and is credited for coining the concept of cybrarian), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language Wave. <br />
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*[http://community-intelligence.com/?q=node/78#George/ George Pór] - founder [http://community-intelligence.com/ CommunityIntelligence], co-founder [http://www.commonslearningalliance.org/ Commons Learning Alliance]<br />
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[[George Pór]] is an evolutionary thinker/activist and strategic learning partner to visionary leaders in business, government and civil society, in matters of communities of practice and innovation-boosting, multi-stakeholder global events and processes. He is a pioneer of virtual communities, knowledge ecology, and collective intelligence research, and a seasoned practitioner of [http://www.presencing.com/presencing-theoryu/theoryu.shtml Theory U], [http://www.theworldcafe.com/ World Café] and the [http://www.artofhosting.org/home/ Art of Hosting]. <br />
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George is passionate about co-creating a world in which the full development of everyone is the goal of the whole. Work as creative self-expression is ceased to be the privilege of the few, and recognized as birthright of the multitude; a world, where all social institutions are designed to increase aliveness, joy, and prosperity for all. He is working for that by designing/advising projects that amplify collective intelligence and wisdom in organizations and social ecosystems. His methodology, the Innovation Architecture, combines social, cognitive, and electronic technologies for resilience, innovation, and regeneration. <br />
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His academic teaching and research posts included: Université de Paris, UC Berkeley, California Institute for Integral Studies, INSEAD, London School of Economics, and Universiteit van Amsterdam. George lives in London and speaks English, French, Hungarian and Russian. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Thomas+Benjamin+cryptocracy Thomas Benjamin] - [http://cryptocracy.net/ Cryptocracy]<br />
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[[Thomas Heydt-Benjamin]] researches security and privacy properties of ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems. Thomas brings with him to this work his prior experience in both attacks on and defenses of pervasive computing systems. In 2007 he participated in investigation of new contactless smart credit cards used in the United States, in which the team discovered serious flaws. In 2008 he and colleagues examined security and privacy properties of pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, determining that some aspects of existing designs may present dangerous security vulnerabilities. As a member of the security and cryptography team at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory from 2008 to 2009, Thomas worked with ZRL's famous anonymous credentials systems, inventing several extensions to anonymous credentials. Thomas is currently focused on novel solutions to real world security problems in resource constrained devices similar to the credit cards and pacemakers he has previously studied. Thomas started hacking and exploring computer security systems at age 6 when first exposed to assembler programming on the IBM PC. This early interest lead to formal study of computer science during high school through the Science Honors Program at Columbia University. He then earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Yale University, and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter Marc Canter] - founder Macromedia, founder Digital City Project [http://www.thedigitalcity.org/]<br />
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[[Image:Marc Cantor.JPG|left|Marc Cantor.JPG]] [[Marc Canter]] is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produces People Aggregator, a social networking tool with source available (but not under an open source license). Previously, he was a founder of the company that became Macromedia. <br />
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His blog, [http://marc.blogs.it/ Marc's Voice], frequently critiques other Internet luminaries and competitors, such as Mark Zuckerberg. <br />
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Canter is also a contributor to many open standards efforts and advocates for end-user controlled digital identities and content - being a co-founder of the "Identity Gang", and a co-signer of the Social Web Users' Bill of Rights. <br />
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He has consulted with global corporations including PCCW and Intel and has written on the multimedia industry, micro-content publishing and social networking. <br />
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Canter is developing software in the Greater Cleveland area and teaching classes at Case Western Reserve University <br />
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*Suresh Fernando, [[http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home OpenKollab]]<br />
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[[Image:Suresh cropped.jpg|left|Suresh cropped.jpg]] [[Suresh Fernando]]'s primary current project is the development of ProM, a 'dating site' for the climate action movement. The ProM concept is described [http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/project-matching-summary040211final-6843146 here]. The current status of the project is described [http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching here]. As a part of this project, Suresh and the rest of the ProM team are developing the architecture and processes for scalable open projects. <br />
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During the last several years Suresh has been focused on developing innovative solutions and strategies in both the open collaboration and social finance space. He is the co-founder of [http://mudball.net/openkollab/ OpenKollab], a virtual think tank exploring ways of leveraging recent developments in open collaboration processes, peer-to-peer culture, technology infrastructure, interoperability protocols etc. in service of massive social and systemic change. He is also a senior consultant for [http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/about-us/ Cognitive Policy Works]. Suresh is a social innovator who marries innovative strategies and models by fusing a deep understanding of collaboration processes and tools, community building platforms and processes and social finance models. He is also currently providing enterprise cross-boundary collaboration services; assisting organizations to identify the appropriate technology infrastructure and processes to effectively work together across organizational boundaries. <br />
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*[[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Adam+Fisk Adam Fisk]], Founder, [http://www.littleshoot.org LittleShoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]<br />
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[[Image:Adam Fisk cropped.jpg|left|Adam Fisk cropped.jpg]] [[Adam Fisk]] is a P2P bit twiddler who was the lead engineer at LimeWire before founding [http://www.littleshoot.org Little Shoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]. Adam is continuing to work on LittleShoot as well as Brave New Software's first project, the P2P censorship circumvention tool "Lantern." Lantern uses the LittleShoot P2P platform, a decentralized, encrypted, open source and standards-based platform for an Internet with fewer points of control. <br />
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*[[Juraj Bednar]]<br />
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[[Image:Juraj_bednar.jpg|left|Juraj Bednar]] does not like to be described in a paragraph, but he is an entrepreneur since he was 18 and is interested in changing the world for the better, freedom, [http://www.lovek.org/2010/12/jurajs-microworlds.html microworlds and the different around us], artificial intelligence (which he studied at the university), esp. bridging bio and AI worlds in fields like rule based systems ([http://jooray.soup.io/post/23859649/What-if-Theres-no-plan I believe that's how DNA works]) and evolution. Recent more specific interests are Bitcoin (peer to peer currency), [http://loat.sk.cx/ bridging virtual and physical spaces] and a [http://www.progressbar.sk/ hackerspace Progressbar] he co-founded in Bratislava. He also wrote two books and his working on his third, all of them unreadable to all but a small club of Slovak-speaking humanoids.<br />
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I am attending Contact to meet people. I am a part of kyberia.sk, an active 'underground' community which was originally inspired by a book written by a well known Contact conference organizer :). For me, I expect inspiring people and I hope I can contribute something. If you happen to be in New York before conference, I would love to meet before, one day is not enough!<br />
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*[[Paul B. Hartzog]], Founder, [http://www.Panarchy.com Panarchy]<br />
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[[Image:Paul b Hartzog.JPG|left|Paul b Hartzog.JPG]] [[Paul Hartzog]], one of the coiners of the word "panarchy," is an independent scholar and hacker, and has taught at the University of Michigan's School of Information. <br />
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Cofounder of The Future Forward Institute, and recipient of an NSF IGERT to study complex systems, he has a Masters in Globalization and Environmental Politics from the University of Utah, and a Masters in Political Theory from the University of Michigan. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Scott+Heiferman Scott Heiferman] - founder, [http://www.Meetup.com Meetup.com]<br />
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[[Image:Scott Heiferman.JPG|left|Scott Heiferman.JPG]] [[Scott Heiferman]] is CEO and a co-founder of [http://www.meetup.com/ Meetup], a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. <br />
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As of April 2008, five million people have registered on Meetup. Meetup's investors include eBay, Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther Dyson, and others. <br />
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Prior to founding i-traffic, Heiferman was employed by Sony with the title "Interactive Marketing Frontiersman." In 2005, Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship. <br />
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In 2004 M.I.T. Technology Review awarded Scott "Innovator of the Year" for his work with Meetup. He graduated from The University of Iowa in 1994 and has posted a photo on his personal Fotolog for every day since 2001. <br />
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*[http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/whos-who-in-collective-intelligence-aaron-huslage/ Aaron Huslage] - Originator [http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/reference-aidphone-flybox-for-autonomous-internet/ Aidphone Flybox]<br />
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[[Aaron Huslage]] has been hacking on Internet technologies since 1987, and been a thought leader in the Internet industry since 1993. His greatest talent lies in communicating highly technical information to those who aren’t highly technical. <br />
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He constantly researches new and emerging technologies and the latest system management techniques with an emphasis on very large-scale, low-cost, simple mobile, wireless and public interest communications. Aaron is a member of the organizing committee for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony Conference. He is intimately familiar with Sun Microsystems offerings, and heavily committed to the concept of Open Everything including OpenBTS. <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berlin_Johnson Steven Johnson] - author, founder [http://outside.in/ Outside.in]<br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Venessa+Miemis Venessa Miemis] - media activist and artist, founder [http://www.emergentbydesign.com/ Emergent by Design]<br />
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[[Image:Venessa Miemis2.jpg|left|Venessa Miemis2.jpg]] [[Venessa Miemis]] is a futurist and digital ethnographer, researching the impacts of social technologies on society and culture and designing systems to facilitate innovation and the evolution of consciousness. <br />
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She earned a Masters in Media Studies at the New School in NYC. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Richard+Metzger Richard Metzger] - founder, [http://www.disinfo.com/ Disinformation] and [http://dangerousminds.net/ Dangerous Minds]<br />
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[[Image:Richard Metzger.JPG|left|Richard Metzger.JPG]] [[Richard Metzger]] (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a television host and author. <br />
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He was the host of the TV show Disinformation (United Kingdom Channel 4, 2000-01), The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com. <br />
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He is the author of two books, ''Disinformation: The Interviews'' (2002) which feature unedited interviews with several of the characters and thinkers who were guests on the series and ''Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide To Magick &amp; The Occult'' (2004) an anthology of occult essays. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Genesis+P-Orridge Genesis P-Orridge] - musician, artist, founder Throbbing Gristle<br />
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[[Image:Gen Castle.JPG|left|Gen Castle.JPG]] Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. <br />
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His early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism and his own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. <br />
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Later musical work with Psychic TV received wider exposure, including some chart-topping singles. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Eli+Pariser Eli Pariser] - founder, [http://www.MoveOn.org MoveOn]<br />
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[[Image:Eli Pariser.jpg|left|Eli Pariser.jpg]] [[Eli Pariser]] (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is the former Executive Director of [http://www.moveon.org/?skip=1 MoveOn.org], and the organization's current Board President. <br />
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Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th. (At the time, he was working as a program assistant for the national nonprofit More Than Money.) <br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce Mark Pesce] - inventor, technologist, futurist<br />
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[[Image:Mark Pesce crop.JPG|left|Mark Pesce crop.JPG]] [[Mark Pesce]] is an inventor, author and educator, best known for work that fused the World Wide Web with real-time 3D computer graphics; the result, known as VRML (for Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has become an international standard. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Andrew+Rasiej Andrew Rasiej] - co-founder [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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[[Image:Andrew Rasiej.JPG|left|Andrew Rasiej.JPG]] [[Andrew Rasiej]] is a futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum], an annual conference and website about the intersection of politics and technology. <br />
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He is also the co-Founder of techPresident.com, an award winning blog that covers how the Obama administration is using the web, and how technology is empowering new levels of citizen engagement throughout the United States. <br />
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*[[Sam Rose]] - [http://futureforwardinstitute.com Future Forward Institute]<br />
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[[Sam Rose]] founded a commons-based business model consultancy that builds theory and practice in the open, helping communities and social enterprises create and usefully deploy open source software, open licensed hardware, and open education resources. <br />
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He is interested in effective knowledge synthesis, and in exploring and developing the concepts of open knowledge, open design, and open business. <br />
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He is involved in a growing list of blogs, wikis, social software experiments and developings, including CoummunityWiki, Meatball Wiki, Cooperation Commons Weblog, Smartmobs Weblog. Sam Rose is also a partner and principle technologist in http://hollymeadcapital.com <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rachel+Rosenfelt Rachel Rosenfelt] - founder, The [http://thenewinquiry.com/ New Inquiry]<br />
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[[Image:Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG|left|Rachel Rosenfelt.JPG]] Rachel Rosenfelt is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry. <br />
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She is also a new media and marketing consultant based in New York. Prior to The New Inquiry she worked at the World Wide Workshop Foundation, rising to Program Manager. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] - media theorist, author<br />
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[[Image:Doug Rushkoff.JPG|left|Doug Rushkoff.JPG]] [[Douglas Rushkoff]] is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. <br />
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He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. <br />
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Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency. <br />
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He has written ten books on media, technology, and culture. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times Syndicate, as well as regular columns for The Guardian of London, Arthur, Discover and the online magazines Daily Beast,[4] TheFeature.com and meeting industry magazine One+. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Micah+Sifry Micah L. Sifry] - co-founder [http://www.personaldemocracy.com Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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[[Image:Micah Sifry.JPG|left|Micah Sifry.JPG]] [[Micah Sifry]] is a co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, a daily website and annual conference on how technology is changing politics. <br />
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He is also the editor of PdF’s new group blog TechPresident, which focuses on how the campaigns are using the web and how the web is using them. Along with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. <br />
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He is the author or editor of four books, the most recent being Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? (John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2004), written with Nancy Watzman. <br />
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*[[Nikos Salingaros]] -- President, [http://grupposalingaros.net/en/home.html Gruppo Salìngaros].<br />
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[[Image:Nikos-NYC1.jpg|left|Nikos-NYC1.jpg]] Nikos Salingaros is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is an innovative urbanist and philosopher. The author of several books on urbanism and architectural theory, he is one of the pioneers who are defining [http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/%7eyxk833/P2PURBANISM.pdf "P2P Urbanism"] (a free online book). Along with a group of associates, he is creating a bottom-up approach to architecture and urban design based upon shared evidence-based rules, opposing mysticism and the myth of false scarcity of the "architect as creative genius". <br />
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His work on the "networked city" was incorporated into the [http://www.ceu-ectp.eu/index.asp?id=108 "New Charter of Athens"] (European Council of Town Planners, 2003). He collaborated with Christopher Alexander in editing the four-volume [http://www.natureoforder.com/ "The Nature of Order"] and has made fundamental contributions to using Patterns in design. His career began in mathematical physics, working on field theory and thermonuclear fusion before turning his attention to architecture and urbanism. He is a member and on the Committee of Honor of INTBAU, and was voted 11th among the most important urbanists of all time in a 2009 Planetizen poll. <br />
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Trying to explain society's head-long rush towards extinction requires a novel understanding of thought manipulation and media collusion in spreading unhealthy image-based architectural and urban typologies. He introduced the meme explanation for the persistence of anti-patterns in architecture and urbanism, touching upon the controversial relationship between architectural memes, cult mentality, and substitute religions. <br />
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*[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dave+Winer Dave Winer] - founder, [http://www.Scripting.com Scripting.com]<br />
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[[Image:Dave Winer.JPG|left|Dave Winer.JPG]] [[Dave Winer]] in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City. <br />
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Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. <br />
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*Nathan Solomon - [http://thesuperfluid.com superfluid]<br />
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[[Image:NathanSolomon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|NathanSolomon.jpg]] [[Nathan Solomon]] co-founded superfluid with Branimir Vasilic. This initiative grows from their shared obsession with getting shit done, and was conceived to help humans build and coordinate socially-enabled teams for execution of the projects that matter to them, and sometimes to others, without recourse to $. In addition to bringing together the broader superfluid membership, this system facilitates existing communities forming discrete areas within superfluid. <br />
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Nathan created the first digital distribution of AAA game titles, the first wireless in-store distribution of games in the US, has held roles with national ad agencies as Chief Technologist and Executive Producer, and was a cinematography fellow of the American Film Instute. Thoughout his career, he has worked to provide coherent contexts empowering creative and technical execution. His hobby is [http://VeloBase.org VeloBase.org] <br />
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*[[Mickki Langston|Mickki Langston]] - [http://www.milehighbiz.org Mile High Business Alliance]<br />
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[[Image:MickkiLangston.jpg|left|200px|MickkiLangston.jpg]] Recognizing the need to reclaim our power to create community wealth, [[Mickki Langston]] co-founded the Mile High Business Alliance in 2007. Currently serving as Executive Director, Mickki combines her passion for social and environmental sustainability with her experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur. Her work with the business alliance focuses on organizing local business owners in working together to build a more connected, resilient and healthy local economy that doesn't sacrifice people and the planet for the sake of profit. <br />
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*[http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/faculty/steven-d-brewer Steven D BREWER] - [http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/bcrc Biology Computer Resource Center]<br />
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[[File:StevenBrewer.jpg|left|200px|Steven D. BREWER]] [[Steven Brewer]] is the Director of the Biology Computer Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a consultant to faculty on the implementation of technology in support of education. He advocates for technology that empowers students to engage in authentic, collaborative, learner-centered activity that applies science in the real world. BREWER is equal parts scientist, technologist, and educator: whether in the field catching mongooses or tardigrades; with 20 terminal windows open hacking php in a drupal module; or exhorting students to take control of their own education and embrace transformation. He is also is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Esperanto language and a published author of essays, fiction, and haiku in Esperanto.<br />
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*[[Rob Peters|Rob Peters]] - [http://www.standardoftrust.com Standard of Trust]<br />
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[[File:Rob_Peters_200x193.jpg|left|200px|Rob Peters]] [[Rob Peters]] is a recognized thought leader, speaker and writer, for the capture, measurement and utilization of Relationship Capital (“RC”). He has played a significant role in the creation of industry standards and best practices for the capture of RC. Rob was co-chair of the DePaul University School of Digital Media's I.T. Executive Leadership Lab from 2002 through 2006. He was certified by the Relationship Networking Industry Association[http://www.RNIA.org] in January 2010. Rob has been a trusted resource with 25 years of relationship management experience at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Capgemini Financial Services, Headstrong, Keane, Romac International and IBM. Rob’s experience resulted in a passion: helping leaders and companies build, maintain, and validate their online reputations. He founded Standard of Trust in 2010 to deliver on this passion. Relationship Capital (RC) is a score based on promises made and kept by people and enterprises, and on people's opinions and feelings concerning those that make the promises. The score is not made public automatically. Owners decide who can see their RC accounts, and how much they can see. Standard of Trust helps clients capture RC and apply it to leverage their good reputations online.<br />
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*[[Isaac Wilder|Isaac Wilder]] - [http://www.freenetworkmovement.org Free Network Movement]<br />
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[[File:Isaac_wilder.jpg|left|200px|Isaac Wilder]] [[Isaac Wilder]] founded the Free Network Movement in September 2010. Since that time, he has been an active participant in the global conversation regarding next network initiatives. In his role as leader of the FNM, Isaac served as lead architect of a public mesh network called grinnellMIND, currently serving the town of Grinnell, IA. After finishing his second year at Grinnell College in May of 2011, Isaac plans to leave school and pursue free network advocacy full-time. He is also a developer and contributor to the Diaspora project.<br />
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*Devin Balkind - [http://sarapisfoundation.org Sarapis Foundation]<br />
The [[Sarapis Foundation]] believes that access to technology is a human right and that the only way we can secure this right is by creating an entire ecosystem of free/libre/opensource (FLO) technologies people can use to create wealth and wellness for themselves and their communities. <br />
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*[http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] - [http://telecomix.org Telecomix] - '''twitter:''' [https://twitter.com/petewearspants @petewearspants][[Image:Peter_Fein.jpg|200px|left||Peter Fein]] [http://blog.wearpants.org Peter Fein] is an agent with [http://telecomix.org Telecomix], an ad-hoc volunteer disorganization of Internauts who support free communication. Telecomix was instrumental in [http://blog.wearpants.org/we-are-telecomix keeping the internet online in Egypt] during the Jan 25 revolution. We have since been active in fighting censorship in Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Bahrian and elsewhere. Pete is an expert Python programmer and a frequent conference speaker. He is currently developing [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party], a distributed censorship-resistant mirror network. More on Telecomix: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/07/telecomix-arab-spring Guardian (UK)], [http://owni.fr/2011/07/25/telecomix-%C2%AB-hacker-pour-la-liberte-%C2%BB/ Owni (FR)]<br />
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*[http://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Antarctica Starts Here.] - [https://twitter.com/virtadpt Twitter] - [http://about.me/drwho Public Profile][[Image:TheDoctor.jpg|right]]<br />
The Doctor (less formally known as Bryce) was loomed with a 1200bps modem in one hand and a soldering iron in the other. Life started getting interesting when he gave a presentation in defense of Kevin Mitnick for a high school english class, and somehow wound up explaining what PGP was, how it worked, and why it was important. Through his career he's been an IT consultant, a security analyst, a system administrator, a VoIP engineer, a security contractor, a penetration tester, a security researcher, and a professional head scratcher and "Hmm.. that's interesting.."'er. In his spare time the Doctor has taught seminars on practical privacy and anonymity techniques, [https://torproject.org/ Tor], wireless security, penetration testing, information security, and open source intelligence gathering.<br />
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Jonathan is a marketer working to develop a new model for brands in the age of P2P conversation. He has led communications for Nissan, Limited Brands, and Blockbuster, and served on the executive marketing committee Apple's launch of the first iMac. Jonathan [http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Salem-Baskin/e/B001IZXA5S/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 has published three books] (the fourth, on truth in marketing, is scheduled for release in the spring of 2012), writes on leadership for [http://adage.com/results.php?&endeca=1&searchprop=AdAgeAll&return=endeca&search_offset=0&search_order_by=score&search_phrase=jonathan+salem+baskin&D=jonathan+salem+baskin&Nty=1&Ntk=AdAgeAll&N=25+4294951503&Ntt=jonathan+salem+baskin Advertising Age,] and blogs about marketing at Dim Bulb (http://www.dimbulb.net) and historical examples of social experience at Histories of Social Media.<br />
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Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: The Journal for Global Citizens Creating Planetary Civilization and World Community, which is based on evolving interior development and cultural values as they impact globalization and world community. Kosmos Associates, Inc. is also actively involved in the founding of the Global Commons movement with James B. Quilligan of the Global Commons Trust. Nancy won the 2009 Images and Voices of Hope award for journalism as a tool to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation in a global shift to higher-level thinking. In 2004, Kosmos was nominated by Utne for excellence. Her testimony on the human dimension of the United Nations was distributed to the US President and Congress. As a founder of Transpersonal Psychology (late 70s), she served as a spiritual guide to individuals for 20 years. In the late 80s, she began to define the field of global transformation at the United Nations, where she successfully lobbied for elevated global standards in international treaties and co-founded the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000). Working with 78 international organizations in war zones for over two years, she recognized the traumatic effect of war, not only on military personnel, but on their families, communities and service providers. She then designed the first global training programs and workbook on secondary traumatic stress, implemented initially during the Balkan wars and now used internationally. She is a founding member of the Global Commons Initiative, World Wisdom Council, Creating the New Civilization Initiative, 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, WorldShift 2012 (Ervin Laszlo), Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, a Board member of Integral Review and Living Earth TV and a speaker at Mikhail Gorbachev's World Political Forum. <br />
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Founder of [http://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home Multitude Project] and of [http://www.sensorica.co/ SENSORICA] (the open enterprise) <br />
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Greg Belvedere is a librarian, information architect, and writer based in Brooklyn. By day he works at a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library where he has served on the library's reference committee and worked to promote the library's electronic resources. He has recently started working as a freelance information architect in his off hours.<br />
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[[Image:MarkFrazier2011.jpg|200px|left]]I'm president of Openworld, a nonprofit group whose founders have worked on grassroots alternatives to zero-sum politics in 50+ countries. Areas of main current project interest/activity: [http://miiu.org/wiki/Openworld_Game virtual games for actual change], [http://miiu.org/wiki/Charity challenge offers by donors] to spread local resilience, [http://MiiU.org/wiki/crowdmoves "crowdmoves"] to intentional communities, [http://www.entrepreneurialschools.com/microscholarships microscholarship initiatives] to spread skills in struggling areas, [http://miiu.org/wiki/Vesting_students_as_co-owners_of_schools students as co-owners] of entrepreneurial schools, and [http://miiu.org/wiki/Funding_education_with_personal_currencies personal currencies] to fund re-skilling. I'm considering a pilot launch of [http://is.gd/persnlcurrency personal currencies using Augmented Reality] on cell phones, and am active in [http://miiu.org/wiki/Dayton Dayton], Virginia nonprofit [http://miiu.org/wiki/Arts_%26_Business_Connection_of_Dayton groups] to improve the local business climate and attract creative ventures to the area. Earlier in my career, I was publisher and managing editor of Reason magazine, and cofounder of the Local Government Center, springboard for Reason Foundation's privatization practice. I'm a graduate of Harvard University and a past Visiting Fellow of the Lehrman Institute, where I researched ways that communities can enable neighborhood associations to take on municipal service responsibilities. I love reading, drawing/architectural design, hiking, flying, square foot gardening, and archery. My Twitter feeds are at [http://twitter.com/openworld @openworld] and [http://twitter.com/peerlearning @peerlearning].<br />
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I'm a writer, anthropologist and activist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I work with transferring web-based ideas such as emergent distributed systems, peer-2-peer networks and open source development practices to local, net-enabled activism. I'm currently involved in: <br />
: * [http://kbhff.dk/in-english/ An organic, member-owned, member-run food coop in Copenhagen].<br />
: * [http://borgerlyst.dk/ A movement dedicated to developing new forms of civic and democratic participation and engagement].<br />
: * [http://kollektiv.dk/ An online platform for knowledge sharing, coordination and collaboration between communes and intentional communities in Denmark]<br />
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I'm attending Contact to share my experiences from these projects and to learn more about the possibilities for using distributed net technology in local projects. <br />
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I like to make things, usually in the form of web and mobile applications. I'm coming to Contact seeking to learn ways to make small communities more resilient to infrastructure disruptions. In particular, I'm interested in commerce, food production, and communications networks at a neighborhood level.<br />
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Karen Schulman Dupuis<br><br />
Cultivator of Relationships. Community Engager & Builder. Professional Elephant Hunter. Intrapreneur. Social Media Strategist. Renaissance woman. Lover of all things creative, expressive and engaging.<br />
It's all about the dialogue, which is why I love building events & opportunities in my hometown of Stratford, Ontario to support that dialogue (Ignite, TEDx, SocialMediaBreakfasts). I've always been a geek of the curious kind which has most recently translated into my love, embrace and work in social media. I have worked in ICT for the last 12 years in sales, education, operations and program management and am currently a Business Consultant with a national telecommunications carrier in Canada.<br><br />
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Keenan Dakota - [http://villagevotes.com Village Votes]<br><br />
Keenan is developing Village Votes, a web site where people can propose policy, edit policy, and vote on their favorite policies. The goal of this site is to improve governance by bringing the best minds to the development of policy and to speed up the rate at which policy gets adopted and implemented.<br />
Keenan believes in Isocracy, or government by equally empowered people. He has lived for the past 28 years in Twin Oaks, a worker-owned cooperative that runs several successful businesses and is run along the principles of Isocracy. Twin Oaks has developed a model of Isocratic governance that allows for all members to set a yearly budget, to expand businesses, to draft policy and to rotate positions of leadership. For over 44 years Twin Oaks has grown and thrived without developing a core of leaders or any sort of power elite by expecting responsibility and empowerment from every member (including children!).<br />
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Mark is the Co-Founder and President of Digital Democracy, a non-profit empowering marginalized groups through innovative technology solutions. His family fled the Soviet Union as refugees and their experience informs and inspires his work training grassroots groups around the world to in protecting their human rights. Mark has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and presented at conferences worldwide on the use of social media and technology to connect local voices and address crisis. He is also a founder of New Words Media, a strategic media firm based in New York and a founder and board-member of Bem, a youth action center in Armenia that uses art and technology to support emerging civil society. He has produced media strategies and directed documentary films in the post-Soviet, USA and Asia.<br />
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"Alternative currency is a term that refers to any currency used as an alternative to the dominant national or multinational currency systems (usually referred to as national or fiat money). Alternative currencies can be carefully created by an individual, corporation, or organization, they can be created by national, state, or local governments, or they can arise naturally as people begin to use a certain commodity as a currency. Mutual credit is a form of alternative currency, and thus any form of lending that does not go through the banking system can be considered form of alternative currency.<br />
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*The [[Resource Based Economy]], a system in which money and barter serve no purpose<br />
*[[Financial commons]]<br />
*[[Open Source Economics]]<br />
*[[Circular Multilateral Barter]]<br />
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== Note to P2PFoundation wikimaster ==<br />
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Is it possible to embed SocialCompare.com wiki-like charts on P2PFoundation's wiki?<br />
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The steps are here - <br />
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'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's solution to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52566Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-05T17:46:58Z<p>Openworld: </p>
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<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart ==<br />
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[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
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[[File:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg |link=http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems|800px]]<br />
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The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
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SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Note to P2PFoundation wikimaster ==<br />
<br />
Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts <br />
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'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's solution to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52558Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-05T00:00:03Z<p>Openworld: /* Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison */</p>
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<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
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[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
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[[File:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg |link=http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems|800px]]<br />
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<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
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SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Note to P2PFoundation wikimaster ==<br />
<br />
Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts <br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's solution to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52557Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:59:30Z<p>Openworld: /* Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts */ FYI - P2P Wikimaster</p>
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<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
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<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
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[[File:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg |link=http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems|600px]]<br />
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<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Note to P2PFoundation wikimaster ==<br />
<br />
Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts <br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's solution to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52556Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:57:25Z<p>Openworld: /* Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br />
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<br /><br />
[[File:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg |link=http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems|600px]]<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52555Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:36:27Z<p>Openworld: /* Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems http://MiiU.org/wiki/SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg/600px/center]<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52554Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:32:20Z<p>Openworld: /* Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<span class=”plainlinks”>[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems http://MiiU.org/wiki/SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|600px|center]</span><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52553Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:31:40Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br />
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<span class=”plainlinks”>[http://MiiU.org/wiki/SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|600px|center http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems]</span><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52552Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:30:44Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<span class=”plainlinks”>[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems http://MiiU.org/wiki/SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|600px|center]]</span><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52551Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:29:37Z<p>Openworld: /* Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<span class=”plainlinks”>[http://MiiU.org/wiki/SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|600px|center]]</span><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52550Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:18:10Z<p>Openworld: /* Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
[[file:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|600px|center]]<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52549Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:17:41Z<p>Openworld: /* Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br /><br />
[[file:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|600px|center]]<br />
<br /><br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52548Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:16:32Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared and hosted by SocialCompare.com (click on image to see). <br />
<br />
[[file:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|600px|center]]<br />
<br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare actively encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52547Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:14:18Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
[[file:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|600px|center]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared by SocialCompare.com. <br />
<br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare actively encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52546Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:12:15Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison ==<br />
<br />
[file:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg|center]<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared by SocialCompare.com. <br />
<br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare actively encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=File:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg&diff=52545File:SocialCompare-AltCurrencyComparison.jpg2011-08-04T23:09:29Z<p>Openworld: Links to source: SocialCompare.com</p>
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<div>Links to source: SocialCompare.com</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52544Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:03:12Z<p>Openworld: /* Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts */</p>
<hr />
<div>[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared by SocialCompare.com. <br />
<br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare actively encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52543Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:02:38Z<p>Openworld: /* Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts */</p>
<hr />
<div>[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared by SocialCompare.com. <br />
<br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
<br />
SocialCompare actively encourages additions and updates to the chart.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Script for Embedding SocialCompare.com Interactive Charts ==<br />
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'''working link to sample web chart:'''<br />
[http://socialcompare.com/en/w/playstation3-vs-xbox360-vs-wii# SocialCompareChart]<br />
<br />
'''Embed script and advice from SocialCompare:''' http://blog.socialcompare.com/2010/12/08/customize-the-embed-comparison-table)<br />
<br />
'''SocialCompare's suggestion to embed editable charts into MediaWiki:'''<br />
<br />
>>install a special extenstion such as: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SecureHTML<br />
(because by default mediawiki does not accept external html code for security reasons..)</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Alternative_Currencies_and_Monetary_Systems_Comparison_Chart&diff=52542Alternative Currencies and Monetary Systems Comparison Chart2011-08-04T23:01:09Z<p>Openworld: attempt to embed chart</p>
<hr />
<div>[http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/alternative-currencies-monetary-systems Alternative currencies & monetary systems comparison chart] prepared by SocialCompare.com. <br />
<br />
The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
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The editable chart, as of July, 2011, includes side by side comparisons of Bitcoin, Flattr, Ithaca Hours, LETS, Metacurrency, Open Bank Project, Payswarm, Ripple, Sol, Time/bank, Ven (Hub Culture), Wingcash, WirBank, and BernalBucks (Clearbon).<br />
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<div>'''= free currencies embody this fundamental and universal claim that any citizen, any community, any organization has the right to create tools for wealth to flow. No individuals, no community should be dependent on monopolistic and private currencies, unless they have decided so.''' [http://flowplace.webnode.com/faq-/]<br />
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This section's theme are generally the monetary aspects of P2P trends, and more specifically, aspects of monetary reform, that aim to make the monetary system into a participatory resource that more broadly benefits larger sectors of the world population.<br />
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Human and social wealth is never reducible to its translation in money, see the [[Wealth Typology]]. <br />
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Recommended experts:<br />
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* For [[Credit Commons]] oriented solutions at the local level, see [[Thomas Greco]] [http://www.vimeo.com/8044402]<br />
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* For [[Public Credit]] oriented solutions at the national level, see [[Ellen Brown]]<br />
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* For solutions relating to a global monetary commons, see [[Bernard Lietaer]]<br />
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=Introduction=<br />
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The P2P Foundation supports the direct social production of money, such as for example through [[Open Money]] and other [[P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects]] systems. This marvellous presentation by [http://www.altruists.org/f598 Robin Upton] explains how this can work.<br />
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Key distinctions: [[Currencies]] ; [[Free Currencies]] ; [[Wealth]]<br />
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For starters, read Eric Harris-Braun key argument: [[Why Monetary Design is Important]]<br />
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The following guide has all the essentials on [[Open Money]] and [[Complementary Currencies]] and is really recommended, for beginners and practitioners alike:<br />
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* [[Community Currency Guide]]. by Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith. 2006 [http://www.global-community.org/gc/newsfiles/25/Community%20Currency%20Guide.pdf]<br />
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It explains the following basics: 1) The [[Function of Money]]; 2) the [[Purpose of Money]]; [[Cost Recovery Mechanisms for Complementary Currencies]] ; [[Currency Issuing Procedures]], and much more.<br />
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* Updated '''state of the art review of [[Complementary Currency Open Source Software in 2010]].''' Matthew Slater IJCCR Special Issue, [[State of the Art of Complementary Currencies]]: D 82-87 [http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_(15)_files/16%20Slater.pdf] "This report briefly covers the field of non-commercial mutual credit software, discussing the issues and challenges the projects collectively face in meeting the needs of the movement."<br />
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'''Introductory Articles'''<br />
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#Read this excellent introduction to the negative role of interest-based money by [http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_a_new_beginning Charles Eisenstein]<br />
#Best current report on the topic: [[Creating New Money]]: A monetary reform for the information age. By Joseph Huber & James Robertson. New Economics Foundation <br />
#Arthur Brock: [[Differences between Open Source and Open Currencies]]<br />
#Kevin Carson introduces the [[Peer Money]] debates<br />
#[[Michel Bauwens on the Importance of Peer Money]]<br />
#'''Alan Rosenblith: We need [[P2P Architectures for Money]]!!'''<br />
#Jean-Francois Noubel: [[Economics of Flow vs Economics of Accumulation]]<br />
#[[Ellen Brown on the Case for a Public Credit System]]: Money today is simply credit. When the credit is advanced by a bank, when the bank is owned by the community, and when the profits return to the community, the result can be a functional, efficient, and sustainable system of finance. See also: [[Money is Not a Thing, but a Relation]]<br />
#Eric Blair: The [[Greenback vs Goldbug Debate]]<br />
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'''Goals:'''<br />
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#Better [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Policy redistribution of the existing money]<br />
#[http://p2pfoundation.net/Monetary_Reform Transformation of the monetary system] through the social production of money<br />
#Alternatives to money: [[Peer Production]] ; [[Gift Economy]] ; [[Sharing]]; and other ways to assist in a transition to a more [[Resource Based Economy]] through [[Peer to Peer Exchanges]] and [[P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects]]<br />
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==Current Hot Projects to monitor==<br />
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Key digital [[Open Money]] projects are: 1) [[Bitcoin]] ; [[Ripple]] ; 3) [[Open Coin]]; 4) [[Open-Universal Digital Currency Project]]; 5) [[Circular Multilateral Barter]]<br />
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See also:<br />
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#[[Banco Palmas]], in Brazil, emits a local currency and supports the local economy. Video: The [[Story of Banco Palmas in Brazil]]<br />
#The [[Common Good Bank]] initiative [http://commongoodbank.com/]<br />
#The [[Metacurrency Project]]: the tci/ip platform for diverse currency creation: '''see the [[Flowspace]] project''' as first attempt to establish sucn an infrastructure for [[Free Currencies]]<br />
#[https://trac.opencoin.org/trac/opencoin/browser/trunk/standards/ Open Coin]: an actual published open specification for creating distributed digital currency<br />
#The creation of the [[Open Source Hardware Reserve Bank]]. Details [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-economics-of-open-source-hardware-need-a-oshw-bank/2009/03/14 here]<br />
#[https://www.multiswap.net/about/ Multiswap.net]: A free platform for circular barter exchange<br />
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Longstanding historical experiments:<br />
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#[[WIR Economic Circle Cooperative]]: this 70-old Swiss mutual credit clearing system is getting traction as a model for the rest of Europe<br />
#The historical experience of the [[Worgl Shillings]]<br />
#The Swedish interest-free [[JAK Bank]] [http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/carrie2.htm] [http://files.uniteddiversity.com/Money_and_Economics/A_practical_look_at_interest-free_banking.pdf]<br />
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Comparison chart of alternative currencies<br />
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#[[SocialCompare]] - overview chart of key characteristics of alternative currencies (editable)<br />
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'''Tools:'''<br />
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Tools to create [[People-Produced Money]]:<br />
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#[http://www.communityforge.net/FAQ Community Forge]<br />
#[http://www.ces.org.za/ Community Exchange System]<br />
#[http://project.cyclos.org/ Cyclos]<br />
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Under development: <br />
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#[[Open-Universal Digital Currency Project]]: Open-UDC is based on TRM (Théorie Relative de la Monnaie,by Stéphane Laborde) and Universal Digital Currency project (UDC project), which aims to create a new digital currency based on individual members and the digital world. [http://www.open-udc.org] <br />
#[http://demo.opensourcecurrency.org/ OSCurrency], <br />
#[http://sourceforge.net/projects/cclite Cclite], [ GETS] (commercial), <br />
#[[Ripple]] <br />
#[[Regenerosity]], [http://sourceforge.net/projects/local-exchange/ Local Exchange]<br />
#[http://www.money20.org/ Money 2.0]<br />
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Also:<br />
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#Comparison page at http://www.communityforge.net/compare<br />
#Software overview page: http://www.complementarycurrency.org/software.html<br />
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=Our P2P Open Money Network=<br />
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{{Person<br />
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|name1=[[Noubel,_Jean-Francois|Jean-Francois Noubel]]<br />
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Twitter: @jfnoubel and @thetransitioner<br />
Blog: http://www.noubel.com<br />
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|image2=[[Image:ThomasGreco.jpg|100px]]<br />
|name2=[[Greco,_Thomas| Thomas Greco]]<br />
|contact2=thg at mindspring.com<br />
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|image3=[[Image:FernandaIbarra.jpg|80px]]<br />
|name3=[[Ibarra,_Fernanda|Fernanda Ibarra ]]<br />
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Twitter: @fer_ananda and @thetransitioner<br />
Profile at: http://people.thetransitioner.org/profile/FernandaIbarra<br />
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|name4=[[Linton,_Michael| Michael Linton]]<br />
|contact4=michael dot linton@gmail.com<br />
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|name5=[[Pleger,_Georg|Georg Pleger]]<br />
|contact5=georg at pleger dot at<br />
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Check out profiles of [[Open Money]] experts such as [[Alan Rosenblith]] ; [[Arthur Brock]] [http://www.newcurrencyfrontiers.com] ; [[Edgar Cahn]] [http://www.timebanks.org/founder.htm]; [[Eric Harris-Braun]] [http://eric.harris-braun.com]; [[Thomas Greco]] ; [[Jean-François Noubel [http://noubel.com/]<br />
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=The open money software playing field: an overview=<br />
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* '''Source:''' [http://matslats.net/ijccr-software-review The state of CC software, for IJCCR] by Matthew Slater (Retrieved on 04/04/11)<br />
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Before getting to the issues, here is a synopsis of each of the main projects, in order of age. These projects are selected on the basis that they are open source, have multiple implementations, and support community exchange using an arbitrary measure of value.<br />
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==== Cyclos ====<br />
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| Java<br />
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Cyclos is the software implementation arm of the Social Trade Organisation. It is an open source, java, comprehensive accounting package used in increasingly large projects around the world. The German Tauschring network picked up Cyclos and now use it routinely, contributing back code. Many other 'one-off' projects also use it as a back end accounting package.<br />
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==== Comunity Exchange System (CES) ====<br />
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| MS asp<br />
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| 200 in one<br />
| Yes<br />
| www.ces.org.za<br />
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Arising from a grass-roots movement in Cape town, CES is a free web service that hosts 200 'Exchanges', each with its own currency and separate database. Some exchanges charge membership fees in the national currency, some in the currency of the exchange and some use the optional transactional levy feature. Trade is possible between exchanges.<br />
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==== ccLite ====<br />
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| PERL<br />
| 1<br />
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| www.hughbarnard.org<br />
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Cclite is a Perl package for local exchange trading systems (LETS), banking and other alternative money systems. Multi-registry, multi-currency, web services based transactions and templated to give multi-lingual capabilities.<br />
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==== Fourth Corner ====<br />
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| <1<br />
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| www.fourthcornerexchange.com<br />
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Fourth Corner Exchange is a small family of LETS like groups. Their php/MySQL application was written for multiple implementations of that specific model. LETSlink UK has forked the software and done several implementations.<br />
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==== Drupal & Community Forge ====<br />
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| ''' Full time developers'''<br />
| ''' Implementations'''<br />
| ''' Plug 'n' Play?'''<br />
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| Drupal<br />
| 1 + 1,000<br />
| 35<br />
| No / Yes<br />
| drupal.org/project/mutual_credit<br />www.communityforge.net<br />
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A Drupal module for web developers to implement a complementary currency with total flexibilty over usability, design, wireframing etc. Community Forge is a non-profit hosting Drupal implementations tailored for LETS.<br />
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==== oscurrency ====<br />
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| Inoshi<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| No<br />
| www.opensourcecurrency.org<br />
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Developed by members of the Austin Time Exchange, this project is now under development for the Bay Area Community Exchange. While the platform, Insoshi is not well known, much attention has been given to openness, so that the system plugs in easily to the rest of the web.<br />
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Also worthy of mention is Time Banks whose membership includes a special license to use the proprietary 'Community Weaver' software.<br />
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==== Circular Multilateral Barter ====<br />
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| Python<br />
| 1<br />
| <br />
| No<br />
| sourceforge.net/projects/cmb<br />www.multiswap.net<br />
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"Circular Multilateral Barter" (CMB) is aimed at supplying local enterprenours with a way to exchange goods within a p2p-network, without using money or any other currency, overcoming the "double coincidence of wants" problem, inherent to traditional barter.<br />
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One thing that distinguishes CMB from other credit commons is that all debts in CMB are person-to-person debts. There is no central political/administrative unit to decide who deserves to be trusted and who does not. Because of this, CMB should be able to scale-up very well, so that local communities can be seamlessly aggregated into larger ones.<br />
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=Citations=<br />
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'''To survive and thrive, human systems *need* a not just a network view, but a multi-dimensional, multi-scaled view and definition of systems. this will help us see how many, many people can operate and multiply many forms of wealth within systems that previously seemed easily depletable. Peer networks are vital to creating the multi-dimensional maps and models and views that will allow all of us to see the cornucopia of options that now exist, provided we can shift out focus from exploitation and control, to existential symbiosis with everything that is around us, on as many scales as possible.'''<br />
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- Sam Rose<br />
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I think its important to distinguish "currency" from a reputation<br />
measurement. Implicit in the term currency is the idea that it can be<br />
exchanged for something.A system for "recognition" is only a currency if<br />
that recognition is exchangable for something.<br />
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- Tom Salfied<br />
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==On Open Money==<br />
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'''You treasure what you measure, and you measure what you treasure. Open money provides the tools to implement this maxim. What should we be treasuring in our culture and on our planet that we so far have no way to measure?'''<br />
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- Open Money [http://openmoney.info/sophia/index.html]<br />
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'''Money is making a fundamental evolutionary step into community currencies. Conventional money as we know it has a built in architecture that leads to scarcity, centralization, concentration, secrecy, proprietarization. This conventional monetary system is not appropriate to dealing with today's global systemic challenges (harmonizing local and global needs, creating ecological sustainability, enabling the information economy, leveraging the open source paradigm, etc). Just as there are now millions of media outlets today, currencies will follow this same evolution by shifting from centralized authoritative models to distributed ones that allow better sustainability, distribution, transparency, and regulation mechanisms.''' <br />
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- Open Money [http://openmoney.ning.com/]<br />
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'''How to best transcend the current economic mess? Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a new, massively-distributed financial system, founded on sound, open, peer-to-peer principles, from the start. And don’t call it a bank. Launch a new financial medium that is as open, scale-free, universally accessible, self-improving, and non-proprietary as the Internet, and leave the 13th century behind.”'''<br />
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- George Dyson [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/rushkoff09/rushkoff09_index.html]<br />
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==Depression Economics==<br />
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"During periods of so-called economic depression, societies suffer for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably discloses that there are plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What is missing is not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called ‘money.’<br />
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- Tom Robbins [http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2008/11/118/]<br />
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==Leakages from the local economy==<br />
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"Poor liquidity and '''leakage (money flowing from the local economy) are key causes for floundering and/or disappearing regional economies.''' To overcome these shortfalls local communities should be increasing local liquidity and plugging the leakage through the introduction of complementary community currencies thereby re-building their respective local communities in the coal mining area of Wales. When local residents within their respective communities changed the agreements they had about conventional money, by creating and spending complementary community currencies locally instead of spending only diminishing amounts of federal currency with giant corporations, it commenced re-birth in the local communities. Molly used the term local multiplier when she discussed how local liquidity increased proportionately to the amount of complementary community currency being circulated by those who were choosing to participate."<br />
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- (from a summary of) Molly Scott reporting on complementary currencies in Wales [http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/11/22/usuryfree_community_currencies.htm]<br />
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==Aristotle on unnatural wealth==<br />
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"There are two sorts of wealth-getting, as I have said; one is a part of household management, the other is retail trade: the former necessary and honorable, while that which consists in exchange is justly censured; for it is unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another. The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural." <br />
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- Aristotle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics]<br />
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=Introductory Material=<br />
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#[[Money is not the Only Value Measurement System]] . By Geoff Chesshire .<br />
#[[Why Peer to Peer Currencies will Grow]]<br />
#Bernard Lietaer: The [[Four-tiered Monetary System of the Future]]<br />
# In his landmark essay, [[Valuing the Ethical Economy]], Adam Arvidsson explains why we need [[Wealth Acknowledgment Systems]] for the [[Ethical Circuit of Value]]<br />
#Must reading: Charles Eisenstein on [http://realitysandwich.com/money_a_new_beginning_part_2 Why Demurrage needs to replace interest] (see the entry on [[Demurrage]]). Also: [http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_and_crisis_civilization Money and the Crisis of Civilization] on why the current crisis is also an endgame.<br />
#The [http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/sustain.html case for open money]. See also: [http://openmoney.org/top/omanifesto.html Open Money Manifesto]]<br />
#Ran Prieur: [[Fire vs. Water Economies]], and the role of [[Demurrage]] in this tradition.<br />
#Essential theoretical and historical introduction to the long term history of money and debt, as rooted in social violence, by David Graeber at http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years<br />
#Eric Harris-Braun on the necessary [[Difference between Multi-currency Platforms and Market Making Platforms]]<br />
#Thomas Greco: [[Why Exchange Alternatives Fail to Thrive]]<br />
#Robin Wood: [[Shifts in Value Exchange and Human Development]]: applying the spiral dynamics model to value exchange<br />
#The three modalities of [[Production Sharing]], i.e. working together for a common pool, without individual exchange or barter: 1) [[Labor Quota System]]; 2) [[Fair-Share Labor System]]; 3) [[Anti-Quota Labor System]]<br />
#[[Why Matrifocal Societies Use Dual Currencies]]. Bernard Lietaer. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/34659324/The-Monetary-Blind-Spot-by-Bernard-Lietaer]<br />
#Steve Keen on [[Why We Need to Tackle Debt Pushing, not Money Creation]]<br />
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Also:<br />
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#[[Rationale for Monetary Reform]] by Greg Martin.<br />
#[[Monetary Transformation, not Monetary Reform, is What is Needed]]. By Thomas Greco.<br />
#[[Why the Growth Imperative is Linked to our Monetary Format]]<br />
#[[Declaration Of The Universal Right Of Monetary Creation]] and the [[Open Money Manifesto]]<br />
#[http://peterkoenig.typepad.com/ Peter Koenig's] summaries on the [http://www.p2pfoundation.net/History_of_Money History] and [http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Projections_on_the_Future_of_Money Future] of money<br />
#[http://www.mindjack.com/feature/futuremoney.html The Future of Money] by Paul B. Hartzog<br />
#[http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/tucker18.html Capital, Profits, and Interest]. Benjamin Tucker.<br />
#Chris Cook: a proposal for [[Open Capital]]<br />
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How-to:<br />
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#[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14832930/Process-of-Designing-a-Complementary-Currency-System Process of Designing a Complementary Currency System]. How-to recommendations by Stephen DeMeulenaere.<br />
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=Discussions=<br />
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Via: http://groups.google.com/group/metacurrency<br />
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=Key Resources=<br />
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Funding for [[Open Money]] and [[Complementary Currencies]] infrastructures via: '''the [[Fund for Complementary Currencies]]'''<br />
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#The Re-Inventing Money site, at http://reinventingmoney.com/<br />
#The Book: "Money; A Mirror Image Of The Economy" by Dr. J.W. Smith - full text at http://IED.info/books/money ''Applying [[Georgism|Henry George]]’s philosophy across the economic spectrum transposes monopoly rent values into equally-shared use-values. Quality of life increases as working hours drop by half.''<br />
#The consultancy: [http://www.valueforpeople.co.uk/ Value for People], helps local communities initiate complementary currencies<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key Blogs==<br />
<br />
Of key importance is the work by Eric Harris-Braun and friends on meta-currency platforms, see [http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/ here]<br />
<br />
Also:<br />
<br />
#[http://newcurrencyfrontiers.blogspot.com/ New Currency Frontiers]: very thoughtful new money blog with Eric Harris-Braun and others working on the [[Metacurrency Project]]<br />
#[http://beyondmoney.net Beyond Money]: Thomas Greco's blog on monetary transformation and mutual credit<br />
#[http://evolutionofmoney.typepad.com/ Evolution of Money]<br />
#[http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/ Open Source Currency]<br />
#Coverage of social money trends in [http://lebleu.org/blog/ Guillaume's blog]<br />
#[http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/ Trust is the only currency]: excellent analysis<br />
<br />
==Key Books==<br />
<br />
The trilogy by Bernard Lietaer:<br />
<br />
#Bernard Lietaer, The Mystery of Money (Munich: Riemann Verlag, 2000).<br />
#Bernard Lietaer, The [[Future of Money]] (London: Random House, 2001). Full text [http://www.lietaer.com/books/futureofmoney.html]<br />
#Bernard Lietaer & Stephen M. Belgin, Of Human Wealth: Beyond Greed and Scarcity, Galley Edition Version 2.1. (Boulder, Colorado: Human Wealth Books and Talks, 2004.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From other authors:<br />
<br />
<br />
#Thomas Greco. The [[End of Money and the Future of Civilization]]. Chelsea Green, 2009<br />
#[[Money and Liberation]]. The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements. Peter North. University of Minnesota Press, 2008<br />
#[[Interest and Inflation Free Money]]. Margrit Kennedy.<br />
#Peter North: [[Money and Liberation]]: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements. [http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/north_money.html]<br />
#Creating New Money: A [[Monetary Reform for the Information Age]], by Joseph Huber and James Robertson. New Economics Foundation (2001) [http://reinventingmoney.com/documents/huber.html] <br />
#The [http://www.feasta.org/documents/moneyecology/contents.htm Ecology of Money]. By Richard Douthwait<br />
<br />
<br />
Guidebooks:<br />
<br />
#[[Community Currency Guide]]. Workbook by Bernard Lietaer<br />
<br />
<br />
Also:<br />
<br />
#[[Money and Magic]]<br />
#[[Money in an Unequal World]]<br />
#[[Monetary Theory]]<br />
#[[30 Lies about Money]]<br />
<br />
==Key Concept Pages to read==<br />
<br />
#[[Abundance vs. Scarcity]] and [[Monetary Scarcity]] vs. [[Monetary Sufficiency - Non-scarcity based monetary systems]]<br />
#[[Monetary Reform]], [[Demurrage]] and [[Seigneurage]], the [[Credit Commons]]<br />
#Four conditions for [[Open Money]]: [[Open Data Currencies]] ; [[Open Identity Currencies]] ; [[Open Rules Currencies]] ; [[Open Transport Currencies]]<br />
#[[Wealth Typology]],Because we need [[Wealth Acknowledgment Systems]] for the [[Ethical Circuit of Value]]<br />
<br />
==Key Delicious Tags==<br />
<br />
#Abundance, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Abundance<br />
#Complementary Currencies, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Complementary-Currencies<br />
#Monetary Reform, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Monetary-Reform<br />
#Open Money, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Open-Money<br />
#P2P Money, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Money<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key Directories==<br />
<br />
#[[Online Database of Complementary Currencies Worldwide]]<br />
#[[Global Resource Exchange Groups]] and [[Localized Exchange Communities]]<br />
#[[Peer to Peer Exchanges]] and [[P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects]]<br />
#[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Electronic_currencies Electronic currencies in the Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Key Documentaries==<br />
<br />
#The [[Money Fix]]: video by Alan Rosenblith shown at PBS stations in the U.S. in 2009/2010 [http://www.themoneyfix.org/content/video-money-fix]<br />
#[[Money as Debt]]<br />
#The [[Wealth of Neighbors]]<br />
#[[The Money Masters]]<br />
#[[In Debt We Trust]], remarkable documentary about personal aspects of debt crisis<br />
<br />
==Key Essays==<br />
<br />
#[[Peer to Peer Lending]], June 2007 overview report by Brad Slavin.<br />
#Raoul Victor: [[Money and Peer Production]], a marxist perspective<br />
<br />
<br />
===Bernard Lietaer===<br />
<br />
* [http://www.unisys.com/financial/insights/insights__compendium/WPaper_BLietaerbergdahl.pdf The Future of Payment Systems]. By Bernard Lietaer.<br />
<br />
Two key essays/proposals by Bernard Lietaer et al:<br />
<br />
#[[Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability]]? Evidence and Remedies from Nature. By Bernard Lietaer, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Sally J. Goerner, and Nadia McLaren. Accepted for publication in Journal of Futures Studies Special Issue on the Financial Crisis (February-March 2010)<br />
#[[Options for Managing a Systemic Bank Crisis]]. Bernard Lietaer, Dr. Robert Ulanowicz, and Dr. Sally Goerner. Sapiens-journal Volume 2, number 1, March 2009 <br />
<br />
"The sustainability of any complex flow system can be measured with a single metric as an emergent property of its structural diversity and interconnectivity; it requires a balance in emphasis between efficiency and resilience. The urgent message for economics from nature is that the monoculture of national currencies, justified on the basis of market efficiency, generates structural instability in our global financial system. Economic sustainability therefore requires diversification in types of currencies, specifically through complementary currencies." <br />
<br />
<br />
===Thomas Greco===<br />
<br />
#'''Thomas Greco: [[Why Exchange Alternatives Fail to Thrive]]: The State of the Alternative Exchange Movement''', Excerpt from The [[End of Money and the Future of Civilization]], Chapter 13,<br />
#Thomas Greco: [[Towards A Complete Web-Based Trading Platform]] Excerpt, End of Money, Chapter 17,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key People==<br />
<br />
#[[Alan Rosenblith]] ; <br />
#[[Arthur Brock]] [http://www.artbrock.com/] [http://www.newcurrencyfrontiers.com] ; <br />
#[[Edgar Cahn]] [http://www.timebanks.org/founder.htm]; <br />
#[[Eric Harris-Braun]] [http://eric.harris-braun.com]; <br />
#[[Thomas Greco]] ; <br />
#[[Fernanda Ibarra]]<br />
#[[Margrit Kennedy]]<br />
#[[Bernard Lietaer]]<br />
#[[Michael Linton]]<br />
#[[Jean-François Noubel]] [http://noubel.com/]<br />
#[[Elf Pavlik]]<br />
#[[Jay Standish]]<br />
<br />
==Key Podcasts==<br />
<br />
#The [[Open Money Blogtalk Radio]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key Webcasts==<br />
<br />
Documentaries:<br />
<br />
#[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxo_XPdpI_s Money as Debt II]: great explanation<br />
#[[Introductory Animation to Complementary Currencies]]<br />
<br />
Also:<br />
<br />
#[[Alan Rosenblith on Open Money]] ; [[Alan Rosenblith on Open Money Protocols and Agreements]]<br />
#[[Chris Cook on Peak Credit and Open Capital]]: excellent video presentation<br />
#[[Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun's Introduction to The MetaCurrency Project]] ; [[Arthur Brock on Open Data Currencies]]<br />
#[[Bernard Lietaer Interviewed on a New World Currency]] ; [[Bernard Lietaer on Complementary Currencies for Social Change]] ; [[Bernard Lietaer on Currencies for Cooperation]] ; [[Bernard Lietaer on Human Wealth]]<br />
#[[Christian Nold on the Bijlmer Euro]]<br />
#[[David Karsbol on Virtual Finance]]<br />
#[[David Korten on Monetary Reform]]<br />
#[[Douglas Rushkoff on Medieval Money]]<br />
#[[Ellen Brown on the Web of Debt]]<br />
#[[Giles Andrews on the Evolution of the Zopa Social Lending Project]]<br />
#[[James Robertson on Monetary Reform for the Mainstream Economy]]<br />
#[[Jean-François Noubel on Free Currencies]]<br />
#[[Mohammad Yunus on Microfinance]]<br />
#[[Peter Koenig on What is Money]]<br />
#[[Philippe Van Parijs on the Basic Income]]<br />
#[[Richard Douthwaite on Debt-based Money]]<br />
#[[Sarah Hearn on the Berkshare Local Currency Program]]<br />
#[[Thomas Greco on Monetary Transformation]] ; [[Thomas Greco on the End of Money]] ; [[Thomas Greco on the Importance of Mutual Credit Clearing]] ; [[Thomas Greco on the State of the Monetary Reform Movement]]<br />
<br />
See also: <br />
<br />
* Extensive collection of [http://www.complementarycurrency.org/ccvideo.html Videos on complementary currencies]. More videos on the [http://www.youtube.com/networkeconomy Network Economy YouTube channel]<br />
<br />
=Deutschsprachige Ressourcen - German Ressources=<br />
<br />
# [[Neues Geld]]<br />
[[Category:Peereconomy]]<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructures]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Category:Money&diff=52539Category:Money2011-08-04T22:50:49Z<p>Openworld: /* Current Hot Projects to monitor */</p>
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<div>'''= free currencies embody this fundamental and universal claim that any citizen, any community, any organization has the right to create tools for wealth to flow. No individuals, no community should be dependent on monopolistic and private currencies, unless they have decided so.''' [http://flowplace.webnode.com/faq-/]<br />
<br />
This section's theme are generally the monetary aspects of P2P trends, and more specifically, aspects of monetary reform, that aim to make the monetary system into a participatory resource that more broadly benefits larger sectors of the world population.<br />
<br />
Human and social wealth is never reducible to its translation in money, see the [[Wealth Typology]]. <br />
<br />
Recommended experts:<br />
<br />
* For [[Credit Commons]] oriented solutions at the local level, see [[Thomas Greco]] [http://www.vimeo.com/8044402]<br />
<br />
* For [[Public Credit]] oriented solutions at the national level, see [[Ellen Brown]]<br />
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* For solutions relating to a global monetary commons, see [[Bernard Lietaer]]<br />
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<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
The P2P Foundation supports the direct social production of money, such as for example through [[Open Money]] and other [[P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects]] systems. This marvellous presentation by [http://www.altruists.org/f598 Robin Upton] explains how this can work.<br />
<br />
Key distinctions: [[Currencies]] ; [[Free Currencies]] ; [[Wealth]]<br />
<br />
For starters, read Eric Harris-Braun key argument: [[Why Monetary Design is Important]]<br />
<br />
The following guide has all the essentials on [[Open Money]] and [[Complementary Currencies]] and is really recommended, for beginners and practitioners alike:<br />
<br />
* [[Community Currency Guide]]. by Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith. 2006 [http://www.global-community.org/gc/newsfiles/25/Community%20Currency%20Guide.pdf]<br />
<br />
It explains the following basics: 1) The [[Function of Money]]; 2) the [[Purpose of Money]]; [[Cost Recovery Mechanisms for Complementary Currencies]] ; [[Currency Issuing Procedures]], and much more.<br />
<br />
* Updated '''state of the art review of [[Complementary Currency Open Source Software in 2010]].''' Matthew Slater IJCCR Special Issue, [[State of the Art of Complementary Currencies]]: D 82-87 [http://www.ijccr.net/IJCCR/2011_(15)_files/16%20Slater.pdf] "This report briefly covers the field of non-commercial mutual credit software, discussing the issues and challenges the projects collectively face in meeting the needs of the movement."<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Introductory Articles'''<br />
<br />
#Read this excellent introduction to the negative role of interest-based money by [http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_a_new_beginning Charles Eisenstein]<br />
#Best current report on the topic: [[Creating New Money]]: A monetary reform for the information age. By Joseph Huber & James Robertson. New Economics Foundation <br />
#Arthur Brock: [[Differences between Open Source and Open Currencies]]<br />
#Kevin Carson introduces the [[Peer Money]] debates<br />
#[[Michel Bauwens on the Importance of Peer Money]]<br />
#'''Alan Rosenblith: We need [[P2P Architectures for Money]]!!'''<br />
#Jean-Francois Noubel: [[Economics of Flow vs Economics of Accumulation]]<br />
#[[Ellen Brown on the Case for a Public Credit System]]: Money today is simply credit. When the credit is advanced by a bank, when the bank is owned by the community, and when the profits return to the community, the result can be a functional, efficient, and sustainable system of finance. See also: [[Money is Not a Thing, but a Relation]]<br />
#Eric Blair: The [[Greenback vs Goldbug Debate]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Goals:'''<br />
<br />
#Better [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Policy redistribution of the existing money]<br />
#[http://p2pfoundation.net/Monetary_Reform Transformation of the monetary system] through the social production of money<br />
#Alternatives to money: [[Peer Production]] ; [[Gift Economy]] ; [[Sharing]]; and other ways to assist in a transition to a more [[Resource Based Economy]] through [[Peer to Peer Exchanges]] and [[P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects]]<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
==Current Hot Projects to monitor==<br />
<br />
Key digital [[Open Money]] projects are: 1) [[Bitcoin]] ; [[Ripple]] ; 3) [[Open Coin]]; 4) [[Open-Universal Digital Currency Project]]; 5) [[Circular Multilateral Barter]]<br />
<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
<br />
#[[Banco Palmas]], in Brazil, emits a local currency and supports the local economy. Video: The [[Story of Banco Palmas in Brazil]]<br />
#The [[Common Good Bank]] initiative [http://commongoodbank.com/]<br />
#The [[Metacurrency Project]]: the tci/ip platform for diverse currency creation: '''see the [[Flowspace]] project''' as first attempt to establish sucn an infrastructure for [[Free Currencies]]<br />
#[https://trac.opencoin.org/trac/opencoin/browser/trunk/standards/ Open Coin]: an actual published open specification for creating distributed digital currency<br />
#The creation of the [[Open Source Hardware Reserve Bank]]. Details [http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-economics-of-open-source-hardware-need-a-oshw-bank/2009/03/14 here]<br />
#[https://www.multiswap.net/about/ Multiswap.net]: A free platform for circular barter exchange<br />
<br />
Longstanding historical experiments:<br />
<br />
#[[WIR Economic Circle Cooperative]]: this 70-old Swiss mutual credit clearing system is getting traction as a model for the rest of Europe<br />
#The historical experience of the [[Worgl Shillings]]<br />
#The Swedish interest-free [[JAK Bank]] [http://www.feasta.org/documents/review2/carrie2.htm] [http://files.uniteddiversity.com/Money_and_Economics/A_practical_look_at_interest-free_banking.pdf]<br />
<br />
Comparison chart of alternative currencies<br />
<br />
[[SocialCompare]] - overview chart of key characteristics of alternative currencies (editable)<br />
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<br />
'''Tools:'''<br />
<br />
Tools to create [[People-Produced Money]]:<br />
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#[http://www.communityforge.net/FAQ Community Forge]<br />
#[http://www.ces.org.za/ Community Exchange System]<br />
#[http://project.cyclos.org/ Cyclos]<br />
<br />
<br />
Under development: <br />
<br />
#[[Open-Universal Digital Currency Project]]: Open-UDC is based on TRM (Théorie Relative de la Monnaie,by Stéphane Laborde) and Universal Digital Currency project (UDC project), which aims to create a new digital currency based on individual members and the digital world. [http://www.open-udc.org] <br />
#[http://demo.opensourcecurrency.org/ OSCurrency], <br />
#[http://sourceforge.net/projects/cclite Cclite], [ GETS] (commercial), <br />
#[[Ripple]] <br />
#[[Regenerosity]], [http://sourceforge.net/projects/local-exchange/ Local Exchange]<br />
#[http://www.money20.org/ Money 2.0]<br />
<br />
<br />
Also:<br />
<br />
#Comparison page at http://www.communityforge.net/compare<br />
#Software overview page: http://www.complementarycurrency.org/software.html<br />
<br />
=Our P2P Open Money Network=<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Person<br />
<br />
|image1=[[Image:Jean-Francois.jpg|170px]]<br />
|name1=[[Noubel,_Jean-Francois|Jean-Francois Noubel]]<br />
|contact1=<br />
Twitter: @jfnoubel and @thetransitioner<br />
Blog: http://www.noubel.com<br />
<br />
|image2=[[Image:ThomasGreco.jpg|100px]]<br />
|name2=[[Greco,_Thomas| Thomas Greco]]<br />
|contact2=thg at mindspring.com<br />
<br />
|image3=[[Image:FernandaIbarra.jpg|80px]]<br />
|name3=[[Ibarra,_Fernanda|Fernanda Ibarra ]]<br />
|contact3=<br />
Twitter: @fer_ananda and @thetransitioner<br />
Profile at: http://people.thetransitioner.org/profile/FernandaIbarra<br />
<br />
|image4=[[Image:michaellinton.jpg|120px]]<br />
|name4=[[Linton,_Michael| Michael Linton]]<br />
|contact4=michael dot linton@gmail.com<br />
<br />
|image5=[[Image:Georg Pleger.jpg|100px]]<br />
|name5=[[Pleger,_Georg|Georg Pleger]]<br />
|contact5=georg at pleger dot at<br />
<br />
<br />
Check out profiles of [[Open Money]] experts such as [[Alan Rosenblith]] ; [[Arthur Brock]] [http://www.newcurrencyfrontiers.com] ; [[Edgar Cahn]] [http://www.timebanks.org/founder.htm]; [[Eric Harris-Braun]] [http://eric.harris-braun.com]; [[Thomas Greco]] ; [[Jean-François Noubel [http://noubel.com/]<br />
<br />
<br />
}}<br />
<br />
=The open money software playing field: an overview=<br />
<br />
* '''Source:''' [http://matslats.net/ijccr-software-review The state of CC software, for IJCCR] by Matthew Slater (Retrieved on 04/04/11)<br />
<br />
Before getting to the issues, here is a synopsis of each of the main projects, in order of age. These projects are selected on the basis that they are open source, have multiple implementations, and support community exchange using an arbitrary measure of value.<br />
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==== Cyclos ====<br />
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{| width="100%"<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| '''Language/ platorm'''<br />
| '''Full time developers'''<br />
| '''Implementations'''<br />
| '''Plug 'n' Play?'''<br />
| '''Url'''<br />
|-<br />
| Java<br />
| 4<br />
| Many<br />
| No<br />
| www.cyclos.org<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Cyclos is the software implementation arm of the Social Trade Organisation. It is an open source, java, comprehensive accounting package used in increasingly large projects around the world. The German Tauschring network picked up Cyclos and now use it routinely, contributing back code. Many other 'one-off' projects also use it as a back end accounting package.<br />
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<br />
==== Comunity Exchange System (CES) ====<br />
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{| width="100%"<br />
| ''' Language/ platorm'''<br />
| '''! Full time developers'''<br />
| ''' Implementations'''<br />
| ''' Plug 'n' Play?'''<br />
| ''' Url'''<br />
|-<br />
| MS asp<br />
| 1<br />
| 200 in one<br />
| Yes<br />
| www.ces.org.za<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Arising from a grass-roots movement in Cape town, CES is a free web service that hosts 200 'Exchanges', each with its own currency and separate database. Some exchanges charge membership fees in the national currency, some in the currency of the exchange and some use the optional transactional levy feature. Trade is possible between exchanges.<br />
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<br />
==== ccLite ====<br />
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{| width="100%"<br />
| ''' Language/ platorm'''<br />
| ''' Full time developers'''<br />
| ''' Implementations'''<br />
| ''' Plug 'n' Play?'''<br />
| ''' Url'''<br />
|-<br />
| PERL<br />
| 1<br />
|<br />
| No<br />
| www.hughbarnard.org<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Cclite is a Perl package for local exchange trading systems (LETS), banking and other alternative money systems. Multi-registry, multi-currency, web services based transactions and templated to give multi-lingual capabilities.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Fourth Corner ====<br />
<br />
{| width="100%"<br />
| ''' Language/ platorm'''<br />
| ''' Full time developers'''<br />
| ''' Implementations'''<br />
| ''' Plug 'n' Play?'''<br />
| ''' Url'''<br />
|-<br />
| Php<br />
| <1<br />
|<br />
| More or less<br />
| www.fourthcornerexchange.com<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Fourth Corner Exchange is a small family of LETS like groups. Their php/MySQL application was written for multiple implementations of that specific model. LETSlink UK has forked the software and done several implementations.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Drupal & Community Forge ====<br />
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{| width="100%"<br />
| ''' Language/ platorm'''<br />
| ''' Full time developers'''<br />
| ''' Implementations'''<br />
| ''' Plug 'n' Play?'''<br />
| ''' Url'''<br />
|-<br />
| Drupal<br />
| 1 + 1,000<br />
| 35<br />
| No / Yes<br />
| drupal.org/project/mutual_credit<br />www.communityforge.net<br />
|}<br />
<br />
A Drupal module for web developers to implement a complementary currency with total flexibilty over usability, design, wireframing etc. Community Forge is a non-profit hosting Drupal implementations tailored for LETS.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== oscurrency ====<br />
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{| width="100%"<br />
| ''' Language/ platorm'''<br />
| ''' Full time developers'''<br />
| ''' Implementations'''<br />
| ''' Plug 'n' Play?'''<br />
| ''' Url'''<br />
|-<br />
| Inoshi<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| No<br />
| www.opensourcecurrency.org<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Developed by members of the Austin Time Exchange, this project is now under development for the Bay Area Community Exchange. While the platform, Insoshi is not well known, much attention has been given to openness, so that the system plugs in easily to the rest of the web.<br />
<br />
Also worthy of mention is Time Banks whose membership includes a special license to use the proprietary 'Community Weaver' software.<br />
<br />
<br />
==== Circular Multilateral Barter ====<br />
<br />
{| width="100%"<br />
| ''' Language/ platorm'''<br />
| ''' Full time developers'''<br />
| ''' Implementations'''<br />
| ''' Plug 'n' Play?'''<br />
| ''' Url'''<br />
|-<br />
| Python<br />
| 1<br />
| <br />
| No<br />
| sourceforge.net/projects/cmb<br />www.multiswap.net<br />
|}<br />
<br />
"Circular Multilateral Barter" (CMB) is aimed at supplying local enterprenours with a way to exchange goods within a p2p-network, without using money or any other currency, overcoming the "double coincidence of wants" problem, inherent to traditional barter.<br />
<br />
One thing that distinguishes CMB from other credit commons is that all debts in CMB are person-to-person debts. There is no central political/administrative unit to decide who deserves to be trusted and who does not. Because of this, CMB should be able to scale-up very well, so that local communities can be seamlessly aggregated into larger ones.<br />
<br />
=Citations=<br />
<br />
'''To survive and thrive, human systems *need* a not just a network view, but a multi-dimensional, multi-scaled view and definition of systems. this will help us see how many, many people can operate and multiply many forms of wealth within systems that previously seemed easily depletable. Peer networks are vital to creating the multi-dimensional maps and models and views that will allow all of us to see the cornucopia of options that now exist, provided we can shift out focus from exploitation and control, to existential symbiosis with everything that is around us, on as many scales as possible.'''<br />
<br />
- Sam Rose<br />
<br />
I think its important to distinguish "currency" from a reputation<br />
measurement. Implicit in the term currency is the idea that it can be<br />
exchanged for something.A system for "recognition" is only a currency if<br />
that recognition is exchangable for something.<br />
<br />
- Tom Salfied<br />
<br />
<br />
==On Open Money==<br />
<br />
'''You treasure what you measure, and you measure what you treasure. Open money provides the tools to implement this maxim. What should we be treasuring in our culture and on our planet that we so far have no way to measure?'''<br />
<br />
- Open Money [http://openmoney.info/sophia/index.html]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Money is making a fundamental evolutionary step into community currencies. Conventional money as we know it has a built in architecture that leads to scarcity, centralization, concentration, secrecy, proprietarization. This conventional monetary system is not appropriate to dealing with today's global systemic challenges (harmonizing local and global needs, creating ecological sustainability, enabling the information economy, leveraging the open source paradigm, etc). Just as there are now millions of media outlets today, currencies will follow this same evolution by shifting from centralized authoritative models to distributed ones that allow better sustainability, distribution, transparency, and regulation mechanisms.''' <br />
<br />
- Open Money [http://openmoney.ning.com/]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''How to best transcend the current economic mess? Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a new, massively-distributed financial system, founded on sound, open, peer-to-peer principles, from the start. And don’t call it a bank. Launch a new financial medium that is as open, scale-free, universally accessible, self-improving, and non-proprietary as the Internet, and leave the 13th century behind.”'''<br />
<br />
- George Dyson [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/rushkoff09/rushkoff09_index.html]<br />
<br />
==Depression Economics==<br />
<br />
"During periods of so-called economic depression, societies suffer for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably discloses that there are plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What is missing is not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called ‘money.’<br />
<br />
- Tom Robbins [http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2008/11/118/]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Leakages from the local economy==<br />
<br />
"Poor liquidity and '''leakage (money flowing from the local economy) are key causes for floundering and/or disappearing regional economies.''' To overcome these shortfalls local communities should be increasing local liquidity and plugging the leakage through the introduction of complementary community currencies thereby re-building their respective local communities in the coal mining area of Wales. When local residents within their respective communities changed the agreements they had about conventional money, by creating and spending complementary community currencies locally instead of spending only diminishing amounts of federal currency with giant corporations, it commenced re-birth in the local communities. Molly used the term local multiplier when she discussed how local liquidity increased proportionately to the amount of complementary community currency being circulated by those who were choosing to participate."<br />
<br />
- (from a summary of) Molly Scott reporting on complementary currencies in Wales [http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/11/22/usuryfree_community_currencies.htm]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Aristotle on unnatural wealth==<br />
<br />
"There are two sorts of wealth-getting, as I have said; one is a part of household management, the other is retail trade: the former necessary and honorable, while that which consists in exchange is justly censured; for it is unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another. The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural." <br />
<br />
- Aristotle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics]<br />
<br />
=Introductory Material=<br />
<br />
#[[Money is not the Only Value Measurement System]] . By Geoff Chesshire .<br />
#[[Why Peer to Peer Currencies will Grow]]<br />
#Bernard Lietaer: The [[Four-tiered Monetary System of the Future]]<br />
# In his landmark essay, [[Valuing the Ethical Economy]], Adam Arvidsson explains why we need [[Wealth Acknowledgment Systems]] for the [[Ethical Circuit of Value]]<br />
#Must reading: Charles Eisenstein on [http://realitysandwich.com/money_a_new_beginning_part_2 Why Demurrage needs to replace interest] (see the entry on [[Demurrage]]). Also: [http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_and_crisis_civilization Money and the Crisis of Civilization] on why the current crisis is also an endgame.<br />
#The [http://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/sustain.html case for open money]. See also: [http://openmoney.org/top/omanifesto.html Open Money Manifesto]]<br />
#Ran Prieur: [[Fire vs. Water Economies]], and the role of [[Demurrage]] in this tradition.<br />
#Essential theoretical and historical introduction to the long term history of money and debt, as rooted in social violence, by David Graeber at http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years<br />
#Eric Harris-Braun on the necessary [[Difference between Multi-currency Platforms and Market Making Platforms]]<br />
#Thomas Greco: [[Why Exchange Alternatives Fail to Thrive]]<br />
#Robin Wood: [[Shifts in Value Exchange and Human Development]]: applying the spiral dynamics model to value exchange<br />
#The three modalities of [[Production Sharing]], i.e. working together for a common pool, without individual exchange or barter: 1) [[Labor Quota System]]; 2) [[Fair-Share Labor System]]; 3) [[Anti-Quota Labor System]]<br />
#[[Why Matrifocal Societies Use Dual Currencies]]. Bernard Lietaer. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/34659324/The-Monetary-Blind-Spot-by-Bernard-Lietaer]<br />
#Steve Keen on [[Why We Need to Tackle Debt Pushing, not Money Creation]]<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Also:<br />
<br />
<br />
#[[Rationale for Monetary Reform]] by Greg Martin.<br />
#[[Monetary Transformation, not Monetary Reform, is What is Needed]]. By Thomas Greco.<br />
#[[Why the Growth Imperative is Linked to our Monetary Format]]<br />
#[[Declaration Of The Universal Right Of Monetary Creation]] and the [[Open Money Manifesto]]<br />
#[http://peterkoenig.typepad.com/ Peter Koenig's] summaries on the [http://www.p2pfoundation.net/History_of_Money History] and [http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Projections_on_the_Future_of_Money Future] of money<br />
#[http://www.mindjack.com/feature/futuremoney.html The Future of Money] by Paul B. Hartzog<br />
#[http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tucker/tucker18.html Capital, Profits, and Interest]. Benjamin Tucker.<br />
#Chris Cook: a proposal for [[Open Capital]]<br />
<br />
<br />
How-to:<br />
<br />
#[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14832930/Process-of-Designing-a-Complementary-Currency-System Process of Designing a Complementary Currency System]. How-to recommendations by Stephen DeMeulenaere.<br />
<br />
=Discussions=<br />
<br />
Via: http://groups.google.com/group/metacurrency<br />
<br />
=Key Resources=<br />
<br />
Funding for [[Open Money]] and [[Complementary Currencies]] infrastructures via: '''the [[Fund for Complementary Currencies]]'''<br />
<br />
#The Re-Inventing Money site, at http://reinventingmoney.com/<br />
#The Book: "Money; A Mirror Image Of The Economy" by Dr. J.W. Smith - full text at http://IED.info/books/money ''Applying [[Georgism|Henry George]]’s philosophy across the economic spectrum transposes monopoly rent values into equally-shared use-values. Quality of life increases as working hours drop by half.''<br />
#The consultancy: [http://www.valueforpeople.co.uk/ Value for People], helps local communities initiate complementary currencies<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key Blogs==<br />
<br />
Of key importance is the work by Eric Harris-Braun and friends on meta-currency platforms, see [http://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/ here]<br />
<br />
Also:<br />
<br />
#[http://newcurrencyfrontiers.blogspot.com/ New Currency Frontiers]: very thoughtful new money blog with Eric Harris-Braun and others working on the [[Metacurrency Project]]<br />
#[http://beyondmoney.net Beyond Money]: Thomas Greco's blog on monetary transformation and mutual credit<br />
#[http://evolutionofmoney.typepad.com/ Evolution of Money]<br />
#[http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/ Open Source Currency]<br />
#Coverage of social money trends in [http://lebleu.org/blog/ Guillaume's blog]<br />
#[http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/ Trust is the only currency]: excellent analysis<br />
<br />
==Key Books==<br />
<br />
The trilogy by Bernard Lietaer:<br />
<br />
#Bernard Lietaer, The Mystery of Money (Munich: Riemann Verlag, 2000).<br />
#Bernard Lietaer, The [[Future of Money]] (London: Random House, 2001). Full text [http://www.lietaer.com/books/futureofmoney.html]<br />
#Bernard Lietaer & Stephen M. Belgin, Of Human Wealth: Beyond Greed and Scarcity, Galley Edition Version 2.1. (Boulder, Colorado: Human Wealth Books and Talks, 2004.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
From other authors:<br />
<br />
<br />
#Thomas Greco. The [[End of Money and the Future of Civilization]]. Chelsea Green, 2009<br />
#[[Money and Liberation]]. The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements. Peter North. University of Minnesota Press, 2008<br />
#[[Interest and Inflation Free Money]]. Margrit Kennedy.<br />
#Peter North: [[Money and Liberation]]: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements. [http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/north_money.html]<br />
#Creating New Money: A [[Monetary Reform for the Information Age]], by Joseph Huber and James Robertson. New Economics Foundation (2001) [http://reinventingmoney.com/documents/huber.html] <br />
#The [http://www.feasta.org/documents/moneyecology/contents.htm Ecology of Money]. By Richard Douthwait<br />
<br />
<br />
Guidebooks:<br />
<br />
#[[Community Currency Guide]]. Workbook by Bernard Lietaer<br />
<br />
<br />
Also:<br />
<br />
#[[Money and Magic]]<br />
#[[Money in an Unequal World]]<br />
#[[Monetary Theory]]<br />
#[[30 Lies about Money]]<br />
<br />
==Key Concept Pages to read==<br />
<br />
#[[Abundance vs. Scarcity]] and [[Monetary Scarcity]] vs. [[Monetary Sufficiency - Non-scarcity based monetary systems]]<br />
#[[Monetary Reform]], [[Demurrage]] and [[Seigneurage]], the [[Credit Commons]]<br />
#Four conditions for [[Open Money]]: [[Open Data Currencies]] ; [[Open Identity Currencies]] ; [[Open Rules Currencies]] ; [[Open Transport Currencies]]<br />
#[[Wealth Typology]],Because we need [[Wealth Acknowledgment Systems]] for the [[Ethical Circuit of Value]]<br />
<br />
==Key Delicious Tags==<br />
<br />
#Abundance, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Abundance<br />
#Complementary Currencies, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Complementary-Currencies<br />
#Monetary Reform, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Monetary-Reform<br />
#Open Money, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/Open-Money<br />
#P2P Money, http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Money<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key Directories==<br />
<br />
#[[Online Database of Complementary Currencies Worldwide]]<br />
#[[Global Resource Exchange Groups]] and [[Localized Exchange Communities]]<br />
#[[Peer to Peer Exchanges]] and [[P2P Exchange Infrastructure Projects]]<br />
#[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Electronic_currencies Electronic currencies in the Wikipedia]<br />
<br />
==Key Documentaries==<br />
<br />
#The [[Money Fix]]: video by Alan Rosenblith shown at PBS stations in the U.S. in 2009/2010 [http://www.themoneyfix.org/content/video-money-fix]<br />
#[[Money as Debt]]<br />
#The [[Wealth of Neighbors]]<br />
#[[The Money Masters]]<br />
#[[In Debt We Trust]], remarkable documentary about personal aspects of debt crisis<br />
<br />
==Key Essays==<br />
<br />
#[[Peer to Peer Lending]], June 2007 overview report by Brad Slavin.<br />
#Raoul Victor: [[Money and Peer Production]], a marxist perspective<br />
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<br />
===Bernard Lietaer===<br />
<br />
* [http://www.unisys.com/financial/insights/insights__compendium/WPaper_BLietaerbergdahl.pdf The Future of Payment Systems]. By Bernard Lietaer.<br />
<br />
Two key essays/proposals by Bernard Lietaer et al:<br />
<br />
#[[Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability]]? Evidence and Remedies from Nature. By Bernard Lietaer, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Sally J. Goerner, and Nadia McLaren. Accepted for publication in Journal of Futures Studies Special Issue on the Financial Crisis (February-March 2010)<br />
#[[Options for Managing a Systemic Bank Crisis]]. Bernard Lietaer, Dr. Robert Ulanowicz, and Dr. Sally Goerner. Sapiens-journal Volume 2, number 1, March 2009 <br />
<br />
"The sustainability of any complex flow system can be measured with a single metric as an emergent property of its structural diversity and interconnectivity; it requires a balance in emphasis between efficiency and resilience. The urgent message for economics from nature is that the monoculture of national currencies, justified on the basis of market efficiency, generates structural instability in our global financial system. Economic sustainability therefore requires diversification in types of currencies, specifically through complementary currencies." <br />
<br />
<br />
===Thomas Greco===<br />
<br />
#'''Thomas Greco: [[Why Exchange Alternatives Fail to Thrive]]: The State of the Alternative Exchange Movement''', Excerpt from The [[End of Money and the Future of Civilization]], Chapter 13,<br />
#Thomas Greco: [[Towards A Complete Web-Based Trading Platform]] Excerpt, End of Money, Chapter 17,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key People==<br />
<br />
#[[Alan Rosenblith]] ; <br />
#[[Arthur Brock]] [http://www.artbrock.com/] [http://www.newcurrencyfrontiers.com] ; <br />
#[[Edgar Cahn]] [http://www.timebanks.org/founder.htm]; <br />
#[[Eric Harris-Braun]] [http://eric.harris-braun.com]; <br />
#[[Thomas Greco]] ; <br />
#[[Fernanda Ibarra]]<br />
#[[Margrit Kennedy]]<br />
#[[Bernard Lietaer]]<br />
#[[Michael Linton]]<br />
#[[Jean-François Noubel]] [http://noubel.com/]<br />
#[[Elf Pavlik]]<br />
#[[Jay Standish]]<br />
<br />
==Key Podcasts==<br />
<br />
#The [[Open Money Blogtalk Radio]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key Webcasts==<br />
<br />
Documentaries:<br />
<br />
#[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxo_XPdpI_s Money as Debt II]: great explanation<br />
#[[Introductory Animation to Complementary Currencies]]<br />
<br />
Also:<br />
<br />
#[[Alan Rosenblith on Open Money]] ; [[Alan Rosenblith on Open Money Protocols and Agreements]]<br />
#[[Chris Cook on Peak Credit and Open Capital]]: excellent video presentation<br />
#[[Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun's Introduction to The MetaCurrency Project]] ; [[Arthur Brock on Open Data Currencies]]<br />
#[[Bernard Lietaer Interviewed on a New World Currency]] ; [[Bernard Lietaer on Complementary Currencies for Social Change]] ; [[Bernard Lietaer on Currencies for Cooperation]] ; [[Bernard Lietaer on Human Wealth]]<br />
#[[Christian Nold on the Bijlmer Euro]]<br />
#[[David Karsbol on Virtual Finance]]<br />
#[[David Korten on Monetary Reform]]<br />
#[[Douglas Rushkoff on Medieval Money]]<br />
#[[Ellen Brown on the Web of Debt]]<br />
#[[Giles Andrews on the Evolution of the Zopa Social Lending Project]]<br />
#[[James Robertson on Monetary Reform for the Mainstream Economy]]<br />
#[[Jean-François Noubel on Free Currencies]]<br />
#[[Mohammad Yunus on Microfinance]]<br />
#[[Peter Koenig on What is Money]]<br />
#[[Philippe Van Parijs on the Basic Income]]<br />
#[[Richard Douthwaite on Debt-based Money]]<br />
#[[Sarah Hearn on the Berkshare Local Currency Program]]<br />
#[[Thomas Greco on Monetary Transformation]] ; [[Thomas Greco on the End of Money]] ; [[Thomas Greco on the Importance of Mutual Credit Clearing]] ; [[Thomas Greco on the State of the Monetary Reform Movement]]<br />
<br />
See also: <br />
<br />
* Extensive collection of [http://www.complementarycurrency.org/ccvideo.html Videos on complementary currencies]. More videos on the [http://www.youtube.com/networkeconomy Network Economy YouTube channel]<br />
<br />
=Deutschsprachige Ressourcen - German Ressources=<br />
<br />
# [[Neues Geld]]<br />
[[Category:Peereconomy]]<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructures]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=List_of_ContactCon_Related_Projects&diff=52111List of ContactCon Related Projects2011-07-27T03:04:44Z<p>Openworld: /* Sustainability & Resilience */</p>
<hr />
<div>See: [[ContactCon]] for general information about the conference<br />
<br />
==Business, Exchange and Social Commerce==<br />
<br />
* [http://bitcoin.org Bitcoin] - p2p virtual currency, offering censorship resistance and anonymity; and based on strong encryption<br />
<br />
* [http://ourgoods.org/ OurGoods] - barter network for the creative community<br />
<br />
* [http://beex.org/ BEEx] - open source fundraising platform<br />
<br />
* [http://metacurrency.org/ Metacurrency Project] - seeks to build a platform and protocol standards that will allow for multiple and interoperable currencies to exist on the Internet<br />
<br />
* [http://www.communityforge.net/ Community Forge] - free, open source software for setting up an alternative economy<br />
<br />
==Sustainability & Resilience==<br />
<br />
*'''[[Climate Change Project Matching Platform]]'''<br />
<br />
*[http://flofarm.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5BWelcome%20to%20FLO%20Farm%5D%5D FLO Farm] - a 200 acre space in Greentown, PA that serves as a free/libre/open source (FLO) technology development laboratory and proving ground, a health and wellness center, a recreational landscape, an agroforestry and permaculture farm and a setting for experimentation in participatory governance practices<br />
<br />
*'''[[Resilient Communities]]'''<br />
<br />
*[http://MiiU.org/wiki/Charity Seeding Resilient Communities] - a "challenge offer" initiative for donors and online allies to help areas that want to create more transparent and resilient environments. The value of challenge offers can hinge on local actions to: 1) vest self-help groups as beneficiaries of land trusts, after the model of "land grant" universities, and 2) pilot new transparency-centered reforms to awaken land values on these sites, to the benefit of groups working for resiliency that now lack sustainable sources of funding.<br />
<br />
==Governance==<br />
<br />
* [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum] - conversation hub between political practitioners and technologists, as well as anyone invigorated by the potential of all this to open up the process and engage more people in all the things that we can and must do together as citizens.<br />
<br />
* [http://collabforge.com/ Collabforge] - consultancy leveraging mass collaboration and social technology to make government and enterprise more open and participatory.<br />
<br />
*The Dynamic Democracy Initiative - delegating decision-making power to people you trust within specific areas of expertise. Website coming soon.<br />
<br />
==Technology and Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
* Long list maintained [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Infrastructure here]]; short list: [[Autonomous Internet]]<br />
<br />
*""[http://www.littleshoot.org/ LittleShoot]"" - P2P browser plugin & open source P2P platform built on a VoIP stack<br />
<br />
*""[http://www.bravenewsoftware.org/ Lantern]"" - P2P censorship circumvention tool<br />
<br />
*[[Aidphone Flybox]] - box with inmarsat terminal, wifi access point, and GSM basestation to provide internet & mobile phone service to indy journalistsin crisis situations<br />
<br />
*[http://freenetworkmovement.org/Freenet/FreeNet.html Free Network Movement] - community of college-aged student in Grinnell, IA, participating in initiatives to improve and produce free networking software<br />
<br />
* [[Pangaia]] - Unified information model with social governance software.<br />
<br />
*[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor Project] - free software and an open network to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security<br />
<br />
* [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party] - distributed censorship resistant mirror network built on already-installed software. WTP uses Javascript in the browser to reconstruct the namespace that is a website from content hosted on multiple servers. Mirrorparty.org is a companion site for social mirroring, matching threatened content with volunteer hosts.<br />
<br />
* [http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium Project Byzantium] - A rapidly deployable, improvisable wireless mesh network that aims to help solve the Egypt Problem (widespread Internet censorship and/or telecommunications shutdown) and the Katrina Problem (natural disaster knocks out much of the infrastructure).</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=List_of_ContactCon_Related_Projects&diff=52110List of ContactCon Related Projects2011-07-27T03:04:07Z<p>Openworld: /* Sustainability & Resilience */</p>
<hr />
<div>See: [[ContactCon]] for general information about the conference<br />
<br />
==Business, Exchange and Social Commerce==<br />
<br />
* [http://bitcoin.org Bitcoin] - p2p virtual currency, offering censorship resistance and anonymity; and based on strong encryption<br />
<br />
* [http://ourgoods.org/ OurGoods] - barter network for the creative community<br />
<br />
* [http://beex.org/ BEEx] - open source fundraising platform<br />
<br />
* [http://metacurrency.org/ Metacurrency Project] - seeks to build a platform and protocol standards that will allow for multiple and interoperable currencies to exist on the Internet<br />
<br />
* [http://www.communityforge.net/ Community Forge] - free, open source software for setting up an alternative economy<br />
<br />
==Sustainability & Resilience==<br />
<br />
*'''[[Climate Change Project Matching Platform]]'''<br />
<br />
*[http://flofarm.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5BWelcome%20to%20FLO%20Farm%5D%5D FLO Farm] - a 200 acre space in Greentown, PA that serves as a free/libre/open source (FLO) technology development laboratory and proving ground, a health and wellness center, a recreational landscape, an agroforestry and permaculture farm and a setting for experimentation in participatory governance practices<br />
<br />
*'''[[Resilient Communities]]'''<br />
<br />
*[http://MiiU.org/wiki/Charity Seeding Resilient Communities] - a "challenge offer" initiative for donors and online allies to help areas that want to create more transparent and resilient environments. The value of challenge offers can hinge on local actions to: <br />
1) vest self-help groups as beneficiaries of land trusts, after the model of "land grant" universities, and <br />
2) pilot new transparency-centered reforms to awaken land values on these sites, to the benefit of groups working for resiliency that now lack sustainable sources of funding.<br />
<br />
==Governance==<br />
<br />
* [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum] - conversation hub between political practitioners and technologists, as well as anyone invigorated by the potential of all this to open up the process and engage more people in all the things that we can and must do together as citizens.<br />
<br />
* [http://collabforge.com/ Collabforge] - consultancy leveraging mass collaboration and social technology to make government and enterprise more open and participatory.<br />
<br />
*The Dynamic Democracy Initiative - delegating decision-making power to people you trust within specific areas of expertise. Website coming soon.<br />
<br />
==Technology and Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
* Long list maintained [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Infrastructure here]]; short list: [[Autonomous Internet]]<br />
<br />
*""[http://www.littleshoot.org/ LittleShoot]"" - P2P browser plugin & open source P2P platform built on a VoIP stack<br />
<br />
*""[http://www.bravenewsoftware.org/ Lantern]"" - P2P censorship circumvention tool<br />
<br />
*[[Aidphone Flybox]] - box with inmarsat terminal, wifi access point, and GSM basestation to provide internet & mobile phone service to indy journalistsin crisis situations<br />
<br />
*[http://freenetworkmovement.org/Freenet/FreeNet.html Free Network Movement] - community of college-aged student in Grinnell, IA, participating in initiatives to improve and produce free networking software<br />
<br />
* [[Pangaia]] - Unified information model with social governance software.<br />
<br />
*[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor Project] - free software and an open network to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security<br />
<br />
* [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party] - distributed censorship resistant mirror network built on already-installed software. WTP uses Javascript in the browser to reconstruct the namespace that is a website from content hosted on multiple servers. Mirrorparty.org is a companion site for social mirroring, matching threatened content with volunteer hosts.<br />
<br />
* [http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium Project Byzantium] - A rapidly deployable, improvisable wireless mesh network that aims to help solve the Egypt Problem (widespread Internet censorship and/or telecommunications shutdown) and the Katrina Problem (natural disaster knocks out much of the infrastructure).</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=List_of_ContactCon_Related_Projects&diff=52109List of ContactCon Related Projects2011-07-27T02:33:57Z<p>Openworld: /* Sustainability & Resilience */</p>
<hr />
<div>See: [[ContactCon]] for general information about the conference<br />
<br />
==Business, Exchange and Social Commerce==<br />
<br />
* [http://bitcoin.org Bitcoin] - p2p virtual currency, offering censorship resistance and anonymity; and based on strong encryption<br />
<br />
* [http://ourgoods.org/ OurGoods] - barter network for the creative community<br />
<br />
* [http://beex.org/ BEEx] - open source fundraising platform<br />
<br />
* [http://metacurrency.org/ Metacurrency Project] - seeks to build a platform and protocol standards that will allow for multiple and interoperable currencies to exist on the Internet<br />
<br />
* [http://www.communityforge.net/ Community Forge] - free, open source software for setting up an alternative economy<br />
<br />
==Sustainability & Resilience==<br />
<br />
*'''[[Climate Change Project Matching Platform]]'''<br />
<br />
*[http://flofarm.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5BWelcome%20to%20FLO%20Farm%5D%5D FLO Farm] - a 200 acre space in Greentown, PA that serves as a free/libre/open source (FLO) technology development laboratory and proving ground, a health and wellness center, a recreational landscape, an agroforestry and permaculture farm and a setting for experimentation in participatory governance practices<br />
<br />
*'''[[Resilient Communities]]'''<br />
<br />
*[http://MiiU.org/wiki/Charity Seeding Resilient Communities] - a "challenge offer" opportunity for donors and online tribes to help areas that agree to introduce resiliency- and transparency-oriented reforms on a demonstration basis. An ascending level of support can be earned by communities that commit to vest local self-help groups as beneficiaries of land trusts in these locations, after the example of "land grant" universities, and then follow through with new economic policies benefiting the sites to awaken new assets for good.<br />
<br />
==Governance==<br />
<br />
* [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum] - conversation hub between political practitioners and technologists, as well as anyone invigorated by the potential of all this to open up the process and engage more people in all the things that we can and must do together as citizens.<br />
<br />
* [http://collabforge.com/ Collabforge] - consultancy leveraging mass collaboration and social technology to make government and enterprise more open and participatory.<br />
<br />
*The Dynamic Democracy Initiative - delegating decision-making power to people you trust within specific areas of expertise. Website coming soon.<br />
<br />
==Technology and Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
* Long list maintained [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Infrastructure here]]; short list: [[Autonomous Internet]]<br />
<br />
*""[http://www.littleshoot.org/ LittleShoot]"" - P2P browser plugin & open source P2P platform built on a VoIP stack<br />
<br />
*""[http://www.bravenewsoftware.org/ Lantern]"" - P2P censorship circumvention tool<br />
<br />
*[[Aidphone Flybox]] - box with inmarsat terminal, wifi access point, and GSM basestation to provide internet & mobile phone service to indy journalistsin crisis situations<br />
<br />
*[http://freenetworkmovement.org/Freenet/FreeNet.html Free Network Movement] - community of college-aged student in Grinnell, IA, participating in initiatives to improve and produce free networking software<br />
<br />
* [[Pangaia]] - Unified information model with social governance software.<br />
<br />
*[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor Project] - free software and an open network to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security<br />
<br />
* [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party] - distributed censorship resistant mirror network built on already-installed software. WTP uses Javascript in the browser to reconstruct the namespace that is a website from content hosted on multiple servers. Mirrorparty.org is a companion site for social mirroring, matching threatened content with volunteer hosts.<br />
<br />
* [http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium Project Byzantium] - A rapidly deployable, improvisable wireless mesh network that aims to help solve the Egypt Problem (widespread Internet censorship and/or telecommunications shutdown) and the Katrina Problem (natural disaster knocks out much of the infrastructure).</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=List_of_ContactCon_Related_Projects&diff=52108List of ContactCon Related Projects2011-07-27T02:32:42Z<p>Openworld: /* Sustainability */ Seeding Resilient Communities</p>
<hr />
<div>See: [[ContactCon]] for general information about the conference<br />
<br />
==Business, Exchange and Social Commerce==<br />
<br />
* [http://bitcoin.org Bitcoin] - p2p virtual currency, offering censorship resistance and anonymity; and based on strong encryption<br />
<br />
* [http://ourgoods.org/ OurGoods] - barter network for the creative community<br />
<br />
* [http://beex.org/ BEEx] - open source fundraising platform<br />
<br />
* [http://metacurrency.org/ Metacurrency Project] - seeks to build a platform and protocol standards that will allow for multiple and interoperable currencies to exist on the Internet<br />
<br />
* [http://www.communityforge.net/ Community Forge] - free, open source software for setting up an alternative economy<br />
<br />
==Sustainability & Resilience==<br />
<br />
*'''[[Climate Change Project Matching Platform]]'''<br />
<br />
*[http://flofarm.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5BWelcome%20to%20FLO%20Farm%5D%5D FLO Farm] - a 200 acre space in Greentown, PA that serves as a free/libre/open source (FLO) technology development laboratory and proving ground, a health and wellness center, a recreational landscape, an agroforestry and permaculture farm and a setting for experimentation in participatory governance practices<br />
<br />
*'''[[Seeding Resilient Communities]]'''<br />
<br />
*[http://MiiU.org/wiki/Charity Seeding Resilient Communities] - a "challenge offer" opportunity for donors and online tribes to help areas that agree to introduce resiliency- and transparency-oriented reforms on a demonstration basis. An ascending level of support can be earned by communities that commit to vest local self-help groups as beneficiaries of land trusts in these locations, after the example of "land grant" universities, and then follow through with new economic policies benefiting the sites to awaken new assets for good.<br />
<br />
==Governance==<br />
<br />
* [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum] - conversation hub between political practitioners and technologists, as well as anyone invigorated by the potential of all this to open up the process and engage more people in all the things that we can and must do together as citizens.<br />
<br />
* [http://collabforge.com/ Collabforge] - consultancy leveraging mass collaboration and social technology to make government and enterprise more open and participatory.<br />
<br />
*The Dynamic Democracy Initiative - delegating decision-making power to people you trust within specific areas of expertise. Website coming soon.<br />
<br />
==Technology and Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
* Long list maintained [http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Infrastructure here]]; short list: [[Autonomous Internet]]<br />
<br />
*""[http://www.littleshoot.org/ LittleShoot]"" - P2P browser plugin & open source P2P platform built on a VoIP stack<br />
<br />
*""[http://www.bravenewsoftware.org/ Lantern]"" - P2P censorship circumvention tool<br />
<br />
*[[Aidphone Flybox]] - box with inmarsat terminal, wifi access point, and GSM basestation to provide internet & mobile phone service to indy journalistsin crisis situations<br />
<br />
*[http://freenetworkmovement.org/Freenet/FreeNet.html Free Network Movement] - community of college-aged student in Grinnell, IA, participating in initiatives to improve and produce free networking software<br />
<br />
* [[Pangaia]] - Unified information model with social governance software.<br />
<br />
*[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor Project] - free software and an open network to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security<br />
<br />
* [http://mirrorparty.org Where's the Party] - distributed censorship resistant mirror network built on already-installed software. WTP uses Javascript in the browser to reconstruct the namespace that is a website from content hosted on multiple servers. Mirrorparty.org is a companion site for social mirroring, matching threatened content with volunteer hosts.<br />
<br />
* [http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium Project Byzantium] - A rapidly deployable, improvisable wireless mesh network that aims to help solve the Egypt Problem (widespread Internet censorship and/or telecommunications shutdown) and the Katrina Problem (natural disaster knocks out much of the infrastructure).</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ContactCon&diff=51887ContactCon2011-07-24T04:47:59Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>'' A conference and summit to restore the true p2p nature of the internet, social media, and all that it enables in culture and society, initiated by Douglas Rushkoff ''<br />
<br />
URL = http://contactcon.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
{{RightTOC}}<br />
* Excerpted from [[Motivation for the Contact Summit]], by Douglas Rushkoff:<br />
<br />
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.<br />
<br />
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution.<br />
<br />
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
"At the epicenter of CONTACT will be the Bazaar - a free-form marketplace of ideas, demos, haggling, and ad-hoc connections. If you have visited the Akihabara, Tokyo’s ultra-vibrant open-air electronics market, or the under-the-highway open-air jade market of Kowloon, or even the Burning Man festival, you understand the power of combining commerce, physical location, and serendipity. A decidedly unstructured counterpart to the convened meetings, solo provocations, and the MeetUpEverywheres, the Bazaar will bring p2p to life, encouraging introductions, brokering, deal-making, food-tasting, and propositions of every kind. It is where the social, business, political, and spiritual agendas merge into one big human agenda."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
=Participants=<br />
<br />
Organizational pages:<br />
<br />
#[[ContactCon List of Participants]]<br />
<br />
=Projects=<br />
<br />
<br />
See: [[List of ContactCon Related Projects]]<br />
<br />
=Discussions= <br />
<br />
[[Potential Discussion Topics at Contact]]<br />
<br />
Contact forums here: http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
* the Contact Summit Group webpage at http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit <br />
<br />
to participate in threaded discussions about p2p currency, open government, networked culture, and more. This is the place to begin working on ideas and projects that you might want to develop at Contact, to educate yourself about these ideas, or to suggest anything for the conference itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
* The Next Net at http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet <br />
<br />
dedicated to discussions about actually building the next net - a distributed, decentralized version of the Internet, as described in Douglas Rushkoff's piece, "The Next Net" on Shareable.net. This conversation is more technical in nature.<br />
<br />
=Remote Locations=<br />
<br />
Message from Contact:<br />
From now until the Contact Summit in NYC on October 20, we'll be networking with communities, projects, and initiatives focused around the development of non-hierarchical distributed p2p Internet infrastructure, alternative e-currencies, open source democracy, social enterprise, and tools of empowerment and collective action.<br />
<br />
Organize meetups in your area, and keep us posted on your project's developments, challenges, and needs over on the Contact forums - http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
We'll be aggregating links to everyone's work on a Contact wiki, which will be hosted on the P2P Foundation site. In the meantime, let us know who and what we should be connecting to by emailing us at info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
If you're unable to join us in person for Contact this October, we hope you'll create a Meetup that day in your own area so that this becomes a truly global event.<br />
<br />
*San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Contact/San-Francisco-CA/86976/<br />
<br />
=More Information about related topics=<br />
<br />
*[[Building an Economic Ecosystem for New Business Models and Ideas]]<br />
*[[Introduction to Citizen Intelligence Sources and Methods]]<br />
*[[Concept for Crowd-Sourcing: a Strategic Analytic Model]]<br />
*[[Concept for Participatory Policy-Budget Outreach]]<br />
*[[Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others]]<br />
<br />
=More Information about the conference=<br />
<br />
Contact with Contact:<br />
<br />
* For press inquiries please contact: press@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For sponsorship inquiries please contact: sponsor@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For general/registration inquires please contact: info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
Form available via http://contactcon.com/contact/<br />
<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
<br />
* Discussion forum, http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conferences]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructure]]<br />
[[Category:NextNet]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ContactCon&diff=51886ContactCon2011-07-24T04:47:03Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>'' A conference and summit to restore the true p2p nature of the internet, social media, and all that it enables in culture and society, initiated by Douglas Rushkoff ''<br />
<br />
URL = http://contactcon.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
* Excerpted from [[Motivation for the Contact Summit]], by Douglas Rushkoff:<br />
<br />
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.<br />
<br />
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution.<br />
<br />
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
"At the epicenter of CONTACT will be the Bazaar - a free-form marketplace of ideas, demos, haggling, and ad-hoc connections. If you have visited the Akihabara, Tokyo’s ultra-vibrant open-air electronics market, or the under-the-highway open-air jade market of Kowloon, or even the Burning Man festival, you understand the power of combining commerce, physical location, and serendipity. A decidedly unstructured counterpart to the convened meetings, solo provocations, and the MeetUpEverywheres, the Bazaar will bring p2p to life, encouraging introductions, brokering, deal-making, food-tasting, and propositions of every kind. It is where the social, business, political, and spiritual agendas merge into one big human agenda."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
=Participants=<br />
<br />
Organizational pages:<br />
<br />
#[[ContactCon List of Participants]]<br />
<br />
=Projects=<br />
<br />
<br />
See: [[List of ContactCon Related Projects]]<br />
<br />
=Discussions= <br />
<br />
[[Potential Discussion Topics at Contact]]<br />
<br />
Contact forums here: http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
* the Contact Summit Group webpage at http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit <br />
<br />
to participate in threaded discussions about p2p currency, open government, networked culture, and more. This is the place to begin working on ideas and projects that you might want to develop at Contact, to educate yourself about these ideas, or to suggest anything for the conference itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
* The Next Net at http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet <br />
<br />
dedicated to discussions about actually building the next net - a distributed, decentralized version of the Internet, as described in Douglas Rushkoff's piece, "The Next Net" on Shareable.net. This conversation is more technical in nature.<br />
<br />
=Remote Locations=<br />
<br />
Message from Contact:<br />
From now until the Contact Summit in NYC on October 20, we'll be networking with communities, projects, and initiatives focused around the development of non-hierarchical distributed p2p Internet infrastructure, alternative e-currencies, open source democracy, social enterprise, and tools of empowerment and collective action.<br />
<br />
Organize meetups in your area, and keep us posted on your project's developments, challenges, and needs over on the Contact forums - http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
We'll be aggregating links to everyone's work on a Contact wiki, which will be hosted on the P2P Foundation site. In the meantime, let us know who and what we should be connecting to by emailing us at info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
If you're unable to join us in person for Contact this October, we hope you'll create a Meetup that day in your own area so that this becomes a truly global event.<br />
<br />
*San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Contact/San-Francisco-CA/86976/<br />
<br />
=More Information about related topics=<br />
<br />
*[[Building an Economic Ecosystem for New Business Models and Ideas]]<br />
*[[Introduction to Citizen Intelligence Sources and Methods]]<br />
*[[Concept for Crowd-Sourcing: a Strategic Analytic Model]]<br />
*[[Concept for Participatory Policy-Budget Outreach]]<br />
*[[Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others]]<br />
<br />
=More Information about the conference=<br />
<br />
Contact with Contact:<br />
<br />
* For press inquiries please contact: press@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For sponsorship inquiries please contact: sponsor@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For general/registration inquires please contact: info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
Form available via http://contactcon.com/contact/<br />
<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
<br />
* Discussion forum, http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conferences]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructure]]<br />
[[Category:NextNet]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ContactCon&diff=51885ContactCon2011-07-24T04:46:13Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>''' a conference and summit to restore the true p2p nature of the internet, social media, and all that it enables in culture and society, initiated by Douglas Rushkoff '''<br />
<br />
URL = http://contactcon.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
* Excerpted from [[Motivation for the Contact Summit]], by Douglas Rushkoff:<br />
<br />
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.<br />
<br />
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution.<br />
<br />
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
"At the epicenter of CONTACT will be the Bazaar - a free-form marketplace of ideas, demos, haggling, and ad-hoc connections. If you have visited the Akihabara, Tokyo’s ultra-vibrant open-air electronics market, or the under-the-highway open-air jade market of Kowloon, or even the Burning Man festival, you understand the power of combining commerce, physical location, and serendipity. A decidedly unstructured counterpart to the convened meetings, solo provocations, and the MeetUpEverywheres, the Bazaar will bring p2p to life, encouraging introductions, brokering, deal-making, food-tasting, and propositions of every kind. It is where the social, business, political, and spiritual agendas merge into one big human agenda."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
=Participants=<br />
<br />
Organizational pages:<br />
<br />
#[[ContactCon List of Participants]]<br />
<br />
=Projects=<br />
<br />
<br />
See: [[List of ContactCon Related Projects]]<br />
<br />
=Discussions= <br />
<br />
[[Potential Discussion Topics at Contact]]<br />
<br />
Contact forums here: http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
* the Contact Summit Group webpage at http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit <br />
<br />
to participate in threaded discussions about p2p currency, open government, networked culture, and more. This is the place to begin working on ideas and projects that you might want to develop at Contact, to educate yourself about these ideas, or to suggest anything for the conference itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
* The Next Net at http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet <br />
<br />
dedicated to discussions about actually building the next net - a distributed, decentralized version of the Internet, as described in Douglas Rushkoff's piece, "The Next Net" on Shareable.net. This conversation is more technical in nature.<br />
<br />
=Remote Locations=<br />
<br />
Message from Contact:<br />
From now until the Contact Summit in NYC on October 20, we'll be networking with communities, projects, and initiatives focused around the development of non-hierarchical distributed p2p Internet infrastructure, alternative e-currencies, open source democracy, social enterprise, and tools of empowerment and collective action.<br />
<br />
Organize meetups in your area, and keep us posted on your project's developments, challenges, and needs over on the Contact forums - http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
We'll be aggregating links to everyone's work on a Contact wiki, which will be hosted on the P2P Foundation site. In the meantime, let us know who and what we should be connecting to by emailing us at info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
If you're unable to join us in person for Contact this October, we hope you'll create a Meetup that day in your own area so that this becomes a truly global event.<br />
<br />
*San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Contact/San-Francisco-CA/86976/<br />
<br />
=More Information about related topics=<br />
<br />
*[[Building an Economic Ecosystem for New Business Models and Ideas]]<br />
*[[Introduction to Citizen Intelligence Sources and Methods]]<br />
*[[Concept for Crowd-Sourcing: a Strategic Analytic Model]]<br />
*[[Concept for Participatory Policy-Budget Outreach]]<br />
*[[Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others]]<br />
<br />
=More Information about the conference=<br />
<br />
Contact with Contact:<br />
<br />
* For press inquiries please contact: press@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For sponsorship inquiries please contact: sponsor@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For general/registration inquires please contact: info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
Form available via http://contactcon.com/contact/<br />
<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
<br />
* Discussion forum, http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conferences]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructure]]<br />
[[Category:NextNet]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ContactCon&diff=51884ContactCon2011-07-24T04:45:31Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>== ''' a conference and summit to restore the true p2p nature of the internet, social media, and all that it enables in culture and society, initiated by Douglas Rushkoff ''' ==<br />
<br />
URL = http://contactcon.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
* Excerpted from [[Motivation for the Contact Summit]], by Douglas Rushkoff:<br />
<br />
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.<br />
<br />
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution.<br />
<br />
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
"At the epicenter of CONTACT will be the Bazaar - a free-form marketplace of ideas, demos, haggling, and ad-hoc connections. If you have visited the Akihabara, Tokyo’s ultra-vibrant open-air electronics market, or the under-the-highway open-air jade market of Kowloon, or even the Burning Man festival, you understand the power of combining commerce, physical location, and serendipity. A decidedly unstructured counterpart to the convened meetings, solo provocations, and the MeetUpEverywheres, the Bazaar will bring p2p to life, encouraging introductions, brokering, deal-making, food-tasting, and propositions of every kind. It is where the social, business, political, and spiritual agendas merge into one big human agenda."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
=Participants=<br />
<br />
Organizational pages:<br />
<br />
#[[ContactCon List of Participants]]<br />
<br />
=Projects=<br />
<br />
<br />
See: [[List of ContactCon Related Projects]]<br />
<br />
=Discussions= <br />
<br />
[[Potential Discussion Topics at Contact]]<br />
<br />
Contact forums here: http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
* the Contact Summit Group webpage at http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit <br />
<br />
to participate in threaded discussions about p2p currency, open government, networked culture, and more. This is the place to begin working on ideas and projects that you might want to develop at Contact, to educate yourself about these ideas, or to suggest anything for the conference itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
* The Next Net at http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet <br />
<br />
dedicated to discussions about actually building the next net - a distributed, decentralized version of the Internet, as described in Douglas Rushkoff's piece, "The Next Net" on Shareable.net. This conversation is more technical in nature.<br />
<br />
=Remote Locations=<br />
<br />
Message from Contact:<br />
From now until the Contact Summit in NYC on October 20, we'll be networking with communities, projects, and initiatives focused around the development of non-hierarchical distributed p2p Internet infrastructure, alternative e-currencies, open source democracy, social enterprise, and tools of empowerment and collective action.<br />
<br />
Organize meetups in your area, and keep us posted on your project's developments, challenges, and needs over on the Contact forums - http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
We'll be aggregating links to everyone's work on a Contact wiki, which will be hosted on the P2P Foundation site. In the meantime, let us know who and what we should be connecting to by emailing us at info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
If you're unable to join us in person for Contact this October, we hope you'll create a Meetup that day in your own area so that this becomes a truly global event.<br />
<br />
*San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Contact/San-Francisco-CA/86976/<br />
<br />
=More Information about related topics=<br />
<br />
*[[Building an Economic Ecosystem for New Business Models and Ideas]]<br />
*[[Introduction to Citizen Intelligence Sources and Methods]]<br />
*[[Concept for Crowd-Sourcing: a Strategic Analytic Model]]<br />
*[[Concept for Participatory Policy-Budget Outreach]]<br />
*[[Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others]]<br />
<br />
=More Information about the conference=<br />
<br />
Contact with Contact:<br />
<br />
* For press inquiries please contact: press@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For sponsorship inquiries please contact: sponsor@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For general/registration inquires please contact: info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
Form available via http://contactcon.com/contact/<br />
<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
<br />
* Discussion forum, http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conferences]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructure]]<br />
[[Category:NextNet]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ContactCon&diff=51883ContactCon2011-07-24T04:43:34Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>= ''' a conference and summit to restore the true p2p nature of the internet, social media, and all that it enables in culture and society, initiated by Douglas Rushkoff ''' =<br />
<br />
URL = http://contactcon.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
* Excerpted from [[Motivation for the Contact Summit]], by Douglas Rushkoff:<br />
<br />
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.<br />
<br />
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution.<br />
<br />
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
"At the epicenter of CONTACT will be the Bazaar - a free-form marketplace of ideas, demos, haggling, and ad-hoc connections. If you have visited the Akihabara, Tokyo’s ultra-vibrant open-air electronics market, or the under-the-highway open-air jade market of Kowloon, or even the Burning Man festival, you understand the power of combining commerce, physical location, and serendipity. A decidedly unstructured counterpart to the convened meetings, solo provocations, and the MeetUpEverywheres, the Bazaar will bring p2p to life, encouraging introductions, brokering, deal-making, food-tasting, and propositions of every kind. It is where the social, business, political, and spiritual agendas merge into one big human agenda."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
=Participants=<br />
<br />
Organizational pages:<br />
<br />
#[[ContactCon List of Participants]]<br />
<br />
=Projects=<br />
<br />
<br />
See: [[List of ContactCon Related Projects]]<br />
<br />
=Discussions= <br />
<br />
[[Potential Discussion Topics at Contact]]<br />
<br />
Contact forums here: http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
* the Contact Summit Group webpage at http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit <br />
<br />
to participate in threaded discussions about p2p currency, open government, networked culture, and more. This is the place to begin working on ideas and projects that you might want to develop at Contact, to educate yourself about these ideas, or to suggest anything for the conference itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
* The Next Net at http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet <br />
<br />
dedicated to discussions about actually building the next net - a distributed, decentralized version of the Internet, as described in Douglas Rushkoff's piece, "The Next Net" on Shareable.net. This conversation is more technical in nature.<br />
<br />
=Remote Locations=<br />
<br />
Message from Contact:<br />
From now until the Contact Summit in NYC on October 20, we'll be networking with communities, projects, and initiatives focused around the development of non-hierarchical distributed p2p Internet infrastructure, alternative e-currencies, open source democracy, social enterprise, and tools of empowerment and collective action.<br />
<br />
Organize meetups in your area, and keep us posted on your project's developments, challenges, and needs over on the Contact forums - http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
We'll be aggregating links to everyone's work on a Contact wiki, which will be hosted on the P2P Foundation site. In the meantime, let us know who and what we should be connecting to by emailing us at info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
If you're unable to join us in person for Contact this October, we hope you'll create a Meetup that day in your own area so that this becomes a truly global event.<br />
<br />
*San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Contact/San-Francisco-CA/86976/<br />
<br />
=More Information about related topics=<br />
<br />
*[[Building an Economic Ecosystem for New Business Models and Ideas]]<br />
*[[Introduction to Citizen Intelligence Sources and Methods]]<br />
*[[Concept for Crowd-Sourcing: a Strategic Analytic Model]]<br />
*[[Concept for Participatory Policy-Budget Outreach]]<br />
*[[Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others]]<br />
<br />
=More Information about the conference=<br />
<br />
Contact with Contact:<br />
<br />
* For press inquiries please contact: press@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For sponsorship inquiries please contact: sponsor@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For general/registration inquires please contact: info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
Form available via http://contactcon.com/contact/<br />
<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
<br />
* Discussion forum, http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conferences]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructure]]<br />
[[Category:NextNet]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ContactCon&diff=51882ContactCon2011-07-24T04:42:48Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''= a conference and summit to restore the true p2p nature of the internet, social media, and all that it enables in culture and society, initiated by Douglas Rushkoff ='''<br />
<br />
URL = http://contactcon.com/<br />
<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
* Excerpted from [[Motivation for the Contact Summit]], by Douglas Rushkoff:<br />
<br />
"Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. I'm inviting technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders in the networked future, to come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.<br />
<br />
From the development of a new non-hierarchical Internet to the implementation of alternative e-currencies, the prototyping of open source democracy to experiments in collective cultural expression, Contact will seek to initiate mechanisms that realize the true promise of the networking revolution.<br />
<br />
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
"At the epicenter of CONTACT will be the Bazaar - a free-form marketplace of ideas, demos, haggling, and ad-hoc connections. If you have visited the Akihabara, Tokyo’s ultra-vibrant open-air electronics market, or the under-the-highway open-air jade market of Kowloon, or even the Burning Man festival, you understand the power of combining commerce, physical location, and serendipity. A decidedly unstructured counterpart to the convened meetings, solo provocations, and the MeetUpEverywheres, the Bazaar will bring p2p to life, encouraging introductions, brokering, deal-making, food-tasting, and propositions of every kind. It is where the social, business, political, and spiritual agendas merge into one big human agenda."<br />
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized)<br />
<br />
=Participants=<br />
<br />
Organizational pages:<br />
<br />
#[[ContactCon List of Participants]]<br />
<br />
=Projects=<br />
<br />
<br />
See: [[List of ContactCon Related Projects]]<br />
<br />
=Discussions= <br />
<br />
[[Potential Discussion Topics at Contact]]<br />
<br />
Contact forums here: http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
* the Contact Summit Group webpage at http://groups.google.com/group/contactsummit <br />
<br />
to participate in threaded discussions about p2p currency, open government, networked culture, and more. This is the place to begin working on ideas and projects that you might want to develop at Contact, to educate yourself about these ideas, or to suggest anything for the conference itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
* The Next Net at http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet <br />
<br />
dedicated to discussions about actually building the next net - a distributed, decentralized version of the Internet, as described in Douglas Rushkoff's piece, "The Next Net" on Shareable.net. This conversation is more technical in nature.<br />
<br />
=Remote Locations=<br />
<br />
Message from Contact:<br />
From now until the Contact Summit in NYC on October 20, we'll be networking with communities, projects, and initiatives focused around the development of non-hierarchical distributed p2p Internet infrastructure, alternative e-currencies, open source democracy, social enterprise, and tools of empowerment and collective action.<br />
<br />
Organize meetups in your area, and keep us posted on your project's developments, challenges, and needs over on the Contact forums - http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
We'll be aggregating links to everyone's work on a Contact wiki, which will be hosted on the P2P Foundation site. In the meantime, let us know who and what we should be connecting to by emailing us at info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
If you're unable to join us in person for Contact this October, we hope you'll create a Meetup that day in your own area so that this becomes a truly global event.<br />
<br />
*San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Contact/San-Francisco-CA/86976/<br />
<br />
=More Information about related topics=<br />
<br />
*[[Building an Economic Ecosystem for New Business Models and Ideas]]<br />
*[[Introduction to Citizen Intelligence Sources and Methods]]<br />
*[[Concept for Crowd-Sourcing: a Strategic Analytic Model]]<br />
*[[Concept for Participatory Policy-Budget Outreach]]<br />
*[[Internet Work-Around for Egypt and Others]]<br />
<br />
=More Information about the conference=<br />
<br />
Contact with Contact:<br />
<br />
* For press inquiries please contact: press@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For sponsorship inquiries please contact: sponsor@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
* For general/registration inquires please contact: info@contactcon.com<br />
<br />
Form available via http://contactcon.com/contact/<br />
<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
<br />
* Discussion forum, http://contactcon.com/forum/2<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Conferences]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructure]]<br />
[[Category:NextNet]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Seeding_the_Emergence_of_Free_and_Resilient_Communities&diff=51836Seeding the Emergence of Free and Resilient Communities2011-07-23T17:41:29Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>Here are some ideas I'd love to explore in a ContactCon discussion on this topic --<br />
<br />
*[http://MiiU.org/wiki/Charity Charity] - challenge offers to spread local reforms/land grant endowments<br />
*[http://www.slideshare.net/openworld/social-networks-and-free-communities Social networks as catalysts] for creation of free and resilient communities <br />
*[http://is.gd/openworldgame Open World Game] - a virtual game for online groups to map out [http://is.gd/Crowdmoves Crowdmoves] and establish new intentional communities<br />
*[http://miiu.org/wiki/Soft_Power Soft Power] - how a P2P network of free communities might spread <br />
<br />
Background on these ideas at [http://MiiU.org/wiki/openworld under Openworld profile] (see "favorite sites"...) -- look forward to meeting you and discussing at ContactCon! -- [[Openworld]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Seeding_the_Emergence_of_Free_and_Resilient_Communities&diff=51835Seeding the Emergence of Free and Resilient Communities2011-07-23T17:41:07Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>Here are some ideas wI'd love to explore in a ContactCon discussion on this topic --<br />
<br />
*[http://MiiU.org/wiki/Charity Charity] - challenge offers to spread local reforms/land grant endowments<br />
*[http://www.slideshare.net/openworld/social-networks-and-free-communities Social networks as catalysts] for creation of free and resilient communities <br />
*[http://is.gd/openworldgame Open World Game] - a virtual game for online groups to map out [http://is.gd/Crowdmoves Crowdmoves] and establish new intentional communities<br />
*[http://miiu.org/wiki/Soft_Power Soft Power] - how a P2P network of free communities might spread <br />
<br />
Background on these ideas at [http://MiiU.org/wiki/openworld under Openworld profile] (see "favorite sites"...) -- look forward to meeting you and discussing at ContactCon! -- [[Openworld]]</div>Openworldhttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Seeding_the_Emergence_of_Free_and_Resilient_Communities&diff=51828Seeding the Emergence of Free and Resilient Communities2011-07-23T15:03:32Z<p>Openworld: </p>
<hr />
<div>Here are some ideas we'd love to explore in a ContactCon discussion on this topic --<br />
<br />
*[http://MiiU.org/wiki/Charity Charity] - challenge offers to spread local reforms/land grant endowments<br />
*[http://www.slideshare.net/openworld/social-networks-and-free-communities Social networks as catalysts] for creation of free and resilient communities <br />
*[http://is.gd/openworldgame Open World Game] - a virtual game for online groups to map out [http://is.gd/Crowdmoves Crowdmoves] and establish new intentional communities<br />
*[http://miiu.org/wiki/Soft_Power Soft Power] - how a P2P network of free communities might spread <br />
<br />
Background on these ideas at [http://MiiU.org/wiki/openworld under Openworld profile] (see "favorite sites"...) -- look forward to meeting you and discussing at ContactCon! -- [[Openworld]]</div>Openworld