Peer2Politics

On boell.de/en the Green Foundation named after Heinrich Böll presents itself in publications, dossiers and events in text, audio and video.

Sameh Zeid writes about how he integrates Prune the Product Treeinto building product roadmaps in this recentpost; he includes an adaption of our standard Prune the Product Tree poster, organizing the tree metaphor along a time horizon (foundation, one year, blue sky) and by designer and user.

 

Everyvote.org is developing and providing software that makes it easy to know your candidates, their views, and others’ views about them, all collected in one place for easy access.

 

I am especially interested in NATO and White SOF as well as emerging regional associations that want to create M4IS2 Decision-Support Centres (MDSC) and push back on external influences that are both toxic and untruthful.  Most of our policies — for example the war on drugs — are hypocritical, unaffordable, and not based on ethical evidence.  The time for the world to get a grip on reality and begin bothOSC and  M4IS2 is now.  Will gladly accept corporate funding of travel on a business development basis.

Exploring the potential created by the new information technology in disrupting the equilibrium of social forces. Advising activist organizations on how to use different applications of the information technology to their advantage.

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Working Title: "Public Health, Seeds, Open Knowledge and Clean Tech: A Common(s) Pathway? - Discussing a Commons-based Knowledge Transfer and Innovation System"

Co-creating ..

.. is a term we’re starting to hear very often, and perhaps too often too soon.   I think it might cheapen and mis-direct the important process of making deep changes to the ‘colonization’ (by the rampant corporatism of today) of the exchanges between people that are necessary to create almost anything that finds form and expression.  

P2P (peer-to-peer) Urbanism joins ideas from the open-source software movement together with new thinking by urbanists, into a discipline oriented towards satisfying human needs. P2P-Urbanism is concerned with cooperative and creative efforts to define space for people’s use. This essay explains P2P-Urbanism as the outcome of several historical processes, describes the cooperative participation schemes that P2P-Urbanism creates, and indicates the possible outcomes of applying P2P-Urbanism in different human environments.

WikiSpeed is a social enterprise applying cutting-edge collaboration techniques from the open-source software world, to solve problems for social good.

Een idee in een vroeg stadium maar met veel potentieel. Alles hangt van de bevolking zelf af. Zijn er mensen genoeg die hier aan willen werken? "L

Here is some news that the conservative critics of Venezuela's leftist government will not publicize. The Chavistas announced that a new labour law, part of which will grant recognition to non-salaried work traditionally done by women, will come into effect this week. Full-time mothers will now be able to collect a pension.

 

 

Somewhere today, a loose-knit group of activists who are having fun is dropkicking a rich, established organization so hard they are making heads spin. Rich and resourceful organizations are used to living by the golden rule – “those with the gold make the rules”. New ways of organizing go beyond just breaking the old rules into downright shredding them – leaving executives in the dust, wondering how that band of poor, rag-tag, disorganized activists could possibly have beaten their rich, well-structured organization.