When: Wednesday, August 3, 6:30 - 8:30PM Location Akamai, 150 Broadway (8 Cambridge Center), Cambridge, MA
Directions http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html Also easily accessibly by T. Notes 1) Please note the location is different from BLU's standard MIT meeting location. 2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space and 'free as in food' for this meeting. Thank you to our sponsor! http://www.akamai.com/ 3) RSVP is not required, but helps me plan food. You can RSVP by emailing me or RSVP'ing on Meetup.com: http://meetu.ps/2XBX9t Summary The Platform Cooperativism movement calls for an Internet of Ownership. It is a vision for online platforms that share democratic ownership and governance with their stakeholders, especially those who contribute their labor and personal data. * What is the role of the millions of people who contribute to social networks in governing their behavior? * What role can free software play in Platform Cooperativism? * What other movements does it intersect with? Join us as Benjamin Melançon, leads us into a exploration of these questions and the future of technology and cooperation, or as William Gibson said: "The future is already here— it’s just not very evenly distributed." Resources * Platform Cooperativism: http://platformcoop.net/ * The Internet of Ownership: http://internetofownership.net/ About Our Speaker Benjamin Melançon is a co-founder of Agaric, a web development and strategy consultancy which helps people create and use powerful Internet technology. The principals of Agaric, a worker-owned cooperative, live and work to connect ideas, resources, and people. Learn more about Agaric and Benjamin here: * http://agaric.com/ * http://agaric.com/people/benjamin-melan%C3%A7on Thank you to Akamai for providing space for this talk and pizza. To learn more about Akamai, please visit https://www.akamai.com. _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
