[liberationtech] Fwd: [cpsr-activists] Communities and Technologies - Case Studies

-- Forwarded message - From: Anna De Liddo Dear colleagues, this may be of interest for people working with technologies to build relations that transform our existing communities in novel, disruptive, positive ways. A = INVITATION LETTER == As chairs of the

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Dear colleagues, we are happy to inform you that - due to many requests - the paper submission deadline for paper submissions and workshop proposals at C 2019 has been extended to ** February 22, 2019 (23:59 CET) ** We hope you will take this opportunity to submit a paper. Please find below the

Re: [liberationtech] [cpsr-activists] CPSR Curriculum?

felt this way but their views seemed to be fairly commonplace — which is why I thought that Dick's comments were probably pretty relevant. — Doug On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:34 PM Yosem Companys wrote: > Why did he think it was a bad idea? > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:29 PM Dou

Re: [liberationtech] [cpsr-activists] CPSR Curriculum?

Good info! I had been talking to Dick Sclove about this recently and he said that adding ethics or social responsibility as a class that graduates had to take was essentially a bad idea. Louis Bucciarelli apparently was using this in the engineering department at MIT. I wonder if this approach

[liberationtech] Open Access The Hackable City (and buried below: A Hacking Atlas)

[Sorry if you've seen this.] I thought I'd mention that The Hackable City is now available online for free (also in a book — not free). My chapter called "A Hacking Atlas: Holistic Hacking in the Urban Theater" is the next to the last one listed so I thought I could mention it here. I talk about

[liberationtech] Transforming Communities: The 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies

*The 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies* *Transforming Communities* *3 - 7 June 2019, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria* The biennial Communities and Technologies (C) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on

[liberationtech] E-Democracy ?!

Here is a bit of a "debate" from August 2018 Communications of the ACM (CACM) pitting a technology-focused approach and a human-centered approach to information and communication tech support for democracy reform. I'd love to know what you think! Please feel free to distribute if you think

[liberationtech] Activist Mirror game is finally ready for public use!

LibTechers, Our Activist Mirror game is finally ready for public use! We probably shouldn't overestimate its value but the people who have used it have enjoyed the experience and found it useful. Please try it yourself and share this note with friends, email lists, and social media. Also — we

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In case you hadn't seen this... How do *we* respond? *What 7 creepy patents reveal about Facebook * *https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/21/opinion/sunday/facebook-patents-privacy.html*

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford Liberationtech Needs Your Help

Moritz' suggestions seem very sound. The Public Sphere Project is a non-profit 501.c.3 organization that's very aligned with the LT mission and would seem to be a good fit. Other org's probably have better tech and deeper pockets however! If I saw any changes I'd like to see the list expand its

Re: [liberationtech] Info on a pre-conference event before rightscon?!

r 27, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Doug Schuler < > doug...@publicsphereproject.org> wrote: > >> >> While I was abroad I received some sort of invitation for a preconference >> event on Tuesday May 15, the day before Rightscon conference in Toronto. It >> s

[liberationtech] Info on a pre-conference event before rightscon?!

While I was abroad I received some sort of invitation for a preconference event on Tuesday May 15, the day before Rightscon conference in Toronto. It seemed pretty relevant and I blocked out time to attend it. Unfortunately I can find no trace of that message at all! Does anybody on this list

[liberationtech] Interesting people to speak with?

I’m currently in Shanghai for the next several weeks and I’m a bit belatedly looking for people, probably academics, who might be interested in getting together for a chat. I’m interested in civic intelligence (collective intelligence for the common good), public problem-solving, pattern

[liberationtech] Twenty-Five Years Later: What Happened to Progressive Tech Policy?

Marc Rotenberg and Larry Irving address that question in Washington Spectator. https://washingtonspectator.org/rotenberg-tech-policy/ This is part of the equation. — Doug -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your Laboratory!

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting! And Toronto is Google's experiment it seems... https://www.wired.com/story/google-sidewalk-labs-toronto-quayside/ — Doug On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: > Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your

[liberationtech] LIMITS Workshop, Call for Papers

This should be a great conference! I hope to see you all there. Please distribute to anybody who might be interested. LIMITS 2018 Fourth Workshop on Computing within Limits May 12-13, Toronto, Canada computingwithinlimits.org ABOUT ACM LIMITS 2018 The

[liberationtech] Fwd: [COMMUNITYTECH] FW: TOMORROW (Tues, 5 pm): Learn how Net Neutrality impacts Muslims & people of color

FYIBegin forwarded message:There’s a Facebook Live event tomorrow (Tuesday, 7/25, 5 pm Seattle time) about the threat to an open internet to Muslims and people of color. Please share it around! The people involved are doing some great organizing to preserve an open internet.Fyi, the City of

Re: [liberationtech] Educational computer use with incarcerated groups

Hi Phil,This is FAR from current but perhaps interesting to this group. The organization Playing to Win in the early 1990's was working on this. I wrote about it a little in my 1996 book.http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ncn/chpt3.htmlAlso possibly of interest, the Sustainability in Prisons

[liberationtech] Imagining a New Public Information and Communication Infrastructure

The idea of a big open-source collaboration for a problem-solving not-for-profit global platform seems to becoming more popular. I wouldn't call it a juggernaut just yet. I wanted to mention my recent article for the Computers and Society Newsletter: "Imagining a New Public Information and

[liberationtech] ~ UPDATE ~ Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World Workshop

*Please distribute to interested people and lists* *Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World * *~~~ UPDATE ~* *Although the deadline for position papers (June 1, 2017) has not changed, we want to encourage people who would like to attend the workshop to submit their position

[liberationtech] Fwd: [PDworld] Communities & Technologies 2017, Troyes, France - Program announced + Early-bird registration until May 11

C 2017 – Technology for the Common Good 26-30 June 2017, Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), France http://comtech.community/ == NEWS * Keynote and accepted papers (long, short, and case studies) announced * Early-bird registration extended to May 11 * Doctoral consortium applications

[liberationtech] CfP ~~~ Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World

Please distribute to interested people and lists *Civic Intelligence in an Uncertain and Threatening World * Call for Workshop Participation Communities and Technologies commtech.community Troyes, France June 26-30, 2017 (the workshop will be on one of the first two days of the

[liberationtech] Interdisciplinary Workshop on DIY and Community Networking

--- Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP --- CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP Networking 2017 Interdisciplinary Workshop on DIY and Community

Re: [liberationtech] Price of the #MuslimBan

Thank you for speaking up Leila! On some level it's very interesting to see a country's democratic ideals being tested so profoundly. But then one remembers (at least for people living in the US) that it is *our* country that's getting trashed. — Doug A Mobilization Story: Patterns for the

[liberationtech] A Mobilization Story: Patterns for the Impending Emergency

On the occasion of Inauguration Day 2017, I've written a kind of an op-ed / story of the future / manifesto that was developed with the help of some patterns from Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution, the book I wrote with 85 other contributors. Please take a look! 

Re: [liberationtech] How to improve representative democracy?

I can't claim that I have the answer (because I don't!) but I'm in favor of civil society launching a bottom-up "grand challenge" to develop what we'd like to see. ("Invent the future") Ultimately it should reach across various boundaries, including national ones. I presented a case for it in my

[liberationtech] Call for Papers ~~~ ACM LIMITS 2017

Call for Papers ACM LIMITS 2017 Third Workshop on Computing within LIMITS June 22-24, 2017 Santa Barbara, CA, USA http://acmlimits.org/2017/ The ACM LIMITS workshop aims to foster discussion on the impact of present and future ecological,

[liberationtech] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure

I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — on the idea of an open-ended, non-profit, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project. I’m not exactly sure what that means but I’m envisioning something that supports a variety of

[liberationtech] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ~~ 14th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) ~~ Aarhus, Denmark, 15 – 19 August 2016

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (apologies for cross-posting) Join us for the 14th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) Aarhus, Denmark, 15 – 19 August 2016 http://pdc2016.org/ The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) is a premier venue for presenting research on the

[liberationtech] against autonomous weapons

In case you haven't seen this... This is an important international campaign seeking signatures from artificial intelligence/robotics researchers and others for a global ban on autonomous weapons. Go to http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter_autonomous_weapons

[liberationtech] Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good ~~~ The actually FINAL FINAL CALL

The actually FINAL FINAL CALL ~~~ Submissions Due May 9th ~~ The actually FINAL FINAL CALL Because the other workshops extended their deadline... :-) = CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION == Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: How Do We Integrate the Disparate

[liberationtech] Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: How Do We Integrate the Disparate Pieces?

= CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION == Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: How Do We Integrate the Disparate Pieces? === Are you interested in new approaches for promoting the common good? Join us at our workshop! 7th

[liberationtech] Workshop CFP ~~ Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good

~ Please forward to relevant people and lists ~ = CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION == Encouraging Collective Intelligence for the Common Good: How Do We Integrate the Disparate Pieces? === Are you interested in new approaches for promoting

[liberationtech] CfP/Deadline Extension Conference Communities Technologies 2015, Limerick, Ireland

CfP/Deadline Extension Conference Communities Technologies 2015, Limerick, Ireland Following a large number of requests received, the Organising Committee has decided to extend the submission deadlines for papers, workshops and tutorials: Important Dates (UPDATED!) • 15 Feb 2015 Full

[liberationtech] Thought experiment for Independence Day...

Thought experiment for Independence Day... How easy would it be to develop a “Public Google” that was distributed across tens of thousands of computers similar to the way that the SETI@home project uses the cycles of computers all over the world? I’m not sure how to keep the NSA out but this

Re: [liberationtech] Google keeps the chat history even you enabled the OTR

Realistically we need to develop an entire suite of publicly owned tools. Could the development and implementation be massively distributed? Or is it over? We lost all the other media In just a few short years, starting in 1998, this company has grown to employ almost 50,000 people

Re: [liberationtech] Rebel radio expert

Some of you may find our Alternative Media in Hostile Environments pattern interesting. http://www.publicsphereproject.org/node/252 It was informed to a large degree by Veran Matic who worked for B92 for many years. (Some of his eloquent writing has been quoted in the pattern!) —Doug

Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?

Yes, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility was dissolved (although the web site is still available.) There is still a need! I think FIFF is a good example and I believe there are several more. I'm hoping to add these to http://publicsphereproject.org/civic_organizations. (Ideally

Re: [liberationtech] [drone-list] How Not to Think About Drones, or Goliath Died for Your Sins

Marshall Ganz talks about the David and Goliath story in terms of social movements. Sometimes the person or group with fewer resources wins… http://inthesetimes.com/article/4552/why_david_sometimes_wins

[liberationtech] Massive Open Online Courses and Beyond: the Revolution to Come

May be of interest… http://truth-out.org/news/item/18120-massive-open-online-courses-and-beyond-the-revolution-to-come First two lines of the article: The New York Times dubbed 2012 the year of the MOOCs - massive open online courses. Suddenly the discourse of MOOCs and the future of the

Re: [liberationtech] An interview with Snowden and more in Der Spiegel

Lets turn this ship around! Exactly! And I assume we have permission to distribute your note, Jacob? Thanks for all this work (everybody). Needless to say, not all of the work before us is technological… — Doug Douglas Schuler doug...@publicsphereproject.org

Re: [liberationtech] TOMORROW: NEW Stanford Undergrad CLUB

Very cool! That's how these things get started. -- Doug On May 7, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Zak Whittington wrote: Introducing ALT: The Association for Liberation Technology. We are a student group at Stanford focused on extending the LibTech program to involve undergrads as well. We're

Re: [liberationtech] FWD.us job descriptions in SF NYC

Not sure if this was mentioned but this group also apparently supports the Keystone XL pipeline. (I don't see that listed in the list below… I also didn't see it in their nostalgic photo of immigrants on their front page)

[liberationtech] Creating the World Parliament: Seven Challenges for Interactions Designers

! I’m also interested in any and all pointers to relevant information. — Doug Schuler, Public Sphere Project Douglas Schuler doug...@publicsphereproject.org -- Public Sphere Project http

[liberationtech] Participatory Design Conference PDC'14 - First call for papers

Call for Papers: The 13th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) in Windhoek, Namibia. 6. – 10. October 2014 www.pdc2014.org Join us in Windhoek, Namibia in 2014 to celebrate the 13th Participatory Design Conference (PDC). The conference theme of the PDC 2014 is “Reflecting

Re: [liberationtech] Disturbing

This is one way to register a complaint: http://capwiz.com/fabbs/home/ Are there others? BTW, what about other social sciences? Just political science?? -- Doug On Mar 21, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: WASHINGTON, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being

[liberationtech] Please help me with an image (or more than one!) ~~~ Last 20 missing images…

As some on this list know, I worked with 85+ people to develop a pattern language for civic engagement which is online (http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/LV) and was published as a book in 2008.(The buttons to scroll through the 136 patterns are at the bottom of the pages)

[liberationtech] Fwd: [Urban Politics] CREATING LOCAL PROGRESS - Urban Politics #328, 11/26/2012

An interesting and possibly useful initiative in the states…. An example of what I call *civic intelligence* -- Doug Begin forwarded message: From: Licata, Nick nick.lic...@seattle.gov Subject: [Urban Politics] CREATING LOCAL PROGRESS - Urban Politics #328, 11/26/2012 Date: November

Re: [liberationtech] UN Body Wants Control over Internet Governance

I'm a little sorry that I passed this along…. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/technology/debunking-rumors-of-an-internet-takeover.html The absence of a link to the document should have been the tip off. -- Doug On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Hi André, Have you read

Re: [liberationtech] Obama Press Conference

I'd like to think that liberationtech would include grassroots citizen efforts. -- Doug On Nov 9, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: Did anyone just watch the Obama press conference? CNN mentions that Obama is going to reach out to grassroots citizen efforts to help him solve US

Re: [liberationtech] First World Internet freedom problem

FUN FACT! British school lunches were the origin of the yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye line in the I am the Walrus song (by the Beatles, of course). I was delighted to find fact in one of the Opie books. -- Doug On Jun 15, 2012, at 8:34 AM, James Losey wrote: Ban

[liberationtech] PDC'2012 Call For Participation (Deadline, early bird registration: June 15th)

www.pdc2012.org Deadline for early-bird registration: June 15th 2012 PDC 2012 call for participation Join us in Roskilde, Denmark in 2012 to celebrate the 12th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC), which is back-to-back with SCIS/IRIS in nearby Uppsala. The conference theme for PDC