nettime Walking G20 Borders

2014-11-08 Thread Suzon Fuks
Hi! It's been some months that we are building up this art activism action, here in Brisbane as many world leaders are gathering in town next week 14-16 Nov. Please consider responding to this call and share it Warm regards, Suzon - Waterwheel, Make Share about Water

Re: nettime FW: Blogpost: Smart Cities vs. Smart Communities: Enabling Markets or Empowering Citizens

2014-11-08 Thread Mark Simpkins
Thanks for posting this, I have been trying to use the idea of the 'smart-er citizen', but this is really an analogue to the community level thinking that you mention. Rather than encourage the use of top down technology/control systems that are sold by the big technology players I have been

Re: nettime FW: Blogpost: Smart Cities vs. Smart Communities: Enabling Markets or Empowering Citizens

2014-11-08 Thread Mark Simpkins
Thanks for posting this, I have been trying to use the idea of the 'smart-er citizen', but this is really an analogue to the community level thinking that you mention. Rather than encourage the use of top down technology/control systems that are sold by the big technology players I have been

Re: nettime FW: Blogpost: Smart Cities vs. Smart Communities: Enabling

2014-11-08 Thread morlockelloi
The problem is more fundamental, but was encountered before: literacy. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illiteracy_france.png - we're somewhere in the computer literacy where France was in the traditional literacy in early 1700s. And it will probably take us as long to get