[P2P-F] Fwd: Call for Book Chapters: SDG18 - Communication for All

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Jan Servaes <9freen...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:23 PM
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: SDG18 - Communication for All
To: Alankar Kaushik , ACMC Secretariat <
secretar...@asianmediacongress.org>, Acunzo, Mario (DPSA) <
mario.acu...@fao.org>


*SDG18-Communication for All*

Call for Chapters

Abstracts expected by 10 June 2021


The 2030 agenda for development or what is known as the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively
agreed by 193 countries in human history. In 2015, the UN Member States
adopted the 17 SDGs as a framework that would help address the challenges
being faced by humanity. From eradicating poverty, ending hunger, providing
universal access to healthcare and education, addressing climate change; to
the partnering of individuals, philanthropists and nation states to achieve
the global goals.


Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda for development comprising key
stakeholders from all sectors of all life forgot to dedicate one goal on
the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. Such an oversight has
attracted the attention of media and communication scholars alike,
journalists and policy makers who understand that it is nearly impossible
to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of
communication in development.


The COVID-19 pandemic which struck in 2019 has shown why communication is
essential to human survival. The Pandemic which started as a health crisis
and later metamorphosed into a full-blown economic crisis is now having a
direct and indirect impact on the possibility of achieving each of the
SDGs. The Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021 says the global
economy has experienced the worst recession in 90 years, with the most
vulnerable segments of societies disproportionately affected. An estimated
114 million jobs have been lost, and about 120 million people have been
plunged back into extreme poverty (https://developmentfinance.un.org/).


A major lesson that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic was the role of
communication in providing support for the survival of the global economy
and society as a whole. The global community became more attached to the
traditional and social media in order to understand the nature of the
virus, how it spreads and measures needed to curtail the spread of the
infection.


Social, economic and educational life moved from physical to a now
universally accepted virtual life style. Key global industries resorted to
working from home. Virtual meetings by heads of states are now normal and
remote education from primary to tertiary levels are gaining ground by the
day.


Following the global lockdown, the resilience needed to survive the
pandemic largely rested on the shoulders of the available communication
infrastructure. *Zoom,* which had an average of 19 million daily users in
December 2019 now averages 300 million users per day. *Teams, *developed as
a tool for remote work has 145 million daily users as announced by
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in April 2021.


A study by the *World Health Organization* shows rapid increase in remote
consultation in the healthcare industry, especially in UK, France, Malta,
Germany, Poland, Luxemburg and Austria. Between March and April 2020, 5.5
million people received online consultation from 36,000-56,000 physicians
in France (Richardson et al 2020). The pandemic also exposed major
development challenges such as digital inequality. According to the UN,
COVID-19 has forced the closure of schools in 191 countries affecting 1.5
billion students and 63 million primary and secondary school teachers (UN
News 2020).


Essentially development has become a communication issue and communication
is a development issue. How could such a vital pillar of life be missing in
the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?


Therefore, *we invite high-quality submissions from authors that would
explore the notion of SDG18 (Communication for All).*


Building on the works of Lee and Vargas (2020), Yusha’u and Servaes (2021)
and Servaes (2017), we see SDG18 (Communication for all) as inevitable in
achieving the 2030 Agenda for Development. *We welcome critical submissions
and high-quality research that explore this topic in relation to, but not
limited to the following:*



   * SDG18-Communication for all, targets and indicators.

   * Role of SDG-18 in the realization of each of the 17 SDGs earlier
   agreed by the UN.

   * Why the SDGs should be revisited to include SDG18-Communication for
   all.

   * Why SDG-18 is essential in post-COVID-19 economic recovery.

   * SDG18 and remote working (Work from Home).

   * SDG18 and Communication for Development and Social Change.

   * SDG18 and the new normal in post-COVID-19 World.

   * SDG18 and the World in 2030.

   * SDG18 and Fake News.

   * SDG18 and the role of mass media in development.

   * Role of SDG18 in containing future pandemics.

  

[P2P-F] Fwd: Join FAB16 this summer!

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: The Fab Foundation 
Date: Wed, May 5, 2021 at 8:36 AM
Subject: Join FAB16 this summer!
To: 


FAB16 is the 17th edition of the International conference in digital
fabrication of the Fab Lab Network, taking place this year in Montréal,
Canada.


WELCOME
*FAB16 Montréal | Canada #Fabricating the Commons*
FAB16
,
the annual international Fab Lab Network conference, brings members of the
Fab Lab community together with government representatives, academic
researchers and experts, to present, vision, explore, collaborate and
create across the fields of digital fabrication, manufacturing, technology
and innovation.

Under the theme *Fabricating the Commons*, the event will highlight Fab
Labs as a community of practice,  production and social
action through knowledge-sharing around tools, designs, innovative
processes and collaborative and distributed production. Fab Labs provide
resources and open knowledge for the common good, for the community,  for
the environment - engaging in collaborative, democratic,
participatory innovation. And participants in FAB16 will explore and
experience the transformative potential of fabricating the commons.

FAB16 attendees participate from more than 2000 Fab Labs across the world
and include: fabbers, makers, engineerings, eco-friendly designers,
artists, teachers, researchers, academics, experts from industry and more.
Throughout the week of *online and in-person* activities, attendees
can take part in this hybrid, distributed event. The conference will
offer hands-on workshops, talks by outstanding researchers and leaders, a
day of content-rich FAB-TV from the network, a festival of
making, all focussed on what our sustainable future looks like and how we
build that future together. The conference  culminates in the Fab City
Summit - three days during which we explore how to become locally
productive and globally connected cities and citizens.

*Visit our website

for all of the details you need regarding registration
,
participation

and more! *


PARTICIPATE


*Call for workshops!*

Under the theme #FabricatingTheCommons, FAB16
,
from August 9th to August 12th, 2021, is a hybrid and distributed event! We
welcome proposals from all over the world to engage in hands-on and
theoretical workshops! You can offer workshops to your local community
in-person, to the global community online, or perhaps a hybrid version of
both in-person and online from Montréal or from your home lab!

Fill out the form

to participate.




*Call for pre-recorded content!*

This year we have new formats of applications! Discover and participate
with pre-recorded content with FAB World, Fabercise, Fab Cinema and more

Present your pre-recorded content during FAB16 online! Discover and
participate with FAB World, Fabercise, Fab Cinema and more!

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to
participate!

REGISTRATION





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*Monday, August 9 *
Inauguration, FAB Symposium, Workshops

*Tuesday, August 10*
FAB Symposium, Academany graduation*, Workshops

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FAB TV - A day of Broadcasting from around the world

*Thursday, August 12*
FAB Symposium, Workshops

*Friday, August 13*
Fab City Summit

[P2P-F] Fwd: [commoning] Two Events Celebrating the Life and Contribution of Alexander Bogdanov

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: orsan senalp via Commoning 
Date: Wed, May 5, 2021 at 4:31 PM
Subject: [commoning] Two Events Celebrating the Life and Contribution of
Alexander Bogdanov
To: Commoning 


The Centre for Systems Studies

Online, 2 - 3 June

Two Events Celebrating the Life and Contribution of Alexander Bogdanov

Alexander Bogdanov was one of the most creative and inspiring figures of
the 20th Century. His utopian novel, Red Star, started the genre of
Bolshevik science fiction, and he was the founder of the world’s first
haematology institute. He was a leader of the Russian Bolsheviks,
working with Lenin, at the turn of the last century, and he produced the
first systematic study of ideology, consciousness, and cultural hegemony
from a Marxian point of view, decades before the emergence of so-called
critical, western, or neo-Marxist approaches.

The year 2021 marks the centenary of the beginning of the demise of
Bogdanov. Lenin republished his Materialism and Empiriocriticsm and
launched an attack on Proletkult in 1920, which resulted in Bogdanov
stepping down from his role in this movement in the following year. With
Stalin’s rise to power and Bogdanov’s early death in 1928, one of the
most significant contributions made to human culture was lost for
several decades.

The rediscovery of Bogdanov’s work began in Russia in the 1960s.
Official recognition of Bogdanov and his place in history occurred in
the Glasnost and Perestroika period of the late 1980s. Since then,
Bogdanov’s work has gained increasing acclaim in his homeland and
beyond. As renowned systems thinker Fritjof Capra famously pointed out,
Bogdanov’s “Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to
arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization
operating in living and nonliving systems”. Since Capra made this claim
in 1996, Bogdanov has been recognised as the first systematiser of
systems thinking. However, the deserved global full recovery and
recognition of Bogdanov’s contribution has yet to come about. But, a
century after the beginning of his demise, it seems like a breakthrough
is happening. In 2019, the first Systems World of Bogdanov conference
was organised by the Financial University in Moscow, with more than 105
papers being presented. The second of these biennial conferences is
planned for the autumn of 2021.

With the aim of promoting awareness of Bogdanov’s work, the Centre for
Systems Studies is hosting two associated events that celebrate his life
and contribution. The first of these events is the Annual Mike Jackson
Lecture and the second one is an online mini-symposium. Please note that
you will need to register for each event separately (registering for one
doesn’t automatically give you access to the other).

Event Page:
https://execeducation.hull.ac.uk/the-centre-for-systems-studies-annual-mike-jackson-lecture/
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