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Description. Open Context enables researchers to publish their primary field data, notes, and media (images, maps, drawings, videos) on the World Wide Web. It provides an easy to use, yet powerful, online database for exploring, searching, and analyzing multiple excavation results, survey datasets, and museum collections.
Description. Jess Scully: "Taiwan’s civic hackers were organized around a leaderless collective called g0v (pronounced “gov zero.”) Many believed in radical transparency, in throwing opaque processes open to the light, and in the idea that everyone who is affected by a decision should have a say in it.
Wamotopia is a testing ground for Prototype Society. Each gathering of Wamians could be the start of incubating a prototype society. Our era demands coordinated efforts to confront systemic societal issues, creating new mechanisms and solutions.
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Jay Walljasper: "The water commons as a concept is easy to understand. And in a time when our planet is threatened by global warming, the importance of the idea is all-too-obvious. Put simply, the water commons means that water is no one’s property; it rightfully belongs to all of humanity and to the earth itself. It is our duty to protect the qual...
"By necessity, but also driven by a different vision, citizens are both effectively resisting threats and creating alternatives. Here are just a few examples: 1. In April 2008, the grassroots group, Coalition against Water Privatization, won a landmark lawsuit, granting people in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, South Africa, the legal right to...
Karen Bakker: "The question of whether water should be treated as a commons or a commodity has a longhistory. In contemporary discussions, this question often occurs in the context of debates over thesharing of responsibility for water supply between the state, the private sector, and citizens. These are pressing issues, given that private corporat...
"In her wide travels studying and speaking out on these issues, Maude Barlow (author of Blue Gold), sees signs of an emerging water commons consciousness. The efforts at this point are largely local, but when added all together she sees potential for a global movement to press claims to water as fundamental right for all. • Uruguay amended its cons...
Daniel Moss: "Across Latin America and Africa, consumer, human rights, and environmental organizations have campaigned successfully for constitutional amendments and laws enshrining water as a human right. At the recent World Water Forum in Instanbul, 25 countries signed a declaration affirming that same right (the official declaration weakly sugge...
Reclaiming Public Water. Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World. By Brid Brennan, et al. download: The groundbreaking book on how reformed public water services can achieve the g...
Many examples of innovative water policies are outlined in a new report, “Local Control and Management of Our Water Commons: Stories of Rising to the Challenge”, at http://www.onthecommons.org/medi...Report: Our Water CommonsIntroduction: Water: commons or commodity?By Karen BakkerDescription Via Hugu Sutej: "The small tribe Qalang Smangus of Atayal people lives in mountain area of northern Taiwan, who has gained great achievement in striving for a sustainable community livelihood and well-being for all beings around us through tribal ...
2019年5月5日 · Description. 1. Gideon Kossoff: "Cosmopolitan Localism is the theory and practice of inter-regional and planet-wide net-working between place-based communities who share knowledge, technology, and re-sources.
Name: Philippe Van Nedervelde, MA Comm. Title: Expert on Sousveillance & Security. Bio: A long-standing "Peace-through-Transparancy" openness-advocate, PVN has endeavored to be instrumental in the mitigation of the geopolitical, defense, security and safety-related risks of major emerging technologies, in particular the exponentially ...
