[cc-community] Green at the iSummit or "Commons and Social Change"
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Apr 2 09:45:16 EDT 2008
+1 to this, beautifully said, and to what Fred said re actually
greening the summit.
By the way, this should be on the icommons list, so please reply there.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Giorgos Cheliotis <giorgos at smu.edu.sg> wrote:
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> I think it's clear that there is great interest in stretching the agenda
> of the summit a bit beyond its traditional boundaries, although there
> are also valid concerns about stretching it too much. Dedicating an
> entire track to "green" issues would lead many to ask why the summit is
> stretching so much into a specific area that only partly overlaps with
> typical isummit themes.
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> Allow me to propose an alternative: why not consider for this year's
> summit or for next year a "Commons and Social Change" track, i.e. a
> track on how free culture and the digital commons movement can instigate
> social change or influence as well as learn from broader sociopolitical
> movements?
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> "Green" issues would belong to such a track, but I think we should make
> space for a broader set of links between social issues, movements for
> change and the summit.
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> These links are already apparent in the works and words of some of the
> leaders of the movement. For example, I believe Lessig is moving from
> "Change Copyright" to "Change Congress" for a reason: there is a direct
> connection between the two and some of the same underlying motivations.
> Also, when Benkler talks about Networks and the Sharing Economy, he is
> advocating a new model of organization of production, and this also goes
> well beyond the main themes of the summit. When Boyle talks about
> Cultural Environmentalism, he is borrowing some of the language of
> environmentalists to advocate a broader culture of preservation of
> resources of common value, and this could be any type of resources,
> again going beyond both the isummit agenda and the green agenda.
>
> Such topics, which are of interest to many of us, if not all of us,
> deserve a platform, a space to be heard, discussed and possibly turned
> into actionable items. Dedicating a track to these themes might be very
> beneficial.
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> Giorgos
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