[cc-community] [Icommons] Green at the iSummit or "Commons and Social Change"

Heather Ford heather at icommons.org
Fri Apr 4 02:37:28 EDT 2008


On 02 Apr 2008, at 3:45 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> +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:
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>  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?

Great idea, Giorgos :) I think that this fits really well into the  
Local Context Global Commons track which deals very specifically with  
this, so perhaps we can focus one or two sessions there on Green  
issues :) I think it will be important to focus on the intersection  
between the commons and environmental movements specifically here -  
in the past it's clear that it's better to dedicate sessions to a  
particular focussed discussion of two movements rather than making it  
too broad.

James?

Best,
Heather.


>>
>>  "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.
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>
>>  Giorgos
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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