[cc-community] Green at the iSummit or "Commons and Social Change"
Burobjorn
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Fri Apr 4 04:38:11 EDT 2008
+1
I agree with Giorgos. It will prevent overstretching the summit, while
also keeps and open mind for other issues.
grtz
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Giorgos Cheliotis 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?
>
> "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.
>
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> Giorgos
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