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Business of the House
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| We are entering an era in which the mark of
| an open society is the way in which it
| guarantees access to open knowledge through
| the internet. It is therefore vital that
| liberal democracies do not send mixed
| signals to closed societies that seek to
| restrict internet freedoms for their
| citizens. The anti-counterfeiting trade
| agreement that is being discussed in Mexico
| might inadvertently do that, so may we have
| a debate in the House so that hon. Members
| can test that notion and find out more
| about our negotiating position?
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http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2010-01-28a.955.3
The commons as a common paradigm for social movements and beyond
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| We can only promote the commons as a new
| narrative for the 21st century if they are
| identified as a common denominator by
| different social movements and schools of
| thought. In my point of view, enforcing the
| commons would be not only possible, but
| strategically intelligent. Here are 15
| reasons why:
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| 1. The commons are everywhere. They
| determine our quality of life in great
| many ways. They are present (even though
| often invisible) in the social, natural,
| cultural and digital sphere. Think about
| the things we use to learn (read and
| write), the things we use to move (land,
| air and sea), the things we use to
| communicate (language, music and code),
| the things we use to feed and heal
| (land, water, medicine) or the things
| our reproduction depends on (genes,
| social life). The commons is about how
| we share and use all these things.
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http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/the-commons-as-a-common-paradigm-for-social-movements-and-beyond/
GEEKS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: ANOTHER (CYBER)WORLD IS POSSIBLE by Kate Milberry
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| This dissertation is an exploration of
| alternative visions of social organization
| beyond the horizon of capitalism.
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http://www.fsdaily.com/blog/geeks-and-global-justice-another-cyber-world-possible-kate-milberry
Drug Discovery, Open-Source Style
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| âWe are putting into practice the
| philosophy of open-source software: that
| given enough eyeballs, all bugs are
| shallow.â So says Zakir Thomas, project
| director of Open Source Drug Discovery, or
| OSDD. Established in India, OSDD has
| established a novel open-source platform
| for both computational and experimental
| technologies to make drug discovery for
| infectious and neglected diseases cost
| effective and affordable to the people of
| the developing world.
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http://www.bio-itworld.com/2010/01/26/OSDD.html
Recent:
Public Domain Manifesto
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| The Public Domain is the rule, copyright
| protection is the exception. Since
| copyright protection is granted only with
| respect to original forms of expression,
| the vast majority of data, information and
| ideas produced worldwide at any given time
| belongs to the Public Domain. In addition
| to information that is not eligible for
| protection, the Public Domain is enlarged
| every year by works whose term of
| protection expires. The combined
| application of the requirements for
| protection and the limited duration of the
| copyright protection contribute to the
| wealth of the Public Domain so as to ensure
| access to our shared culture and knowledge.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/26/public-domain-manife.html
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