D-CENT Roundtable: Technologies for network democracy and citizen actions

Democracy Pilots Projectadmin 30th July 2015

On the 8th of July 2015 D-CENT took part at the second International conference organised by CAPS2015 (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation) in Brussels.

Managing the Knowledge Commons: Interview with Carlo Vercellone

Democracy Pilots Projectadmin 17th July 2015

Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.

Interview with Dr. Carlo Vercellone, one of the leading theorists of cognitive capitalism and economist at the CNRS Lab of The Sorbonne Economic Centre (Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, CES).

The future of the Web should be truly open, surveillance-free and enhance citizens’ rights

Democracy Pilots Projectadmin 1st July 2015

Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.

The 2015 Web We Want festival edition launched with a Q&A evening session on Thursday the 28th with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee discussed the future of the web and his vision of instituting a successful Bill of Rights for the Web.

During the opening interview, Tim Berners Lee covered a broad range of topics such as limiting the surveillance powers of State Agencies and corporations; providing equal Internet access as basic human right; re-appropriation of data and data control by citizens, privacy and security by design; Net neutrality and copyright reform.