Text and pictures: Robert Bjarnason
D-CENT was represented at a panel at the Open Government Partnership summit (OGP) in Mexico in October 2015. Robert Bjarnason from Citizens Foundation took part in a panel titled “Supporting the use of tech for the next stage of open government models”. Read more +
Helsinki is a pioneer in opening all municipal decision in structured open data. This makes Helsinki an ideal candidate for exploring the opportunities of turning each municipal decision into a Social Object. The internet is full of services that have turned various things into objects of social interaction. IMDB has done this for movies, Airbnb for short-term rental apartments, Flickr for photos. Could public decisions act as Social Objects? Read more +
Nesta invites you to Digital Democracy to showcase the development of the D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens Engagement Technologies) tools and to explore the opportunities for the further activity in a UK context.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/d-cent-showcase-and-opportunities-for-uk-digital-democracy-registration-19422166222
Link to the original article: http://effimera.org/sperimentare-circuiti-monetari-complementari-il-progetto-europeo-d-cent-di-gabriele-toccaceli
L’articolo che qui pubblichiamo contribuisce ad approfondire alcuni aspetti dei circuiti di moneta complementare che sfruttano le più recenti tecnologie riconoscendo al contempo la necessità di evitare che le regole relative all’emissione monetaria siano risolte senza una discussione politica bottom-up. Sono aspetti emersi nel convegno sulla Moneta del Comune tenutosi a Milano il 21 e 22 giugno 2014 (i cui atti sono stati pubblicati da Alfabeta in collaborazione con Derive/Approdi) come anche più di recente, il 3 e 4 ottobre scorso, nel convegno organizzato da Effimera “Sovvertire l’infelicità”. Read more +
D-CENT has opened a brand new tools page! Visit tools.dcentproject.eu to learn why you should use D-CENT and what our tools can be used for. Get to know our pilots and see D-CENT tools in action. Read more +
ICT2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform was held on the 20-22 October in Lisbon, Portugal. The 3-day event is EU’s biggest digital research event in 2015. It attracted more than 7000 ICT professionals. The conference discussed how to make a fully digitised economy and society a reality in Europe. D-CENT was showcasing its tools in the exhibition area among around 100 best-in-class results of European ICT Research & Innovation projects. Read more +
Interviewing Evgeny Morozov, is a historian of technology, author and editor at journals such as the Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and the Financial Times, and of books such as The Net Delusion: the dark side of Internet freedom, To Save Everything, Click Here, and Le mirage numerique soon out in France.
“Citizens are not just vehicles and machines for consuming more songs on Spotify, films on Netflix, entertainment or stuff from Amazon. In Europe there’s still this desire to think of citizens as active participants in the public sphere. It is people who organise, lit citizen movements and do occasionally uprisings. Who participate in all forms of decent”, Morozov reminds.
D-CENT interview: Evgeny Morozov from D-CENT on Vimeo.
The October issue of the ERCIM News publishes an article about the D-CENT Project, written by Harry Halpin of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The article, titled Decentralized Social Software for Political Autonomy, describes our efforts to build applications for the common good. W3C is one of the D-CENT project partners.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
Picture: Alexander Klink
Denis Roio (aka Jaromil) is a researcher in philosophy of technology, artist and software artisan whose creations are endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. He has been involved in Bitcoin since the early days and since 2000 he has been dedicated to building Dyne.org, a software house gathering the contributions of a growing number of developers who value social responsibility above profit.
Jaromil is leading D-CENT development of Freecoin, a blockchain-enabled digital social currency and has been invited at the reinvent.money event on the 26th of September by organiser Paul Buitink to explore the opportunities of Bitcoin beyond its function as currency.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
During the last few years, the internet economy has been mainly developing using a business model that offers services for free to the end users, but at the same time creates profits by mining, aggregating, and selling personal and social data for commercial and surveillance purposes. Therefore, the lives of internet users are continuously electronically tracked, analysed, clustered and segmented in profiles and graphs: personal data as a commodity for the “markets of identity“, with large implications on the users’ privacy and the rights related to personal data. Read more +
