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FLOK Society is a project in Ecuador that aims to create a “free, libre, open knowledge” society. It is a project of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, in cooperation with the Coordinator Ministry of Knowledge and Human Resource and the National Secretary of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation. The ‘Summit of the Good Living’ in late May will bring together activists and well-known national and international researchers.
Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) and the Systems Security Laboratory (SSL) of the University of Piraeus organizes a two day event with the objective to provide a forum to academia, industry and policy makers in the field of privacy technology and legislation.
Privacy is a fundamental need and a basic right. However, often it seems that the utility of electronic communication devices comes with the cost of privacy.
Furthermore, civil security discussions often get the spin that there is a clear and unavoidable trade off with privacy. The academic community maintains the motion that privacy can be protected without utility or security loss. However, this is often not reflected in IT products or civil security policy.
The Annual Privacy Forum 2014 encourages dialog with panel discussions and provides room for exchange of ideas in between the sessions.
re:publica is Europe’s largest conference on weblogs, social media, and the digital society. It sees itself as a political, cultural, and particularly as a very young conference. Over the years, it has has evolved from its founding in 2007 as a blogger meeting, with 700 visitors, to THE event for internet enthusiasts and professionals.
This year’s theme INTO THE WILD is an encouragement for unconventional ideas and projects. In light of the post-Snowden era the conference organizers are looking for future orientated, reflective, smart, and entertaining contributions on the topics of politics & society, science & technology, culture & entertainment, education, health, and business.
OuiShare Fest 14 will explore “The Age of Communities”. Connected by shared values, knowledge, resources or by digital and physical spaces, communities are transforming cities, organizations and civic action everywhere in the world.
OuiShare Fest joins together 1000 collaborative economy visionaires. They come together for three days of conference, co-creating and connecting.
At this year’s conference, entrepreneurs and social innovators, non-profit and business leaders, grassroots activists and public officials will gather in one place to build a common vision of a collaborative society.
The LeanUX conference is an in-depth, hands-on LeanUX conference dedicated to designing great products, effective teams, and supportive companies. This year’s 3-day event offers 40 Speakers and 25 Workshops.
What are some of the leading thinkers on product design thinking about these day? How are organizations incorporating Lean Startup, LeanUX, and Design Thinking into their organizations to remove wasteful practice and focus on delivering real value to their customers as well as the business for top-line growth?
The LeanUX conference will advance your knowledge and skills on design, customer discovery, product/market fit, decision-making, process design, with theory-informed practice, principles to guide teams, and hands-on workshops.
The World Wide Web Conference is an annual international conference on the topics of the future direction of the World Wide Web. The 2014 conference will offer high quality technical activities including research sessions, workshops, and tutorial. Tracks will be include the research track, demonstration track, developers track, and practice and experience track.
FutureEverything is a two day conference, world premières of participatory artworks, and a city-wide programme of innovative live music.
Now in its 19th year, FutureEverything brings people together to discover, share and experience new ideas about the future. Pioneering the idea of a ‘festival as laboratory’, it combines innovative art and performance with new technology, insightful discussion and playful social experimentation. The conference bringing together over 700 international delegates from design, urbanism, art, business and academia.
This workshop brings together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss the potential for standards covering Web payments with a view to making it easier for service providers to monetize Web applications, and provide an effective alternative to the native app ecosystem.
We would like to improve the end user experience and give users greater freedom in how they pay, to reduce the burden on developers and merchants, and to create a level playing field for payment solutions providers.
We are expecting broad participation from financial institutions, governments, mobile network operators, payment solution providers, technology companies, retailers, and content creators. The workshop will seek to establish a broad roadmap for work on open standards for Web payments, along with some concrete proposals for initial steps along the road.
The workshop is organised by the World Wide Web Consortium to explore the potential for defining open standards for Web payments that enable end-users to pick the means of payment from the solutions installed in their wallet or device. The event is free of charge although a statement of interest or position paper is needed.
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D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating decentralised and privacy-aware tools and applications for direct democracy and economic empowerment. On March 14th we will host the D-CENT launch event in London at Nesta and we would like to invite you to attend the event and participate in the open space sessions.
Together with the citizens and developers, we are creating a decentralised social networking platform for large-scale collaboration and decision-making. Despite the huge potential of online networks to transform democratic decision making or to enable citizens to shape their own economic destiny, today’s Internet has done little to transform current democratic and economic institutions.
On March 14th we will host the D-CENT launch event in London at Nesta and we would like to invite you to attend the event and participate in the working group sessions.
The event will draw a number of high-level policy makers, academics, activists, civic society organisations, and hackers from the field. Together we will dive into new ways of strengthening citizens’ participation and deliberation in the political process presenting already existing digital tools for open democracy, new frameworks for institutional innovation, and alternative economic models based on complementary currencies and digital crypto currencies.
Speakers include: Geoff Mulgan, Nesta; Birgitta Jonsdottir, Pirate Party Iceland; Paul Lenz, My Society; Javier Toret Medina, PartidoX Spain; Jarmo Eskelinen, Forum Virium Helsinki; Bernard Lietaer; Stacy Herbet, co-host of Keiser report on RT; Carlos de Freitas (Ph.D), Instituto Palmas Europe; and Andrea Fumagalli, Unisor and Pavia University.
09:00 Registration
09:30-10:15 Welcome and Introduction of D-CENT project
Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission Introduction to the EC initiative CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation)
D-CENT Overall Vision, Francesca Bria, Nesta
Networked Democracy D-CENT pilots:
10:15-11:45
Panel Discussion, chaired by Geoff Mulgan: Rebooting democracy: rethinking participation and institutional innovation
Birgitta Jonsdottir, Pirate Party Iceland
Davide Barillari, M5S Italy
Tom Steinberg, mySociety
Javier Toret Medina, PartidoX Spain
Jarmo Eskelinen, Forum Virium Helsinki
Meg Hillier MP, Digital Democracy Commission, House of Commons
Pia Mancini, Director of Net Democracy
11:45 Coffee Break
12:15-13:45 Panel Discussion, chaired by Bernard Lietaer: Digital currencies and new economic institutions
Stacy Herbert, co-host of Keiser report on RT
Carlos de Freitas, Instituto Palmas Europe and FMDV – Global Fund for Cities
Andrea Fumagalli, Unisor Pavia University
John Clippinger, MIT and ID3
Felix Martin, Author of Money, The Unauthorized Biography
13:45 Lunch
14:45-17:00 Working groups with 15 min break at 15:45 – 16:00
Group 1: New institutional Models linked to new currencies (Facilitator Denis Roio)
Group2: Democracy infrastructures: Projects pechakucha. Gap analysis and model for collaboration (Facilitator Jon Kingsbury)
Group3: Protocols for decentralized trust networks and identity (Facilitator Harry Halpin)
17:00 Wrap-up and conclusions: How do Reboot democracy and reinvent institutions in Europe
The Personal Democracy Forum Poland-Central Eastern Europe will gather hundreds of activists, policy-makers, bloggers and journalists to explore the interaction between open internet and open democracy.
The Personal Democracy Forum conference is an annual event held in New York City that began in 2004. It follows how the internet is changing politics, governance, and advocacy. In 2013, the event was organised in Poland for the first time, as regional conference.
See the programme here: https://personaldemocracy.com/conferences/europe/2014-pl/program
