The Donkey Drawn Libraries were developed to provide library extension and outreach services to remote communities in the Nkayi District in north-western Zimbabwe. It is estimated that the literacy rate in this district is around 86% and this is largely a
Loretta Napoleonis krönika i ETC, sept 2009. "Vakna upp innan det är försent." Begreppet feodal demokrati."Bekämpandet av terrorismens finansiering, de väpnade gruppernas blodomlopp, föll snart i glömska. Sedan attacken den 11 september 2001 har motsvaran
31.3.2010. "Kommissionen har utarbetat närmare regler ... antalet underskrifter från ett land [ska] stå i proportion till landets folkmängd – 4 500 underskrifter för de minsta länderna och 72 000 för Tyskland...När 300 000 underskrifter från minst tre län
Legislative Observatory: INI/2008/2239 Procedure file, legislative dossier - The European Parliament adopted by 406 votes to 168, with 187 abstentions, a resolution calling on Member States to regard the second strategic energy review as a basis for imple
En utskrift från Expressens nätupplaga, Expressen.se . Ledare av Johanna Nylander 7august 2009. "Offentlighetsprincipen kommer inte att hålla sig vid liv, om den inte får bli digital... För det krävs både öppna standarder och öppen kod"
"The Book and Discussion Forum for Networked Activists"; the book was Edited by Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe. but the discussion in the forum, which started 2004, seems to have died last year. The book contains "Emergent Democracy" by Joi Ito. ;
Günter Grass, Die Zeit 4.5.2005. "Mithin entscheidet das Parlament nicht souverän. Es ist von den mächtigen Wirtschaftsverbänden, den Banken und Konzernen abhängig, die keiner demokratischen Kontrolle unterliegen. So macht sich der Gesetzgeber zum Gespött
7 June: "To recapitulate... Three decisions have now put € 580 billion of EU citizens’ money on the line (almost the size of the GDP of the Netherlands), plus half as much promised by the IMF. Monumental decisions are taken between governments of the Euro
...EBL is a means to improve the profession of librarianship by asking questions as well as finding, critically appraising and incorporating research evidence from library science (and other disciplines) into daily practice. It also involves encouraging l
what happens after we're all connected?... Julian Assange, the most famous man in the world, has become the poster boy, the Che for a networked generation. Script kiddies everywhere now have a role model. Like it or not, they will create these systems, t
Luis de Miranda: "The Internet today is the place through which humanity is coming to realise that liberty will require that we – the collective we – take control of the building and re-design of protocol. Wikileaks is a real milestone in that process. Th
Svenska nihilistsällskapets intervju (2007) med den nationalsocialistiska filosofen "Oskorei" alias Joakim Andersen. Jfr föregående bokmärke (The Guardians nekrolog över Norman Cohn): "the subterranean fantasies that have scarred European history are with
Dawn.com 4 July '09. "Perhaps the story of the Siachen Glacier, the highest battlefield in the world, is the most appropriate metaphor for the insanity of our times... "
Colloque du 28 mai 2010. Rationalité, vérité et démocratie : Bertrand Russel, Georges Orwell, Noam Chomsky - Philosophie du langage et de la connaissance - Jacques Bouveresse - College de France
"There has been a tremendous backlash against WikiLeaks from governments around the world. In the United States, lawmakers have rashly proposed a law that threatens legitimate news reporting well beyond WikiLeaks. We expect to see similar efforts in other
Ingen demokrati har någonsin dukat under för att dess medborgare fått en överdos sanning. Men ingen vill höra att man låtit sig bedras eller inte är herre över sitt eget liv. Inte heller vill vi veta att vi är medskyldiga till brott, eller ställas inför k
RITIMO, together with the FPH, has been committed for several years to the idea of building resource sites. These sites have come together to create the Coredem. The aim is to support a dynamic of collective intelligence. It is built around a platform th
"excerpt from a proposal on how 2.0 technology could be applied to deliberative forums. It was developed as part of an American Library Association Workshop on Library 2.0 in May 2006."
John Keane to David Held: "do you think the LSE Libya affair has done damage to the scholarly credibility of research programmes in the area of democracy?" "I don’t know how many times you visited Libya or to what extent your consociation with Saif al-Isl
Juni 2008. "Lissabonfördragets påverkan på EU:s gemensamma utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik och den europeiska säkerhets- och försvarspolitiken var huvudfrågan i två betänkanden som Europaparlamentet antog idag. Europaparlamentet efterlyser en större parlame
”Kun puolustaa sananvapautta, pitää puolustaa niitä asioita, joita enemmistö ei halua nähdä, koska ne muut asiat, joilla on jo enemmistön tuki, eivät tarvitse mitään erityistä suojelua tai puolustamista.” - Matti Nikki
(Hughes-menettely) - ulko- ja turvallisuusasiain sekä puolustuspolitiikan valiokunta - A4-0005/1999. Taistaa: " Parlamentin puhemies ilmoitti 13. heinäkuuta 1995 pidetyssä istunnossa lähettäneensä Elisabeth Rehnin työjärjestyksen 45 artiklan mukaisesti kä
The Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372) on Friday, December, 10th, by unanimous consent... There are two poison pills in the bill that fundamentally undermine the small advances in the bill. There is still time to fix the b
by Wallace Koehler. May 1, 2006. The U.S. Congress has network neutrality under scrutiny and perhaps under threat. Network neutrality is the concept that broadband carriers will neither interfere with nor inhibit the free flow of information over the Inte
"Phil Radford was arrested with six other Greenpeace activists who unfurled a giant banner from a construction crane in Washington D.C. near a state-department meeting of ministers from the largest greenhouse-gas emitting nations. Inside the Major Economi
"By purchasing through this Amazon aStore, you will be supporting openDemocracy. If not logged in to Amazon already, you will be able to do so once you have made your product selections and go to the checkout. You can search the whole Amazon site by using
There is a less-discussed parallel process of thematic city-wide popular assemblies that were established to deal with issues that are not neighbourhood-specific, such as environment, education, health and social services and transportation. Six thematic
ANIEL ELLSBERG: In my case—I’m sure, by the way, that if I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be made about me at this time, the same material, same instigations. I would be called not only a traitor, which I w
"Revue der Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung", häfte 4, i april 1850. Källa: Marx Engels Werke bd VII, s. 255ff; "Rezensionen aus der »Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue«. Viertes Heft".
1. I Socialdemokratiska tidskriften Tiden 1/2002 skriver Anders Ehnmark om vänsterpartiets kongress. Citerar Carlo Cattaneo (1801–69), den lombardiske filosof som på 1840-talet talade för Europas Förenta Stater: ” Libertà è repubblica; e repubblica è plu
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld: "Thanks to Windows' security weaknesses, botnets are now commonplace and we can only expect to see more DDoS attacks in the future." Botnets.