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Building The Digital Commons, Barcelona, October 29-30, 2011Forum Building Digital Commons and Collaborative Communities http://www.digital-commons.net Building Digital Commons and Collaborative Communities is a new initiative aiming to bring together individuals, collective and organizations from different Free and Open Collaborative Communities, Digital Commons Initiatives and Researchers in the area to identify ways to support and learn from each other and collaborate in order to promote together digital commons. Why? The new technologies offered a big opportunity to create, innovate and collaborate to share and build information and knowledge resources. However, we are living challenging times, with an ongoing growth of the enclosure of the commons. i) We want to promote the “makers” and “ doers” approach: To increase the visibility of the initiatives that are based on building digital commons. What? We will address collaboratively and critically a series of working lines: 1. Participation and engagement in communities A "How to manual on digital commons: participation engagement, sustainability formulas and over all digital commons networking" and a "Digital commons alliance/network" will be the resulting outcomes of the event. When and Where? 29th and 30th of October 2011 physically at the CCCB ( 5th Montalegre str. – Aula 1) (Barcelona) and online at: http://www.digital-commons.net See program: http://www.digital-commons.net/program/ Building Digital Commons built upon and is celebrated in continuation with the Free Culture Forum (http://www.fcforum.net) in order to facilitate the connexion of collaborative communities building digital commons with other groups advocating for the rights of free culture and knowledge (as Free Culture Forum’s participants: artists, musicians, activists and lobbies for digital rights, among others). How to participate and keep informed? To attend physically register at: www.digital-commons.net/form/registration Keep updated and participate online: Looking forward to hearing back from you! Building Digital Commons is an initiative promoted by Institute of Government and Public Policies - Autonomous University of Barcelona (http://igop.uab.cat) and Amical Viquipedia (http://www.viquimedia.cat), and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation (http://wikimediafoundation.org). |
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