Civil society

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Canada byDesign: Building a knowledge nation using new media and policy - 1997-8 archive

Canada byDesign: Building a knowledge nation using new media and policy was a Visionary Speaker series in 1997-8, produced by Dr Liss Jeffrey for the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Supported by KMDI and many others, the lecture series formed part of the New media and policy graduate seminar at the McLuhan Program taught by Dr Liss Jeffrey ( and that year only co-taught by Professor Andrew Clement from FIS), generated the original Electronic Commons web space.

eCommon/Agora électronique AGM June 17th

Author: rodbourne

This is a reminder of the eCommons/Agora électronique AGM

First Citizens' Agora at European Parliament

Author: DrJ

First ever Citizen's Agora for the European Parliament -- lively scrappy debate on peoples' power and how to make participatory democracy happen. So far mainly presentations, but it's a great start. Important, lots of talk talk talk, but not censored talk. Live streaming available right now online http://www.europarl.europa.eu/wps-europarl-internet/faces/live/live-video.jsp -- European central time - Thursday and Friday. Tune in. Recommended.

 

Events - dialogues in e-democracy, our Knight Challenge applications, cultural ecology interaction -- more

Author: DrJ

Lots happening . Wednesday Oct. 17 - reflect on civic engagement projects at Sheraton Centre after work; Monday Oct 22 - team meets for rehearsal of Jeffrey's Darkness Visible, Walking thru walls cultural ecology interaction; web sites in motion; Knight Challenge follow up meetings

Net Neutrality

Discussion of Internet inner workings, such as, ". . . . This is how the net works. You pay for access until the paths meet. Where they meet, the ISP who has both customers gets paid double. In this case it's sprint who gets paid twice for carrying videotron to neutrality.ca traffic."

Zotero - Open Source Research Tool announced by George Mason University

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is
proud to announce the availability of Zotero, a next-generation
research tool. Zotero is a free, open source, easy-to-use research
tool that helps you gather and organize resources (whether
bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets you
annotate, organize, and share the results of your research.

Voting Info - Proportional Representation

'Readings in proportional representation'

TV Ontario Coverage of the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform.

TV Ontario's coverage of the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform.

Dehoused as a Torontonian [nb]

Author: Nathan Bentley

While five Canadian cities have condominium rents in the four digit range, Vancouver is still $200 below Toronto’s average cost. A talk entitled 'Where Goes the Neighbourhood?' held Jan. 22 at the Parkdale branch of the Toronto Public Library made this fact real, and troubling.

Be careful what you say someone said - P2Pnet.net suit [nb]

Author: Nathan Bentley

The debate: should the Hoster of an unsavoury comment be in as much trouble as the Poster?

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