The chance is still yours – deadline has been extended!
Faster! Higher! Stronger! The Olympic spirit has taken over this year’s top events and challenges us to push the frontiers of technology for building a peaceful and better world. Do [...]
In Focus
In Focus
Young ICT Revolution on Larry King´s sofa!
One of the highlights of the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) Winner´s Event hosted by World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2012) will be a panel moderated by an Emmy-award [...]
Hit the upload button for WCIT 2012 in Montréal!
Get ready for the fresh technological ideas of the most creative Young Digital Natives from around the world – get ready for Montréal 2012! Make sure to mark your calendar [...]
World Summit Youth Award: Categories
e-Contents and mobile phone applications may be submitted in the following six categories which are tied directly to the eight UN Millenium Development Goals. Three winners and up to three [...]
Use your e-Power to put MDG’s into Action!
Are you a young person up to 30 years of age? Are you involved in a youth initiative producing outstanding digital content? Then make sure to submit your project for the [...]
They Really Were All Greeks
Protests under the slogan “We are all Greeks” were held across Europe on Saturday against the new bailout-austerity package for Greece. If the organizers’ Tumblr page had some impressive pictures, [...]
Occupiers in Paris: Goodbye La Défense
Sunday December 4th, 2011 – Paris. This is the last day of Occupy La Défense, Paris’ business district. The encampment has held its ground here for one month despite police [...]
Session report: How barcamps can change the world….
A promising title- yet only few participants in the session. Were there no believers at the barcamp? Perhaps.. Indeed the title is very grandiose and my expectations about hearing a [...]
Between theory and reality – My day at the fc_org barcamp “How the internet changes our reality”
The venue of the fc_org barcamp on “How the internet changes our reality?” was a more than 100 year old church now transformed into an event location. This impressive building [...]
The internet and democracy – An unlikely couple? German blogger Michael Seemann and Ingolf Pernice professor of law
The topic of this session was rather broad and in an area which is already widely discussed by political and social scientists on the one hand and the official elements [...]
Pluses and Minuses of the Berlin Barcamp
Conferences and barcamps can be really great or they can be a dismal failure. The measure of success depends on the structure of participants, organization, topics and one element that [...]
The Age of Too Much Information and How to Deal With It
“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with”, Marshall McLuhan [...]
Measuring the Influence of Internet Movements on Reality
“How the Internet Changes Our Reality” proclaims a vertical banner in front of the building of the Church of the Resurrection transformed into a ultra-modern Umweltforum venue hosting the Barcamp held [...]
Is Pakistan Ripe for a Revolution like OWS?
Occupy Wall Street is a different type of movement created in revolt against the capitalist economy which has spawned an enormous economic recession. Although it does not have a direct [...]
Threefold Democratisation via the Internet
„How the Internet Changes Our Reality“ was the motto for a BarCamp that was hosted by FutureChallenges.org, the Humbold Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft and the Club of Rome. As [...]
An Artificial Protest: Occupy Wall Street
The American media has been awash with jubilant exaltations of Occupy Wall Street (OWS). However, despite many claims, the movement is not a transformative revolutionary force. While indubitably there is [...]
OWS: occupying the Indian imagination
OWS in India: Occupying the legislature rather than the Dalaal Street.
From Wall Street to Central: How OWS is seen in China
Having followed the OWS movement since its beginnings, what I find really interesting is all the different ways of appropriation that people come up with. As Jay Sown said recently in a video: “[OWS] [...]
A Corporatocracy for the People, by the People
Occupy Wall Street is a progressive ideological social movement that is gaining strength in numbers in spite of increasing clashes with police and bad weather. Originating in September of 2011, [...]
Occupy Berlin: Serving the clientele
Berliners are also taking part in the global Occupy Wall Street movement. But the Berlin Revolution will have to wait a little… The relatively good economic situation means the masses [...]
