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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
„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 [...]
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 in India: Occupying the legislature rather than the Dalaal Street.
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] [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]