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Is there an alternative to the Google search monopoly ? With inimitable clarity, Cory Doctorow made the case for an open alternative to Google in The Guardian earlier this month. But Doctorow does not want regulation here—he wants an alternative. 8221; Recognizing this, Jean-Noel Jeanneny made a case for Frank Pasquale: He focused on the secrecy of search:

Virtual Power: Russian Politics and the Internet ) dedicated to how the internet changes, or not, power structures, which concludes that in Russia, the internet fails as an activist tool, but it has created an alternative social sphere. In one of the articles, Floriana Fossato insists that the internet is a tool of the state , “an adaptation tool”, but at the same time, describes the alternative social universe that it enables in an article for Open Democracy : “What is peculiar about Russia is not the absence of institutions as such, but rather a fatal discrepancy

a distributed communication and coordination infrastructure, which we essentially already have, despite its imperfections (some would argue we need a distributed decision-enabling infrastructure on top of that, but I think that a virtual infrastructure is not essential, and that the tools for open and transparent government are also essentially there) - a distributed money infrastructure: we need civil-society based mutual credit and open money systems that can be used both locally and for online affinity groups. in real terms, even when you factor in all of those costs, solar power is likely to produce power at about half the cost of the cheapest coal-fired power plants

Actually, in addition to lifestyle, it also may be an emergency alternative in the event of biological scares like Swine Flu. NOTE: Similar terms are: working from home, telecommuting, distributed work, mobility, digital nomads, remote teams, virtual teams… Working from Anywhere : "Not intended to supplant traditional workplaces, third places, just as the phrase suggests, are an alternative to the first place, the formal corporate This is a topic I have come across a lot in my reading lately as it seems to be ever more relevant in times of an economic downturn…organisational issues such as capital costs and talent retention, and personal issues such as cost and happiness all become much more highlighted.

8220; In case you are not aware, OpenKollab, the Forward Foundation and the P2P Foundation are collaborating on mapping out the Distributed Manufacturing space in some detail. The benefit to you is that you will: * Learn about the Distributed Manufacturing space * Learn about P2P networks * Learn about the OpenKollab Ecosystem Pooled Fund and alternative strategies for financing social ventures. * Build relationships with those that are working on the cutting edge of social change initiatives! An appeal by Suresh Fernando . Please respond via suresh@radical-inclusion.com:

The following text, The State of the Alternative Exchange Movement , by Thomas Greco, is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of our book of the Week: The End of Money and the Future of Civilization . 8220;Exchange alternatives are not entirely new. From that time onward, we have seen a rapid proliferation, all over the world, of these kinds of exchange alternatives—they now number in the Please note the book can be ordered here . Thomas Greco: “Exchange

We invite contributions for our upcoming special issue entitled “A critical view on Peer-to-Peer energy production and distribution”. “It can be argued that a shift to a P2P-based, sustainable society would be based on a set of inter-related infrastructures: * A distributed communication and coordination infrastructure with tools for more transparent governance. * A distributed money infrastructure that might be based on open money systems. * A distributed agriculture and manufacturing infrastructure which has been emerging with open design communities. * ?nd

If capitalism is not a viable alternative, if it represents a system that no living man has seen, why then do the arguments in its favor carry such weight? Distributism and Government Critics of distributism often charge that the theory is no more than a variety of socialism. Part of the P2P Foundation’s remit is to monitor movements that share a family ressemblance to some aspect of the peer to peer ethos; in addition, one of my pet projects is monitoring neotraditional economic approaches, i.e. approaches rooted in the pre-capitalist spiritual traditions of mankind,

8220; distributed energy infrastructure” and “alternative economies” - for social and cultural networking (including Via Rasa Smite : ORGANIZED NETWORKS - Renewable Network Meeting and Workshop Programme Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5, 2009, 10.00-18.00 * Themes and Working Groups will include : “sustainable