Posted on January 14 by Josef
Tags: Co-operation, Media, Open Source, Openess, Sharing Economy, Video | 1 comment
I just came across this video after reading this interview
Google Tech Talks July 31, 2007
ABSTRACT
Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party and the international politicized pirate movement, talks about the rise and success of pirates, and why pirates are necessary in today’s politics. He’ll also outline the next steps in the pirates’ strategy to change global copyright laws.
The fight against copyright aggression tends to focus on economic aspects of the shift to a networked economy. Rick explains how this conflict is much more important than that: the fight against the copyright regime is about the right to fundamental civil liberties - down to the postal secret, whistleblower protection, freedom of the press, and the very right to an identity. Rick Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party, as well as the founder of the international politicized pirate movement. His leadership and vision took the Pirate Party from nothing into the top ten parties in the last Swedish general election, without a dime in the campaign chest. His personal candidacy came in at rank #15 out of over 5,000 candidates for the 349 parliamentary seats.
While he didn’t win one of those seats due to threshold rules, the Swedish Pirate Party has inspired similar parties to form in over 20 other countries, and the fight for civil liberties against copyright and patent aggression continues.
The primary focus of Rick and of the Pirate Party is to fight back against the current copyright aggression and surveillance populism using the one thing lobbyists can never buy - votes in a democratic election. Rick demonstrates how much more than business models are at stake in the copyright debate: today’s copyright and essential civil liberties have become mutually exclusive, and society must choose.
Rick Falkvinge lives in Stockholm, Sweden. When not engaged in the fight for privacy and citizens’ rights, he can usually be found cooking, reading, or riding a motorcycle.
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Posted on October 24 by Josef
Tags: Business, Drupal, Events, London, Open Source, Openess, workshops | 0 comments
*Free* briefings and workshops to open source your creative business |
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Posted on November 2 by Josef
Tags: Business, Must Read, Openess, Organisation, Structure, Systems Thinking | 0 comments
Another extract from a recent e-mail…
As for organisational structure, I think you and Imogen are both right. You need to define and be explicit about your structure, but operational units should have as much autonomy as possible within their defined limits/remit.
People investing more time and energy in the project can still have more say about how stuff is done. Afterall, it seems fair that those doing the more implementation work should have more say in decisions about how, and what, work is implemented.
I think you’ve had a look around the ud wiki already, but a few good places to start when thinking about such things (in no particular order) are:
The VSM - a guide for co-operatives and federations
How to design a healthy business: The use of the Viable Systems Model in the diagnosis and design of organisational structures …
www.greybox.uklinux.net/vsmg_2.2/
The Open Organization Project
http://www.open-organizations.org/
Chaordic Design Process
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/ChaordicDesignProcess
Co-op UK Governance and Participation Case Studies
http://www.co-opunion.coop/live/cme377.htm (there is some other interesting stuff there too, but some of the info about LLPs is completely wrong, i.e. it says you can only have 20 members, which is total nonsense. Thankfully their more recent publications have this corrected, but they still haven’t changed the site despite having had it pointed out to them)
Most likely see you at the meeting…
Josef.
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