AWARENESS RESEARCH
Context, culture, media and process.
Resources of cultural commons, governance & geo•policy.

• COGNITIVE FREEDOM To maintain the fundamental right to liberty, privacy, and self-determination over one's own intellect is essential to our most cherished freedoms.

• MIND FREEDOM United Action for Human Rights in Mental Health.

• NATIVE AND INDIGENOUS Peoples' removal from their lands, suppression of their languages, and the loss of traditional environmental knowledge based on subsistence practices. [nativetourism.org]

• RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

• COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE [article] [definition] Shared, integrated form of collective intelligence and/or collaborative intelligence producing results that are more insightful and powerful than the sum of our individual perspectives. Addresses human diversity, ways of working with nature, ways of engaging with greater forms of intelligence, modes of inquiry, political and economic innovations.
- Collective Wisdom Initative
- Innovations in Democracy
- Practices, Approaches, Processes
- Tao of Democracy

• DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY Strengthen citizen voices in governance by including people of all races, classes, ages and geographies in deliberations that directly affect public decisions.
- Thataway.org
- Center for Wise Democratic Processes

• GROUP & COMMUNITY PROCESSES Multiple-approach studies and compilations
- Citizen Science Toolbox

• LAETUS IN PRAESENS a series of papers on information and knowledge organization, including challenges to comprehension, transdisciplinarity, and related software possibilities. Other series of papers explore issues relating to governance through metaphor, electronic implications for organization network operation, and the future of dialogue and sustainable community.

• OPEN SOURCE DEMOCRACY participate in the redesign of political institutions in a way which enables new solutions to social problems to emerge as the result of millions interactions. In this way, online communication may indeed be able to change offline politics.

• THE SECOND SUPERPOWER Rears its Beautiful Head. It is not a nation. Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the "will of the people" in a global social movement.

• ALTERNATIVE & INDEPENDENT NEWS To provide quality journalism, dependable research, issue-focused public interest content for readers to be better equipped to make informed decisions, problem solving, community action and awareness of current events.

• CLUETRAIN MAIFESTO Markets are conversations, but so are weblogs and radio call-in shows. It is an in your face warning to all businesses as they seek to adapt to the spread of electronic markets. The cluetrain is to marketing and communications what the open-source movement is to software development.

• ECOMEDIA CENTER Ecological news feeds from the four elements; earth (forests and more), air (climate, greenhouse), fire (renewable energy), water (watersheds+).

• OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVES [Article] [News] Resources: [openarchive] [ArXiv] [archive] [berklee shares] Influential scientists are urging journal publishers to free their published works so they can be accessed in comprehensive digital archives. That would create the opportunity for new services that dynamically interconnect material in the archives. To achieve this, two issues endemic to scholarly journal publishing need to be tackled: decoupling journal content from publishing process; defragmentation of the control of access to works at the article level.

• CHAORDIC COMMONS A visioning process. Developing a self-organizing, self-governing organization worthy of the trust of all participants usually requires intensive effort. New forms of governance, business models, citizenship, ownership, investment, and philanthropy, public-private partnerships and multi-stakeholder alliances, collaboration, leadership, and organizational learning and change [chaordic initiatives].

• FREE CULTURE examples; Where you are free to take your car apart and add improvements, to create your own versions of art and literature, to look at the source code of software and create your own modifications, in effect, to explore and expand upon the world as given, without paying tribute.

• PATTERN LANGUAGE "a network of patterns that call upon one another. Patterns help us remember insights and knowledge about design and can be used in combination to create solutions."
- Alexander, Christopher
- Patternlanguage.com
- Nature of Order -book
- Public Sphere Project
- Uplift Pattern Language
- Systematics.org

• SCENARIO PLANNING A method for learning about the future by understanding the nature and impact of the most uncertain and important driving forces affecting our future.

• SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE Circular (cradle-to-cradle) production models that provide substantial economic, social, and environmental benefits. Making this paradigm shift requires the full commitment and involvement of internal employees and external stakeholders... equitably share power and authority...dramatically reduces financial and environmental risk while increasing employee commitment and productivity.

• TRANSPARENCY MOVEMENT Providing a full and frank account of a company's activities. That makes for a more investor-friendly environment as investors can make more informed decisions.

• WIDE OPEN This open and collaborative approach to creating knowledge has produced remarkable results, such as the Linux operating system and the web-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia. In defiance of the conventional wisdom of modern business, open source methods have led the main underlying innovations around the Internet.

• SECURITY & SOCIAL ACTIVISM [under construction]

• HUMAN RIGHTS
• PRIVACY RIGHTS

• TECHNOLOGY [of The Sharing Economy]

• FREE & OPEN SOURCE [Article] [Definition] Books: [The Cathedral and the Bazzar] [Free as in Freedom] All software is built with source code. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Open source means the code is open and you can see it, change it, learn from it. Bugs are more quickly found and fixed. And when customers don't like how one vendor is serving them, they can choose another without overhauling their infrastructure. That means: No more arbitrary pricing. No more technology lock-in. No more monopolies. [Computing Research Repository] [see also "Gift Culture"]

• OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVES [Article] [News] Resources: [openarchive] [ArXiv] [archive] [berklee shares] Influential scientists are urging journal publishers to free their published works so they can be accessed in comprehensive digital archives. That would create the opportunity for new services that dynamically interconnect material in the archives. To achieve this, two issues endemic to scholarly journal publishing need to be tackled: decoupling journal content from publishing process; defragmentation of the control of access to works at the article level. [CiteSeer]

• PUBLIC WIRELESS [Definition] [warchalking] In order for the network to remain open to all it's important to build agreements which allow traffic to pass freely over the network. Nodes in the network must pass all traffic regardless of origin, destination or content. It will be important to allow node owners to deal with abusive activity but whenever possible routing agreements should be as open as possible.

• P2P:PEER-TO-PEER [Article 10.02.03] [Definition] A class of applications that takes advantage of resources -- storage, cycles, content, human presence -- available at the edges of the Internet. [Augmented Social Networks]

• RIGHTS AND PRIVACY Focus on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional value