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This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler's book, ''The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom'', available under a
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike] license.

== Read the book==

''in different formats:''
* [[Table of Contents|Wiki]]: summaries, commentary, downloads
* [[Download PDFs of the book|PDF]] - in the original book format or in a paper-friendly version
* [http://www.congo-education.net/wealth-of-networks HTML] - formatted in separate chapters, in an easier-to-read format
* [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/sisu_manifest.html Searchable version available in multiple formats] ( [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/toc.html html], XML, opendocument [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/opendocument.odt ODF], pdf ([http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/landscape.pdf landscape], [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/portrait.pdf portrait]), [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/plain.txt plaintext], [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/concordance.html concordance ] ), SiSU
* [[Remixes]]
* Hardcopy: [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300110561/sr=8-1/qid=1140626021/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8246423-0950353?%5Fencoding=UTF8 from Amazon] or [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300110561 from Yale Press]or [http://worldcat.org/oclc/61881089 Find it in a library]
* [[Translations]]

== Reviews and Blogs ==
* ''[http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003368.shtml Lessig blog],'' by Lawrence Lessig, 15Apr06.
* ''[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2dd72ff4-0cbb-11db-84fd-0000779e2340.html Financial Times],'' Net Gains, by Paul Miller, 07Jul06.
* ''[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2266603,00.html Times Online],'' Netizens Awake, by Paul Duguid, 07Jul06.
* ''[http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/07/jason_calacanis.php Rough Type],'' Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream, by Nicholas Carr, 19Jul06. See also ''[http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/07/benkler_on_cala.php Benkler's reply],'' 28Jul06.
* ''[http://www.newstatesman.com/200609040057 New Statesman],'' Power to the People, by Kenneth Cukier, 04Sep06.
* ''[http://www.germanlawjournal.com/article.php?id=765 German Law Journal],'' by James Brink, 01Oct06.
* ''[http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/669 Public Knowledge],'' by Gigi Sohn, 03Oct06.''
* ''[http://pmat.ciph.free.fr/breve.php3?id_breve=21 Rue Descartes],'' by Thierry Leterre, Feb07 (French journal edited by the ''[http://www.ciph.org/ Collège international de philosophie]'').
* ''[http://jyo3.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/networked-information-economy/ Networked Information Economy],'' by jyo3, Jul07 (Reading, review and discussion as part of the ''[http://neteconomics.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/class-notes-week-6/ Digital Media Program at the UW]'').
*''[http://denoer.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/072907-wealth-of-nations/ denoer blog],'' by Randa Williams, 29Jul07.
*''[http://jwliston.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/power-to-the-people/ Power To The People] by JohnWayne Liston, Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')
*''[http://mgm5.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/a-moment-of-opportunity/ A Moment of Opportunity],'' by MegMcG, 29Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University of Washington]'')
*''[http://coreygil.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/book-review-the-wealth-of-networks/ The Wealth of Networks] by Corey Gil, Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')
*''[http://mmohut.com MMORPGs] by Richard, Game reviews, Since 2008''
*''[http://nancydick.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/wealth-of-networks/ Wealth of Networks] by Nancy Dick, Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')
*''[http://rolphc.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/review-the-wealth-of-networks/ Wealth of Networks] by Carrie Rolph, Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')
* ''[http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/garfield/archive/2007/08/08/4118.html Weekly KM Blog],'' by Stan Garfield, 08Aug07.
*''[http://www.freemmogamer.com Free MMORPG] by Paul Kaid, 01Jul08''
*''[http://raquelhirai.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/disconnected/ Disconnected] by Raquel Hirai, 03Aug08 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://www.steelecommerce.com/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')

== Discussions ==

* [http://crookedtimber.org/2006/05/30/introduction-the-wealth-of-networks-seminar/ Crooked Timber] (Net-seminar)
* [http://neteconomics.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/class-notes-week-6/ NetEconomics] (graduate seminar at UW-Seattle)
* [http://howtomakeelectricity.net/solar-electric-generator/DIY Solar Panels](Net-seminar)

== Interviews ==

* ''[http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/04/24/the-wealth-of-networks OpenBusiness]''
* ''[http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-copyrightlaw/benkler_3487.jsp OpenDemocracy]''
* ''[http://zero.newassignment.net/filed/yochai_benkler Assignment Zero]''
* Video interview @ Wizards of OS 4: question [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1Vizvecsw 1], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dg9pDny99E 2], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_c_pRSFs34 3], & [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxQEOniepWc 4] [http://www.steelecommerce.com/ 5] September 14, 2006.

== SAP Danışmanlık ==

* [Http: / / www.scribemedia.org/2007/03/19/yochai-benkler/ Yochai Benkler Özgürlük @ bağlan'ı Mart 2007]
* [Http: / / pdf.blip.tv/file/237315 / Yochai Benkler @ Kişisel Demokrasi Forumu, 2007]
Amerikan İlerleme Merkezi, Mayıs 31, 2006 * [http://www.archive.org/details/YochaiBenkler Yochai Benkler @]

[http://www.sapdanismani.com SAP Danışmanı]

[http://www.unimedisys.com SAP Danışmanlık]

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[http://www.unimedisys.com/sap-danismani.html ABAP Danışmanlık]
[http://www.marcusbuckingham.biz Marcus Buckingham]
[http://www.projectsap.com Project SAP]

== Audio Resources==

* [http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/Yochai_Benkler_Boalt_27Apr2006.mp3 Yochai Benkler @ Boalt Hall (Berkeley School of Law), April 2006]

== Using this wiki ==

The basic idea is to make this Wiki a place for at least five things:

# Collaborate on writing a summary of the ideas and claims of the book (see [[Table of Contents]])
# Collaborate on writing commentaries and elaborating and refining the presentation
# Provide an easy platform through which to access underlying research materials:
#* those used in the book's notes
#* and resources that are useful for further research, refinement, and updating
# Describe, link to, and analyze examples of the phenomena the book describes
#* The purpose is not to “make the case” for the book or find “gotcha” counter examples. What we are trying to do is provide a real research tool, annotated bibliography, and platform for collaborative learning. Examples and counter-examples should be selected and described with that purpose in mind.
# Demonstrate and discover what is valuable in a learning platform
#* Through separate pages devoted to ideas and experiments of what can be done with an online book to make it a learning platform, we hope to expand the range of uses to which this Wiki can be available.
#* Through creative, systematic and interactive uses of this wiki, we hope to enhance our individual and collective skills & experience in a wiki world

=== Growing this Wiki ===

* [[Growing this Wiki]]: Ideas for how to help the wiki grow and be useful

=== A Wiki User's Guide ===

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This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler's book, ''The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom'', available under a
[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike] license.

== Read the book==

''in different formats:''
* [[Table of Contents|Wiki]]: summaries, commentary, downloads
* [[Download PDFs of the book|PDF]] - in the original book format or in a paper-friendly version
* [http://www.congo-education.net/wealth-of-networks HTML] - formatted in separate chapters, in an easier-to-read format
* [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/sisu_manifest.html Searchable version available in multiple formats] ( [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/toc.html html], XML, opendocument [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/opendocument.odt ODF], pdf ([http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/landscape.pdf landscape], [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/portrait.pdf portrait]), [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/plain.txt plaintext], [http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler/concordance.html concordance ] ), SiSU
* [[Remixes]]
* Hardcopy: [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300110561/sr=8-1/qid=1140626021/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8246423-0950353?%5Fencoding=UTF8 from Amazon] or [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300110561 from Yale Press]or [http://worldcat.org/oclc/61881089 Find it in a library]
* [[Translations]]

== Reviews and Blogs ==
* ''[http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003368.shtml Lessig blog],'' by Lawrence Lessig, 15Apr06.
* ''[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2dd72ff4-0cbb-11db-84fd-0000779e2340.html Financial Times],'' Net Gains, by Paul Miller, 07Jul06.
* ''[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2266603,00.html Times Online],'' Netizens Awake, by Paul Duguid, 07Jul06.
* ''[http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/07/jason_calacanis.php Rough Type],'' Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream, by Nicholas Carr, 19Jul06. See also ''[http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/07/benkler_on_cala.php Benkler's reply],'' 28Jul06.
* ''[http://www.newstatesman.com/200609040057 New Statesman],'' Power to the People, by Kenneth Cukier, 04Sep06.
* ''[http://www.germanlawjournal.com/article.php?id=765 German Law Journal],'' by James Brink, 01Oct06.
* ''[http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/669 Public Knowledge],'' by Gigi Sohn, 03Oct06.''
* ''[http://pmat.ciph.free.fr/breve.php3?id_breve=21 Rue Descartes],'' by Thierry Leterre, Feb07 (French journal edited by the ''[http://www.ciph.org/ Collège international de philosophie]'').
* ''[http://jyo3.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/networked-information-economy/ Networked Information Economy],'' by jyo3, Jul07 (Reading, review and discussion as part of the ''[http://neteconomics.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/class-notes-week-6/ Digital Media Program at the UW]'').
*''[http://denoer.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/072907-wealth-of-nations/ denoer blog],'' by Randa Williams, 29Jul07.
*''[http://jwliston.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/power-to-the-people/ Power To The People] by JohnWayne Liston, Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')
*''[http://mgm5.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/a-moment-of-opportunity/ A Moment of Opportunity],'' by MegMcG, 29Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University of Washington]'')
*''[http://coreygil.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/book-review-the-wealth-of-networks/ The Wealth of Networks] by Corey Gil, Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')
*''[http://davbiz.com/ Online Pharmacy] by Richard, All meds in one place, from 2008''
*''[http://nancydick.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/wealth-of-networks/ Wealth of Networks] by Nancy Dick, Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')
*''[http://rolphc.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/review-the-wealth-of-networks/ Wealth of Networks] by Carrie Rolph, Jul07 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://depts.washington.edu/mcdm/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')
* ''[http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/garfield/archive/2007/08/08/4118.html Weekly KM Blog],'' by Stan Garfield, 08Aug07.
*''[http://raquelhirai.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/disconnected/ Disconnected] by Raquel Hirai, 03Aug08 (Net e-conomics: ''[http://www.steelecommerce.com/ MC Digital Media; University Washington]'')

== Discussions ==

* [http://crookedtimber.org/2006/05/30/introduction-the-wealth-of-networks-seminar/ Crooked Timber] (Net-seminar)
* [http://neteconomics.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/class-notes-week-6/ NetEconomics] (graduate seminar at UW-Seattle)
* [http://howtomakeelectricity.net/solar-electric-generator/DIY Solar Panels](Net-seminar)

== Interviews ==

* ''[http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/04/24/the-wealth-of-networks OpenBusiness]''
* ''[http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-copyrightlaw/benkler_3487.jsp OpenDemocracy]''
* ''[http://zero.newassignment.net/filed/yochai_benkler Assignment Zero]''
* Video interview @ Wizards of OS 4: question [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1Vizvecsw 1], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dg9pDny99E 2], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_c_pRSFs34 3], & [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxQEOniepWc 4] [http://www.steelecommerce.com/ 5] September 14, 2006.

== Video Resources==

* [http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/03/19/yochai-benkler/ Yochai Benkler @ Freedom to Connect, March 2007]
* [http://pdf.blip.tv/file/237315/ Yochai Benkler @ Personal Democracy Forum, 2007]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/YochaiBenkler Yochai Benkler @ the Center for American Progress, May 31, 2006]

== Audio Resources==

* [http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~jhall/Yochai_Benkler_Boalt_27Apr2006.mp3 Yochai Benkler @ Boalt Hall (Berkeley School of Law), April 2006]

== Using this wiki ==

The basic idea is to make this Wiki a place for at least five things:

# Collaborate on writing a summary of the ideas and claims of the book (see [[Table of Contents]])
# Collaborate on writing commentaries and elaborating and refining the presentation
# Provide an easy platform through which to access underlying research materials:
#* those used in the book's notes
#* and resources that are useful for further research, refinement, and updating
# Describe, link to, and analyze examples of the phenomena the book describes
#* The purpose is not to “make the case” for the book or find “gotcha” counter examples. What we are trying to do is provide a real research tool, annotated bibliography, and platform for collaborative learning. Examples and counter-examples should be selected and described with that purpose in mind.
# Demonstrate and discover what is valuable in a learning platform
#* Through separate pages devoted to ideas and experiments of what can be done with an online book to make it a learning platform, we hope to expand the range of uses to which this Wiki can be available.
#* Through creative, systematic and interactive uses of this wiki, we hope to enhance our individual and collective skills & experience in a wiki world

=== Growing this Wiki ===

* [[Growing this Wiki]]: Ideas for how to help the wiki grow and be useful

=== A Wiki User's Guide ===

See the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.

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Current events

2009-02-05T05:37:23Z

Michaelw: /* Resources */

== August 19, 2006 - San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp ==

: '''Craigslist Foundation''' [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org] is hosting the Third Annual '''San Francisco Bay Area Boot Camp''' to be held at the University of California, Berkeley on Saturday, August 19, 2006. The Berkeley event will have almoost three times the number of participants as in New York and twice as many thematic tracks.

:* '''Related link'''

:: [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=Bayarea Third Annual San Francisco Bay Area Boot Camp]

== June 21 - September 22, 2006 - Free Summer School ==

: With an opening theme of '''Discovering and Gathering a Wealth of Knowledge''' and a commitment to the '''United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development''' (2005-2014), the '''International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World''' (2001-2010) and related United Nations Decades, a '''Free Summer School''' will be in session between the 2006 Summer Solstice on '''June 21''' and the Fall Equinox on '''September 22'''. The Free Summer School is being hosted by '''Seasons of Peace Cooperation Circles''' [http://www.seasons-of-peace.net] in support of the '''[[NGO Committee on Education]]''' of '''CONGO''' - the '''C'''onference '''O'''f '''N'''on-'''G'''overnmental '''O'''rganizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations [http://www.ngocongo.org]. The NGO Committee on Education has made a decade-long commitment to support the United Nations Decade on Sustainable Development, and is seeking to draw on, and gather together, the vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the hearts and minds of people and organizations that make up the rapidly evolving NGO community / civil society.

: The Free Summer School is being hosted on a holistic evolving information ecology platform that has emerged in the course of the systematic use and promotion of information and communications technology and appreciation of the transformative significance of the zero-based properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, and virtually zero travel time - that are the "material" basis for the '''zero marginal cost''' of digital goods.

:* '''Related pages'''

:: [[Free Summer School]], [[NGO Committee on Education]]

== June 10, 2006 - New York Nonprofit Boot Camp ==

: '''Craigslist Foundation''' [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org] will be hosting the first New York City '''Nonprofit Boot Camp''' on Saturday June 10, 2006 at the NYU Stern School of Business, an all day event from 9 am to 9 pm. The registration fee of $50 includes all meals and a closing reception. For more details on this event and to register, visit [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=NY www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=NY]

: Craigslist Foundation has organized several very successful Boot Camps in San Francisco, and the first New York City Boot Camp promises to be a remarkable gathering of people and organizations who are invvolved in a nonprofit networked information economy.

:* '''Related pages'''

:: [[New York Nonprofit Boot Camp]]

== May 13-26, 2006 - UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ==

: The Fifth Session of the '''UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues''' is taking place at UN Headquarters in New York. There is active interest in the development of an online forum in support of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the '''Second International Decade on the World's Indigenous People'''. See [[organizational domains]] for a preliminary outline of a framework for such an online forum. For more information on the Permanent forum, visit [http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/ www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii]

:* '''Related pages'''

:: [[Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues]]

== April 14, 2006 - Launch of The Wealth of Networks ==

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
540 W. 21st Street, New York, NY

Please join Yale Professor [[Yochai Benkler]] for the launch of his new book, "The Wealth of Networks". The book explains how a new form of distributed collaboration is transforming the world economy, heralded by innovations such as:

:# Open Source software like Linux and Apache that have surpassed commercial software made by huge corporations
:# A free, collaboratively authored encyclopedia called Wikipedia that rivals Encyclopedia Britannica, and
:# Volunteer research projects like NASA Clicks that are as accurate as the work of paid scientists.

Benkler does not see these projects as isolated examples, but rather as exemplars of an emerging mode of economic production. His book shows why labor done outside the constraints of free markets and giant corporations can still have a huge impact on the economy and social relations. He argues that a "third mode of production" offers the promise of a more free society, but only if we make the right collective decisions.

:The evening started at 6pm with wine, cheese, and informal conversation. At 7pm Jonah Peretti, Eyebeam's Director of R&D, introduced Benkler and gave a quick tour of important and emerging open source and collaborative projects. Then at 7:15pm, Benkler gave a brief talk presenting the core ideas of his new book.

The Wealth of Networks was available for purchase in the Eyebeam bookstore the night of the event and can also be ordered on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300110561/103-6520487-9511867?v=glance&n=283155

This event was open to the public free of charge.

(based on the Eyebeam website)
== Resources ==
[http://www.myinternetaccess.net/ Internet Providers] [http://www.myphoneservice.net/ Phone Providers] [http://www.cheap-online.net/cell-phone-service.html Cell Phone Providers] [http://www.steelecommerce.com/internet-phone-service.html Internet Phone - VoIP]

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Current events

2009-02-05T05:34:53Z

Michaelw:

== August 19, 2006 - San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp ==

: '''Craigslist Foundation''' [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org] is hosting the Third Annual '''San Francisco Bay Area Boot Camp''' to be held at the University of California, Berkeley on Saturday, August 19, 2006. The Berkeley event will have almoost three times the number of participants as in New York and twice as many thematic tracks.

:* '''Related link'''

:: [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=Bayarea Third Annual San Francisco Bay Area Boot Camp]

== June 21 - September 22, 2006 - Free Summer School ==

: With an opening theme of '''Discovering and Gathering a Wealth of Knowledge''' and a commitment to the '''United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development''' (2005-2014), the '''International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World''' (2001-2010) and related United Nations Decades, a '''Free Summer School''' will be in session between the 2006 Summer Solstice on '''June 21''' and the Fall Equinox on '''September 22'''. The Free Summer School is being hosted by '''Seasons of Peace Cooperation Circles''' [http://www.seasons-of-peace.net] in support of the '''[[NGO Committee on Education]]''' of '''CONGO''' - the '''C'''onference '''O'''f '''N'''on-'''G'''overnmental '''O'''rganizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations [http://www.ngocongo.org]. The NGO Committee on Education has made a decade-long commitment to support the United Nations Decade on Sustainable Development, and is seeking to draw on, and gather together, the vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the hearts and minds of people and organizations that make up the rapidly evolving NGO community / civil society.

: The Free Summer School is being hosted on a holistic evolving information ecology platform that has emerged in the course of the systematic use and promotion of information and communications technology and appreciation of the transformative significance of the zero-based properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, and virtually zero travel time - that are the "material" basis for the '''zero marginal cost''' of digital goods.

:* '''Related pages'''

:: [[Free Summer School]], [[NGO Committee on Education]]

== June 10, 2006 - New York Nonprofit Boot Camp ==

: '''Craigslist Foundation''' [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org] will be hosting the first New York City '''Nonprofit Boot Camp''' on Saturday June 10, 2006 at the NYU Stern School of Business, an all day event from 9 am to 9 pm. The registration fee of $50 includes all meals and a closing reception. For more details on this event and to register, visit [http://www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=NY www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=NY]

: Craigslist Foundation has organized several very successful Boot Camps in San Francisco, and the first New York City Boot Camp promises to be a remarkable gathering of people and organizations who are invvolved in a nonprofit networked information economy.

:* '''Related pages'''

:: [[New York Nonprofit Boot Camp]]

== May 13-26, 2006 - UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ==

: The Fifth Session of the '''UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues''' is taking place at UN Headquarters in New York. There is active interest in the development of an online forum in support of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the '''Second International Decade on the World's Indigenous People'''. See [[organizational domains]] for a preliminary outline of a framework for such an online forum. For more information on the Permanent forum, visit [http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/ www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii]

:* '''Related pages'''

:: [[Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues]]

== April 14, 2006 - Launch of The Wealth of Networks ==

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
540 W. 21st Street, New York, NY

Please join Yale Professor [[Yochai Benkler]] for the launch of his new book, "The Wealth of Networks". The book explains how a new form of distributed collaboration is transforming the world economy, heralded by innovations such as:

:# Open Source software like Linux and Apache that have surpassed commercial software made by huge corporations
:# A free, collaboratively authored encyclopedia called Wikipedia that rivals Encyclopedia Britannica, and
:# Volunteer research projects like NASA Clicks that are as accurate as the work of paid scientists.

Benkler does not see these projects as isolated examples, but rather as exemplars of an emerging mode of economic production. His book shows why labor done outside the constraints of free markets and giant corporations can still have a huge impact on the economy and social relations. He argues that a "third mode of production" offers the promise of a more free society, but only if we make the right collective decisions.

:The evening started at 6pm with wine, cheese, and informal conversation. At 7pm Jonah Peretti, Eyebeam's Director of R&D, introduced Benkler and gave a quick tour of important and emerging open source and collaborative projects. Then at 7:15pm, Benkler gave a brief talk presenting the core ideas of his new book.

The Wealth of Networks was available for purchase in the Eyebeam bookstore the night of the event and can also be ordered on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300110561/103-6520487-9511867?v=glance&n=283155

This event was open to the public free of charge.

(based on the Eyebeam website)
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Climate Change Summer

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'''Climate Change Summer''' - [http://www.climate-change-summer.net www.climate-change-summer.net] - is a free and open public partnership based on a season of learning, teaching, gathering, sharing and organizing information, and taking action in relation to the climate change crisis that is intended to make full use of free, open source and reasonably-priced software, tools and resources in support of broad-based collaborative participation that draws on the peer-production and networked information economy resources that are described so effectively in [[Main Page|The Wealth of Networks]].

The call for '''Climate Change Summer''' has grown out of [[Climate Change 2.0]] - [http://www.climate-change-two.net www.climate-change-two.net] - a joint initiative of the '''Information and Communications Sub-Committee''' of the [[NGO Committee on Education]] and the '''Networking Sub-Committee''' of the '''Planning Committee''' for the [[60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference]], to be held at UN Headquarters from September 5-7, 2007, on the theme '''How Climate Change Impacts Us All'''[http://www.cheap-online.net/site-map.html]

Climate Change Summer

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Michaelw: