TRUST IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT

Consensuality is the active collaboration and cooperation for
the self-benefit, join aim, profit, pleasure and well-being of all concerned. In the case
of social and business netwoks, this consent often includes that of
people not directly involved - primary partners, voluntaries and other
parties are affected by agreements, sometimes not
written, not signed, ad-hoc established and based on common sense.

Defining consent
can sometimes be tricky. If someone consents under pressure, we don't
think that meets the "active collaboration" criterion. And you can't
consent to something you don't know about: "Well you didn't say I
couldn't send you an email when you agreed to participate" .

ICT-2008 25-27Nov08 Lyon. MESHUP Networking session

Submitted by consen on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 13:18.

Start: 06/16/2008 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT

ICT 2008 :: Networking :: Open call for networking proposals
PROPOSE A NETWORKING SESSION! Call for networking proposals open

* What are networking sessions?
* How to set up a networking session
* When is the deadline for submitting networking proposals?
* What happens next?
* More information and contacts

What are Networking Sessions?

eParticipation Preparatory Action Call for Proposals and Work Programme 2008

The third call for proposals for the eParticipation Preparatory Action is
open in June (draft of the call in May) and close in 29th August (to be
confirmed). Communication of selection results to proposers and start
of negotiations are foreseen for October and contracts signed by the
end of the year.
+info: infso-eparticipation-event AT ec.europa.eu
Aims (Attention final call text in June):
- Fighting the perceived democratic deficit
- Reconnecting citizen with politics and policy-makers
- Reducing the complexity of decision making and legislation process
Objectives 2008 (3 countries 75% direct cost funded):
1. Advancing eParticpation (trial projects - 600/800KE - 2years)
1.1.Transparency in tracking legislation and decision making processes
1.2. Visualisation of impacts of legislation
1.3. Policy development related to the Internet and its governance
1.4. Petitions
1.5 Inclusive Social Networking
2. Inter-parliamentary networking and cooperation (Support Action 400KE)

Trial Projects:
Test ICT novel solutions for deployment, demonstrate possible
solutions, document practices, and the benefits, drawbacks and critical
success factors, including activities:
- Tailoring the tools to the specific objectives
- Implementing the real-life trial
- Analysis results and assess impact of users and legislatives processes
- Dissemination of results and cooperation with projects of eParticipation

Pre-registration of proposals before end of July. No EPSS. Certified
Applicat declaration signed. Total budget 5ME. Part A, 5pages of
project profile and traditional part B.

http://www.networkcultures.org/

Full Program

Thursday 28 June - Public Event
Location:University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, D0.08.

Registration desk: University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, main hall.

As the now fashionable term 'Web 2.0' suggests, the Web has changed.
But what has exactly changed, and do the ideas that came with Web 1.0 -
distrtibution, connectivity, flows etc. - still provide us with apt
ways of thinking about the Web? How intelligent is a web based
'collective intelligence'?

9:30
Doors open, coffee & tea

10:00
Welcome by Geert Lovink, Richard Rogers, Jan Simons

10:15 – 12:30
Morning session
Moderator: Richard Rogers

Siva Vaidhyanathan:
The Googlization of Everything: How One Company is Shaking Up Culture, Commerce and Community.

Saying 'No': On the rejection of consensus-oriented communication on the Internet.

Franz Beitzinger, Natascha Zowislo and Jürgen Schulz:
Saying 'No': On the rejection of consensus-oriented communication on the Internet.
Presented by Franz Beitzinger.
It is a somewhat naïve and normatively-burdened idea that the purpose
of communication is to create consensus. However, it is easily
overlooked that is precisely the ‘No’ and the lack of a goal to reach
agreement by no means eradicate communication, but in fact increase the
communicative options and connectivity among the participants as
conflicting interests and alternative points of view, rather than the
aspiration for agreement and harmony, constitute a communicative
relationship. Firstly, this paper seeks to illustrate theoretically how
the ‘No’ on the Internet can lead to a) the maintenance of the
communicative system, b) to the establishment of identity for those
actors saying ‘No’, and c) to their gaining meaning in the real world
away from the Internet. Secondly, with the help of examples from
Internet-based political and anti-corporate protest movements the means
and strategies that the Internet itself enables individual and group
actors to use the ‘No’ to establish and secure their own identity will
be examined. Thirdly, this paper analyses how the targets of the
protest, the antagonists of the protest movement (corporations or
political parties), can successfully deal with dissent-oriented protest
on the Internet in order to avoid having their own prominent position
exploited for the purposes of the protest group in the aforementioned
way.

Information Day on the eParticipation Call for Proposals 20May08

Submitted by consen on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 11:34.

Start: 05/20/2008 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT

Information Day on the eParticipation Call for Proposals 2008 - Draft Agenda

20th May 2008

Centre Albert Borschette - Salle 0A
Rue Froissart 36
B1049 Brussels

Constructing Community MORAL PLURALISM AND TRAGIC CONFLICTS - J. Donald Moon - PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Constructing Community

MORAL PLURALISM

AND TRAGIC CONFLICTS

J. Donald Moon

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

Conclusion: Consensuality—and Nonconsensuality

“THE FARTHEST I WOULD GO,” Foucault has said, “is to say that perhaps
one must not be for consensuality, but one must be against nonconsensu
ality.”

OpenID

Submitted by consen on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 11:26.

Identification MeshID, Semantic Ontologies OpenID

[Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric identity management systems. This article, written by Netmesh's Johannes Ernst and VeriSign's David Recordon explores the "why" of one of these technologies - OpenID.]

Many digital identity technologies exist already; why does the world need OpenID?