Topics and Program 2012
SUMMARY
Admission is free, and registration is not required. Limited capacity – ACTIVITIES WILL BEGIN RIGHT ON TIME
Venue: 26th, 27th Arts Santa Mònica – La Rambla 7, Barcelona – Metro: Drassanes (L3) – View map [except the oXcars – Sala Apolo, admissions 3€/4€ – Metro Paral·lel (L3)]
THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER – Sala Apolo
20.30 The 5th oXcars, the greatest free culture show of all time
Venue: Sala Apolo
FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER – Arts Santa Mónica
10.30 am – 2.30 pm SUSTAINABLE MODELS FOR CREATIVITY
Rehabilitation Plan for Creators who Still Haven’t Understood the Digital Age 😉. (a project included in the European Community’s Culture Programme).
- 10.30 am – Introduction– by Simona Levi from X.net and launch of the book published by Icaria Editorial
CULTURA LIBRE DIGITAL(Digital Free Culture).
Basic notions for defending what belongs to all of us.
A brief overview, from the invention of the Internet to networked culture.
With texts by Xnet, @axebra, EDRI, Jaron Rowan, Rubén Martínez, Fernando Acero, FCForum. - 10.45 am – New kinds of intermediaries are replacing obsolete distributors and editors: the new model is based on collaboration rather than exploiting talent.
Practical examples:– Journalism, by Vicent Partal
– Teaching: Freeangle
– New publishing models, by Bookcamping
– Copy and abundance now also in 3D: abbing, 3D digital fabrication. By Josianito Llorente
- 11.45 am – Crowdfunding: an empowering model for today’s context or a means of poverty management? A proposal for extending the scope of Crowdfunding, by Jaron Rowan from X.net (with the collaboration of Silvia Caparrós, lawyer and author of the legal study on the subject commissioned by X.net)
- 12.30 – 12.40 pm BREAK
- 12.40 pm – The price of sharing: the Megabox and Taringa! Music model: share everything, including profits, by the Taringa! team
13.00 – POSITIVE AGENDA FOR COPYRIGHT REFORM IN EUROPE.
Launch of a collaborative system for the reform of the misnamed “Intellectual Property” legislation in Spain and the European Union, based on documents from the FCForum and a proposal by Quadrature du Net that draws on recommendations from Communia. Presented by X.net, La Quadrature Du Net. Richard Stallman comments the tool.
2.15 – 4.30 BREAK
16.30 – 19.10 “CYBERCRIMES” [sic.] AS AN EXCUSE:
THE CRIMINALISATION OF THE INTERNET IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONTROL IT.
Introduction by Carlos Sanchez Almeida: repression and defence in the postmedia age.
* Some examples:
– Lali Sandiumenge: nets, media and censorship in the arab struggles
– Pablo Castellano: Privacy and security in interNet
7 – 7.15 pm – BREAK
19.25 – 21.00 WORKSHOPS
– Networked democracy tools and experiences. Led by the Plan de Rescate Ciudadano (Citizen Rescue Plan)
– Online protection tools. Led by Pablo Castellano
– Participation in the Positive Digital Agenda for Europe. Led by Quadrature du Net
SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER – Arts Santa Mónica
TRUE DEMOCRACY FOR THE DIGITAL ERA
- Howard Rheingold(video-conference) – Smart Mobs
- Introduction to a selection of existing projects by X.net,
- Other experiences:
– Democracia 4.0 by Francisco Jurado
11 am – 2 pm TRANSPARENCY
Governments do not act in a transparent manner. Least of all Spanish governments. Spain is one of the few European States which do not have any transparency legislation at all. Under pressure, the current government is planning to pass a simulacrum. Pure whitewash.
Let’s see what we, as civil society, can do.
*With the participation of:
– Sueldos Públicos (Public Salaries)
– Graba tu pleno (Film your Plenary Session)
– Qué hacen los diputados (What Members of Parliament Do)
– Victoria Anderica on behalf of Access Info and Tu Derecho a Saber
– Mar Cabra on behalf of Civio
BREAK
4 – 5.45 pm JOURNALISM AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
There can be no free choice without free access to information. Obstacles in the way of information transparency, the criminalisation and control of the flow of information on the Net, and the tools we can use to defend ourselves and strengthen the Internet.
“Journalism means disseminating what somebody would prefer to keep quiet; everything else is propaganda.”
Horacio Verbitsky making a paraphrase of George Orwell
* With the participation of:
– Reporteros Sin Fronteras: informe anual, “Los enemigos de Internet”
5.45 – 6.00 pm BREAK
6 – 7.30 pm NETWORKED DEMOCRACY The reinvention of democracy in the networked society.
7.30 – 7.45 pm BREAK
7.45 – 9 pm – WORKSHOPS
– Continuation of the previous day’s workshops
– Networked democracy tools and experiences. Led by the Plan de Rescate Ciudadano (Citizen Rescue Plan)
– Protection tools. Led by Pablo Castellano
– Participation in the Positive Digital Agenda for Europe. Led by Quadrature du Net
Activities organised collaboratively in the lead-up to the FCForum
- Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 October – Civil Society and Communication Conference, UOC
- Meeting of the Creativity: Innovative models of production and access with visits to the Tapies Foundation, 4pm and MACBA, 6pm
- Workshops of Active citizenship: Citizens’s skills for a better democracy in the digital era