Tag Archives: Connectivism

My Lecture for the NL Royal Institute of Engineers (KIvI)

UPDATE, March 1 2023: A new video recording of this lecture has been made (in the Dutch language), which is visible ONLINE at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz6_Zuvvrt0 This is a better quality videorecording with better sound registration than the original recording in Delft. … Continue reading

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Updated: Connecting to the Other

Update in 2023: There are two huge impacts on human relations by digitalisation / The Internet in the wide world recently. Complexity (= issues being so interwoven that reduction into parts becomes impossible, and central control less obvious) and decrease … Continue reading

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The Way Ahead 4: Proposed Remedy Against Escape into Fear & Isolated Tribes = Synthecracy !

“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance & does not object to sharing”    ~~Alexander Solzhenitsyn How can we use the sociology of networking in more constructive ways than spreading fear? The media are each day full of shocking … Continue reading

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INTERNATIONAL CALL BY #NUITDEBOUT

WE CALL FOR A #GLOBALDEBOUT DAY OF ACTION ON THE 15 OF MAY, 2016 We call on peoples movements across the world to mobilise for justice and real democracy on the 15 of May, 2016 for a #GLOBALDEBOUT.… Source: INTERNATIONAL … Continue reading

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‘Project Dèmos’ Community Support Platform was Softlaunched

On Saturday March 19th in Amsterdam Steyn Foorthuis and Roman van Ree and their crew have soft-launched the Community Support Platform ‘Project Dèmos’ – an open source software. It is aimed at P2P groups of volunteers co-creating and co-laborating around … Continue reading

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The Financial System is Unstable !!!

In 2005 the then newly appointed at Tilburg University professor Hans Blommestein [(OECD) asked me “are very large and complex interconnected financial systems stable or not ?”. The banking world had always ASSUMED that more interconnections between their (several types … Continue reading

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Trailer of “The Connected Universe” Film

Very impressive and inspiring film trailer: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-connected-universe-film#/ ====== Do you know how you are connected to all 7, 273,405, 490 people in the world?     Do you understand the connection that you share with all living things and also which … Continue reading

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(Future 3) Keeping The Internet Dream Alive : Jennifer Granick’s Keynote Speech

Must see and must read: Jennifer Granick at the Blackhat Conference 2015, on August 10,  giving her keynote speech about “the Internet Dream” that seems to end…. if we do not think and act soon. ** The full text can … Continue reading

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Russia’s Semantic Internet Polution Factory

  (updated with a PS on March 4, 2015) 1. Russia has been staging a very big and concentrated propaganda effort to promote and broadcast the political positions of its government. Agitation and Propaganda AGITPROP has been a vital effort … Continue reading

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(NP6) The ‘new power’ of distributed software systems: 2nd FLOSS4P2P Conference in London

                    Don’t miss the opportunity to meet other software developers for P2P value creation in the direction of the #Synthecracy.org movement: March 16 and 17th 2015 in London: http://www.p2pvalue.eu/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop I hope … Continue reading

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