The Future of JZ: Unstoppable
- Stanford Law School, EFF and Creative Commons hosted grand and glam book (slash recruit JZ for Stanford Law School) party at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco. The book was for sale but the edible cookie replicas were free! As usual,...
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Beth Simone Noveck
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2008-05-10T17:39:50-05:00
RunTime Revolution Donates Software to New York Law School
- by Bill Marriott Famous lawyers from both fiction and reality have always relied on a variety of tools to persuade judge and jury: surprise witnesses; dramatic closing arguments; reenactments of the crime scene. But first and foremost, a good lawyer...
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Beth Simone Noveck
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2008-05-09T18:08:44-05:00
Carrot Mobbing
- Brent Schulkin in San Francisco has launched the first "Carrot Mob." What's a Carrot Mob? Well, it's a way to use the "carrot" of consumer buying power to encourage small businesses to help the environment. The idea is to use...
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Beth Simone Noveck
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2008-05-02T16:44:14-05:00
Yet Another DRM Disaster
- Microsoft announces that it will no longer issue DRM keys for music purchased on its now defunct music service. As CNET explains: "This means that, while former customers can listen to their music on authorized computers for as long as...
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Beth Simone Noveck
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2008-04-24T19:15:10-05:00
Can the FCC fix the internet?
- The Federal Communications Commission comes to Stanford this Thursday to hear from two panels of experts and members of the public on issues related to broadband network management practices.
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Seeta Peña Gangadharan
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2008-04-14T16:15:14-05:00
THE CAIRNS PROJECT by THE DEMOCRACY DESIGN WORKSHOP, NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL, NEW YORK
The Cairns Project builds civic software to promote problem solving and decisionmaking through the application of participatory, and collaborative solutions. Decisions made by and with the input of those groups affected by the decisions represent a more legitimate way of governing, working and living. This is democracy, not as a form of politics, but as a way of life.
The first goal of the Cairns Project is to build open-source, web-based knowledge management software to promote participatory practices. The Cairns software allows those who work in groups to upload, index and map information about their own projects and to search easily for information about those of others.
It also helps match those "doing democracy" to those studying and documenting participative practices across multiple domains.
The Cairns Project offers a high impact visual interface for users to describe their own work rather than relying on third-parties to do so. The success of the Project therefore depends on as many people contributing to it as possible.
The Cairns Project provides a mechanism for "translating" collaborative and participative practices so that people in civic, governmental, business and other worlds can learn from each other’s experiences.
The Cairns Project is not simply designed to study groups but to promote participatory work. It is both a tool for idea exchange and a place for engagement among members of this community of interest worldwide.
CAIRNS PROGRAMMER, Patrick Dwyer, joins the Institute for Information Law & Policy "Do Tank" full-time as Lead Technologist.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE provides additional funding to support the work of Cairns in 2004. Additional grant supports European Workshops. Earlier funding provided by Council of Europe and America Speaks.
ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND provides the Democracy Design Workshop at New York Law School with $80,000 to fund the Cairns Project.
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Beth Simone Noveck