Democracy

A short introduction to Participatory Economics.

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We caught up with Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield in Manhattan last week. He was in town to announce the winners in Flickr’s photo contest ‘The Blink of an Eye’.

Stewart and his wife and co-founder Caterina Fake sold the company to Yahoo! last year. The were featured on the cover of Newsweek not too long ago.

Far from living a celebrity high life, Stewart is deeply involved with the success of the photo sharing site, working days and some sleepless nights too.

He confides with Beet.TV’s Kate Lyon that he is so consumed with Flickr that he sometime he has trouble sleeping and keeps a notepad by his bedside to jot down notes on all sorts of issues like scalability, spam and copyright abuse. (aack!)

He told Kate that the key to success in participatory media (a term he prefers over consumer generated content) is the people, not the photos or medium. The photos are just the “locus” for people bringing people together. You can’t have one without the other, and when you put it that way, calling it participatory media does make a lot of sense.

See this video on Beet.TV:
http://www.beet.tv/2006/08/flickrs_cofound.html

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PV Sateesh Interview – participatory video pioneer . Visit his orgs site: www.ddsindia.com

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In the fifth annual McGowan Forum on Communication, Technology and Government, experts discuss the transfomative effect of Web 2.0 on the relationship between citizen and government.

The panel, moderated by Darrell M. West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, discusses how collaborative democracy can be designed. Panelists include Beth Simone Noveck, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mark H. Webbink, visiting professor of law, New York Law School, and executive director, Center for Patent Innovations; Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder, Public Knowledge; and Jason R. Baron, director of litigation, National Archives.

For more on the National Archives, please visit http://www.archives.gov or check out our YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/usnationalarchives

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can someone please tell me the difference between participatory research and advocacy research?

Action research or participatory action research is a recognized form of experimental research that focuses on the effects of the researcher’s direct actions of practice within a participatory community with the goal of improving the performance quality of the community or an area of concern.

Self-advocacy refers to the civil rights movement for people with developmental disabilities , also called cognitive or intellectual disabilities, and other disabilities. It is also an important term in the disability rights movement, referring to people with disabilities taking control of their own lives, including being in charge of their own care in the medical system. The self-advocacy movement is (in basic terms) about people with disabilities speaking up for themselves. It means that although a person with a disability may call upon the support of others, the individual is entitled to be in control of their own resources and how they are directed. It is about having the right to make life decisions without undue influence or control by others.

Wikipedia

These notes let you buy into a partnership without acquiring the liability

a. all citizens have the right to take part in governmental deliberations?
b. all inhabitants have the right to vote?
c. women are accorded equal legal status with men?
d. all interest groups participate through their elected representatives?

b.*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy

Web 2.0

- content from members, like YA, FaceBook, Youtube etc.
- support for Participatory Communication.

Youtube
- the best video sharing site.
- more sites connected with youtube like http://vvipvideo.com

Web 2.0

- content from members, like YA, FaceBook, Youtube etc.
- support for Participatory Communication.

Youtube
- the best video sharing site.
- more sites connected with youtube like http://vvipvideo.com

Indian-based brokerages buy India-based securities and then issue participatory notes to foreign investors. Any dividends or capital gains collected from the underlying securities go back to the investors.

In many ways, this is similar to an informal ADR process, where brokerages hold on to stocks for foreign investors. However, Indian regulators are not very happy about participatory notes because they have no way to know who owns the underlying securities. Regulators fear that hedge funds acting through participatory notes will cause economic volatility in India’s exchanges.

Check source as well.