September 22 is One Web Day - a day to celebrate the Internet, a day to make visible that which we value about this technology and medium that has changed our lives, our work and our world.
Catalytic Communities - like so may other peer-production initiatives - depends upon the world wide web and shares the same deeply positive philosophy that informs One Web Day - the Earth Day of the Internet.
Let's reflect upon the values of One Web Day .... the notion that there is One Web centers on a communications medium but also evokes nature, the environment, global civil society, our connectedness as a species and our responsibility to each other and across species.
The unity of One Web - speaks of values long expressed by social justice activists in the media and technology sectors. We envision a future where communications rights are clearly placed in the pantheon of human rights and social justice, where the digital divide is surpassed in all of it's manifestations, and where one by one we resolve our most pressing local and global issues, forevermore. Humanity need only share and act upon our collective wisdom and experience.
A Web connects us and creates the possibility of new forms of connection. We find each other and we realize we're working on the same things. This challenges us to rethink our work. The Web offers itself as a model for new ways of working together ... open, public standards and freedom go hand in hand. The public standards that constitute the Internet Protocol make possible discourse and creation of new standards for new fields. Each layer of the stack, even the idea of the OSI "stack" rests upon this duality of freedom and standardization.
At CatComm we're actively working with others towards open data standards and the practical organization and dissemination of information vital to our field of civic enterprise. Lessons of the grassroots are shaping the future of the grassroots and netroots. We dream together with others of an Open Sustainability Network.
We view One Web Day as a day of activism as well as a day of positive media. Positive media is not just the telling of positive stories ... it involves the establishment of a civic infrastructure for the transmission, exchange, and conversation around human solutions and achievements.
Susan Crawford, founder of One Web Day speaks of making visible that which we value. The Internet has pentrated our life to such a degree that we can take it for granted. So today we share stories and successes. We need to make clear these things we value so that we may take care in their collective governance. We're responsbile for these things and we must be vigilant.
There's a deep connection between Earth Day and One Web Day. It's more than an analogy. The issues we face together - environmental and social justice issues - the issues that bring people together at CatComm and in other collective endeavors are guided by a positive faith that we have important work that must be attended to now.
Catalytic Communities - like so may other peer-production initiatives - depends upon the world wide web and shares the same deeply positive philosophy that informs One Web Day - the Earth Day of the Internet.
Let's reflect upon the values of One Web Day .... the notion that there is One Web centers on a communications medium but also evokes nature, the environment, global civil society, our connectedness as a species and our responsibility to each other and across species.
The unity of One Web - speaks of values long expressed by social justice activists in the media and technology sectors. We envision a future where communications rights are clearly placed in the pantheon of human rights and social justice, where the digital divide is surpassed in all of it's manifestations, and where one by one we resolve our most pressing local and global issues, forevermore. Humanity need only share and act upon our collective wisdom and experience.
A Web connects us and creates the possibility of new forms of connection. We find each other and we realize we're working on the same things. This challenges us to rethink our work. The Web offers itself as a model for new ways of working together ... open, public standards and freedom go hand in hand. The public standards that constitute the Internet Protocol make possible discourse and creation of new standards for new fields. Each layer of the stack, even the idea of the OSI "stack" rests upon this duality of freedom and standardization.
At CatComm we're actively working with others towards open data standards and the practical organization and dissemination of information vital to our field of civic enterprise. Lessons of the grassroots are shaping the future of the grassroots and netroots. We dream together with others of an Open Sustainability Network.
We view One Web Day as a day of activism as well as a day of positive media. Positive media is not just the telling of positive stories ... it involves the establishment of a civic infrastructure for the transmission, exchange, and conversation around human solutions and achievements.
Susan Crawford, founder of One Web Day speaks of making visible that which we value. The Internet has pentrated our life to such a degree that we can take it for granted. So today we share stories and successes. We need to make clear these things we value so that we may take care in their collective governance. We're responsbile for these things and we must be vigilant.
There's a deep connection between Earth Day and One Web Day. It's more than an analogy. The issues we face together - environmental and social justice issues - the issues that bring people together at CatComm and in other collective endeavors are guided by a positive faith that we have important work that must be attended to now.
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