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Can Science Save the World?

Mark Tovey

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is celebrating their 10th anniversary with an 11 day science festival called Quantum2Cosmos: Ideas for the Future. Speakers from around the world will be converging on Waterloo, Canada to talk about string theory, quantum computation, dark matter—and a few bright green themes. Two WorldChanging Canada writers, Karl Schroeder, and Mark Tovey, are among them. Karl Schroeder was a panellist on the 'Are We Bound for Space' panel on Tuesday at...

Principle 10: Collaborative Innovation and Creative Commons

WorldChanging Team

A significant number of the innovations we've highlighted on Worldchanging have been designed and developed through collaboration. Whether in hands-on settings or through web-based tools, engaging a wider community almost inevitably yields a product which is more appropriate for its intended context and better suited to the end-user. This model also enables iterative improvement even once a product or service has been released into the world. One way to facilitate that continuing evolution...

Lawrence Lessig and the Creative Commons Developing Nations License

Alex Steffen

Creative Commons has been a frequent subject of discussion here on Worldchanging, and with good reason: the Creative Commons license has changed the world's understanding of intellectual property -- and helped us see that getting intellectual property rules right can spur innovation. Nowhere is innovation more badly needed, of course, than in the developing world, where environmental and social problems are magnified not only by economic poverty itself, but by the lack of access to...

Blood Diamonds, Transparency and the Emerging Power of Global Citizen Action

Alex Steffen

Diamonds, like barrels of oil, are worth cash money everywhere, and, again like oil, the international trade in diamonds has destabilized whole regions and promoted criminal regimes. They have helped fuel the genocidal Congo wars and kept Angola in chaos. They are intimately tied to the black market in weapons. Terrorists even traffic in them to finance their plots. And these "blood diamonds" are sold in large numbers, by the billions of dollars, on the diamond bourses of Antwerp and other...

Creative Commons and "Read-Write" Culture

Micki Krimmel

Chances are, if you’re a regular Worldchanging reader, the notion of copyfight and the good works of Creative Commons are nothing new to you. But there couldn’t be an issue more timely given the explosive growth of “user generated” media and the recent boom in popularity of Creative Commons licenses. Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation by Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig at an event hosted by the Hollywood Hill. Given that the audience was comprised...

The Pirate Party: Rethinking Copyright

Jon Lebkowsky

Rickard Falvinge is running for Swedish Parliament on a single issue – he'sfounder and candidate of the new Pirate Party, or Piratpartiet, which opposes strong copyright protection and supports file sharing. The party doesn't oppose all copyright, but it believes that all non-commercial copying and use should be completely free, file sharing and p2p networking should be encouraged rather than criminalized, and copyright term should be limited to five years after publication. When...

Cory Doctorow: The WorldChanging Interview

Alex Steffen

The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of those incredibly important international bodies of which most of us have never heard. Cory Doctorow, besides being a bull goose blogger and science fiction writer, is one of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's key activists, trying to get WIPO to become more responsive to the needs of average citizens, especially in the developing world. Here Cory talks about intellectual property and development, but the stories he tells, I think,...