industryterm:online sharing

Wild City Mapping: Interactive online sharing of wild urban spaces (Video) : TreeHugger

▻http://www.treehugger.com/resilience/wild-city-mapping-montreal-interactive-online-sharing-wild-urban-spaces.

The concrete grittiness of the metropolis is not always as monolithic as it seems; there are typically pockets of green, havens of calm and urban biodiversity that thrive despite all attempts to ’develop’ them into oblivion. These urban wild spaces are places to forage, marvel at urban wildlife, and are also places to gather. They are the hidden hearts of vibrant cities, they are a source of wellbeing to urban dwellers. Yet too often, these precious spaces are threatened by urban development, which shortsightedly views these spaces as abandoned, residual and of little economic value.

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But worldwide, communities are banding together to save their local urban wild spaces, using a variety of tactics like outreach, events, guerilla gardening, and in the case of one Montreal collective, creating an interactive online map using open source tools, mapping the wild, uncultivated spaces of Montreal.

Wild City Mapping is an open collective that is internationally based but locally focused, with members who are from all over the world but live in Montreal. Their aim is to create a crowd-sourced map(s) that bring all these disparate wild city spaces into one map:

#urban_matter #cartographie_interactive #ville

“En toute logique on devrait interdire les bibliothèques publiques”

▻http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2014/01/15/internet-bibliotheque-publique-partage-culture

“Public Libraries Show Why Sharing Culture Should Never Have Been Banned in the First Place”

►http://torrentfreak.com/public-libraries-show-why-sharing-culture-should-never-have-been-banne

_"You’ll have a hard time finding a copyright monopoly maximalist who insists that public libraries should be banned. This would be political suicide; instead, they typically tell lies about why it’s not the same thing as online sharing. Let’s have a look.

A concept that’s becoming increasingly useful is “Analog Equivalent Rights.” Culture and knowledge should be just as available in the digital space, as it is in the analog space. We should enjoy exactly the same privacy rights and civil liberties online, as we do offline. The concept is completely reasonable, and nowhere near rocket science. This is a tremendously useful concept, as it makes lawmakers and others reflect on the liberties they are killing off for their children, sometimes followed by a mental shock as they realize what has been going on with their silent approval. Let’s have a look at how this applies to public libraries.

When you are challenging a copyright industry lobbyist over the concept of public libraries, and ask them if they are opposed to people having access to such culture and knowledge without paying, they are smart enough to not deride public libraries – as this would weaken their political position considerably. However, online sharing of culture and knowledge is the Analog Equivalent Right to the public libraries we’ve had for 150 years. Lobbyists will sometimes try to change the subject around this, or more commonly, lie using one of three myths. Here are those myths and lies, and why they are untru

Do we have an instinct for privacy? – Ian Leslie – Aeon
▻http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/do-we-have-a-privacy-instinct-or-are-we-wired-to-share

Over time, we will probably get smarter about online sharing. But right now, we’re pretty stupid about it. Perhaps this is because, at some primal level, we don’t really believe in the internet. Humans evolved their instinct for privacy in a world where words and acts disappeared the moment they were spoken or made. Our brains are barely getting used to the idea that our thoughts or actions can be written down or photographed, let alone take on a free-floating, indestructible life of their own. Until we catch up, we’ll continue to overshare.

#vie_privée #internet #surveillance #psychologie