Organized by Archipiélago magazine and Medialab-Madrid.
Directed by Joaquín Rodríguez (Co-director of Archipiélago)
The serious and reasonable treatment of the commons implies a re-formulation of the human economy of exchange, positioning it closer to the gift economy, and the economy of generosity -to the benefit of the majority, since the circulatity and correspondence of exchanges applies to all of us- than to the economy of private exploitation of the public sector, in detriment to the fundamental principal of life and social co-existence.All sessions will start at 7pm
Open Access: Contemporary Publishing Initiatives, by Elena Fernández, Department of Techonogical Innovation and Scientific Information (CSIC-CINDOC)
The Pharmaceutical Apartheid. The Access to Medicines and the Fight for the Patents, by Miguel Jara, journalist and writer, author of Conspiraciones Tóxicas. Cómo atentan contra nuestra salud y el medio ambiente los grupos empresariales (Editorial Martínez Roca-Grupo Planeta, 2007).
Property and Access in the Information Society: Authors, Industry and Users, by Fernando Carbajo, Professor of Commercial Law of the University of Salamanca.
What Can Representative Democracy Learn from the Athenian Direct Democracy?, by Ignacio Sotelo, Sociologist and member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Peace and Law on the Outher Space, by Rafael García del Poyo, University Registrar of the Spanish Center for the Space Law.
Presentation of the book Edición 2.0. Los futuros del libro (Edition 2.0. The futures of the book), by Joaquín Rodríguez, co-director of Archipiélago magazine.
From the Analog Commons to the New Hybrid Public Spaces, by Juan Freire, scientific, entrepeneur, professor, blogger and explorer of the interactivity between the urban world, social networks and digital spaces.
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