Short summary of selected proposals to be developed in a collaborative way during the workshop directed by Benjamin Fry, Bestiario and Adrian Holovaty.
Technical democracy as an alternative the adopts the ways of democracy deliberative democracy (citizen panels, consensus conferences...). This democracy assumes the existence of conflicts and debates and the facts that must be considered relevant and...
Who and how could manage and prevent problems like genomic manipulation, massive technological aplication for war or devastation of natural spaces. What is the rol that knowledge plays in these topics.
A comparison between Greek and modern democracy, as different as they are, shows how delicate the prejudice which defends that there is no more than one democracy is.
Selected papers to be presented at the VISUALIZAR symposium (12th and 13th November) and selected projects to be developed at VISUALIZAR workshop (14th-18th November).
Intellectual Property as an essential tool for the cultural industries, problems that come up from the protests against its use and conciliation with the common initiatives.
Miguel Jara talks about the current problems withing the pharmaceutical industry from a social view. Medical patents, generic drugs and public health, scientific position towards the "pharmacist giant"
Chris Sugrue, who participated at the Interactivos? workshop at Medialab Prado, will be artist in residence at the Hangar production center (Barcelona) during two months.
This conference shows the state of the art inside the publication model of open access. A revision of the main initiatives that have developed this type of repositories in our country.