[p2p-research] iceland

Ryan Lanham rlanham1963 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 14:09:29 CET 2010 

I agree this is a great area.  I feel that most of the ownership models
needed are available in most countries.  Now they need to work to encourage
people toward co-ops, resource trusts (e.g. land trusts), NGO models, etc.

Freedom of expression, however, is always under threat.  Article 19 does
great work on this...and here is a link where people can endorse the Camden
Principles on Freedoms of Expression and Equality.

http://www.article19.org/advocacy/campaigns/camden-principles/index.html

I really admire and appreciate what Iceland is moving toward as a haven of
expression.  Great work!

Ryan


On 2/22/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> well said, really good work you have done on this ...
>
> any updates always welcome,
>
> Michel
>
> 2010/2/15 Smári McCarthy <smari at fabfolk.com>
>
>> I do not disagree that ownership models are a major problem, but to
>> state that that is the only problem is to be alarmingly ignorant to the
>> state of journalism in the world.
>>
>> Hundreds of journalists are on the run from oppressive governments,
>> entire publications such as Malaysia Today and the Turks and Caicos
>> Islands Journal have fled their homes and now publish from abroad. In
>> the UK, at any given time, there are more than 300 secret gag orders
>> limiting the freedom of expression of the press. US publications are
>> having to spend millions of dollars to protect themselves against
>> frivolous lawsuits...
>>
>> The freedom of expression has been under such an onslaught in recent
>> decades, as it always has, and one very important thing to understand is
>> that there has been no fundamental change in legislative protection of
>> the freedom of expression since the adoption of the first amendment in
>> 1791. Since then we've had two world wars, an industrial revolution, an
>> information revolution, and any number of other technological and social
>> advances that make it important to review what the freedom of expression
>> means to us.
>>
>>
>>  - Smári
>>
>>
>> Michel Bauwens wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: ** <ciresearchers-request at vancouvercommunity.net
>>
>> > <mailto:ciresearchers-request at vancouvercommunity.net>>
>> > Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM
>> > Subject: Digest for list ciresearchers
>> > To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
>>
>> > <mailto:ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net>
>> >
>> >
>> > Table of content :
>> >
>> >  1. Re: [ciresearchers] FW: [NetBehaviour] Iceland aims to become an
>> >    offshore haven forjournalists and leakers
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Content Research <contentissimo at chello.at
>>
>> > <mailto:contentissimo at chello.at>>
>> > To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
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>> > <mailto:ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net>, "michael gurstein"
>> > <gurstein at gmail.com <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com>>,
>> > <ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
>>
>>  > <mailto:ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net>>
>> > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:49:38 +0100
>> > Subject: Re: [ciresearchers] FW: [NetBehaviour] Iceland aims to become
>> > an offshore haven forjournalists and leakers
>> > Dear colleagues,
>> >
>> > It seems that the Vikings do not have any clue
>> > about the basics of publishing. I study them for 18 years.
>> > The major challenge is not outsourcing and legislation
>> > but the type of OWNERSHIP and closeness to the markets.
>> >
>> > Februar is Carneval time. and there is a huge difference between
>> > tangible and intangible (e.g. financial) assets.
>> >
>> > There is one only country on the globe which succeeded to
>> > became an off-shoring destination for one particular element
>> > of the value chain of publishing.
>> >
>> > kind regards,
>> >
>> >
>> > Gerahrd
>> >
>> > At 02:02 14.02.2010, michael gurstein wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >     -----Original Message-----
>> >     From: netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org
>> >     <mailto:netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org>
>> >     [mailto:netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org
>> >     <mailto:netbehaviour-bounces at netbehaviour.org>] On Behalf Of dave
>> miller
>> >     Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 7:36 PM
>> >     To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>> >     Subject: [NetBehaviour] Iceland aims to become an offshore haven
>> >     forjournalists and leakers
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/iceland-aims-to-become-an-offshore-haven-fo
>> >     r-journalists-and-leakers/
>> >
>> >     On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a
>> measure
>> >     aimed at making the country an international center for
>> investigative
>> >     journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of
>> source
>> >     protection, freedom of speech, and libel-tourism prevention laws in
>> the
>> >     world.
>> >
>> >     Supporters of the proposal say the move would make Iceland an
>> “offshore
>> >     publishing center” for free speech, analogous to the offshore
>> financial
>> >     havens that allow corporations to hide capital from authorities.
>> Could
>> >     global news organizations with a home office in Reykjavík soon be as
>> >     common
>> >     as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets?
>> >     _______________________________________________
>> >     NetBehaviour mailing list
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>> >     NetBehaviour at netbehaviour.org <mailto:NetBehaviour at netbehaviour.org
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>>  >     http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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>> >
>> > End of digest for list ciresearchers - Sun Feb 14 20:56:28 2010
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University - Think
>> > thank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
>> >
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