Category Archives: Democracy

Multitude

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Multitude Read also – Insurgencies Hardt, an American political scientist at Duke University, and Negri, a former Italian parliament member and political exile, trained political scientist and sometime inmate of Rome’s Rebibbia prison. This book follows up on Empire‘s promise … Continue reading →

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Informing Communities – Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Technologies for acquiring and disseminating news and information are changing rapidly. Emerging media have become amazing forces for enabling people to connect. But their full potential is not yet realized in the service of geographic communities, the physical places … Continue reading →

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Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture The importance of formative culture as a mode of civic education in the shaping of democratic values and critical agents can be found in the work of … Continue reading →

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Open Source Democracy

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Open Source Democracy: Can collective intelligence, mass collaboration, and large-scale problem solving using open architectures redefine democratic engagement in the 21st Century? Mark Tovey, Michael Nielsen and Hassan Masum will join WICI in exploring the possibilities that information and communication … Continue reading →

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