Free Culture Forum in Barcelona 2011

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:52:28 +0200
From: Simona Levi <info at conservas.tk>
Subject: Save the date: oXcars and FCForum 2011.

27 to 29 of October 2011 - Barcelona
Oxcars and FreeCultureForum 2011
Networks for a R-evolution

Three days to think about what the Internet has done for us, and what 
we can now do for it ;-).
http://whois--x.net/english/oxcars-and-freecultureforum-2011

2011 is the year when the consciousness of a global network has 
emerged. The massive and strategic use of social and digital networks 
has allowed the movement of citizen empowerment to step up a notch, 
and has facilitated a viral uprising of civil society in many parts of 
the world. The struggles to defend the Internet have shown to be a 
fertile breeding ground for such uprisings.

The #15M movement within the #spanishrevolution is organized online. 
By the same token, one of its biggest strengths is the feedback 
process that happens between the network and the streets, between the 
internet and the men and women gathering in streets and squares.

We have to continue promoting, facilitating and improving the 
efficient use of the Internet to achieve mobilization and direct 
participation.

During the previous edition of the FCForum it was already discussed 
that the intense struggles by civil society within the Spanish state 
to defend the Internet against the Sinde Law (a law to stop 
downloading) were the starting point for a larger action.

For 3 years now, the OXCARS and the FCForum, held in Barcelona, have 
provided international meeting spaces in which to build and coordinate 
common tools for issues regarding free culture and the Internet. The 
FCForum gathers the main organizations and active voices that are 
working on such issues, while it is also an open space for all those 
who wish to understand, deepen and participate in the responses before 
the pressing challenges that face our connected societies.

This year, the FCForum will focus, inevitably, on the experience of 
the 15M movement as a case study that can be exported to the global 
arena.

The intention of the FCForum 2011 is for all participants to analyze 
and build the best tools that the struggle needs at this point, both 
for its organization and for the impact it aims to have here in Spain, 
as case of study to be applied more globally.

Some of the questions that we will discuss this year are:

Which tools and methods of online organization and communication have 
allowed the emergence of the #15M movement? How can these practices be 
improved? How have social networks facilitated a change in the respect 
shown between people from different groups? What dangers threaten the 
neutral, open Internet which we know and want to preserve, at the 
local and global levels? How has the Internet facilitated the creation 
of new ways of producing and spreading culture? How can some of those 
methods become a way to avoid artists being used as an excuse to 
privatize the Web? What should we do with SGAE (the main management 
organization in Spain) now that its directives have been taken to 
court ;-)?

This gathering of 2 days will be preceded, as always, by the OXCARS, 
the biggest free culture event of all time.  A great celebration of 
free culture that will serve as a warm-up event.

We believe it will be a very useful space for the empowerment of the 
movement.

We welcome and await you all.

This year we will be helped along in our discussions, amongst many 
others, by John Perry Barlow, who in 1996 lit the spark with his 
'declaration of independence in ciberspace', Alex de la Iglesia, who 
stepped down from his post as Director of the Film Academy in protest 
against the Sinde law, as well as many of the hackers and people who 
have created tools to assist the actions of the 15M movement, such as 
the network N-1.cc.

Three days to think about what the Internet has done for us, and what 
we can now do for it ;-).

Location
Thursday 27th October, 20.30 Oxcars Sala Apolo - Barcelona
Friday 28th and Saturday 29th from 11h to 21h at the Rambla in front 
of Santa Monica and at Santa Monica, Drassanes metro stop

Site:
http://www.2011.fcforum.net/

Program:
http://www.2011.fcforum.net/topics/

English translation will be provided.

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