Dear ECC Participant,

We have a final set of announcements and reminders to share with you
before the conference and side events begin.

First off all:  Please remember our conference hashtag: #4thecommons

Here is the list of issues we want to bring to your attention:
    OPENING SESSIONS
    STREAM DESCRIPTIONS
    SIDE EVENTS
    STREAMING
    ECC COMMUNICATION PLATTFORM
    ECC WIKI + YOUR DATA + PARTICIPANTS LIST

OPENING OF ECC AND PUBLIC CONFERENCE ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 4.30 pm
Please be on time. The event will surely be filled to capacity.
Here is a link to spread the word and for any non-conference
participant to register:
http://www.boell.de/calendar/VA-viewevt-de.aspx?evtid=12704&crtpage=1

STREAM DESCRIPTIONS
The descriptions of each Stream in the conference program are
abbreviated versions. The longer, more detailed descriptions can now
be found on our Conference Wiki at:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference#Conference_Streams

SIDE EVENTS
There is a whole range of self-organized side events that we wish to
draw to your attention. A few listing can be found here:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Overview_of_the_Economics_of_the_Commons_Conference#Side_Events

Several of these side events were organized since our last letter to
ECC participants. These include:

Side Event: Commons for Public Health (not to be confused as restricted to health issues)
"Public Health, Seeds, Open Knowledge and Clean Tech: A Common(s)
Pathway? - Discussing a Commons-based Knowledge Transfer and Innovation System"
Tuesday 21 May: 11:00 - 17:00
Venue: Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Luisenstr 57, 10117 Berlin
A program is now available here:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_for_Public_Health_-_2013

RSVP: Lukas Fendel / Universities Allied for Essential Medicines lfendel <at> essentialmedicine.org

********************
Side Event: Education Commons
Wednesday 22 May, 13:00-16:30
Commons education, education commons, Global Commons Initiative, research commons, School of Commoning, University of Notre Dame
in the Heinrich Boell Foundation Building/ meeting point: lobby

RSVP: Leo Burke <leoburke1948-ee4meeAH724@public.gmane.org>

********************
Side Event: Enabling a global climate commons pathway - through an emerging loose international federation of commons
Wednesday 22 May: 14.00 to 16.00
Conference Room 2, Schumannstr 8, in the Heinrich Boell Foundation building

RSVP to: Brian Davey <briadavey-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> and Justin Kenrick
<justinkenrick-/E1597aS9LT10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org>

********************
Side Event: Commons in post-soviet area -- Dying or transforming towards a modern form of commons?
How can experiences of transformational countries be joined into the commons movement?
Wednesday, 25 May,  12.00 - 14.00
Venue: Heinrich Boell Foundation; meet in the lobby

RSVP to: Kai Ehlers <info-bBFaYYzzUz8db0md83ufjA@public.gmane.org>

POST CONFERENCE SIDE EVENT:
In the context of: "How to get there from here? conference followup and post-conference planning."
Commons Abundance Network (CAN)
Invitation to explore mutual empowerment through exploration and further development of THE COMMONS ABUNDANCE NETWORK
Saturday, May 25th, 9am -12
Venue: Heinrich Boell Foundation, room depending on number of attendees
RSVP to: Wolfgang Hoeschele: whoesch-WoT/K4O+OuU3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org


STREAMING OF SESSIONS, ESPECIALLY KEYNOTES
On Wednesday, May 22 the entire opening event will be streamed, starting at 4.30 pm
Throughout the conference, all keynotes will be streamed at scheduled times. Please spread the following links for streaming:
On the hbf website (chat available):  
http://www.boell.de/economysocial/economy/economy-commons-10451.html

On the ECC Communication Platform:
http://commonsandeconomics.org/live/

The streams (in an edited version) will also be available at:
https://www.youtube.com/user/boellstiftung
(search for ECC2013)

If you wish to embed the streaming into your websites and blogs: here is the code
<embed src='http://www.boell.de/data/flash/jwplayer.swf' height='350'

width='588' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true'

flashvars="&author=Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung&bandwidth=157829&description=Live-Stream%20von%20Veranstaltungen%20der%20Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung%20auf%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boell.de%2Fstream&file=stream01&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boell.de%2Fimages%2Fdemokratie%2Fnetzpolitik.gif&lightcolor=0xa7a796&plugins=viral-2&screencolor=0xf2f2f2&streamer=rtmp://livezone02.netdna.com/live/64870&title=Live-Stream"/>

If you share those links with all those who cannot attend the conference, we'll multiply our audience.

ECC COMMUNICATION PLATFORM (CP)
Throughout next week, the platform is not open for registration for the general public. Only ECC participants can have an account at this moment and post their own contributions. However, non-participants are currently able to comment on all posts and comment using Twitter (with the hashtag #4thecommons) -- and during the conference everybody will be able to follow the video stream and other real-time tools.  After the conference the ECC Communication Platform will be opened completely, so that everybody can register and post on it.

If you wish to read material from CP during your trip to Berlin you can now use a downloadhelper, ready to be used from mobile devices for all PDF or ePub documents (right column of each post, as for instance here: 
http://commonsandeconomics.org/2013/05/19/an-urbanism-for-the-commons/)

ECC2013 WIKI
First of all, please verify YOUR data on the wiki, and send any proposed changes to Michel Bauwens at michel-JQUKMTwiyfjVe7td6HMt/l6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org
        This is the official overview page of the conference:
        http://p2pfoundation.net/ECC2013

        Research on the topic of Commons Economics:
        http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons_Economics

        Comprehensive list of participants:
        http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:ECC2013_Participants

        List of organizational affiliations:
        http://p2pfoundation.net/ECC2013/Organizations


That's all!  We are looking very much forward to seeing all of you! 

For the Steering Committee of ECC,
Silke Helfrich and David Bollier








-- David Bollier david-aM821LzqUkNAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org Now blogging at www.Bollier.org Commons Strategies Group www.wealthofthecommons.org www.viralspiral.cc 511 Old Farm Road Amherst, MA 01002 USA 413-259-2009

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