[isoc-ny] David Bollier - “The Struggle to Build a Digital Republic” - NYU 5/18

[ISOC-NY announcements]

The Internet Society's New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) welcomes David
Bollier to speak at NYU on May 18 2009. 

David will address the themes of his new book,Viral Spiral:  How the Commoners
Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press). The book is
the first comprehensive history of the "free culture" movement and
"sharing economy" that is empowering ordinary people, disrupting
markets and changing politics and culture.  Bollier will talk about
the rise of free and open source software, Creative Commons
licenses, the new forms of non-market creativity (Wikipedia, blogs,
remix music, videos) as well as fascinating innovations in open
science, open education and "open business models."


When: Monday 18 May 2009 - 7pm
Where: Courant Institute
            251 Mercer Street (Warren Weaver Hall)
            Room 109
           (entrance on W. 4th St)
The public is welcome (photo id required). 


More about the book can be found at the website http://www.viralspiral.cc


Bio

David Bollier is a leading American activist, author, blogger and
proponent of "free culture" on the Internet and the commons.  He is an
editor of Onthecommons.org and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg
School for Communication.  Bollier is also co-founder of Public
Knowledge, a Washington, D.C., organization that advocates for the
public's stake in the Internet and copyright law, and the author of
Silent Theft, Brand Name Bullies, and four other books.   He lives in
Amherst, Massachusetts. More about can be found at http://www.bollier.org 


About ISOC-NY

ISOC-NY is the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Internet Society.
The Internet Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1992 to  
provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and  
policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, it is  
dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the  
Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world. More  
information is available at: http://www.isoc.org


Joly MacFie 
admin at isoc-ny.org