Christophe Aguiton (Orange R&L, European Social Forum) - aguiton(at)gmail.com
Christophe Aguiton is a researcher at France Telecom R&D and Orange Labs. He publishes on new forms of organization, weak cooperation, and Geek culture. Aguiton is a key figure in the anti-globalization movement. He comes from IV International and SUD trade union and has worked in many international networks (Euromarches, Attac, World Social Forum, European Social Forum etc).
Tim Anglade
Judd Antin jantin@ISchool.Berkeley.edu PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Information (iSchool). His research explores how social psychological incentives operate to facilitate or hinder online cooperation. http://www.technotaste.com
Phoebe Ayers - Wikipedian - phoebe.ayers@gmail.com A science and engineering reference librarian at the University of California, Davis. She’s been involved with Wikipedia since 2003, particularly helping with the Wikimania conferences, and recently coauthored a book called “How Wikipedia Works.”. http://phoebeayers.info/
Cary Bass - Wikimedia Foundation - Volunteers Coordinador - cary(at)wikimedia.org
Thiago Benicchio (World Social Forum, Brazil) - thiago.wsf(at)gmail.com
Thiago Benicchio is a journalist. He has been working as the communications person in the WSF office in Sao Paulo since October 2007, as part of the support team for the 2008 Global Day of Action, and using networks for politics since the early Days of Global Action in late 90’s. He is also a bike and transportation activist, strongly using internet, blogs, mailing lists, collaborative pages and other network tools for action planing, discussions and as alternative media.
Marco Berlinguer (Transform! Italia) - marco.berlinguer(at)transform.it, marco.berlinguer(at)gmail.com
Marco Berlinguer was born and lives in Rome. In the last few years he contributed to the foundation of Transform! Italia and of different European and International networks as: Transform! Europe, Euromovements, Eurotopia, The Network for the Charter for Another Europe, Newtorked Politics, Labor and Globalization. He is mainly engaged in studying and experimenting with new forms of connection between social and political action and research, and between new forms of production of information, knowledge and communication and the production of new forms of alternative and trasformative subjectivity. Recently he edited: “World Social forum: A Debate On the Challenges for Its Future” (2003); “La Riva sinistra del Tevere - Mappe e conflitti nel territorio metropolitano di Roma” (2004); “Pratiche costituenti - Spazi, reti, appartenenze: le politiche dei movimenti” (2005); “Parole di una nuova politica” (2007); “Networked Politics” (2007).
Mark Burdett - San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. mark(at)indymedia.org
Nick Buxton (Transnational Institute) - nick(at)tni.org
Nick Buxton is online communications officer at TNI. He has been involved in using the internet as a tool for activism since the mid-90s, when he was Communications Manager for the international Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation movement. He wrote up some of the learning from Jubilee 2000’s use of ICT in a published book “Advocacy, Activism and the Internet” (Lyceum Books, 2002). From 2004-2008, Nick lived in Bolivia working with the movement against free trade agreements, learning and writing about Bolivian social movements and their struggles for social and environmental justice in this inspiring Andean nation. He is now living in Davis, California.
Scott Byrd - sbyrd(at)uci.edu Scott Byrd (UC Irvine/University of Notre Dame) is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation explores transnational coalition building and collaboration among social movement organizations. Scott is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame where he is examining the multi-level organizational dynamics of transnational networks and the resourcing strategies they employ to manage inequalities and cultural difference. Scott’s research and writing has appeared in /Mobilization/ and /Globalizations/. He along with Elizabeth Smythe are currently co-editing a forthcoming special issue on the World Social Forums for the Journal of World System Research. He has attended and helped plan Social Forums in the US and
Brazil. sbyrd(at)riseup.net; sbyrd(at)uci.edu
Chris Carlsson
Writer, multimedia and graphic designer, political activist. Author of Nowtopia.
http://www.chriscarlsson.com/
Geraldo Adriano Godoy de Campos (Brazil) - adri.geraldo(at)gmail.com
Geraldo Adriano Godoy de Campos is a Lecturer in Sociology of International Relations in ESPM, São Paulo, Brasil, and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Convergence of the International Relations course in the same University. He is a member of the Directive Board of the Arabic Cultural Institute of Brazil and a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar. He was formerly Coordinator of International Relations of the Participatory Budget of São Paulo. He participated in and edited the book: “In the eye of the hurricane. Rethinking the future of the left,” with Hilary Wainwright (TNI, 2006). He is co-author of the book: “Participatory Democracy and redistribution. Experiences of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil,” with Adalmir Marquetti. His areas of research-activism includes: participatory mechanisms, immigration and Bolivia. Geraldo is currently an activist on immigration issues and coordinates a course about “Social economics and cooperatives for immigrants” in São Paulo.
Dominique Cardon (Orange Lab) -dominique.cardon(at)wanadoo.fr
Dominique Cardon is a sociologist working in Orange Labs and France Télécom R&D’s Usage Laboratory and associated researcher at the Centre for Research on Social Movements at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales (CEMS/EHESS). His research focuses on relations between the use of new technologies and cultural and media activities. If new technology can contribute to the transformation of social relationships between individuals, it is also possible to modify the public arena, the media, and the way in which information is produced. The interconnection between sociability and the public arena is the starting point for various studies relating to cultural practices, alternative media, and “interactive” television programmes. He is particularly interested in the use of new technologies by international militants in the alterglobalization movement.
Coye Cheshire (School of Information, UC Berkeley) - coye(at)ischool.berkeley.edu
Coye Cheshire is interested in the social aspects of computer networks and exchange systems. His current research topics include the role of information as the object of exchange in social exchange environments and the production of collective goods in computer-mediated exchange networks. His current collaborative work focuses on the relationship between exchange structures and risk, uncertainty, trust, and cooperation (in the U.S. and across societies). Current research examines the role of social psychological incentives in various computer-mediated exchange situations. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997; an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University, 1998; and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University, 2005. He is currently Professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Website: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/coyecheshire
Tim Costello (Global Labor Strategies, USA) - costello.gls(at)gmail.com
Tim Costello is Co-Director of Global Labor Strategies an information and networking center on global labor and environmental issues. Prior to that he helped found, and was for 8 years Coordinator of, the North American Alliance for Fair Employment, a network of 65 unions and community groups in the United States and Canada organized to issues related to precarious work. Costello was himself a truck driver and workplace activist for more than 25 years. Following his years as a workplace activist, he worked as a Union Representative at SEIU Local 285 in Boston. He has extensive collective bargaining experience in a number of industries. Costello has also been a lifelong environmental activist and has helped found labor and environmental networks. He has coauthored 4 books: Common Sense for Hard Times, Building Bridges, Global Village or Global Pillage, and Globalization from Below. He has published scores of articles and reports on labor and environmental issues in The Nation, Working USA, New Labor Forum, Social Policy, Asia Times, Alternet, and many other publications around the world. He regularly posts articles on labor and environmental issues at: www. laborstrategies.blogs.com .
Todd Davies (Stanford University) - davies(at)csli.stanford.ed
Todd Davies is a long-time activist and the Associate Director for and a Lecturer in the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford University. His current projects include Deme (rhymes with “team”), a group-deliberation oriented, free software content management framework written in Python-Django; Whovoted.net, a new website that provides public access to voter lists in U.S. elections; and the book Online Deliberation, co-edited with Seeta Gangadharan, which will be published in early 2009. He is a past president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, lead investigator of the Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement, an organizer with LaborTech, and currently on the board of directors for the Chiapas Support Committee.
Jerry Feldman (International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley) - feldman(at)ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
Jerry Feldman is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. From 1988 to 1998 he was the Director of the International Computer Science Institute, where he is a member of the AI group. His most important current project is the Neural Theory of Language effort in natural language understanding and learning, previously known as L0. A new book on the NTL project is now available: From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language, MIT Press 2006. There is also a related website m2mbook.org that has news and reviews of the book and also will hopefully help further the development of a Unified Cognitive Science.
Jerry is also active in activities to enhance the availability of IT to underserved groups. His most major undertaking in this area is the Community of Practice Environment (CoPE), which aims to facilitate online group cooperation without requiring IT expertise. This is a multidisciplinary project, based at ICSI and is affiliated with the UC Berkeley CITRIS endeavor, which works on a variety of issues concerning Information Technology and Society.
One of his completed projects is the Sather language, compiler, libraries and system. His personal work focused on the parallel extension which is called pSather.
Website: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~feldman/
Blanca Gordo, PhD (Center for Latino Policy Research-ISSC - UC Berkeley) gordo(at)berkeley.edu
Blanca Gordo was born in Tlaltenango, Zacatecas, a small town in the mountainous northern central part of Mexico, and moved to Pasadena, CA in the U.S.A. when she was 10 years old. At the core of her intellectual interest in technology development is her social concern for the poor. Her research concentrates on understanding the effects of the lack of technology on low income people and places, and on identifying practical civic solutions and structuring policy that intervenes positively in this process. Currently, she is working on a book titled Digital Destitution and Technology Development, which addresses two policy-relevant questions: what are the new forms of inequality that arise with the integration of technology into the productive functions of society; and under which conditions, through what social processes, and under what governance structure could social and ethnic populations living in low income places benefit from information and network technology?
For the last ten years she has been involved in the development of open source software and in social experiments that involve its adoption by community-based organizations that serve “digital divide” populations that otherwise lack the resources to integrate IT into their productive work process. Currently she is Academic Coordinator and Director of the Technology and Development Research Group at UC Berkeley’s Center for Latino Policy Research (CLPR). She is also a long time member of the Berkeley Center for the Information Society (BCIS) at the International Computer Science
Institute (ICSI). Email: gordo(at)berkeley.edu
Website: http://clpr.berkeley.edu/
Mark Graham mark.graham@nbcuni.com Currently Senior Vice President of iVillage.com, an NBC Universal company, General Manager of Astrology.com, Chief Technical Advisor for OERCommons.org, Chair of the Advisory Board for IGC.org and a member of the APC.org Council. Mark co-founded Rojo Networks (now part of SixApart), IGC.org (PeaceNet/EcoNet), and APC.org (Association for Progressive Communications). In the early days of the commercial Internet Mark was responsible for building AOL’s first gateway to Internet based services and managing technology and operations for the US side of the US-Soviet onlin venture Sovam Teleport. He was head of business development and technology for The WELL where he led development of WELL Engaged, the web-based interface for The WELL and was president of Whole Earth Networks. Mark’s introduction to computer-mediated communications and networks began in 1980 when he was, for three years, a member of the technical staff of the Air Force Data Services Center in the Pentagon.
Alexis Halbert - oceansdesign(at)gmail.com
International Forum on Globalization. Working on renewable energy options, economic models and climate change policy. http://www.ifg.org/
David Harris (Global Lives Project, Institute for the future) - davidevanharris(at)gmail.com
David Evan Harris is Executive Director of the Global Lives Project as well as a a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future (IFTF). The Global Lives Project is a non-profit media organization with more than 250 volunteer collaborators in 10 countries, working to build a video library of human life experience that can be explored both online and through unique video installations. His work with IFTF focuses on social change, political economy, the global south and new media. David holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of São Paulo and B.A. in international development from UC Berkeley. While living in Brazil from 2004-2007, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV. His writings and photographs have been published in print with Adbusters, the Sarai Reader, Glimpse Magazine, Next American City, Focus on the Global South and online with Alternet and Grist. David’s written work has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Chinese.
James Jacobs jrjacobs@stanford.edu Besides being a government information librarian at Stanford University Library, James has been a long-time participant in 2 activist library groups: radical reference (http://radicalreference.info) which seeks to give activists and indy journalists research assistance through a network of over 300 librarians around the country; and Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info) a small group of volunteers that advocate for and track on the issues surrounding free access to and preservation of digital government information and open/transparent governance. He has also helped to start the Stanford Open Source Lab.
Dave Johnson - davej(at)nuthouse.com
Jeff Juris (Arizona State University) - jeffjuris(at)yahoo.com
Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2004, and has also served as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the Institute for Social Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Juris is a co-author of Global Democracy and the World Social Forums. His latest book, Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization, explores the cultural logic and politics of transnational networking among anti-corporate globalization activists in Barcelona, including their participation in mass actions and transnational networks such as Peoples Global Action and the World Social Forum. Most recently, Juris has continued his ongoing research on the World Social Forum process, and he is currently conducting new ethnographic fieldwork on grassroots media activism and autonomy in Mexico City. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Resistance Studies Magazine and is a member of several activist research networks, including Sociologists Without Borders and the North America Chapter of the Network Institute on Global Democratization.
Dorothy Kidd (University of San Francisco) - kiddd(at)usfca.edu
Dorothy Kidd, Chair and Associate Professor at Dept of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, received her Ph.D. in Communication from Simon Fraser University. She has published in the area of political economy of media, feminist media and social change and community media. Her articles have been published in both academic and popular edited books and journals. She has also worked extensively in community radio and video production. Her areas of interest include democratic and participatory communications and media and globalization.
Website: http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/dorothy-kidd/person_view
Alex Kozak akozak(at)berkeley.edu
Students for Free Culture. Berkeley.
Mike Linksvayer (Vice President, Creative Commons) - ml(at)creativecommons.org
Mike Linksvayer joined Creative Commons as CTO. Previously he co-founded Bitzi. He has over ten years’ experience as an enterprise software, web, and multimedia developer and consultant and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jamie McClelland (May First) - jamie(at)mayfirst.org
Jamie McClelland is the co-founder of May First/People Link, an Internet services and technology organization with the mission of enhancing the Internet as a tool for mass communication and organizing, developing new technologies and uses for it, and helping social justice movements use it effectively.
Rob Miller (Openplans) - robm(at)openplans.org
Openplans is the networking platform adopted by the European Social Forum and World Social Forum.
Louis Montagne - louis.montagne(at)af83.com
Louis Montagne can outline his pro?le in just 3 tags – technical, entrepreneur and community. As an engineer, he has a strong technical background allowing him to be CTO in two different companies, AF83 and faberNovel. He has founded two companies of his own, Bearstech and AF83, and spends a lot of time working on community-driven projects and on how to enhance the experience of online communities.
He is a Member of the Board of Silicon Sentier (http://siliconsentier.org), coordinator of the Cap Digital cluster’s commission on collaboration and Open Source (TIC). (http://www.capdigital.com), a member of APRIL ( french FLOSS association) (http://april.org), and a BarCamp organizer (http://barcamp.org).
AF83 is a young and active company of 50 people working on designing connected social, media and live applications. (http://af83.com). Bearstech is a free software company, a cooperative which as a core activity offers services around hosting and has different R&D activities, one being the “Hackable devices” : devices made to be hacked and modified. (http://bearstech.com)
Mayo Fuster Morell (Euromovements (Barcelona), European University Institute (Florence) - mayo.fuster(at)eui.eu
Mayo is part of the first generation born in democracy after the Franco dictatorship in Spain. Mayo became active politically with the Catalan Global Resistance Movement (Barcelona) and Peoples Global Action. In 2002, she concentrated my activism on action-research issues mainly though building online spaces and tools for the systematization of the knowledge generated in political mobilization processes (Moviments.info Investigaccio.org Euromovements.info) and the publication of a Guide for Social Transformation in Catalonia (Ed. Edicions Col.lectives) and Investigaccio (Ed. Viejo Topo).
Since 2006 she have been pursuing a Phd research at the Social and Political Science Department at the European University Institute in Florence. Her thesis is on Online Creation Communities: Democratic Quality in Knowledge-Making Processes (onlinecreation.info). It includes case studies of Social Forums Memory and Wikipedia. Her supervisor is Donatella Della Porta. Mayo am (happily!) visiting the School of information at UC Berkeley through December 2008, sponsored by Coye Cheshire and Howard Rheingold. Mayo is a member of the social movements working group and the research project on Political Participation and the Internet in Spain (www.polnetuab.net) at the Institut de Govern i Politiques Publiques (Univ. Automona de Barcelona).
She put into practice the reflections coming out of her research in the creation of an Open E-library On Social Transformation (openelibrary.info), by contributing to the Webteam of the European Social Forum and the World Social Forum (openesf.net), and via the Networked-Politics.info project.
Website: www.onlinecreation.info
Ben Moskowitz (Students for Free Culture) - benrito(at)gmail.com
Seeta Peñ–a Gangadharan - whoa(at)stanford.edu
Jeff Perlstein jeffp123@gmail.com Jeff has been very involved in the work of social movements and technology/new media in the States, starting most significantly with co-founding Indymedia.org and the Seattle Independent Media Center in the lead up to the anti-WTO mobilizations in ‘99. After two years of working with numerous IMC’s in the U.S. and internationally, he became director of Media Alliance in the Bay Area - the longest running regional media activist project in the U.S. He co-founded the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), a national network of regional media justice hubs throughout the U.S. He spent one year working with The Newspaper Guild coordinating online strategy for their organizing campaigns on behalf of journalists at 11 Bay Area papers. For the last year he has coordinated the Media Policy Working Group of Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media, an affinity group of funders making grants to media content, infrastructure and policy projects. <!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –>
Mark Randazzo (Funders Network on Trade and Globalization ) - mark(at)fntg.org
Mark Randazzo has worked for over three decades to strengthen social movements and international networks through organizing, program management and grant-making in Africa, Asia and the U.S. He has an MA in Development Studies and has worked for many non-profit organizations, including Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, United Support of Artists for Africa, Oxfam America and JustAct/Youth Action for Global Justice. Mark has organized the work of FNTG since 2001.Judy Rebick (Ramble, Canada) - jrebick(at)ryerson.ca, jrebick(at)gmail.com
Judy Rebick was born in the U.S. but moved to Canada at age 10. Judy holds the CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy,at Ryerson University in Toronto. This is the only union endowed chair in North America and its mandate is to create Ryerson as a hub of interaction between social justice activists and academics. As part of that mandate, she is part of organizing the Toronto Social Forum. Judy is founder of www.rabble.ca, Canada’s irreverant independent online news and discussion site. Founded during the protests against the FTAA in Quebec City, rabble continues to be the primary news and discussion site for progressive people in Canada.
Judy is the author of several books and articles, most recently Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005). She is a long-time activist in the feminist movement and was President of Canada’s largest women’s group and a leader of the pro-choice movement. She also was founder of the New Politics Initiative, an attempt to bring new politics into the electoral arena in Canada.
During the 1990s, Judy was the host of a national TV show on CBC and a frequent commentator in broadcast and print in the mainstream media. You can reach Judy at jrebick(at)ryerson.ca or find out more about the Gindin Chair at [www.ryerson.ca/socialjustice].
Darian Rodriguez Heyman- darian(at)darianheyman.com
Darian Rodriguez Heyman is the Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation: Providing knowledge, resources, and visibility to the next generation of nonprofit leaders. He is Commissioner & Chair of the Operations Committee, SF Dept. of the Environment.
Elijah Saxon - elijah(at)riseup.net
Elijah is a graduate student in sociology and part of the Riseup collective.
Doug Schuler (Public Spheres Project) - douglas(at)cpsr.org
Doug Schuler has a masters degree in Software Engineering from Seattle University and a masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington. He’s a former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), a founding member of the Seattle Community Network (SCN), and a faculty member (Evening and Weekend Studies) of The Evergreen State College where he teaches and learns about technology and social implications of the network society.
Doug’s new book, Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution, which will be published in November 2008, contains 136 patterns. The book was written by Doug and over 80 contributors. His recent books, co-edited with Peter Day, are Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace (MIT Press) and Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global Interaction (Routledge). He also co-edited Cyberculture: The Key Concepts (Routledge) with David Bell, Brian Loader, and Nicholas Pleace. His book New Community Networks: Wired for Change (Addison-Wesley) is freely available online in both English and Spanish.
For over 20 years Doug has been engaged with issues relating to society and computing, mostly as an activist with CPSR. He has worked on many CPSR projects including all eight of CPSR’s biannual symposia on the “Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing” (DIAC) conferences, which provide a public forum for social implications of computers. Doug is currently the Program Director for CPSR’s Public Sphere Project where he is coordinating a participatory action / research project on civic intelligence.
Doug has given presentations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South and North America on issues related to democratic, equitable and sustainable uses of technology.
Brendan Smith (Progressive Technology Project, USA) – brendan(at)brendan-smith.org
Brendan Smith is a legal analyst, activist and journalist. He is co-founder of Global Labor Strategies, co-director of the UCLA Law School’s Globalization and Labor Standards Project, and a consulting partner with the Progressive Technology Project. He has worked previously for U.S. Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT), both as a senior legislative aide and staff on the U.S. House Banking Committee, as well as for a broad range of trade unions, grassroots groups and progressive politicians. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School. Brendan has published two books, In the Name of Democracy (Holt/Metropolitan) and Globalization From Below (South End), and co-produced the PBS documentary Global Village or Global Pillage?. He runs two blogs: GLS’s Global Labor Blog and PTP’s Reverb Crib Notes. His commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, CBS News.com, YahooNews and the Baltimore Sun Times. He is a member of CWA Local 9119.
David Solnit dsolnit(at)yahoo.com As a global justice and anti-war organizer, I helped organize the shutdowns of the WTO in Seattle in 1999 with the Direct Action Network and in San Francisco Financial District the day after Iraq was invaded in 2003 with Direct Action to Stop the War. I am a street theater maker, puppeteer and a co-founder of Art and Revolution, using culture, art, giant puppets and theater in mass mobilizations, for popular education and as an organizing tool. I also give direct action, strategic organizing and cultural resistance trainings. I edited Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World. With Army veteran Aimee Allison I co-authored Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World. My forthcoming book, co-edited with sister Rebecca Solnit is The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle (AK Press 2009). I am a fellow at the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank linked with activist networks and social movements. I currently organize with Courage to Resist, supporting GI resistance and promoting people power strategies to end the Iraq war and occupation. I organize against Chevron corporation with antiwar, climate justice, environmental justice and international solidarity groups. I am part of the Seattle WTO People’s History Project (RealBattleInSeattle.org)
Hilary Wainwright (Red Pepper, Transnational Institute) - hilary1(at)manc.org
I was born in Leeds and now live mainly in Manchester (and a little in London!) I’m co-editor, with Oscar Reyes, of Red Pepper, a monthly, independent green and feminist left magazine, based in Britain but with an transnational perpective (see www.redpepper.org.uk). And I work for the New Politics Programme of the Transnational Institute, mainly on the theme of rethinking political organisation but also on the theory and practice - and limits- of participatory democracy (www.tni.org). I’ve written or co-written several books relevant, even if tangentially, to the work of networked-politics. These include (with Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal) “Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism,” “Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free Market Right” and most recently “Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy.” A long time ago I also wrote several books on innovative experiments within the UK trade unions and also about the experience of the Greater London Council (glc) for which I co-ordinated a unit which was responsible for unlocking the resources and support of the local state for trade union and community struggles and alternatives. It was called the Popular Planning Unit (those were the days!). In 1986 Mrs Thatcher literally abolished the GLC - because of initiatives like the Popular Planning Unit. Otherwise my jobs have been mainly in universities (but trying to unlock their research resources for activist research with grass roots trade unions and other movements). I have also worked, on and off, as a freelance writer for the Guardian.
Katharine Wallerstein (Global Commons Foundation) – kwallerstein(at)globalcommonsfoundation.org
Katharine Wallerstein is co-founder and Executive Director of The Global Commons Foundation, a collective of revolutionary-minded scholars, artists, organizers, and other individuals creating platforms for reflection, discussion, education, and action on alternatives to global capitalism with a focus on new knowledge and perspectives from the Global south. Global Commons takes seriously the notion that the world system is in crisis and that we are in a moment of historical transition in which the production of alternatives is of paramount importance and urgency. www.globalcommonsfoundation.org. She was previously Director of Programs at the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs at Montalvo, an international residency center and set of programs for artists and thinkers that she was instrumental in launching.
She has a Master’s degree in History from Duke University for work on modern cultural history and visual culture. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree at Oberlin College in Sociology/Anthropology. She continues to write on oppositional identities and the cultures of social movements. Katharine is active the World Social Forum and the movement for an alternative globalization. She lives in San Francisco.
Steve Weber (Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley) - steve_weber(at)berkeley.edu
Steve Weber, a specialist in International Relations, is Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, an associate with the International Computer Science Institute, and affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group. His areas of special interest include international and national security; the impact of technology on national systems of innovation and defense; and the political economy of knowledge-intensive industries, particularly software and pharmaceuticals.
Trained in history and international development at Washington University, and medicine and political science at Stanford, Weber joined the Berkeley faculty in 1989. In 1992 he served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a member of the Global Business Network in San Francisco, California; and Senior Policy Advisor at the Glover Park Group in Washington DC. He actively consults with government agencies, private multinational firms, and international non-governmental organizations on foreign policy issues, risk analysis, strategy, and forecasting.
Weber’s major publications include Cooperation and Discord in U.S.-Soviet Arms Control (Princeton University Press); the edited book Globalization and the European Political Economy (Columbia University Press); and numerous articles and chapters in the areas of U.S. foreign policy, the political economy of trade and finance, politics of the post-Cold War world, and European integration, in both scholarly and popular venues. His book The Success of Open Source (Harvard University Press) is the leading study of the political economy of the open source software community. He is currently completing a book with co-author Jonathan Sallet, Meeting of the Minds: Open-ness and Innovation in the Modern Economy; and a book with co-author Bruce Jentleson, The New Age of Ideology: How America can Compete in the Global Marketplace of Ideas.
Cindy Wiesner (GGJ Miami) - cindy(at)ggjalliance.org
Cindy Wiesner is a queer working class Latina originally from Hollywood, CA. She has been a community activist and organizer for more than 18 years. She has organized with HERE (Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union) Local 2850 and POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights). Trainer and a member of the board of directors for GenerationFIVE. Cindy worked with the Miami Workers Center and currently is the political coordinator for Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ). Grassroots Global Justice is a national US-based alliance of community organizations, regional and national networks that believes in connecting movements across sectors, issues, and language to build the power and base of the peoples most impacted by neo-liberalism, imperialism and ecological destruction. She represents GGJ on the National Planning Committee of the US Social Forum and also on the Hemispheric Council of the Americas Social Forum.
Fennel Wolcott Doyle fennel(at)indigowaves.com Usability UE Web Artist
Tides Network Information Technology (IT) Web Services. Online campaigner. Presentation layer dynamo. Human device interaction-centric. Volunteer In Service to America (VISTA). Art teacher. Web analyst. San Francisco Witness. Advocate for visual learner. Direct marketing. Test. Measure. Optimize. Convert.
http://www.indigowaves.com http://www.darkforeigner.com http://www.tides.org
Lee Worden (Center for Tranformative Research) - worden(at)berkeley.edu wonder(at)riseup.net
Lee Worden wears a globalization protestor hat and a mathematician hat. He has worked at various places including UC Berkeley and the Santa Fe Institute. His research includes models for emergence of cooperation, ecological dynamics, and consensus formation on social network structures.
Eddie Yuen crepuscular2(at)gmail.com
Eddie Yuen is a writer, sociologist, archivist and activist based in the SF Bay Area. He is the co-editor of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement (Soft Skull Press, 2003). He is currently the associate producer of Against the Grain, a radio and web media project on KPFA FM.
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