Networked Politics was one of the three organisers of the First International Forum on free culture and access to knowledge which took place at Barcelona (Oct 29 to Nov 1 2009).

The Fcforum was a unique opportunity to bring together under the same roof the main organizations and active voices in the world of free culture and free knowledge; a meeting point for working together in a common agendas and strategies, and also to reflect, from a critical point of view, on the different views, dangers and contradictions of free culture. At the same time, the forum was an occasion to give more visibility to alternative conceptions of knowledge, culture and creativity, different from the ones that the entertainment industry and universities insist on imposing.
A broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators… were created af the Fcforum and a “Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge” was approved and launched.

Download the Charter in .pdf here

The Forum program included several working lines:

* Education and Acces to Knowledge
* Free Software and Open Standards: Knowledge Sharing Hacker Philosophy and Action Technical Ware
* Economies, New P2p Models and Sustainable Distribution
* Legal Perspectives and User Access
* Organizational Logic and Political Implications of Free Culture

Networked Politics was responsable of the “Organizational Logic and Political Implications of Free Culture” working track. To consult the resulting documents specific to this track and the work develop please visit the page: Free culture politics