The “Organizational logic and political implications of free culture” was one of the working track of the First International Forum on Free culture and access to knowledge (Barcelona Oct 29 to Nov 1 2009) which Networked Politics organised with the facilitation of Mayo Fuster Morell.

A concept which was present in this track was the idea of a transion in which some organizational form are gaining in importance, in a context of a profound crisis of the nation-state and deep transformation of the market.

The goals of this track was on the one hand, reflect critically on the organizational characteristics and principles of free culture experiences and enviroment in order to better know and understand free culture; but also from a critical and interventionist perspective in order to approuch the pros, but also the contras, risks and the ambiguities of this forms; to redefine our methodologies and way of doing.

On the other hand, reflect on a broadder frame, looking to historical processes and macro socio-political-economics changes, and ambrella concepts (like the commons) and approuch the dimensions and the several dimensions linked to the free culture in order to better define our overall political strategy and our claims.

The program was based in a panel of presentations and working groups. Follow these two links to see videos and access to the reports.

Insides and videos from the panel presentations 

Agenda of issues and report of working groups

Others:

Collection of readings for preparing the final documents of the politics track

• David Bollier “A New Politics of the Commons” Published in Renewal magazine.

• Felix Stalder. Between democracy and spectacle. Limitations of the web2.0 discourse

• Hilary Wainwright: Brainstorming questions responding to the challenge to think about the political implications of free culture

• Ál, del grupo Blogx Populi, de Guifi.net
  • De la Web 2.0 a la Web Libre y punto: Por una liberación del software y los servicios que dan soporte a la web social (es)
  • From Web 2.0 to Free Web: For the release of software and services that support the social web (en)

• Graeme Chesters and Ian Welsh Complexity and Social Movement: Process and Emergence in Planetary Action Systems

• Lula and Free Software - Lula da Silva, Brazilian President, talks about the importance of Free Software and the Internet at the 10th Free Software Internacional Forum (FISL), in Porto Alegre, Brazil - June 26th, 2009

• Brazilian Digital Culture Forum - public and open social network for the formulation and construction of democratic public policies for digital culture.

List of Participants

• Mayo Fuster Morell (Coordination) (Phd researcher on Goverance of digital commons at the European University Institute www.onlinecreation.info and Fcforum organization).
• Hilary Wainwright (Transnational Institute Amsterdam and Red Pepper Manchester)
• Joan Subirats (Institut de Govern i Politiques Publiques, Barcelona)
• Marco Berlinguer (Transform! Italia)
• David Bollier (On the commons, USA)
• Felix Stalder (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich, Institute for New Cultural Technologies in Vienna and Openflows in New York)
• Jamie King (Film maker and Intellectual Property specialist Berlin and London)
• Vittorio Bertola (United Nations Internet Governance Forum)
• Pablo Ortellado (Epidemoa Brazil)
• David Harris (Global lives project and Institute for the Future)
• Tina Ryoon Andersen, tinarandersen@yahoo.com – Student of Modern Culture at The University of Copenhagen
• Stina Marie Hasse Jorgensen, stinahasse@hotmail.com – Student of Modern Culture at The University of Copenhagen
• William F. Souza, williamnsfs@gmailcom (Brazil)
• Jose Murilo - Brazilian Ministry of Culture
• Ál Cano Santana, al@blogmail.cc – Blogx Populi, guifi.net
• Xabier Eskisabel (Basque and Culture Department of the Council of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country) Official Observer.
• Laura Gimenez
• Among others.