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hpr1097 :: The Cyberunions Podcast

Exploring the intersection between trade union organising and new technology

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Hosted by Various Creative Commons Works on 2012-10-16 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
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Duration: 00:47:35

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Today it's the turn of The Cyberunions Podcast, https://cyberunions.org/. Cyberunions is a project exploring the intersection between trade union organising and new technology. Rather than seeing technology as a set of tools, we see cyberspace as a space, where people work, organise politically, are entertained and educated, and engage in many fields of human endeavour.

Todays show is The Cyberunions Podcast - Episode 46: gIMMI net freedomz https://cyberunions.org/the-cyberunions-podcast-episode-46-gimmi-net-freedomz/


We speak to Smári McCarthy of the International Modern Media Institute

1:30 May Day updates

  • Good day in Mexico City
  • Good article about the new and old left coming together in the US
  • Interesting times across Europe
  • Elections in the UK (local), France and Greece

6:00 Tech update

  • Apple finally credits Open Street Maps
  • Duckduckgo searches Open Street Maps if you search !osm

8:00 Interview with Smári McCarthy

  • International Modern Media Institute builds media freedom best practice
  • Makes Iceland the best country in the world to host information
  • Time to go on the offensive to assert net freedom
  • In the US, free speech is easy to suppress at local level
  • Free speech laws are 200 years out of date and not fit for the information age
  • Never waste a good crisis - it’s an opportunity for change
  • Birgitta Jonsdottir helped promote media freedom in the Alþingi
  • The financial crisis means Iceland can no longer rely on is finance sector
  • Data services become a new economic sector, which is diversified and encourages entrepeneurship
  • ACTA is a threat to a large portion of human endeavour and must be stopped
  • Lobbyists have succeeded in entrenching intellectual monopoly protections into the Kenyan constitution - allows them to leverage East Africa
  • How do unions fit into this? Where is the digital labour movement?
  • The labour movement is paralysed by hierarchy - the internet challenges this and can unlock union power
  • The industrial revolution was a tragic mistake
  • How do you protect whistleblowers?
  • You can get hosting in Iceland through Ecodis

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Comment #1 posted on 2012-10-17 00:49:27 by pokey

Syndicated Thursday Tuesday

It's a unique idea, but I like that we're trying it. It shows that we aren't afraid to take chances.

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