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Since its launch in 2010, FutureChallenges has published all Local Views in English. In the beginning, the editorial team published any posts in which the author’s intent was clear. When futurechallenges.org was relaunched in June this year, we changed the editorial process as well to include an editor who has […]
They call themselves RHOK-Stars: their tools of success are not guitars, drums and a huge fan crowd, they use a laptop, a working internet connection and enthusiasm for technical solutions with the goal of making the world a better place. In Berlin I met “hackers” of the worldwide Random Hacks of Kindness […]
A promising title- yet only few participants in the session. Were there no believers at the barcamp? Perhaps.. Indeed the title is very grandiose and my expectations about hearing a magic formula with which to cure the world were quite high. Of course I didn’t hear any such thing. BUT… […]
The venue of the fc_org barcamp on “How the internet changes our reality?” was a more than 100 year old church now transformed into an event location. This impressive building symbolizes the theme of the barcamp and the spirit of our time quite well: The internet – a medium for […]
The topic of this session was rather broad and in an area which is already widely discussed by political and social scientists on the one hand and the official elements of democracies, the people “the demos” and the “sovereign” the state, on the other. What I really liked about the […]
