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Politics of knowledge

    What are the promising new models of democratic participation?
    Hilary Wainwright

    The institutions that are supposed to reproduce daily life are incapable of acting on behalf of the people any more, so we need to produce our own institutional alternatives based on micro-experiments and universal values.

    Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge launched
    Hilary Wainwright

    An international coalition has launched Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge as a response to the recent agreement of the European Commission on the “protection” of Internet access, brought under the pressure of the lobbies of the culture industry.

    Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy (Seagull, 2009)
    Hilary Wainwright

    Reclaim the State sets out on a journey from Brazil to Britain to discover how people are creating new, stronger forms of democracy. The book shows that the foundations for new political directions for deepening democracy already exist, and provides imaginative and practical tools for building...

    Personnel shortage
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The triumph of liberal ideas turned Eastern Europe into an intellectual desert where only ethnic nationalism weeds sometimes flourished. The positive influence of the economic crisis upon the society is that the crisis makes people think and be open to other ideas.

    Civic Driven Change - A concise guide to the basics
    Kees Biekart
     Alan Fowler

    This short booklet introduces new ideas about how civil society is taking charge in guiding development by taking key roles in society to respond to the most pressing issues the world faces such as poverty, injustice, conflict and environmental degradation.

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