Korakora

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Country

Philippines

City

Quezon City

About

Korakora Proyekto is an arts initiative focussed on language-making. Proyekto encourages: The Commons. Free and Open Source Software as philosophy and pragmatic methodology. Creative, bootstrapping systems. Integration of knowledge, understanding, research and practical experience. "Traditional" social debate about political alternatives and choices.

Activities

You are invited to

Korakora Proyekto: Open On-Line Dialogue "Surfers or Serfs: Digital Freedom or Digital Feudalism?" From 26 February - 26 Marck 2008 http://korakora.org/proyekto/dfd08/

An on-line event organized in conjunction with Document Liberation and Open Standards 26 March 2008 Document Freedom Day http://documentfreedom.org/

In response to efforts of promoting, adopting and raising awareness for Free Document Formats and Open Standards, the Philippines-based art initiative Korakora.org is organizing an open on-line dialogue entitled "Surfers or Serfs: Digital Freedom or Digital Feudalism?"

Within the context of issues addressed within the free, open-source, and open-standards community, "Surfers or Serfs" seeks to investigate realities of Freedom within the Culture of Ignorance: Are humans being turned into machines so others can exploit them without them questioning their own slavery? Why do we consider somebody "computer literate" when they can only operate the controls of a commercial computer system?

"Surfers or Serfs" also seeks to interrogate the methodologies of "free, open-source, and open-standards" from a broad philosophical perspective, in particular, the celebrated shift from the image of the computer as a complex rule based simulation system to a simple communication device that has enabled the computer to be commercially and politically exploited as a (postmodern) propaganda machine.

"Surfers or Serfs: Digital Freedom or Digital Feudalism?" opens 26 February and runs until Document Freedom Day March 26, 2008. The on-line dialogue is created and facilitated by Fatima Lasay (PH) and Trevor Batten (UK). To participate, go to http://korakora.org/proyekto/