Joi Ito’s Talk about Creative Commons and the new Netocracy
Joi Ito had an interesting talk about the stack the internet is and was built on and why the Creative Commons should be the next building block of this stack.
Mr. Ito also mentioned that one of the reasons he moved to Dubai is that “the Middle East and Africa are areas where we [the creative commons] can get some adoption of the Licenses”. In a completly unrelated event did the wikileaks.org speakers Julian Assange and Daniel Schmitt at the 26C3 mention that they are strongly supporting Iceland to become the ‘Switzerland of Bits’ [as in providing a vault for the people's data] – legislative for that is already on the way. As Linux Pro Magazine writes: “As a result, the WikiLeaks team developed the plan to introduce a few bills into the Iceland parliament to make Iceland into a model technical data state”
After a long time of big corporations influencing the directions of countries we are seeing the first signs of the new Netocracy. The Net’s citizens start shaping their environment. And it’l be easier every day: As Mr. Ito says the cost of failure drops. The potential to win grows.
P.S.: I became a paying Premium Member of the Creative Commons a few days back
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