Jamaica Voices, to help light up a global explosion of creativity by modelling the process of listening to others enabled to express themselves in cyberspace, and of using the process to do meaningful research and construction on issues fundamental to constitution of the space.
Jamaica Voices will help convey a message to the United States Supreme Court. Give Teammates a node on the net filter through DCS on the way out, no net coming in exept through public media, radio stations like RootsFM. Model for Kevin the call in show, or for Rosimund to put it in other hands and let it go.
INVITEES
Trevor Rhone
Abdel Wright
Kevin Wallen
Rosamund Brown
Commissioner Reese
Rehabilitation Driector Gile Campbell
Camella Rhone
2 documentarians
Desmond Green
John Prescod
Dave Kusek
Schedule covering three days Feb 27-28-Mar 1
Sunday, Feb 27
Morning free for worship services
Afternoon Bus Tour of Cambridge and Boston
Evening orientation to project Jamaica Voices at Nesson home
Monday, Feb 28
Morning training workshops on blogging (text and audio) in a broadband environment and in prison (at Berkman Center)
Afternoon training workshops on use of information processing tools (at Berkman Center)
Evening dinner at Harvard Faculty Club
Tuesday, Mar 1
Morning visit to Berklee School of Music
Afternoon panels of Jamaica Voices (Ames Courtroom)
Evening Readings and Songs from Jamaican Voices (Adams House Pool Theater)
Workshops and panels led by Berkman Faculty and Fellows
Berkman Center pays for travel, accommodations, some meals
Guests are staying at the Friendly Inn
Just posted to John Clippinger and the Wisefolk he assembled to work on Social Physics:
I propose a research project on trust formation. This seems to the close to the core of Clip’s thesis. Would anyone be willing to help organize such a study, focused on inmates in Jamaica’s prisons? Consider a new inmate entering the General Penetentiary in Kingston Jamaica for the first time. Who does he trustat the start? How are bonds of trust established and maintained? I believe we would have full cooperation from inmates and from Jamaica’s Department of Corrections to do such a study, including opportunity for inmates to express the relationship between trust and knowledge/product-formation in digital media.
-eon
Part One , Part Two (1 hr 15 min total)
Sony is an open principle. Its instantiation in P2P solves a problem of the Net. Suppose you are a creator in the Net, with access to cyberspace through a tiny node. Perhaps you live in a faraway land on the other side of the globe. Perhaps you are an inmate in a prison in Jamaica with access to the net through the prison’s tiny node. You create a blog. You use accessible digital tools to make a set of bits (text, audio, or video). Perhaps you use an old Sony camera or recorder and a hand-me-down computer in the prison lab. You sing your song or speak your poem. You put it up, creative commons. Dream of what can happen. Your art is open to the world. Imagine it catches fire, viral focus of mass global attention.
Not so fast. Disaster strikes. Your site is overwhelmed with hits. You have made your tiny node the target of a self-created DOS Attack. Your fuse blows. Bang!!!! You are down — flow of your message terminatated.
Enter p2p.
p2p solves this problem. p2p enables a single node to spread its digits far and wide, without being overwhelmed. This is the substance of freedom of speech in cyberspace, a kind of first amendment of the Net. This is media democracy, every node capable of communication with every other.
This is a substantial non-infringing use.
When new communications technologies come to mass hands, first uses often include porn and petty crime. So it has been with p2p. But with passage of time, people learn to how to use newly available capabilities to express themselves. Creativity explodes. Blogspace is now exploding with expressive creativity.
The Sony Principle establishes Law’s openness to the future. It calls for gauging the utility of new technology not merely as a function of current disruption of established interests but according a future with uses not yet presently evolved.
The question before the Court, at least in one form, is whether the elegance of the Sony Principle should be qualified to require communication technologies and businesses to filter for copyrighted material.
eon