45. Creative Commons Images
Ethernet Cables http://www.flickr.com/photos/skreuzer/508996746/
Revolving Door http://www.flickr.com/photos/wackelijmrooster/2984108662/
London Atheist Bus http://www.flickr.com/photos/83015819@N00/3304921278/
BHA sign http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewdean/5004217468/
Aubry Hollande http://www.flickr.com/photos/partisocialiste/5707310695/
Covers Face / *Zara http://www.flickr.com/photos/zarajay/3546080427/
DK train http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreasravnmoeller/5555674296/
ICE train http://www.flickr.com/photos/brize/7977649149/
Merkel http://www.flickr.com/photos/glynlowe/9806719774/
Commission Building http://www.flickr.com/photos/e3000/2735834124/
Occupy http://www.flickr.com/photos/39841756@N00/7990273026/
Piraten http://www.flickr.com/photos/notizn/4528673061/
Grillo http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncaranti/8404373429/
Farage http://www.flickr.com/photos/36612355@N08/6841578933/
Bee http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamtreesha/7894625598/
Hugh’s Fish Fight http://www.flickr.com/photos/emcmillanscott/7186180227/
Tap http://www.flickr.com/photos/54799099@N00/4816226411/
Schaake http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldeadle/7557446200/
Shark Fins http://www.flickr.com/photos/25802865@N08/8414942193/
Louis Michel http://www.flickr.com/photos/european_parliament/5228254737/
Power Station http://www.flickr.com/photos/freefoto/3844250043/
Greek Poverty http://www.flickr.com/photos/v1ctor/4743268722/
TGV http://www.flickr.com/photos/34147934@N07/4866055584/
UK Passport http://www.flickr.com/photos/30285771@N06/3805159114/
Malmström http://www.flickr.com/photos/european_parliament/4287119537/
Silvio Berlusconi http://www.flickr.com/photos/elenatorre/3675597102/
Belgian Security http://www.flickr.com/photos/skender/1361525212/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/skender/1361555878/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skender/1361450404/
Twitter on Phone http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlsven/6207269779/
Justus Lipsius Press Room http://www.flickr.com/photos/european_parliament/8102149141/
Spliff http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcohn/2787196217/
Barroso / Thorning, and MacBook Pro pictures by Jon Worth
46. Recap
Are you an insider or an
outsider?
Nimble networks challenge
hierarchy
Importance of citizen reporting,
and credible commitment
Notas do Editor
The insider – outsider divide
What am I here? An insider because I am on this panel? Or an outsider because I am not working for an institution? And does that change when we leave our workplaces?
“Saw your blog. Found it cheap and self serving”
https://twitter.com/SpiegelPeter/status/158802093883396096
Peter Spiegel – bureau chief of the Financial Times
The first – and last – blogger to ever go on one.
http://www.jonworth.eu/so-that-was-a-presidency-press-trip-im-feeling-rather-empty/
Best ever case: a blogger (me) and a journalist (Ariane Sherine) changed the face of atheist debate. Explain the story.
But the British Humanist Association assumed they would get a boost in membership. They didn’t.
Cases like the primary to select Hollande, and GreenPrimary – where does this leave insider / outsider in political parties too?
Also mention the Nikki Brooks case in Labour here – social media gives the power to see in, but not to be.
Are you representing your organisation in social media? You as an employee of the organisation? You personally? You, privately or annonymously? Draw out these points here.
I took the train to get to Brussels. Night train København – Köln, and ICE from Köln to Brussels
If I’d booked it: €138.70
EESC had to use a travel agency. I was not allowed to book it. They did it wrong, then finally when they did it right, the cost was huge. How do we change that mentality?
It goes right to the top. When Merkel said this, has she ever actually needed to rely on the internet to organise her everyday life?
Experience with young politicians in the UK – compulsively Googling themselves, but not seeing the network potential.
Every day, every human can do more and more and find out more and more, without the intervention of another human.
This is pretty obvious for people in this audience.
I’m no more senior than any of the people here, and you are not more senior than me. We build a network among us here today, we then go away and do our own thing.
But that’s not how the political world works.
Join. Participate in the local committee. Region. National. Spend years going through the system. It’s your years of service, not your ability.
And so you apply this to politics? The Pirates!
“pre-figurative action”
“the attempt to practice the kind of democracy that the participants imagine” – essentially the organisation, the network, is the end in itself
See: Mary Kaldor http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2012/10/20/subterranean-politics-europe/
What do Grillo and Farage have in common?
They have realised that full party hierarchy is a headache, a burden, and have tried to reduce it. Both are at least flatter hierarchy movements than traditional parties.
But what happens as the parties grow, are subjected to more scrutiny? Collapse, or professionalise, or Pirate-style network? Look at what is happening to Grillo locally, and the problems UKIP has with racism among its activists.
So what about our friend in Italy, Beppe Grillo?
Many of you are probably groaning just by seeing him
The UK has its own Grillo – Nigel Farage
The pressure group networked model
Neo-nico-tinoids - bees
7 petitions! In German alone!
And a temporary neonicotinoids ban
Hugh’s Fish Fight
European Citizens’ Initiative – first to get 1 million
http://www.right2water.eu/ “Water is a human right”
But what if you’re on the receiving end? Conversation with Marietje Schaake
This week, I’ve received thousands of e-mails about shark finning, she said to me. What am I supposed to do with those? I do not deal with anything to do with animal rights. And how do I know these people?
But for climate change
And for poverty in Greece, we have no meaningful action.
Specific – Objectives should specify what they want to achieve.
Measurable – You should be able to measure whether you are meeting the objectives or not.
Achievable - Are the objectives you set, achievable and attainable?
Realistic – Can you realistically achieve the objectives with the resources you have?
Time – When do you want to achieve the set objectives?
Story 1: Credible commitment (and the lack of it)
Silvio Berlusconi. Like him or loathe him, he polarises
He pitched up to a European Council summit in December 2010
Time for a social media bonanza thought the press service of the Council…
But as a citizen this is what you would get if you were anywhere near the building!
So what do a bunch of nerds do?
They game the system, forcing the experiment to be turned off
It’s based on the famous story of change.gov in the UK – being too open
This poses problems and opportunities for politics – what is the value of 1000 e-mails, in comparison to the value of 1000 letters