Global Culture

Spearheaded by San Francisco, a group of cities have created a global Digital City Network with the following objectives:

Broker international relationships between educational, business, and community-based digital media organizations; Create new business to business ventures between jurisdictions; Support the growth and innovation of existing digital media businesses; Develop new cutting-edge digital media companies in [...]

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As mentioned earlier this week, Toronto’s Mayor launched the project Zerofootprint Toronto:
A dynamic hybrid of environmental footprint calculator and a web-based social network, Zerofootprint Toronto is designed to help citizens reduce their environmental footprint significantly. The new tool graphically illustrates to users the impact every aspect of their daily lives has on the environment while [...]

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Toronto’s Mayor David Miller is planning to launch the project GoZero! Toronto during the C40 Climate Summit this week. The project
is a joint venture between the City of Toronto and Zerofootprint, a Toronto-based not-for-profit who designed and developed the innovative tool at the heart of the campaign. This tool brings together environmental [...]

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The World Without Oil website launched today. But before you panic keep reading:
WORLD WITHOUT OIL is an alternate reality event, a serious game for the public good. It invites everyone to help simulate a global oil shock. People participate by contributing original online stories, created as though the oil shock were really [...]

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SMS stands for Short Message Service and is available on most mobile devices, allowing the user to send and receive short text messages. It has been around for 15 years and it may engage a much more significant percentage of the world population as Internet users.
In my previous post déjà vu I [...]

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In 2006: just the beginning, I hinted at the fact that with the growing popularity of this blog this year would see a number of improvements to take the idea even further. It has been stimulating to dig all corners of the web for clues about the emergence of a Global Culture. However, [...]

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The ethnographer’s job is to immerse himself in the culture being studied and participate in order to get a better understanding of their ways of life. By this definition Prof. Wesch has accomplished a rather unique milestone by summarizing the insights of his work in the digital arena into the short video Web 2.0 [...]

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