If you think the most stimulating thing the web has given birth to this year is Chatroulette, you’re wrong. On March 30th and 31st, taking advantage of the fact that half of Spain was dealing with pre-holiday stress, minister Sinde met her followers from European cultural industries and the ministers of culture of the other 26 member countries of the EU in a meeting behind closed doors in Barcelona. While, a short distance from there, the Red SOStenible network organized the D´Evolution Summit, a parallel anti-summit to fight for fundamental rights on the internet, poke their noses into our ministers’ meeting and tell us about it all in real-time.
The D´Evolution Summit featured conferences on the economy, culture and new business models, attention-grabbing events like the performer Leo Bassi delivering a huge rubber duck to the ministers of culture, copyleft music concerts like one by the Turing Machine or activist educational videos like "El Cobrador del track”,“We Create, We Decide” or “I co-produced Vicky Cristina Barcelona”. And above all, thousands of people watching, listening, twittering and collaborating via social networks.
As a gift for the community, Miguel Brieva has done a nice poster called "Internet won’t be another TV", which can be downloaded online, to print, bind, paste, photocopy, distribute and other illegal activities. The D´Evolution Summit website carries the event’s conclusions and all the information necessary to carry on supporting the Internet we deserve: public, free and creative, not belonging to anyone and belonging to everyone.
http://d-evolution.fcforum.net
