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3 Gesellschaft, Bevölkerung, Soziales
| Demkratie(theorie), Zivilgesellschaft, Bürgerrechte, Cyber-Rights / Lebensformen / Sexualität, Liebe / Freizeit, Sport, Tourismus, Konsum / Zukunft / Emanzipationsbewegungen, Neue Soziale Bewegungen (NSB) / Frauenbewegung / Männerbewegung / Alternative Bewegung / Bewegung anderer Gruppen, Randgruppen / Flüchtlingsbewegung, Ausländische BürgerInnenbewegung / Kapitalismus und Gesundheit / Medizin / Gesundheitsbewegung / Sozialeinrichtungen, Sozialarbeit, Sozialhilfe / Religion, Kirche / Atheismus, Humanismus / Rassismus, AusländerInnenfeindlichkeit / Antisemitismus / Nationalismus
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| Systematik: | ID-Archiv EATC id-e-315 |
| | Status: | Changed | | Checked: | 03-03-02 04:43:59 PM |
| | Adresse: | DoBe.org is administered by the Institute for Social Inventions, 20 Heber Road, London NW2 6AA, UK. Tel +44 [0]20 8208 2853, Fax +44 [0]20 8452 6434, E-mail: rhino@dial.pipex.com; Web: Global Ideas Bank. |
| | Selbstdarstellung: | | About DoBe.org Participatory events, groups and meetings Launched in September 2000, the non-profit website DoBe.org (administered by the educational charitable project, the UK-based Institute for Social Inventions), provides free bulletin boards on the web where people can propose participatory events, groups and meetings for others to sign up for. The site is for over 10,000 cities (and their surrounding regions) in the world - in this trial version, events can be listed for cities in the USA and over 600 cities and towns in the UK. The main focus initially will be on setting up events to make the London DoBe.org a model site. Volunteers interested in helping to edit and promote the site in their own city, and to translate the headings and programming etc into their local language, are asked to make contact. It is hoped that librarians will be willing to act as the backbone of the DoBe.org network, acting as informal editors for their areas, and posting information on the boards about local creative and community events. The essential aim of DoBe.org is to encourage people living in cities and visitors to cities not just to consume entertainments and films advertised in events magazines, but to self-organise events where the participants can make a real contribution, feel recognised as unique individuals and perhaps form friendships with others who share their interests. Guidelines and rules There are restrictions: The bulletin boards are for genuinely participatory events only - not for passive consumer events involving eg just seeing a film or hearing a talk (it is OK if there is a discussion after the talk). In other words the senses involved must be more than just seeing or hearing. Some examples: a concert could not be advertised but a person wanting to form a group to go to see a concert and to discuss the concert over a meal afterwards could post a message. A rave where people can participate by dancing could advertise. A rock concert with everyone in seats could not advertise. All events are to be for a minimum number of three people. No sexual or illegal activities are to be proposed and no racist or unkind material is to be posted. All participation in activities advertised on the bulletin board is to be at the participant's own risk and participants are advised to check to their satisfaction the probity of any event organisers and the safety of the arrangements, and to inform a friend by e-mail or other means of where exactly they are going and when they are due back, and to give this friend a confirmation of safe return. Please report to rhino@dial.pipex.com any message you feel needs alteration or deletion. No postings are to be placed or registrations made by those who are legally minors, nor are children's events, groups or meetings to be advertised. DoBe.org accepts no responsibility for messages posted but, if its attention is drawn to a posting that is in poor taste or is otherwise out of order, it will be deleted without notice and the person posting the message may be forbidden any future use of DoBe.org. Unless an organisation is running the event, it is suggested that no addresses of meeting proposers are published, only e-mail details (and telephone number if desired) - although, to help the reader visualise who is proposing an event, proposers are invited to describe themselves by age, sex, occupation and current favourite film, book and newspaper, with space for an additional description if wanted. No posting to be of excessive length, ideally no more than 150 words (excluding name, e-mail and other such details). Advertisements may be charged for in future, but during this launch period are free. Any future profit from this bulletin board, should profit occur, will go to the educational charity the Institute for Social Inventions and its projects (which include the Natural Death Centre and ApprenticeMaster Alliance). |
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