[spectre] PLAN*B FOR ARKADIANMAKI - presentations and discussions

[Juha Huuskonen]

 PLAN*B FOR ARKADIANMAKI is an alternative Parliament House. It
 has its homebase opposite to the Finnish Parliament House,
 in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. The name of the project
 refers to the location of the Finnish Parliament House - Arkadianmaki
 ('Arcadia hill') is the Finnish Capitol Hill. PLAN*B will organise
 a series of public Referendums on the Internet. The voting period
 for PLAN*B Referendums is 24th Jan-6th Feb 2005.

 www.publicopinion.fi

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 PLAN*B presentations and discussions

 Featuring Alexander Rose (Long Now Foundation), Oliver
 Kochta & Tellervo Kalleinen (Micronations), Per Norback
 (Demoex), Paavo Arhinmaki (Vasemmistonuoret), Kaisa
 Eskola (Attac), member of Finnish Parliament Irina Krohn,
 Jiri Seppanen (Leader of the Free World project) and
 Jon Brunberg (Utopian World Championship).

 Schedule:

 Alexander Rose / Long Now Foundation
 Thursday 27 Jan, 17-19hrs

 Micronations / Mikrovaltiot
 Wed 2 Feb, 17-19hrs

 Our right to vote - a limited form of democracy?
 Fri 4 Feb, 16-19hrs

 Utopias of democracy / Brand New Worlds
 Sat 5 Feb, 13-15hrs

 Julkinen Mielipide / Public opinion
 Sun 6.2, 13-15hrs

 All presentations and discussions are in english,
 except the last discussion (Julkinen Mielipide
 / Public opinion) on Sunday.

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 Alexander Rose, the executive director of The Long Now Foundation,
 will give a presentation about the foundation and its activities on
 27th of January in Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki.
 The presentation is the first event organised by the PLAN*B FOR
 ARKADIANMAKI project. The events continue on the following
 week with discussions on topics "Our right to vote - a limited form
 of democracy?", "Utopias of democracy / Brand New Worlds" and
 "The Public Opinion". The discussions bring together a diverse mix
 of people working and experimenting politics, including Per Norbäck
 (Demoex direct democracy experiment), Kaisa Eskola (Attac), Jon
 Brunberg (Utopian World Championship), Paavo Arhinmaki
 (Vasemmistonuoret), Oliver Kochta & Tellervo Kalleinen
 (Micronations), member of Finnish Parliament Irina Krohn, Jiri
 Rasanen (Leader of  The Free World project) and many more!

 The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to
 today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better"
 thinking. The foundation aims to creatively foster responsibility
 in the framework of the next 10,000 years through a series of
 ambitious real world projects. The foundation was established by
 a group of people who have been influencial in helping us understand
 the social and cultural effects of technological development. These
 people include Stewart Brand (founder of Whole Earth Catalogue
 and co-founder of Global Business Network), Brian Eno ('the
 father of ambient music') and Kevin Kelly (founder of WIRED
 magazine).

 Per Norback is a 35-year-old teacher who has put direct democracy
 through the internet in practise in his home town Vallentuna, located
 north of Stockholm. After an intensive discussion about democracy
 he and his students decided to start a non-partisan political party
 that would make all their decisions with the help of a specially
 developed e-democracy solution for the internet. They called this
 party Demoex that stands for "Democracy Experiment". The Demoex
 internet system is open for all the inhabitants in the city of
 Vallentuna to join. Demoex took one seat in the local community
 council of Vallentuna in the elections of 2002.

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 More information: www.publicopinion.fi