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PeaceTones – Using ODR to create sustainable income
Peace Tones is a global initiative that brings opportunity to musicians in developing nations and hope to their local communities. We help local artists to publish and disseminate their music in the developed world and send 90% of all revenues directly back to the musicians. Musicians agree to spend a percentage of the funds locally on development, schools, infrastructure and commerce.
We are operating in nearly a dozen countries, with two Peace Tones albums now published and available for purchase at iTunes and Amazon.com. Through your generosity we can continue to release new albums from promising and talented musicians in the developing world. Best of all, unlike virtually any other music publishing opportunity, Peace Tones musicians keep nearly all the revenues generated from their music.
ODR is necessary to support the economic rights being created by these musicians in the online setting. Economic rights and ODR go together.
Your donation to Peace Tones directly impacts the lives of people and communities in regions where economic opportunity is severely limited. You also help spread the promise of economic growth and the alleviation of poverty. If you enjoy listening to the music of the world and want to experience some of the freshest new sounds on the planet, please visit www.peacetones.org and support us.
Thanks for making a huge difference in the lives of young people and their communities throughout the world. Donate by clicking either link below.
http://www.peacetones.org/Sierra_Leone.html
http://www.peacetones.org/Brazil.html
HOLA
Un placer compartir esta experiencia con Uds Susana Rotta
Ideas around a new odr.info
Hi Cyberweek attendees –
I just wanted to get some input on a new design for odr.info. I’ve got a draft of a new site running up here: http://respectpledge.org/ – that’s a placeholder design (can be completely changed) but the functionality is all working.
It uses Drupal, an open source CMS that I’ve had some success with. I was thinking a joint blog platform, along the lines of http://acrepp.org/ (which I also put together using Drupal) would make sense – we could all contribute posts there and keep it lively.
I see Alan is using WordPress to great effect for Cyberweek – we could go that route as well.
Please leave some comments with your thoughts. I think now is the time for us to leverage some of these great CMSes to take odr.info to the next level.
SI UD ES NUEVO EN LA CYBERWEEK LEA AQUI QUE PUEDE HACER?
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Cyberweek es una semana larga reunión virtual de personas de todo el mundo que están interesados en la utilización de tecnologías de información y la comunicación en la resolución de conflictos vasto y variado campo de la gestión y la (s). Algunas preguntas frecuentes:
- ¿Cómo Comenzar a Cyberweek? En primer lugar, por favor regístrese en la izquierda (es gratis) para que podamos enviarle la información oportuna durante Cyberweek.
- ¿Cómo puedo navegar en Cyberweek? La Conferencia se compone de asincrónica y contenido en tiempo real. Todo el contenido se puede acceder a través de la Programa.
- ¿Qué es Cyberweek contenido? Contenido asíncrono pueden incluir los podcasts, las discusiones en plenaria, las simulaciones ODR y juegos de rol, y trabajos académicos. Acontecimientos en tiempo real han sido por lo general consta de seminarios basados en web, reuniones y manifestaciones. El Programa la página es el lugar para ir.
- ¿Cómo voy a saber qué está pasando en cada Día? Todo el contenido Cyberweek es accesible a través de la página del Programa, y los anuncios se indican los acontecimientos diarios. Además, su registro se asegurará diario anuncios de correo electrónico también.
- ¿Cómo puedo participar en un eventos en tiempo real? Todo el contenido estará basado en la web. Las instrucciones estarán disponibles en el Programa y Anuncios.
- El tiempo de conversión de eventos en tiempo real? Para convertir GMT / UTC tiempo a su hora local por favor haga clic en aquí.
- ¿Cómo puedo participar en una discusión plenaria? Sólo tienes que ir a la Discusión foro y únase
- ¿Cómo puedo participar en el blog de Cyberweek? Ir a la Blog y aquí están publicación de instrucciones.
- ¿Cómo accedo a Static / Asincrónico de contenido? Basta con hacer clic en él, y (con suerte) que se abrirá para usted! Si no, por favor denos una nota en la Centro.
- ¿Preguntas? Por favor, envíenos un correo electrónico a la Centro.
Hola a todos
un saludo a todos los integrantes de ODR latinoamerica
Challenging Conventional Notions of ADR
Wallace Warfield (legendary ADR figure and professor at George Mason’s ICAR) delivered a quite provocative keynote at the ACR conference in Atlanta. View it in its entirety here. Some of his points:
“With a few exceptions, ADR is marginalized in issues of social conflict. We are relegated to tinkering around the edges. ‘When real conflict hits the ground, conflict resolution is nowhere to be seen.’”
”We tend to believe that the irrationalities all belong to the parties, not to us. We in fact bring those to the table and we need to be honest about that.”
”Part of this has come for a struggle for professionalization, which has become in part the ‘legalization of mediation.’ We used to be the ‘alternative’ to litigiousness, but I’m not so sure any more.”
”How do you evaluate and credential a moving target?”
”We need to embrace the change that is occurring in additional third party practice… We need to create new images of ourselves; a different kind of intervention requires a new type of identity.”
Frank Dukes and John Stephens have started a discussion about some of the points made on their Ning – I encourage you to check it out and participate:
http://highergroundswell.ning.com/forum/topics/challenging-conventional
New UK Internet Payment Service Launched
http://www.journalism.co.uk/66/articles/536202.php
Posted: 26/10/09
“TrustedFriend.com can be used for payment of any transaction between individuals or companies, in person or over the internet.
Delivering services before they have been paid for is risky for sellers and service-providers, and paying for goods before they arrive is risky for buyers. Bridging this gap for the first time, TrustedFriend.com is a fully-secure FSA-registered third-party service designed to safeguard both parties during their transaction and to help them resolve any disputes easily and cheaply.
TrustedFriend.com works as an automated website for buyers and sellers of goods and services to agree their transaction terms, securely make and receive guaranteed payment when and only when transaction terms are fulfilled, and quickly resolve disputes. The buyer’s money is held in a client bank account administered by TrustedFriend.com as a neutral third-party/escrow holder, with interest accruing to the buyer or seller.
With TrustedFriend.com, sellers are guaranteed full payment as soon as they provide the agreed goods or services without the risk of non-payment or the hassle of chasing debts, and buyers are guaranteed to receive what they paid for or get their money back.
The operator of TrustedFriend.com is one of the first money-remitters to be registered with the Financial Services Authority as a ‘Payment Institution’ under the new Payment Services Regulations 2009, which come into force EU-wide on 1st November 2009, and give statutory protection to client money held by TrustedFriend.com. Existing payment service providers, such as Western Union and Paypal, have a year to comply with these new registration requirements but, as a new Payment Institution, TrustedFriend.com is compliant from day one.
TrustedFriend.com founder Andrew Kaye says: “This legislation means that the money we hold on behalf of clients, while they are waiting for goods and services to be delivered as promised, is now tightly safeguarded by law. Our customers also choose their own referee to use in case of a dispute, rather than relying on the payment service to decide who is at fault in a dispute. This payment system is designed as a virtually-local trusted friend for the global village, and will change the way people transact in the UK.”
With a per-transaction cost of just £2.99 for buyers and sellers, TrustedFriend.com is a cost-effective solution for consumers and small businesses transacting with people they don’t know.”
Interesting approach to dispute resolution…
Making sense of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
Debategraph is a collaborative online dialog visualization tool with a strong public policy focus, currently being used by the Amanpour program on CNN, the European Commission, and The Independent newspaper in the UK.
During Cyberweek, the Debategraph team, students at UMass, Amherst, and anyone who would like to join us, will build interactive map of the legal debate around Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (click on the image below to open the map):
The approach builds on the three-fold perception that:
(1) Contentious and complex debates and dialogues can be mapped comprehensively so that all the pertinent issues, positions, arguments, evidence, and scenarios can be represented in a single, transparent and coherent visual structure—by breaking down the subject into meaningful parts; identifying the relationships between those parts; and presenting the parts and their relationships visually.
(2) The internet can be used to open up this process to the collaborative editing, collective intelligence and critical review of a dispersed community – with every aspect of the content and structure of the map like a wiki: always provisional, mutable, and open to continuous improvement and evaluation by all members of the community.
(3) The evolving maps can be shared and embedded across the web (on sites that accept an iframe) – wherever the dialog is occurring – so that changes to a map on any site will be immediately reflected across all the sites on which it appears.
You can move around the map by clicking on the coloured spheres. Clicking on the smallest spheres takes you deeper into an argument, clicking on the largest sphere takes you back up the map.
Log-in to edit the existing arguments, addnew elements to the map, and to rate the merits of the different issues, positions and arguments – which you can do by clicking on the arrows that connect the spheres. The thickness of the arrows changes as the ideas are rated, to signal which ideas are perceived to be strongest (thicker) and weakest (thinner) by the community.
You can learn more about how the map works by clicking on the Help tab – and if you have any questions or comments about the process please don’t hesitate to post them as messages on the map or in the Cyberweek Forum.
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