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Author: acracia
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To: brico
Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] Access Space is one of "Britain's New Radicals" (according to NESTA and The Observer)
El 20/02/12 18:16, James Wallbank escribió:
> Hi Bricos,
>
> Oh dear. I am posting something perilously close to self-promotion.
> Ignore it if you like. However, I am attempting to provide ADDED VALUE,
> in the form of some critical debate and hard data (see below) which may
> help you to make sense of what's happened.
>


congrats James! i find Access Space quite radical myself heh...

>
> ...so we are quite well represented on this list. But some entries seem
> just boggling. There are people who work for the government, who maybe
> are really good people, but do they qualify as "radical"? CAN you
> qualify as "radical" if you work for the government? There are some
> "radicals" who are named individuals, and some who are organisations
> with hundreds of employees.


I think it can be that a government does a 'radical' thing, for example
like the Netherlands when they allowed free circulation of soft drugs,
or some policies of Chavez, or even some 'radical islamist' governments
like Iran. But it might be that radical looses some content on translation.
>
> Anyway, NESTA are hoping that this list will spark some contraversy and
> debate - and I hope that we can use this publicity to give us some
> leverage for Brico and IoT ideas more widespread in the UK. Eventually
> we will prevail! Being featured on this list is "publicity only" - there
> is no cash prize or other resource attached.
>
> So if you have a great idea for helping us to use this publicity to
> actually unlock real resource, hey, please, get in touch!
>
> (Personally, I'm just well impressed by being on just about any list
> that includes both Conrad "Mathematica" Wolfram and Rob "Transition"
> Hopkins).
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
> =====
>
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>
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> #Access Space#http://www.access-space.org/#James Wallbank#
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> Dominic Shellard#
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> #The Liverpool Project#http://www.theliverpoolproject.org/#Dr Simon
> Jackson, Dr Nick Rhead, Steve Boote#
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> #Maslaha#http://www.maslaha.org/#n/a#
> #Mind Candy#http://www.mindcandy.com/#Michael Acton Smith#
> #(UK Government's Executive Director of Digital)#n/a#Mike Bracken #
> #MyBnk#http://www.mybnk.org/#Lily Lapenna#
> #We Are What We Do#http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/#Nick Stanhope#
> #OpenStreetMap#http://www.openstreetmap.org/#Steve Coast#
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