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Tags: Complex Systems, Emergence, Science, Self-Organization, Swarm / Flock / Crowd

I’m very happy to share with you this documentary about Complex Networks and Network Theory. It is the firt one about complexity and networks that I have found so far, it is very well structured and narrated, and it’s nice to see
Steven Strogatz, Duncan J. Watts, Alessandro Vespignani, Albert-László Barabási after reading their papers and [...]

Tags: Scale-free Networks, Science, Social Network, Social Network Analysis

Thanks to Stefano Mizzella, we have an interview with Gianandrea Giacoma about Sci(bzaar)net (in Italian) that summarizes the event’s main themes and conclusions. The interview can be found on the last number of 7thfloor magazine and here on Scribd:

Tags: Internet, Italy, Science, University

A very short report from Sci(bzaar)net, one week later.
First of all, thanks to Gian for this opportunity offered me. Participating in the organization process (even if only online, building the event’s website) and at the event was an opportunity to learn a lot about how we can make room for an open dialogue between very [...]

Tags: Crowdfunding, Design Research, Institutions, Italy, Knowledge, Open Culture, Science, Technology, Web 2.0

I’m very happy to give you two important announcements…I will participate in two important events that are a mix of a conference and a more informal event like BarCamps: one will be held in Italy, and the other one in Spain. In this post I will talk about the first one.
I have been invited to [...]

Tags: Information Society, Italy, Open Culture, Open P2P Communities, Science