[Air-L] The Onlife Manifesto -Digital Agenda for Europe - European Commission

[Charles Ess]

Dear AoIRists,

This may be of interest to many of us, for a variety of reasons:

Digital Agenda for Europe
European Commission
The Onlife Initiative - A Europe 2020 Initiative

Chairman: Luciano Floridi
Members: Stefana Broadbent - Nicole Dewandre - Charles Ess - Jean-Gabriel
Ganascia - Mireille Hildebrandt - Yiannis Laouris - Claire Lobet-Maris -
Sarah Oates - Ugo Pagallo - Judith Simon - May Thorseth - Peter-Paul Verbeek

The Onlife Manifesto and the book ("user's manual") accompanying it are now
publicly and freely available online:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/Onlife_Initia
tive.pdf

The Onlife Initiative - Concept Reengineering: rethinking public spaces in
the digital transition
The deployment of ICTs and their uptake by society affects radically the
human condition by modifying our relationships to ourselves, to others and
to the world around us. The increasing pervasiveness of ICTs upsets
established reference frameworks and blurs the boundaries between real and
virtual, shifting the primacy from entities to connections & information.
Concept reengineering puts us in the best position to reflect meaningfully
on what is happening to us, and thereby helps us envision the future in
positive terms. Fear of the new or rejection of the unknown can be overcome
by better understanding of the concepts we are dealing with. The "Onlife
initiative" aims to help us better understand these concepts.

For more information about the Onlife Initiative see:
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-initiative

Enjoy!
- charles

Associate Professor in Media Studies
Department of Media and Communication

Director, Centre for Research on Media Innovations
<http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/center/media-innovations/>

University of Oslo 
P.O. Box 1093 Blindern
NO-0317 
Oslo Norway
email: charles.ess at media.uio.no