Freedom of speech, multilingualism and Peace will be even stronger in Europe. With MyPacis.eu our focus is on bringing European Union member Countries closer to non EU members (yet) and defend freedom of expression and speech where it still has to reach high standards. Our mashup makes easier to add/comment/share/rate news important for civil society, but also for the personal development of Europeans.

On a global level, we launched MyPacis.com which is a blogging platform available in many languages, such as Arabic, Farsi, Russian, etc.

People are becoming more socially responsible, and want to be up-to-date with news about social change and impact. Plus, they are self organizing in online and real world communities to work together and bring change.

CBC (Change Broadcasting Channels) allows users to select channels of social change, and receive instant news about these channels on a mobile phone through SMS or twitter. Every channel has a community of subsribers that use the community tools to promote and share big stories and events. create momentum to find solutions to problems and trigger change.

Today there are a few barriers to getting instant access to socially relevant news:

· Relevant news needs to be obtained from sites dedicated to socially responsibility.

· Most of these sites have information from blogs and RSS feeds. Very few if any, have information from global news wires.

· These sites by nature offer a pull-based model, rather than an alert-based one where the user is notified of any news of interest as it happens.

· The user does not have much flexibility in choosing the news they want to track.

The idea of Change Broadcasting Channel is to create channels of news about issues of social change, and the endpoint for these channels is your mobile phone. Twitter serves basic phones with only SMS functionality. Flurry serves phones with a data plan.

A user can subscribe to an existing channel or create their own, based on a set of keywords.

Each channel has a community which is the group of subscribers to the channel. And this community gets triggers (the SMSes/twitters from a river of news) that create momentum, driving them to address their cause.

CBC will also integrate with http://www.groundreport.com to bring real user-reporting on channels mixed with mainstream media news from Daylife.

Change Broadcasting Channels will change the world by instantly informing socially active individuals of news of their interest, eliminating any delay in action. These users are part of communities where they actively use the modern tools to bring out the most relevant stories and issues and cultivate a discussion to find solutions.

Each activity description is a wiki-page, editable by study members, with individual comment capabilities. The study uses open source software, such as Joomla CMS and Google Groups. It is a combination of a wiki and a blog. 

We have finished a pilot of the study, followed it up with software development, and are now ready to start the next stage.

 From the "Family Study Manifesto":

1. The Family Study community supports each participant family in creating their own beautiful, meanigful, useful and fun mathematics.
2. Families can choose or create their own activities.
3. Families can adapt any activity to their own levels, styles and interests. Activities are designed to be easily adaptable to different levels and styles.
4. Activities are designed to support multiple representations of mathematics: text, graphs, formulas, pictures, stories, tables, manipulatives, gestures, and so on.
5. Every member of every family has "executive powers" within activities: plan and decide what to do next, create ideas and examples, pose problems, ask questions and so on.
6. Study history is freely available on the Web to help future participants. That includes questions and answers, activity descriptions, family stories, and recommendations.
7. Family Study is an exploration of a math planet. The "planet" metaphor includes settling the frontier and adding new territories to the map, continuous development of established "villages," and multiple paths.

Who: Families, educators, math affectionados

What: Develop tools for making mass-scaled learning individually adaptable through tracing past human actions. Make math your own, to make your own math.

When: The pilot of the study started at the end of 2008. We just finished implementing the pilot's data as sofware updates. The next interactive stage is starting in April 2009. 

Where: Natural Math site; Google Groups; Research Triangle, NC local math meetings

Why: Because there is a dire need to help people gain mathematical power and freedom.