Designing for Civil Society is an organization created by David Wilcox and Drew Mackie, who work together in the production of projects and community involvement since 1980, always engaged in the development of games and ludic seminars and workshops. Drew Mackie is an architect and David Wilcox is a journalist who in the last decade has been fully devoted to social and... Read more

David Wilcox is a journalist who has been fully involved in social and community technology during the last decade. Currently, their main interest is finding new ways to help people to communicate and engage with organization and communities through the use of social software and creative events. He is a blogger at Social Reporter and a consultant on effective uses of social media for non-profit organizations and individuals. Her specialty is the use of new web tools... Read more

Platoniq is an international non-profit organization made up of cultural producers and software developers based in Barcelona since 2001, pioner in the production and distribution of copyleft culture. Since 2001, they carry out activities and projects where the social uses of ICTs and networking are applied to enhance communication, self-training and citizens organisation. Their work generates innovative software applications and methodologies, in addition to an extensive free-licensed audiovisual archive on the Internet. This collective has been associated to the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona since 2003. During the last years, their project Burn Station (2004) has been awarded by the Transitio Festival (Mexico DF) and by the Transmediale Digital Culture Festival (Berlin). It has also won a mention of honour in the UNESCO Digital Arts Awards. Among their projects, we can also find the Bank of Common Knowledge (2006), a knowledge exchange platform; the public streaming server, OpenServer; the organisation of temporary media labs, Media Space Invadres (2003-2004); and the creation of the first copyleft license within the Spanish legal framework, Unconditional Air (2004), which was applied to the contents of the exhibition with the same name produced by... Read more