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+ | ** Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) - Open Technology Fund | ||
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+ | ** Rapid Response Fund -- Open Tech Fund | ||
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+ | ** Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights | ||
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+ | ** Open Briefing’s Responsive Assistance | ||
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Revision as of 07:29, 19 February 2022
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Participants | Becha |
Skills | Community building, Networking |
Status | Planning |
Niche | Community |
Purpose | World domination |
Each society gets the *net it deserves.
My ideal future of the "Internet" (governance / society) is PARTICIPATORY ALTRUISM.
http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf
Contents
Education
- October 2020: A Book!
https://www.netcommons.eu/?q=telecommunications-reclaimed
- http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/intro-to-tor-i2p-darknets
- "This class introduces students to the I2P and Tor Darknets. We cover setting up Tor & I2P, the basics of use, and how to make hidden services. We also go over case examples like Eldo Kim Harvard & the Harvard Bomb Threat, Hector Xavier Monsegur (Sabu)/Jeremy Hammond (sup_g) & LulzSec, Freedom Hosting & Eric Eoin Marques and finally Ross William Ulbricht/“Dread Pirate Roberts” of the SilkRoad, to explain how people have been caught and how it could have been avoided.
- wndw.net Wireless Networking in the Developing World
- The Book http://wndw.net/book.html
- WiFi for programmers: http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201408#01
- LOTS OF Wireless Networking Resources https://nsrc.org/archives/wireless
- Free Space Optics links https://dev.wlan-si.net/wiki/KORUZA
Documentation
- March 2016: IRTF research group “Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA) draft: “Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, characterization, technologies and architectures”
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments-04
- BecHa's comments: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/gaia/zEqSIjdWs4c2J-V38kvN4lRutCY
- Final version: "August 2016" https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7962
- http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/
- http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/peer-reviewed-papers/enmeshed-lives/
- http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/peer-reviewed-papers/finding-an-alternate-route-towards-open-eco-cyclical-and-distributed-production/
- http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/experimental-format/alternative-policies-for-alternative-internets/
Communication
Mailing Lists
- GAIA...
Individuals
On twitter, August 2014 @taziden @Kaplan_CERTat @Ms_Multicolor @OtvorenaMreza @federationfdn @mitar_m @wlanslovenija @braempje
@MaziZoneEU @deckspace @unmonastery @nethood
- Mahabir, from Nepal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabir_Pun
Twitter, March 2016: @conflictmedia @sifrwahid @pranesh @spideralex @elektra_42
Events
2016: 1-07 May 2016: BattleMesh v9 in Porto (PT) http://battlemesh.org/HomePage
2015:
- August 3-9 Battlemesh v8 @ Maribor, Slovenia http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8 // #BattleMesh
- Summer school / Wireless Summit -- IN PROGRESS: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mesh2015
- #ReDeCentralize
2014
- 12-18 May 2014, Leipcig http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7
- 14&15 June 2014, Calafou http://backbone409.calafou.org/
- 31c3, 27-30.12.2014 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:DIYISP
2013
- 27-30 December 2013 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Session:YBTI_Meshnet_Works
- 2-4 October 2013 International Summit for Community Wireless Networks in Berlin http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/
Aspects
Community Mesh Network
- Offering network (and/or) hosting services
- Not Commercial
- Members make the rules
- Categorization: "Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, characterization, technologies and architectures" https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments-04.txt
- Evaluation of mesh routing protocols for wireless community networks http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/eval-mesh-routing-wcn
- Detroit https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network & https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp/story
- 2020 Communitarian Internet? https://edgeryders.eu/t/is-the-communitarian-internet-back-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-a-conversation-with-howard-rheingold/12971
- Internet is For End User
Community ISP
https://diyisp.org https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/diy-isp
- April 2016: https://t.co/4U6K3bD3fJ B4RN, internet access for Rural North England https://indico.uknof.org.uk/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=36
- Carsten Agger (Denmark) -- Baobáxia is a community-built project to connect about 200 Brazilian quilombos to assist the interchange and preservation of traditional, community-built culture. (cubaconf.org) https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/connecting_communities/
- November 2015: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a-group-of-neighbors-created-their-own-internet-service/
- December 2014 https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:DIYISP
- November 2014 RIPE69: Community networking in Scotland: https://ripe69.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/20-ripe69.pdf
- November 2014: Armin Medosh is writing a new book, "The Rise of the Network Commons". http://thenextlayer.org/NetworkCommons
- CONFINE project, http://confine-project.eu.
- This European project studies community networks (which are mesh networks of course) for the future internet. We look at the technological side (mesh protocols etc.) but also the sociological side of community networking.
- April 2014 "making an ISP is really difficult" -- or is it? http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/one-big-reason-we-lack-internet-competition-starting-an-isp-is-really-hard/
- Interference talk:
- FOSDEM talk:
- RIPE68 Meeting talk: https://ripe68.ripe.net/presentations/381-diy-isp-ripe68-v4.pdf
- 30c3, Taziden: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5391_-_en_-_saal_6_-_201312291130_-_y_u_no_isp_taking_back_the_net_-_taziden.html
Software
- nodewatcher, software which helps you deploy, maintain, and monitor a community network
- paper " A Substrate for Growing Your own Community Network" https://www.sharelatex.com/github/repos/wlanslovenija/nodewatcher-paper/builds/latest/output.pdf
- https://github.com/wlanslovenija/nodewatcher-paper
- http://occupyhere.org/ - tiny self-contained dark net
- GnuNet: gnunet.org
- cheap VM providers around the world, VPS with BGP, and anycast: November 2014: Nat Morris presentation at RIPE69 "Anycast on a shoestring" -- how to run your own global network for 40$ per year!! https://ripe69.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/36-Anycast-on-a-shoe-string-RIPE69.pdf
HW
- Green WIFI: A volunteer organization dedicated to the spread of solar powered wireless networking equipment. http://www.greenwifi.org
- Open-mesh.com: A vender of low-cost wireless mesh networking devices. http://www.open-mesh.com/
Legal
- Intermediary liability rules -- by European Court of Justice (ECJ)
Decentralization
- EDN (Echt Dezentrales Netz - real decentralized network (Demos et al) https://wiki.c3d2.de/Echt_Dezentrales_Netz/en
- documenting and analyzing over 70 Privacy Software Projects.
- be to assemble detailed API descriptions of the projects and its modules
- to identify and highlight Interoperability between projects for collaboration or sharing code.
- 2017
- http://theconversation.com/diy-networking-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-internet-67216
- http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7123/5661
- https://theconversation.com/how-to-build-a-more-organic-internet-and-stand-up-to-corporations-70815
- https://blog.cozycloud.cc/post/2017/02/10/Building-a-Decentralized-Internet-movement-at-FOSDEM?lang=en
Jobs
Specific Jobs 2022
- greenpeace : Digital Activist (contact me for description)
- mamaCASH : IT Systems Support and Development Officer
https://www.mamacash.org/en/vacancy-it-systems-support-and-development-officer
- ActieFonds (marketing, in Dutch) https://hetactiefonds.nl/vacatures/vacature-marketingcoordinator-24-32u-p-w/
- Jobs at RIPE NCC: https://ripe.net/jobs
- January 2022 https://mailchi.mp/disinfo.eu/445467332-14102736?e=25be8ebb67
- https://ulexproject.org/working-with-ulex/
Cool Jobs in General
Job Listings
- https://www.digitalrights.community/job-board
- https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Job_Board
- https://Alltechishuman.org/responsible-tech-job-board
- https://diversifytech.co/job-board/
- https://wearetechwomen.com/jobs/
- https://nl-digital.campus-party.org/jobs/
- https://wearetechwomen.com/women-in-tech-jobs/
- https://wiki.techinc.nl/Ladies_Night#Jobs_for_women
Companies
- https://ripe.net/jobs
- https://publiccode.net/careers/
- https://greenhost.nl/vacatures/
- https://qutech.nl/careers/job-opportunities/
- https://www.polarsignals.com/working-at-polar-signals/
- https://jobs.lever.co/humanitec
- https://tucows.com/careers/
- https://careers.getimpala.com/
- ANTARTICA https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/
- https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/
- https://www.occrp.org/en/occrp-jobs/
- https://my.ankorstore.com/career
Specific Jobs 2021
- https://ulexproject.org/working-with-ulex/
- Community Manager ISOC NL: from home, half-day a week!! https://mailchi.mp/isoc/ledenvergadering-8069645?e=72266481ae
- https://ual.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-1/candidate/jobboard/vacancy/1/adv/?ftq=creative+computing#
- https://charity.wtf/2021/03/07/know-your-one-job-and-do-it-first/
- https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=96511
- https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-08-23-work-at-sourcehut/
- https://qutech.nl/vacancy/marketing-community-manager-quantum-network-explorer/?cn-reloaded=1
- Deadline 20 June 2021 TU Delft / QuTech , NL: Marketing & Community Manager – Quantum Network Explorer
- https://greennewdealuk.org/jobs/ #GreenNewDeal UK: (Head of Comms, Actions Organiser, Big Organiser Deadline 30th June 2021
- The World Wide Web Foundation is looking for a consultant to develop a gender policy playbook https://disinfo.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ab3334208e68252e83420bdd&id=a94bd5c5de&e=25be8ebb67
- CENTR, the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries, is hiring a Policy Officer https://disinfo.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1ab3334208e68252e83420bdd&id=3b97a5be8a&e=25be8ebb67
Funding
see also: https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Grants #Grants
2022
- Award: by 18 March! https://rob-blokzijl-foundation.org/2021/11/25/call-for-nominations-2022/
- From: https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Fundraising_Opportunities
- Digital Freedom Fund
Deadline: January 24 - March 1 2022 https://digitalfreedomfund.org/grants/
- Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) - Open Technology Fund
Deadline: March 13, 2022 https://www.opentech.fund/news/information-controls-fellowship-program-now-accepting-applications-for-ninth-cohort/
- Internet Freedom Fund - Open Technology Fund
Deadline: Rolling Basis https://www.opentech.fund/funds/internet-freedom-fund/
- Rapid Response Fund -- Open Tech Fund
Deadline: Rolling Basis https://www.opentech.fund/funds/rapid-response-fund/
- Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights
Deadline: Rolling Basis https://urgentactionfund.org/
- Open Briefing’s Responsive Assistance
Deadline: Rolling Basis https://www.openbriefing.org/support/referral/
2021
- https://www.arin.net/about/community_grants/program/ (deadline 1. June)
- https://www.isocfoundation.org/2021/01/announcing-1m-in-grants-to-researchers-studying-the-future-of-the-internet/
- https://www.geant.org/Innovation/Pages/Innovation-Programme.aspx
- https://wellcome.org/grant-funding
- https://ngiatlantic.eu/ngiatlanticeu-3rd-open-call
- https://www.arin.net/about/community_grants/program/
2020
- 1st September 2020 https://www.isocfoundation.org/2020/09/announcing-our-new-research-grants-exploring-the-future-of-the-internet/
- Funding opportunity for women’s rights and feminist organisations. https://equalityfund.ca/section/funding-apply
- SAGE Fund / Request for Proposals
Deadline: April 20, 2020 http://www.sagefundrights.org/
- Indela / Deadline: April 30, 2020 https://indela.fund/
- The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
CFP: Countering Online Violence against Women Human Rights Defenders Deadline: April 30, 2020 https://mk0rofifiqa2w3u89nud.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Call-for-Proposals_Online-Space-for-WHRDs_Public_03.03.2020-Final.pdf
COVID19 related: https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19#Funding
Yearly
- https://digitalfreedomfund.org/grants/
- https://www.opentech.fund/funds/
- https://www.hackershelpinghackers.com/seed-funding/
- Community Projects Fund by RIPE NCC : https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf
- https://www.internetsociety.org/grants-and-awards
- https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programmes/
- Next Generation Internet https://www.ngi.eu/get-funded/
- The Community Prototype Fund (CPF) / Deadline: Rolling Basis https://www.opentech.fund/funds/community-prototype-fund/
- Knight Foundation Research Funding for Internet Governance https://knightfoundation.org/funding-opp-research-norms-rules-governance-internet-digital-platforms/
Recommendations
- http://howtofund.tech
- Floss projects governance https://recommendations.implicit-development.org/recommendations/
- https://recommendations.implicit-development.org/assets/IDE_REPORT_2020.pdf
Grants
2021
- https://nostarchfoundation.org/grant-application/
- https://www.apc.org/en/node/37247/
- https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2021/03/shape-the-internets-future-with-the-early-career-fellowship/
2019: https://www.apc.org/en/35436
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-819_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/fi-ppp-phase-3
- General:
- https://www.sidnfonds.nl/ & checker: https://www.sidnfonds.nl/assets/pdf/SIDN_fonds_Quickscan_versie_0804.pdf
- http://techfund.comcast.com/
- https://nlnet.nl/foundation/can_do.html
- DNSSEC https://nlnet.nl/dnssec/
- Standards in real-time communication https://nlnet.nl/realtime/
- http://isif.asia
- https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2015/10/23/mozilla-launches-open-source-support-program/
- "EU150m ($165m) journalism fund called the Digital News Initiative, funded by everyone's favorite news service, Google. (link?)
- (2016) http://isif.asia/grant
- (past deadline for 2017, but...) www.cittadellarte.it/unidee
Fellowships
- Support for students/reseaerchers to attend a RIPE meeting: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/raci
- https://citizenlab.org/2016/02/2016-citizen-lab-fellowship-opportunities/
Organisations/Networks
- Guify
- Hyperborea
- FNF
- https://wlan-si.net/en/ wlan slovenija
- https://satnogs.org/ (Athens)
- fosdem talk: http://satnogs.github.io/satnogs-intro
- http://mazizone.eu Researching a DIY networking toolkit for location-based collective awareness. Mazi is an EU H2020 CAPS project starting on Jan 1st, 2016.
Social Media
- De-google-ify Internet (FramaSoft) https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list/
(other decentralisation of social media projects...)
- See: UnlikeUs conference, by Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
Related TechInc Projects
Becha's article with many links
http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf
Use Cases
Refugees
- 2020 "Community-led Connectivity: Assessing the potential of community network models in the context of forced displacement in East Africa"
- https://github.com/RefugeeHotspot/RefugeeHotspot
- contact: Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org>
- https://daedalus.libtech.website
- contact: FreeLab <freelab@riseup.net>
- Also related to refugees, but for coding:
- There's a group in 🇩🇰 & 🇳🇱 helping to train refugees as web developers! If you're in the area, here's how to help: http://hackyourfuture.net
Disaster Recovery Communications
- http://nsrc.org
- http://www.appropedia.org/Humanitarian_engineering
- https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/
- IEEE global humanitarian technology conference is a good venue to look at for the latest research/deployment experience papers: http://sites.ieee.org/ghtc/event-2016/call-for-papers-2016/
- https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/gaia/current/msg01978.html
- resilient networks design and modeling http://www.rndm.pl/2017/cfp.html
- Survey of wireless communication technologies for public safety by Gianmarco Baldini, Fabrizio Vergari, Stan Karanasios, David Allen
- Solutions That Are Saving Lives in Humanitarian Response by Amanda Barcock http://www.aidforum.org/disaster-relief/top-solutions-that-are-saving-lives-in-humanitarian-response
- Focus Group on Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/drnrr/Pages/default.aspx
- Proceedings of GHTC 2016 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7837794
- Mozilla Off-The-Grid Challenge https://wirelesschallenge.mozilla.org/#challenge-1
- IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) http://sites.ieee.org/ghtc/
- GSMA Disaster Response Innovation Fund https://gsma-disaster-response.forms.fm/gsma-disaster-response-innovation-fund
- UN Foundation: Disaster Relief Communications http://www.unfoundation.org/what-we-do/legacy-of-impact/technology/disaster-relief-comms.html
- CISCO https://www.networkworld.com/article/2942835/cisco-subnet/how-cisco-brings-communications-to-disaster-relief-efforts.html
- Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/philanthropies/humanitarian-action
- https://www.google.org/our-work/crisis-response/
- FEMA https://www.fema.gov/tech-sector [www.fema.gov]
- "Disaster-resilient communication networks: Principles and best practices" by A. Mauthe, D. Hutchison, E. Cetinkaya, I. Ganchev, J. Rak, J. Sterbenz, M. Gunkel, P. Smith, T. Gomes available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309495874_Disaster-resilient_communication_networks_Principles_and_best_practices
- http://digital-humanitarians.com/
- The RECODIS Cost Action (Resilient communication services protecting end-user applications from disaster-based failures) has a list of relevant publications: http://www.cost-recodis.eu/index.php/publications
Rural Networks
- Telecommunications in Rural or Non-Metropolitan Areas (1996) http://www.alansondheim.org/mike.txt
Public Service
Misc Links
Other New Internet Technologies
- Named Data Networks http://named-data.net
- ... & SDN (Software Defined Networks...)
In the media
- 2017, SlashDot https://ask.slashdot.org/story/17/04/29/2134234/ask-slashdot-could-we-build-a-global-wireless-mesh-network
- MOVE TO ANOTHER PLACE: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-9-alternative-internets/peer-reviewed-papers/enmeshed-lives/
- November 2016: https://theconversation.com/diy-networking-the-path-to-a-more-democratic-internet-67216
- Alternative Internet(s) http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2014/11/24/alternative-internets-what-are-they-and-do-they-have-a-future/
- When the Internet dies, it's the meshenet that survives http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229653.700#.VDT_oyuSy9M
- http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-promise-of-an-alternative-internet/372501/
- (social movement, mentioning "mesh" in their manifesto) : https://medium.com/p/6438d463bcc2 (World Open Hash Design)
- November 2013: Cook Report: http://www.cookreport.com/newsletter-sp-542240406/current-issues/282-cook-report-for-november-december-2013 _The Global Free Network Movement_
- The Darkest Place on the Internet Isn’t Just for Criminals // SpyNet // http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/thompson/
- http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/the-mission-to-decentralize-the-internet.html
- Personal Mast by the farmer ;-) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3200291/Farmer-sick-poor-internet-signal-built-DIY-mast.html
- 22 February 2016 http://www.dimoso.com/dig-your-own-broadband/ B4RN – Broadband 4 the rural north http://b4rn.org.uk/ https://vimeo.com/130634706
- Amin Medosh, Hybrid Cities conference, University of Athens, 17.09.2015: "The network commons is one among a number of other initiatives that propose alternative future developments... " http://www.arminmedosch.at/content/cities-sun-urban-revolutions-and-network-commons
- Primavera De Filippi (2015). Wireless Community Networks: Towards a Public Policy for the Network Commons, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2725434
- EXPANDING THE INTERNET COMMONS: THE SUBVERSIVE POTENTIAL OF WIRELESS COMMUNITY NETWORKS, by Primavera De Filippi[1] and Félix Tréguer[2]
Dump of Links, 2014
- http://nethood.org/links.html (dump below, 24-11-2014)
Technology Tidepools: http://tidepools.co by Jonathan Baldwin. PirateBox: http://www.piratebox.cc by David Darts. LibraryBox: http://librarybox.us/ by Jason Griffey. Occupy.here: http://www.occupyhere.org by Dan Phiffer. guifi.net: http://www.guifi.net freifunk.net: http://www.freifunk.net Commotion: https://commotionwireless.net/ subnodes: http://subnod.es/
Art and design Alternet: http://www.sarahtgold.co.uk/the-alternet by Sarah T Gold. Invisible islands: http://invisibleislands.org/ by Sebastien Pierre. Can you hear me?: http://can-you-hear-me.de/web/ Deaddrops: http://www.deaddrops.com by Aram Bartholl. Yellow chair stories: http://superflux.in/work/yellowchair-stories by Anab Jain. Txtualhealing: http://www.txtualhealing.com/ by Paul Notzold. Stupidforum: http://stupidforum.com by Miltos Manetas.
Neighborhoods/Case studies/Stories RedHook WiFi: http://rhicenter.org/redhookwifi/ (see also, OTI, interview, thesis, news) Can offline wireless move from protest tools to news? by Susan E. McGregor Making Internet Local by Adam Rothstein My week with PirateBox by Jeffrey Andreoni
Related events Eyebeam Off-The-Grid Exhibition, LittleNets, September 2014. Dagstuhl seminar, Do-it-yourself Networking: an Interdisciplinary Approach (report) 3rd EINS Summer school, From Smart Cities to Engaged Citizens (Michael Smyth, Mark Gaved, and Andreas Unteidig run a workshop combining DIY networking with urban interaction design; check draft documents and keep in touch for the upcoming e-book!) International workshop, The alternative Internet(s) - state of the art and the possible future, London School of Economics (LSE), September 15-16th, 2014. The UrbanIxD Symposium, Interactions in hybrid urban space: the UrbanIxD exhibition, Venice, September 24-25th, 2014. Interdisciplinary symposium, Sharing experiences of self-organization, Thessaloniki, October 10th 2014.
Research and/or action communities INURA: http://inura.org Community informatics: e-mail list unMonastery: http://unmonastery.org/ Research projects EINS: http://internet-science.eu/ (EU) COMPARE: http://compare-network.net/ (EU) CONFINE: http://confine-project.eu/ (EU) Urban Interaction Design: http://urbanixd.eu/ (EU) P2PValue: http://p2pvalue.eu/ (EU) Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project: http://www.cwirp.org/ (Canada) Urban Informatics: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/blog/ (Australia)
Blogs We make money not art: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ Pasta&Vinegar: http://liftlab.com/think/nova The Mobile City: http://www.themobilecity.nl BodySpaceSociety: http://www.bodyspacesociety.eu/ Place matters: http://blog.placematters.org/