Projects
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

Education

test-bed / practice: https://dn42.dev/Home "Experiment with routing technology"

October 2020: A Book!

https://www.netcommons.eu/?q=telecommunications-reclaimed

http://opengarden.net/2013/05/beginners-guide-to-wireless-mesh-networking/

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

http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/DIY_Mesh_Guide_Download

Free Space Optics links https://dev.wlan-si.net/wiki/KORUZA

"Environmental Sustainability in Tech" https://wiki.techinc.nl/Sustainability

Documentation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Internet_Service_Provider

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network

https://giswatch.org/2018-community-networks

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/

2018: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/2018/unleashing-community-networks-innovative-licensing-approaches/

Communication

Mailing Lists

http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/tmpcommonsnet

http://etherpad.guifi.net/L2-org

https://llistes.guifi.net/sympa/info/bub

https://wlan-si.net/lists/info/development

https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/diy-isp

http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org

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

Mr Colby Hollenbaugh, Esther. He is the new exec director at Meta Mesh Wireless Communities, and a Public Interest Tech Masters student at ASU.

Esther Jang, Paul G Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering -> seattlecommunitynetwork.org (SIGCAS 2022) / https://www.sigcas.org/events/sigcas-showcase-2022/

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
- Report: https://sudoroom.org/weaving-together-a-network-of-networks-report-from-battlemesh-v8/
- Docs: http://battlemesh-test-docs.readthedocs.org/

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://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7962

Evaluation of mesh routing protocols for wireless community networks http://dsg.ac.upc.edu/eval-mesh-routing-wcn

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2h7cdt/killer_app_for_bitcoin_incentivized_meshnets/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309291449_Map_of_the_Community_Network_Initiatives_in_Africa

https://wiki.020wireless.nl

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
- RFC
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/the-internet-is-for-empowerment-of-end-users

Community ISP

https://diyisp.org
https://lists.ffdn.org/wws/info/diy-isp

2018: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20180111_new_harvard_study_recognizes_community_owned_isps_as_value_leaders/

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

http://pilif.github.io/2014/09/geek-heaven/

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

http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap

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

2021: (elektra's) Independent Solar Energy Mesh System : https://isems.netlify.app/en/

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)
- https://edgeryders.eu/en/lote4/stewardship-and-policy-lote4-post-reflection // http://www.husovec.eu/2014/10/munich-court-asks-cjeu-about.html

Decentralization

https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet

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

Federated protocols, old-school: https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/18511/federating-social-networks-the-technology

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/dream-job-alert-senior-fellow-decentralization-eff

Federation

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/
https://www.fediverse.to
https://friendi.ca
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network ActivityPub for Interoperable Messaging (ietf draft) https://bifurcation.github.io/mimi-aim/draft-barnes-mimi-aim.html

"distributed forum" might already exist! https://www.fediverse.to/#browse-sw

https://forum.mattermost.com/t/does-mattermost-support-the-activitypub-protocol/12646

there are *chat* implementations in/of ActivityPub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Notable_implementations

Open Meetup -> https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/edit/2ky-MS-kYiGm26dHUjm1derA/

Collective Servers

mur.at, servis.at, coloclue.nl, openbsd.amsterdam, syster.server , puscii.nl ...
https://www.protagio.nl/shellaccess.html
kind-of... https://www.are.na/about

Jobs

Job Listings

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://company.ankorstore.com/jobs
https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/
Open source software to fight climate change https://www.openearth.org/careers#open-positions
https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/join-our-team/
Open source software https://www.collabora.com/careers.html
Worker-owned co-op in open source https://www.igalia.com/jobs/

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

https://superrrr.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=07794224f80eb3988af949760&id=f62de1f7c1&e=87ad8a2846
https://risktakers.space
https://risktakers.space
https://allianzfoundation.org/climate-cultures-call
Green Web Foundation Fellowship https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/fellowships/
https://irtf.org/travelgrants
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/
- Funding for projects dealing with disinformation; deadline 25. April (info in Duthc) https://www.sidnfonds.nl/grip-op-desinformatie-2
- rolling basis: https://www.sidnfonds.nl/aanvragen/pioniers
https://www.eurekanetwork.org/open-calls/clusters-celtic-next-2022-1

OpenTech
- (rolling deadline) https://www.opentech.fund/funds/rapid-response-fund/
- deadline 13 March! Technology Development, Applied Research, Digital Security Support, or Events: https://www.opentech.fund/funds/internet-freedom-fund/
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/

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

https://globaldigitalcultures.uva.nl/funding-calls/funding-calls.html

COVID19 related: https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19#Funding

Yearly

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/
https://sovereigntechfund.de/en.html
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 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/
https://www.apnic.net/community/support/isif
https://prototypefund.de/
- https://prototypefund.de/2016/10/25/1022/
https://digitalfreedomfund.org
Scottish!! https://interface-online.org.uk/how-we-can-help/funding
https://www.ariadne-network.eu/
https://www.stiftung-mercator.de/en/who-we-are/
https://www.sidnfonds.nl/
https://hivos.nl/climate-justice/
APC https://www.apc.org/en/apc-member-grants

Recommendations

Grants

https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/

older

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/

JAPAN : http://www.iij-ii.co.jp/en/lab/internship/index.html

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/

https://quitter.se/main/public

(other decentralisation of social media projects...)

See: UnlikeUs conference, by Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam

Related TechInc Projects

http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/P2pbgpsec

http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Internet_Governance_and_hackers

http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Wireless-amsterdam-meetup

http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Leiden-Wifi

http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/RoofTopNetwork

http://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Pledges/Wifi_Link_Leiden

https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/Privacy_Software_Workshop_Series

Becha's article with many links

http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/hackers-philosophers-utopian-network-dec-2012-becha.pdf

Use Cases

Rural Networks

Alternative networks in Mexico, powered by Open Source SW, recycled HW & human need for connection -> https://www.rhizomatica.org/
- https://wiki.techinc.nl/Rhizomatica_Community_Telecommunications_Infrastructure

A dream: https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/Lika/ProjekatPovezanoPolje

See: Palestine https://wiki.techinc.nl/TacticalMediaRoom#2023_PS_news

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/05/technology/caucuses-mountains-internet.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20180106193003/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/05/technology/caucuses-mountains-internet.html

Telecommunications in Rural or Non-Metropolitan Areas (1996) http://www.alansondheim.org/mike.txt

Greece: https://blog.apnic.net/2018/04/20/empowering-local-communities-to-build-maintain-and-expand-their-community-network/
- https://1worldconnected.org/project/europe_communitynetwork_sarantaporogreece/

Georgia: http://toa.ge/en/2018/03/19/project-for-tusheti-community-internet-network-georgia/
- https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/05/innovative-licensing-approaches-enabling-access-in-hard-to-reach-places-through-collaborative-partnerships/

Refugees

2020 "Community-led Connectivity: Assessing the potential of community network models in the context of forced displacement in East Africa"
- https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/community-led-connectivity-assessing-potential-community-network-models-context-forced
- PDF https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Community-led-Connectivity-WEB052020.pdf

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

& in general http://www.appropedia.org/Appropriate_technology_for_refugees

http://codefor.de/digitalrefugeelabs

Disaster Recovery Communications

http://nsrc.org
http://www.appropedia.org/Humanitarian_engineering
https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/
https://www.tsfi.org/en
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/
- http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections-closed/mission-critical-public-safety-communications-architectures-enabling-technologies-future-applications/
- a decent survey paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/87438/5/Survey_of_wireless_communication_technologies_for_public_safety.pdf
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
- http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/87438/5/Survey_of_wireless_communication_technologies_for_public_safety.pdf [eprints.whiterose.ac.uk]
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

Public Service

2023: High Quality Affordable Internet for the Bottom of the Pyramid, Sheikh Md Seum, Janata Wifi https://ripe87.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/12-RIPE-87-Pitch.pdf
https://publicspaces.net/
2019
- https://publicspaces.net/2019/01/27/development-roadmap/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/public-service-internet

Conflict

Palestine (add IETF118 presentation)
- https://wiki.techinc.nl/TacticalMediaRoom#2023_PS_news

Misc Links

Other New Internet Technologies

2023-11-08 What Happened to the New Internet? https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/new-internet/

https://gigaom.com/2014/05/07/why-gigaom-thinks-its-time-to-reinvent-the-internet/

https://gigaom.com/2014/05/07/reinventing-the-internet-how-do-we-build-a-better-network/

Named Data Networks http://named-data.net

... & SDN (Software Defined Networks...)

In the media

2018: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/01/punk-rock-internet-diy-rebels-working-replace-tech-giants-snoopers-charter

FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/decentralised_internet_and_privacy/

2018: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3np4a/new-municipal-broadband-map

2018: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/05/technology/caucuses-mountains-internet.html

2017, SlashDot https://ask.slashdot.org/story/17/04/29/2134234/ask-slashdot-could-we-build-a-global-wireless-mesh-network

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/09/a-decentralized-web-would-give-power-back-to-the-people-online/

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/

http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/10/10/weekend-read-the-imminent-decentralized-computing-revolution/

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/

http://phys.org/news/2014-05-decentralized-networks-democracy.html

8 May 2014 http://www.dailydot.com/technology/decentralized-internet-future/

March 2014: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/toward-a-network-commons-building-an-internet-for-and-by-the-people

(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_

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929294.500-meshnet-activists-rebuilding-the-internet-from-scratch.html#.Ugn9zVO57zf

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/mesh-internet-privacy-nsa-isp

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/greek-off-the-grid-internet-mesh/

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1m17bx/what_do_you_think_are_citizenrun_mesh_networks/

http://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/are-citizen-run-mesh-networks-key-open-internet-probably-not-part-1

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

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think/

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]

http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-6-disruption-and-the-law/peer-reviewed-articles/expanding-the-internet-commons-the-subversive-potential-of-wireless-community-networks/

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/

Email Problems

(July 2023: https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2307/msg00049.html)

existence of "email" (as we know it) is in danger.

for me, email means ability to exchange messages in a decentralised / federated way, made possible because operators of email servers & email clients following open standards for protocols & software, that enabled interoperability. there was resilience through variety of implementations. plus, the spam-filtering and abuse-handling were done (more-less successfully) in a participatory, communal, (dare i say) "multistakolder" ways.

more on that: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2023-May/002877.html

nowadays, there are many adversaries to this (idyllic?) situation:

"market forces" of centralisation & monopolisation have resulted in ~90% of all email being read (!) by (clients written by) 3 big players (GAM) , and for providers it's G&M that rule 66% of that market:

https://mailchimp.com/en/resources/most-used-email-service-providers/

https://blog.apnic.net/2023/04/05/who-reads-your-email/

smaller hosters & email providers are struggling to maintain their servers...
- ... because google is breaking the "open standards" https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/issues/18
- ... and can get away with it, because of their monopoly position

and

gMail can reject email being sent / received from small hosters, based on "reputation" / rate limiting / whatever http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html
- ... thus making it even harder to compete with it!
- UPDATE: https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-protection/
M$ too: https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk

and

there is lack of skills for hosting own mail servers, because "everyone" is outsourcing it to (GAM)...

and

(much more)

Solutions:

resist!

- https://multiplace.org/8m/ (Counter Cloud Action Day)

return to self-hosting

- https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/concept/release/1?readingCollection=8b16ad0a

reward your (inner?) sys-admin!
- https://sysadminday.com (coming up soon:28. July!)

re-learn
- https://geekflare.com/self-hosted-email-server/
- https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/hey-activists-dont-be-a-mailchump

re-use email for encrypted chat
- https://delta.chat/en/

work on open standards:
- https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/11/01/regulators

repair interoperability with new federated protocols (Activity Pub &

email should talk to each other)

- https://bifurcation.github.io/mimi-aim/draft-barnes-mimi-aim.html

organise!
- join https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/anti-abuse-wg

Centralisation

Geoff Huston on Centralisation: https://labs.ripe.net/author/gih/on-internet-centrality-and-fragmentation/

By relying on Google to run (part of) our email services, we are be moving away from "open, inclusive, collaborative Internet model", since Google is one of the monopolies that is threatening the original model – as described in these articles:

DECENTRALIZATION -> previously on this same page: https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Decentralization

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) & States : https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/slides-118-rasprg-cdns-states-00.pdf

Market Concentration https://pulse.internetsociety.org/concentration

Consolidation

this paper: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/papers/limits22-final-Angeli.pdf "Conceptualising Resources-aware Higher Education Digital Infrastructure through Self-hosting: a Multi-disciplinary View"

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/09/study_on_the_internets_technical_success_factors/

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/11/internet_has_shrunk/

"We are the phone company. We don't care. We don't have to?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgUN_95UAw

cloud https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09462

Consolidation Taxonomy https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-mcfadden-consolidation-taxonomy

Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-avoiding-internet-centralization/

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology; Anu Bradford
- Book: https://academic.oup.com/book/46736
- https://blog.oup.com/2023/10/the-three-empires-of-our-digital-world-infographic/

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

Censorship

this article against censorship & for self-hosting: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/right-or-left-you-should-be-worried-about-big-tech-censorship

Can we outsource a decision on who do we receive email from – to Google? What if Google decides that email from a certain country (e.g Russia, Iran, Syria...), or a certain provider that is their competitor (e.g Outlook), is not allowed? https://locusmag.com/2020/01/cory-doctorow-inaction-is-a-form-of-action/

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1539266244259549185?s=20&t=bQpnWif7BbfrcgOeG30xIw

m$ email blocking newClimate url https://newclimate.org/news/microsoft-error-or-external-attack-causing-disruption-to-email-communication-across-the

The internet is both the cause and effect of geopolitics (Douzet, 2014).

○ China’s “Great Bottleneck” (Zhu et al., 2020)
○ Iran’s selective international censorship (Salmation et al., 2021)
○ Eastern Ukraine’s dependency on Russia (Limonier et al., 2021)

https://wiki.techinc.nl/TacticalMediaRoom#2023_PS_news

Surveillance

Google email practices are: to not implement standards; to compromise privacy of users in order to sell ads; and they spy on their users & share information with governments (see: Snowden)

About privacy: here is a video from NLUUG in November 2021, a talk Sjoera Nas did (in Dutch) https://youtu.be/8GiK9xyrvWY : "It's the metadata, $#u&!*! Privacy versus the big cloud providers"

Abstract: https://nluug.nl/activiteiten/events/nj21/abstracts/ab00.html

And her review for SURF: https://www.surf.nl/en/all-about-dpia-google-workspace

Cloud Problems

Against Cloud

January 2024: SIDN moves part of their operations to AWS

2021: RIPE NCC:
- https://labs.ripe.net/author/felipe_victolla_silveira/ripe-ncc-and-the-cloud-draft-principles-requirements-and-strategy-framework/
- https://labs.ripe.net/author/felipe_victolla_silveira/ripe-ncc-cloud-strategy-framework/

https://thenewstack.io/merchants-of-complexity-why-37signals-abandoned-the-cloud/
"Privacy versus the big cloud providers": video of a talk Sjoera Nas did (in Dutch) https://youtu.be/8GiK9xyrvWY
- Abstract: https://nluug.nl/activiteiten/events/nj21/abstracts/ab00.html
Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/05/the-misaligned-incentives-for-cloud-security.html
Apnic's incident! https://blog.apnic.net/2021/06/18/whois-data-incident-resolved/
- Register https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/22/apnic_whois_data_exposed/
USA vs Iran: (DNS) https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/22/iran_media_websites_us_government_seized/
Ads industry & data breach... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57232253
https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-cloud-storage/
https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lecture-by-femke-snelting-on-counter-cloud-imaginaries/

(+ copy all the links from Marvin ;-) )

MeshNet