[Ci4cg-announce] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure ~~ you tell me!

Tue May 3 10:10:08 PDT 2016

Hi all,

There is an on-going effort to classify existing "alternative network 
deployments",
as they call them, from the GAIA working group:

- 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-gaia-alternative-network-deployments/

These include (wireless) community networks, which could range from 
large urban
and/or rural networks like guifi.net and freifunk.net to neighbourhood 
scale wireless
community networks like the RedHood WiFi in Brooklyn, NY.

You might also be interested in two new dedicated EU projects:

- http://mazizone.eu (focusing on the design of small-scale networks 
around concrete
pilot studies)

- http://netcommons.eu (focusing on the economic, political, and legal 
aspects with
a more theoretical approach, in close contact with big networks like 
guifi.net
and ninux.net)

In the US there is this SEED grant initiative from the Open Technology 
Institute
with many interesting case studies:

- 
https://www.newamerica.org/oti/community-technology-retrospective-2015-seed-grants/

And here is a long (but incomplete) list of links to both theory and 
practice in this area:

- http://nethood.org/links.php

Best,

Panos.

http://nethood.org/panayotis/

On 03/05/16 14:56, Marcus Foth wrote:
> Hi Doug
>
> not sure what exactly you mean by "open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project,” but three examples come to mind:
>
> 1. Beautiful Trouble
> http://beautifultrouble.org
>
>
> 2. There are a whole bunch of related projects in the media architecture space, such as this interactive “speaker’s corner” project:
>
> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/18/megaphone-free-speech
>
> We review some of these examples in this paper:
>
> Caldwell, G., & Foth, M. (2014, Nov 19-22). DIY Media Architecture: Open and Participatory Approaches to Community Engagement. In Proceedings of the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 (pp. 1-10). Aarhus, Denmark. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/77903/
>
> [The next MAB conference is 3 weeks away: http://mab16.org]
>
>
> 3. With regards to "open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication,” I’m reminded of my colleague Bob Dick’s page on Dialectical processes, "in which dialectical processes (which craft agreement out of disagreement) are described, and contrasted with adversarial and consensual processes .”
>
> http://www.aral.com.au/resources/dialectic.html
>
> hope this helps
> cheers, marcus
>
>
> --
> Professor Marcus Foth
>
> i/Director, QUT Design Lab
> School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty
> Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
> m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – www.vrolik.de
>
> CRICOS No. 00213J
>
>
> ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16)
> Brisbane, June 4-8 – @DIS2016 – www.dis2016.org
>
>> On 3 May 2016, at 2:51 PM, Doug Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote:
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>> Greetings from Seattle!
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>> I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — on the idea of an open-ended, citizen-led public alternative communication and information infrastructure project. The paper won't be long and it certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this point I'm just trying to help surface the idea and get feedback.
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>> My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's why I'm writing to you all.
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>> If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, the suggestions you make would help inform the project.
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>> Please send me your thoughts on this.
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>> Thanks!!
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>> — Doug
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>> Douglas Schuler
>> douglas at publicsphereproject.org
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