post_number,post_id,created_at,reply_to_post_id,source_username,target_username,text 1,66708,2019-12-02T18:21:22.806Z,66708,anon478355983,anon478355983,"Hi, I'm Daveed. My most important identifier is Papa. Since BS and MS in Engineering at Stanford, I have had leadership roles in startups, nonprofits, and social enterprises in emergent fields. As a ""Shift Shaper,"" my work focuses on collective wisdom and altering systems of consciousness for positive impact. I worked on decentralization in early 2000s focusing on energy, food, and water and on building local economies. Now my focus is decentralizing knowledge & building collective intelligence with my startup Bridgit. We make the entire web into a collaborative research platform. As a long-time Internet researcher, I have had no system for making sure the information I find online is readily available when I or someone else needs it. I've dreamed of a system that reveals previous research related to one's focus of attention. Imagine, down every rabbit hole, nuggets of insight and innovation. [Bridgit](https://bridgit.io) is a crowd-mapped Google Earth for online information. Bridgit users build online knowledge maps of ideas & the relationships between them. Thus providing shared context for collaboration and communication without coordination. Our mission is to connect all the information in the world into a universal knowledge map that can be accessed through the web or in the future through virtual experience, thus creating the possibility of ubiquitous context. We believe that if we want a democratic future, we must move towards an economy that is based on supporting rather than capturing attention. Our beachhead is emerging ideas. The problem is many groundbreaking ideas experience an uphill battle which delays their impact for years if not decades. Our platform enables stakeholders to build knowledge maps & shared context for issues that matter; seeing ideas in context makes them more understandable and actionable. Bridgit enables insight, debate & discovery on every webpage by making the entire web into a collaborative research platform. Our browser overlay enables researchers to control, validate, organize & monetize their data. Advanced tagging enables the #OverWeb, a Trust Layer over the webpage. The #OverWeb is a Secure Social Ecosystem that generates valuable semantic, intent, & sentiment data. We use AI to assist in creating/validating content and neutralizing bad actors. Our platform supports a new category - Massive Online Research Collaborations - that enable researchers to build knowledge together without coordination as well as Bridgit Apps which enable organizations to expose their information and application functionality wherever relevant on the web. Check us out at https://bridgit.io!" 2,66745,2019-12-03T01:39:17.402Z,66708,anon2434097920,anon478355983,"[quote=""anon478355983, post:1, topic:12084""] Bridgit [/quote] A Google search shows a number of things with that name. Which one is yours?" 3,66746,2019-12-03T02:37:53.036Z,66745,anon478355983,anon2434097920,"Hi John! Can't believe I forgot that in the original post. https://bridgit.io" 4,66747,2019-12-03T06:01:21.283Z,66746,anon3930211770,anon478355983,"Interesting concepts. But, as far as I can see, a centralized proprietary platform. Quite the opposite of distributed and free software or open source. So, good luck, but not for me." 5,66946,2019-12-05T04:37:27.080Z,66708,anon478355983,anon478355983,"@anon3930211770, your assumptions about what we are creating are incorrect. We are NOT building a centralized platform. While it is true that we have not built in the DLT aspect of our system yet, we will launch with a DLT in place. (We are 10 months out from the planned launch and plan to remain fluid as to the specific implementation until Q2.) Also, we will have open source aspects to our project. We will not open source aspects of the system that could enable one of the Internet Platforms to put us out of business before we get started. Good luck" 6,67290,2019-12-11T02:13:18.380Z,66708,anon3030929954,anon478355983,"This looks really interesting. I submitted to the alpha. I definitely do think that this needs to be made open, at least eventually. This would help to make it grow larger and also stop any one platform from controlling this information." 7,67370,2019-12-11T16:45:16.135Z,67290,anon478355983,anon3030929954,"@anon3030929954, thanks for the feedback. We are using the annotation standard and JSON-LD. For this to create real value wrt collective intelligence, we need to ensure the following: 1) All bridges have integrity, meaning that the relationship between the two content snippets are correct. We envision a validation process for this, whereby three approved validators have to agree that the relationship is correct. 2) The system does not get filled up with fake accounts and bots. Without integrity, there is no value to a knowledge map. I'm open to conversations about how this can be achieved in an open framework." 8,67991,2019-12-29T14:12:02.100Z,66708,anon3031202475,anon478355983,"Hello @anon478355983, maybe have a look at worlbrain and how they connect knowledge: https://edgeryders.eu/t/introducing-oliver-worldbrain-io-memex-and-storex-democratising-knowledge/10157" 9,71122,2020-03-10T09:51:15.985Z,66708,anon3031202475,anon478355983,ping @anon518360670 is this relevant for OCI? 10,71345,2020-03-14T19:54:14.135Z,67991,anon1394316021,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:8, topic:12084""] Hello @anon478355983, maybe have a look at worlbrain and how they connect knowledge [/quote] I'd also recommend checking [Veeo](https://www.veeo.io/). Similar value propositions and a very friendly and welcoming team of creators!" 11,71562,2020-03-17T19:21:04.136Z,66708,anon2434097920,anon478355983,Yo @anon478355983 - how is the corona virus affecting your project and your work these days? 12,71603,2020-03-18T00:10:20.780Z,71562,anon478355983,anon2434097920,"Hey John We are starting a mapping project for COVID19. The COVID19 Mapping project aims to crowdmap the online information ecology for the COVID19 virus including second and third order effects of the virus. The project utilizes Bridgit ‘s mapping capability to catalyze a Massive Online Research Collaboration on COVID19. Massive Online Research Collaborations HELP researchers connect and interact with other researchers on any webpage WITHOUT any coordination EVEN IF they don't know each other or speak the same language WITH a self-generating interactive knowledge map. AI will monitor the knowledge map and send alerts about emerging threats, false news, and misinformation. Outcomes of the project include a first-generation interactive knowledge map, a shared context for collaboration and communication, a cohesive community, and faster better answers that accelerate insight, innovation, and learning. Register online at https://bridgit.io" 13,71604,2020-03-18T00:11:02.837Z,71345,anon478355983,anon1394316021,Thanks! Veeo is cool. Would love to collab with them. Do you anyone there? 14,71606,2020-03-18T00:20:37.082Z,71603,anon2434097920,anon478355983,Ambitious project. Got any screenshots you can share so we can see what this kind of mapping might look like? 15,71609,2020-03-18T01:05:22.601Z,71606,anon478355983,anon2434097920,"Hey John Here is a mockup of how the overlay looks ! This is what the map view looks like: [10%20PM|690x390](upload://l1ycM0GFxwlWHA8jdhvrb7eEwGi.png) ! This is how bridges assist in sense making. [23%20PM|690x392](upload://uMcVOxwdHrBAbQ26uZhajjfPzgz.png) It may more sense to see the entire deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TqwKo7m8Lr7AXT4aNhMBT83zK_U6iSB42BT5LqQzRv4/edit?usp=sharing Would love any feedback. p.s., You have a most interesting background" 16,72030,2020-03-21T20:32:48.100Z,71604,anon1394316021,anon478355983,I've been in touch with the Veeo founders. I'll let them know of this conv :slight_smile: 17,72037,2020-03-21T22:42:17.494Z,72030,anon478355983,anon1394316021,Awesome. Thanks. 18,72372,2020-03-24T17:40:05.167Z,71609,anon2434097920,anon478355983,So it depends on consistent and widespread tagging? It's either that or machine learning I guess. 19,72607,2020-03-26T22:08:38.530Z,72372,anon478355983,anon2434097920,Both. Machine learning can suggest tags and connections. But there will be a human-in-the-loop for the foreseeable future. 20,72618,2020-03-27T07:49:52.743Z,71609,anon3449369942,anon478355983,"ping @anon2055250371 have a look at @anon478355983 's work above, perhaps it might be helpful?" 21,72726,2020-03-27T16:44:11.942Z,72607,anon2434097920,anon478355983,"Back in the 90s I started and managed the first large news website (sfgate.com). We had the challenge of supplying readers with news from multiple sources (2 newspapers, the AP feed, a TV station, original content and a couple of other sources). None of these orgs or feeds communicated with each other in any way, and the ""slugs"" or metadata, were always peculiar to their one source. ]We wanted to present the news according to what it was about, not just where it cam from. This was especially important with the limited screen real estate on a computer, plus Google had just started out and was nothing like the behemoth we have known for the past 20 yrs. Our only meaningful option was machine learning. What we did was create with the newspaper librarian a news category system and I hired her then on the side to tag a large number of current stories for a period of time so we could get a good sample. But for machine learning, that is not enough. One has to have a large amount of data to run it against in order, in this case, for the machine to decide what a news story was really about with any meaningful accuracy. The bigger the sample, the more accurate the result. But, since we were at a newspaper with electronic archives going back decades, we were able to accomplish it so that our system was highly accurate. It was the first - and only - one of its kind. Before Google News or the Apple News utility, we were supplying anyone interested with a lot of daily news that you could see either by source or subject. This is a big reason why we ""punched above our weight"" in the news world. Yes the New York Times within a few years had 4 times the traffic we did, but they spent 20 times the money to get there. But it was only possible to get that accuracy by basing it on a huge - truly huge - amount of data. Without that, you have to tag." 22,72758,2020-03-27T22:58:54.620Z,72618,anon2055250371,anon3449369942,"Okay, Thank U very much" 23,72823,2020-03-29T14:47:53.082Z,72726,anon478355983,anon2434097920,"Thanks for the context John. Wow that's amazing. We're going for what consider is next stage of evolution of information ecology. The first stage was just pages connected by links. Then the Internet Platforms emerged and became hubs, and guided the commerical Internet into the Attention economy. As sites monetized their linking capability and content, they virtually stopped using external links. This reduced the connectedness of information on the internet. The impulse for web surfing is now satisfied by social media feeds. Rather than exploring, we are ""feeding"" on information that is being served by the machine learning algorithms of the Internet platform. IMO the next phase is collective knowledge maps that weave together the online information ecology with relationships. This will open up discovery orders of magnitude faster than search, context for any idea on the web, and support for knowing what to believe on the web." 24,72968,2020-03-30T18:28:52.223Z,72823,anon2434097920,anon478355983,"> collective knowledge maps that weave together the online information ecology with relationships How would this look, more or less? How would you classify the relationships?" 1,72260,2020-03-24T08:12:33.738Z,72260,anon2913638101,anon2913638101,"Hi All I am posting this straight here because I don't entirely understand the site, but happy to learn. I am one of the writers in Babel Between us and in South Africa, we have just been informed we are about to shut down. Our president, who has done some pretty reprehensible things prior, is actually showing strong leadership. There are a few sections of society, unaccounted for unfortunately, this includes space for the artists, dreamers, those that need to see a way through this beyond just the now. I have a few developer friends, but I thought I would first make the proposal here, this space is obviously very European focused but it would be cool if we could have something similar in our country, perhaps a sister site, a place to engage in unique ways during the lockdown. If I spoke to my friends, would there be any support available to help set this up? Thank you" 2,72263,2020-03-24T08:22:08.525Z,72260,anon3449369942,anon2913638101,oh you should connect with @anon 3,72266,2020-03-24T08:29:54.628Z,72263,anon2913638101,anon3449369942,"Thanks Nadia. My interests are more about like lessons learnt when hosting, key things to know when building and creating the site etc. I think a team of South Africans, including @anon It would also help to ensure that the sites could work in tandem. Would this kind of assistance be available? Perhaps right now I need to know what key skills I should find in creating a team to work on this and then we could start looking through it, figuring it out and asking questions that your team could respond to?" 4,72270,2020-03-24T08:46:49.512Z,72266,anon3449369942,anon2913638101,"By site do you mean edgeryders platform? Some parts are Europe Focused others no, it depends on who is driving/stewarding any given thread or activity. OCI Lab, the P2P online incubator for social entrepeneurship started in Tunisia and is mainly run by a crew in tunis. Either way, yes there is support in a couple of ways. A good way to start would be to repost your question here https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-did-we-discuss-during-the-covid19-community-response-call-1-what-will-we-do-next/12945/3" 5,72309,2020-03-24T11:43:20.575Z,72260,anon1505367078,anon2913638101,"Hey @anon2913638101, nice to see you made it here! To underscore Nadias post, here are some good examples of initiatives on Edgeryders from outside of Europe. https://edgeryders.eu/t/oci-labs-online-p2p-incubator-for-menas-youth/10249?u=anon1505367078 https://edgeryders.eu/t/hack-4-environment-morocco-post-event-summary/12102?u=anon1505367078 https://edgeryders.eu/t/it-s-time-to-start-treating-waste-as-a-resource-zelij-invent/12532?u=anon1505367078 A major strength of keeping people under the same roof is that we can avoid reinventing the wheel while still adapting things to our local circumstances. Perhaps there is a way to fit this in here? There are also ways for us to help you with understanding how to launch a platform, and we even sometimes host other platforms though the Edgeryders Communities network - although that’s usually when there is already an existing community that wants to move to a new digital home. Starting a forum from scratch in an empty forum is a lot more challenging than bringing people onboard to a platform where things are already happening." 6,72436,2020-03-25T11:25:55.326Z,72309,anon196034329,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon2913638101, post:1, topic:12947""]There are a few sections of society […] this includes space for the artists, dreamers, those that need to see a way through this beyond just the now. […] it would be cool if we could have something similar in our country, perhaps a sister site, a place to engage in unique ways during the lockdown[/quote] Like @anon1505367078 said, a reasonable course of action would be that you have a look where you'd like to place this content into the current edgeryders.eu platform. There is the [Culture Squad](/c/culture-squad) category and I'm pretty sure @anon51020356 would welcome engagement from non-European cultural practitioners there. If you're sure there will be enough content coming in, you can also have your own sub-category. In both cases, you would register your own domain and point it to that place on edgeryders.eu as a simple URL forwarder. Then, when your community outgrows this solution, you point it to its new webhome. If it does not outgrow it, no harm done, and no effort wasted on installing a forum that stayed empty. [quote=""anon1505367078, post:5, topic:12947""]There are also ways for us to help you with understanding how to launch a platform, and we even sometimes host other platforms through the Edgeryders Communities network - although that’s usually when there is already an existing community that wants to move to a new digital home[/quote] Indeed, once there is enough content to warrant this, we could add an Edgeryders Communities site – for details, see [the manual](/t/7419). Moving from a category on edgeryders.eu to your own Communities site (basically a fresh, empty install of the forum) is simple, as everyone involved can keep using the same account. You can find these Communities sites in the top-right menu here. The Babel Between Us site, which you know, is one of them." 7,72461,2020-03-25T15:22:24.000Z,72436,anon2913638101,anon196034329,"Thank you both. Today was last minute run arounds. Will attend in the morning. Appreciate the support and guidance:) Might call on more after I follow initial steps. Thanks again" 8,72462,2020-03-25T15:25:03.238Z,72461,anon3449369942,anon2913638101,"Guess where this is? :)) ![EdgerydersDinner_SA|690x460](upload://nED9yuWRGMGKEjJn44UnQQhQeWq.jpg)" 9,72927,2020-03-30T15:30:58.610Z,72260,anon4161698398,anon2913638101,"Hi @anon2913638101 @anon3449369942 @anon196034329 Player 1, great to be connected to you. I can relate to your frustrations as I've been working with a group of artists, in our own capacities on collaborative ventures focused mainly on engagement and communication. It's always great to connect with likeminded persons and I am totally excited by the prospect of meeting the Edgeryders in person once again. Player, I would be more inclined to suggest using this existing platform as it has a a considerable amount of outliers, creatives, designers, activists all striving toward a more inclusive, engaging and solution driven network. That, and it's been successful. My gut says why recreate this, and then work to gather a similar kind of audience. I've made wonderful friends via Edgeryders, online and in person, and it works simply because it's multi-sectoral and -disciplinary and stretch beyond traditional boundaries (social, physical, political, etc). I'm no designer but I'd be keen to learn more about your interests. We could consider a chat. Welcome to the network and I do look forward to hearing from you. @anon3449369942 @anon1676186961 @anon51020356 Your presence is absolutely missed." 10,72946,2020-03-30T16:32:53.000Z,72927,anon2913638101,anon4161698398,"Hi All Thanks again. So we are figuring out something we like, its like a narrative game. Kinda inspired by Babel, but different, its lots of fun trying to work it out. I really do think the Edgeryders platform is cool, but there is so much about it feels distinctively European (including the domain name) . I think something from us needs to be created with our audiences in mind, the way we use the internet and it should at least with the ability to carve out it's own identity. I dont think that this thing that we create could match Edqeryders nor compete with it. I think it compliments but it must be separate. i would love if they can be related, perhaps there could be a link between the sites and we can reference. I think people can be introduced to Edgeryders through whatever this becomes and can join the community even. I don't think there is always benefit in keeping everything on one site. Its really not an attempt to reinvent the wheel, we lack the capacity to even attempt that. I just think there are many ways to be in community. ya, im pretty free and keen to chat :)" 11,72950,2020-03-30T16:53:50.311Z,72946,anon3449369942,anon2913638101,"dont worry about it. Its fairly easy to set up a separate space with it's own domain etc technically. Maybe show up to next week's community call? can walk you through it then. ping @anon3031202475" 12,72957,2020-03-30T17:30:30.958Z,72946,anon3031202475,anon2913638101,"Hello @anon2913638101, we are coming together every Monday 17:00 CEST, if you want to join in to talk things through that would be great: https://edgeryders.eu/t/weekly-covid2019-community-response-call/12920/16 and every Tuesdays noon (12:00 CEST) we have another community call specifically focused on how the loss of work effects people in the current crisis, reading your motivation for setting up such a platform that might be interesting for you too: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-to-do-when-losing-work-during-covid19-community-calls-each-tuesday-noon/12886" 1,72447,2020-03-25T12:58:04.797Z,72447,anon3809206126,anon3809206126," *Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HowardRheingoldJI4.jpg* I have been online since 1992 – hell, I practically *lived* online most of these 30 years. What drew me to the Internet was not the presence of shiny, easy-to-use, free services – they were not there in the early days. On the contrary, you had to put in time and money if you wanted to, as we said then, ""connect to the Internet"". But the reward was high. *Whatever your tribe, you would find it*. Whether you cared about particle physics, detective stories or board games, countless like-minded people were waiting for you ""out there"". And yes, you would occasionally encounter conflict and rants, but they would be overwhelmed by the sense of being welcome, of belonging. For me – a bookish, weird kid from an Italian small town, who was into weird music, it was a lifeline. But, of course, it was not about me. The sense of community was pervasive, generalized. > My direct observations of online behaviour around the world over the past ten years have led me to conclude that whenever computer-mediated communications technology becomes available to people anywhere, they inevitably build virtual communities with it, just as microorganisms inevitably create colonies. These words were written by @anon930085109 in 1994, in a seminal book called *[The Virtual Community](https://books.google.be/books?id=fr8bdUDisqAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=rheingold+virtual+community&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0_MaQsa7oAhXHMewKHffIBlAQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=rheingold%20virtual%20community&f=false)*. In the intervening years, however, some of that sense of community has been lost. Some American computer networks had been offering commercial services since the late 1980s; in 1992, US Congress pass a law that allowed the academic NSFNET, to connect to those commercial networks, and the latter to use NSFNET as their infrastructural backbone. Seven years later, the dotcom boom showed everyone the money-making potential of the Internet. The original ""digital settlers"" described by Howard's book were still out there, but increasingly drowned out by corporate types. The idea itself of virtual community gave way to that of social networking service (Facebook and similar), and the communitarian early Internet of the 1990s to the surveillance capitalist one of today. Then COVID-19 hit. Suddenly, everyone's social media feed is full of bottom-up, self-organized initiatives for mutual aid. Everyone is releasing previously paywalled content, offering help, creating resources and directories. Is the communitarian Internet back? The question is important, because Edgeryders considers itself a virtual community, one of the last of the original, early wave virtual communities. We were born as a response to the previous crisis, the 2008 financial collapse. In the wake of COVID-19, we are mobilizing, just like everybody else ([example](/t/12962), [other example](/t/12886)). But: are we doing enough? Are we making the right moves? The right person to ask is obviously Howard himself. He and @anon2434097920 are old friends, so I asked John to ask Howard if he would agree to a video call between the three of us. He did, and just like that we were conversing across an ocean and eight time zones. ### On coordinating and integrating the community's response @anon930085109: > Have you guys thought of taking on the work of coordinating between large organizations and this patchwork of initiatives that are popping up in response to COVID-19? @anon3809206126 > Yes, but we struggle. Everyone is shouting for attention. And what you call greenspaces (nice name, by the way!) seem mostly hyperlocal, ephemeral – they are out there, but I do not see them connecting. No one is keeping track of the big picture. @anon930085109: > Right now, people are super focused on just doing the job. I would suggest to compile a list of things that are happening, putting it online, and then inviting everyone to meet others. Point to something, and tell people ""Look, we can get together and help each other!"" > > I know it sounds difficult. It is. But look: with COVID-19, this is the first time that everyone on Earth is thinking about the same thing. Additionally, everyone is closer to each other because everyone is online. We now see people organizing Zoom calls with their friends. > > And note this: this is all happening two years into a backlash against ""big tech"", when people – at least here in America – are starting to regard Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook with suspicion and even fear. There is again some space for doing good online. We can take back the Internet! The start of a network, of an online community is very much like what we are doing here, the three of us having a Zoom call. We look at our computer screen, and see people. Hey, it's people! I see their faces! We are all doing it anyway because of the pandemic, let's maintain this greenspace online, these convivial spaces. Note that some of it is not even on the web, but on the indieweb – spaces like [Scuttlebutt](/t/9802), that run their own protocols. ### On helping folks to bringing work online Howard thinks the COVID-19 fallout offers an opportunity to rethink the way we collaborate in our daily work. > I have been working for a few years on the idea of remote working. I see the COVID epidemics as a force that could accelerate a societal shift that we should do anyway, for the sake of climate change. An *idée fixe* of Howard's is [move conferences online](https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-plan-and-34594233). Just [like ourselves](/t/11263), he got interested in it mostly because large international conferences have a large climate impact. Of course, this is not at all easy, and requires effort; but suddenly, from lockdown, we are discovering that it might be possible after all. A similar advance is happening in the world of online learning (again, Howard was one the pioneers of this), as schools and universities bend over backwards to reach out to locked-down students. > You could be bringing orgs to remote work. In my experience, most people doing it have an approach oriented to deploying tools, typically chosen by some IT department. They miss completely the human and social dimension of working online. Community managers have existed for almost 40 years – actually John, here, was the person who first used the expression ""community manager""! They are key to getting humans to work together well online, but they are typically excluded from the corporate world. Helping people to work online is super powerful, because it increases manifold the efficiency of their organizations. @anon930085109: > This is a historical transition. I predict that, at the end, medical/scientific work will be enormously accelerated by this connectivity. @anon2434097920: > Howard, do you think that Slack is a complete solution to online collaboration? @anon930085109: > No, I do not. Slack is good at coordination, but not at accumulating/organizing knowledge. For that you need a forum. Also, in general, different people are comfortable with different media. So, a mix of media is needed. Like now we are talking on videoconference, then I suppose someone will do a writeup of it, and so on. That is a good thing. @anon3809206126: > ... though then curation becomes even more important, both human curation (community management) and content curation (wikis, documentation etc.). Very easy to lose the overview of a workstream that happens in many different spaces. In Edgeryders we have found nothing better than a combination of recaps (written, as posts in the forum) and periodic (virtual) team meetings." 2,72465,2020-03-25T16:02:20.140Z,72447,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"Part of the challenge for businesses and organizations who could shift a lot of their work online but are struggling to accomplish it, or aren't even trying, are ""last mile"" issues. In other words, what, from this assortment of tools, are the ones you need to accomplish what you need to get done? Forum, live chat, A/V for individual or group, document and file sharing, editing up/downloading, legal online signatures and so forth. And then there are everyone's ingrained habits to overcome." 3,72470,2020-03-25T16:45:26.960Z,72447,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,I noticed an uptick in conversations on [The WELL](https://www.well.com) including some old-timers returning after long absences explaining that they place higher trust in the quality of the information they will get there. 4,72485,2020-03-25T18:41:34.000Z,72447,anon930085109,anon3809206126,"Good work, Alberto. Howard Rheingold ---- follow on Twitter: @anon My complete works: [rheingold.com](http://rheingold.com) SUPPORT ME and get a juicy flow of knowledge and art on [patreon.com/howardrheingold](http://patreon.com/howardrheingold) what it is ---> is --->up to us" 5,72498,2020-03-25T20:52:48.333Z,72447,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"Hey @anon930085109 :slight_smile: We've been running a small scale attempt at what you propose above. Just setting up a flagpole and taking on the role of chorephraphers/djs for whatever comes out of it. It's a fluid experience - I thought we would need a lot more to get it going... 1. First this: https://edgeryders.eu/t/do-you-want-to-join-our-covid19-community-response-a-breakdown-of-edgeryders-activities-roles-tasks-and-workflows/12879/68 2. Then do a video call: https://edgeryders.eu/t/weekly-covid2019-community-response-call/12920/9 3. Post documentation and ping people: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-did-we-discuss-during-the-covid19-community-response-call-1-what-will-we-do-next/12945/28 Is this the kind of thing you had in mind?" 6,72501,2020-03-25T21:26:19.000Z,72498,anon930085109,anon3449369942,"Nadia, that is what I had in mind. I would add that a good question would be “What can we do to help your organization and to help grow a network of mutual aid efforts?” (I tried to answer this in the forum, but I got the “answer these two questions” response to my attempt to post, but after I answered the questions, I still wasn’t able to reply, even though I was logged in.) Howard Rheingold" 7,72502,2020-03-25T21:39:25.575Z,72501,anon3449369942,anon930085109," Cool! will carry that into the next call out. Hey @anon196034329 do you have any idea what might have happened when Howard tried to post? See 👆" 9,72507,2020-03-25T22:20:49.654Z,72502,anon196034329,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon930085109, post:6, topic:12971""](I tried to answer this in the forum, but I got the “answer these two questions” response to my attempt to post, but after I answered the questions, I still wasn’t able to reply, even though I was logged in.)[/quote] Howard, I think you ran into an issue with our so-called ethical consent funnel required for our research work. I tried to reproduce the issue under your account, but couldn't. I don't want to pester you about more details, so as a quick solution I just completed that consent funnel form for you (since you said you had already answered the questions … means, it's ""ethically ok"" ;) ). **tl;dr** Welcome to post on the forum now. You won't see that issue again." 10,72701,2020-03-27T14:41:02.343Z,72447,anon4006131384,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:12971""] This is a historical transition. I predict that, at the end, medical/scientific work will be enormously accelerated by this connectivity. [/quote] Speaking of this, I found out about this interesting project that's working to create an **open-source COVID-19 test kit**, work carried out online on this platform [Just One Giant Lab (JOGL)](https://app.jogl.io/project/118). I didn't know it, but it seems legit to me... I am no biologist, nor a project manager, but I meant to share this opportunity with Edgeryders in case there is someone here that could help and is interested in sparing some time. Maybe you, @anon51020356 or @anon3031202475 could ping the relevant people?" 11,72703,2020-03-27T14:57:48.017Z,72701,anon3031202475,anon4006131384,"ping @anon683229855, @anon838581715, @anon3005076832, @anon3279118466, @anon658983266 does this look like an opensource project you or some people you know might be interested in?" 12,72795,2020-03-29T06:17:18.302Z,72447,anon2317280404,anon3809206126,"Great that this conversation has taken place. Great to see you here @anon930085109 ! @anon2434097920 mentioned an uptick in interaction at The Well. Is Brainstorms still around Howard? Do you see an uptick there too (I haven't been in Brainstorms in ages). Two observations I made in the past few weeks that touch upon this conversation. 1) Yes there is a long list of unconnected initiatives out there currently. Looking at a range of them here in the Netherlands, while some seem to have some substance, many others seem more a coping strategy that keeps one busy but has no impact or meaning on the originator's scope of action or anyone else's agency. Kind of like the way I keep a spreadsheet with case numbers in NL, providing a sense of control or something, but then announcing it to the world as yet another Covid dashboard for coders and designers to contribute to. At the same time initiatives that might have a real impact are invisible and never mentioned online unless they become visible once creating such impact. (e.g. my brother in law's 3d printer company has approached all businesses and factories that use their printers to donate printing capacity, creating a global networked printing facility, and now discussing with manufacturers (like Phillips) and health ministries how to deploy that network to print respirator parts and masks where needed. It won't be publicly announced as a bottom-up initiative, and it may not be publicly mentioned at all ever.) How do we filter wheat and chaff on a list of initiatives, or do we have a role in guiding others to potentially more meaningful activities and away from the coping projects like my spreadsheet/ other's shiny dashboards? 2) On working from home en masse. Most of my work is with government entities. A common tactic for people is to wait with doing something and ignore emails etc until the requester shows up at your desk asking about it . That escalation path is no longer available, showing up at one's desk. As a result I see some civil servants withdraw on an island of clearly defined tasks, simply not responding to mails,calls etc about any other topic. A withdrawal. This means that all kinds of activities that depend on weaving together different acts by different parts of an organisation have more trouble building the connections and getting things done. This impacts precisely the type projects (around digital transformation, deploying new remote working tools, running experiments etc.) that would be of more interest now than before the current situation. Something to find a way of dealing with." 13,72798,2020-03-29T08:46:03.544Z,72795,anon3809206126,anon2317280404,"[quote=""anon2317280404, post:12, topic:12971""] At the same time initiatives that might have a real impact are invisible and never mentioned online unless they become visible once creating such impact [/quote] Great point. Anecdotally, I too am seeing people reaching out through personal networks. A lot is going on behind the curtains. In my case, it's mostly systemic reflections in view of what comes next, but more practical people like your brother-in-law seems to be be will be taking action. Another example of action, which I would like to document next week, is @anon4261882768's initiative of spawning a disposable identity scheme to keep track of your susceptible-infected-recovered state. [quote=""anon2317280404, post:12, topic:12971""] As a result I see some civil servants withdraw on an island of clearly defined tasks, simply not responding to mails,calls etc about any other topic. A withdrawal. This means that all kinds of activities that depend on weaving together different acts by different parts of an organisation have more trouble building the connections and getting things done. This impacts precisely the type projects (around digital transformation, deploying new remote working tools, running experiments etc.) that would be of more interest now than before the current situation. [/quote] Also a great point. I wonder if anyone has any evidence in support or to the contrary of it?" 14,72802,2020-03-29T10:02:57.538Z,72798,anon2317280404,anon3809206126,"Btw, here's a group of people, started by some friends of mine, collecting/pooling resources / experience on doing facilitation for groups/teams now coming online due to lockdowns https://groups.io/g/f4c-response/" 15,72803,2020-03-29T10:09:36.909Z,72802,anon3449369942,anon2317280404,"Hey Ton, how are you + fam doing? [quote=""anon2317280404, post:14, topic:12971""] https://groups.io/g/f4c-response/ [/quote] this is super interesting @anon2317280404, do you think you could put us in touch? Would be nice to have a quick video chat to see how we can support their efforts ahead of this going public (still needs a bit of work on copy, broken links etc ): https://work.edgeryders.eu/" 16,72805,2020-03-29T10:24:44.467Z,72803,anon2317280404,anon3449369942,"Doing ok (see https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/03/lock-down-seeking-new-normal-yet-still-tempus-fugit/ ) Sure, I can put you in touch with Nancy White (although she's on US west coast time) and Beverly Trayner (who I think is currently in Portugal, so more or less on local time :slight_smile: ) Sent you an intro e-mail." 17,72806,2020-03-29T11:29:49.205Z,72798,anon3666665849,anon3809206126,"This civil servants point seems like scenario where there is not a sense of purpose that connects people and gives agency. I do not have evidence of the contrary in government situations. Yet as my reply implies, it is clear how to avoid these scenario's. I'm sure you know this too. Do you see groups working on that in parallel to their everyday work? Wouldn't it take time to see the effects?" 18,72826,2020-03-29T15:11:57.929Z,72806,anon2317280404,anon3666665849,"In the examples I observed it wasn't so much lack of purpose but a withdrawal to one's own defined tasks only. In part this is ok, given the situation. In part this will become an obstacle, because for a lot things / changes in an organisation depend on small amounts of time outside of those primary tasks of any given role. Remotely it is easier to simply shrug that off, which was harder to do in a f2f setting. There are scenario's around it and as time passes new balances/patterns are sure to emerge anyway. But there is not much of a path around people just not responding." 19,72948,2020-03-30T16:45:22.223Z,72826,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,"My brother works in a business that interacts between state government and big project construction contractors. Up to this point it has all been paper contracts, lots of phone calls and face-to-face meetings. Now they do anon2317280404s of Zoom meetings. That's fine. But the contracts portion brings up an interesting point. Whereas many industries already use DocuSign or SignRequest to legally sign documents (we do for example with the EC) or take it a step further a la Esanon2317280404ia and their Virtual Resident program (we also do), they not only do not have any history of doing that, they are prevented by statute to have anything other than ""wet"" signatures on documents. To change legally, the law itself has to change." 1,71710,2020-03-19T02:02:26.336Z,71710,anon196034329,anon196034329,"Everyone is called on to provide ideas for anti-pandemic tools and solutions until (Fri) 2020-03-20 12:00 CET, and also everyone is called on to work in the 48 hours afterwards to make these ideas a reality. As usual, hackathons focus on IT software and hardware. And as usual in hackathons, I expect most ideas and products to get a good start there and gather a team but not be anon4292955258 finished after the hackathon, so work will likely continue. Also, all the results will be open source. Also they provide [a list of resources](https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/ressourcen/) that were developed during similar hackathons that happened in Esanon2317280404ia and Poland already. The website is in German, but my guess is that you can safely ignore the language barrier because this is a crisis and the old rules and expectations went out the window. So, read the website in Google Translate and provide your ideas in English in case you can't write in German. The link: https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/" 2,71713,2020-03-19T05:55:51.546Z,71710,anon3449369942,anon196034329,"hey, can you tell if people have to be physically present in the room to be part of it?" 3,71728,2020-03-19T10:36:27.277Z,71713,anon196034329,anon3449369942,"No, there's no ""physical"". It's an online hackathon: >Der #WirVsVirus Online Hackathon ist der digitale Raum, […] which says ""The #WeVsVirus online hackathon is the digital room, […]""." 4,71729,2020-03-19T10:42:51.278Z,71728,anon3449369942,anon196034329,can you repost here? https://edgeryders.eu/t/do-you-want-to-join-our-covid19-community-response-a-breakdown-of-edgeryders-activities-roles-tasks-and-workflows/12879/4?u=anon3449369942 5,71764,2020-03-19T14:01:14.507Z,71710,anon3005076832,anon196034329,"A shame that the platform relies on various external (to the EU unsure, besides of slack) services, of which one is down. I'd like to add a ""Challenge"" to the discussion over there, which is increased dependence on digital infrastructure in the hands of non-public institutions (yeah, my favorite topic, Open Source). I wish I could join the hackathon to throw some lights to exactly that problem. We shouldnt ""attack"" public problems (only) with business/investor mindsets. Solutions should be in the hands of the people (not meaning that skilled people shouldnt be also able to make a living out of providing, maintaining and applying them)." 6,71769,2020-03-19T14:11:35.393Z,71764,anon3031202475,anon3005076832,"[quote=""anon3005076832, post:5, topic:12885""] of which one is down. [/quote] which are you referring to?" 7,71770,2020-03-19T14:16:26.501Z,71769,anon3005076832,anon3031202475,"https://www.guaana.com/ (where one could contribute ""Challenges""). The other platform used is typeform (which is actually within EU legislation). And because they had to be quick I assume that they kind of use every tool at hand (slack as well)." 8,71788,2020-03-19T15:05:56.838Z,71764,anon3809206126,anon3005076832,"[quote=""anon3005076832, post:5, topic:12885""] I’d like to add a “Challenge” to the discussion over there, which is increased dependence on digital infrastructure in the hands of non-public institutions (yeah, my favorite topic, Open Source). [/quote] Hell yeah, @anon3005076832. We are having that discussion in Edgeryders. A year ago, the decision for our specific set of needs (collaboration + permission management, we were so open that we had hundreds of people accessing our internal material every week) was: ""Google Drive Enterprise for now, let's keep an eye on OS solutions like CryptPad, OwnCloud etc."". Now would be a good time to stop paying Google and give the money to a European SME relying on OSS. But it is also a bad time to break our processes :frowning:" 9,72354,2020-03-24T14:46:04.458Z,71710,anon3031202475,anon196034329,"@anon196034329 and @anon3005076832, did you participate? How was your experience of the hackathon? My brother participated and said he had anon4292955258 a few problems with access and connection." 10,72377,2020-03-24T18:04:31.317Z,72354,anon3005076832,anon3031202475,I couldnt participate. Have not yet checked their results. 11,72408,2020-03-24T23:59:36.706Z,72354,anon196034329,anon3031202475,"I participated and yes, there were initially some issues with connectivity. It became much better after the initial surge of activity. We learn from this that Slack will make your computer run hot when used by 27,000 simultaneous users in your workspace :D As for results, there is [a randomized playlist with all the 1139 videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYGe9q9_Jo3A0WfDG2QgMchgpUjAyzPty), each resulting from one project in the hackathon. Enjoy!" 1,72213,2020-03-23T16:35:18.691Z,72213,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"**Hello dear community,** **Much happened in the last week and everyone is dealing with the new situation as best they can. Here is a ""short"" summary of the current discussions ongoing:** Measures of social distancing to hamper the spread of the Covid19 virus are taken by individuals, organisations and states. Edgeryders and the NGI community want to be an active part of helping us cope and learn from this new situation. We all experience new perspectives on social and digital relationships as well as coping and engagement mechanisms. Many very interesting conversations are had all across different platforms and in homes all across the world. *However many platforms, such as for example Facebook will just forget most of these conversations and have even started to suppress some of them through their algorithms flagging them as spams. More details on this promise and how we are and will be using the Social Semantic Network analysis in this situation will follow soon. For now I just want to share this short quote @anon1037234888 to summarise our goal and promise to you:* > **Our goal is to get the EU to see and facilitate the Internet as an infrastructure to community resilience , not just paid content delivery. Share your stories, and we will aggregate them into a structured, human-readable output that informs the European Commission’s policies. We will also use the platform to connect with each other – to help facilitate all the kinds of community-based care we can imagine together.** Below you can find an overview of some of the main ongoing conversations: I think a good place to start is @anon1505367078 ‘s personal yet very well researched and factual supported story about how he started to understand the severity of the current crisis. https://edgeryders.eu/t/my-journey-to-understanding-covid-19/12816 Since then, we have started many conversations to create space to discuss different aspects of the situation. **Let's start with positive news:** Here we share positive insights the community members have during this changed situation which might have an impact down the line: https://edgeryders.eu/t/this-made-me-think-positive-insights-and-learnings-during-the-virus-ausnahmezustand/12843 General positive news on the crisis are shared and discussed here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-positive-virus-update/12858/7 *On the other hand, when anxiety hits you or all of it suddenly feels much nearer when someone near to you is affected or you are overwhelmed with all the statistics and information out there and do not know what to feel or think, join in here:* https://edgeryders.eu/t/statistically-feeling-bad/12845 **Work has changed for many people and we are discussing that here:** https://edgeryders.eu/t/work-in-the-time-of-corona-virus/12850 Teachers and students are among those especially challenged by this crisis and we want to discuss what are the problems and how we can help here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/suddenly-teaching-and-learning-remotely-what-do-you-do/12844 Many people face a loss of work and income during this crisis. Here we discuss your stories regarding that: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-to-do-when-losing-work-during-covid19-community-calls-each-tuesday-noon/12886/ In the following thread we discuss how to get local foundations and NGO's online and help to do so: https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-community-foundations-and-local-ngos-maintain-their-programs-and-move-online/12899/ Not only jobs, but also private life is affected by this crisis. Are you away from your family and friends due to the crisis? tell us your story here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/is-corona-keeping-you-away-from-your-home-country-family-and-friends/12856/ We want to help everyone to have the best possible remote work experience. Therefore we are working on a MOOC as well as direct counselling for distributed work. The project is to be financed via crowdsourcing. Check out where we are now and find out how you can profit or contribute: https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-is-crowdfunding-a-mooc-on-how-to-do-remote-work-and-distributed-collaboration-well-here-is-how-you-can-help/12828 And finally: **We are in general working on a new strategy to provide the most positive impact during this challenging time; How to do this is discussed here:** https://edgeryders.eu/t/do-you-want-to-join-our-covid19-community-response-a-breakdown-of-edgeryders-activities-roles-tasks-and-workflows/12879/55 *You are welcome to become part of our shared efforts and also to join in our weekly team and Community response calls:* https://edgeryders.eu/t/weekly-covid2019-community-response-call/12920 **Looking forward to hearing from you in any of these conversations, learn from your stories, help each other and of course also always feel free to open your own thread.** **Take care of yourself and each other!**" 2,72214,2020-03-23T16:38:27.492Z,72213,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,@anon51020356 could you add some of the key threads form poprebel in this list? 3,72217,2020-03-23T16:54:12.062Z,72213,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"@anon3449369942 normally I would have posted this in NGI, but now we want to move the general energy here, isn't it?" 4,72222,2020-03-23T17:32:22.426Z,72217,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,yes correct :) 5,72245,2020-03-23T20:53:25.283Z,72213,anon3031202475,anon3031202475, 6,72360,2020-03-24T15:25:34.269Z,72213,anon51020356,anon3031202475,"This is also a useful overview to follow: https://edgeryders.eu/tags/covid19" 7,72433,2020-03-25T11:03:44.706Z,72217,anon196034329,anon3031202475,"Just tag it the way I did now, and it's fine. Then it does not matter for our analysis software if it's in the #ioh category or not." 8,72439,2020-03-25T11:35:26.949Z,72433,anon3031202475,anon196034329,"ok, will do so in future. thank you :)" 1,66239,2019-11-28T17:11:00.504Z,66239,anon685777545,anon685777545,"![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-lycarillo-01|690x361](upload://tlwC7OycaMiCjPNYSPa3Tzdsby7.png) # From Competition to Cooperation. Hear about tech that matters. **Organizer:** @anon685777545 **Co-organizer:** DigitYser, Edgeryders **Location:** DigitYser, Boulevard d'Anvers 40, 1000 Brussels **Language:** English ## About this Event ""Breakthroughs in our capacities to communicate and coordinate restructure society. Language birthed culture and hunter-gatherer tribes. Writing forged kingdoms and agriculture-age empires. Printing enabled nations and industrial-age economies. The Internet launched a new restructuring of society, but is constrained by computing tech designed for centralized control. Learning from nature's blueprints, Ceptr provides an evolvable, fully distributed framework for coordination and sense-making on all scales."" [Arthur Brock](http://ceptr.org/) ""If we are to preserve the democratic and creative promise of the Internet, we must continuously diagnose control points as they emerge and devise mechanisms of recreating diversity of constraint and degrees of freedom in the network to work around these forms of reconcentrated power."" [Yochai Benkler](http://benkler.org/Degrees_of_Freedom_Dimensions_of_Power_Final.pdf) ___________ Each of us wants to have control over how and with whom we interact. In order to evolve and thrive, our communities must support everyone's uniqueness. Yet today, our online relationships are dominated by centralized corporate web sites. In this event, you will learn about some peer-to-peer projects based on blockchain and holochain technologies that enable a distributed web with user auanon2317280404omy built directly into its architecture and protocols. Data is about remembering our lived and shared experiences. Distributing the storage and processing of that data can change how we coordinate and interact. With digital integration under user control, these technolgies liberate our online lives from corporate control over our choices and information. Come and hear about Collaboration, Collective Intelligence and Next Generation Internet technologies that facilitate this to happen! ***Schedule and Content:*** 09:00 am - Registration, coffee and networking 09:30 am - Welcome words, data and collective intelligence. By [Liliana Carrillo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrilloliliana/) 09:45 am - Keynote: Decentralized cooperation at Scale. By [Michel Bauwens](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbauwens/) 10:15 am - E-Women, safer access to e-democracy. By [Anna Melenchuk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-melenchuk-b4109581/) 10:30 am - Global border-less democracy, Open Source. By [Paula Berman](https://twitter.com/_paulaberman) 10:45 am - Panel: Intelectual Property for Collaboration. How to protect your ideas and inventions from theft? With [Alain Souloumiac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-souloumiac-75442610/), [Dick Van Gelder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickvangelder/), [Elena Bachert](https://starks.be/en/starks-team/elena-bachert/), [Reinhard Dhondt](https://starks.be/en/starks-team/reinhard-dhondt/) Moderator: [Philippe Van Impe](https://twitter.com/pvanimpe) 11:45 am - Coffee/tea break - Networking 12:15 am - Holochain Meetup: Introduction and Q&A. By [Raphi See](https://twitter.com/RaphiSee). 12:45 am - Closing words & networking 13:00 pm - Doors close. ------------------- ## Who will attend the event? * Edgeryders community members * DigitYser community members * Hive.Brussels community members * Digital Leadership Institute community members * Women In Tech Brussels (WIT 1819.Brussels) community members * [Liliana Carrillo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrilloliliana/) @anon685777545 * [Michel Bauwens](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbauwens/) * [Anna Melenchuk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-melenchuk-b4109581/) * [Dick Van Gelder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickvangelder/) * [Elena Bachert](https://starks.be/en/starks-team/elena-bachert/) * [Reinhard Dhondt](https://starks.be/en/starks-team/reinhard-dhondt/) * [Philippe Van Impe](https://twitter.com/pvanimpe) * [Loredana Bucseneanu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredanabucseneanu/) * @anon3899621522 @anon1965935013 @anon * You! ## Who will follow the live-streaming of the event? * [Raphi See](https://twitter.com/RaphiSee) * [Paula Berman](https://twitter.com/_paulaberman) * [Alain Souloumiac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-souloumiac-75442610/) * @anon3449369942 * @anon3031202475 * You! -------------------- **Purpose of the event** * Bring people together to hear how the Artificial Intelligence in the hands of the GAFA group has led us to the centralization of data and therefore centralization of power that is affecting our democracy at global scale. * Create awareness of recent technological developments that have the potential to decentralize the internet, protect our privacy/data, create transparency and openness for inclusive collaboration at scale and therefore create a collaborative decision making system. * Teach the basics of several open source technologies (Holochain, Democracy.Earth, E-Women) to the Open Source community in Brussels, and invite them, active them to shape these technologies for a better Europe. * Discuss how Intellectual Property may need to change to enable a collaborative Internet to happen, and facilitate the creation of open knowledge (open source, white/green papers) with respect for the authors while enabling collaboration to scale. * Facilitate networking between different actors for collaborative projects around raising technological and social opportunities. # Frequently asked questions ### How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop? **Get your entrance ticket at: http://tiny.cc/cooperate** *At the venue, we will register on Edgeryders' platform to share our learning, questions: https://register.edgeryders.eu/* ### How is this event being organised? This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don’t worry. Create an [edgeryders account ](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here ](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. ### How is this all financed? This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at [https://ngi.edgeryders.eu](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/) ![Ngi logo|150x61](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/ngi-logo.png) ![Eu emblem|150x100](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/eu-emblem.png) ### Does getting involved mean I endorse the funders views or actions? No. What you are doing is contributing to an open consultation on the topic of how to build a next generation of internet infrastructure, technologies, business models etc that promotes the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The consultation methodology is designed in such a way as to allow for diversity of views, premises, disciplines, themes and contexts. We employ open notebook science principles and the results will be presented in the form of a research report accessible to everyone after the event. You can follow the process, review the methodology and open source tech we are using and engage directly with the research and coordination team here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace ### What is the code of conduct? It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to [anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word “better” has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. 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Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 2,66241,2019-11-28T17:29:21.056Z,66239,anon685777545,anon685777545,@anon3031202475 I have created the event page. Let me know what I still miss to add. 3,66243,2019-11-28T17:40:01.819Z,66239,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"Great! i tagg this and push it to the festival side and added the flyer as a picture :). You can find the png here, to use it for facebook outreach and such: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zWJRZgO2DCKqayWXOdARqYS7UGYZp4IK?usp=sharing Would be great if you could send me a short bio of yours like this: https://edgeryders.eu/t/anon3180318115-zehle/10952 so I can add you to the organiser gallery as well :) + image of yourself :)" 4,66249,2019-11-28T18:18:46.112Z,66243,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:3, topic:11989""] short bio [/quote] Here you find a bio: Liliana Carrillo is a Co-Founder of the European Digital Development Alliance and R&D Manager at the Institute of Innovative Governance and active member of the community for Decentralized and Distributed Governance DGOV. International speaker on several tech topics, [TEDx speaker](https://youtu.be/fqR8OQ1u63Q) on liquid democracy, passionate about the decentralization of power, and technologies that support us to self-organize in a variety of ways, upgrading the way we collaborate, and decide collectively. Computer science engineer with a masters diploma in artificial intelligence, distributed systems and business, and background in education and social work. Ambassador of several tech/social movements: Happiness movement, Democracy.Earth, Agile Learning Centers, European Network for Democratic Education, Human Swarming, and Holochain. I have several other versions [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hnXby2n2uAodHeKgxNSbQJlQzqYvxXp79H-n8I8vNlE/edit?usp=sharing)" 5,66255,2019-11-28T18:45:46.773Z,66239,anon685777545,anon685777545,"For the attendees and people interested on joining this conversation, it will be very useful to know the answers to the following questions: **1. Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at this event?** **2. When did something related to the internet last make you hopeful or happy?** **3. When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?**" 6,66261,2019-11-28T18:52:57.195Z,66249,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"Thanks, will add it :)" 7,66262,2019-11-28T18:56:21.074Z,66255,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:5, topic:11989""] answers to the following questions: **1. Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at this event?** **2. When did something related to the internet last make you hopeful or happy?** **3. When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** [/quote] For those not yet registered, you can also just fill in this form instead, with some questions that will make an introduction post for you automatically :): https://register.edgeryders.eu/" 8,66263,2019-11-28T19:12:25.098Z,66239,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:7, topic:11989""] For those not yet registered [/quote] I will share this page via eventbrite to the attendees registered on that platform." 9,66264,2019-11-28T19:19:24.463Z,66263,anon685777545,anon685777545,"Promotional links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lilicarrillof/status/1200119817606516741 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carrilloliliana_cooperation-at-scale-next-generation-collective-activity-6605888361485877248-M9Qv I did also facebook but I cannot find the link to the post." 10,66305,2019-11-29T11:05:51.578Z,66239,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"@anon685777545, updated the flyer. Find the files here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zWJRZgO2DCKqayWXOdARqYS7UGYZp4IK added you to the organisers bios: https://edgeryders.eu/t/liliana-carrillo/12000 you can now find the event and bio on the festival site: https://festival.edgeryders.eu/" 11,66342,2019-11-29T14:36:53.770Z,66249,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:4, topic:11989""] Ambassador of several tech/social movements: Happiness movement, Democracy.Earth, Agile Learning Centers, European Network for Democratic Education, Human Swarming, and Holochain. [/quote] Hi @anon3031202475 Small correction to my bio here: Could you please copy the following? Ambassador of several educational, social and tech movements: Happiness movement, Democracy.Earth Foundation, Agile Learning Centers, European Network for Democratic Education, Human Swarming, and Holochain." 12,66343,2019-11-29T14:38:48.899Z,66239,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:1, topic:11989""] From Competition to Cooperation [/quote] @anon3180318115 @anon3809206126 @anon3031202475 @anon3572363072 @anon3449369942 @anon2434097920 Is this interesting for someone in your network?" 13,66353,2019-11-29T16:44:51.147Z,66342,anon3031202475,anon685777545,Will do tomorrow morning or later anon2317280404ight 14,66504,2019-12-01T08:53:17.456Z,66239,anon685777545,anon685777545,Livestreaming at several channels: http://digityser.org/live 15,66706,2019-12-02T18:04:27.983Z,66239,anon478355983,anon685777545,"Hi @anon685777545, I missed this event. Is the video available for viewing now?" 16,66799,2019-12-03T16:32:00.467Z,66342,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:11, topic:11989""] Small correction to my bio here [/quote] Hi @anon3031202475 Could you help me to update my short-bio, please?" 17,66800,2019-12-03T16:42:13.954Z,66799,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:11, topic:11989""] Ambassador of several educational, social and tech movements: Happiness movement, Democracy.Earth Foundation, Agile Learning Centers, European Network for Democratic Education, Human Swarming, and Holochain. [/quote] sure, sorry slipped through the cracks. is updated now: https://edgeryders.eu/t/liliana-carrillo/12000. I also made it a wiki,so you can change it yourself :)" 18,66815,2019-12-03T18:01:39.448Z,66706,anon685777545,anon478355983,"[quote=""anon478355983, post:15, topic:11989""] video [/quote] Hi @anon478355983 As soon as the videos are sent to me, I will share them here. I will ping you." 19,66850,2019-12-04T09:41:31.849Z,66239,anon685777545,anon685777545,"Hi @anon3031202475, this is the message I have sent to the attendees of the event via eventbrite. Dear all, Thanks for attending the event 'Cooperate at Scale' that took place last Sunday. Thanks for your active participation, for your questions, your comments, the networking and talking that happened, and in general for your great contributions. Very grateful to have counted with you, on site, and online. Even though there is room for improvement, I feel happy to have taken the step to organize this first event in a series of events, and I feel satisfied with the quality of the content shared and also with the 'quality' of the audience. I feel honored to have attracted such a interesting people like you! Thanks! To organize the next event even better, and in co-creation with you, I would like you to join the Edgeryders platform, the place where the conversations about the next events will happen. I will also share the presentations and video recording of the event on the platform. Join it here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/cooperation-at-scale-next-generation-collective-intelligence-and-internet/11989 Please share your comments about the event, your learning. All comments are welcome, the critical ones too! :) Let's shape together the content of the coming events by answering some of the suggested questions, or by sharing freely what you feel of value. - Tell us about yourself. What are you working on, and why were you at the 'Cooperate at Scale' event? - What have you learned at the event? Is there something new you heard? Something that you liked? disliked? - What would you like to learn more in deep at a next event? - Do you know possible sponsors for future events? volunteers that may want to help us? - Do you think that people may want to bring food to share for a next time? anon3168534516-to-peer talks and Potluck gathering? Feel free to also invite other people to the platform, and forward this email, so we shape together the content of the future events. Feel free to send me an email too! Looking forward to keeping in touch with you! Warm regards, Liliana." 20,66945,2019-12-05T04:34:51.399Z,66815,anon478355983,anon685777545,Great. Thanks so much @anon685777545 21,67090,2019-12-06T15:06:40.060Z,66239,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"@anon478355983, you should join into the Collective Intelligence H2020 Proposal call today 18:00-19:00: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/366865057 and the Community Call on Tuesday the 10th 18:00-19:00 on the topic of collective intelligence, where @anon685777545 will present a short intro and me and others will present more such as Edgeryders Semantic Social Network Analysis.: https://edgeryders.eu/t/10th-of-december-edgeryders-community-call-coming-together-for-collective-intelligence/12133" 22,67175,2019-12-09T11:41:33.323Z,66239,anon1808058858,anon685777545,"Thank you for organizing the event. I enjoyed the talk by Michel very much. In my view, the Holochain part was a anon222512824 too short but I think there will be more opportunities in the future. I am organizing events around these topics as well and would like to coordinate our efforts. Here is a link to the next meetup about ""Digital Human Rights"", talking about two factor authentication and security on the internet in general: https://www.meetup.com/Digital-Human-Rights-Belgium/events/266658705/ The more technical group is https://www.meetup.com/blockchain-garage-brussels/ Looking forward to the next activity!" 23,67178,2019-12-09T12:22:20.808Z,67175,anon685777545,anon1808058858,"Hi dear @anon1808058858 I am very happy to see you over here and continue the conversations we started via email on this platform. I will be attending your meetup on Secure your data, and if possible I am interested on co-organizing events with you, joining our forces, collaborating :slight_smile: Great initiatives, blockchain garage, and human digital rights. I plan to organize this same event again, and I am checking the dates with Michel. It will be with a title referring to the Commons and it will touch several topics like in the Cooperate at Scale event. I will also organize several meetups that are more focused on one topic: one only for holochain, one only for governance, collaborative platforms, one only for intellectual property, and so on... Is there any preference on your side for a next event? I would also love to hear the opinion of @anon3899621522 and @anon1965935013 Warm regards, Liliana." 24,67179,2019-12-09T12:24:33.080Z,66945,anon685777545,anon478355983,"Hi @anon478355983 On the youtube channel of DigitYser, some videos have been published. Look at this one: https://youtu.be/8ZU1qfqe9XQ" 25,67185,2019-12-09T13:12:12.621Z,67178,anon1965935013,anon685777545,"Thank you for including me in the discussion. I have no preference, anything that talks about tech including humans and for social purpose is of my interest. I will not be present on 17th December, but I will follow if there's a live, and I will be available on January (hopefully, I don't know what life and universe have in store for me). Thank you again for your presence and your energy" 26,67204,2019-12-09T15:58:14.221Z,67185,anon685777545,anon1965935013,"[quote=""anon1965935013, post:25, topic:11989""] Thank you again for your presence and your energy [/quote] Thanks dear Olivier for your presence, energy, time, and contributions. We hear each other in January after your Christmas break. Probably the next one can be about Holochain and setup a demo of the Identity tools. I will check." 27,67208,2019-12-09T16:23:51.318Z,67175,anon3031202475,anon1808058858,"@anon1808058858, maybe this thread is also interesting for you: https://edgeryders.eu/t/economic-bridging-to-a-more-thrivable-world/11452" 28,67212,2019-12-09T17:42:55.823Z,67178,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:23, topic:11989""] Commons [/quote] @anon It would be lovely to count with you for the Commons event we will be organising with Michel next year. Are you coming to Europe between mid-February and mid-June? Lots of love, Liliana." 29,67382,2019-12-11T20:04:07.434Z,67179,anon478355983,anon685777545,"Hi @anon685777545, I totally agree that technology has the potential to enable thousands of people to be together, collaborating, something that was impossible before. This is why think the annotation layer is so important. The annotation layer enables us to connect and collaborate on any page. So people can meet where they are rather than having to go to a walled garden. What kinds of organizations are best poised to adopt CI technologies?" 30,67848,2019-12-21T15:36:57.282Z,67382,anon685777545,anon478355983,"[quote=""anon478355983, post:29, topic:11989""] the annotation layer [/quote] Hi dear Daveed, I would love to hear more about the annotation layer. Do you have a video about it? a preferred project contributing to this?" 31,67849,2019-12-21T15:38:29.696Z,67382,anon685777545,anon478355983,"[quote=""anon478355983, post:29, topic:11989""] CI technologies [/quote] I would say that organizations working with agile or sociocratic teams, as they already have the mindset of 'flat democracy' and openness, sharing. What do you think?" 32,67850,2019-12-21T15:41:07.956Z,67849,anon685777545,anon685777545,"@anon1808058858 @anon1965935013 @anon3899621522 @anon3031202475 @anon3449369942 @anon3180318115 @anon3572363072 I am sharing my thoughts and feelings about the event on this page: https://edgeryders.eu/t/cooperation-at-scale/12239" 33,67871,2019-12-22T07:43:33.206Z,67848,anon478355983,anon685777545,"Hi @anon685777545 Marc Andreeseen - creator of the first Web browser Mosaic - says the Internet has a Big Missing Feature: Annotation. https://genius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-horowitz-is-investing-in-rap-genius-annotated, The Webpage was always meant to be a Launchpad for Insight and Debate on it’s contents. Annotations were removed from the Mosaic browser in 1995 during the fight for survival with Microsoft Explorer for lack of storage - there was no Cloud! I am most intrigued by his closing statement in that article, ""I often wonder how the Internet would have turned out differently if users had been able to annotate everything – to add new layers of knowledge to all knowledge, on and on, ad infinitum."" Here is a slide presentation from a project that I like called Hypothesis (http://hypothes.is) about annotation: https://docsend.com/view/es4euyk In the future, in what I call the the #OverWeb, today's web page is simply the contextual footprint for intertwingled worlds of information, interactions, and experiences emanating from content elements on the web page." 34,67872,2019-12-22T07:49:37.426Z,67850,anon478355983,anon685777545,"Yes to those groups. As I was watching a video on diversity and inclusion, I had the thought that organizations that have embraced diversity for competitive advantage may already be thinking along the lines of collective intelligence. Also, groups that are committed to collaboration and want to explore how technology can scale collaboration." 35,71605,2020-03-18T00:12:15.760Z,66239,anon478355983,anon685777545,"When will we know if the project gets funded? I am working on a collective intelligence project for COVID19. The COVID19 Mapping project aims to crowdmap the online information ecology for the COVID19 virus including second and third order effects of the virus. The project utilizes Bridgit ‘s mapping capability to catalyze a Massive Online Research Collaboration on COVID19. Massive Online Research Collaborations HELP researchers connect and interact with other researchers on any webpage WITHOUT any coordination EVEN IF they don't know each other or speak the same language WITH a self-generating interactive knowledge map. AI will monitor the knowledge map and send alerts about emerging threats, false news, and misinformation. Outcomes of the project include a first-generation interactive knowledge map, a shared context for collaboration and communication, a cohesive community, and faster better answers that accelerate insight, innovation, and learning." 1,58860,2019-09-06T08:33:01.765Z,58860,anon3449369942,anon3449369942," Photo credit: Screenshot of ""The Frontiers of Impact Tech"" report **the exponential roadmap** **frontiers of climate tech** **systemic views** fishbowl Discussion _____________ ## Owen Gaffney: **Good news:** The next decade will be fastest economic transition in history. The Momentum is there and humanity is good at rapid change when it has had a vision. In china every week 5000 electric busses. Shenzen, in last 5 years has transitioned its' entire bussfleet to electic busses. Next, they will be replacing the cars. The driver is that people do not want to live in polluted cities. In Norway 20% of all cars purchased in 2019 were electric cars. This coincides with an exponential growth in adoption of alternative energy sources: much higher than has been predicted by the International Energy Agency:
![IEA Solar Predictions for Global Installations](https://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/iea-predictions-solar.jpg) _*Forecasts from the IEA are pulled from their World Energy Outlook (WEO) reports, which are published each year. Meanwhile, the “PV History” line above is the actual data for photovoltaic (PV) installations each year.*_
Second piece : that visual about exposnenental Third: British politics. Even in this midle of this storm in june this year british govt created legislation to mget to 0 emitions by 2050. Even though cannot agree to leave EU. Cost of radical economic change is same as their previous investments, 1% of GDP of the UK. And that doesnt accunt for all bbenefits, health etc (People do notSolar): Solar cell growth vs World energy outlook (weo) - They have failed to predict the scale and speed - double yield of electricity from wind and solar. BY 2030 half ofenergy production is coming from those sources. Bad news: - Google ngram on the word sustainable - IN 30 years every second word in a sentence will be sustainable - but when you do search for world exponential we are on a level, it stables out Unsafe territory; Extreme events in 2018/19 - 2018 Unprecedented heatwave across northern himsphere - Extreme freezes lasting very long time - Mozambique unprecedented hurricanes - protection system built - 45 degrees in australia - 40 in france -hurricane dorian -hurricanes moving slower and getting stronger - drawing up more water agetting more power - hurricane harvey staying over housanon2317280404e - what you can explin - WMO statement - Humans have lived mostly thrugh the ice ages except for the last 10;000 years where it has been stable; the holoscene our garden of eden and now we ar at the end of that with small changs wreacking havoc - Tempuural trends for past 65 MA potential geohistorical analogs for climate change - what we do in next 50 years will have impact for next 10,000 years - have done as much impact in 50 as in previous 65 million years - visualisation of flobe changes (video) on mass trends from GRACE: lots of instability of our systems, amazon could turn from huge store of carbon into a savanna that emits lots odf carbon - Meandering of the jetstream, because warming of artics you get troughs - where we have the breadbaskets of the world, and we have a limited understanding of how they are going change - Changing risk landscale due o large-scale discontinuities (IPCC assesmebt reoirts abd 1.5 C special -(vis) tipping elements - vis- Global map of potential tipping cascads - if we cross one could they cascade into another? Every child's birthright is a stable resilient planet. That is now at risk. Published paper- what is trajectory to stablise climate- carbon law I Rockstrom, Geffnery, Rogeli, Meinhausen Science 24 March 2017 - Why matter? the integrated economic assesment models make clear that we cannot wait - Can we half the emissions by 2030? Climate roadmap says it is possible, 30 solutions that are viable. Focus Areas: Energy syupply, industry, buildings, transport, food consumption, aggriculture and forestry HOW do transformations happen in society? Transformations are usually result of combination of Have movement tipping point: fossil fuel costs, if we can get wind and solar, new tecknologies down to prces of old technologies. And - Last year No country was talking about net zero emissions - This year: huge change - Proposed Tech companies influence decisions of 4 billion people, every day Seven strategies to change compass of tech sector, ti the low energy demand (visualisation - find it!) - Scale of the transformation is unprecedneted (global), not the speed - People in the room will be critical to driving that transition The next decade must be the fastest economic transition in history: this has to be the compass of all our careers and focus for next years ----- Benjamin: We need to achieve prosperity and achieve decarbonisation Technology, policy, sustainable behaviour change at once and reinforce each other - Benjamin is engineer, focuses on tech, - POC21, was frustrated because they are all nice, only one Faircup went anywhere - was frustrated, started thinking what can tech and scientic sectors do beyond - goodtechlab.io mapped less than 200 innovation areas and impact tech trends where technology can achieve impaxct goals -Energy - transportation Fossil feuls are in most of the proucts we use through platics: companies trying to replace petrochemical with mio based materials/ Mycelium mushrooms to replace packaginf Food sector: How to reduce waste - between harvest an site of distribution and consumption - what happens at consumption end: Minnow company - help restos reduce food waste, e.g by half - How we can shit diet away from meat consumption: New protein sources, Ynsect: giant robotic farm to produce feed for fish, perfect day, synthetic mealts from muscle grown in lab - animal-free milk, use tech to find plantbased - Using data to provide better finance and insurance, or better climate prediction; or using AI/imaging for high precision farming ______________ Emissions reduction_________ --------------------- Negative Emissions soliutions----------------- CCU carbon capture and use: Flameworks, - Thereare proposals to store it and economically viable pathways to make use of it, because it is a vauable material. E.G some companies use it to produce building materials, finnishone called solar foods make proteins out of carbon - animal feeds, Lanzatech use microbes that grow on gasses to produce synthetic fuels, e/g produced jetfuels - Natual based approaches : carbon farming and regenerative ag, turning farms into carbon sink; research lab at sony use data and ...calculate what is best plant species - Cometfarm: blochain/dogitl currenly - Regeneration/restornation of nture: machine learning to measure/monitor restauration and carbon offsets - Bioengineering: what is optimal patterns for planting treas - There are bad economic incentives for protecting amazon. There is proposal for monetising diversity by mapping entire genome with earth genome project and then put in a giant catalogue that scientists etc can use to produce new products, part of money from use of IP would flow back to support indegenous communities so they dont destory forest - - Investing; Etic, Matter - how you can measure more precisely the impact of companies. - Most of those projects are not non profit - the annual market of SDG solutions is 12 Trillion USD ------------------------------------ Manuela - -Many if/challenges for those to work. Dangers attached to technolsolutionism. - BEanon28068060: bioenergu carbon capture and storage. Growing crops without use of energy, and use carbon storage . Problem: You would need 3x size of india land to offset current energy usage, put preassure on land for farming, water consumption - Another is geoengineering. E.G Mirrios . What if they stop working - all heat immediately combe to earth - Global governance: who would regulate them? - Article "" What is Geoengineering"" - author James Temple - Impact Management Project: put together ad created consenses around the different tools and methods around impact management.. To create a standarising approach to make them more contextual? - E.G Project Drawdown How to start to push towards impact tech management - Does or may cause harm: Act to avoid harm - Benefit Stakeholders - Contributeto solutions _Mariana Mazzucato: Mission Oriented Researchand Innovaion in the European Union ---- Goodtechlab.io ---- Exponentialroadmap.org ----------------------- **Need to slow down** Guy advising In shipping industry you can slow down carbon emissions by 20% if you slow down the speed by 12 Knots (check number). Example of chinese busses going faster, short sighted victory because china still largely running on carbon industry. You draw lithium from huge desert areas, impact of your lithium on the environment. With simple changes you can reduce carbon emissions. Owen: on busses in chinaa - the transition from coal to renewables is happening much faster than you think - we can see that china is shifting its economy. American guy : concerned citizen, find it very interesting how to create changes in the political systems.I come from texas where it is difficult to explain. How do we get this movement going? As an individual I feel lost to change the incentive from profit to wellness to everyone? Wes Woman coming from oil and gas, decided to leave the industry but was asking what can you do? Ver hard to orient yourself, good lucky to run into the right person, a person who offered me a job in a company that was doing good things. Investment into different kinds of people being different kinds of impacters? -------- Fredrich does stuff with food: am part of NGO trying to make foodtech accessible - foodstack. A question: How many in here would like to get hands on involved in something that creates a possible impact? (everyone) Alot of people want to do something, but not sure what. Then we turn to institutions and other org that are used to doing things for us. But this doesnt work - we need to. Automated vertical farming - solution is not perfect but we are getting close. Mushroom production. We have had transition from healthy to unhealthy diets, we know the transition can happen very quickly. ""Everyone wants to live healthier"". Whynot provide better alternatives through tastes, flavour etc. ________________ Incubation of participatory innovation and cocreative livelihoods. _______________ Investment in the school system, what is similar thinking arount climate transition. Nordic secret - folkhogskola, personal and skill dvelopment - being able to have softer landing/transition. So people can become part of this transition, find their place - skillwise, livelihoodwise but also identify and social surroundings -building networks that see, sustain and reinform norms, culture and behaviours needed to move . Personal incubation and acceleration for climate transition. ----------------------- Empowering people who can make solutions for themselves, unleashing creativity and anon2926706121nuity that is not about ""high tech innovation"". ------------ Key: Feelings of sense of lack of control Disinformation campaigns - Firsty its about inequality: * in more equal societies consumption is tempered down * We have more trust, and better collective decision making * What we see with populism and rise of nationalism showws that rapid change is totally possible * Seeing it in economics: market forces for sustainable solutions is there. Questions: what is different this time with the movement? because market forces are with us? were they before for other changes?" 2,71089,2020-03-09T15:46:44.371Z,58860,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,ping @anon518360670 2,53793,2019-05-23T10:55:29.971Z,53258,anon3820120211,,"##### Julia Hi! I had a chat with Nadia about the Human Centric Internet fellowship, and will share it here, so that others who might also consider applying can access the same info: Good morning! I came across the call for fellows from edgeryders, about human centric internet, and i was considering to apply. [https://edgeryders.eu/t/fellowships-with-bursaries-for-human-centric-internet-builders-deadline-may-30/9715] Do you think i would stand a chance? ##### Nadia Hej Julia I think so, yes Maybe create an account, see which discussions are of interest to you and leave some thoughtful comments? [https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh?fbclid=IwAR00ijDo3FatAxioQvqX5L4F4ahE6787tK4dsZ12n0AgxGGESy53pCN0LtU) start by introducing yourself here [https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-your-story](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-your-story?fbclid=IwAR2eptRL3wYg0iX6j2GF2KStGMU2hAaqTnoCSoftiq3e1DQREGIoQ99UXNc) I cannot guarantee anything but the process is fully open and I am especially adamant that we have real diversity in participation perspectives, backgrounds, disciplines, interests, manguages etc languages gender etc ##### Julia Hi! Thanks for getting back to me! Yeah, i will definitely give it a try then! ##### Nadia either way - we are constantly channeling opportunities to support people's work who are active in the community And the more active the community, the more we can do this we are doing several rounds of fellowships too ##### Julia Ok, interesting. ##### Nadia it's pretty eclectic - to get a sense of how/where we are wired - the contributions/discussions/approach go from pretty serious to [https://edgeryders.eu/t/welcome-to-retirement/9869] ##### Julia Looks like good fun to be honest. I was more leaning towards the serious side, as im brainstorming for some sarcastic futurisitc art elsewhere... Need to keep the balance. :slight_smile: ##### Nadia yes, it is meant as inspiration to get thinking going along lines of how life and tech are intertwined instructions below encourage both creative writing and or first hand accounts of personal experiences as a starting point the two are usually completely separate which I think leads to this disconnect we see in tech. ##### Julia That's great. Personally im usually to much of a grassroots empirical generalist to fit, but this actually does looks promising. Ill give it a shot then. Thanks for taking the time!" 3,53819,2019-05-23T16:47:13.509Z,53793,anon3449369942,anon3820120211,"Anytime. We are all in this fix, its sink or swim together afaic." 4,53821,2019-05-23T17:06:46.897Z,53793,anon1505367078,anon3820120211,"[quote=""anon3820120211, post:2, topic:9869""] That’s great. Personally im usually to much of a grassroots empirical generalist to fit, but this actually does looks promising. Ill give it a shot then. Thanks for taking the time! [/quote] Hey Julia, and welcome! What are you usually up to?" 5,53915,2019-05-24T12:48:59.917Z,53821,anon3820120211,anon1505367078,"Hi @anon1505367078! I just managed to finish ""my story"" https://edgeryders.eu/t/my-story-thoughts-on-collaboration/9977 It is not exactly an introduction to what I do, but at least it is something. :slight_smile: Cheers, Julia" 6,70883,2020-03-04T11:16:04.398Z,53258,anon3031202475,,"ping @anon221334074, do you think a call like this could be interesting for the Transmedial crowed?" 1,66141,2019-11-28T10:57:59.178Z,66141,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Edgeryders.eu, [WorldBrain.io](http://worldbrain.io) and its partners want to apply for the upcoming [ICT-54-2020 call](https://www.ngi.eu/news/2019/07/23/ict-54-2020-call---blockchain-for-the-next-generation-internet/) as a consortium to run an incubator and co-development community for P2P/Open-Source knowledge and collective intelligence tools. The budget is €8 million over 24-36 months. >70% (~6m€) to be given to applicants. To complement the expertise required for running this incubator, we are looking to find partners that would commit themselves to be part of this program. We are still looking for an operational partner that is capable of handling on the administrative work to manage large amounts of public money. **If you are interested to join as a collaborator or applicant for the proposed program, please add yourself [to this survey](https://worldbrain.typeform.com/to/f0NqVe). For any questions or comments, add a reply to the thread.** # Introduction into H2020 Call Context Europe wants to become the leader in the field of collective intelligence and is uniquely positioned to do so. Its values of interoperability, privacy and decentralised power are foundational for an open web and the emergence of collective intelligence. The upcoming [ICT-54-2020 call](https://www.ngi.eu/news/2019/07/23/ict-54-2020-call---blockchain-for-the-next-generation-internet/) allows a consortium of organisations to apply for an €8m funding pot of which they have to distribute €6m to outstanding academic research groups, hi-tech start-ups, SMEs and others, contributing to the research and innovation area via cascade funding model. The Commission considers proposals with an overall duration of 24 to 36 months. Third parties will be funded through projects, typically in the EUR 50,000 to EUR 200,000 range per project, with an indicative duration of 12 months. **The deadline is January 16. 2020. (very tight)** One of the subtopics of the call is: **""Bringing forward the emergence of collective intelligence on the internet""** * developing approaches for scientific understanding and technology-based stimulation of collective intelligence on social media and the internet to foster trustworthy knowledge and information sharing, and to enhance social inclusion. Focus is on two main use cases: 1. develop new community-based service models on social networks that exploit collective intelligence to provide enhanced community services, and increase the availability of trustworthy content; 2. in the context of collective intelligence develop and implement new concepts for connecting people and smart objects/agents/AI on social media. * Approaches for both use cases must be rooted in scientific analysis of collective behaviour and network mechanisms, harness decentralised technologies such as P2P or blockchain for governance and support a dependable collective memory. # Proposal Summary: ### WISDOM - Human & community centric incubator for P2P knowledge and collective intelligence software. ## Vision The space of knowledge management and social media applications is dominated by players who's economic reward models force them to create lock-ins, therefore severely limiting the free flow of information, data and social interoperability and collective intelligence. Their centralised power allows them to be manipulated to spread low quality information, influence elections and abuse user's privacy and freedom of choice. The web is already decentralised and interoperable. Therefore only funding organisations with new decentralised technologies, like Blockchain, won't solve these issues. To get another leap forward in the web's potential to foster collective intelligence we need to also change the economic models and recreate an environment of human centric & ethical service design, freedom-of-provider-choice (open markets) and democratic peer2peer communication. We believe that 4 components are key for achieving this: 1. Economic and business models that * align with the principles of interoperability by implementing investor reward models that cap returns and make organisations non-tradeable (like Steward Ownership, Cooperatives, NPOs, Open Science Research, Open Source Output) * Those models need to prevent a growth-at-all-cost mindset and incentivise organisations to be service/profit oriented instead. * protect user data from being sold as a commodity and out of hands of (European) citizen * create incentives for organisations to collaborate more on shared infrastructure so they can grow together, not alone, and overcome the tragedy of the commons. 2. Interoperability to create USPs of freedom and perfectly user adapted tools that monopolistic organisations have a hard time competing with. Interoperability should be implemented with special focus on: 1. Data Portability 2. Social interconnectivity (allowing users to switch providers and still communicate with their 'old' peers & social connections, like email) 3. User centric adaptability: Users can easily experiement & upgrade to state-of-the-art technologies and protocols outside of a single company's control. 4. Algorithmic freedom to democratise people's ability to control their information diet and bubble 5. Modularity to enable user choice in service providers (e.g. using different default search engines in a browser) 3. Open Source software to create shared infrastructure and lower development costs 4. On/offline facilitation to foster emergent, scalable & co-creative communities, and individual/leaders that are aligned with their self and purpose. ## Incubator Program The proposed incubator program for P2P knowledge and collective intelligence tools aims to grow a community of economically sustainable organisations that co-develop the technological, economical and social infrastructure for increasing the capacity for collective intelligence online. It's key components are: * Communicating and co-evolving [a larger vision of collective intelligence](https://community.worldbrain.io/t/why-worldbrain-io-does-not-take-venture-capital/75) that is made possible by interoperable and hyper-adaptable human centric knowledge/social software and non-exploitative economic models. * Preferring applicants that * use investor reward models that do not create incentives for growth-at-all-cost but for being service focused, like Steward Ownership or Cooperative models. VC or ICO funded companies will only be accepted in special cases, where such a focus can be successfully argumented. * use business models that protect privacy/data ownership and user data from being sold as a commodity * develop modular software & apply interoperable standards/protocols * Facilitating a individualised learning/acceleration journey for teams and individuals in: * human centred product & service design * ethical principles of next generation social and knowledge software * how to build businesses that can sustain themselves before funding period ends * personal development to increase leadership skills and ethics, and ability to collaborate with peers * the ecology and interconnectivity of the proposed solutions * organisational development to determine value systems, purpose and directions * Faciltiating on/offline community with battle-tested practices for emergent community design to stimulate knowledge transfer and shared (software) development * previous approaches have resulted in anon222512824 co-creation and shared direction between projects, and therefore lower efficiency of deployed money. # Consortium Partners & Roles: ## Technology Partner: [WorldBrain.io](http://WorldBrain.io) [WorldBrain.io](http://worldbrain.io) is a steward owned company developing open-source, offline-first & P2P knowledge and collective intelligence applications. Their role in the consortium is: * providing [the initial technological, ethical, conceptual and economic vision](https://community.worldbrain.io/c/visions) for a human/community centric & interoperable network of knowledge and collective intelligence tools that is further developed together with the community in an open process. * providing modular, reusable, open source boilerplates for offline-first & p2p knowledge & collective intelligence applications to speed up development of new tools. * Memex: A online research tool to full-text search web history, annotate, co-curate and discuss web content, and collaborate with peers. * Storex: A user controlled, interoperable and adaptable storage layer for knowledge management data. This modular library powers the search and storage of Memex and allows developers to * flexibly adapt an application backend to any platform (web, mobile, browser extension), database/search technology (MongoDB, SQlite) and transport protocol (Http, IPFS, Ethereum). * build translators for any data model to enable emergent interoperable user-centric communication standards * pulling in a network of activists, policymakers, entrepreneurs and investors that are aligned with the provided vision to engage as mentors, funders and partners. ## Community Partner: [Edgeryders.eu](http://Edgeryders.eu) Edgeryders is an online & offline community of over 5000 hackers, activists, entrepreneurs, developers and scientists, radical thinkers and doers, and just normal people that want to make a difference. Their role in the consortium is to: * provide a high-quality online platform and methodology for online collaboration * facilitating an online and public application and project selection process * hosting a rich online-conversation about next generation internet topics, technological challenges & philosophies * analysing conversations through a semantic social network analysis (SSNA) to surface high quality connections between people/content to increase collaboration potential and discover promising new initiatives from within the community. * running our battle-tested distributed offline events and festivals to get people to collaborate ## TBA: Operational Partner The main role of the operational partner is to handle the processing of the H2020 money. It is required that this organisation has experience with handling the bureaucratic work associated with large sums of (public) money. ### **Potential Partners** 1. Purpose Ventures & Foundation 2. SEND e.V. 3. Ashoka 4. ProjectTogether 5. [BetterPlace.org](http://BetterPlace.org) ## TBA: Facilitation Partner The role of this organisation is to * provide world-class on/offline facilitation to foster emergent, scalable & co-creative communities, and individual/leaders/teams/communities that are aligned with their self and purpose. * organise the preparation and execution of the team retreats * Facilitate mentorships & meetings of the co-learning pods that form within teams and organisations ### Potential Partners 1. CocoonPro 2. DGov Foundation 3. Enspiral 4. Art of Hosting Community # Here is the plan for our weekly calls: Topic: Collective Intelligence Incubator Time: Jan 21, 2020 05:00 PM Brussels Every week on Tue, until Feb 18, 2020, 5 occurrence(s) Jan 21, 2020 05:00 PM Jan 28, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 4, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 11, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 18, 2020 05:00 PM Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Weekly: https://zoom.us/meeting/upcufuqqpjsq4YAUKG3jBunupQBRjG3xXA/ics?icsToken=98tyKu6rrTIpGNyVsFzHUbMvA538bvHykyV3i5Z2u0zvITVddxPHFNBIFeFnKPmB Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/733932800 Meeting ID: 733 932 800" 2,66163,2019-11-28T11:38:18.252Z,66141,anon3180318115,anon3572363072,"Super interesting. Can you set up a call to discuss details? Best, Soenke" 3,66169,2019-11-28T12:00:11.108Z,66163,anon3572363072,anon3180318115,"Hello Soenke, Yes a call is a great idea. I plan to have one around December 15, when we have the first version of our proposal done. Before I'd like to collect all questions in this thread, so we can have an open discussion. The call seems to be better to talk through things in more detail. Do you have specific questions I can try to work through here that we can start with?" 4,66198,2019-11-28T13:16:24.442Z,66169,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,if you want to reach others on platform and in our extended network it's good to let @anon3031202475 and @anon2278327272 know when and where call is happening well in advance 5,66253,2019-11-28T18:40:10.749Z,66141,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:11974""] DGov Foundation [/quote] Hi, as member of the DGOV community we have applied to other grants via the Institute for Innovative Governance Foundation as DGOV has no formal entity yet. I would be happy to take this role and also put lost of effort in the co-writing. I have experience with EU funding. Warm regards, Liliana." 6,66307,2019-11-29T11:20:09.624Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072 and the hackathon participants who are involved in this development, maybe you or some of the people you know/work with are interested in the last addition to the festival roaster: https://edgeryders.eu/t/cooperation-at-scale-next-generation-collective-intelligence-and-internet/11989 an event on collective intelligence in Brussels on Sunday the 1st of December. It will also be live-streamed and recorded." 7,66329,2019-11-29T13:08:02.340Z,66169,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:3, topic:11974""] December 15 [/quote] @anon3572363072 @anon3180318115 If this call is open for others, I would like to join it. I am interested on participating on H2020 proposals for Next Generation Collective Intelligence and Next Generation Internet, and Democracy/governace in more simple terms." 8,66349,2019-11-29T16:02:19.974Z,66169,anon3180318115,anon3572363072,"I just completed the typeform survey. If there is a more detailed proposal it would help to see that and then we can detail our potential / complementary contribution. I think we'd be interested in coming on board via our Experimental Media Lab, through K8 we have been handling large multi-year national grants but not yet a H2020 project. Part of an art academy, xm:lab is part of the local ai / cybersecurity / data science / visual computing ecosystem and we have been expanding activities in the field of collective intelligence design research. We are familiar with the H2020 process and can submit work package / partner profile docs by mid-december." 9,66521,2019-12-01T12:51:56.398Z,66141,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Thanks everyone for your interest here. Maybe its better if we have a call next week already? Would 6pm Berlin time on Friday work for you folks? @anon3180318115 I will provide a first draft of the proposal by mid next week. @anon685777545 Yes the call would be open for anyone interested to join." 10,66524,2019-12-01T13:54:58.772Z,66521,anon3180318115,anon3572363072,"Yes Fr 18:00 works for me. Draft by Wed - cool, will use that to dev specific proposal for the Fr discussion." 11,66675,2019-12-02T15:34:13.031Z,66524,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3180318115, post:10, topic:11974""] Fr 18:00 [/quote] Friday at 18h is a bit challenging for me but I will arrange my agenda. Talk to you then. Via zoom?" 12,66694,2019-12-02T17:26:58.928Z,66675,anon3031202475,anon685777545,I can set up a room for you guys and we can invite more people once you found a time :) 13,66704,2019-12-02T17:58:58.139Z,66141,anon478355983,anon3572363072,I'd be interested and joining as another technology partner if that is possible. We have unique tech that is aligned and complimentary and could lead to greater levels of collective intelligence. 14,66705,2019-12-02T18:03:29.098Z,66704,anon3180318115,anon478355983,Hi @anon478355983 welcome - what EU country would you be co-applying from? Your site lists CA 15,66754,2019-12-03T09:39:43.098Z,66521,anon3180318115,anon3572363072,"I think we should also keep [ICT-57](https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ict-57-2020) in mind, a anon222512824 less ambitious time-wise (due April 22, 2020)" 16,66764,2019-12-03T10:45:38.944Z,66754,anon3572363072,anon3180318115,I am not sure how we could fit in to that call with the proposal we want to make? Any ideas? 17,66780,2019-12-03T12:18:31.179Z,66764,anon3180318115,anon3572363072,"Dev for the other call first, but sth that links p2p tools with machine translation should not be too far off." 18,66848,2019-12-04T09:22:40.900Z,66704,anon685777545,anon478355983,"Welcome to the platform @anon478355983 I see this is your first post! :slight_smile:" 19,66849,2019-12-04T09:25:02.031Z,66694,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:12, topic:11974""] set up a room [/quote] @anon3180318115 @anon3572363072 are we meeting on Friday? Could you confirm me this, please? @anon3031202475 wants to facilitate this to happen by offering us a room." 20,66873,2019-12-04T13:08:02.911Z,66849,anon3180318115,anon685777545,I think she means online. Yes last I heard call Fr 18:00 21,66883,2019-12-04T15:13:46.311Z,66705,anon478355983,anon3180318115,"Hi Soenke I was hoping that my US based company could be part of the project. We could do Esanon2317280404ia but I would need to set that up. I am interested to see what possibilities for what our participation might be. Thanks ." 22,66889,2019-12-04T15:56:20.633Z,66883,anon3809206126,anon478355983,"Partners can join from [associated countries](https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/3cpart/h2020-hi-list-ac_en.pdf) outside the EU. But: no proposal is likely to be successful if not led by one of the heavy hitters in the NGI space. @anon3572363072 is aware of this." 23,66896,2019-12-04T16:30:39.493Z,66889,anon3180318115,anon3809206126,Have u been in touch with Mulgan? 24,66920,2019-12-04T19:47:53.528Z,66896,anon3572363072,anon3180318115,"Hey folks! This is the first part of the proposal outlining the general direction: ## 1.1.1 Project Vision Europe wants to become the leader in the field of collective intelligence and is uniquely positioned to do so. Its values of interoperability, privacy and decentralised power are foundational for an open web and the emergence of collective intelligence. It has credibility as a champion of the human-centric internet through its regulatory muscle flexing (the GDPR, Vestager, net neutrality). Now it has an important opportunity to take charge of also building technological solutions as well as new social and economic models that could support a human/community-centric alternative to compete with the dominant narrative of Big Tech and Venture funding. Today, the space of knowledge management and social/collective media applications is dominated by organisations that have an economic incentive to continuously grow-at-all-costs to reward investors. With these reward models organisations losing users or profit directly influences the profit margin of investors and create a need for 'infinite' growth. This incentivises the creation of lock-ins, as well as exploitation of the environment, workers and users. Data and social lock-ins limit innovation, open markets, the free flow of information and the capacity for collective intelligence. The web in itself is decentralised and interoperable, but still severely centralised in the past 30 years. New decentralised technologies like Blockchain will not solve these issue on their own. To really create an open web and collective intelligence it is of crucial importance to simultaneously tackle the economic incentives, software development paradigms and methods of collaboration. Problems like trustworthy information sharing, problem solving and enhanced social inclusion are directly dependent on our society's capacity for collective intelligence. The Next Generation Internet initiative, with its broad and ambitious scope, provides us with an incredibly powerful opportunity to shape new economic dynamics from the ground up, experiment with new approaches and provide boilerplate models that can be replicated across Europe and in other industries. The goal for the WISDOM initiative is to grow a community of economically sustainable organisations that co-develop the technological, economical and social infrastructure for increasing the capacity for collective intelligence. WISDOM aims to do so by establishing an incubator program & co-development community for Open Source & P2P knowledge and collective intelligence tools using ethical business models & investor reward models with capped returns (like 'Steward Ownership'. See chapter 1.3.3) that give them the economic freedom to: - align themselves with the principles data portability & ownership, social interoperability, privacy, as well as human & community centric innovation - collaborate on shared infrastructure & research, and overcome the tragedy of the commons - act socially responsible by improving value chain sustainability and working conditions - sustainably grow together as a community/market, instead of growing-at-all-costs as individual organisations The incubator members and its partners are world-class experts in individual, group and organisational facilitation using battle tested on-and offline methods to: - co-develop and articulate an ambitious vision for what we want the Next Generation Internet to be, involving diverse thought leaders and domain experts in the process - increase intra and inter organisational alignment and shared directions to avoid scattered deployment of funds - surface areas for co-development & co-research and increase impact of deployed NGI funds - increase sharing of industry specific knowledge, and peer-learning in organisational design & leadership The consortium, its partners & supporter network bring together deep expertise about the internet and related technologies. Our varied backgrounds as entrepreneurs, data scientists, digital humanities experts, policymakers, activists and civil society actors allows us to take a multidisciplinary approach to developing this vision and its values. Our strong standing and experience as current partners in the NGI ensures we can rapidly build and iterate upon the exciting work we have already been doing in the past. ## 1.1.2 Project objectives and key performance indicators ### **Objective 1:** Increase the web's capacity for collective intelligence through a holistic approach of supporting interoperability & human/community centric service design, sustainable investor reward models and business models, and facilitation methods to optimise for maximum cross-organisational collaboration. ### **Objective 2:** Grow a value & purpose-aligned community of independently economically sustainable organisations that co-develop the technological, economical and social infrastructure for increasing the capacity for collective intelligence. ### Objective 3: Create a replicable boilerplate of technological concepts, open-source software modules, facilitation methods and economic reward models that can be used by other governments to kickstart local and national collective intelligence efforts, and show success metrics to convince the larger market to invest in these companies and ecosystems. ### Objective 4: Create an economic space with increase service competition and maximum potential for collaboration on shared infrastructure to solve the tragedy of the commons. # **1.2 Relation to the work programme** *Indicate the work programme topic to which your proposal relates, and explain how your proposal addresses the specific challenge and scope of that topic, as set out in the work programme.* ### ""Shape a more human-centric evolution of the Internet."" To **shape a more human-centric evolution of the Internet** it not only requires a focus on privacy and data ownership, but also to provide great services for individuals and groups. In the current server-client model powered by companies who's investor models incentivise growth-at-all costs, user data is centralised in a few big companies that offer the exact same services for billions of users. To generate this growth companies often rely on providing free/cheap services for users that then sell user data or advertisement in return, thus violating privacy and data ownership. To retain this growth, organisations create lock-ins that reduce service innovation because users can't easily move to services that serve their needs better, and new service have troubles entering existing markets with innovative products. The incubator focuses on organisations with investor rewards models that are not incentivising growth-at-all costs, like Steward Ownership, as well as software products that provide data portability and social interconnectivity. With the cohort of companies in the incubator we aim to grow a nucleus for a small economy of knowledge software products to recreate the free market dynamics that lead to the explosion of innovation and human/community centric services of the early web and early modern economy. ### ""Promoting interoperability and strengthening the role of Europe in international standardisation"" In the currently dominant reward models where investors make profits through the increase of speculative value, or get indefinite profit dividends by holding shares, every user or profit lost means less profit for investors. Interoperability however would make it possible that services loose users more easily, therefore those investor reward models strongly disincentivice interoperability and collaboration on shared infrastructure like standardisation efforts. To promote interoperability it is important to not just develop interoperable products but change the investor rewards models too. The incubator focuses on organisations with investor rewards models where organisations can loose profits and users without reducing investor returns. This gives those organisations the economic freedom to be interoperable. With our strong focus on faciliating collaboration between the teams of the incubator we aim to increase co-development on shared infrastructure like standards or software modules. By having 10-20 successful organisations with potentially millions of combined users developing shared standards, it could lead to a strong role of Europe in driving the open and human centric development of international standardisation. ### ""Service models for community services building on collective intelligence and novel approaches for connecting people and smart objects/agents to stimulate use of collective intelligence [...] develop new community-based service models on social networks that exploit collective intelligence to provide enhanced community services, The lock-ins created by the services people use today, innovation on novel approaches to connecting people is heavily limited. Those lock-ins make it hard/impossible to migrate to other services, extend services with new technologies (like using different p2p protocols in the browser or messengers), or freely connect different people, services, devices and smart objects. Because collective intelligence needs needs the free exchange of information, these lock-ins severely limit the potential for collective intelligence. The incubator's concept of an open-source, interoperable, steward-owned economy is designed to incentivise innovation for human/community centric service models, enable the free flow of information and as a result the emergence of collective intelligence in the magnitude of the early web. ### ""developing approaches for scientific understanding and technology-based stimulation of collective intelligence on social media and the internet to foster trustworthy knowledge and information sharing, and to enhance social inclusion. [...] Increase the availability of trustworthy content The problem of a lack of trustworthy knowledge and increase in misinformation is not only about the availability of quality information, but people experiencing information overload. It takes time and skills to understand a topic or piece of content well enough to not be misinformed. So it is easy to be misinformed given the plethora of topics and facts people are exposed to today. However everyone is doing online research and gathers trustworthy knowledge useful to others. Due to the existing data and social lock-ins people can only share a fraction of the cognitive process, the quality content they read, background information they find or thoughts they have. If people could share a more complete picture of their subjective research and memory, they could help each other to find trustworthy information and understand more topics deeper, faster and with more perspectives. Every person stores, processes and communicates such knowledge in different formats and apps. It is critical that applications helping users to sort, evaluate, curate and share this knowledge are adapted to the individuals workflows, provide algorithmic freedom and communicate with interoperable protocols. Creating such a diversity of services with a high degree of **social inclusion** can neither be achieved by a single company nor the current investor reward paradigms that incentivise organisations to build services with as many users as possible. To solve this problem it is fundamental to have a human/community centric, interoperable network of many independent knowledge services that are highly adapted to individual's needs. To increase the availability of trustworthy content, users need flexibility to innovate on new models to information through algorithmic freedom. As described in the sections above, to achieve this kind of development and implementation of ""**new concepts for connecting people and smart objects/agents/AI on social media""** it is required to change the economic incentives for organisations to enable the free flow of information and increase of service innovation. The incubator's concept of an open-source, interoperable, steward-owned economy is designed **""Generate new business opportunities and new Internet companies with maximum growth and impact chances.""** to create the needed diversity of services. The aim is to grow an initial nucleus of an economy where organisations have the maximum innovation, growth and impact chances as an interoperable ecosystem/market not as single internet companies. We believe it will be virtually impossible to grow a single ethical knowledge/social media organisations that can compete with Facebook/Google/Twitter, by trying to play the same winner-takes-all game. Even Google+, with $600m in funding, Google's network effects and financial resources failed. ### Create a European blockchain ecosystem integrating research and innovation communities. Through our network of community partners like IPFS, Dat, Ethereum and Holochain we are integrating international research and innovation communities in the advisory process. Their European community members are invited to apply with their blockchain based projects The main focus of the incubator is more broadly P2P and offline-first applications, not only blockchains, as they are only one of many options in the P2P toolchain that can be used to achieve data ownership, privacy and interoperability. Using also requires careful consideration that is highly dependent on the specific use case. Only limiting applicants on blockchain based technologies would severely limit the opportunities for impact of this initiative and incubator. One of the evaluation principles of the incubator is the degree of user centric adaptability that enables users/developers/entrepreneurs to experiment with different transport protocols to power communication and storage of applications outside of a single company's control. User centric adaptability also enables services to gradually migrate their infrastructure to blockchain technologies as they become more market ready. # 1.3. Concept: In order to bring a large scale shift in society's capacity for collective intelligence & collaboration, it requires the simultaneous work on the technological, economical and social paradigms. The goal is to maximise collaboration on shared infrastructure, human/community-centric innovation and competition on services. WISDOM is an incubator program with a unique combination of principles capable of creating a human-centric European internet economy that becomes a fertile ground for collective intelligence and collaboration at scale. To do so we combine the four elements of interoperability, open-source software, Steward Ownership economics and facilitation of individual, team and community growth. ## 1.3.1. **Interoperability** The incubator has a special focus on organisations that provide and add research on data portability, social interconnectivity and human/community-centric adaptability. Implemented correctly, it creates an environment where users can move to other services without frictions and still communicate with peers using other tools (Example: SMTP/email). Human/community-centric adaptability enables users/developers experiment & upgrade to state-of-the-art technologies, protocols & data-models outside of a single service's control. (Example: Wordpress plugins). Users being able to adapt according to their needs creates a way for emergent interoperability & standardisation that is born out of the real world use cases of communication, instead of top-down standardisation. This adaptability could also express itself in the ability for users to get algorithmic freedom which can democratise people's ability to control their information diet and **foster trustworthy knowledge and information sharing**. Such interoperability **creates an open market** with an increase in service competition & consumer choice on better and more ethical services. Interoperability also naturally limits the maximum individual growth of organisations because they will only be able to hold as many customers as they are the best services for. This creates external pressure for organisations to be service-oriented, not to dominate markets. Not even Google managed to overtake SMTP with Gmail. The incubator is working together with leading individuals and organisations in the field, like IPFS, Dat, SSB community, W3C, [Hypothes.is](http://hypothes.is) and the NGI teams. ## 1.3.2. Modular Open-Source-Software Enables developers to easily innovate on existing services without reinventing the wheel and thus more easily start profitable businesses and **increase service-competition & consumer-choice**. A modular development approach ensures that the developed components can be reused not only by the organisations funded by the incubator, but also in the larger ecosystem. The developed components also offer a great focal point for collaboration and the ability to drastically reduce development costs. ## 1.3.3. Steward Ownership: Steward Ownership is an economic reward model for organisations that gives them economic freedom to be interoperable, service oriented and socially responsible, not to lock people in, exploit the environment or workers in order to grow-at-all-costs to reward investors. Steward Ownership companies cannot be sold on the open-market because of non-profit foundations that either fully own the company or have a golden share to veto a sale. People taking risk in investing time or money are rewarded with a capped profit share. These mechanisms remove greedy behaviour for growth-at-all costs while still incentivising growth and rewarding taking risks and entrepreneurial crafts. Steward Ownership companies' ability to be interoperable and socially responsible exists because the capped profit-share allows organisations to lose users/profits without lowering the total returns of investors. This also gives those organisations the economic freedom to be socially responsible so there is less need for regulation of bad actors that exploit users, employees or the environment because of unlimited profit interests. With the current investor reward models, organisations often tend towards growing as fast as possible with free/cheap services where ads and exploiting user data are often the only remaining business models. SO organisations need to make profit in order to reward investors. It additionally creates incentivises for those companies to become good at providing human/community-centric services instead of growing-at-all-costs. Invented by Zeiss/Bosch, it is a model that exists for over 125 years and is used by companies like Mozilla, Ecosia, Buffer, Carlsberg & John Lewis. In Germany Steward Ownership organisations employ ~1.2 million people and in Denmark there are over 1000 SO companies which control a quarter of the 100 largest corporations. Historically SO organisations have a 600% higher survival rate and thus create a more stable economy. Promoting Steward Ownership structures is currently getting on the agenda of major funds and government's agends (CDU in Germany) and a shift away from a purely shareholder-value driven focus has entered the mainstream conversations, [like at the WEF](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-2020-the-universal-purpose-of-a-company-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/?fbclid=IwAR1G9FksiLdstX6G5CsQxJCbGqeqWeMaCkYNR9YUyKTz3FWkyDHG2s4Rhs4). Investing in Steward Ownership organisations is also in the interest of the European Union because organisations that have been funded by the EU cannot be sold outside of the EU. It not only keeps the economic potential inside the EU, but also prevents the data of citizen being owned by other companies without their consent as part of an acquisition, like it recently happened with Fitbit's health data and the sale to Google. ## 1.3.4. Facilitation: We consider facilitation of individual growth, team governance and inter-organisational collaboration as an often underdeveloped, but crucial aspect of collective intelligence. In order to have effective collaboration you need leaders and team members that possess emotional intelligence and shared purpose. Arriving there inherently means working through frictions stemming from different expectations, goals and personality traits that requires careful facilitation by professionals, and education of people in the process. By facilitating these interactions their is great gain to be made. - It allows to to uncover areas for potential collaboration on shared infrastructure like software modules and standards which can increase the impact of the funds deployed by NGI - it increases the shared direction & vision of the community and creates focus for the funds deployed by NGI - it increases the relationships and connections in the community - it increases social inclusion because facilitations integrate individual's needs ## 1.3.5. An economy where it is more profitable to collaborate than to dominate We believe the above mentioned 4 components create a positive feedback loop that fosters the emergence of an economy where: - it becomes **more profitable to collaborate than to dominate** - **the tragedy of the commons can be solved** - organisations mindset shifts from individually growing-at-all-costs to growing together as a community This is because interoperable organisations need to focus on creating great services to a smaller audience (or lose them as customers) and therefore don't directly compete anymore against 90% of the market. As Steward Owned organisations they need to lower costs to return money to investors faster and thus have a financial incentive to collaborate with similar services on developing shared/public/open-source infrastructure (e.g. p2p modules or feature libraries like annotations). Since they can give away profits without lowering investor's total returns they can also be socially responsible by investing in public good infrastructure without profit interests. Facilitation in individual leadership, team management and inter-organisational collaboration can help increase the shared direction, uncover areas for co-development of infrastructure (software modules, data standards), create deeper relationships inside the community, and increase the impact of the funds deployed by H2020." 25,66925,2019-12-04T20:04:25.847Z,66920,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"@anon685777545 Yes we set the time for Friday 6pm you can come into this zoom call. https://zoom.us/j/578212773 @anon478355983 It might be a bit more complicated to join as a technology partner given that you are in the US and the time sensitivity on setting up an Esanon2317280404ian company (without a track record) But not being a consortium partner does not mean you can't be a network partner that is involved in the process. Would be great to have you jump on that call with us and learn a bit more about how you see an involvement from your perspective. If you have anything to share beforehand that'll be awesome. @anon3180318115 ""Dev for the other call first, but sth that links p2p tools with machine translation should not be too far off."" yeah but that is definitely not a proposal we would like to go for. It's too specific on the solution/direction, so it doesn't make sense with our general idea. @anon3809206126. Yeah that's definitely a challenge. We are in the talks with some organisations that may be ""heavy"" enough. I feel like even if we don't get that grant, there are a couple of other sources where we can raise the money for the proposal." 26,66926,2019-12-04T20:09:23.202Z,66896,anon3572363072,anon3180318115,Who is Mulgan? 27,66927,2019-12-04T20:45:49.441Z,66925,anon478355983,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072 I think being a network partner totally makes sense. I have ideas around structured annotation formats specifically designed for building shared context and developing collective intelligence. These formats aggregate into a universal online knowledge graph which can then serve as a platform-agnostic context engine, which I see as essential for helping build shared understanding." 28,66929,2019-12-04T21:08:03.888Z,66920,anon3809206126,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:24, topic:11974""] Europe and in other industries. The goal for the WISDOM initiative is to grow a community of economically sustainable organisations that co-develop the technological, economical and social infrastructure for increasing the capacity for collective intelligence. [/quote] This is good work, Oliver. I salute you." 29,66943,2019-12-05T04:33:23.306Z,66848,anon478355983,anon685777545,Thanks so much. Happy to be hear and hope to contribute :) 30,66944,2019-12-05T04:34:23.264Z,66889,anon478355983,anon3809206126,Thanks for the clarification @anon3809206126 31,66947,2019-12-05T05:46:01.492Z,66926,anon3180318115,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072 thx much for this. I meant Geoff Mulgan, NESTA. But maybe NESTA is already on your list. Agreed re ICT-57, it would be anon4292955258 a stretch. The discussion about property design as key vector of organizational development has picked up anon4292955258 a bit in Germany (https://eigentumskonferenz.de/eigentumskonferenz-2018/, https://verantwortungseigentum.com/), extremely exciting and timely to see the question of steward ownership featured so centrally here. One question: how do you feel about the [platform coop](https://platform.coop/) discussion in relation to SO? Imo the ""cooperative renaissance"" (also see [this](http://disco.coop/manifesto/) on distributed cooperative organizations) is part of the move toward a different sense of ownership and a way to broaden the [public value](https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-value-of-everything/10136) discussion we have been having (whatever the limitations of refocusing innovation narratives to give state actors a larger role, the adoption of [mission-oriented research](https://ec.europa.eu/info/horizon-europe-next-research-and-innovation-framework-programme/mission-oriented-policy-horizon-europe_en) by the EU is a key dev). In fact the coop discussion is a possible WP I could see us contribute to. In this context I am also curious about edgeryders relationship to [mydata](https://mydata.org/) - I have seen it mentioned here but am not sure how this relates to other edgeryders projects (also b/c I am still catching up on open care etc). But if steward ownership is to be a focus of the proposal it seems to me that cooperative data governance frameworks may play a role." 32,66957,2019-12-05T08:52:06.828Z,66141,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"@anon3180318115 No have not had contact with him. I only know Katja Bego and contacted her. She seems very busy though. If you have a good connection to Geoff, I think it would be great if you can show him this thread (and specifically my last update) and see if they are interested to join as a consortium partner, as we are still looking for a strong operational partner, like NESTA. Glad you mention the Eigentumskonferenz. We know the folks from Purpose a while already and they are our mentors. They helped me with the presentation at the EC recently too. > But if steward ownership is to be a focus of the proposal it seems to me that cooperative data governance frameworks may play a role. Re platform coops: Fully agree. I had them in the initial briefing more prominently positioned, but not in the recently sent update which was more focused on the general dynamic, less on the implementation. The next section I am working on is ""methodology"", where specific examples of Steward Ownership, like Platform Coops should be included. Glad you also mentioned the mission focused approach of the EC, will see how I can incorporate those. > In fact the coop discussion is a possible WP I could see us contribute to I'd be great, if you can formulate a rough work package for that. Would help to get a better sense of what you have in mind there. Meaning: Objectives, Tasks and Deliverables across a 36month time frame (given only 30 months are incubation period) Also important to note for the proposal is why your organisation would be uniquely positioned to provide value to that area." 33,66958,2019-12-05T08:59:46.648Z,66957,anon3180318115,anon3572363072,Ok I panon2926706121d Mulgan re NESTA involvement. And will work on WP description. 34,66995,2019-12-05T13:57:15.724Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"I set up a zoom room for you guys tomorrow (Friday 6th) 18:00 Brussels time: Edgeryders Team is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Applying for the H2020 collective intelligence call Time: Dec 6, 2019 06:00 PM Brussels Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/366865057 Meeting ID: 366 865 057" 35,66998,2019-12-05T14:04:20.550Z,66920,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,"Look interesting. You may find this post and the source materials it draws from useful https://edgeryders.eu/t/5-new-principles-for-justice-in-the-age-of-ai-and-other-networked-technologies/12117/3 Possibly also @anon227579045 @anon1119284955 @anon4265023664 might be interested in ^^." 36,67071,2019-12-06T13:01:37.522Z,66889,anon685777545,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:22, topic:11974""] heavy hitters [/quote] Who are these institutions?" 37,67072,2019-12-06T13:20:11.706Z,66141,anon658983266,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:11974""] TBA: Operational Partner [/quote] One of the questions I have, from an outsider looking in, is the requirement to have an Operational Partner. I'm just curious if there is any willingness on a project basis to build this capability up in edgeriders, or otherwise instead of having a third party manage this. It is a bit like the business rational of subcontract versus do hiring internally — is this so specialized that it negates taking this on internally? Or are there expectations from the funding organizations that a third party “audit and control” how things are executed? In the longer term, I'd see an organization that can both execute *and* manage their projects, capacity building… — *could* be a feature that is compelling to the funding organizations. Please take this question *in kindness* where I am not questioning prior decisions, but simply seeking to understand." 38,67077,2019-12-06T13:39:25.891Z,67071,anon3809206126,anon685777545," [quote=""anon685777545, post:36, topic:11974""] Who are these institutions? [/quote] Try the Death Star of Horizon 2020: https://github.com/spaghetti-open-data/ODFest2017-horizon2020-network/wiki/8.-The-Death-Star-of-Horizon-2020 But NGI has its own high level, that does not necessarily coincide with Horizon 2020 as a whole." 39,67079,2019-12-06T13:43:00.024Z,67072,anon3809206126,anon658983266,"[quote=""anon658983266, post:37, topic:11974""] I’m just curious if there is any willingness on a project basis to build this capability up in edgeriders, [/quote] No. That's administration. We are lousy at it, and have no interest in becoming better. Also, you cannot subcontract it, because the Commission frowns upon subcontracting key functions (rightly). The coordinator of the NGI Forward consortium is [NESTA](https://www.nesta.org.uk/) – well funded, super well connected, large." 40,67080,2019-12-06T14:12:27.241Z,67077,anon3180318115,anon3809206126,"I can talk to colleagues at Fraunhofer, if that makes sense. Let's discuss these options in the call later." 41,67098,2019-12-06T17:55:24.689Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Thank you for a great call @anon3572363072, @anon3180318115 and @anon685777545! Very interesting collaborations and synergies! Let me know if I can help out in any way here :)" 42,67168,2019-12-09T09:20:29.568Z,67098,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"@anon3031202475 @anon3180318115 @anon685777545 I'd like to do a community call on this every Thursday at 6pm to talk about the next steps. Soenke and Lyly: Did you already get feedback from people you approached? Here is an updated invitation: https://www.notion.so/worldbrain/Consortium-Partner-Invitation-WISDOM-Human-community-centric-incubator-for-P2P-knowledge-and-co-13fc69d975d3498688202d2df3cb4378 And here is the public Google Doc of the proposal [WIP] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n7qF4CqnllUTSnIXBFg9QNVXugsK9wG2p0DGgBb4_7k" 43,67182,2019-12-09T12:34:57.032Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,I will set up the recurring call for you guys and post the link here. Will be the same link every week and you should be able to enter the room room even without me with as many people as needed 44,67189,2019-12-09T14:01:08.579Z,67168,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:42, topic:11974""] Lyly [/quote] Hi @anon3572363072 I have contacted Eva from Nesta via LinkedIn, and I have also sent an email to Ruben from imec. You are in CC in that email. I will approach P2Pf, TimeLab, Michel Bauwens, but I am not sure of the kind of partnership/role that fits them. What could I write specifically to them?" 45,67219,2019-12-09T21:45:58.563Z,66141,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Shall we do the call then all together on Wednesday 8:30pm with Ruben, instead of Thursday?" 46,67221,2019-12-09T22:29:30.000Z,67219,anon3180318115,anon3572363072,Can't do 08:30 pm but happy to catch up soonest after that 47,67234,2019-12-10T08:20:37.698Z,67219,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"It is fine for me, and we could ask @anon3031202475 to support us to record the call so @anon3180318115 can follow it. Does it sound okay?" 48,67235,2019-12-10T09:08:03.000Z,67234,anon3180318115,anon685777545,cool thx much ! 49,67246,2019-12-10T12:54:36.142Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Edgeryders Team is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Applying for the H2020 collective intelligence call - looking for operational partners and collaborators Time: Dec 11, 2019 08:30 PM Brussels Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/904722442 Meeting ID: 904 722 442 I set this up as a one off now. which time do you want for the recurring call?" 50,67270,2019-12-10T16:27:42.548Z,66253,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:5, topic:11974""] Hi, as member of the DGOV community we have applied to other grants via the Institute for Innovative Governance Foundation as DGOV has no formal entity yet. I would be happy to take this role and also put lost of effort in the co-writing. I have experience with EU funding. Warm regards, Liliana. [/quote] Hi @anon3572363072 @anon3180318115 I have contacted my DGOV colleagues/friends who participated in the previous proposals for Nesta Collective Intelligence with the Institute of Innovative Governance, the Esanon2317280404ian foundation that supports us: https://www.instingov.org/. I have exchanged some messages on telegram with them, and here I am posting the last post, my invitation for them to join us over in this Edgeryders platform. I hope that they join us :slight_smile: ---- I think that we could join this proposal under the Institute of Innovative Governance (Esanon2317280404ian Foundation), the institution that supports us as DGOV already and that I put you all in contact with. I think that we could team up and support as researchers and facilitators of all governance aspects, coordination aspects. I would love to move the conversation over there. And I will published this same post on the edgeryders platform where we are getting organized for this proposal. I suggest that we all read the proposal and suggest our personal contributions to this research. There is a call anon2317280404ight about Collective Intelligence, and tomorrow evening there is another one for this proposal with Ruben (U Ghent researcher and lead developer/researcher for Solid). The posts are on the Edgeryders platform also." 51,67274,2019-12-10T17:32:10.000Z,67270,anon3180318115,anon685777545,"Hi all, excellent. Spoke with DFKI, for them it is too short notice as they have a lot of proposals due Jan 2020. Fraunhofer ist interested in a work package but not as lead / coordinator." 52,67292,2019-12-11T07:19:44.222Z,67274,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3180318115, post:51, topic:11974""] lead / coordinator [/quote] Let's talk about this with Ruben anon2317280404ight. I am sure that we can find support in our networks." 53,67293,2019-12-11T07:22:29.646Z,67270,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:50, topic:11974""] Ruben [/quote] Dear @anon3031202475 Could you support us by facilitating a zoom room for us for anon2317280404ight at 8:30 pm? It will be very helpful also to record the call. It will be with Ruben, researcher at the University of Ghent and an important figure for the Solid project." 54,67296,2019-12-11T08:47:18.213Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Here is the room as posted above: https://zoom.us/j/904722442 I can start the recording for you and we can see in how far you need me :)" 55,67300,2019-12-11T09:12:55.000Z,67293,anon3180318115,anon685777545,"Addendum re DFKI: colleagues couldn't anon4292955258 make out in the draft text what possible technological dev components might be - what exactly (platform, tools, incubator infrastructures etc) will have to be developed in the context of the core research project? If there is something concrete there might still be interest." 56,67305,2019-12-11T09:32:12.677Z,67189,anon3449369942,anon685777545,"mm heads up re Brexit - related risks, I would be a bit careful about UK based organisations till things clear up politically speaking." 57,67306,2019-12-11T09:34:48.298Z,66920,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,Bonjour @anon3482582092 - have a look at the concept note posted above by @anon3572363072 nd see if you/University of Bordeaux might be interested? 58,67317,2019-12-11T10:22:25.968Z,67306,anon3482582092,anon3449369942,"Hi @anon3449369942 thanks for mentioning me and inviting me to have a look at the concept note. What contribution would you guys expect from UB? Something in the flavour of pouring in SSNA? Or are you pointing at our local ""à la startup"" project developing SSNA tech? From what I can see, the project would be a great opportunity to team up again. (@anon Let me know. Cheers all, Guy" 59,67328,2019-12-11T10:49:00.000Z,67317,anon3180318115,anon3482582092,Hi @anon3482582092 nice to e-meet - does UB also work with INRIA? I also thought of them as we have a local coop across ai research networks 60,67338,2019-12-11T11:21:33.508Z,67317,anon3572363072,anon3482582092,"Hello Guy! thanks for dropping by and your interest to find a way to collaborate :slight_smile: So what we are most urgently need right now is an operational partner that is trusted by the EC to handle the funds (and the associated bureaucracy). Of course an organisation taking this role is invited to be involved in other ways too, after all the paper work is the least fun part. I am not familiar with the research objectives of you or UB so I don't know where there would be another area of collaboration **yet**. It would be great if you were able to make it to our call anon2317280404ight at 8:30pm where we could dive deeper into those questions. If not, I am more than happy to jump on a call with you in the next days." 61,67352,2019-12-11T13:04:07.760Z,67328,anon3482582092,anon3180318115,"Hi Soenke, depends what you have in mind when asking ""also work with"". I was head of a Inria team between 2006 and 2013, I know a bunch of colleagues at Inria on their different sites (Paris, Nice, etc.). What team/people do you work with?" 62,67353,2019-12-11T13:08:24.883Z,67338,anon3482582092,anon3572363072,"Hi anon3572363072, I see. UB did endorse the fund management for opencare, a project we were involed in with EdegRyders. The management itself was two headed with myself and Alberto, which made sense since the vision was ER's while UB had the manpower and admin experience to run the funds and in a sense reassure the EC. That being said, I won't personally be able to act as coordinator for this project as I actually am appointed as Vice-President at our University. I can ask a colleague whether he would be willing. I presume he would only jump in if he knows he'll get backed up by someone who's involved in designing the project. I'll come back to you after I see my colleague." 63,67355,2019-12-11T13:34:00.526Z,67353,anon3572363072,anon3482582092,"> I can ask a colleague whether he would be willing. I presume he would only jump in if he knows he’ll get backed up by someone who’s involved in designing the project. You mean backed in doing the admin work by someone from the other consortium members? In any case I think it would be wise to hire someone from the money we get to support with that work, and get the person/team the support they need from the other consortium members. I wouldn't want anyone to be solely responsible for that kind of bureaucracy. I'm certain we'll figure something out where everyone feels good with. > I actually am appointed as Vice-President at our University Seems like a lot of work already :slight_smile: > I’ll come back to you after I see my colleague. Great thanks!" 64,67356,2019-12-11T13:46:13.995Z,66141,anon2278327272,anon3572363072,"Hi all! For those I still didn't get the chance to work with - I'm the research coordinator at Edgeryders and I'll be joining you for the calls, mainly to keep track of the development of the application and also to help with anything if needed now, or in the later stage of writing the proposal. Looking forward and talk to you soon! :)" 65,67360,2019-12-11T14:18:16.486Z,67356,anon3572363072,anon2278327272,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:63, topic:11974""] In any case I think it would be wise to hire someone from the money we get to support with that work, and get the person/team the support they need from the other consortium members. [/quote] to make the intention clear here: Of course the entire consortium will support anyone with what it takes to stem the admin & bureaucratic burden and set everything up smoothly. This will be a team effort." 66,67378,2019-12-11T19:00:04.896Z,66141,anon1399293952,anon3572363072,"Hi, fairkom is part of a network of IT solution providers with a focus on sustainability. We offer open source based web services such as fairchat, fairmeeting, faircloud or board.net. We help organisations and companies to avoid having their data hosted at the big five cloud providers. We are organized as a partner network and put all surplus into open standards, FLOSS and commons projects. Yet we also do a lot of consulting, helping our customers to migrate and be happy with FLOSS solutions. We did have experience with large EC funded projects, also in the role of a coordinator, but not recently. We are also involved in several social design projects, that aim at a more fair economy, such as Fair.Coop. We would love to share our experience in various roles, as a facilitator, incubator or even as an active consortium member. Our bookkeeping and controlling is in-house and based on the Open Source tool ERPnext, which would easily allow to manage also larger funds. We do have accounting people in our team, but our not-for-profit organisation might be too small when it comes to an eligibility check for the organisational partner role. EDIT: I will get in touch with Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences regarding the organisational role." 67,67397,2019-12-11T22:01:00.731Z,67352,anon3180318115,anon3482582092,"@anon3482582092 Hi Guy, Brigitte Trousse and I are both involved in getting [enoll.org](Https://enoll.org)'s taskforce ""social impact of ai"" off the ground, and I think coop between inria and ai research orgs in Germany (I am also affiliated at dfki.de) will expand so I would love to link my role in this emerging proposal to this franco-german coop dynamic soanon3242181883 as well. Or at least see what linkages there are, better understand them. We live on the border and work with regional colleagues also on ai projects and so I am curious about what part of all of this might also become part of this very local, very concrete cross-border exchange." 69,67523,2019-12-15T10:54:14.045Z,66889,anon3482582092,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:22, topic:11974""] Partners can join from [associated countries ](https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/3cpart/h2020-hi-list-ac_en.pdf) outside the EU. But: no proposal is likely to be successful if not led by one of the heavy hitters in the NGI space. @anon3572363072 is aware of this. [/quote] Copy that." 70,67525,2019-12-15T14:35:20.414Z,67523,anon3180318115,anon3482582092,"@anon3572363072 Hi Oliver, is there an update re potential coordinator? If there isn't one by the end of this week I fear it might not be possible to submit." 71,67541,2019-12-16T01:15:50.086Z,67525,anon3572363072,anon3180318115,"Hey Soenke we have 2 more leads that could work out, but yeah it does not look good so far. @anon3482582092 Any news from your side? News from my side, I opened a new Google Doc with a cleaner version of the proposal we can use to send around, and continuously can now extend with finished sections coming in. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MW2RnjXJZKoiF17rqduGtPh8826m6b6Doe-QSGO0DSM/edit?usp=sharing I copied the TODOs section over to the working copy proposal (the old one). Any comments are welcome, especially on the items of ""other todos""" 72,67551,2019-12-16T11:45:33.594Z,66141,anon3809206126,anon3572363072,@anon2339827249 @anon4261882768 are you seeing this? 73,67567,2019-12-16T17:31:51.407Z,67328,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3180318115, post:59, topic:11974""] ai research networks [/quote] I can also bring in IDSIA if wanted. Let me know it." 74,67593,2019-12-17T07:43:24.182Z,67567,anon685777545,anon685777545,"Good morning, I have contacted Rachid and we can count with Alliance Block as a partner. Alliance Block: [https://allianceblock.io/](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://allianceblock.io/&sa=D&ust=1576572017588000&usg=AFQjCNE9cwdH771dxhaRguP-QA9CGrzVIA) Please read this article: [https://medium.com/@anon" 75,67599,2019-12-17T08:54:06.548Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"hello guys, please tell me the next time you want to use the call room :)" 76,67678,2019-12-17T17:09:20.390Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Here a folder with the recordings of your last coordination call: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pxIws9u_CwM3__3l4_cn6xS9M1Kak5-a" 77,67704,2019-12-18T14:59:35.914Z,66141,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"@anon We are now in a state where we wanna invite potential collaborators. What we are trying is to get the support from a wide network of supporters to show a strong community backing to the evaluators of the proposal. Please take the 3min to sign up, and feel free to pass this on to any organisation, community space, event host or person you think has an interest to be on board with this. Here you find more information and how to sign up: https://www.notion.so/Invitation-to-the-WISDOM-initiative-2b3900cbeb2247b195f5f901f44ea479" 78,67714,2019-12-18T15:50:33.594Z,67704,anon658983266,anon3572363072,Posted to secure scuttlebutt…. Great work! 79,67720,2019-12-18T17:18:57.558Z,66141,anon478355983,anon3572363072,"I'm not sure if this tweet from @anon Indicate your interest! TODAY is the deadline! Get your ICT proposal checked in early 2020! 👉 Ideal-ist proposal check: https://buff.ly/2Px0WNc [📅] 8 January 📌 Rome or remotely" 80,67727,2019-12-18T19:07:54.642Z,67720,anon3449369942,anon478355983,ping @anon3572363072 @anon1505367078 thanks for heads up @anon478355983 81,67728,2019-12-18T19:16:29.741Z,66141,anon1505367078,anon3572363072,Indeed! Thanks @anon478355983! 82,67729,2019-12-18T20:03:10.623Z,67728,anon3572363072,anon1505367078,"thanks @anon478355983! @anon" 83,67840,2019-12-21T13:42:41.159Z,67729,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Hello @anon3572363072, yes, I can set up your community calls regularly for Thursdays. The massage for the last one sadly recached me too late as was travelling that day. I can set them up weekly 8 pm from now on out and share a calendar. Should I do that?" 84,67853,2019-12-21T15:57:29.038Z,67840,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:83, topic:11974""] Should I do that? [/quote] yes please my dear Maria, I missed the call as I did not get the zoom link on time, and I have been working on finding the coordinator, and wanted to share what I had been doing..." 85,67856,2019-12-21T16:03:07.355Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Edgeryders Team is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: H2020 Collective Intelligence Call Time: Dec 26, 2019 08:00 PM Brussels Every day, until Dec 27, 2019, 2 occurrence(s) Dec 26, 2019 08:00 PM Dec 27, 2019 08:00 PM Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Daily: https://zoom.us/meeting/uZQoc-uuqT4vwb5dbeYfkg7vXiBXa351Ug/ics?icsToken=98tyKu2oqz8oHNOQtVztY6kqW5n4b8-1lGZM_6dfmSbjCCcEdDv_FNpDYecuJd-B Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/405426755 Meeting ID: 405 426 755" 86,68077,2020-01-02T21:29:41.136Z,66141,anon2434097920,anon3572363072,What is the status of this now? Was there just a break for the holiday season? 87,68230,2020-01-06T10:01:48.578Z,68077,anon3572363072,anon2434097920,"Thanks @anon2434097920 for checking in. Yes this is still going and in full steam. We also have a strong operational partner potentially. (Robert Gordon University of Aberdeen and their Innovation Unit) Getting back from the dean until Wednesday presumably. Last minute :slight_smile: with a week to go! The progress is to be seen here still: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n7qF4CqnllUTSnIXBFg9QNVXugsK9wG2p0DGgBb4_7k/edit# We are now in the of wrapping up everything so the Application is ready to be sent off by the 14th." 88,68253,2020-01-06T15:52:01.515Z,68230,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,Great to hear that! Do you want to have another group call on Thursday 20:00? 89,68258,2020-01-06T16:03:19.348Z,68253,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"The invitation went out for 8pm, but yes :) it would be good to have you joining!" 90,68261,2020-01-06T16:18:16.364Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,20:00 it is :) 91,68278,2020-01-06T17:18:26.482Z,68261,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"Won't be able to join but am willing to contribute, also to add us as partner if that helps in any way. Am following the progress in the doc. Happy to catch up early Friday." 92,68503,2020-01-09T18:31:28.034Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"I am opening the room with this code againÖ Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/405426755 afterwards will update to a new recurring event with a google calendar link :)" 93,68509,2020-01-09T19:59:23.862Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"hello again and thank you for the call. I would like to set up the next line of calls. Mondays or tuesdays afternoons have been asked for. We have a few edgeryders calls at those times, but we could do for example Tuesdays 17:00 to 18:00 ? That would be 8:00 in the morning pacific time if I am correct, would that work for tym?" 94,68578,2020-01-10T19:53:42.863Z,68509,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:93, topic:11974""] edgeryders calls [/quote] Hi Maria, I would like to participate in other calls if possible to open my mind :) feel free to send me calendar invites." 95,68579,2020-01-10T20:06:06.038Z,66141,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,I checked in with a few people and Tuesday 5pm seems to be a good time! Can you share an iCal file that I can pass around to people and put into any documentation? 96,68580,2020-01-10T20:15:07.707Z,66141,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"Hi all, how are things going? I tried to join the call yesterday but it seems the link changed and I just logged in here. I have contacted some people but so far from my side we haven't found a good lead applicant. Last Thursday, we spoke a bit with Oliver about this and one of the ideas was to have Edgeryders as the applicant. I am not sure if this was maybe spoken in the videocall. I know that the admin of this is huge,... And I also know that we could work together to do that administration a group task, collectively. I have shared a budget template to Oliver. I have been communicating mostly via email. Sorry that I totally forgot to post things over here :slight_smile: Looking forward to know how things are progressing. P2P Paris Festival has been great!" 97,68584,2020-01-10T20:33:50.242Z,66141,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"@anon3031202475, I have talked to @anon3572363072 about my involvement as a partner or member of a partner team for this project. Adding a new partner like the P2P Foundation would probably not be a good move, and it is interesting to add it as network/support partner. Regarding my personal participation, I would like to check in if for the purpose of this proposal I could be considered an Edgeryders team member as I am a freelancer at the moment, I don't really have a formal strong partner to be part of. I would love to contribute to the community building of the incubator and support of the community with documentation and other resources like research on CI. By the way, do you have the recording of our community zoom call on Collective Intelligence? Warm regards, Liliana." 98,68611,2020-01-11T18:32:10.464Z,68584,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"Hello @anon685777545, I think this is the recording of the call you are referring to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13AEfumbuTnQfHREUyjTa1cUxsAIovUAy?usp=sharing. It is the one from the 10th of December when you presented :). Thank you very much!" 99,68676,2020-01-13T17:41:45.013Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Edgeryders Team is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: H2020 Collective Intelligence Call Time: Jan 16, 2020 05:00 PM Brussels Every week on Thu, until Feb 20, 2020, 6 occurrence(s) Jan 16, 2020 05:00 PM Jan 23, 2020 05:00 PM Jan 30, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 6, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 13, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 20, 2020 05:00 PM Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Weekly: https://zoom.us/meeting/upcufuqqpjsq4YAUKG3jBunupQBRjG3xXA/ics?icsToken=98tyKu6rrTIpGNyVsFzHUbMvA538bvHykyV3i5Z2u0zvITVddxPHFNBIFeFnKPmB Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/733932800 Meeting ID: 733 932 800 ping @anon3572363072" 100,68682,2020-01-13T18:50:07.810Z,66141,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"Hi Oliver @anon3572363072 Could you share the link to the budget if any? And could you let me know how it went on Friday with the possible lead partner? Tomorrow, Tuesday, I have 3 hour free to work on the proposal. Could you let me know how to best use them? Where is help more needed or appreciated? Warm regards, Liliana." 101,68713,2020-01-14T16:11:35.340Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,We are still using this link today: https://zoom.us/j/405426755 ping @anon685777545 102,68716,2020-01-14T16:38:32.157Z,68713,anon685777545,anon3031202475,at what time is the call? 103,68718,2020-01-14T16:40:46.141Z,68716,anon3031202475,anon685777545,@anon685777545 going on at the moment. 17:00 to 18:00 104,68719,2020-01-14T16:47:44.402Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Edgeryders Team is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Collective Intelligence Incubator Time: Jan 21, 2020 05:00 PM Brussels Every week on Tue, until Feb 18, 2020, 5 occurrence(s) Jan 21, 2020 05:00 PM Jan 28, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 4, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 11, 2020 05:00 PM Feb 18, 2020 05:00 PM Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Weekly: https://zoom.us/meeting/upcufuqqpjsq4YAUKG3jBunupQBRjG3xXA/ics?icsToken=98tyKu6rrTIpGNyVsFzHUbMvA538bvHykyV3i5Z2u0zvITVddxPHFNBIFeFnKPmB Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/733932800 Meeting ID: 733 932 800" 105,68812,2020-01-16T11:17:52.216Z,68719,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:104, topic:11974""] Tue [/quote] Hi Nadia, I have imported this for Tuesdays, and removed the old one from Thursdays. Is there an open edgeryders calendar where I could get informed of other interesting calls? Warm regards, Liliana." 106,68817,2020-01-16T11:53:18.081Z,68230,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:87, topic:11974""] The progress is to be seen here still: [/quote] Is this the working document still?" 107,68877,2020-01-17T12:45:58.100Z,66141,anon221334074,anon3572363072,"Hi there, My work is also on these topics and level. Soenke knows me for some years and engaging in discussion with Alberto Cottica and Marina Batinić. I'm visiting Berlin end of Jan and wanted to see if Oliver or Purpose Ventures might be open to a meeting on your project. There is usually benefit in these exchanges and hope this format/timing is appropriate. - John" 108,69007,2020-01-20T15:43:19.148Z,68877,anon3031202475,anon221334074,"Ping @anon3572363072, @anon221334074 would like to meet you. @anon221334074, maybe you can join into our call tomorrow 17:00 CET to discuss an inperson meetup :)" 109,69112,2020-01-21T16:56:04.268Z,68812,anon3449369942,anon685777545,ping @anon196034329 do we have anything like this functionality in discourse? 110,69114,2020-01-21T16:58:15.631Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"This project is now moving towards finding other financing options. Therefore branding and pitching are relevant topics now. @anon3647230266, it would be great if you could maybe give some feedback or recommendations on how to pitch something like this :). Your powerpitches would be a great help :)" 111,69126,2020-01-21T17:23:57.297Z,69112,anon196034329,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:105, topic:11974""]Is there an open edgeryders calendar where I could get informed of other interesting calls?[/quote] Yes … go to the [#event tag page](/tags/event) and subscribe to it by choosing ""Watching first post"" in the top-right dropdown that initially shows just a circle icon. If everyone tags their event-related topics that way, you'll be notified of all events … we're not super consistent with the tagging still, but I fix whatever event I see untagged. Good luck :)" 112,69177,2020-01-22T09:03:05.209Z,69114,anon221334074,anon3031202475,I might be able to help here. 113,69212,2020-01-22T23:36:43.963Z,69114,anon3647230266,anon3031202475,"Hello! Here you can find an handout of the things that we usually teach in our classes, maybe is useful at this stage :slight_smile: [PowerPitch - handout.pdf|attachment](upload://iAkBZ23wA5OJSQbsuZy2vxBOseR.pdf) (8.2 MB)" 115,70133,2020-02-11T18:21:22.723Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"We just had a anon4292955258 nice call on the further development of the Incubator, NGI and OCI Lab resonating and feeding into each other. Here are the notes from the chat: > what to do: What is OCI Lab? What is the plan for the incubator? Who meets when in Stockholm? > OCI Lab started with workshops and webinars during the Festival. It brings together, for example, the perfect pitch workshop > Question: Would it be interesting to invite some of the OCI lab participants to theses calls as vice versa case studies? > we have to identify which setups and properties the platform would need to provide the community part of this. > what does NGI need to be a low-cost pre-acceleration tool? > also mapping out how the communities and projects could feed into each other >> drawing vectors > Channels for energy and excitement to go > 1. New co-working space to be used as physical hub for regenerative economy > 2. Building group identity > 3. Whitepaper > Use that to raise cash from private individuals and companies > Role of online in building that identity and the regenerative economy hub > People to focus on fundraising effort > Funraisers identified? > Help to put together the whitepaper > Commit to fundraising > And already has cocoon facilitator > > 4. NGI Community/platform: Sorting/setting up topics as knowledgebase and workspace for project development. > https://edgeryders.eu/t/modular-web-kit-strategy/12063/9 > websites automatically build from the platform. > ""Designing an engaging Engins"" # We want to band together for the 2020 strategy! this means: We will have weekly 2 hours dedicated calls. 9-11 of March, NGI and OCI team will meet in Stockholm to plan strategy and Incubator core team will call in. In April NGI, OCI and Incubator team will meet in person for an intensive work meeting in Stockholm or Berlin." 116,70257,2020-02-13T19:58:30.299Z,70133,anon221334074,anon3031202475,"Mechanism design is a field of economics that can be applied to this project. This is something we can use in the project design and reference to validate the model. https://www.sss.ias.edu/files/papers/econpaper81.pdf * Mechanism design theory is an economic framework for understanding how businesses can achieve optimal outcomes when individual self-interest and incomplete information may get in the way. * The theory is derived from game theory and accounts for individual incentives and motivations, and how these can work for the benefit of the company." 117,70361,2020-02-17T13:24:06.113Z,70257,anon3031202475,anon221334074,"@anon221334074 using mechanism design, how would you see and articulate the incentives inherent to this project? Would be great if you could join us Tuesday evening in the Incubator call. 17:00 -18:00 CET. ( https://zoom.us/j/733932800 )" 118,70362,2020-02-17T13:26:27.767Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Also: To everyone interested in this thread and project: I will move this thread to our new NGI cathegory: # ""Open Proposal Writing"" Category https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/applications # Description: This is a public open workspace in which you can craft your proposals, calls, project plans and similar. In doing so you can get help and profit from the experience of other community members while simultaneously contributing to a growing knowledge base. Proposal writing for grants, answering calls or wording them yourself, finding funding or partners are complex processes. Institutions have developed theses processes and brought them to a point where it is harder and harder to break into the systems from outside. Here we have the opportunity to help each other as a free community of individuals to empower each other’s projects. **What you can do here:** * Post your 1st, 2nd or 3rd draft and get feedback and help * Share and analyses successful and unsuccessful application experiences * Read, give feedback and contribute to the drafts others have shared. **Let’s help each other realising ideas that could help everyone!** *Tips for what information to include:* 1. What is your project about? What’s the problem it solves and how? 2. What stage are you in? 3. What call are you answering, grant are you applying for or what other goal do you have with the text/presentation you are crafting?? 4. What do you need concrete help with? People? Skills? Guidance? Clarity?" 119,70401,2020-02-18T18:04:37.000Z,70361,anon221334074,anon3031202475,"I missed today's call. It is in regular calendar schedule now, so speak next week ++ J" 120,70527,2020-02-25T09:42:19.752Z,70401,anon3031202475,anon221334074,"@anon221334074, @anon685777545,@anon3572363072 And everyone else interested in this discussion and development. Here a reminder for our meeting today 17:00 CET https://zoom.us/j/733932800 ALSO: I moved the discussion to the new proposal writing cathegory" 121,70619,2020-02-26T16:06:38.459Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"this might be interesting to those following this thread: https://edgeryders.eu/t/funding-call-how-can-ai-enhanced-collective-intelligence-enable-new-forms-of-community-responses-to-the-climate-crisis/12733" 122,70778,2020-03-02T15:32:48.991Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/collective-intelligence-grants/ ping @anon3572363072 123,70779,2020-03-02T15:33:04.736Z,70778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,Ping @anon685777545 124,70858,2020-03-03T17:12:19.626Z,66141,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,Thank you @anon221334074 for a very nice call. Your feedback on the project is very much appreciated :) 1,66209,2019-11-28T14:07:38.863Z,66209,anon1727204756,anon1727204756," *In the context of the [Teaching Teachers Open Source](https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881), I had a friend with the dream to author a children's book on IT. Below are the thoughts I contributed to her:* [ComputerCraft EDU v2](http://youtu.be/ADTb6ifxWxw) (Minecraft, version 2 has the simplified GUI) is very cute. Combining programming with Minecraft is a pretty promising environment to learn programming. When I searched for [Curly Bracket](http://curlybracket.se/) I found a fun series from [Swedish Radio P1](http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt?programid=4741). Currently I am reading Kevin Kelly's *""[What technology wants](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7954936-what-technology-wants)""*, and while it is true all technology and science is *""building on the shoulders of giants""* it becomes devastatingly clear to be the case with code. Increasingly, the features, the size of your lego blocks so to say, grow. Especially since the rise of Github, Pastebin and Stackoverflow (each of these merit their own essays you may read if you want to, but [here's a tweet](https://twitter.com/haoel/status/695490584325152768)), open collaboration is always too big to ignore. Incidentally, intense communication through tools various tools is also essential. Unless you're one of the best coders in the world, writing any substantial amount of code yourself is usually the wrong solution. Anyway, I've thought about technology development a lot, combined with the nature of work. Most colleagues study outside of work hours to be able to do the work. I have some productivity addiction, which gets weird when it's some sort of knowledge you're producing, not chairs or other physical items. If I could just replicate work I've done over and over, or even teach it, it would be so efficient. But I'm forced to learn new things to keep up with development, reaching higher and higher levels of abstraction. Because this discrepancy - doing dishes will always take effort, teaching a team Git gets easier but learning new always take great mental effort, I've sketched a way of thinking of effort using different currencies, like time, money cost, experience required and mental effort (mana). So I'm a pretty high level IT wizard who can do a lot at even no cost, but it will cost time and mana. Also I get a specialization penalty for low mana tasks *(find reference on how anon2565020671 Stallman describe hackers as the wizards of the future?)*. One concept important to systems and software development is the ability to assemble (and to take apart again). Many systems are like dolls, ready assembled and you won't open or change them. Open software however at most comes partially assembled (legs, hands, whatever, parts always being reused for other models) but you will have the source code available and there are distributions that are made to be automatically assembled only on your computer. Back around 2000 getting a Linux system to work could take several days or weeks, but now I spawn new computers several times per day. It has led to the expression *""treat your servers like cattle, not pets""*, because if one misbehave you should be able to put it down and reproduce it from source. This beautiful process of bootstrapping never seize to amaze me and tools like autoconf, automake, gcc and yum make it happen. Finally, I feel like I have studied too much. The accreditation of a masters degree (imagine a lengthy list of impressive courses and grades) is a terribly inefficient way to weed out who is fit for the job, especially since there are now MOOC trainings for most thinkable subjects, not rarely for free. I believe that while excellent in parts, for many jobs, the significance of university education will diminish in favor of more efficient qualifiers. However, while I have all this knowledge and experience, I have a passion to make the best use of it and enable others. Any way you can think of to take part in that would be pretty awesome." 2,66272,2019-11-28T22:32:36.271Z,66209,anon3809206126,anon1727204756,"Great post, @anon1727204756. I like the idea of ""different currencies"" instead of a scalar effort! It's true that your ""currencies"" are imperfect substitutes, sometimes throwing money (or time) at a problem just won't do it." 3,66487,2019-11-30T14:23:51.280Z,66272,anon1727204756,anon3809206126,"Thanks! On one hand, the amazing indian meal served during the workshop (thanks to Lars the forestry worker and foodtruck owner) reminded me different currencies, different ways of being wealthy, is a key enabler for [a mindset of abundance](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Abundance_vs._Scarcity). On the other hand, ""[throwing money at the problem by buying custom gadgets](https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx_992hi7OQ/)"" is a legitimate solution :-D" 4,66940,2019-12-05T01:50:34.519Z,66209,anon196034329,anon1727204756,"[quote=""anon1727204756, post:1, topic:11985""]Back around 2000 getting a Linux system to work could take several days or weeks, but now I spawn new computers several times per day. …[/quote] I am purely using Linux since 2000 and while *some* things got easier, a basic install is similarly simple and getting specialized hardware to work is similarly tricky. My Wacom digitizer / touchscreen combo for example stopped working with the upgrade to Ubuntu 19.10 … [quote=""anon1727204756, post:1, topic:11985""]… It has led to the expression *“treat your servers like cattle, not pets”*[/quote] I'm sorry for the cynical remark already, but we also got all the horrible side effects of factory farming together with this approach. In my view, servers rather need love, just like pets :blush: Minimalism is a strong trend for dealing with the physical world already (Marie Kondo etc.). In the software world, we still see the total opposite: needlessly going for more stuff and more complexity even though it's already unmanageable ([yesterday's example](https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries-removed-from-pypi/)). I hereby declare that software minimalism is a thing from now on! :smile:" 5,67032,2019-12-05T18:04:44.349Z,66940,anon3005076832,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:4, topic:11985""] upgrade to Ubuntu 19.10 [/quote] Non-LTS-versions? Living on the edge? ;) [quote=""anon196034329, post:4, topic:11985""] I am purely using Linux since 2000 and while *some* things got easier, a basic install is similarly simple and getting specialized hardware to work is similarly tricky [/quote] Yes, also core hardware gets trickier to use with free only software (wifi-cards, bios-stuff, graphics chips, etc.pp. for a podcast with some stories see/hear also: http://faif.us/cast/2019/mar/20/0x63/)." 6,67036,2019-12-05T18:10:17.479Z,66940,anon3449369942,anon196034329,"Just thought I would leave this here: https://junkee.com/marie-kondo-investigation/189098" 7,70822,2020-03-03T05:54:16.677Z,67036,anon1727204756,anon3449369942,"Jumping back to the main topic, let this be my retort :smiley: [(""Jeff Bezos"" OR ""Bill Gates"" OR ""Elon Musk"" OR ""Steve Jobs"" OR ""Fred Brooks"" OR ""Joel Spolsky"" OR ""Carol Dweck"" OR ""Martin Fowler"" OR ""Kent Beck"" OR ""Edwards Deming"" OR ""Linus Torvalds"" OR ""Robert C. Martin"") (site:quotefancy.com OR site:wallpapervortex.com OR site:quotes.pub OR site:wisefamousquotes.com)](https://www.google.com/search?q=%28%22Jeff+Bezos%22+OR+%22Bill+Gates%22+OR+%22Elon+Musk%22+OR+%22Steve+Jobs%22+OR+%22Fred+Brooks%22+OR+%22Joel+Spolsky%22+OR+%22Carol+Dweck%22+OR+%22Martin+Fowler%22+OR+%22Kent+Beck%22+OR+%22Edwards+Deming%22+OR+%22Linus+Torvalds%22+OR+%22Robert+C.+Martin%22%29+%28site:quotefancy.com+OR+site:wallpapervortex.com+OR+site:quotes.pub+OR+site:wisefamousquotes.com%29&tbm=isch)" 1,66687,2019-12-02T16:06:26.580Z,66687,anon658983266,anon658983266,"## Economic Sustainability for Open Source projects Q: Why would someone do open source, rather than charge for a service? A: (Alex) Charging for my service wouldn’t be compatible with the future I want. Erik: Open source enables that as many people as possible can utilize your service. So how do you make it economically sustainable? Eg. funds, corporate sponsors. Could we make decision work better? Could we make progressive funds (ie. escalating over time based on success) “What do you think about decreasing expenses, rather than increasing prices?” We still need to be able to give developers enough to survive. Types of open source: eg. libraries, Mastodon, Q: Why is ‘freemium’ not viable? A: hard to implement it in a way that does not limit the use. Only works for software as a service. How about other services? Are we looking at a new emerging way of open source? License 0 (ie. if you’re not a company and not making money off of it, it’s free). Parroting license - due diligence. Would make it possible for commercial users to be forced to pay for it. A business model problem - we need good coders in bulk. Coders need to pay the rent. Rent is going up. Coders don’t want to be martyrs. Commercial employers pay well. How do you get enough money into a project to make it great? Q: What types of open source projects are struggling with funding. Open source does not give return of investment for investors. Funders necessarily need to not be expecting direct returns. ‘Bundlesource’ ‘board of users’ that can take decisions on prioritizing features. ‘Tragedy of the commons’ half of our fundings come from one person who is on a monthly donation. Most other donors give small donations. Eg. John says he gives up to 5€ a month, but only 1€ a month pr. one other person who also donate 1€ a month. If 5 people also give 5€ a month, they all give 5€ a month. Q: Whcih business model for software is thriving? A: ads, venture capital, software as a service. Q: What donation model works best? A: patreon, governments, **churches** . Create a religion and make billionaires pay a shitload of money. Discussing the potential for developers go on an international coding strike. As a coder, if we are faced with the option between getting really well paid and doing what you believe in - it’s hard. If stakeholders are small, independent people - does propaganda/outreach have a role to play? Could expand the base of donors. More users also mean more bug-fixing for individual people - lots of legwork. How is open source understood: ‘The code that makes up the product is publicly available. The product itself is sometimes free too’. If open source starts getting public traction, lobbyism starts becoming an opportunity. Microsoft is lobbying for their cases, open sources needs theirs. Hb open source government? Resource allocation problem Governments are becoming more fluent in understanding how data affects the public space. Very reactionary, not very progressive. Scuttlebutt is aiming to find ways to live with decreased expenses (ie. less dependency on dominant system) to give more space for creating an alternative. The movement needs salespeople! Churches are being successful raising money Open source does offer the individual return of investment for the developer in terms of offering value to the community, which offers both a sense of purpose for the developer and goodwill from the community. To monetize this Idea of making a documentary about open source. There’s a powerful narrative in offering an alternative to facebook, google, etc. ‘We don’t actually need any of it’. Point: raised awareness does not necessarily create. Lots of people are concerned about privacy. ## Main takeaways Organize an open source strike increase solidarity Create a documentary to inform people Start a religion, lobbying group Incentivized donations (bigger donations give bigger rights? patreon) Feedback from audience: Great idea with religion - religion is the opposite of economy, a place where exchange is not measured. Religion is mostly focused on *giving service*" 2,69513,2020-01-28T13:39:08.460Z,66687,anon3279118466,anon658983266,"I initiated/lead this discussion and have since also discovered gitcoin.co/grants, which is extensively used by the Ethereum community to fund public goods. The Ethereum Foundation have contributed a matching pool of $100,000 which is distributed using quadratic funding. It's now in its fourth iteration, and the third one was reviewed by Vitalik Buterin here: https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/10/24/gitcoin.html I could imagine something similar being created but with matching from the EU or other government institutions (perhaps earmarked for particular categories of open source) with great effect on the sustainability of open source." 3,69538,2020-01-28T20:01:45.132Z,69513,anon658983266,anon3279118466,"Thanks @anon3279118466! I panon2926706121d a few people on scuttlebutt about this. Probably copied you, I don't know :laughing:" 4,69542,2020-01-28T22:05:24.987Z,66687,anon3449369942,anon658983266,"@anon658983266 @anon3279118466 @anon683229855 @anon3031202475 So I did a twitter search for ""open source maintainers"" and discovered a treasure trove of resources, activities etc that might be of use for this discussion: https://twitter.com/search?q=open%20source%20maintainers&src=typed_query" 1,54203,2019-05-30T09:51:47.044Z,54203,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"_This is not written by me, but by my colleague Eduard for Coda Story's newsletter. I'm sharing this, because I think he touches on some things that are pertinent to the discussion we've been having here, and I'd be interested to hear what you think about smart cities:_ This week, we published a story from Nafeez Ahmed about [the American and other foreign companies that helped build China’s “smart cities.”](https://codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-scramble-for-china/) Those smart cities have become a feature of Xinjiang’s police state that now [persecutes Uyghurs](https://codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uyghur-women-fighting-china-surveillance/). It’s a story about the dark side of a seemingly well-intentioned urban planning paradigm. Smart cities are supposed to be the bright future of high-density living, but China’s government has been using this technology for human rights violations. But does it really take an authoritarian government to bring out the dark side of smart cities? In the past few months, I’ve had a Google alert going for “smart cities,” hoping to keep abreast of where things are going. Almost every link Google sends me is celebratory, even utopian. Just this week, I’ve been sent articles calling smart cities the “Future of Urban Development” and a “Smart Future for Smart People.” But there has been criticism as well, and a key one centers around a process that has seemingly anon222512824 overlap with China’s drive to build a surveillance state: the rise of “surveillance capitalism.” Harvard’s Shoshana Zuboff, who coined the term, sees smart cities as a way for tech companies to expand the logic of surveillance capitalism – the endless accumulation of data to predict and modify human behavior for the benefit of advertisers – into the city. Google’s projects in Toronto and New York, for example, have seen the installation of advertising technology on sidewalks, alongside free internet access kiosks. In other words, the logic of ad-supported platforms – free services in exchange for data – is literally being transferred onto the sidewalk. As David A. Banks puts it in [a recent column for Real Life Magazine](https://reallifemag.com/built-to-shill/), “With the surveillance technologies built into their Toronto and Hudson Yards projects, Google does to these buildings what they made billions doing to the internet: monitoring advertising opportunities.” Chinese-style smart city police states may be on the horizon in the West. In the U.S., for example, one could imagine ICE using smart city tech to track migrants in border zones. But another more immediate threat, the privatization of public space for profit, as in Google’s Sidewalk Labs project, is already happening." 2,54207,2019-05-30T11:47:17.643Z,54203,anon1505367078,anon2926706121,"This topic has been the subject of some of the salons organized by @anon4261882768. Rob, do you have any insights to share?" 3,54212,2019-05-30T12:19:41.682Z,54207,anon4261882768,anon1505367078,"Hi Hugi, Inge, Yes, a lot. Best in a workshop. Inge, where are you based? Rob" 4,54213,2019-05-30T12:24:11.313Z,54212,anon2926706121,anon4261882768,"I'm - unfortunately - based in Tbilisi, Georgia (unless you're planning one there ;) ). Any chance they've been recorded and can be seen online, or are they written up somewhere? Know my colleagues would also be very interested (based in Philadelphia and Tbilisi). And, think the subject deserves a discussion in Internet of Humans topic, as in how can IoT and Smart Cities **work towards helping people** without massively invading their privacy? How safe is data that is collected from being hacked?" 5,54215,2019-05-30T12:35:10.915Z,54213,anon1505367078,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:4, topic:10031""] I’m - unfortunately - based in Tbilisi, Georgia [/quote] Georgia is fantastic, so I'm not sure this will be unfortunate in the long run! This is a true benefit of being remote first and working online/offline – voices from outside of the usual suspects in the old affluent cities of Western Europe." 6,54217,2019-05-30T12:37:02.831Z,54215,anon2926706121,anon1505367078,"well, unfortunate in the sense that we don't have salons (yet?!) on IoT by Rob ;)" 7,54222,2019-05-30T13:29:04.665Z,54217,anon4261882768,anon2926706121,"Tblisi is not EU unfortunately but I will be in Tbilisi for sure in the coming years, it seems to new Berlin in a way I hear. This is a good start :slight_smile: I soon realized that things were serious. I couldn't believe that such a scenario of “connecting everything with everything” was now being put forward as a positive systemic framework for the entire planet. Realizing that the desired outcome was individuating all objects and embedding reading and sensing capabilities in a subgroup, I started looking into the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Global Object Name Service (ONS) schemes of building an ONS for all objects and goods. I saw hardware costs fracture and hardware boards in cheap print, and I found myself in a very curious state from 2000 to 2004. Then RepRap, the brainchild of Adrian Bowyer (later giftwrapped by MIT as Fab Lab), hit the street, and open hardware 3D printing started taking over manufacturing. In response, I cofounded Bricolabs in 2004 with Denis “Jaromil” Roio of [dyne.org](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/dyne.org), Felipe Fonseca of MetaReciclagem, Bronac Ferran of the Arts Council England, and Matt Ratto ([http://criticalmaking.com](http://criticalmaking.com/)). Hackers and activists began to formulate positive visions of agency over this space (https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brico). One example of such agency is the Dowse network appliance ([http://dowse.eu](http://dowse.eu/)), a building-block resulting from the work of [dyne.org](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/dyne.org). At the time, I would think to myself, “OK, there is a Matrix plan. It is un-hackable. It is like air. Should we go off the grid? Or do we have our own agency?” https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8090451" 8,54224,2019-05-30T13:33:22.252Z,54203,anon1505367078,anon2926706121,"To bring in some of the ongoing conversations in around the block, as I understand them: One perspective on how to address this is to try to integrate smart contracts, distributed data models and IoT technology to keep the sensor data contextual, rather than have it flow into huge datasets controlled by companies or governments. Many groups around the world are experimenting with this. In many ways, I don't see many other ways forward. Sensors connected to networks *will* be everywhere in just a few years, that is pretty much inevitable at this point. Benefits are too huge for governments and companies to ignore. What needs to happen is that a ""human-centric"" model that keeps your data in the context where it belongs, and secured by smart contracts and cryptography, becomes good enough and open enough that it just makes sense for companies and governments to use it. Making such sensory data available to anyone who wants it, and making it irreversibly linked to contracts that only allow its use in limited contexts, is one approach to reap the benefits while doing some damage control to avoid complete dystopia. In broad terms, every time data is 'emitted' by a sensor, that data would be coupled to a contract in a distributed ledger (like a blockchain), available to everyone. Decoding the data can only be done by negotiating the contract to gain access to a key with which to decrypt it." 9,54225,2019-05-30T13:42:23.985Z,54224,anon4261882768,anon1505367078,"Yes, that is the kind of argument that is helpful to my work. I am building that in a coherent framework of three Taskforce, one on Entitlements (was identity), one on Architectures (especially 5G) and one on Services (including blockchain). Anyone who wants to be on these very low very low mail mailinglists, just sending notes and briefings as a lot of people there (like all of us) are way too busy, is welcome just mail me at kranenbu at xs4all.nl I can understand a lot of feelings and first impressions of Millennials about what looks like to them a connected world 'all of a sudden' or a situation that can be 'avoided'. Me and friends confronted that as a situation 20 to 15 years ago and have been painstakingly working towards creating building blocks for the best possible b lance between centralization and decentralization. We look at that world in a realistic way, meaning there is no romantic way out, no naive escape, of course if you want there is still a temporary bubble you can build with a few friends - but we are working for the best and most inclusive zone of connectivity for everybody, every person and as we pay taxes in Europe, that for us is Europe." 10,54226,2019-05-30T13:48:51.367Z,54225,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"if you are interested you can look at my text from 2008: We need to move to debate further from this seemingly deadlocked polarised state it appears we are at now. Distributing yourself as data into the environment has been the revolving wheel of progress for our conceptions and applications of technology. Location-based, real-time – services, applications to strengthen communities, and the capacity to generate high quality data in information overload, these are all possibilities within a wired connected environment that need serious exploration and research. In Art and Agency, an Anthropological Theory47, Alfred Gell puts emphasis “upon art as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others”. He defines volt sorcery as the “practice of inflicting harm on the prototype of an index by inflicting harm on the index, for example, sticking pins into a wax image of the prototype”. In Gell’s theory the index is located in the region where the sphere of agency (the primary agent) overlaps with the vulnerability of thecausal milieu of the recipient. In our case the index is located in the region where the sphere of agency of the firmware on the hard disks (control) overlaps with its openness to different practices and interpretations by the hive software. The question is, can we immobilize or reformulate the subject (the set of business practices and real people articulating their agency through these business practices of patents and intellectual property laws) in this way? Seizing and scheming towards this opportunity to make sense, to have fully analyzed and grasped a situation – such as the recent individual agency in open source content-networks-software and hardware – will not lead to major organizational, political, and design breakthroughs, if we are not able to fully grasp the trajectory from thing as gathering places for spaces and discussion, from ‘matters of concern’: “A heuristic use of the term ‘thing’ has also been adopted by Bruno Latour, who, after Heidegger, has worked to transform the semantic emphasis of ‘things’ from ‘matters of concern’. Drawing on older etymologies in which ‘thing’ denoted a gathering place, a space for discussion and negotiation; Latour has rehabilitated this sense of the term as a way out of the twin cul-de-sac of constructivism and objectivity”. The story is no longer metaphor, no longer as if or ‘as’ something else, no, the story is the thing now, it is the protocol. https://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/notebook2_theinternetofthings.pdf" 11,54229,2019-05-30T13:52:18.230Z,54226,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"and sorry if it is a bit long but it has been a while I looke at it and it actually I think makes a lot of sense now :) I can use it: 0. In order to find productive principles we will have to make two moves; one is to go back to the arguments that led to l’Encyclopédie of Diderot et d’Alembert and see if we can find through their arguments a way to unthink and undo the classification as default (every object on the planet can have its own ip address with IPv6)57 and the other one is to find a way to articulate as performative practice the idea of a parallel movement without recursing to a mode of opposition based on anti classification , or oppositional ways of working. Jean Le Rond d’Alembert writes in Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot:“... it is perhaps among the artisans that one should go to find the most admirable proofs of the sagacity, the patience, and the resources of the intellect. I admit that the greater part of the arts has been invented anon222512824 by anon222512824 and that it has taken a very long period of centuries in order to bring watches, for example, to the point of1 ![page43image2977713424|19.560000x9.000000](blob:https://edgeryders.eu/76dc95c4-8d22-4355-b035-84404f72be9d)![page43image2977713424|19.560000x9.000000](blob:https://edgeryders.eu/76dc95c4-8d22-4355-b035-84404f72be9d)![page43image2977713424|19.560000x9.000000](blob:https://edgeryders.eu/76dc95c4-8d22-4355-b035-84404f72be9d)![page43image2977713424|19.560000x9.000000](blob:https://edgeryders.eu/76dc95c4-8d22-4355-b035-84404f72be9d) perfection that we see. But is it not the same for the sciences? How many discoveries which immortalized their authors were prepared for by the work of the preceding centuries, even having been developed to their maturity, right up to the point that they demanded only one more step to be taken? And not to leave watch-making, why do we not esteem those to whom we owe the fusee, the escapement, and the repeating works [of watches] as much as we esteem those who have successively worked on perfecting algebra? Moreover, if I can believe those philosophers who do not so despise the mechanical arts that they refuse to study them, there are certain machines so complicated, and in which all the parts depend so much on each other, that it is difficult to imagine that the invention would be due to more than one man”. Not only is the mechanical seen as a collaborative effort and process, but the mechanical arts are thought on the same conceptual level as the arts and the sciences, especially because the knowledge gained and the theories put forward build upon layers and layers of collaborative practical experience. The project of the Encyclopédie is the starting point for all questions relating to the Enlightenment and “the project of the modern library itself”. Yet does this mean that there is no other reading possible in the intentions of the authors of this paradigm of classification? Le Rève d’Alembert (1769, first published 1820) shows that for Diderot seeing the world no longer as God but as machine, and seeing Nature as a giant evolutionary organism that is never static but always experimenting, is not contradictory at all. Maybe the process of and will to classify is not the key to begin to dismantle neoliberal capitalism. But if not, then what? According to Jens Kastner: “However the transnational guerilla may be seen as a try to overcome the frequencies of fields between art and activism described by Bordieu. The respectively own logics of production of theory, art and also politic actions show overlapping and entanglement. This is the basis where it is meant to prepare - however not by identical closements or prefaced contextless communities. But as a transnational guerilla”. * - The intrinsic bridge between artistic and social movements offers possibilities to overcome the structural hurdles between these two. * - Universalism as imaginary (the re-connecting of universalism has a certain source in negation of the existing, which defines the artistic internationalism. This is followed by transnational guerilla, as criticism and as an alternative model to the universal community. * - Zapatista self-management and tactics (“Intergalactic meetings against neoliberalism and pro humanism/the human race”, where a few thousands guerill@anon the chiapanestic jungle (1996) and also in Spain (1997) met, can be seen without hesitation as the birth hour of the globalization-critical movements. It can also be understood as the starting point of the Transnational Guerilla. * - Global mobilisation (in a normative regard transnational guerilla means to step across national borders and at the time it is also a moment of movement beyond traditional or geographic bonds. This is exactly what the TG is trying to archieve: to ![page43image2977713424|19.560000x9.000000](blob:https://edgeryders.eu/76dc95c4-8d22-4355-b035-84404f72be9d) create a transnational mode of movement out of the artistic internationalism of the 1960’s. * - Multiplicity (For this collective and de-discriminating action a decisive hint is necessary, [which can also be described as] the temporary mark, the come across, the masks of the Zapatistas, the exposing of one’s mode of existence. * - Parallel action (to speak about TG arises the assumption to be part of a minority: not to assign oneself to a suppressed group for reasons of misinterpreted political correctness, but to conclude oneself, to understand oneself as part of a just temporarily secret broad community. * - Pragmatic activism (TG is not a so far un-perfect or an up to now uncomplete community, neither an historical horizon to be fulfilled. It leaves basic illusions behind re-supplied by Agamben, Baumann and Holloway, is coming from zapatistic riots (we are you behind our masks) and is learning from its’ own artistically practices. But it has to be understood as a gutsy, temporary rout not limited to national borders.All these qualities have been coined and developed from a different mindset and frame of thought, culminating in Bricolabs, the collaborative narrative of individuals that investigate, exploit and prototype the loop of open source software, content, spectrum and hardware. Unlike Jens Kastner our trajectory to these qualities as a possible reality for ‘uncapitalism’ on a global level did not unravel itself through an investigation of the common denominators in the oppositional positions that have all claimed in some way or another the predominance of becoming/das Tun/anti-classification. Our trajectory to these qualities comes from the realisation that old and new technologies such as RFID, biometric identification schemes (gait recognition, intelligent tracking video cameras and on chip DNA testing), active sensor schemes in logistics, clothing, home - are in the process of creating a real world in which connectivities expand beyond our conscious schemes and protocols of interaction. https://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/notebook2_theinternetofthings.pdf" 12,54280,2019-05-31T04:25:56.162Z,54229,anon2926706121,anon4261882768,"Oh wow, this is really extensive, thanks so much @anon4261882768! I need to wrap my head around this a anon222512824 bit more - but the overall idea is: we can't ""stop"" it, but it has to be done on our terms (super simplified of course). The one thing I wonder then, is what about authoritarian regimes? The technology will be anywhere, and as mentioned above in the piece on Uyghurs, the surveillance tech used is devastating (some even call it a genocide)." 14,54285,2019-05-31T06:37:54.635Z,54280,anon1514803743,anon2926706121,"I'm interested too in the vein of ""we can't stop it so how do we steer it"" and I wonder what the options are to address the issues. Some ideas for consideration: 1. Create standards and influence design of smart cities to protect/enhance humanity (very hard) 2. Educate people about these technologies and how to interact with them or possibly avoid them 3. Sabotage the technologies eg blocking the sensors (dangerous, expensive) 4. Explore the benefits of living in cities and look for ways to introduce these benefits to local more distributed communities so that living in cities isn't the only perceived option Personally I like the idea of (4) as it's a move away from centralisation, I think we need to decentralise physically as well as digitally. But realistically it feels to me that education and campaigning are feasible initial steps and that might lead towards (1) where standards, policies and controls have been design specifically for humanity. You are right, technologies often get abused - Facebook is a great example. I wonder what standards and controls would be considered at the conception of Facebook if they knew what they know now." 15,54286,2019-05-31T07:25:57.258Z,54280,anon4261882768,anon2926706121,"Dear Inge, Yes, that is extremely simplified but true. And to get to this level of simplicity took me and a lot of networks twenty years of fighting against the grain, and being misunderstood, as if we would be on the side of the Matrix, where in fact to us the potential for emancipation and a better balance between centralization and decentralization was on par with seeing animals, humans, machines and the planet itself as a caring and sustaining ecosystem. #IoT means transparency and exposing overhead and corruption. The balance I seek, was very well described by Malatezsta and Machno and can also be described as anarchocommunism (open on the services, closed on a public commons infrastructure). The current NGI 3step plan is exactly that. My interest lies in building a stable political zone of human machine complimentarity, supporting humans in what they do best: ultimately Nietzsche's love and shame and for #IoT full resource management as our only chance against Climate Change. This may be hard to grasp for people who are different than me, and most are. Most people have specific self interest. Mine is simply to be continue living in a stable society. That requires new political models and new political leadership. One of the first public mentions to my plan to turn the passport into a device is 2011: https://robvankranenburgs.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/a-proactive-vision-on-a-full-internet-of-things-where-the-lights-are-on-all-is-transaction-and-engineered-narrativity/ Ofcourse if I had a butanon2317280404 I would stop all of this technology now, I would push it. But for now this text http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0504/msg00026.html I still think it is valid. That means the logical trajectory now if we do not act is 500 smart cities aka military zones and Mad Max in between. I do not want to live in neither. So, Inge, you see, that without taking control the drivers of the digital transitions our societies can not survive. I live in a simple street. I would like to keep living three and be abler to take a train and have a coffee in a bar. That is all. Again, hard to understand if you are of a different sensibility that I have no other interest in this then general interest. The selfish aspect lies in the fact that this stable society enables me to work and live as I want, quiet and simple. My friends and my networks are willing to take up that position, to build leadership in a fully connected world. I hope edgeryders do too. Otherwise it is very easy from our own cosy and sheltered positions ( me too!) to say how bad it all is, and how afraid we are of the Matrix. That's too simple for us. Now to your specific question. I see a pattern there, interesting. To me, all current systems are dysfunctional. Hence we need to build better ones. That is my sole objective. The world is full of terrible political features. If you are not careful you can get depressed by simply looking at one. What can you do? In Georgia the most repressing and backward laws are voted on abortion. Why not stage protest there? Extremely necessary! The USA is one of the few countries where inmates pay for their own imprisonment and Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/typhus-tuberculosis-medieval-diseases-spreading-homeless/584380/ My good friend Pieter is currently on the Maker Faire in SF with his invention for a tent for the Homeless: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/70286/ Oh, there are some many things to not sleep over. Israel effectively has Gaza under virtual control and actually wage war by extra legal killings. Europe itself is strongly reproached: https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/01/21/no-escape-hell/eu-policies-contribute-abuse-migrants-libya https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/05/libya-shameful-eu-policies-fuel-surge-in-detention-of-migrants-and-refugees/ Yes, people worry, and so can I. But, we are in the Strategy CSA of the Next Generation Internet at the moment and from us new architectures and new ways of seeing are expected that work back from a position of full connectivity to building the best and most inclusive zone of care for ALL (human beings, animals, machines, plants and the planet). Ours if not to bite one bullet, focus on one situation existing now and extrapolating from that or excluding building blocks. In the previous eetings we realized that without a system perspective actively taking control of all these building-blocks a commercial social credit system is already forming as we speak combined of commercial services embedding dynamic pricing on commercial algos , the mapping behavior sets that are downloadable in JSON format from coelition.org embedded soon if not already in voice and camera supported services in home, shop and hospitals. The Matrix is already here, everywhere. Our job is to find the pressure points of agency and make it work for all of us, meaning we find a way (and wade are finding it) to not have a subset of people and machines looking at all the data but open it up in such a way that e v e r y o n e is able to see all the data realtime, thus brokering new notions of mediation, and conflict management and that is where all skills and expertise can found in anarchist literature, Greetings, Rob" 16,54287,2019-05-31T07:34:12.844Z,54285,anon4261882768,anon1514803743,"These four points are great! And I think I can assist with starting points for all, let me work on it a bit and I get back to you on this next week, Rob." 17,54290,2019-05-31T07:55:53.999Z,54285,anon4261882768,anon1514803743,"Hi Tom, are you in London next Wednesday? Want to join us at UCL? Check https://www.theinternetofthings.eu/open-invitation-how-can-we-bring-realistic-positive-story-accepts-techno-political-influence-and and drop me a mail at rob at dyne.org" 18,54296,2019-05-31T09:48:56.838Z,54290,anon1514803743,anon4261882768,"Hey Rob, thanks for the invite. I won't be in London sadly. Your debate is an interesting one and certainly starts to address the trend in innovation that is attractive to our governments and large corporate organisations, the risks such as the one Inge points out have catastrophic implications. From your link ""We are experiencing the last potential zone of transition with humans in full control and planning agency."" - I'm under the impression that's it's more the capitalist machinery now that's in full control and removing the human element from that is inevitable. I think I've tried to influence from within which is what I think you are working with too and for me I've been repeatedly crushed. I wonder if there is another way? I've mentioned in [another post](https://edgeryders.eu/t/humanity-has-two-existential-threats-our-disregard-for-the-environment-and-our-disregard-for-eath-other/10041) what I feel are the real issues we face and I'm not sure how these innovations solve them. [quote=""anon4261882768, post:15, topic:10031""] Ofcourse if I had a butanon2317280404 I would stop all of this technology now, I would push it. [/quote] This is more for what I stand for. But it's not realistic at the moment, the only time we will stop at scale is when there is incentive (through force | desire) to do so. If we wait for top-down direction based on the “their” opinion of “when we have to do it” it will be far too late and any solution thereafter is likely to be the wrong one driven by the wrong values, and fear. But maybe we can tap into the desire to do so, bottom-up. The Armish for example live simple lives and in contrast to popluar belief with technology. They ride in horse and carriage because all of them can do so equally, they use electricity because it is a utility accessible to all of them, they do not have tractors because their neighbour could buy a bigger tractor and competition would enter their community. Each new technology available to them is considered and either integrated or rejected. Their value systems are different to the majority of the western world and they know how to ""stop"" or rather not even start. I believe we need to have something similar, a set of values and standards to refer to when considering if we _need_ 5G and smart sensors, etc, the real impact on humanity and if we need them the controls and constraints around them for their purpose. Though I have be mistaken for a Luddite I really am not, I simply call for a more cognitive decision making process based on human-centric needs when considering whether we ""should"" rather than whether we ""could"". [quote=""anon4261882768, post:15, topic:10031""] My interest lies in building a stable political zone of human machine complimentarity, supporting humans in what they do best: ultimately Nietzsche’s love and shame and for #IoT full resource management as our only chance against Climate Change. [/quote] I appreciate the mention of Nietzsche. I fully back a need to manage resources more carefully. A project I set up a few years ago which I need to restart aims at[inspiring the next generation of ecologically aware creative technologists](http://www.adventurelabs.co.uk/2017/11/27/a-mission-working-towards-2050/) to do just that in ways we haven't yet thought of. It feels like we are concerned and challenging the same issues from slightly different standpoints. I'm currently trying to avoid London atm, I'm living out in the hills of the Peak District as part of my effort to decentralise and also focus on the natural environment around me. I'd would like to meet up (remotely or in person, maybe in Georgia if we could fund the travel) at some stage to consider our current positions and how they might compliment each other in a simplified and unified approach. Maybe @anon2926706121 would be interested in that conversation too and maybe it is something to consider for the festival. I think one of our tasks would be to simplify the heuristics and collaborate on an accessible concept derived from our collective concerns, understandings and approaches - though it may also turn out that we have a need to continue our different approaches. Would there be interest in this from others?" 19,54306,2019-05-31T11:17:02.109Z,54296,anon4261882768,anon1514803743,"""I think I’ve tried to influence from within which is what I think you are working with too and for me I’ve been repeatedly crushed. I wonder if there is another way?"" You were clearly (way) too early. I think it is more about timing. Now is the time for these arguments. I am studying the Amish too, for example, this kind of thinking runs parallel. If you read http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/108 and just check out the last page you see we were/are on a similar track. We just keep on keeping on making the arguments until the threshold of seeing this as more normal is reached. This is happening, so now is a time to push again. It feels like we are concerned and challenging the same issues from slightly different standpoints. Totally! Very happy to have this conversation. Looking to forward to keep this conversation going, Greetings, Rob" 21,54310,2019-05-31T12:03:23.946Z,54306,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Let me do that for you Last page: To finish and to instigate a discussion, we propose a series of indicative standards that test the waters, raise awareness and make visible the gap between where we are now and where have to go. The triple challenges of climate change, peak oil and social breakdown are coming. The question is not if, but when. Our standards are a shock therapy to the current practice of making. The sociability standards are workable and stem directly from the urgen- cies we have discussed. They will ensure interoperability between all the emerging actors. They require the joining of different actors that so far have not been involved in the making of standards. All technological standards are also social standards. Proximity • Systems that are designed by at least twenty people distributed across the world. • Systems that are built less than 150 miles from where the raw materials are sourced. • Systems that will not be deployed more than 50 miles from where they are built. • Systems whose components are modular and backward compatible to allow local repair, upgrade and downgrade. system Thinking • Systems that fix end costs as a percentage on top of publicly available production, transportation and disposal costs. • Systems that communicate the break down of energy costs of pro- duction, transport and breakdown of the product. • Systems that automatically generate a fixed, public discussion u r lfor each item. Affect • Systems that encourage face-to-face contact.• Systems that build mutual responsibility. • Systems that encourage conflict. • Systems that during their lifetime will be used by more than 5 people.• Systems that enable strong bonds between people and the environment.• Systems that treat resources as equals." 22,54311,2019-05-31T12:08:24.402Z,54296,anon2926706121,anon1514803743,"you're very welcome in Tbilisi, Georgia (or countryside, I myself as well have moved out of the city to be more in nature) - and I'd gladly help organize something like that! And also with regards to the festival, count me in with thinking about it more and designing something. Likewise, interested to hear what others think of smart cities, IoT, and the impact on our private and collective lives - and how/what to propose." 23,54369,2019-06-02T07:18:57.429Z,54310,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Dear Tom, On you four points that you propose “Create standards and influence design of smart cities to protect/enhance humanity (very hard)’ In projects like Tagitsmart we have worked towards standardization of smart tags and product passports so as to have a chance to go to full recycling and circular economy In retail. A very small steps but small steps is what it is. Projects like Sociotal.eu, D-CENT, DECODE, Commonfare http://pieproject.eu is to demonstrate that all technological standards are social standards, so what was thought up theoretically a decade ago now becomes practice. Again, not fully ortganised, this is the flow of things. In Barcelona, Amsterdam and NY these notions of data privacy and commons are put into action. Amsterdam is in our current CSA. WE will make a Digital Signature for a 5G Architecture real. We propose grey zones (current 3G/4G) hot spots (dedicated 5G zones) and cold spots. Some people in edgeryders seem to me more about disconnecting, then connecting which surprises me but is actually anon4292955258 good as it forces us to have this discussion deep and in the open. Nice! I am preparing salons on hot spots but also on cold spots (one with Brussel based https://ps.lesoiseaux.io As I think all three type of zones are our responsibility as architects of hybridity. You and others are very welcome to join that cold spot (no 'connectivity/wireless') workshop. In the 5G workshops in my Task Force Infrastructures we address exactly this issue. You are very welcome to join. I can also send you the notes: ""How can we ensure not making the same mistakes as with the (failed) smart city (applications), but co-create services in the vertical applications (body/health, home/energy, car/sharing, region/collective intelligence) with all stakeholders including citizens? In this workshop we want to investigate the procedure of embedding these ideas and requirements in a Digital Signature for the Infrastructure. This has the important bonus it no longer matters who hosts the data and which platforms it runs, as the liability, accountability, procurement, GDPR and Cybersecurity Act compliance is in situational contracts (term Christian Nold), thus ensuring the new insights (fostering new services) stay well known to all stakeholders. In earlier workshops of NGI Forward WP3 the realization was made that in these 5G environments all entities (whether persons, goods, objects or situations) will be given federated and temporary identities, as in the case of an accident with the connected car in which all ‘stakeholders’ (the car, the person, the lantern pole that is hit, the water that the crashes into that is polluted…) receive temporary identities the ensemble of which becomes the ‘virtual accident’ the liability and accountability is administered on. Currently eIDas is the digital signature for persons, GS1 is providing product codes (‘passports’) for goods and coelition.org is mapping and numbering everyday activities. In these environments AI will run in the network and robotic capabilities are built in to function semi-auanon2317280404omously, the agency to name the combinations of the temporary and federated (attribute-based) identities will be vital to creating new services. Currently this agency is in the hands of GAFA and BAT. In the case of architectures the first Salon put forward four building blocks. The first is that in an Internet of Humans, or Next Generation Internet, trust can be tokenized but only within a situation of already established trust between people, meaning there has to be a social understanding before it can be technically articulated, can we talk about communities and everyday life. The second is successful anticipatory regulation: “joint-up multidisciplinary regulation through collaboration platforms on AI that include startups, think-tanks and academia, large and medium-sized companies, governments and their ethics commissions, civil society and activists.”The third is to explore building institution like entities with the concepts of data utilities and the work of Neil Lawrence and Sylvie Delacroix who propose data trusts as a bottom-up mechanism whereby data-subjects choose to pool their data within the legal framework of the Trust. The fourth is to include potential third-party trust providers are seemingly neutral organizations that have a large member base organized around for example mobility (in the Netherlands the ANWB has a membership of 4.446.528 (1-1-2017). In January 2018, for example, the various accounts of FC Barcelona surpassed 180 million engagements worldwide. One could also consider alumni groups of different schools."" ""Educate people about these technologies and how to interact with them or possibly avoid them"" Avoid them? You seriously think that is an option? Where on the planet would you go? I think that is not an option at all. Our job, at least in the CSA NGI for which I am making the case here that is paid with public money of European taxpayers), it is not an option at all to have as a strategic assessment to the European Commission that we should learn Millennials and Igens and older people who can no longer use analogue means for a lot of administrative purposes, to avoid IoT, Big Data, AI, biotech, smart phones, to avoid new technologies. What is the advise? Dress up in aluminium foil? Of course edgeryders is bigger then this project and if the aim of edgeryders is to explore these options (that I also described but discarded as the Unabombers fiction of ‘going back to nature’ in 2007, I was discarding that as a strategic option for society as a whole and people taking responsibility as leaders for the whole of society. It is of course perfectly possible as an individual option, but then it is a personal choice with a very limited strategic or educational aspect. ""We have seen the end of the guerilla, as being on the move now is not different anymore than staying in one place and securing it. At the outer ends of this kind of opposition we find the ultimate innere Emigration (inner emigration), the suicide of Menno ter Braak, four days after the Germans invaded the Netherlands, and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Menno ter Braak took sedatives and his brother gave him a lethal injection. Drenched in the Nietzschean philosophy of auanon2317280404omy and ever striving to be a homme honnête, he could – being involved in anti-fascist activities from mid-thirties – see the fascist logic of life very clearly and could not envision any way out. The Innere Emigration of intellectuals in the thirties, retreating into ones own mental sphere, not publishing, not speaking in public, was not only unbearable to him, he realized that it had become ontologically impossible. The Unabomber’s strategy – killing three and maiming a further 23 – in trying to get his message across to both a research community and a larger public, has caused a lot of human suffering, landed him in jail and may a have had adverse effects in that the search for him converged new techniques of surveillance. In the end it was his brother that recognised his style. As a core issue in his thinking is his distinction between small-scale technology is technology “that can be used by small-scale communities without outside assistance” and organization-dependent technology is technology that depends on large-scale social organization”. https://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/notebook2_theinternetofthings.pdf P47"" My take on education? I took that challenge in 2010 when I set up April 9 #IoT Day. In ten years over 500 self organized events IoTDay is an open invitation to the Internet of Things Community to set up an event, a lunch, a talk with the neigborhood on what #IoT is and what it means in everyday life for all of us Have taken place https://www.iotday.org I also run, the local #IOT Meetup in Gent, where I live, so I take my responsibility not only on a global scale but locally as well, what else would be the point we are not here for ego or fame - so in over 30 meetups were done over the years. I could do more and having realized that I am now talking with IMEC in Gent to have more structure. https://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Ghent/ ""Sabotage the technologies eg blocking the sensors (dangerous, expensive)"" And ridiculous and fully ineffective. Adding more negativity to the already ongoing negativity is pointless and counterproductive. Any action should be communicative, non violent, non negative and fully from the perspective of dialogue. In France over 60% of all traffic cameras have been destroyed. What is the point of that? Do you really think Google is the enemy, the smart phone is the 'evil'? Would you rather have lived before the internet? When, in 1500, prior to book printing with priests the only ones reading and you being burned for asking can I read a book? Of course it is very sad that the first iterations of the anarchist hippie protocol was taking over by old fashioned greed (Mark Zuckerberg call his first four users dumb fucks) niche intelligence seeing Over The Top openings (intelligence without a heart):Amazon, Uber... and national states like China, Singapore, Malaysia and now quickly Africa, and also US and Europe as all dependencies in, the national states see these surveillance options as a way to sustain their power ( the state - church, Moneyland, military wedding). But and here we differ, you soanon3242181883 seem to think 'it is over', this is the next normal, to me it is just a phase, and there is no doubt in my mind that the aligned sensibilities in favor of sharing, of cooperation, of common sense are winning. ""Explore the benefits of living in cities and look for ways to introduce these benefits to local more distributed communities so that living in cities isn’t the only perceived option"" Absolutely! Do you have links, texts, projects, pointers? Love to hear about them! Greetings and wishing you a very good Sunday, Rob" 24,54661,2019-06-06T16:08:23.703Z,54369,anon2434097920,anon4261882768, I agree that there will be no turning back from these technologies. I like the concept of the cold zone you articulated in another topic. I think such spaces designated like that would be very useful and anon4292955258 civilized really. Advancement of These technologies is inevitable. It won’t be stopped. As you say individuals can turn away. To me as a society I would like to see us figure out how to consciously advance it. And I think the work you were doing is very much in that spirit and in the right direction. 25,54662,2019-06-06T16:09:18.216Z,54661,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,And I don’t think Google is the enemy but I do think that once they went public as a corporation they shifted their focus in ways that I don’t prefer. And I use their services and I am writing this on a smart phone. 26,54668,2019-06-06T18:33:23.776Z,54661,anon4261882768,anon2434097920,"I am very happy to hear that and I think yes we can explore what a cold zone looks like and what a set up be in cities of cold zones and hot spots is exactly what we can do in NGI. Also ""To me as a society I would like to see us figure out how to consciously advance it."" I fully agree with that, that is also what NGI is there for. It can not be just tech push or shareholder value, it has got to mean something. I am always convinced that if a hack is needed it is at system level, building a next normal, building attractors for different drivers, and that is what I see happening." 27,54670,2019-06-06T19:18:23.937Z,54668,anon2434097920,anon4261882768,I would like for those cold zones to be of some decent size. Not like the smokers pen in the airport. 28,54671,2019-06-06T19:46:53.584Z,54670,anon4261882768,anon2434097920,+1. 29,69493,2020-01-28T11:41:04.404Z,54203,anon28068060,anon2926706121,"This interview with Ben Green (and the book he wrote on which it is based) might be relevant to folks here: https://www.opendatasoft.com/blog/interview-with-ben-green-from-smart-cities-to-smart-enough-cities A short blurb from the interview that reflects his general thinking: *""I think that the smart city, as we conceive of it today, lacks a holistic perspective. The common understanding of what it means to become a smart city today does not necessarily include a holistic approach to solve a certain issue. In my book, I describe smart cities as seeing most problems exclusively through “tech goggles”, meaning that there is a tendency of seeing every single social challenge only in terms of technology. Issues are diagnosed as being technological in nature and the solutions to these issues are also seen as exclusively technological.""*" 1,61849,2019-10-21T15:12:23.584Z,61849,anon273015838,anon273015838,"Around many of the threads on this platform where we touched on anything related to ""smart cities"", there's a couple of questions along the lines of ""how bad is it, really"". Below there's an example I just stumbled over, which to me seems to be reasonably representative for what the current state of affairs is. However, before diving in, here's a thing I'd be really interested in: **If you know first hand (or really, really credibly second hand) of the way that decisions around smart cities have been made or are being made in municipalities around the world, could you share the examples? Feel free to leave out any names that might implicate anyone or cause them trouble; this is just meant to collect more examples.** So here goes: [A few months old](https://www.waz.de/staedte/duisburg/chinesischer-it-riese-huawei-ist-fuer-duisburg-ein-risiko-id221223665.html) (and in German), but two points of view that I'll just offer side by side as they pretty much sum up the state of play in smart cities these days. For context, this is about a smart city partnership in which Huawei implement their technologies in Duisburg, a mid-sized German city with a population of about 0.5 million. The (apparently non-binding) partnership agreement includes Smart Government (administration), Smart Port Logistics, Smart Education (education & schools), Smart Infrastructure, 5G and broadband, Smart Home, and the urban internet of things. Note: The quotes and paraphrases are roughly translated from the original German article. Jan Weidenfeld from the Marcator Institute for China Studies: > ""As a city administration, I'd be extremely cautious here."" China has a fundamentally different societal system, and a legal framework that means that every Chinese company, including Huawei, is required to open data streams to the communist party. (...) > > > > Weidenfeld points out that 5 years ago, when deliberations about the project began, China was a different country than it is today. At both federal and state levels, the thinking about China has evolved. (...) > > > > ""Huawei Smart City is a large-scale societal surveillance system, out of which Duisburg buys the parts that are legally fitting - but this context mustn't be left out when assessing the risks."" Anja Kopka, media spokesperson for the city of Duisburg: > The city of Duisburg doesn't see ""conclusive evidence"" regarding these security concerns.The data center meets all security requirements for Germany, and is certified as such. ""Also, as a municipal administration we don't have the capacity to reliably assess claims of this nature."" Should federal authorities whose competencies include assessing such issues provide clear action guidelines for dealing with Chinese partners in IT, then Duisburg will adapt accordingly. The translation is a bit rough around the edges, but I think you'll get the idea: We have experts warning, but the warnings are of such a structural nature that they're kinda of to big and obvious to prove. *Predators will kill other animals to eat.* 🤷‍♂️ By the time abuse or any real issue can be proven, it'd be inherently to late to do anything about it. We have a small-ish city administration that knows perfectly well that they don't have the capacity to do their due diligence, so they just take their partners' word for it. The third party here, of course, being a global enterprise with an operating base in a country that has a unique political and legal system that in many ways isn't compatible with any notion of human rights, let alone data rights, that otherwise would be required in the European Union. And it's along these two axes — imbalance of size and incompatibility of culture — that I think we see the most interesting, and most potentially devastating conflicts: * A giant corporation runs circles around a small-to-mid sized city. I think it's fair to assume that only because of Chinese business etiquette was the CFO of one of Huawei's business units even [flown out to Duisburg to sign](https://cities-today.com/duisburg-signs-smart-city-partnership-with-huawei/) the initial memorandum of understanding with Duisburg's mayor Sören Link. The size and power differential is so ridiculous that it might just as well have been the *Head of Sales EMEA* or some other mid-level manager that took that meeting. After all, for Chinese standards, a city of a population of a half-million wouldn't even considered a [third tier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_city_tier_system) city. Talk about an uneven playing field. * The vast differences of (for lack of a better word, and broadly interpreted) *culture* in the sense of business realities and legal framework and strategic thinking between a large corporation with global ambitions and backed by a highly centralized authoritarian state on one side, and the day-to-day of a German town are overwhelming. So much so, that I don't think that the mayor of Duisburg and his team are even aware of all the implicit assumptions and biases they bring to the table. And it's not an easy choice at some level: Someone comes in and offers much needed resources that you need and don't have any chance to get, desperation might force you to make some sub-prime decisions. But this comes at a price — the question is just *how bad* that price will be over the long term. I'm not convinced that any smart city of this traditional approach is worth implementing, or even *might be worth* implementing; probably not. But of all the players, the one backed by a non-democratic regime with a track record of mass surveillance and human rights violations is surely at the bottom of the list." 2,62677,2019-10-31T15:58:31.807Z,61849,anon3031202475,anon273015838,"Thank you for the post @anon273015838. For those interested in hearing more from Peter about smart cities, he is giving a talk during the Edgeryders Festival in Berlin: https://edgeryders.eu/t/towards-carbon-neutral-smart-cities-call-for-feedback-on-proposed-festival-session/11041" 3,69161,2020-01-22T01:58:09.520Z,61849,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"This Guardian column by Cory Doctorow gets to the heart of the matter with smart cities: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/17/the-case-for-cities-where-youre-the-sensor-not-the-thing-being-sensed "" If we decide to treat people as sensors, and not as things to be sensed – if we observe Kant’s injunction that humans should be “treated as an end in themselves and not as a means to something else” – then we can modify the smart city to gather information about the *things* and share that information with the *people* . ""Imagine a human-centered smart city that knows everything it can about things. It knows how many seats are free on every bus, it knows how busy every road is, it knows where there are short-hire bikes available and where there are potholes. It knows how much footfall every meter of pavement receives, and which public loos are busiest. What it doesn’t know is *anything about individuals in the city* . It knows about things, not people.""" 4,69443,2020-01-27T18:09:24.622Z,61849,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"London begins facial recognition tech. They say the idea is the tech suggests and the officer decides.. http://news.met.police.uk/news/met-begins-operational-use-of-live-facial-recognition-lfr-technology-392451?utm_source=Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a27a1d5dca-Benedict%27s+Newsletter+320&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-a27a1d5dca-70493557&mc_cid=a27a1d5dca&mc_eid=dd5d80e8b2" 1,53347,2019-05-13T05:19:24.337Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-erik-01|690x361](upload://zqt8FYHco4GYZqdg26gwrvTSkpV.png) https://festival.edgeryders.eu/ 28:th November - 10:00 - 17:00+ Södra Hamnvägen 9 (Hus Blivande, [Directions](https://goo.gl/maps/euAuAP2LDFBDrvb6A) here) Lunch included. ### Background and motivation to the workshop Internet, computers and programming is introduced from birth in our children's lives. The current generation is the first, that never will have experienced a world without internet. As coming generations enter the educational system, they are now introduced to tools, thoughts and concepts derived from the digital world. Today, most of them are proprietary - opposite to free and open source. What happens to knowledge in our future digital world if proprietary world views on computers, internet and programming are left unchallenged? Free and open source values, such as transparency, collaboration, freedom and empowerment - are already cornersanon2317280404es in our educational systems. So why don't we apply them when it comes to teaching computers? The hypothesis is that teachers simply don't know enough of how free and open source really is central to knowledge itself. I believe we need to educate teachers and leaders in schools/academia in this area. That is how we change the game for the benefit of future generations of internet citizens. This workshop aims to help to bring together actors in the educational systems with those from the core free and open source landscape. YOU are invited! Together we'll try to find ways to influence the educational system towards open source values. We stage the workshop to learn from joint experiences and develop concrete ways to reach the education system. ### What will you experience? Learn about the cornersanon2317280404es of Free & Open Source and how those are fundamental to learning anything in a digital world. Collaborate on how to reach out to teachers with this message as one important group to win. Have a great time shaping the next generation internet citizens.
# Frequently asked questions ### How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop? Use this form which will take you through the registration process: https://register.edgeryders.eu/ ### How is this event being organised? This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don’t worry. Create an [edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. ### How is this all financed? This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at [https://ngi.edgeryders.eu](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/) ![Ngi logo|150x61](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/ngi-logo.png) ![Eu emblem|150x100](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/eu-emblem.png) ### Does getting involved mean I endorse the funders views or actions? No. What you are doing is contributing to an open consultation on the topic of how to build a next generation of internet infrastructure, technologies, business models etc that promotes the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The consultation methodology is designed in such a way as to allow for diversity of views, premises, disciplines, themes and contexts. We employ open notebook science principles and the results will be presented in the form of a research report accessible to everyone after the event. You can follow the process, review the methodology and open source tech we are using and engage directly with the research and coordination team here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace ### What is the code of conduct? It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to [anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word “better” has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### What happens with my data? You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 2,53352,2019-05-13T08:11:01.885Z,53347,anon529521770,anon683229855,"Sounds like a really good idea. I know a anon222512824, and have some particular idea around FOSS user community. Yes, let's put something together to benefit as many as we can! Simon" 3,53354,2019-05-13T08:49:47.846Z,53352,anon3005076832,anon529521770,"I am in Free and Open Source Software since anon4292955258 a while. I believe I'd have great fun preparing and doing a workshop, but would need proper financial compensation atm." 4,53373,2019-05-13T14:11:32.236Z,53347,anon3809206126,anon683229855,"Hello @anon683229855, I have a question: who do you mean when you write ""our community""? The IOH community?" 5,53379,2019-05-13T14:31:52.117Z,53347,anon1505367078,anon683229855,"[quote=""anon683229855, post:1, topic:9881""] I seek a few people that would like to arrange a joint workshop in teaching our community fundamentals in Free & Open Source. Are you that person? Lets educate. [/quote] I would love to do this with you at Blivande. What a great initiative!" 6,53411,2019-05-13T19:54:35.625Z,53373,anon683229855,anon3809206126,"Oh, well, I'm not to picky about what the community really is. Those that show up I guess." 7,53414,2019-05-13T20:21:57.722Z,53379,anon683229855,anon1505367078,"@anon1505367078 @anon529521770 I see a two step process here: 1. Come together some experts, discuss and produce some material on: ""How do we explain and educate in the four freedoms of FOSS to teachers and students""? 2. Then, a plan on how we run this education through our community in a good and way such as they too can teach others? The rationale for this strategy is: Since computers and programming gets introduced very early in children's lives today - planting FOSS values is of critical importance in how the next generation of internet citizens reflect on software and its use/implementation. Today, they get pumped even in school, with the message from a proprietary world view: ""copyright"", ""limited use"", ""eula:s"", ""trademark"", ""Intellectual property"", ""patents"", ""digtal right managements"", ""activation codes"", ""geo blocking"", etc. etc. etc. These are the things taught in schools today. We, as in IOH, need to work out a means to foster a generation that desire something else and it needs to start with a narrative that can be understood by teachers, students and people not experts in computer science. In my role as Open Source officer at Scanai and board member of Open Source Sweden I can provide contact with higher academics should this develop that way, but its likely best to allow this to grow and develop inside a community that already share these values. I can also provide access to a ""test platform"" in form of a school (Gymnasium, 17-19 years) to test the education. I know a teacher that would love to participate in such a setup. I might even pull strings on the ""Gymnasiechefen"" in Stockholm, who happens to be a relative. These above items are all ""possible"" paths later, but lets start small and create the education for ourselves first?" 8,53415,2019-05-13T20:27:12.585Z,53414,anon1505367078,anon683229855,"Sounds good! We need to find a group that can develop the material. I need to be realistic about what I can offer towards this initiative. [quote=""anon683229855, post:7, topic:9881""] These above items are all “possible” paths later, but lets start small and create the education for ourselves first? [/quote] What I can commit to relating to this program is the following: 1. Providing space at Blivande for seminars, hackathons etc. 2. Participation in workshops 3. Edgeryders and Internet of Humans branding if/when needed 4. Plugging this project into the wider IoH ecosystem" 9,53416,2019-05-13T20:56:23.164Z,53347,anon529521770,anon683229855,"Yes, I can see value in teaching **about** FOSS principles (I'm no great expert here, though I could help work out **how** to teach them -- I can also see value (perhaps even more) in teaching with examples of FOSS projects, illustrating the principles through them. And also, what has also been missing (badly), teaching people about what needs to happen at a social, collaborative level for FOSS projects to work. How much time I am willing to give *pro bono* depends on the alignment here. All good wishes Simon" 10,53429,2019-05-14T08:09:16.094Z,53411,anon3809206126,anon683229855,"Ok, so you mean ""this emergent community here in the Internet of Humans space"" as opposed to, say, ""the tech community in the Nordic countries"", or any other community you might be a part of. Noted. :slight_smile:" 11,53430,2019-05-14T08:10:26.456Z,53414,anon3809206126,anon683229855,"[quote=""anon683229855, post:7, topic:9881""] I can also provide access to a “test platform” in form of a school (Gymnasium, 17-19 years) to test the education. I know a teacher that would love to participate in such a setup. I might even pull strings on the “Gymnasiechefen” in Stockholm, who happens to be a relative. [/quote] Wow, this is really valuable!" 12,53476,2019-05-14T16:48:19.958Z,53347,anon2434097920,anon683229855,Don't free/open source programs run into trouble a lot of the time because the person(s) who created it often move on to other projects and don't support them as they need to migrate to upgraded operating systems and hardware requirements? 13,53522,2019-05-15T10:03:10.994Z,53476,anon3005076832,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:12, topic:9881, full:true""] Don’t free/open source programs run into trouble a lot of the time because the person(s) who created it often move on to other projects and don’t support them as they need to migrate to upgraded operating systems and hardware requirements? [/quote] I assume with ""programs"" you mean smaller open source software projects. It is not difficult to find such situations, but the answer to the kind of ""inverse"" question **is true as well**: ""Doesnt it happen that open source projects can be continued by other person(s) after the original creator(s) do not support them anymore?"". And in contrast to the also often happening event that a **proprietary software product gets the plug pulled out**, at least there is the technical and legal possibility to continue using (or migrating) that specific technology. So, I do not really understand where your question points at. I see a couple of points (maintainer burnout, blind dependency on projects with unclear (future) stories, and all the reasons that lead to failing or abandoned projects). Besides, it is not the programs that run into the trouble, but those users relying on it and not being able to create a situation (or society :) ), where safety nets or a responsibility chain (you are holding one end yourself) are in place for the stuff one relies on. For the tech-savy: some pretty nerdy puns inside: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/7dc7de/what_happens_when_linus_dies/" 14,53538,2019-05-15T14:35:30.492Z,53522,anon2434097920,anon3005076832, Yes you are correct it is true that an open source program of any sort can be carried on by others which is a great virtue and strength. Some of my experience is with nonprofit and other small organizations who are not well funded and go for open source software to save money but like you say it is necessary to have somebody with technical ability to maintain an even move ahead these programs. 15,53542,2019-05-15T15:14:04.527Z,53538,anon683229855,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:14, topic:9881""] Some of my experience is with nonprofit and other small organizations who are not well funded and go for open source software to save money [/quote] Open Source (for humans) - in my opinion - is not about saving anyones money. Its about maintaining a culture of **transparency, collaboration, empowerment and freedom.** Running computer systems, in any form, comes with a cost - be it your time or your money - its equally true. Its true also, that if you don't care - you are still free (under the four freedoms of foss) to USE the software as you please. However, if you think that running/modifying the software comes **without cost**, you need to rethink. Free and Open Source Software has nothing to do with cost. Its about what principles the software operates under. In FOSS software, those principles are ""hacked"" into western copyright law by utilizing a license scheme that guarantee the [four freedoms](https://openedreader.org/chapter/stallmans-four-freedom/) for anyone and mandates that this freedom is passed forward. Its popularly called ""copyleft"", but its really just a hack of the existing anglosaxian copyright. As curiosa on this is that it was not until this year that the chines law recognized open source licenses as valid at all under Chinese law which tells a story about the current copyright legislation and its reach." 16,53566,2019-05-16T01:27:20.305Z,53542,anon2434097920,anon683229855,Well said. 17,53803,2019-05-23T12:48:59.817Z,53347,anon3296142424,anon683229855,"What is the parameter to measure the ""know in depth""? I'm on this world since 1997. Is time a good metric?" 18,53806,2019-05-23T13:39:01.684Z,53347,anon838581715,anon683229855,"@anon683229855 I'm very curious about this. Currently applying for money on how to educate kids and youngsters who have not been reached by existing educational initiatives around coding and software/hardware. Key aspect of the funding applications is having a starting point from FOSS/OSHW in order to widen mentality, thinking and leadership." 19,53828,2019-05-23T18:23:40.772Z,53806,anon683229855,anon838581715,Lets get together and try meet soon? 20,53875,2019-05-24T00:02:48.734Z,53347,anon2434097920,anon683229855,"Hi Erik. @anon1505367078 showed me the transcript of the listening triads from the event in Stockholm. I was anon4292955258 taken with a rather eloquent statement you made there, ""My dream is to have an internet where everything is truly allowed. And it should be easy to choose where to be, if you disagree with something, don't go there."" I wonder if you would be willing to elaborate a bit on this. You had also mentioned monopolies. Do you see monopoly behavior that prevents this? Maybe the key is ""easy to choose where to be."" Maybe it just seems easy, but we get funneled into things without our knowing it?" 21,53931,2019-05-24T14:55:20.556Z,53875,anon683229855,anon2434097920,"Thanx. I think that you in a broad sense need to question which parts of internet you choose to act within. This also boils down to society level. + Where on internet should we put our children who cant separate good from bad, truth from lies? + Where do we invest our common resources to the benefit for whom? + What causes real harm and suffering? + Where do we go for good, love, meaning and all the other existential question that always have made us humans? Perhaps many of your good concerns and questions finds reason in the discussions on this. I dont know." 22,53941,2019-05-24T17:13:37.670Z,53931,anon2434097920,anon683229855,"Regarding kids, I am generally opposed to ""nanny state"" laws that assume parental duties that are in my opinion best left to the parents." 23,54193,2019-05-30T07:18:29.178Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"Here, a perfect example on how we are forced to watch ads: https://m.slashdot.org/story/356372 In my view, this kind of behaviour from govt/corp is what is typical for our internet today. Force feeding of Ads. NO means to escspe." 24,54228,2019-05-30T13:51:49.218Z,53828,anon838581715,anon683229855,"I would love to meet soon. Before summer vacation would be great. Perhaps next week if you're in Stockholm on Mo, Tu or Wed - or the week after? I reckon it would be interesting to visit https://jarvaveckan.se/ on 12th of 13th and explore if there are any software/digital initiatives represented there and willing to talk FOSS. I'm considering hosting a prototype open workshop to flash Android phones with LineageOS.org for folks who wish to get rid of Google's and OEM vendor bloatware. At https://GoTo10.se or similar. I know at least one non-techsavvy person who would be interested in that but I'm also wondering if there could be a crowd and if/how the prototype can be developed for kids/youth to learn more about hardware & devices." 25,54230,2019-05-30T13:52:44.964Z,53803,anon838581715,anon3296142424,I guess time is a great measure - especially if one has continuously has been learning more and deeper or broader knowledge in the field. 26,54231,2019-05-30T13:59:39.482Z,53542,anon838581715,anon683229855,"http://FFKP.se and http://morus.se/ did an interesting study on this comparing proprietary with FOSS in public sector municipality school. The conclusion was something like: it costed the same financially and the migration to FOSS costed time as people had to relearn things they knew well from the proprietary world (similar to Münich's migration to FOSS). However, I it's important to stress that when looking at this there are multiple other capitals that are changing which can be game changers, such as the social capital, as in FOSS with the idea of empowering the user (such as school kids) to read the source code of school systems and learn which opens up for building new intellectual capital and other capitals. This is a huge benefit to FOSS in comparison to proprietary which is not seen within an analysis only comparing the difference between financial capital." 27,54245,2019-05-30T15:28:43.116Z,54231,anon683229855,anon838581715,"[quote=""anon838581715x, post:26, topic:9881""] The conclusion was something like: it costed the same financially and the migration to FOSS costed time as people had to relearn things they knew well from the proprietary world [/quote] I always stress: There is no such thing as a free lunch. FOSS has nothing to do with money. FOSS is about knowledge, freedom, trust/transparency, empowering and maybe a anon222512824 community. I dont care much for the economy personally. There will always be enough people that worry about those aspects. I'm focusing on the Human part of this in this context." 28,54254,2019-05-30T18:12:29.944Z,54245,anon838581715,anon683229855,"[quote=""anon683229855, post:27, topic:9881""] I always stress: There is no such thing as a free lunch. FOSS has nothing to do with money. [/quote] I agree FOSS in itself has nothing to do with money. [quote=""anon683229855, post:27, topic:9881""] FOSS is about knowledge, freedom, trust/transparency, empowering and maybe a anon222512824 community. [/quote] For sure! I'm not too knowledgable about Linux/Debian/Ubuntu communities but from what I understand community seem to be a beneficial variable. Projects with great communities often thrives in comparison to the ones without. [quote=""anon683229855, post:27, topic:9881""] I dont care much for the economy personally. There will always be enough people that worry about those aspects. I’m focusing on the Human part of this in this context. [/quote] Good point. I think the Human part in this context is what can have something to do with community, belonging, a sense of meaning and purpose in contrast to proprietary software that you can't be a part of in the same way." 29,56599,2019-07-13T14:48:26.087Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"I'm going to Borderlands and will be able to host a Open Source workshop to initiate this work. If you are interested let me know and I'll set it up on spot." 30,56911,2019-07-19T20:18:46.725Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"On wednesday at 12:00 there will be a workshop in Kidsville I'll be hostig on the topic. If you are going to Borderlands, just show up." 31,56925,2019-07-20T21:45:07.923Z,56911,anon3809206126,anon683229855,"Noted, @anon683229855, and thanks. I won't be at Borderlands, but of course @anon1505367078, @anon838581715x and the Blivande crowd will be there." 32,56926,2019-07-20T21:51:02.582Z,56925,anon683229855,anon3809206126,@anon3809206126 there will be more =) 33,57053,2019-07-23T16:08:47.070Z,56925,anon838581715,anon3809206126,@anon683229855 I can't be there but I'm happy to take part of any documentation and learnings from the Borderlands workshop. Wish you the best of luck! 34,57798,2019-08-09T11:03:29.586Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"So the workshop was a success at Borderlands with a handfull of participants. I didnt take any notes as it was more of a discussion on the topic. I will try to follow up on this with a second workshop in Stockholm where enthusiasts could meet and try to develop a 'for-teachers' fundamentals of open source. If you are interested in helping me organize it, let me know." 35,57804,2019-08-09T15:41:23.080Z,57798,anon3031202475,anon683229855,@anon683229855 that is very nice to hear! Do you think that workshop you mentioned would be something for the Edgeryders festival? https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-november-19-29-invitation-to-participate-in-co-designing-the-next-gen-internet-track-of-the-program/10450 36,58135,2019-08-19T15:36:19.253Z,57804,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"Its very much so! I am a bit outdated on what this is though. I feel a bit rushed to meet the deadline for submitting. But if I can read up more and check my work schedule by the end of the week to see if it is possible? Is the deadline hard?" 37,58136,2019-08-19T15:47:00.457Z,58135,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"@anon683229855, the deadline is not very hard at the moment. If you can tell us something next week that will also be fine. Which city would work best for you? Is Stockholm a good fit? We are having a community call tomorrow at 18:00 Brussels time to discuss the general directions a bit more. If you want you can join in there to get an idea :). We would love to have you there! https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-call-20th-of-august-your-chance-to-shape-the-edgeryders-ngi-festival/10549" 38,58336,2019-08-25T10:43:03.415Z,58136,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"I am interested and if the dates are in november, it works. But I dont understand 100% how it works. Exact dates. Where it is? Who to contact? How to sign up? How can I help Etc. My topic is ""how we should educate teachers to educate on open source for humans""." 39,58435,2019-08-27T07:36:59.953Z,58336,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"@anon683229855, no problem. The event will be in November and we can be a bit flexible between the 19th and 29th to set up things so it suits those participating. singing in the [sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D_CMPm43FDXg5EE_5zDk6C_A_yG6s25HrH4wPuRRP7I/edit?usp=sharing) as you did is a good start as well as the quick proposal post you made (https://edgeryders.eu/t/register-for-edgeryders-festival/10581/6). looking forward to developing it further with you :)" 40,58567,2019-08-29T13:22:50.759Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"@anon683229855, do you have a (copyrightfree ;)) titel image to put in your first post here? That helps us when pushing the threads out for further engagement which I would like to do with this one in preparation for the workshop :)" 41,58900,2019-09-07T10:53:07.863Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"I've created a ""logo"" for the event on the 28:th november in Stockholm @anon3031202475 ![poster-image-1280-720|690x388](upload://vjiwmtDIXMeFck1XLKsrCqruuN8.png) I hope its what you need. I hope to be able to participate in the online meetings down the road. I've been so locked up in other things I haven't been able to yet." 42,59075,2019-09-10T19:38:17.964Z,58900,anon683229855,anon683229855,"If YOU know any leader of a school or teacher that you think should participate in this event. Help them find me. I need help with outreach and marketing of the event." 43,59091,2019-09-11T08:13:28.863Z,59075,anon1505367078,anon683229855,Do you have a description of the event and what they might learn? 44,59092,2019-09-11T08:52:19.588Z,59091,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,someone to talk to is [Carl Heath](https://www.facebook.com/cwheath) 45,59093,2019-09-11T08:57:46.812Z,59092,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"Some more people to maybe contact? @anon @anon @anon" 46,59094,2019-09-11T09:00:21.738Z,59093,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,Kanske @anon3931191205 har koll? 47,59246,2019-09-13T09:13:23.434Z,53347,anon3449369942,anon683229855,Erik heads up I edited your post to add tags and the location. So when we do outreach people can easily see the context. 48,59269,2019-09-14T08:54:41.814Z,59246,anon683229855,anon3449369942,"I'll produce a description to distribute @anon1505367078 @anon3449369942 @anon3031202475 In short: 1. Learn about the corner sanon2317280404es of Free and Open Source and how those are equally fundamental to learning anything in a digital world. 2. Collaborate on how to reach out to teachers with this message as one important group to win. 3. Have a great time shaping the next generation internet citizens." 49,59288,2019-09-14T16:15:46.710Z,59269,anon3449369942,anon683229855,Do you have it in Swedish too? 50,59291,2019-09-14T19:07:15.281Z,59288,anon683229855,anon3449369942,"1. Lär dig om fundamenten i Fri och öppen mjukvara och hur det hänger ihop starkt med lärande. 2. Med utgångspunkt i detta, var med och hitta vägar att nå ut till lärare och pedagoger som kanske en viktig grupp att nå ut till. 3. Ha roligt medan vi formar nästa generation internetmedborgare." 51,59295,2019-09-15T01:39:05.290Z,59269,anon2926706121,anon683229855,"This is great @anon683229855! Quick question: can you make the text a bit more active? So, instead of ""participants learn,"" you can write ""learn about""." 52,59326,2019-09-16T05:22:22.112Z,59295,anon683229855,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:51, topic:9881""] So, instead of “participants learn,” you can write “learn about”. [/quote] Could you help me out? I'm not sure what you mean. Thanx!" 53,59329,2019-09-16T06:21:51.908Z,59326,anon2926706121,anon683229855," Something like: * Learn about the corner sanon2317280404es of Free and Open Source and how those are equally fundamental to learning anything in a digital world * Collaborate on how to collectively reach out to teachers with this message * Have a great time shaping the next generation internet citizens [/quote]" 54,59337,2019-09-16T07:50:37.777Z,59329,anon683229855,anon2926706121,"Super, I modded." 55,59386,2019-09-16T15:18:16.443Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"@anon683229855, higher up in this thread @anon3005076832 and @anon529521770 showed interest in helping with this project. Are you in contact?" 56,59387,2019-09-16T15:22:45.088Z,53347,anon529521770,anon683229855,"Thanks for noticing that, @anon3031202475 ! Sure, please let me know if I can help. Simon" 57,60076,2019-09-29T04:50:56.106Z,53347,anon3449369942,anon683229855,Erik where would be the most convenient location (city) for you to do this in? 58,60077,2019-09-29T05:46:18.918Z,60076,anon683229855,anon3449369942,"@anon3031202475 has helped me book Huset Blivande in Stockholm. I hope to be able to put more cycles into the preparations the coming weeks..." 59,60078,2019-09-29T05:52:03.925Z,60077,anon3449369942,anon683229855,"yayy, did you guys set the date yet with @anon3031202475 ?" 60,60079,2019-09-29T06:53:53.784Z,60078,anon683229855,anon3449369942,Yes I did. Its on the 28:th November. https://edgeryders.eu/t/learning-about-free-open-source-sweden/9881/41 61,60080,2019-09-29T08:23:42.116Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"HERE is a link with a compilation of the description and some more background etc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HrLuf000bQecPwKhDUD3tNeSStfQp2OvtzN79Rz_Q6o/edit?usp=sharing I'm now at a stage where I need to figure out: [?] How to let participant sign up? @anon3031202475 can you help me? [?] How to reach out to: * Leaders within schools/academia * Politicians related to schools/academia * Experts and people that are already working on this subject * Enthusiasts * Teachers @anon1505367078 @anon3449369942" 62,60105,2019-09-30T04:07:50.604Z,60079,anon3449369942,anon683229855,"Ah ok, great. We have built a website for the festival where people can find aggregated information and where they can sign up for a ticket by filling in a form. The festival site is updated by picking up content from our discourse platform (where we are right now) that is tagged a certain way. So to begin with what you do is creae a new post and copy past the content of the google doc into it. More info here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-festival-website-is-now-online-here-is-how-you-can-add-content-to-it/10825 The way we will be promoting events, pushing out calls for participation and support is to point people either to the festival site or the individual post on edgeryders.eu that contains the information about the event in it. When we do communication outreach we try to think of people who are well connected in the networks where we will find many people we are looking for. And we have to think about the constraints under which people are working. As I understand it, teachers in Sweden are underpaid and overwhelmed with an ever growing burden of tasks. So rather than try to engage them directly, perhaps it makes sense to start with people who have a direct interest in children drawing the benefits of open source? My first hunch would be technologists/ graduates of technical university programs who have children in school that we might want to reach out to. People who work in tech companies in Sweden and have school age children might be a good starting point. What do you think? Are they also likely to be members of some of specific labour unions? Where else might we find them... @anon1505367078 might know about how KTHs Alumni association works? Another could be networks of people living in Sweden who went to schools like Hyper Island or the Chaos Pilots (@anon3931191205 might know if there is an alumni association/ some way of reaching them). Then we know that a lot of people likely to be on linkedin, facebook and instagram. There @anon1686813978 will have a better idea of how to reach out to and engage people via those channels." 63,60131,2019-09-30T09:42:22.780Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,Maybe students currently studying to become teachers would also be interested. 64,60139,2019-09-30T10:29:09.017Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"@anon683229855, 1. Could you either update the first post in this thread with all the relevant information or make a new one topush ut via social media and on the minisite? 2. Regarding the signup: would the signup form we have linked to the get your ticket butanon2317280404 on the minisite work for you? If not, what questions would you need them to answer? (maybe we can add a section about which event you want to join). Or would prefer to have a typeform set up like the one we used for your proposal? If so, send me a list with your questions." 65,60331,2019-10-01T16:28:52.623Z,60139,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:64, topic:9881""] Could you either update the first post in this thread with all the relevant information or make a new one topush ut via social media and on the minisite? [/quote] I'll update the post here. > Regarding the signup: would the signup form we have linked to the get your ticket butanon2317280404 on the minisite work for you? If not, what questions would you need them to answer? (maybe we can add a section about which event you want to join). Or would prefer to have a typeform set up like the one we used for your proposal? If so, send me a list with your questions. I'm not sure which one you mean... Could you be specific with a link? (sorry for not getting it, I've got so many stuff going on in this domain atm)" 66,60335,2019-10-01T17:02:36.002Z,60331,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"we just had a discussion about the signup process and figured that we would like everyone to go through a form on the minisite (the butanon2317280404), but we will modify the questionair so it is clear who signs up for what :)" 67,60336,2019-10-01T17:21:54.055Z,60335,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:66, topic:9881""] on the minisite (the butanon2317280404) [/quote] Which one, I don't understand which butanon2317280404 and where to find it?" 68,60338,2019-10-01T17:30:05.951Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"To make it easier for interested participants to get an overview of the festival programm we set up this site : https://festival.edgeryders.eu/ there is a butanon2317280404 there ""get your ticket"" right on the top of the site, and thats where everyone could sign up :). Currently, people are asked what they would like to help with, we will change that a bit to also ask which events they want to attend specifically ![image|690x459](upload://yPynioRroTTXB5Nd7QmH260UBFL.png)" 69,60339,2019-10-01T17:32:16.681Z,60338,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,this is also where we would like to post a shor one paragraph bio of you and the other organisers :slight_smile:https://edgeryders.eu/t/festival-participant-bios/10905 70,61853,2019-10-21T15:21:10.840Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"Hej @anon683229855, are you facilitating the workshop by yourself or do you collaborate with someone? And could you send us either a picture of yourself or them ""in action"" facilitating creative workshops or such for the flyer? or something else that would work as an image for a flyer like this: ![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-AI-fabrizio-01|690x361](upload://6ikIsTz32JNcrp610hXUHIFuwVk.png) as well a one-sentence pitch to put on there? :)" 71,61909,2019-10-22T08:42:09.437Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,@anon683229855 I finished the flyers for you and replaced the header with one. you can find the files here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lU9ewPpLPOay_ATVEt6GNzTIZit4riH8?usp=sharing 72,61929,2019-10-22T09:08:02.808Z,61909,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,we need the texts on the flyers in Swedish but maybe @anon1505367078 can help with this if he has 5 minutes? 73,61993,2019-10-22T17:01:09.691Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,I can provide the text today. 74,62012,2019-10-22T19:04:17.350Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"@anon3031202475 I've uploaded new images but I'm no artist, so they look kind of crappy - but the text should be alright I think. Let me know if that works. ![NEWTEXT-Edgeryders-Fest-Twitter-1100x628-erik-01|690x393](upload://auGj87tL0nLj03rxIuvLzD9Tfg3.png)" 75,62013,2019-10-22T19:48:41.155Z,62012,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"i can only find the swedish versions there, what about the changes with the englisch ones?" 76,62014,2019-10-22T20:14:44.527Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-erik%20svenks-01|690x361](upload://oYkhbecTFRG93mDH8pkWHBMrYll.png) here is the link to the folder with the swedish versions :) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wxJvyS6kxdZJn9Ng3yHE-Mp6alykCiGv?usp=sharing" 77,62015,2019-10-22T20:17:26.424Z,62013,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"Oh, I kept them unchanged, do you want me to update them? Dont forget the ""?"" in the title? =D" 78,62016,2019-10-22T20:23:55.437Z,62015,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"Ok, great, lets keep the englisch ones like they are if that's ok. Will put the question marks in later anon2317280404ight. overlooked those" 79,62772,2019-11-02T13:14:12.664Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"![|624x327](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/AE4qpAW-3QT8F59O5A5-kkTHC1lsR_txUfnKux4dmTPKxStut8tNn9NpW4mfH02EHwEt0BxEcy7kQQX1Bs9YTv0V5-PTgk7i6MXvICApAAPMwUMKMEygY3ltCOFwoanCB2AWqeaa) https://festival.edgeryders.eu/ 28:e November - 10:00 - 17:00 Södra Hamnvägen 9 (Hus Blivande, [Directions](https://goo.gl/maps/euAuAP2LDFBDrvb6A) här) Lunch och kaffe ingår. **Biljett får du så här:** Surfa iväg hit så tar formuläret dig genom processen att bli registrerad: https://register.edgeryders.eu/ ## Bakgrund till workshopen Internet, datorer och programmering blir idag omedelbart en del i våra barns liv. Kommande generationer, kommer aldrig upplevt en värld utan internet och datorer. I utbildningssystemet, introduceras de för verktyg, tankar och begrepp härledda från den digitala världen. Det är i skolan vi formar mycket av vår världsbild och idag är det mesta av den stängd, trots att den borde vara öppen. Vad händer egentligen med kunskap en digital framtid om en stängd vy på mjukvara och internet får lämnas outmanad i skolan? Fri och öppen mjukvara präglas av transparens, samarbete, frihet och bemyndigande. Etablerade hörnstenar i vårt utbildningssystem. Så varför lever vi inte som vi lär när det gäller det här området som kommer forma våra barn i grunden? Hypotesen är att skolvärlden saknar djup och kunskap hur fri och öppen källkod spelar en central roll i hur kunskapen om den digitala världen fungerar. Att utbilda lärare och ledare på detta område är så vi hjälper kommande generationer att forma nästa generation av internetmedborgare. Agerar du redan i skolvärlden, är ditt deltagande välkommet och kommer du från ett open source engagemang och från mjukvaruvärlden, är din kunskap och erfarenhet central för att forma innehållet. ### Vad kommer du att uppleva? Du kommer få chans att lära om hörnstenar inom fri & öppen mjukvara och hur de är grundläggande för kunskap i en digital värld. Du får möjlighet att dela med dig av din kunskap inom skola, mjukvara eller både och - samt - ta del av andras. Du kommer få samarbeta med experter och entusiaster om hur vi når ut till skolväsendet. Du kommer träffa människor med samma brinnande intresse för att forma kommande generationers internet i en spännande miljö. # Vanlig frågor ### Hur får jag en biljett? 1. Besök https://tell.edgeryders.eu/festival/ticket och fyll i formuläret. 2. S[kapa ett edgeryders konto](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login) och [introducera dig i forumet.](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you). 3. När du introducerat dig på formet, får du en biljett till dig via email. ### Hur organiseras det här? Eventet och festivalen som den är en del av, koordineras på edgeryders-plattformen och utarbetas genom diverse community-videosamtal och diskussioner på Edgeryders forum. Vi har tilldelat en gemensamt förvaltad budget för festivalen och fungerar på solidaritetsbasis. Deltagare som behöver ekonomiskt stöd för att organisera eller delta i festivalen är berättigade under förutsättning att de bidrar till att göra det till en meningsfull och generativ upplevelse för alla - i slutet av, under och / eller efter evenemanget. Om du vill vara med men är osäker på hur du kan bidra, oroa dig inte. Skapa ett edgeryders-konto, berätta lite om dig själv här och vi guidar dig därifrån. ### Hur finansieras det här? Detta event är en del av initiativet NGI Forward Project Generation Internet (NGI), som lanserades av Europeiska kommissionen hösten 2016. Det har fått finansiering från Europeiska unionens forsknings- och innovationsprogram Horizon 2020 under bidragsavtal nr 825652 från 2019- 2021. Du kan lära dig mer om initiativet och vårt engagemang i det på [https://ngi.edgeryders.eu 1](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/) ![Ngi logo|151x61](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/aWEUTjfTHYzzLk-VCveGbT4fJk4WeirWSr4PjYgbJ1bOaQ3Qw36iVmCpy8PmbYkHApger_wixsYW5c0eYILWJpIT0nNFcaT07fZ-0n6LxipoX--yEBH-OT-45ZEGa6duaCpT4a-a) ![Eu emblem|151x100](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/t6XEqjeigoO7bOxBzzBXpurCanP-U6MutJE46PbdwkLula-UTPnNN8pIhA7ZT5aPORVv-40HouCgB9C8fHR8TOwVHMI_vax7kt9WkVjLb9qJtViiWxX28HdgpohHnq6pWniZqSwM) ### Betyder att engagera mig att jag stöder finansierarens åsikter eller handlingar? Nej. Det du gör är att bidra till ett öppet samråd om ämnet för hur man bygger en nästa generations internetinfrastruktur, teknik, affärsmodeller etc som främjar människors välbefinnande och den naturliga miljön. Konsultationsmetodiken är utformad på ett sådant sätt att den möjliggör mångfald av åsikter, lokaler, discipliner, teman och sammanhang. Vi använder s.k. öppen forskning och resultaten presenteras i form av en forskningsrapport som är tillgänglig för alla efter evenemanget. Du kan följa processen, granska metodiken och open source-tekniken vi använder och engagera dig direkt i forsknings- och samordningsteamet här: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace ### Vilken värdegrund tillämpas? Det är viktigt att alla i rummet känner sig välkomna och säkra. om du har några specianon1410463509 problem eller behov, skicka ett meddelande till anon3449369942@anon Edgeryders teknik och aktiviteter på nätet är avsedda för människor att samarbeta inom och över projekt som försöker bygga en bättre värld. Ordet "bättre" har här en ganska bred betydelse. [Dessa gemenskapsriktlinjer](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) är här för att hjälpa dig förstå vad det betyder att vara medlem i Edgeryders. Glöm inte att din användning av Edgeryders omfattas av dessa gemenskapsriktlinjer och våra [användarvillkor](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### Vad händer med min data? Du kan läsa under [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Samt här: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 80,62776,2019-11-02T14:09:46.135Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"Hej! Jag sträcker ut en hand nu till mina svenska nätverk eftersom jag tror att deltagande på den här workshopen i första hand kommer vara från sverige. Jag skulle behöva hjälp att nå ut till en massa nätverk av lärare och open source entusiaster. All hjälp jag kan få är välkommet och jag hoppas även du vill komma och hjälpa till forma nästa generation av internetmedborgare. Exempel på nätverk som jag vill nå ut till de kommande veckorna är: * Meetups ni känner till. * Arbetsplatser som präglas av IT * Skolor och skolledare * Studentnätverk - KTH, stockholms universitet, lärarhögskolan etc. * Kommunpolitiker. * Andra personer i dina nätverk * Ledare och beslutsfattare med ""digital profil"" * Ledare och beslutsfattare med ""skolprofil"" * Lärare - alla. Detta är länken till den post på Svenska som bäst beskriver hela eventet: [Hur lär vi ut open source](https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881/79?u=anon683229855) Jag som arrangerar eventet har en länk till min ""bio"" här: https://eriklonroth.com Jag finns inte på Facebook, så där skulle jag också behöva hjälp med att skicka ut information till de grupper som finns där. Om **du** vill hjälpa mig vara en Facebook ambassadör så tveka inte en sekund att höra av dig =) Slutligen vänder jag mig nu till dig som har ett brinnande intresse i det här communityt kring frågor om internet, lärande, skola och open source. Du behövs för att göra den här workshoppen verklig. Vill du vara med och göra en insats?" 81,62789,2019-11-02T18:19:22.557Z,62776,anon1361928862,anon683229855,"Hej, Jag jobbar som Lärare på Högskolor med IT, infrastruktur relaterat främst och så är jag engagerad politiskt och då i bland annat skol frågan, fast här är jag fortfarande lite blåbär och idealist. Och FOSS är något som har varit en röd tråd i mitt yrkesliv sedan 90 talet med mycket Linux. Så det är jag i en kortis presentation" 82,62964,2019-11-04T18:18:56.430Z,62789,anon3031202475,anon1361928862,"@anon1361928862, do you maybe know some other people to invite to this workshop?" 83,63079,2019-11-05T14:18:58.591Z,62964,anon1361928862,anon3031202475,I will investigate and get back. 84,63087,2019-11-05T14:39:49.934Z,62014,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,I think it looks nice :) 85,63103,2019-11-05T16:10:36.824Z,63079,anon3031202475,anon1361928862,"Great, we have lots of connections to the tech world, but we also want to invite teachers and academics that are not only focused on tech but also pedagogics for example, but using tech and could enrich their students bz teaching well ""open source"" :)" 86,63104,2019-11-05T16:11:42.225Z,62772,anon3449369942,anon683229855,@anon1505367078 Skulle du kunna tänka dig lägga upp ett FB event med Blivande som värd/cohost åt denna workshop? Skulle underlätta då vi kan alla dra i våra respektive nätverk... 87,63114,2019-11-05T17:27:19.262Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,@anon1361928862 Amazing that you are onboard here! Why don't we catch up on a short call to see if we can invite more of our common networks? I could PM you my private number if you like. 88,63127,2019-11-05T23:15:23.368Z,63104,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:86, topic:9881""] Skulle du kunna tänka dig lägga upp ett FB event med Blivande som värd/cohost åt denna workshop? [/quote] Yes, just need all the graphics!" 89,63128,2019-11-05T23:42:24.507Z,63127,anon683229855,anon1505367078,"I can give you the link to the primary text and @anon3031202475 has gfx... Thanx @anon1505367078 alot." 90,63129,2019-11-05T23:44:27.862Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,@anon1505367078 https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881/79?u=anon683229855 91,63130,2019-11-06T00:00:12.128Z,53347,anon1505367078,anon683229855,"[Done](https://www.facebook.com/events/2559984064230274/), @anon683229855 and @anon3449369942" 92,63144,2019-11-06T08:19:52.586Z,53347,anon3449369942,anon683229855,"@anon683229855 and @anon838581715x @anon1361928862 ++ Letade efter lite OS relaterat material som ni kanske kunde ha användning av inför workshoppen: **1. Unfailing Massive Collaboration: Open Sourcing Everything** - [Description of the event](https://edgeryders.eu/t/unfailing-massive-collaboration-open-sourcing-everything/5209/2) I [Documentation from the discussion](https://edgeryders.eu/t/documentation-unfailing-massive-collaboration-open-sourcing-everything/5404) **2. Open Source beyond the screen** - Post by @anon - @anon * This story from Cairo of a community that [DIYd four exit ramps](https://edgeryders.eu/t/hello-from-egypt/2540/5?u=anon3449369942) from the busiest road in a city with a population of 9.5 Million people because the government wouldn't. **3. A thread on the [history of open source communities](https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-history-of-open-source-communities/1704)** **4. Closer to the actual pedagogical work/how to make it spread** Check out this story on the [Viral Academy Georgia: learning open source software to learn how to work together](https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-viral-academy-georgia-learning-open-source-software-to-learn-how-to-work-together/2954)" 93,63225,2019-11-06T20:13:28.666Z,63144,anon683229855,anon3449369942,@anon3449369942 This is amazing material. Thank you so much! I'll definetly read @anon 94,63349,2019-11-07T16:17:42.334Z,60105,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:62, topic:9881""] My first hunch would be technologists/ graduates of technical university programs who have children in school that we might want to reach out to. People who work in tech companies in Sweden and have school age children might be a good starting point. What do you think? Are they also likely to be members of some of specific labour unions? Where else might we find them… @anon1505367078 might know about how KTHs Alumni association works? Another could be networks of people living in Sweden who went to schools like Hyper Island or the Chaos Pilots (@anon3931191205 might know if there is an alumni association/ some way of reaching them). Then we know that a lot of people likely to be on linkedin, facebook and instagram. There @anon [/quote] @anon683229855 have you explored those possibilities Nadia described?" 95,63590,2019-11-09T09:18:43.178Z,63349,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,I basically copied with some small edits the invitation Erik made in Swedish and have shared with my Stockholm network. 96,64038,2019-11-14T00:52:14.253Z,63590,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,"I’ve done the same, about a week ago." 97,64075,2019-11-14T14:40:56.741Z,53347,anon3005076832,anon683229855,"If there is any material to be shared afterwards, I'd be happy. Need conversation with a couple of folks from my community and would be happy to show that I am not alone :)" 98,64095,2019-11-14T19:00:05.495Z,64075,anon683229855,anon3005076832,"Hey @anon3005076832! We would love to get some help with producing documentation. Will you be able to be doing this? #nospectators" 99,64097,2019-11-14T19:36:31.648Z,64095,anon3005076832,anon683229855,"[quote=""anon683229855, post:98, topic:9881""] Will you be able to be doing this? [/quote] No sorry I will not be attending any event and also cannot produce anything streamlined. I thought if you have some slides to share, I'd be very interested. If you have however some 75%-done slides or posters, I can look at them and give somewhat qualified feedback (if you share it on a nextcloud with Collabora Office I can add comments without interfering with your workflow. I guess OnlineOffice has the same feature)." 100,64398,2019-11-17T14:28:20.012Z,64097,anon683229855,anon3005076832,"@anon3005076832 Thanx for your feedback. I don't have any slides yet as I will prepare the material during the week. Interesting that you mention Nextcloud + Collabora. I have built a Juju bundle that anyone can deploy and use to get their private/open source cloud running. More about Juju and the Nextcloud bundle here: https://jaas.ai/u/anon I think @anon1505367078 @anon838581715x @anon3809206126 might be interested in this. Juju simplifies the process of getting complex systems deployed - such as - Nextcloud. Juju is open source and so are all the other components used within the projects. This is my personal exploration also of removing myself as much as possible from the AD-driven economy discussed here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821/112) Its a great feeling and I also reap huge benefits from the flexibility I have. Even though all this is a bit off topic, you really highlight the principal boundaries between humans being ""subscribers"" to someone else's code - vs - empowered community members. This is something we can cover also during the workshop. Exciting times!" 101,64402,2019-11-17T15:48:42.477Z,64398,anon3005076832,anon683229855,"[quote=""anon683229855, post:100, topic:9881""] Even though all this is a bit off topic, you really highlight the principal boundaries between humans being “subscribers” to someone else’s code - vs - empowered community members. This is something we can cover also during the workshop. Exciting times! [/quote] I do not really understand. You looked at my github - profile? Or because I offered review?" 102,64435,2019-11-17T23:03:17.228Z,64398,anon3449369942,anon683229855,Ping @anon196034329 103,64447,2019-11-18T06:18:53.306Z,64402,anon683229855,anon3005076832,"[quote=""anon3005076832, post:101, topic:9881""] Or because I offered review? [/quote] I got intrigued by you comment mainly." 104,64659,2019-11-19T11:37:53.978Z,63114,anon1361928862,anon683229855,"Ok, but I have a challenge, I have got another consultant job and I don't know if I can make it at the 28/11. /Mats" 105,64914,2019-11-20T20:32:22.992Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"Hello! I'm super excited to soon meet you all to have this workshop going. I've been preparing and been waiting to see how many would join and what background you all have. It seems from the signup, the group we are at the moment is just about perfect to make this workshop truly interactive! ***But feel free to pull in more of your personal contacts if you think you have some more that would be interested in participating.*** Use this simplified signup form which will take them/you through the registration process: [https://register.edgeryders.eu/ ](https://register.edgeryders.eu/) I have made preparations for the frame of the workshop - as you all have read. But, in the end - its we all, who brings to the substance. My part is of equal weight as yours - we need you. With this post, I hope to spark this weeks conversation that will continue into the workshop. **THE GROUP SO FAR** Below is insight into the group that you are part of. Its not a complete description, but it shows how amazing and wide set of skills we have in this community. * Someone thinking about starting a tech-school looking for networking! * An open source officer for a large company. * A start-up co-founder of a open source education platform in Africa. * A crypto currency open source software engineer with a range of future visions. * A politically curious university teacher in areas such as cloud, network, security with connections in the broad Stockholm FOSS community. * A leader and inspirational source for young engineers within a large company with a playful mind. * A project lead at the Stockholm public library with access to a ""learning lab"" and a vision to build ethical, open and social context for everyone. * A member of a group aiming to teach programming for young children with an ethical approach. **FOOD** We will have a food truck coming our way - @anon3031202475 have the details if you have any special input about the food. There will also be coffee. But, please also bring your own gifts - that is always appreciated. **WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE THE WORKSHOP?** As you know, a #nospectator event, like this, only becomes as good as what the participants make it. So, during this week - we depend all on the collective effort in making also the schedule fit our ambition: *""Find ways to influence the educational system towards open source values.""* The below is my initial attempt - now its your turn to improve it. **PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE AND WORKSHOP CONTENT** *Discuss the content during the week here in this thread and go from here during the coming week! Once the schedule and content seems good for our ambition - then we go with it* MORNING: 10:00 * Social - Introduction to Hus Blivande and Edgeryders. * Information and organization - Describe the targets of the workshop. * Learning - Everyone fill in some basic questions for research. * Strengthen our community - Getting everyone on-board to the collective documentation. * Strengthen our community - Getting everyone on-board to the Edgeryders communication platform. * Learning - Have everyone get a chance to briefly describe their current activities around open source and/or learning, what resources you bring and what motivates you to be at this workshop. * Learning - Fundamentals about FOSS and its core values for learning by @anon683229855 * Workshop/productivity: ""What would you like to learn more about about open source?"" * Workshop/productivity: ""How can we help you?"" LUNCH: 13:00-14:00 Workshop/productivity: ""What do we need to do to get teachers to teach open source in school?"" Workshop/productivity: ""What first steps can we take to get there using our collective strength?"" ACTION points: ""What is being done today in politics?"" - What can we do to reach politics? ""What is being done today in corporate?"" - What can we do reach corporate? ""What is being done today in academia?"" - What can we do to reach academia? ""Influence?"" - What can we do to reach out? ""Community?"" - What can we do to grow and nurture our community? @anon2972833306 @anon334656980 @anon @anon3279118466 et.al" 106,64942,2019-11-21T06:15:21.527Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,Today on slashdot.org: https://m.slashdot.org/story/363696 107,65697,2019-11-25T14:28:03.384Z,53347,anon3005076832,anon683229855,"Btw I find the video at https://publiccode.eu/ a good summary of some of the issues. It exists in many languages (if you visit the webpage). https://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/pmpc_desktop.mp4" 108,65760,2019-11-25T19:19:53.647Z,65697,anon683229855,anon3005076832,"@anon3005076832 Grymt, ta med dig något av detta till workshopen. Det kommer finnas utrymme." 109,65762,2019-11-25T19:21:37.486Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,@anon 110,65763,2019-11-25T19:21:56.323Z,65760,anon3005076832,anon683229855,"[quote=""anon683229855, post:108, topic:9881, full:true""] @anon3005076832 Grymt, ta med dig något av detta till workshopen. Det kommer finnas utrymme. [/quote] Je suis désolé, ne sera pas là." 111,65765,2019-11-25T19:23:31.700Z,65763,anon683229855,anon3005076832,"@anon3005076832 Ah. ""You could bring some of it to the workshop. There will be room for that.""" 112,65961,2019-11-26T23:31:52.412Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"I encourage you all to **bring a computer** if you can. This helps us all to document our work and start establish a communication between us all. Also, bring snacks to share if you like!" 113,66093,2019-11-28T06:17:18.912Z,64914,anon3809206126,anon683229855,"[quote=""anon683229855, post:105, topic:9881""] I have made preparations for the frame of the workshop - as you all have read. [/quote] This is stanon1410463509r work, @anon683229855. Major kudos. ⭐" 114,66121,2019-11-28T09:58:08.819Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"Nu börjar workshoppen! Välkomna alla nu kör vi! Här är en länk till ett gemensamt dokument: http://nextcloud.lonroth.net/index.php/s/8BRnY7NiMxKwJeR" 115,66146,2019-11-28T11:08:47.509Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,https://www.itot.se/2017/11/debatt-brist-pa-it-kompetens-hotar-tillvaxten/ 116,66202,2019-11-28T13:31:02.408Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,http://nextcloud.lonroth.net/index.php/s/KNakkJf88ojNBnY 117,66210,2019-11-28T14:08:50.086Z,53347,anon1727204756,anon683229855,[Assorted thoughts about IT that I wish I knew when growing up](https://edgeryders.eu/t/assorted-thoughts-about-it-that-i-wish-i-knew-when-growing-up/11985) 118,66219,2019-11-28T15:02:32.949Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,Ett sätt att bygga ett open source privat moln: https://jaas.ai/u/anon 119,66221,2019-11-28T15:45:32.982Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,Are you guys ok with me uploading one of the photos of you working here? 120,66259,2019-11-28T18:51:28.895Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855," " 121,66266,2019-11-28T20:14:54.208Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"Thanx for a great time today. I'm a bit tired, but really happy with meeting you all. Special thanx to @anon3031202475 who did so much for us to get this event flying. Also bit thanx to @anon1505367078 and the team at Blivande. We hope to be back again soon for follow up workshops! I will create a summary from our day and post here along with the next step ambitions for the group. If you didn't manage to attend this time, this thread will be used for the continued discussions and connections. Participation and contributions to our work is welcome." 122,66267,2019-11-28T20:46:55.551Z,66266,anon1727204756,anon683229855,"And thank you @anon683229855, as well as all other contributors! :hearts: I failed to anticipate it, but I'd really want some chat room to continue our conversation. You can find me at all the regular platforms (facebook, twitter, signal, telegram) but as I joined re-joined Matrix an old invitation to [Change Course Public](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#cc-public:matrix.org) popped up and I found both @anon2972833306 and @anon334656980 there. So I'm [@anon" 123,66270,2019-11-28T21:51:57.217Z,66267,anon3031202475,anon1727204756,"[quote=""anon1727204756, post:122, topic:9881""] Is there a suitable real-time room for edgeryders anywhere? [/quote] What do you mean with that?" 124,66271,2019-11-28T21:53:06.228Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,Thank you also to @anon683229855 and the workshop participants for working together with us to make some positive change and for beeing good guest at House Blivande :) 125,66281,2019-11-29T08:35:36.845Z,66270,anon1727204756,anon3031202475,"Chat, group instant messaging. It's not spot on to bring ""Teaching Teachers Open Source"" into the ""Change Course Public"" room in Matrix, so I wondered if Edgeryders chat somewhere, or perhaps try to keep everything in this forum?" 126,66284,2019-11-29T08:50:17.545Z,66281,anon3031202475,anon1727204756,"We do not yet have chat, but it is a feature we are considering from time to time. @anon1505367078" 127,66287,2019-11-29T08:54:02.415Z,66281,anon3449369942,anon1727204756,ah yes there is a self-hosted Edgeryders matrix chat that @anon196034329 admins 128,66288,2019-11-29T08:55:07.410Z,66287,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,@anon3031202475 I am thinking about the RIOT we use for fast coordination that perhaps a room could be set up in if you guys need/want @anon1727204756 ? 129,66490,2019-11-30T16:21:41.292Z,66287,anon1727204756,anon3449369942,"For reference, conversation regarding chat [continued in a separate thread](https://edgeryders.eu/t/chat-rooms-after-events/11997) :-)" 130,66816,2019-12-03T18:12:02.898Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"""nextcloud"" is perhaps what the community needs. It has a rich plugin flora and I use it all the time to maintain my privacy, skills, ownership of my data and compute and just not having to totally become a subscriber." 131,67835,2019-12-21T12:06:36.899Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"Here is the concluding document from the workshop! I hope it will be valuable for you as it was for me! Looking forward to you comments, reflections and edits: @anon3031202475 @anon1505367078 @anon3449369942 @anon1727204756 @anon2972833306 @anon334656980 @anon [Takeaways - Teaching Teachers Open Source.pdf|attachment](upload://of8CMwMKSNEktS2fJ2gvPeQMEkU.pdf) (386.0 KB)" 132,67838,2019-12-21T13:05:33.049Z,67835,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"Thank you @anon683229855. Could you please also copy the text (and if possible pictures into a post in this thread so people can read and reply here directly? :slight_smile: have a great Christmas time :)" 133,67841,2019-12-21T13:53:09.256Z,53347,anon683229855,anon683229855,"**Takeaways: Teaching Teachers Open Source** *Workshop 28:th november 2019 in Stockholm* Participants ranged from: Academia, Software industry, Media, Entrepreneurship * A full day of learning, sharing experiences and discussions. * Teaching open source values in schools and general academia is much needed but faces significant resistance. We concluded that the drivers for adopting technology – any – in schools are generally driven by proprietary interests with anon222512824 or no philosophical or ethical value ground. Proprietary software providers have the resources for marketing and lobby, plus, access to decision makers and policymakers. Winning over that force requires mobilizing our collective networks to create awareness and gain influence over these very important decisions of our time. * Continued efforts in educating our networks on why open source is important and how we can gain momentum is needed. Its also fun and appreciated. * New workshop planned in 2020 to bring more networks together and increase the education on the topic. * Stay connected on the Edgeryders platform: https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881 * The food during the workshop was fantastic! **The Research Questions** *Method & Disclaimer:* We did a survey during the workshop addressing these questions. To protect the integrity of the participants, I have excluded the raw material from this document. The scientific value will be low off-course, but the reader may want to participate in future workshop to assess the relevancy. Take it for what it is. **==== Research Question: #1 Summary ====** > *“Gain better understanding of the current view on ethics related to computer science and how that view affects all education in the age of internet.”* I found from the survey that most people don’t know about the foundational values that govern free and open source. Most are self taught on computer science and consult relatives and friends on topics related to the digital world we live in. Almost nobody get their new knowledge from institutions. This raises many questions. ‘Not even software developers’ seems aware about the fundamentals of open source and the four freedoms. Since those are the baseline for all legal frameworks within open source licenses, copyright law, patent etc. this raises also more questions on how practice and policies are made in real life. **==== Research Question: #2 Summary ====** > *”Articulate a few core principles or concepts that would help teachers navigate when educating in the age of internet and computers.”* I found that its difficult to form consistent or shared thoughts on ethics without a common ground on which to base these ethics on. Despite the enlightened crowd participating in the workshop, opinions on “what”, “how” and “why” in software is not well grounded. Most people learned about “computers and internet” late in their lives and the age of the participants was relatively high (about 30), which also reveals the immaturity of these issues at present day. It raises more questions about future generations, which was also the motivator for the workshop itself. It was a shared opinion that questions on ethics and morals in relation to software in general were much needed in education. **Exctraction from participants:** *Translated and minor edits to English from Swedish.* Name a few things important to learn in schools: > ”Participatory culture, the complexity of the works and noone should be just a consumer nor just producer.” Name a few positive outcome from teaching open source in schools: > ”Stronger democracy, co-creative citizens, increased empathy, more active, more self reliant and responsible.” Have you ever reflected over ethics in relation to computers and internet? > ”Yes, how it affects Exposure and Exclusion” Who are the most influential sources to what is taught on computers and internet in schools today > ”Politicians and Skolverket (Department of Education) but there is a responsibility with the parents.” Have you ever reflected over ethics in relation to computers and internet? > “A society divided between owners/capable, vs, unpropertied/incapable will have a bleak future.”" 134,68186,2020-01-05T12:18:26.371Z,67841,anon3449369942,anon683229855,Might be a good person to loop into whatever you are planning next https://mobile.twitter.com/grishund 135,68816,2020-01-16T11:45:02.289Z,53347,anon3005076832,anon683229855,"There is discussion about a webinar/community call within the next two weeks: https://edgeryders.eu/t/lets-open-up-an-open-source-webinar-community-call/12409/" 136,69376,2020-01-26T14:07:12.859Z,68816,anon3031202475,anon3005076832,Who want to join into the webinar? Please invite people you think might be interested and post what you think we should add to the next one :). Looking forward to seeing most of you on Tuesday! 137,69378,2020-01-26T14:16:18.228Z,53347,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"Edgeryders Team is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Biweekly Community Calls Time: 28th Jan, 18:00 CET (every second Tuesday) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/3063210325 Meeting ID: 306 321 0325" 1,67889,2019-12-22T18:33:25.294Z,67889,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"**Between November 19 and 29, 2019, about 30 people worked together across the workshop series [Anticipate! Exploring Collective Intelligence Design](https://edgeryders.eu/t/anticipate-exploring-collective-intelligence-design/11021/35).** What follows is a brief report with some take-aways that maybe of particular interest for readers here at edgeryders. Btw, I switch from I to we not because I speak on behalf of an imagined collective whose thoughts and actions I wish to definitively interpret, but because I am both I and we, drawing on so many encounters that I often can't really claim ideas are my own anymore. It comes with the terrain, I guess - collective intelligence is something we intuitively understand to be another word for intelligence in a wider sense (we are always already multiple, constituted in multiple encounters and situations). And maybe that is the best than can happen when new terms are introduced - they change the way we use those we already have. I co-organized the event with colleagues from xm:lab and K8 (many thanks to Julia Hartnik, Agnès Lotanon2317280404, Julia Pierzina, Aude Poilroux, Michael Schmitz as well as Andrea Barbiero and Uto Scheidt) and we received financial and organizational support from Edgeryders ([@anon3031202475](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon Via this post, I want to share some of our thoughts and impressions about the workshop series in Saarbruecken. Because almost all participants spoke German (and all events were conducted in German), I am afraid that it is somewhat unlikely that our local follow-up discussions (of which there are anon4292955258 a few, see below) will find their way to this platform. While event registration was set up on edgeryders for German-speaking participants, online registration was not often used, instead participants contacted the organizing team via email. For events in languages other than English, the logic of directing those interested mainly in the offline exchange to a platform whose content is mainly in English (and which requires registration, even if greatly simplified) may have to be reconsidered. This is something I would like to think about more as we explore the role of multi-lingual online platforms in local offline conversations that see only so much added benefit in creating such a dynamic. Perhaps this is even one of the meta-takeaways from this workshop series: the role of the local, of structured face-to-face encounters integrated into a local conversation cutting across local spaces is huge. And the role of online platforms less obvious than one might have expected. Here we go, questions and answers: **Tell us about yourself. What are you working on, and why were you at the event ‘Anticipate!’?** I co-organized this event with my local colleagues because the main issues - data sovereigny and data governance as well as the community architectures structuring and sustaining such collaborative explorations - are key concerns in our work, both in education and research as well as outreach and cooperation. Recently, we have come to conduct some of these debates in the context of [anticipate](http://www.anticipate.network), our “collective intelligence design research network”. I mention this specifically again because one of the concrete outcomes of the workshop series was a reworking of our [method statement](https://www.anticipate.network/what) ""principles of engagement"". We really like it, let us know what you make of it. **xm:lab** - Experimental Media Lab was set up at the Academy of Fine Arts Saar in 2012 to host cooperative degree programs (we started with Media Informatics and are now adding Data Science and Artificial Intelligence) and has since then become one of the key places on the boundaries of the academy (yes even small institutions - we have 500 students - have plenty of boundaries and need anon2317280404s of interfaces to operate - one reason why design for us also means institutional design). Via xm:lab we communicate and cooperate with almost every local tech research institute, from artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to visual computing, allowing us (both educators and students) to co-create a wide variety of arts-and-technology research projects. **K8** was added in 2015 to initiate and implement transfer, think tank, and training activities both within and beyond the academy’s boundaries. Recently, the role of cooperatives in organizing work and value have become a key concern, so we worked together prior to the festival with colleagues, for example, from [Salus Coop ](https://www.saluscoop.org) (mainly Andrea Barbiero) to put workshop materials together, and also reached out to some of our research colleagues to get involved in co-creating the kind of really-low-threshold formats that are surprisingly rare in our own day-to-day academic work. **What was the key question you came to the event with?** More like a set of questions: What happens when we take themes that are still novel but no longer unique - data sovereignty, data governance, the role of decentralized technologies and community architectures in supporting self-determined data practices - and explore them through the lense of collective intelligence design? **What did you expect to learn from this event?** We knew that the different workshops would attract different audiences but were hoping to see some cross-workshop conversation regardless. That didn't really happen to the extent we had hoped. Beyond that - we also knew that some workshop participants were already involved in data-related debates and assumed they would want to develop very concrete ideas for follow-up activities. **Did you learn what you expected? Have you heard something new? Something that you liked? disliked?** Such insights can rarely be attributed to a single moment, but the workshops affirmed our sense of the need to address these in particular: **Low-Threshold-Formats**: We need more of those, and the workshops reminded us of how difficult it is to create conversations for people who bring concerns and interests but have anon222512824 patience for the kind of academic exchanges that may or may not operate well within the boundaries and logics of academia but certainly don’t easily open up to create welcoming atmospheres for first-timers. All workshops went really well, but they only did so because of the intense work of cultural translation everyone was willing to engage in. A reminder to take the work of relation into account whatever we do. **Cultural Translators**: When the local newspaper mentioned the workshop series (yeah) but concluded that its themes were probably originating in a “parallel world”, we had both fun and some soul-searching exhanges regarding our own sense of urgency - if the technologies we want to address and reflect upon play as large a role in reorganizing life and labor as we think they do, how come there is so anon222512824 debate of (and willingness to engage with) these issues in local media (which play a huge role in local debates)? Many professional networks (take LinkedIn) amplify the connectivity of those already connected, but do anon222512824 to bring new people into the loop. So instead of looking for the over-network where our visions of collective agency may or may not materialize, more cultural translators (a term adopted from [Boris Buden](http://eipcp.net/transversal/0606/buden/en.html)) that wander between the different milieus - of art, research, technology design, work, politics - are needed. This is in part how we understand our own work in events like these, and we hope that future workshops will take this on board, acting as spaces to experiment with this kind of meta-literacy that helps bring people together in more than a temporary feel-good way. **New Imaginaries**: One colleague presented current work on databases that quickly connected quantum technology imaginaries to the nuts-and-bolts questions that have to be addressed in any database design. It was a reminder that what used to be science fiction tech also offers a way of creating “thinking machines”, machines not to speed up whatever it is we want to organize but to allow us to think differently. We know that sci-fi has been an ongoing egderyders [concern](https://edgeryders.eu/c/earthos/sci-fi-economics) - and as a student of literature I had always secretly hoped that a great deal of this complicated tech research stuff would come down to imagination and language issues. It does. Until, of course, it doesn’t. And yes we still have to talk about protocols, stacks, and all the rest. **What was the key takeaway from the day?** Our own enthusiasm regarding collective intelligence design does inspire occasionally but should not get in the way of getting good work done with the languages people have already available - whatever they are. There are many reasons for that - loss of experience, for example, if a story doesn't survive the retelling in a new (foreign) language (conceptual idiom, method framework, whatever). That might in fact be a dilemma of using framing narratives more generally - they facilitate sharing and yet establish a story of reference we are expected to address soanon3242181883. We do not have an answer for this yet, but then that is probably why it is a dilemma. To our great (and not entirely surprising) relief - no matter how busy with their lives and labor, people want to work together, especially if the cooperation relates to their actual work and value-creating activities. Participants from the data coops workshop - which included medical and database researchers as well as entrepreneurs - are now co-developing a series of health-data-related proposals, and we are in the process of initiating a regional [mydata](https://mydata.org) hub. Co-organizers from the data sovereignty workshop will be involved in an open data [hackathon](http://www.codingdavinci.de) we are organizing in 2020. And the community architectures workshop resulted in concrete cross-border cooperations between K8 and [Bliiida](http://www.bliiida.fr). What we learned from that (also see below): If an event is designed to contribute to an overarching process great things can happen. When it is approached as an isolated one-off, this is much more difficult. (Not exactly a new insight, but we do wonder whether the logic of ""the event"" has something to do with that.) **What would you like to learn more in depth at the next event?** And here we go - we are not sure events are the right category for in-depth anything. As much as I like the term (and I really like it; not only because organizing such encounters can be great work, but because in some if the humanities contexts I end up in, the German word “Ereignis” conjures up a fair amount of philosophical controversy - and when you use it it seems that just saying it can make something happen...), process has taken over. I don’t think I really want to think in terms of events anymore. Instead: what exactly is the process we are setting up, and then, what role can various elements (workshops and festivals and conferences can of course be a part of that) play? Processes are much more than a concatenation of events. What exactly that means, what processes demand from us - key question, definitely part of whatever conversation we are having prior to the next event :) **What do I see as the single largest challenge for cooperation at scale?** Cooperation is happening a huge scales already - at scales that were unthinkable only a few generations (years !) ago. The workshop participants from SMEs are already operating in vast value chains, researchers are used to working with and across global scientific communities, activists (we have been looking at those interested in cooperative ethos and experiment) in networks so wide that it is nearly impossible to exhaust their scope. Working with actors embedded in multiple networks all over the place, I am not convinced cooperation is the main thing to focus on right now. I am more interested in questions of affect and identity. I read, I see - for me language makes worlds. For many people it does not, and few of the languages we use in politics an society really seem to say what people feel. Of course this is what poetry is all about - keep creating new words so the new can continue to appear - but I would have never expected to be confronted with this in terms of the future of democracy. But if the workshops did one thing in relationship to such broadern concerns (and these broader concerns about the future of democratic encounter and the power of co-creating the world around us are why we do such events in the first place) they were a reminder that often the way we relate to technology has nothing to do with language or knowledge and everything with much fuzzier things like feelings and a sense of self. This is not exactly an easy terrain for people like myself, trained to believe that whatever “anxieties” exist will eventually translate into an interest in co-creating new systems. So: If cooperation is an issue, in this context it is as an issue of translation. In the widest-possible sense. **What single thing would you want to see that supports you to cooperate/collaborate more with others?** One of the concrete outcomes of workshop-related conversations is [joint work](https://www.h3-o.de/rethink-coop.html) to change legislation related to the regulation of cooperatives in Germany. The standard business canvas and related start-up conversations leave anon222512824 room for cooperatives as organizational alternative. This is unfortunate, but legislation has something to do with it so this can be addressed. (This is also what interests us in the property-design-related research agenda outlined for the [ICT-54](https://edgeryders.eu/t/applying-for-the-h2020-collective-intelligence-call-looking-for-operational-partners-and-collaborators/11974/71) proposal, btw). **What would be your message to others who did not attend this event?** Talk to us if you are in the area. I think we are familiar with many actors and initiatives you will find useful if collective intelligence is part of what you think about, and we are happy to make you part of our ongoing conversations. The alternative ecosystem already exists, as is so often the case; the question is how to nurture it, grow it, keep it alive, make it viable." 2,67987,2019-12-29T12:46:33.216Z,67889,anon3809206126,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3180318115, post:1, topic:12250""] Because almost all participants spoke German (and all events were conducted in German), I am afraid that it is somewhat unlikely that our local follow-up discussions (of which there are anon4292955258 a few, see below) will find their way to this platform. While event registration was set up on edgeryders for German-speaking participants, online registration was not often used, instead participants contacted the organizing team via email. [...] how difficult it is to create conversations for people who bring concerns and interests but have anon222512824 patience for the kind of academic exchanges that may or may not operate well within the boundaries and logics of academia but certainly don’t easily open up to create welcoming atmospheres for first-timers. [/quote] Yeah, story of my life. Back in 2013, we started looking into early Western monasticism as a possible solution to this. The idea is: 1. Optimize [human-to-human communication protocols](/t/4748) for working together. 2. Be open to any newcomer, but insist on the protocol being non-negotiable. We know from cultural evolution biology (for example [Joseph Enrich](https://secretofoursuccess.fas.harvard.edu/) and [E. O. Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson)) that human evolution is driven by [group selection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection), as well as individual selection. In the evolutionary history of *homo sapiens*, there is a clear pattern: the groups that are best at collaborating (while being able to protect themselves from free riders) win. Since Edgeryders' ""hello world"" post in 2011, we have been constantly asked for smoother user experience, lower-effort onboarding, and, yes, multiple languages. We have tried to accommodate, with various degrees of success. Eight years on, the jury is still out about the ROI of all that work. There is a tradeoff: when you create a fun, nice event, more people will join it than would be willing to discuss on online platform, so that's a win. The loss is that these people are now mostly going to communicate with each other at the scale of the event (in the tens of people) as opposed to those who are using the platform (in the thousands of people). The interaction breaks down, and I am convinced that the intelligence in ""collective intelligence"" is in the interaction, in all but the trivial cases (like guessing the weight of a pig at the Plymouth country fair). In principle, there is a solution: highly [modular](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_(networks)), but still connected, interaction networks. These are instantiated by people being in the small worlds of local events, and connecting them with the larger world of the online discussion, like you, @anon3180318115, are doing here. In practice, these solutions work more by art than by science, and we have not completely cracked the problem yet. :frowning:" 3,68014,2019-12-30T17:48:21.650Z,67987,anon3180318115,anon3809206126,Thx much for sharing this. Part of this art imo is finding ways of weaving biographical moments into our exchanges that differ from the narrow confessionalisms cultivated by other forms of social media (sorry but I've all but given up on social media as we know it). 4,68025,2019-12-31T14:31:12.344Z,68014,anon3809206126,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3180318115, post:3, topic:12250""] biographical moments [...] that differ from the narrow confessionalisms cultivated by other forms of social media [/quote] I am not sure I understand... can you give an example? Also, I added the link to my early stab at Protocol, back in the unMonastery days: https://edgeryders.eu/t/protocol-0-1-engineering-human-to-human-interaction-for-working-together/4748" 5,68041,2020-01-02T10:53:42.230Z,68025,anon3180318115,anon3809206126,"I am really thinking of the ways in which (often surprisingly intimate) self-logging (whatever the site really) and the production of super-creative self-hoods feed into (and off) each other. Not sure how best to put this, but the sense that underlying the flow of seemingly easy-going conversation and ongoing excitement about the scaleability of personal and professional communication exists a darker current of anxieties over job loss, less-than-marketable skills sets and biographies, generally of sometimes desperate self-assessments that come up short of whatever expectations we may or may not be confronted with. The Italian media activist / theorist Franco ""bifo"" Berardi has referred to communication as ""soul work"", a term I really like, secularizing (and thus making available in ways beyond religious or spiritual usages) a key term to approach a more holistic idea of what we do when we express ourselves, linking self- and world-making in what is ultimately a uniquely personal practice and a way of being-in-the-world. Not as ""actor"", ""citizen"", or ""stakeholder"", but as a full human being, whatever that is exactly. This is also why I have never viewed alternative (federated etc) communication platforms as ""the"" solution or the sole means of exiting the universe of what I would call extractivist empowerment (no denying that people find ways to use fb et all for good, whatever the limitations of the corporate visions driving the development of these commercial platforms). If we follow the same protocols of individual and collective self-production on new platforms not much is gained imo. This is one of the reasons I find the data coop scene interesting - is there more than a technical solution? What ethos for expression in a world driven by data and automated decisions - guess that is one of the questions I have as we cross the threshold of another decade." 6,68263,2020-01-06T16:23:48.569Z,67889,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"@anon3180318115, thank you for this discussion of your events. You mention in the beginning that the main language of the events and follow up discuss is German. We could still include and profit from that on the platform here as we are able to code in discussions of different languages due to the needs of the poprebel project :). So if people write something interesting in German, we would still love if it finds its way here soanon3242181883 :)" 1,66685,2019-12-02T16:04:44.127Z,66685,anon658983266,anon658983266,"## Session - Scuttlebutt intro by [anon2492853472](/u/anon2492853472) and Anders ## Intro * Scuttlebutt - nautical term. The “water cooler” of the ship. * It is a network protocol a database and a bunch of clients. ## What does it mean to me? * Solves problem for sailors wanting to share adventures among each others. * Available offline * Keeping the connection in the same room. Wifi/bluetooth. * Main application is a social network. But other things are possible to build upon it. ## More about data and the network graph * The reason it works offline is because everything is stored on your computer. * [showing of a distributed graph] The rabbit will not see the cat. * You dont have to store everything about everyone on the planet. You store 'friends of friends"". * All the friends help each others with storing the data. * Everyone is a backup for everyone. * Your view is a very small. You only see part of the graph. ## Data integrity * Your identity is a cryptographic key. A digital signature. * Blockchain => immutable. It can only grow one way. * The evidence of edits are always there. ## Privacy * You can also put in private messages. * It doesn’t leak metadata about private messages. * The private messages are sent to everyone, but only one person is able to read it. * You can see who sent a private message, but not who it is for. Q: Does it take much resources? A: No, it will stay in the social graph. Q: Will you see the private messages which are not for you? A: No it will not be shown in the application. The application will only show you private messages which are for you. ## Application: * Chess * GIT * Social Media * …more ## Resilience * Interesting because of social protests and governments could shut down the internet. * Scuttlebutt would still run. Q: What happens when internet collapse. A: It follows the social graph. It works over any kind of media. USB/Wifi/Bluetooth It can work completely off the grid. There are different islands of connections. There were some nazis in Norway using it in isolation. Getting started * Jacob recommends to start using it on a local network. * The main client for desktop is called patchwork, the app manyverse is for mobile. Q: How can we find more information about this. A: We have created a new webpage to introduce scuttlebutt. https://scuttlebutt.nz/ * This is about ownership about your own blockchain. * The coordination of the code is also online. * One of the challenges for development are the very local social networks. * The headache is that it is not the best tool of being anonymous. * It is more about letting people in oppressive regimes have access to the world outside. ## Best of scuttlebutt * Best part about scuttlebutt is the community. * Tool for meeting nice people in real life. * The best part is not seeing the whole planet. It is a nice filter for idiots … except for the Norway nazi islands." 2,66711,2019-12-02T19:35:10.885Z,66685,anon2492853472,anon658983266,Hi that Jacob is me :wave: 3,66715,2019-12-02T20:08:19.245Z,66685,anon3809206126,anon658983266,"Hello @anon658983266 and @anon2492853472, welcome! I also use Scuttlebutt. I like the idea, and I like the people I have met, in the abstract, but I have to say that after a year on the network I have not made many connections. My attempts at starting conversations fall anon4292955258 flat (example: `%SnmxaMynurbQfsupTYQQOWSDLipMyLu5GZgbARohXTM=.sha256`). Most of the conversations I seem to intercept are about... developing the Scuttlebutt protocol and the software for it. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Any suggestions?" 4,66724,2019-12-02T20:35:14.810Z,66715,anon658983266,anon3809206126,"Hej @anon3809206126 — I can only share what I have done; a anon222512824 bit to improve the *signal to noise ratio;* in general I take who I follow very seriously, letting the network/client do the role of finding content. By this I mean I've (kindly) unfollowed several of the developers that are no longer 1 hop away but 2 hops. By doing this, I've follow more people that I enjoy reading and contributing to; but also have the visibility of the two hop people via the #channels — so in my case if someone posts nice photography or outdoor adventures I'll see it. #channels permit a greater visibility for topics you may be interested in. Following developers on scuttlebutt is akin to drinking from a firehose — which is in a way positive since they “dogfood” by using the network they have built to sustain the network. Recently, by going to re:web in malmö I was able to do side trips to visit some of these friends that I have made, both in Rønne(DK) and Arnhem(NL); including some of the fine peeps at re:web(SE)." 5,66891,2019-12-04T15:58:34.577Z,66724,anon3809206126,anon658983266,"Noted with thanks. I have used channels in the past (especially #solarpunk), but with not a lot of results." 6,66905,2019-12-04T17:52:51.388Z,66891,anon658983266,anon3809206126,"@anon3809206126 — Just to follow up, there has been a bit of discussion on ssb in the last 24h — another is an exploration on how to better deal with the “dogfooding” and discussing a few strategies to avoid a low signal to noise ratio. I'd invite you to consider returning; as there has been an influx of a few solar punk and permaculture peeps. The discussion, sparked by snailest starts at %i1Xcs0vB9/ARAJPclLRHLEXk/bDjuZpXlle/ZqNNiw0=.sha256 and I'd be more than happy to help you and others out to find the intersection of the social graph and community we all seek." 7,66906,2019-12-04T18:14:32.765Z,66905,anon1505367078,anon658983266,"Cool anon658983266, thanks for the update! I’ve also not been on SSB for a couple of months, but will check back in soon." 8,67564,2019-12-16T16:33:56.874Z,66685,anon658983266,anon658983266," For those interested, there will be a “ScuttleCamp” in Brazil [date=2020-06-08 timezone=""Brazil/East""] → [date=2020-06-12 timezone=""Brazil/East""] > 5-day gathering in a lush, rural village setting, where Butts from around the world can gather to cultivate relationships, share food and language, and practice tending the peer-to-peer garden. https://two.camp.scuttlebutt.nz" 9,67569,2019-12-16T18:07:40.161Z,67564,anon3449369942,anon658983266,This looks cool. But the flygskam! 10,67571,2019-12-16T18:26:43.741Z,67569,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,"It's fine, @anon3931191205 will take everyone on her boat." 11,67572,2019-12-16T18:29:03.563Z,67569,anon658983266,anon3449369942,@anon3449369942 — with enough time you can find alternatives to flying :wink: For example there is a freighter cruise from Valencia to Rio de Janeiro at 150€ per day. I suspect the incremental CO2 emissions from carrying a person across the Atlantic is minimal :slight_smile: 12,67573,2019-12-16T18:29:22.719Z,67572,anon3449369942,anon658983266,wait - what??? got url? 13,67574,2019-12-16T18:29:48.499Z,67573,anon658983266,anon3449369942,https://www.langsamreisen.de/en/freightertravel/europe-south-america/spain-brazil-argentina/ 14,67575,2019-12-16T18:31:02.876Z,67574,anon3449369942,anon658983266,:asanon2317280404ished: ping @anon3809206126 @anon3401476781 @anon196034329 another one for the list! 15,67576,2019-12-16T18:33:47.858Z,67572,anon1505367078,anon658983266,"[quote=""anon658983266, post:11, topic:12081""] with enough time you can find alternatives to flying [/quote] Not to mention money. That freighter would set you back 1800€ one way from Spain to Brazil!" 16,67577,2019-12-16T18:41:26.737Z,67576,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,Or you can just ditch the whole flygskam thing all together -had a chat about this with @anon227579045 the other day. 17,67578,2019-12-16T18:41:42.236Z,67576,anon658983266,anon1505367078,"Thats fair. This is but one example; some of the other ones are at 62€/day etc… I posted that one with a few moments of googling as an indicative example; but there may be others as am alternative to flying. In my case, I've looked at freighter cruises as an alternative to flying; similar to using the train. In some cases you pay by €, or by hr for a more effective transportation route. The website is called “slow travel” for a reason." 18,67761,2019-12-19T14:19:47.442Z,66685,anon658983266,anon658983266,"I thought I'd share the statistics on the recent growth of scuttlebutt. I have been modelling the growth of the platform by looking at the growth of the uids over time, and using a method called crow-amsaa that I blatantly stole from the mechanical maintenance world. This method has a “forecasting” ability; you can model the effects of actions to see the impact over time. In the case of scuttlebutt, I used data created by a robot to get a time series data of the uid growth over time. The proviso here is you may not get a full view of the network and its islands. Time is measured as the days since August 15, 2015, and the graph below shows growth as of seven months ago. ![image|690x388,75%](upload://cgsl6PESJ9mW02zV8oSNfYBpolJ.png) The important thing here is the exponent, β, which was found to be 1.973. I did a check of this last night, and the graph below shows the deviation between the above fit, and the current results. ![20%20PM|690x404,75%](upload://20quJXzhlPrGfmiPAsyWE7Qt6af.png) There is a small deviation over the last seven months, I'd almost consider this noise. The interesting thing is the growth is still in the “reasonable” band; we have discussed that growth over a β of 5 would look like an eternal September event; we get on average 20 uids growth per day, including users on manyverse (android) and Patchwork *et al." 19,68345,2020-01-07T17:15:51.244Z,67574,anon658983266,anon658983266,@anon3449369942 & @anon1505367078 — I see this made the guardian; https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jan/07/cargo-ship-train-rail-to-vancouver-canada-low-carbon-travel-europe 20,68494,2020-01-09T17:00:05.993Z,68345,anon2434097920,anon658983266,"Wasn't cheap and took a long time, but seemed like a good adventure. And maybe grounded in a kind of reality that seems almost lost in a way. I have flown to Europe from the US 20 times in my life and it still amazes me every time that you can walk into this metal tube in SF and 10 hours later get off in a European city. Maybe with less air travel activities like letter and journal writing will become more popular rather than posting selfies and making tweets.." 21,68624,2020-01-12T18:46:59.016Z,66685,anon658983266,anon658983266,"@anon Another Scuttlebutt user .(@anon *discussion* >10 published 1000 or more messages. On the high end, I suspect there are a few pubs and bots; automated messaging. *midrange* >690 published at least 17 messages (average of one per week). 131 published at least 122 messages (average of one per day). Seems pretty reasonable; and between both stats is most of the community. The viz is below, following a thread that starts at %H/n3842vIBgcLngL5qhNMpV8iP7EOt2qm7O8sT8y64o=.sha256 for the interested. ![image|600x400](upload://aONey1Dmhc6FvME5JypEqTj5wjq.png)" 1,56914,2019-07-20T05:14:45.743Z,56914,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Dear community, we would like to ask you to put into as anon222512824 words as possible why you are here. # * What motivated you to join? * What motivates you to participate? * What do you search, find and offer on the Edgeryders-stewarded Internet of Humans/NGI community? * How do/would you explain the platform to newcomers? ## The shorter your answers are the better! *Let's use collective intelligence to bring communication to the next level and help even more amazing people to understand and find us :)*" 2,56935,2019-07-21T07:17:48.155Z,56914,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"So, I joined Edgeryders a while ago, to become active in a project related to the country I live in ([Futurespotters in Georgia](https://edgeryders.eu/c/workspaces/spot-the-future-georgia)). I recently got active again on the platform because of the IOH project, when I was tagged in a post for the work I do with Coda Story. - _what motivates me to join?_ an inspiring community who is looking to find solutions for a better world - _what motivates me to participate?_ interesting people and discussions on topics that matter to me (freedom of information, participatory decision-making, privacy - beyond our own western world) - _What do you search, find and offer on the Internet of Humans Edgeryder community?_ I search for conversation that make me help figure out how we can have better online experience - _How do/would you explain the platform to newcomers?_ THE BIG QUESTION :) Thanks for helping me craft the right message. So, I'd love to have your input @anon2434097920 @anon1505367078 @anon4261882768 @anon3005076832 @anon273015838 @anon1462728170 @anon2724270673 @anon683229855 @anon3572363072 (tagging y'all because we ""conversed"" in the [ad-based internet topic](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821/90) together :).)" 3,56944,2019-07-21T19:09:09.000Z,56935,anon4261882768,anon2926706121,"Hi Inge, Great way to get introductions. I am working on mine but will write that together with my workplan and then I also set up my pages on edgeryders where I can explain the vision of a positive realistic middle on and with internet and iot technologies. I plan to finish mid August, Salut, Rob" 4,57023,2019-07-23T11:42:20.129Z,56914,anon1435770232,anon3031202475," * What motivated you to join? Recommendation from a friend that joined about a month ago? * What motivates you to participate? am really into IoT and stuff related to it! * What do you search, find and offer on the Internet of Humans Edgeryder community? Joined in just some minutes ago, researching this wonderful repository of information. Don't understand it fully just yet! * How do/would you explain the platform to newcomers? Ask me in a few days and I'll tell you!!! )))" 5,57025,2019-07-23T11:53:43.606Z,56914,anon2724270673,anon3031202475,"**What motivated you to join?** A friend pointed me to Edgeryders and said that this is where the conversations are held, that I should be interested in. Spoiler alert: He was right. :) **What motivates you to participate?** I want, no, need to make a deep dive into the social side of online communications, how it changes human interactions, how we can embrace technology for positive social change. **What do you search, find and offer on the Internet of Humans Edgeryder community?** Stimulation, new viewpoints and suggestions on how to do the being human thing a bit better. And I'll try my best to provide the same too! **How do/would you explain the platform to newcomers?** That's a tough one, as I think that most people look for something slightly different here.. and it still soanon3242181883 works :)" 6,57026,2019-07-23T12:05:23.877Z,57025,anon51020356,anon2724270673,"[quote=""anon2724270673, post:5, topic:10385""] I think that most people look for something slightly different here… and it still soanon3242181883 works :slight_smile: [/quote] Amen to that. It's what I've noticed too, over the years." 7,57069,2019-07-24T10:30:44.395Z,57025,anon3809206126,anon2724270673,"[quote=""anon2724270673, post:5, topic:10385""] I think that most people look for something slightly different here… and it still soanon3242181883 works :slight_smile: [/quote] Score one for serendipity!" 8,57071,2019-07-24T10:48:42.743Z,57069,anon2724270673,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:7, topic:10385""] Score one for serendipity! [/quote] that is exactly the thing I am always looking for in my online communications - that moment when I find something or connect to people I otherwise would not have known that I was missing." 9,57103,2019-07-24T15:21:16.306Z,56914,anon541960008,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:1, topic:10385""] * What motivated you to join? [/quote] I bumped into @anon3809206126 at a conference and he told me about EdgeRyders. It sounded interesting, so I showed up. I was familiar with the technical platform (and I like it), so I signed up to be present more and get a deeper sense of what EdgeRyders _is_ and what is going on. [quote] * What motivates you to participate? [/quote] So far, I don't really participate. I follow the digest and read here and there, but I haven't actively stepped into any conversations. I pick up some inspirations on things that interest me, but that's about it. [quote] * How do/would you explain the platform to newcomers? [/quote] It's a platform that some people use to.. run? coordinate? do? their EU-funded (?) research (?) projects which has an eclectic mix of conversations about society/internet topics and a surprisingly high number of members. It gives me the constant feeling that I am missing out what it is _actually_ about. :)" 10,57110,2019-07-24T16:39:45.065Z,57103,anon3809206126,anon541960008,"[quote=""anon541960008, post:9, topic:10385""] It gives me the constant feeling that I am missing out what it is *actually* about. [/quote] We are so decentralized that, in a very real sense, there is no all-encompassing ""we"", just many partially overlapping groups of people following specific issues or working together on specific projects. :smiley: I do believe there are some *values* that more or less everyone shares: * the belief that societies and their economies are machines to produce _individual_ freedom, happiness and prosperity. * the mistrust in overpowering, very large systems. * the belief that the world might yet be changed, and an intelligent and coordinated effort of many people makes a difference, though they might have very anon222512824 power. * an orientation towards facts over rhetoric. * an orientation towards sharing knowledge. * a fairly high degree of mutual trust (""community"")." 11,57486,2019-08-02T12:55:43.858Z,57110,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,ok so I thought about this @anon541960008 and tried to put together a sketch that will then form basis for info to put online. if you want to have a look and help poke holes in it let me know. 12,57490,2019-08-02T13:14:16.581Z,56914,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"Like many others, I have been using edgeryders/edgeryding to make new professional contacts, discover and develop new knowledge, improve projects, find talent to hire and build meaningful partnerships and funding opportunities. While the platform does change shape, the overall process is designed so that participation in the online conversation and events generates some kind of levelling up that I cannot do alone As someone whose life and work exists outside the normal order of things, I felt like we really needed some peer-to-peer way to nurture personal and professional development. I had tried out a lot of different alternatives: higher education, online learning etc but nothing seems to really fit in terms of both learning and generating tangible opportunities to do interesting things. What makes Edgeryders work for me is being plugged into an open ended, eclectic scene of people from different backgrounds and places in their lives right now. Humans are much better at pointing one another in the right direction through dialogue than trying to find the kind of things I need on a well structured website or formal education process. If I don't know what it's called, or even that I need it, or if the word for it doesn't exist, how can I find it? Through people who connect me to people and knowledge. When we came up with the name, Edgeryders, it was this idea soanon3242181883 - navigating these ""wilderness"" spaces for which we don't have maps through edges (connections made in conversation between individuals, places, topics and all kinds of other stuff). What keeps me involved is that I love and respect the community and anarchic+ friendly culture we have built together :slight_smile: ." 13,61693,2019-10-18T14:37:22.018Z,57490,anon28068060,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:12, topic:10385""] anarchic+ [/quote] Love this term: anarchic+ could you elaborate a bit on it @anon3449369942?" 14,61983,2019-10-22T14:30:27.001Z,61693,anon3449369942,anon28068060,"I think it is being able to keep in mind both the desired outcomes and understanding that the path there is pluralistic. Also in terms of what drives us in different situations, balance between individual and collective, where centralisation and top down decision making is necessary (no thank you I do not want decision making by commitee that includes non experts when it comes to live-critical surgery, just someone who knows what they are doing then and there). Etc" 15,61984,2019-10-22T14:41:16.329Z,56914,anon2233507620,anon3031202475,"* What motivated you to join? Mostly the feeling of alignment after meeting some of the Edgeryders, then participating in your festival in Brussels. Great experience. * What motivates you to participate? Topics that matter and the feeling people are motivated greatly by their need to improve the society/civilization in many ways. * What do you search, find and offer on the Edgeryders-stewarded Internet of Humans/NGI community? At the moment I just follow what's going on when I can, I am involved in other Edgeryders initiatives. * How do/would you explain the platform to newcomers? It's a community of people from all over the world, working in teams on various projects and exchanging their experiences with purpose of helping and empowering each other. One thing is common for all of them: Working on projects which make sense and which lead to better humanity." 16,68220,2020-01-06T07:24:22.019Z,56914,anon2465999935,anon3031202475,"* What motivated you to join? Community connector job offer. * What motivates you to participate? Possibility to change things. * What do you search, find and offer on the Internet of Humans Edgeryder community? In future, I'd like to find likeminded people who have experience with starting community centers. * How do/would you explain the platform to newcomers? Edgeryders is an online community working on different projects and disseminating this experience online." 1,61210,2019-10-12T12:57:22.395Z,61210,anon28068060,anon28068060,"
Hello world I'm a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute which is the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence (AI). I'm a cultural anthropologist by training and my background is mostly in human rights and policy. Before coming to Oxford to pursue a PhD, I worked as a policy officer for a human rights NGO in London, where I worked for their digital team. We focused on understanding the intersection of Internet infrastructure and human rights, most of our work involved participating in Internet governance organisations and was focused on the right to freedom of expression, access to information and privacy. Before that, I worked at the US House of Representatives, as a policy advisor on telecommunications and European affairs, for a democratic congressman. **I am primarily interested in understanding how human rights NGOs are adapting to the increased importance of digital technologies, and how they are shifting their work now that much of it has a digital component.** For example, I have NGOs focusing on providing shelter and safe houses for survivors of domestic violence have to reckon with the increased ability of abusers to surveil and track-down their partners and children using digital technologies. Or how police or immigration enforcement use AI systems that can lead to over-policing of communities of color or otherwise lead to bias and discrimination of minorities. There are many concerns, in many directions, involving many different technologies. ### The relationships between technological changes and activist mobilisation? My PhD research focuses specifically on a group of NGOs that are trying to change the internet standards and protocols to align them more with human rights by directly participating along-side engineers of big tech companies. But more broadly speaking, I am interested in the question of how technology changes or keeps the same, the work that human rights NGOs do and how they adapt to changes in their work brought by digital technologies. I've always been interested in the interaction between technology and society. When I was a bachelor student at the University of Utrecht, studying for my BA, one of my main interests was the role of social media mean and how activists mobilize. This was at the height of a number of social uprisings. Social media, and other digital technologies were often held up as revolutionary tools that would enable people to topple their governments and do all of these things. But what I found in my work was that this is just simply not the case. Social media can certainly give the plight of activists more visibility. But at the end of the day, the power, the power inequities that exists, are not inversed using these technologies. I actually found that instead of having a liberating potential, digital technologies can also entrench existing differences. Even if people feel they have more agency. And that combination is not necessarily a good thing. ### ""Increasingly, human rights organizations are trying to target companies and code instead of governments and laws"" When I started doing more research, I became interested in the inverse of what it means for civil society to use social media. Instead of looking at what happens when activists use social media, I was interested in what happens when activists try to change how social media functions or try to change how the underlying internet is built. Instead of looking at use, I started looking at design, and the interventions in the internet infrastructure made by human rights activists. **An example of this is the work of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which regularly participates in an organization that sets Internet standards.** Internet standards are something that we use every day. For instance, when it says HTTPS in your web browser, that's a standard, it's a standard that ensures whatever you type into your browser is encrypted. If you are looking for a particular medicine, or if you are looking for access to abortion, and you're doing that in a country where it is illegal the HTTPS protects you (somewhat) from being snooped on when typing in search queries on a website. And so, one of the tactics of the ACLU is to go to these companies that build these things and say: "Hey, have you maybe considered encrypting Y. Or making sure X leaks less data?" They try to bring a wider perspective on the social impact of protocols, one that is not necessarily included in the technical discussions when solely led by industry. Another example of an NGO intervention aimed at tech-companies: A couple of days ago, almost 120 civil society organizations signed a letter urging Facebook, not to give governments back-door access to Facebook Messenger, and to ensure there it had strong encryption. Increasingly, human rights organizations are trying to target companies and code instead of governments and laws. ### Case in point: privacy and law enforcement access This debate is complicated. When it comes to the fine line between privacy and law enforcement — I'm not sure I would be doing a PhD if I had the perfect answer to this question of how to solve this stalemate — but I think there are a couple of things to disentangle. First, there is a....duality — I don't want to call it hypocrisy — in how some of these governments portray themselves or how some of these governments develop their positions. For example, the Dutch government: on the one hand Internet freedom is a major part of Dutch foreign policy, they were founders of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC). And yet, at the same time, the government strategically pushes against strong encryption, prioritising the provision of access for law enforcement over privacy/encryption concerns. Depending on which debate it is, they take contradictory positions. It’s easy to say: oh, countries in Europe take privacy seriously, they take freedom of expression seriously. And they do, but not consistently. It’s important to be aware of these contradictions. Second, regarding law enforcement concerns that they are going dark: There was a report a couple of years ago from the Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard University called [Going Dark](https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/28552576). It's one of the main examples that is often given by these governments, especially law enforcement. They say, Oh, you know what, we're going dark, we don't have access anymore. But we need that kind of access. And for that access, we need you to weakened encryption. And what the report actually shows is that the enforcement officers have more information than they've ever had before. They have more ways of combining different data sets, more systems to systematically go through it. This means that their argument is not always valid, and it’s important to question the rhetoric upon which arguments in favor of weakening encryption are based. And this is also something that the human rights NGO I work with stress: you don't necessarily solve the problem of lack of access by weakening encryption. The argument they often make is, that you don't protect your house from robbers by building a backdoor for the police, which can subsequently be used by everyone. Because that's the thing, if you create a backdoor for police, you create a backdoor for everyone. That's just how the technology functions. Those are some of issues and values we need to consider when we try to assess this debate. ### Civil Society Advocacy aimed at AI systems and Companies There's this running joke amongst academics that you say “I do AI” when you want to get funded, and you say “I do Machine Learning” when you want to be taken seriously academically. In other words, there's a definition bloat in what people mean when they talk about AI or AI systems. And I think that leads to a lot of confusion. But this conceptual confusion does not make the impact of these systems, however defined, any less real. And this is also what a lot of the recent academic literature shows — that the application of AI systems can have real negative impacts on civil liberties and human rights. A prime example is when LinkedIn got into a lot of trouble because their systems tended to show CEO positions consistently to white men rather than to women or people of color. The systems had learned from the existing data, which obviously shows the societal bias, that white men tend to be more likely to hold these kinds of positions. The existing bias in society, obviously, does not speak to the inherent suitability of (white) men for these positions. But that's the kind of nuance not captured by AI systems. So, you end up in a situation where the application of these systems actually reinforces existing bias and discrimination in society, without necessarily generating better CEOs. Obviously, a lot of human rights NGOs have been worried about this for a long time and have consistently tried to ring that bell — bringing in academic work to show some of these issues. Human Rights Watch, for example, has a great program as do Amnesty International, Privacy International and Article 19. Several of the largest human rights NGOs are focusing on issues of AI systems and bias. But they're also forced to play whack-a-mole as the application of AI systems becomes more common. How to focus your resources? Which companies and applications are most concerning? Which solutions most tractable and comprehensive? Do we need sectoral guidelines, or do we need guidelines which focus on impact? Do we need self-regulatory ethics frameworks or hard data protection frameworks? All of the above? These are the issues I see a lot of NGOs grapple with. Sometimes it is easy to draw a position: for example, the campaign against killer robots (lethal auanon2317280404omous weapons) has brought NGOs together to formulate a clear policy goal using the international law. But not all issues are so clear-cut. And not in all cases are the developers of technology approachable or accountable. Very often, once a bit of research has been done, it is easy to show the effect of certain technologies. But part of the problem is that many of these AI systems are developed by private companies. This means it is hard to gain access to what their technology does specifically. And a lot of these companies say they don't have to explain how their tech works, as it&rsquo;s their commercial secret sauce and obviously, they say they don't want to share how that works, because that undermines their business model. In other cases, it is hard to pin-point the "disparate impact" of a technology, even if people on the ground can feel its ramifications in terms of access to services and goods (like government support, housing, the legal system etc.). This concern, in theory, should not apply when it's government use of these technologies. But even in those cases, when they buy “AI solutions" from companies, they don't always fully understand what they're buying (into). They don't, or sometimes can’t, know how these systems works. So, there are a lot of issues around trying to get not just transparency, because transparency in and of itself isn't the solution, but also to get a real sense of accountability for how the systems function. Many NGOs are calling for regulation of AI systems. But the companies selling these systems are pushing back on regulation, under the guise of innovation. At the same time, regulators are struggling to articulate what regulation should be applied to: the AI systems, the data sets, their combined impact? Should we repurpose existing legislation or develop novel approaches? What about the gap between regulation development and implementation? We have the GDPR and yet I still get spam. This is not to say we shouldn't pursue regulation; it is to say that the discussion needs to include effective implementation too. These are the often dull but necessary bits of work many NGOs are focused on. And then there's the "minor" question of trusting regulators to be able to understand what is, and what isn't good use of it. Or even to trust them to have the best interests of people in mind in the first place. Not a given. I know people have been talking about making sure that the data sets are polished in a way to be more representative of society, or that they include more diversity. But that means we are still moving towards societies in which, some academics like Os Keyes, Kate Crawford and Alondra Nelson argue, we follow the questionable logic that more countable = good. Or that seen by the state = equality before the law. Multiple academics have argued that inclusion in a database does not mean equitable treatment by the state. Hence, there are plenty of examples which suggest bias in AI systems cannot be resolved through expansive inclusion of minorities in datasets. ### It's not just America It is easy to dismiss these concerns as distinctly American. But, let's keep in mind that Europe is not the be-all-end-all of good technology regulation. As much as we have good policies, we also have terrible policies, like the upload filters or the Google “right-to-be-forgotten”. Those are not a good examples of what solid tech-policy looks, at least not to many of the NGOs I work with. So, instead of saying, we have a responsibility to use our EU regulatory blueprint and impose that on other places — as is often said — we should be humble. Because we, as Europeans, would be incredibly resistant to the inverse of that. Actually, we are incredibly resistant to it. As can be seen in how we respond to the enforcement of the American blue-print of freedom of expression and (lack of regulation of) hate speech forced upon those by the ubiquity of American Internet companies. As such, when it comes to exporting our approach, I would be more inclined to say, let's provide an alternative example. Let's just say &ldquo;this is how we make the balance between these different values.&rdquo; And what we&rsquo;ve seen, for instance, with the GDPR, is that that did kick off a bit of a trend across the world where people are using it to model their data and privacy regulations on. And I think that sort of leading by example, is a much more effective. Anything short of that can be seen as imposing our way onto the world, which considering Europe's colonial history is not a strong look. ### Regulation, Civil Society, and Limits Some companies argue that regulation hampers innovation, while at the same time arguing that real innovation is not impacted by regulations. So like, bro.. which way is it? Does it matter immensely, or does it not matter at all? Because it certainly can't be both at the same time. I am not trying to be facetious here, just trying to tease out the contradictions in Silicon Valley rhetoric about tech-regulation. Doing so - allows for a real discussion to take place. Okay, you believe in innovation. Great. But what does that term mean to you? But if innovation to you means “move fast and break things” or “disrupt existing industries” (with anon222512824 regard for the long-term consequences) than don’t be surprised if people outside of industry are not going to be on board or impressed. ### Case in point: Data & the Status quo Databases are, by and large, systems reflective of our bias. That's also what the academic research shows. It suggests that whenever presented with an AI or automated or machine learning or whatever the term-du-jour is, you always need to look for the humans. We tend to think of these systems as being without humans, all automated. But often they are not. Academic like Sarah Roberts, Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri have shown the human face of AI systems. And the same applies to the algorithms that are applied to the data: humans make a particular decision about how to weigh bits, and which part of it. Often, as Seda Gurses, has shown this is done to optimize towards metrics that are in the interest of the company rather than the consumer. People are fast to judge technology critics as Luddites. There are undoubtably useful applications of AI systems. But those are only going to arise if the right regulatory and economic context is in place. I mean, I'm very wary of moving towards a world in which we say &ldquo;these technologies are completely free of humans are completely free of bias, and hence, they are more trustworthy than us.&rdquo; Because there is no such technology, as technology is always the product of humans. And I think it is important not to lose sight of that. How can we develop other ways that we can ensure that there is a better understanding of how these technologies work? There are a lot of interesting research of academics who do really good work specifically in that field. I mentioned some above. I think it shows that we should not buy into the hype: that it so incredibly complicated that we could never potentially figure out how it works. AI is often a word for a system that learns recursively based on large data sets using complex statistics. It is not, as academics like MC Elish and danah boyd have argued, magic. Let's just call it call it for what it is, call a spade a spade. The problem is that there is not a lot of either political or economic interest in doing so. Likewise, let’s be aware of what a drive for “innovation” does. Because this is what concerns me. I've [written about it with Roel Dobbe](https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/verwacht-geen-wonderen-van-artificiele-intelligentie~b226bfac/?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F) who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the AI Now Institute at NYU. Our government (The Netherlands) in particular, but others as well, have this sort of irrational fear of being seen as falling behind on technology and technological developments. So they're like, &ldquo;Oh, we must we must apply the AI in the cloud using IoT.&rdquo; What does that even mean? When cities want to put things on blockchain, they should ask themselves if they need anything more than a spreadsheet? Why would you want to have an immutable spreadsheet spread out over multiple computers, for whatever simple thing you're trying to do to attract tourists? I get it, it sounds cool. But that's also my tax money that's being used to work with technology that I don't think is useful, and that I'd rather see you put into education, or health care or anywhere else where we could improve rather than disrupt. In addition to the fact that you have these sort of perverse economic incentives on the part of the company's not to reveal how their systems work, there's also this innovation myth which encourages governments to take steps to include technologies that they don't fully understand or might not even need. ### AI Systems are Dull and Humans are Inconsistent (luckily) I also have a pet-peeve about the dullness of these systems as they are commonly applied. The logic of these AI systems is that they give you recommendations based on your past behavior. But humans change. Please don&rsquo;t give me fashion advice based on what I would have liked at 16. I have evolved, thank God. Yesterday, my husband was sitting at the dining table, looking at Amazon trying to buy something. And he was like, &ldquo;this stupid website, keeps recommending me socks.&rdquo; Because he bought socks once. &ldquo;I don't need more socks!&rdquo; he said. The logic behind it is, &ldquo;Oh, you like this thing. And hence, you must like more of this thing,&rdquo; right. But for some of these things, you don't need more than one, such as an electric toothbrush, I don't need five of them in different colors. I need one. Right? Sometimes it does work a anon222512824 bit better. I find it really useful with academic books. I look for a particular book, and it says people like you, or people who've bought this book, also liked this book.&rdquo; I've actually found books that I had not yet come across. But then again, for instance, for music, is a good example of how these systems are simply to flat for human needs. Because as soon as you have a anon222512824 bit of an eclectic taste in music — one day you listen to Rihanna, and the next day you listen to Mozart — with the recommendations there is no in-between. And so you either get a lot of the same of one thing, or a lot of the same of another thing, but it doesn't actually capture the nuance of human taste. And I think that is one of the problems with the systems in general, they don't get they don't capture the nuance of the complexity of human life. ### Local Knowledge first What should we do? What is the role of academics and human rights activist in Europe, given these various complications I laid out? I've worked with a number of NGOs on security methods and I worked with their safety teams. When I was living in Brazil, I worked with an NGO that specifically focused on digital security trainings for human rights activists. On the one hand, they have limited capacity to engage with all of the latest and greatest technological developments. On the other hand, they have a lot of incredibly local knowledge we tend to not think about naturally, because it doesn&rsquo;t come up in our context. A great example is a friend who's a very well-known activist. He knows that the police are monitoring him, that he's under surveillance, and so are his family and friends. And so one of the things that we did is setting up this elaborate encrypted emailing service for him, explained VPNs, and helped him use signal. And then one morning, he came in, and he said, you know, this is all incredibly great. I now have all of these encrypted services. But you know, what happened this morning. I was sitting on my motorcycle, texting someone, a police officer walked up to me, and just grabbed the phone out of my hand.&rdquo; Which meant that it was open, which meant that no matter the encrypted services, no matter the signal, no matter the VPN, they had access to his phone. We didn’t discuss this scenario because for most of the trainers, it simply hadn’t occurred to them that this might be how the police would act. I have seen the tendency of European trainers who go abroad with their really elaborate technologies for improving your safety. But they don't actually address what a security risk looks like on the ground. So, I think one of the things that I would be really interested in, is actually trying to figure out whether a training on IoT is useful, and perhaps look at physical safety. Working with a philosophy where the starting point is: you know a lot about the problems that you have, so explain to us what your problems are, and then collaboratively, we can bring together a bunch of different resources to figure out what a solution should look like. Instead of sharing the technical knowledge that we have, pouring it out and then leaving. Not that everyone does that. But I do think that it is an easy mistake to make, an easy trap to fall into. ### A Human Centered Internet Setting a good example in terms of legislation is a start. And not falling into easy-fanon2926706121r pointing towards obvious scapegoats (i.e. well but in name-country-X everything is so much worse). There are lot issues we could work on in Europe to improve how the internet is used, and the extent to which it enables or disables certain civil liberties. The UK is a prime example, using the internet infrastructure for things that it wasn't built for. So, I think one of the things we can do in Europe is be a anon222512824 bit less on our high horses, because we don't always get it right. We should try to figure out that if we want to have an internet of humans, and if we want to think about a European Framework, how can we make sure we do that? Putting our values first. ### What's next: AI regulation? I would love to say that it's enough to just regulate these companies. And to a certain extent, you can do that. For example, Nazi content in in in Germany isn't accessible. That's a regulation. It's not about what Google stands for. But it's simply what the country has said. So, there is a regulatory component to where you say simply, technically, we don't want this to be accessible. This happens all the time. And that's part of the friction which you see now with the right to be forgotten. There's been a lot of talk about companies developing voluntary ethical frameworks for AI governance. I think this is a good first step, I always think it's good for companies to be explicit about their values and what they stand for, and what they find acceptable and what they don't. That being said, a lot of the recent literature actually shows that these ethical frameworks are always going to be articulated within the bones of the business logic, which means it's never going to be radical, which means it's never going to be anything that chips away at late stage capitalism. So, then the question becomes &ldquo;how can you make it hurt?&rdquo; Financially? I honestly think, and again, I might be too jaded here, that if the companies don’t hurt financially, they won't change. And in addition, I think there's also the question of trust, that can be leveraged in this particular case. AI technologies have run into the same problem that we've seen with biotechnology. And that is that the public is worried about it, scared about it. The kind of narratives about our AI overlords, which, you know, generally is not something that I believe in or support. But it does mean that these companies need to work harder to get the public to buy their stuff. So, we need to find a way to make sure that we leverage those two things, a lack of trust in this product, as well as making sure that it financially hurts businesses not to comply with whatever regulations we set up, or whatever values we hold dear. The question, however, becomes: what are the guidelines and what are the values? I think there's justifiably been a lot of pushback on for instance, the guidelines that were developed by the high-level group of experts on AI. So, the question is: where does corporate capture happen? Because if for instance, like with those guidelines is not half as efficient as you would like it to be. That is why I do think corporate capture is a huge issue. And a meta concern we need to think about. And at the same time, while it is convenient to assume that Europeans have a shared set of values enshrined in national and European documents the current rise of populism and xenophobia paints a much less convenient picture. How do you make sure – in the face of so much societal unrest – to uphold some primary principles? **Burning Question:** What does the future of civil society advocacy look like, given the prevalence of these digital technologies and their impact on the work that civil society is currently doing? ## Post a thoughtful comment below ahead of the **[workshop on AI & Justice ](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326)** on November 19! This will help us to prepare good case studies for exploring these topics in detail. It will also ensure participants are at least a bit familiar with one another's background and experiences around the topics at hand." 2,61342,2019-10-14T16:23:42.449Z,61210,anon2434097920,anon28068060,Wonderful wide-ranging remarks. You have clearly thought deeply about these and many other related issues. I am this well-spoken in my dreams. 3,62518,2019-10-30T09:07:48.174Z,61210,anon2801154208,anon28068060,"[quote=""anon28068060, post:1, topic:11118""] Increasingly, human rights organizations are trying to target companies and code instead of governments and laws [/quote] indeed. i have heard there are even some governments that are opening embassies at tech centers like silicon valley (denmark)" 4,64159,2019-11-15T10:48:22.722Z,61210,anon3449369942,anon28068060,"@anon28068060 found this piece of news from Bruce Schneier that might be of interest to you: *"" Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption* *The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 countries. This was all accomplished not through any backdoors in communications systems, but by analyzing the bitcoin transactions and [following the money](https://www.wired.com/story/dark-web-welcome-to-video-takedown-bitcoin/):""* https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/10/dark_web_site_t.html" 5,64160,2019-11-15T10:49:03.448Z,64159,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,If you have some follow up questions share them with me? I can ping him and ask 6,64178,2019-11-15T11:21:57.738Z,61210,anon3031202475,anon28068060,"@anon28068060 and @anon2434097920, this is a great a long post, but kind of hard to take in and especially comment all at once. I was wondering what you think about testing to post a few of these headlines as their own thread? They are rich enough to start a discussion on there own, and maybe easier to engage with? I do not mean to make summaries, which is already being done by some great copywriters @anon3449369942 has taken care of. I mean to take for example this part: [quote=""anon28068060, post:1, topic:11118""] ### Local Knowledge first What should we do? What is the role of academics and human rights activist in Europe, given these various complications I laid out? I’ve worked with a number of NGOs on security methods and I worked with their safety teams. When I was living in Brazil, I worked with an NGO that specifically focused on digital security trainings for human rights activists. On the one hand, they have limited capacity to engage with all of the latest and greatest technological developments. On the other hand, they have a lot of incredibly local knowledge we tend to not think about naturally, because it doesn’t come up in our context. A great example is a friend who’s a very well-known activist. He knows that the police are monitoring him, that he’s under surveillance, and so are his family and friends. And so one of the things that we did is setting up this elaborate encrypted emailing service for him, explained VPNs, and helped him use signal. And then one morning, he came in, and he said, you know, this is all incredibly great. I now have all of these encrypted services. But you know, what happened this morning. I was sitting on my motorcycle, texting someone, a police officer walked up to me, and just grabbed the phone out of my hand.” Which meant that it was open, which meant that no matter the encrypted services, no matter the signal, no matter the VPN, they had access to his phone. We didn’t discuss this scenario because for most of the trainers, it simply hadn’t occurred to them that this might be how the police would act. I have seen the tendency of European trainers who go abroad with their really elaborate technologies for improving your safety. But they don’t actually address what a security risk looks like on the ground. So, I think one of the things that I would be really interested in, is actually trying to figure out whether a training on IoT is useful, and perhaps look at physical safety. Working with a philosophy where the starting point is: you know a lot about the problems that you have, so explain to us what your problems are, and then collaboratively, we can bring together a bunch of different resources to figure out what a solution should look like. Instead of sharing the technical knowledge that we have, pouring it out and then leaving. Not that everyone does that. But I do think that it is an easy mistake to make, an easy trap to fall into. [/quote] And post it by itself without real changes so a concentrated discussion of the interesting points made just there can be had and also so we can learn about how this form influences the engagement :)" 7,64185,2019-11-15T11:35:38.217Z,64178,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"@anon28068060, would you like to choose 1-3 and post them on their own?" 8,64191,2019-11-15T11:44:34.886Z,64185,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,I think it is ok for us to do this ourselves @anon3031202475 - they are summaries and not the exact words so it doesnt really make sense for the people interviewed to post it themselves... 9,64194,2019-11-15T11:48:19.802Z,64191,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"OK, just, that they are worded in the first person and when people answer it would also be good if @anon28068060 could see that directly, so it would be good if she could post those :)" 10,64195,2019-11-15T11:49:05.030Z,64194,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"We can ping Corinne so she sees it, this in order to be mindful of everyone's time :)" 11,64198,2019-11-15T11:58:48.541Z,61210,anon28068060,anon28068060,"Hi @anon3449369942 and @anon3031202475, Thanks for the pings. Just a quick question, to see if I understood correctly: You would like me to take some sections from my interview, and post them as threads on the Internet of Humans forum for people to engage with as that would be easier to parse than reading the full interview? If this is correct, I am happy to do so. But I do want to flag this convo for @anon1037234888 and @anon3809206126 as me starting a number of threads based on my interview while also being one of the three main ethnographic coders for the Internet of Humans project does raise some interesting methodological challenges. Not insurmountable, but just something to keep track of ;-) Kind regards, anon28068060" 12,64202,2019-11-15T12:07:55.075Z,64198,anon3031202475,anon28068060,"@anon28068060, that is exactly what I meant. Good point with your double role, but maybe that can event help us to understand how format/ length influences engagement :)" 13,64205,2019-11-15T12:11:51.670Z,64198,anon3449369942,anon28068060,"No @anon3031202475 - what I meant was that we have created 150-300 word articles summarising the contents of the interview with each person. And that we (I) will be posting them on the platform and on social media. So that people pressed for time can more easily engage in the conversation based on the main points we have drawn from the conversation with you. The people who want to go much deeper will be pointed to the original post." 14,64211,2019-11-15T12:23:12.776Z,64205,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"ok, if you prefer it that way :). The summary will probably touch on many aspects again and not have the examples. Forgiving you opinion and feedback on one part of the topic I thought having those junks, that have personal details but are more focused on one aspect might be good. But maybe we can test something like that later on :)" 15,64218,2019-11-15T12:44:13.299Z,64211,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,right now our issue is an overwhelming amount of information. We can go deeper in the workshop but now it is about simplifying to not scare people off. 16,67702,2019-12-18T14:17:15.110Z,64178,anon227579045,anon3031202475,"But I think the point of @anon28068060 here is that the direct physical security (or right of possession) makes a big difference: we can do encryption, set passwords, do data minimization, and all these ""cyber-measures"" (that are soanon3242181883 immaterial), but at the end of the day what matters is who can enter your home, under what conditions and whether you can protect yourself? It soanon3242181883 draws my mind to the only Human Rights Consideration incorporated in an IETF RFC to date: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8492#section-8 And also to a different topic that is still insufficiently discussed in human rights communities, in particular, namely the State of Exception (masterfully, in my view, covered by Giorgio Agamben in his homonymous book of 2005)." 17,68016,2019-12-30T18:39:08.085Z,67702,anon2434097920,anon227579045,"[quote=""anon227579045, post:16, topic:11118""] State of Exception [/quote] You are spot on with this. The US involvement in the Vietnam War was essentially built around a state of exception stemming from the ""Gulf of Tonkin"" incident, which we now know was faked in order to win Congressional approval, which importantly was not a declaration of war, but a blank check to the executive/military branch..To me the whole ""greatest generation"" thing about my parents WWII generation has to have an asterisk because they sent us to Vietnam, which I submit is the central tragedy of my now 68 year old lifetime. And the US has never aanon2317280404ed for it and indeed we are repeating much of it, this time in the desert. Gee, that sounds a lot like another faked incident: pitching Saddam's ""weapons of mass destruction"" as the basis for invading Iraq. Also 9-11 led directly to the ""Patriot Act"" which is by itself another state of exception in that it perpetually renews a greatly empowered surveillance state and much diminished accountability." 18,68017,2019-12-30T18:45:10.616Z,68016,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Crazy thought: a state of exception for the climate. Speaking of WWII, I do marvel at the level of cooperation on both sides of that conflict actually. Today there is no such unity and there are effectively right now no world leaders who aren't making things worse. I make some exceptions to several EU leaders who are trying to do the right thing more or less. Contrast that with Trump, Putin, China, India, Brazil.." 1,64251,2019-11-15T14:18:33.689Z,64251,anon685777545,anon685777545,"Hi all, I have been asked to introduce myself :slight_smile: and I will add below the short bio that I use for events. I love working for the decentralization/distribution of power, and do research about it. Recently I have gotten more and more involved with the DGOV Foundation and I am researching collective decision making matters. Hope to get some 'friends' over here. Warm regards, Liliana. Standard short bio: Liliana Carrillo is an international public speaker, TEDx speaker, computer science engineer with a masters diploma in artificial intelligence, distributed systems and business, and background in education and social work. Ambassador of several blockchain, post-blockchain and artificial intelligence projects related to tech for social good/impact. Advocating for GDPR-complaint systems by design, agent/user/human centric, and working in the creation of more resilient systems. Passionate about the decentralization of power, and how to better decide collectively, collective decision making. Facilitating self-empowerment as a way to upgrade our collective intelligence. Transforming education/work/business to focus on individual talents, and sum them to collective talents. Her personal mission is the awareness creation of methodologies and technologies that can enable our collective intelligence, the sense of co-responsibility in our communities, and upgrading our society for more peace. To build a better future with prosperity for all Liliana has chosen to work/play with/for kids, and work/play with/for high tech." 2,64392,2019-11-17T09:29:44.678Z,64251,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"Hello @anon685777545, Thank you very much for your introduction! We are lucky to have a community with interesting people :). Also great to have you at the AI workshop! Looking forward to hearing what ideas and discussion you and the other participants develop from there!" 3,64394,2019-11-17T11:36:17.457Z,64392,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:2, topic:11559""] AI workshop [/quote] Hi @anon3031202475, this community is full of interesting people! I am happy to have landed here thanks for Fil. Regarding the workshop, what is the program? should I send your a photo as speaker? Fil asked me to speak but I am not sure if that is at the end happening. And I am not clear about what is happening on that day. Are there panels? talks? Warm regards, Liliana." 4,64397,2019-11-17T13:56:08.041Z,64394,anon3449369942,anon685777545,"Liliana hi, I am sending out the program tomorrow morning" 5,65607,2019-11-25T09:52:46.133Z,64251,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"Ping @anon3572363072. @anon685777545, after the Hackathon in Berlin, the group plans a very interesting proposal for a Collective Intelligence and AI Incubator. There is potentially some anon4292955258 interesting overlap here :). https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-berlin/10769" 6,65610,2019-11-25T10:17:15.802Z,64397,anon685777545,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:4, topic:11559""] program [/quote] Hi Nadia, it was a wonderful program! and experience! I am happy to have found Edgeryders <3 Liliana." 7,65707,2019-11-25T14:56:18.710Z,65607,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:5, topic:11559""] There is potentially some anon4292955258 interesting overlap here :) [/quote] Thanks for tagging us, and connecting us :slight_smile:" 8,67910,2019-12-23T17:53:13.555Z,64251,anon685777545,anon685777545,https://edgeryders.eu/t/cooperation-at-scale/12239 9,67995,2019-12-29T17:11:49.773Z,64251,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"Revisiting posts for the 2019 retrospective as well as Star Trek for reasons I have the urge to add this: ![giphy|500x250](upload://uyCwC3Do6Zj3Fp0olCutvb2CEPd.gif) to the title. ""How to balance the needs of the collective and individual?"" Spock sacrificing himself in the wrath of Kahn for the good of the many, only for everyone to come together to search for him in the next movie :). Balance is always important and hard... here we could add some more references from another scifi pop culture juggernaut, but I prefer star treck and think it offers more interesting perspectives. @anon685777545, do you happen to be a treck head as well and if yes, what is your opinion on the presentation and handling of the borg or other hive-like species/systems in star trek or other scifi? Do you like/know a good example to ponder collective intelligence through? (potentially even to read or binch in the next 2 cold month?)" 1,55185,2019-06-14T18:13:10.293Z,55185,anon3572363072,anon3572363072," Hey folks, after invitation to join here by @anon1505367078 and @anon3449369942 and some busy weeks behind, I finally made it. 🎉 Looking forward to dive into this community as I heard so many good things and see a lot of room to collaborate on the projects I am involved in. **Quick intro about me:** I am Oliver and get really excited by anything related to systems thinking, governance, sociology, psychology, social polarisation and misinformation, alternative economics....solar punk stuff :slight_smile: I also like to dance. Big ecstatic dance fan :) --- ### WorldBrain.io I founded WorldBrain.io, a steward ownership business with the goal of battling online misinformation and societal polarisation at scale. We are building open-source tools for people to organise their online research, and build on other people's research to understand complext topics quicker, deeper and with more nuance. Our tools are focused on providing maximum data sovereignty and freedom to move between providers - so no social or data lock-ins and full room for innovating on knowledge management tools. The two main tools we are developing are **Memex** and **Storex**. Also involved are @anon1462314276 and @anon3820120211. --- ### Memex Memex is a browser extension to organise your web research more efficiently. It's a mix of 1. a Google Search for everything you have seen in the past 2. Medium's/GDocs highlighting and commenting features but for the whole web and 3. Pocket's quick organisation features supercharged. You can also save & archive tweets. Memex runs entirely locally, sync between devices happens P2P. All data is stored on your computer. Here you can play with it: [worldbrain.io](http://worldbrain.io) ![com-optimize%20(30)|690x413](upload://oqouoQrAsQOleXR2azWEXNvamXM.gif) Memex is in an MVP stage currently used by 10.000 people and already generating small revenue. We just won the LEDGER Open call and got 200k to add collaboration features to Memex. Imagine being able to search for "lithium mining" across all the websites and papers Elon Musk has read, and seeing and responding to his highlights and notes. --- ### Storex We know that Memex is not going to be useful to everyone and that everyone needs different tools to organise and share their nuanced digital knowledge that is spread across so many services. There is a need for many different tools that are adapted to individuals workflows and requirements. And that is one of the reasons we built Storex: To democratise knowledge creation, ownership and exchange. Storex is the main storage, syncing, searching and sharing library for the data produced with Memex. We are about to add an API so that developers and entrepreneurs can have full access to innovate on their own data. (history, annotations, notes, tags, interaction metadata, browsing paths, content of everything visited) Since Memex is open source they therefore can copy & modify it, add new features that fit their workflows better and still use the same data, or even use 2 Memexes in parallel. But of course you don't need to build another Memex. You can also just build a connection to one of your favourite apps, We think there is a lot of potential for this community to experiment and build on such an infrastructure. For example Edgeryders own crowdtagging platform could build an integration that collects the tags people of the community made and process them there, or people can build recommendation algorithms or autotagging features based on NLP data. --- I am looking forward to learn about your use cases. We are right now in the phase of gathering 10-20 interested projects to identify the common needs for such an infrastructure. Let me know if you'd like to chat more, or have any questions already. More than happy to also jump in a call." 2,55195,2019-06-14T19:15:43.757Z,55185,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,@anon2926706121 and @anon1686813978 check this out! 3,55215,2019-06-15T12:13:50.936Z,55185,anon3809206126,anon3572363072,"Hello @anon3572363072, good to meet you. I am Alberto, one of the old-timers at Edgeryders. I just installed Memex on my machine, and see how well it meshes with my workflow. I used to be a big del.icio.us user, then imported my bookmarks on to Diigo when that went down. I am still using Diigo, but kind of half-heartedly, so I am ready for trying something else. I am wondering: is there a way that I could add all those pages to Memex without actually having to visit them all again?" 4,55217,2019-06-15T12:20:17.904Z,55215,anon3572363072,anon3809206126,"Hey @anon3809206126 Yes! There is an import function. For that go to settings > import and then pick your diigo export file. Hope that helps! Oliver" 5,55241,2019-06-16T16:06:52.572Z,55217,anon3809206126,anon3572363072,"Thanks Oliver. I tried this yesterday but the Memex got stuck, showing the three flashing dots of ""import in progress"" for several hours. This morning I checked, and verified my exported HTML file had not been imported. Trying again..." 6,55269,2019-06-17T09:48:56.386Z,55241,anon3572363072,anon3809206126,"Ah that makes sense. We discovered an issue with the Diigo Export format. Will be fixed soon. Sorry for the wait :(" 7,55284,2019-06-17T10:53:23.025Z,55185,anon1505367078,anon3572363072,"Hi Oliver! Welcome to Edgeryders. Great to have you here. [quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:10157""] Imagine being able to search for ""lithium mining"" across all the websites and papers Elon Musk has read, and seeing and responding to his highlights and notes. [/quote] This would be an interesting feature for the IoH fellows to collect leads for the community to discuss. Looking forward to this feature! [quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:10157""] Storex is the main storage, syncing, searching and sharing library for the data produced with Memex. We are about to add an API so that developers and entrepreneurs can have full access to innovate on their own data. (history, annotations, notes, tags, interaction metadata, browsing paths, content of everything visited) [/quote] This is potentially very interesting for the purposes of online ethnography. Imagine that 100 participants of an online conversation on edgeryders.eu opted in to install a plugin that they could use to load conversations they have elsewhere into an auxillary dataset. For example, they could mark public FB threads, tweets and blog posts as relevant to their own IoH context. This plugin could be smart by identifying usernames and timestamps and thus opening up to expand SSNA to a third-party expanded conversation. The cached content would be saved on their local hard drives and synced to a 'collection' of all the data collected by the participants, which could then also be read and annotated by the ethnographers. This could be anon4292955258 interesting. An interesting aspect of SSNA is that we can identify the local experts of a specific context by looking at subgraphs of the conversation. Through this methodology, we could also identify the third party experts or influencers that might be ""invisibly"" informing our conversation. For example, three people in our conversation might all make comments relating to sustainability, mining and space exploration and might all be frequent readers of Elon Musk. Elon then becomes a third-party node in the auxiliary SSNA graph. What do you think @anon3809206126 and @anon1037234888? There might be some room to do a bit of creative thinking on how to expand SSNA to also understand the conversations the informants are involved in outside of the Edgeryders context." 8,55313,2019-06-17T18:16:20.937Z,55241,anon3572363072,anon3809206126,"But to make sure we are working with the same bug. Can you make a screenshot of your console? to do so press cmd/ctrl + alt + j (on mac) to get the tab's console, when you are in the tab running the import. then on ""console"". if nothing is visible there go to chrome://extensions and enable ""developer mode"", then go to ""background page"" on the memex card. Then again to ""console"" and see if there are any error messages. Thanks :)" 9,55322,2019-06-17T21:05:24.025Z,55313,anon3809206126,anon3572363072,"I use Firefox. The `TypeError: ...` message is the one that appeared when I launched the import." 10,55562,2019-06-21T15:48:44.130Z,55185,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,Thank you very much Oliver (@anon3572363072) ! the projects you are working on and sharing are very interesting. It was also great to meet you during the community call earlier this week. There we touched a bit on the topic of confirmation bias as well as the value of chosen groups. I would like to ask you to address your position and ideas and how they are reflected in Worldbrain. I think it would be a very interesting point to discuss here as well :). 11,55637,2019-06-24T18:27:41.073Z,55562,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,thanks @anon3031202475 for the encouragement to write a bit more about it. I will write my views up and post it as a new forum post. 12,55638,2019-06-24T18:49:08.862Z,55322,anon3572363072,anon3809206126,"ah thanks for the updates. This will be an easy bug to fix. Opened a github issue here: https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/issues/842 To fix it for yourself, just open the file you have in an editor and then find the line with the entry ""http://about:blank"" and delete that one. Finishing the preparation step of the import (where it gets stuck now) should work then. If not there may be other urls with similiar structures. (all with a ``:`` sign in the url after the ``https://``should throw this error)" 13,55689,2019-06-25T10:27:25.936Z,55185,anon1883575004,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:10157""] ### Memex Memex is a browser extension to organise your web research more efficiently. It’s a mix of 1. a Google Search for everything you have seen in the past 2. Medium’s/GDocs highlighting and commenting features but for the whole web and 3. Pocket’s quick organisation features supercharged. You can also save & archive tweets. [/quote] @anon3572363072 Love the idea and UX. Will start playing with it to see if it becomes a habit." 14,55707,2019-06-25T15:30:58.384Z,55185,anon3809206126,anon3572363072,"Indeed, the import was now successful. I will try out Memex and see if it meshes with my workflow. One question, though, Oliver. In your other post, I read: [quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:10221""] This central data store also houses your own social graph, so whichever service you eventually use, you can take your friends with you. [/quote] I may have misunderstood Memex. I thought it stored my browsing history locally. Was I wrong? Is there some kind of syncing to this ""central data store""?" 15,55738,2019-06-26T10:32:14.606Z,55707,anon3572363072,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:14, topic:10157""] I may have misunderstood Memex. I thought it stored my browsing history locally. Was I wrong? Is there some kind of syncing to this “central data store”? [/quote] There are 2 different concepts here. Memex is the client that allows you to search your history, annotate and (soon) collaborate with others. Storex is the underyling storage, sync and collaboration infrastructure . The ""centrality"" of it is meant to say that all data generated by Memex (and in the future other apps you use) are stored in Storex. The location can be either on your computer, your own server, or wherever you like to have this storage being put." 16,55917,2019-07-01T08:45:35.859Z,55738,anon3809206126,anon3572363072," [quote=""anon3572363072, post:15, topic:10157""] The “centrality” of it is meant to say that all data generated by Memex (and in the future other apps you use) are stored in Storex. The location can be either on your computer, your own server, or wherever you like to have this storage being put. [/quote] Aha. So, two questions: 1. I am now running Memex. Where am I storing the data? 1. Do I get to decide who and when accesses my browsing history? How do I do that?" 17,55930,2019-07-01T09:49:32.695Z,55917,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:16, topic:10157""] Aha. So, two questions: [/quote] Scrap that, @anon3572363072. I just checked your [privacy policy](https://www.notion.so/Privacy-Policy-061ac77759f8445282c36fcf6702a81c), and it has the answers I wanted. By the way, congrats: that's a *really good* privacy policy page. I love all the ""How do I verify that's true?"" questions. @anon196034329, let's make a note of Memex's privacy policy as a good practice we ourselves might get inspiration from!" 18,55981,2019-07-01T15:59:22.022Z,55930,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,I agree. It is excellent. 19,67941,2019-12-25T23:34:03.035Z,55185,anon3809206126,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072, FYI I just [reported a bug](https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/issues/917) on your GitHub. Thanks again for making this software." 1,66974,2019-12-05T11:17:43.289Z,66974,anon3449369942,anon3449369942," @anon > *AI is like Mr. Hyde to doctor Jekyll.* > > *Is your companion who does difficult tasks for you, but with something in exchange.* > > *It is the angel and the devil on your shoulder.* > > *It is American arrogance and the desire for Chinese conquest.* > > *It’s a dream sprinkled with terrible flashes.* > > *It is the fierce and overbearing soul that will lead us to be less human before even realizing that we are too human to manage it.* They put into words what I have been struggling to articulate as the reason behind having organised the workshop on [AI and Justice](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60) in Brussels on 19/11. This workshop was part of an ongoing conversation on our community platform [( overview here)](https://edgeryders.eu/t/ai-inequalities-and-justice-an-overview-of-all-documented-discussions-before-during-and-after-the-workshop/12014/3). Its purpose is to make sense of what we can do to take agency over the development of our futures in the age of what is often framed as inevitable developments towards one of two outcomes: The undoing of humanity vs a path to save us from ourselves. What have I understood so far? It all boils down to the following: ## We need new general principles of justice as a foundation for all policymaking in an age of networked technologies. 1) The ethics of substantial freedom. This includes citizens’ inalienable rights of ownership, control, access and possession of information about themselves and their communities. 2) The Capability Approach as defined by Amartya Sen. 3) Data is not a commodity. In the digital society it is the equivalent of the air we breathe. 4) Optimisation is not neutral. The choice to optimise at all has to be assessed based on its potential impact on the substantial freedoms of the individual. 5) “The individual”, “the citizen” and the “Human” are understood to mean individual members of the species Homo Sapiens. ## If we wish to ensure rule of law in Europe, we need a principle of balance of investment when it comes to AI and other networked digital technologies. This means that for every investment of public resources into promotion, education, research, development, or monetisation of these new technologies - we need to ensure equal injection of resources towards providing the means for the individual citizen to gain ownership, control, access and possession of information about themselves and their communities. These resources have to be directly accessible and accountable to the individual citizen and their community. ## A moonshot mission: If we want to ensure that AI/New Internet Technologies serves european citizens and businesses Europe must invest in building, maintaining and developing public cloud infrastructure. ## This is a first draft and open to suggestions. Any thoughts?" 2,66989,2019-12-05T13:42:59.925Z,66974,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,Nice. Are you proposing it for re:publica? 3,66991,2019-12-05T13:45:58.661Z,66989,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"Sure if it offers an opportunity to build on/develop this further. Ideally, people would take these principles and conclusions into discussions and then feed what they learn back into the conversation." 4,67069,2019-12-06T12:56:39.518Z,66974,anon196034329,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:1, topic:12117""]A moonshot mission: If we want to ensure that AI/New Internet Technologies serves european citizens and businesses Europe must invest in building, maintaining and developing public cloud infrastructure.[/quote] I'd emphatically agree, except that I'd scrap ""cloud infrastructure"" and put in ""open source IT infrastructure"". The cloud is really just somebody else's computer. There may be efficiencies of scale, obtained in exchange for a massive lack of control. Network speeds inside Europe (25 - 100 Mbit/s via ADSL and VDSL in most places now) is already sufficient for self-hosting, for taking back full control. Of course that needs a massive investment both into open source software (to make it nice and simple to use) and into skills. For the latter, I'd create an obligatory subject in school, called ""server and data management"". I mean, why not. Controlling and safeguarding ones own data is a skill that will be useful even in 100 years if (!) Europe decides to go that way rather than continue on the current road of letting everyone else but not the citizen take control of citizen data … To flesh this out a bit, the type of public and open source IT infrastructure I'd like to see for an efficient and enjoyable data-driven society would include the following. I don't focus on AI technology, as that's just another (and slightly more powerful) type of algorithm, not fundamentally changing what computers can be applied for. * **Company starter kit.** Basically all the tools we are building or still missing to run a small company like Edgeryders, as an integrated open source toolkit. Including an open source version of FreeAgent, which again must include cashflow projection etc. … * **Federated messaging and calling.** Instant messaging is a nightmare by now, as we lack any recognized interoperable standard (like HTML, e-mail etc.). So we have a lot of competing systems, and everyone needs up to 10 software packages for instant messaging and phone calls these days. They do the same, more or less, and it's a nightmare to use, worse than the public phone system that is being replaced with these tools. A Europe-wide standard for mandatory interoperability between these systems would be a great start. And of course an open source, security audited reference implementation. Like e-mail servers or Riot / Matrix, this system should run decentralized on multiple servers, and people would then have that server running in their own home typically, as part of their Internet router hardware. * **OpenStreetMap as the official map.** OpenStreetMap is great because, with map software like [OsmAnd](https://osmand.net/), it became anon4292955258 simple to contribute to a ""wiki map"" of the world. I do that sometimes in combination with cycling trips in the forest. It's not perfect yet: the user experience must become better, and governments should be mandated to contribute all their own geospatial data there. * **Consent-based advertising.** Currently, advertising is very similar to the worst case of how women experience online dating: lots of attention seeking and often disgusting messages, and other uninvited and unwelcome advances. Instead, just like more modern (OkCupid style) online dating, advertising should be based on audience consent. Practically: I may accept and even welcome a product advertisement message from a company *which I like*, and for that I want to browse through company profiles at times and select those I like. Another case where a Europe-wide digital infrastructure would be a big win for citizens." 5,67109,2019-12-06T18:05:54.219Z,67069,anon227579045,anon196034329,"1. Don't we already have an open source cloud infrastructure through, e.g. OpenStack? 2. What is the risk that Thierry Breanon2317280404, former CEO of beloved household names such as ATOS, France Telecom and Bull, will wield his newly granted power over EU industrial policy to invest EU tax payer money in the high-performance computing capacity (i.e. European cloud services) of beloved household names such as Atos?" 6,67110,2019-12-06T18:12:58.732Z,66974,anon227579045,anon3449369942,"> ## We need new general principles of justice as a foundation for all policymaking in an age of networked technologies. > > 1. The ethics of substantial freedom. This includes citizens’ inalienable rights of ownership, control, access and possession of information about themselves and their communities. Is there a theoretical framework for this? I connect it with Philip Agre and perhaps some of the philosophical frameworks developed in the EU FIDIS program around 2005. But I also recognise some huge public-administrative challenges in e.g. Sweden with changing the ownership structure for personal data/information in this way (i.e. information about private persons has been used to ""optimize"" public services, and must, in order to fill this role, belong to the government). > 2. The Capability Approach as defined by Amartya Sen. Yes! > 3. Data is not a commodity. In the digital society it is the equivalent of the air we breathe. I wonder about the difference with copyright (and trademark) law here: In copyright law, the holder of the right can unilaterally dictate to users of the work the terms of usage. Under data protection law, however, it is the user of the data that unilaterally dictates the terms of usage to the holder of the right. Is either of these models envisaged or something different? For the air, surely it is the user of the air (a polluting industry, for instance) that dictates to the holder of the right to air (the population, perhaps?) the terms of usage. Soanon3242181883. > 4. Optimisation is not neutral. The choice to optimise at all has to be assessed based on its potential impact on the substantial freedoms of the individual. !!! Yes. There was a very good ""understreckare"" in Svenska dagbladet about this one and a half decade ago, or so, that questioned the concept of ""effectivization"". What does it mean to make something ""more efficient"" (one of the primary goals of digitalization, in both EU and Swedish mainstream politics)? > 5. “The individual”, “the citizen” and the “Human” are understood to mean individual members of the species Homo Sapiens. I would like more work on the Extended Mind Hypothesis (http://cogprints.org/320/1/extended.html ) and the integration of data, A.I. or electronic devices as extensions to our cognitive abilities soanon3242181883. But I should read Hilary Putnam, I suppose, to understand this better." 7,67113,2019-12-06T18:57:33.454Z,67109,anon196034329,anon227579045,"[quote=""anon227579045, post:5, topic:12117""]Don’t we already have an open source cloud infrastructure through, e.g. OpenStack?[/quote] Indeed, we have. My point is rather that cloud infrastructure is not very useful in general – or should not be, as with proper decentralization and local control of data, there are only a few use cases for high-performance data centers. In political organization, we have federation (5 levels here in Germany). In data management, we only have centralization (""data centers""). It does not have to be that way … [quote=""anon227579045, post:5, topic:12117""]What is the risk that Thierry Breanon2317280404 […] will […] invest EU tax payer money in the high-performance computing capacity (i.e. European cloud services) of beloved household names such as Atos?[/quote] Substantial, right? What kind of industrial policy, tech policy and data policy would prevent the emergence of quasi-monopolies like ATOS in the first place?" 8,67700,2019-12-18T14:04:33.152Z,67113,anon227579045,anon196034329,"> What kind of industrial policy, tech policy and data policy would prevent the emergence of quasi-monopolies like ATOS in the first place? It's a good question. Industrial policy ties into tech, innovation, data and security policy because it's ultimately about preserving the material welfare of (at least parts of) the local population. In the EU it's a huge challenge that all the local populations are not the same - e.g., benefitting ATOS will almost certainly provide a material benefit to someone in France, but it's not clear that this benefit will disseminate to other parts of Europe in equal measure. We can interpret ""benefit"" or ""material welfare"" as in the Capabilities Approach by Sen (as proposed by @anon3449369942 above) if that's convenient. This opinion piece by Piotr Arak starts out a bit shaky, but I think the latter half explains pretty well the problem of a green economy from a Polish perspective: https://euobserver.com/opinion/146932 I think we could add the ""ATOS-problem"" to the complexity, e.g., Arak raises the issue of the ""materials industry problems"" (implying, I think correctly, that subsidizing the industry for eco-materials is unlikely to increase the capabilities of Polish rural communities) - and the ATOS problem is the same. If the goal is simply to avoid quasi-monopolies like ATOS (and I'm not sure in which industry segment they'd be particularly dominant?), then perhaps ortholiberalism coupled with some Tim Wuean concept of lowered market entry barriers would be sufficient. If the goal is, on the other hand, to spread capabilities around Europe, we'd have a more difficult task at hand." 9,67936,2019-12-25T17:11:14.865Z,66974,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,"... meanwhile, looks like China is having ""robot judges"" adjudicate ""millions of cases"". It does put a new spin on this stuff. https://learnanon2926706121nglish.voanews.com/a/robot-justice-the-rise-of-china-s-internet-courts-/5201677.html" 1,62976,2019-11-04T21:27:36.596Z,62976,anon658983266,anon658983266,"Hi All, Just a quick intro to *prime the pump*. I'm an embedded engineer with nascent projects on the communications in the low bandwidth and 100 km range that feed into some of the ideas expressed by ssb. I'm still searching for the *sticky* technology that would make this work, and be simple enough to use. I'm also the occasional data analyst on ssb, measuring the growth of the network." 2,62981,2019-11-04T22:37:37.325Z,62976,anon1505367078,anon658983266,"Hi Emelie, and welcome! By ssb, I suppose you mean Secure Scuttlebutt? I’m on those networks myself, though admittedly not very actively in the last couple of months. [quote=""anon658983266, post:1, topic:11359""] I’m still searching for the *sticky* technology that would make this work [/quote] Could you say more about this?" 3,62984,2019-11-04T22:57:19.653Z,62981,anon658983266,anon1505367078,"Hej @anon1505367078 Yup, ssb as secure scuttlebutt. > I’m still searching for the *sticky* technology that would make this work > Could you say more about this? By sticky I mean that it can grow at a ß > 1, in the long-term. Much of the technology in the 100km rf range is anon4292955258 limiting that growth is less than 1, where ham radio exists. For example ham radio is a niche that requires expertise, and has a fairly flat user base. Using a crow-amsaa method ß is greater than 1, ssb meets some of these goals, but has a *last mile* problem, that requires the occasional internet for connectivity. " 4,62985,2019-11-04T23:32:30.563Z,62976,anon1505367078,anon658983266,"I see. That’s fascinating. When I was in high school I had a short but passionate infatuation with picking up VLF signals with my computer sound card. I never thought of that in connection to SSB before but that’s certainly a cool thought. I’m curious, where does your interest in achieving long distance digital communication without an internet connection come from? Is it because of an instinct of trying to build resilient communication capacity, or more of a “because I can” sort of thing?" 5,63217,2019-11-06T18:13:01.090Z,62976,anon658983266,anon658983266,"> I’m curious, where does your interest in achieving long distance digital communication without an internet connection come from? Is it because of an instinct of trying to build resilient communication capacity, or more of a “because I can” sort of thing? @anon1505367078 — Part of it is I routinely fall off the grid when doing my outdoor pursuits — I blink and there are no bars left on my iPhone; and while it is a first world problem for me; it is also a developing world problem. I was attracted to ssb from that angle; where the asynchronous point to point communication was the selling feature — and have learned to love the community also." 6,67263,2019-12-10T14:41:55.894Z,63217,anon658983266,anon658983266,"I've taken the first step and ordered wifi/BT/Lora radio pair for starting this project. The intent is to enable ssb syncing at distance; and alternatively possibly present a chat interface for the interested. As ssb has meshing at the higher network level (almost application…) the lower level radios do not have to mesh, but can simply be p2p or p2mp — and ssb will do the magic of sharing the content. From my previous explorations I have been able to manage to sync on a low bandwidth link by experimentation with a wireless router at 9600 bps." 7,67909,2019-12-23T17:30:14.924Z,67263,anon658983266,anon658983266,"Boards are in! :santa: :deer: :snowman_with_snow: " 1,66680,2019-12-02T15:58:45.317Z,66680,anon658983266,anon658983266,"This is a draft version of the *Cybercommunism* session # Cybercommunism Attending: [André](https://staltz.com/) @anon Kristian - Swedish software developer Kai - cybercommunism interest Ingrid - cybercommunism interest Erik - computer science Graham - from New Zealand Hanna-My - Malmö, local activist Jules - travelling with Graham ## Tradional/physical communism vs. capitalism Traditional communism * centralised * distributed wealth * forced sharing? Traditional capitalism * de-centralised (in the inherent mechanism) * private ownership * stacking wealth ## Cybercommunism/capitalism The cost of data is marginally small Cybercommunism * all data decentralised * examples: open data, open source, memes, illegal stuff Cybercapitalism/surveillance capitalism * accumulated data * centralised * examples: large-scale tech companies In-between * examples: Wikipedia, YouTube (content is created by everyone) Difference between traditional and cyber is that the cost of “value” (=data) is marginal in the cyber realm Suggestions: * the natural state of data is within cybercommunism * we are stuck in the polarized, simplified understanding of capitalism/communism (e.g. markets are not intrinsic to capitalism only) * imprisoning data is hard and expensive, but possible * decentralised protocols: the web/Scuttlebutt started as being decentralised and move towards being fully decentralised ## Civilization stacks The more layers, the easier it is to build new layers on top - currently spear-headed by Silicon Valley such as seen in trans-humanism" 1,60803,2019-10-07T12:53:54.543Z,60803,anon273015838,anon273015838,"[date=2019-11-28 timezone=""Europe/Brussels"" timezones=""Europe/Berlin""] → [date=2019-11-28 timezone=""Europe/Brussels"" timezones=""Europe/Berlin""]
As part of the event ""Service Design in an Climate Emergency"" that will take place in Berlin on 28 Nov during the [Edgeryders festival](https://edgeryders.eu/t/festival-program-overview/10731) hosted by @anon2753384108 and anon107383982 Hing, I'm planning to contribute **a brief input on smart cities and their potential roles in fighting climate change - or vice versa, on the role that the fight against climate change should have on smart city planning and governance.** (So-called ""smart cities"" and how to make them better has been [the focus of my ER fellowship](/t/9878) research.) I think the best format would be a brief (maybe 20min?) input followed by an informal conversation. I'm looking for feedback: Does this sound interesting, what's missing, who'd be interested in having that conversation? Here's the framing/summary I have in mind: **Towards Carbon-Neutral Smart Cities** As we see a move towards connecting the urban space around the globe, so-called “smart cities” projects proliferate. While often problematic from concept to implementation, there is an opportunity to use this momentum to make our urban infrastructures work for everyone, including the planet. We propose that every smart city project needs to be aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, human rights, and the simplified TAPS framework (Transparency, Accountability, Participation, Security). Furthermore, any smart city project must be carbon-neutral, or at the very least have a carbon footprint an order of magnitude smaller than the existing systems it replaces or augments.
# Frequently asked questions ### How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop? **Fill in this form: https://register.edgeryders.eu/** _Please note: This event is bringing together people who are currently directly involved in building, researching, regulating, monetising and or providing meaningful input into the wider debate around the technologies in question. We want to ensure that every participant leaves the venue having presented and discussed their work with others who can provide meaningful input or connect them with opportunities to further their professional and or personal development. If this appeals to you, then we would love to have you join us. Just [create an edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login) and [introduce yourself to the community here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you)._ ### How is this event being organised? This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don't worry. Create an [edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. I (@anon273015838 ) am coordinating this event, with @anon2753384108 who organises a parallel event and the venue. ### How is this all financed? This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at https://ngi.edgeryders.eu
![Ngi logo](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/ngi-logo.png) ![Eu emblem](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/eu-emblem.png) ### Does getting involved mean I endorse the funders views or actions? No. What you are doing is contributing to an open consultation on the topic of how to build a next generation of internet infrastructure, technologies, business models etc that promotes the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The consultation methodology is designed in such a way as to allow for diversity of views, premises, disciplines, themes and contexts. We employ open notebook science principles and the results will be presented in the form of a research report accessible to everyone after the event. You can follow the process, review the methodology and open source tech we are using and engage directly with the research and coordination team here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace ### What is the code of conduct? It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word ""better"" has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### What happens with my data? You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 2,60856,2019-10-07T21:34:13.168Z,60803,anon196034329,anon273015838,"Well, to me ""smart city"" always sounds as something focused on what is administratively possible in the current socio-political environment. Which at least in Europe is not much right now. So when treating this topic, I prefer a fresh take: focusing on what is technologically possible instead, while breaking the rules. But I made my point already ([back here](/t/9878/8)), so no need to repeat it all." 3,60863,2019-10-08T06:03:36.420Z,60803,anon3449369942,anon273015838,ping @anon1686813978 and @anon3031202475 and @anon2926706121 4,60865,2019-10-08T06:41:02.072Z,60856,anon273015838,anon196034329,"Yup, understood. And I tend to agree, we need to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. I also think we need to make sure that the stuff that _does_ get built (or is being planned/discussed now) will implemented in the best/least bad way, and that the folks/orgs who decide have a better decision-making matrix that we can hold them accountable to." 5,60936,2019-10-08T15:33:39.856Z,60865,anon2434097920,anon273015838,How similar or dissimilar are smart city plans from each other? are they similar enough that the moniker 'smart city' should suffice in informing us as to what that truly means? Or is there a lot of variance and thus every city needs its own unique analysis? 6,60995,2019-10-09T10:43:30.316Z,60803,anon3449369942,anon273015838,"Hey Peter, So I have thought about how we can involve more people in contributing to developing this session (and the broader conversation). The simplest way is to plug into the distributed collaboration process through which the comms and community management crews are coordinating. I am following this process for [my workshop on Ai and Justice](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326) and it is working really well. 1. Update your event description above with the following: * Add a question that you want to answer through the session * Add an Faq Section (you can copy paste the one on my workshop description) * Add a description of the format. if you can make it a bit interactive or identify a specific methodology you will be using that's great. _Feel free to ask if you need help with this_ 2. Make it easy for us to promote it: * Give @anon3031202475 photos + statements/quotes she can use to customise design for a flyer and for a header for this event. 3. See what you think of this approach to one on one outreach for getting good input to help you develop the session, and the broader discussion you wish to build around the topics of your fellowship: * You send emails with to people you think can contribute to this discussion with personalised invitation using content from the one I forwarded you as a template/model * If they agree you can forward them to a member of Edgeryders staff (@anon2926706121 for now) who then does the interview & transcribes content, and helps them to get on platform. You would need to agree with her on what questions you would like to ask... 3. Read the articles posted by the contributers and write a summary. Perhaps you can also draw help from the data analysis team to make visualisations that can help you synthesise what is there and share it back with a nice visual graph. If this is something you want to explore, the person to talk to is @anon1037234888. What do you think, works?" 7,61108,2019-10-10T11:31:40.840Z,60936,anon273015838,anon2434097920,"That's an excellent question. The two-part answer is: * In the strict sense of the words, they don't differ as much: They cover a lot of ground, but all with the same underlying DNA, so to speak. It's an industry term, heavily originated in the early IBM thinking in that space, and later also heavily influenced by the DNA of the other global enterprises that push the term (global supply chain logistics; network operators; data analytics) so that informs the approach a lot. * In the broader sense of the word, which I very much prefer (let's reclaim and transform that term!) it could be anything that adds connectivity in public space/urban infrastructure, including bottom-up or decentralized approaches." 8,61176,2019-10-11T11:31:03.637Z,60803,anon28068060,anon273015838,"[quote=""anon273015838, post:1, topic:11041""] TAPS framework [/quote] Hiya, can you tell me a anon222512824 bit more about the TAPS framework and the sector it comes from? Kind regards, anon28068060" 9,61303,2019-10-14T10:27:21.986Z,60803,anon3449369942,anon273015838,"In case your need some data sets for the event I found nice repository of Data for Environmental Intelligence: A mega list of Earth System Datasets covering earth observations, climate, water, forests, biodiversity, ecology, protected areas, natural hazards, marine and the tracking of UN's Sustainable Development Goals https://github.com/rockita/Environmental_Intelligence" 10,61346,2019-10-14T17:18:17.129Z,60803,anon3031202475,anon273015838,"@anon273015838, I added the FAQ that needs to be added to all the festival posts. Could you change this to a description from a proposal?" 11,61424,2019-10-15T13:15:11.455Z,61176,anon273015838,anon28068060,"Hi @anon28068060, it's a framework I've started working on developing in a _very_ early stage to think through aspects like transparency, accountability, privacy, security (hence the acronym). It yet needs to be fleshed out, but I hope to turn it into a simple tool to evaluate smart city proposals against. Basically: Would project X increase (or at the very least not decrease) those four aspects? If it wouldn't, then back to the drawing board." 12,67866,2019-12-21T19:57:05.343Z,61303,anon227579045,anon3449369942,"Wow! https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&page=1 Looking through the European data sets it's even interesting which countries have more data sets. I wonder if the data sets or similar enough that they can be easily compared across border....." 1,66932,2019-12-04T22:39:54.064Z,66932,anon2753384108,anon2753384108,"_Okay folks, I said I'd write something [in the follow up post after the workshop][] myself to encourage others. I'll link to a editable wiki page, with some resources we found, so others can add to it too. It should be at the bottom of this post._ [in the follow up post after the workshop]: https://edgeryders.eu/t/further-information-about-service-design-in-a-climate-emergency-public/11966/2?u=anon2753384108 ### What was key question you came to the workshop with? My main questions was one of how well developed the conversation in the Berlin service design scene was when it came to talking about what I see as the existential challenge of our time - the climate crisis. I wanted to see if we there was sufficient awareness and knowledge to move past the sense of learned helplessness, and abdication of responsibility I see in so many technical communities, where people say _""I'm just a designer, I design what the client asks for""_ or _""I'm just a developer, I only buld what I'm told to""_. ### What was the key takeaway from the day? My key insight was that while the conversation has a long way to go, and service design as a discipline isn't as well established as other parts of the world, there's at least interest, and will to develop it. While some attendees did get stuck on some exercises when trying to think through stategies to address the problems blocking tangible action, there were enough ideas in the room, to end up with some useful things I could try to help me frame a problem differently. It was also good to acknowledge that because many of the problems around climate are systemic, the user centred design of many tools we use end up getting in the way of us understanding the problem. I found [this piece by Cassie Robinson about the shortcomings of user centred design][ucd] useful when discussing this during the workshop [ucd]: https://medium.com/doteveryone/putting-users-first-is-not-the-answer-to-everything-dd05b9f11b5 I left knowing a bunch of things I didn't know when I walked into the workshop room. ### What do you see as the single largest challenge to designing for climate in industry? The key challenge I see is people feeling they have the (social) license to talk about the impacts of their work, and not being equipped to have discussions around this. In my view, so many of the problems related to climate feel like they rely on people being prepared to say _""I'm not comfortable with the consequences of doing that""_. I think without people in senior positions create this culture where more junior staff feel supported, I think we'll end up the sad scenario where people continue to build services that end up pushing us closer to a economic and ecosystem collapse - the difference being that they know how far from sustainable these are, and still build them, but just feel _terrible_ about doing so, rather than changing their behaviour. With that in mind, I think some of the [Consequence Scanning exercises from Doteveryone][cs], are really interesting - while they're not aimed at climate problems explicitly, they do help us have the same kind of conversations, in a relatively safe structured format. [cs]: https://doteveryone.org.uk/project/consequence-scanning/ ### What single thing would you want to see support available for, to help you with designing services as if we were in a climate emergency? Support for professionals to develop this knowledge in the form of time for their own study, or an investment in training. I think this is necessary to help them build the capabilities to make informed decisions about what interventions they make when thinking through and designing services. ### If there was one thing you’d ask other practitioners to think about in your field after the workshop, what would it be? I think the key thing to think about that is just how we mistakenly act like there is no cost to inaction, (the is a very real cost to inaction, and it's not distant any more), I think the conversations we have with people younger than us will be much, _much_ more awkward if we do nothing than the awkward conversations we might have now towards the end of 2019 with our peers. We _have_ to get good at talking about climate, and while it's on us to educate ourselves, we don't need to wait til we're experts before we get to have opinions about this what what world we want to spend our professional time building. I found Mary Louise Heglar's article, [Home is always worth it][1] really good for helping me realise this. https://edgeryders.eu/t/service-design-in-a-climate-emergency-resources/12110 [1]: https://medium.com/@anon" 2,67084,2019-12-06T14:41:37.122Z,66932,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,"@anon2753384108, thank you for this amazing write up! Also, have a look at this call from the science gallery: https://opencall.sciencegallery.com/design?utm_source=Network+Email+Alerts&utm_campaign=c3e05d6d1b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_07_04_08_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0348a84edd-c3e05d6d1b-452633829 > "" Design makes worlds. It directs the traffic of humanity through the creation of cultural, social, and material space. But do we feel empowered to direct? To design? > > Most moments of our existence are touched by design. We all sketch, we fashion trial balloons, we tinker with thoughts and concepts, we revise, we prototype, we analyze and critique, and we build. And then build again. > > Design intersects with science and art. We design experiments for research, scientific visualizations, and genetic models. We design performances, texts, and communication. We design gardens, houses, and cities. We create small and large. We find beauty in experience and efficiency. > > Design often mimics the intricate and perfect connections of healthy biological systems that nurture life. Yet design can also create destruction and chaos, or limit our participation and humanity. How might we explore this fantastic and perilous labyrinth of connections and implications bound up with art, science, and design? > > **The open call is an invitation to explore the world of design and its intersection with art and science. We invite proposals that address a wide range of subjects and themes, including the following:** > > ## **POTENTIAL SUBTOPICS AND THEMES** > > * What would a world without design be like? > * How might design influence our vision and creative process? Our desires? Our identities and the identities of the world? > * How could biodesign restructure, improve, and restore our lives, or damage and destroy them? > * What might we learn from the ways that artists structure their studios, and the ways that scientists lay out equipment and material in their labs? > * Could we design ways to have our consciousness and cognitive acts leave traces beyond the death of our body? > * How does design expertise interact with a participatory design process? How can we design spaces where experts and non-experts build together? > * Could we create a participatory process for designing the future? > * How might design conjure up a beautiful, eerie, exciting, or creepy anticipation of the future? > * How might we think about vernacular design? > * What is the past and future of the relationship between nature, biology, and design? > * How does design direct intentions? > * How can we deal with the fact that design is both magical and dangerous? > * How could design not suppress the chaotic, unexpected, improbable, and disruptive? > * How might we design spaces and communities for highly mobile geographically nomadic groups of people? > * How could we address the trauma of digital data and selves becoming commodified, transacted, and controlled and suppressed? > * Could design guide a desirable transformation of society toward an equitable sustainable state? > * How do the designs of our technologies reflect or challenge our biases? > > ## **SEND US YOUR PROPOSAL TO BE IN THIS EXHIBITION!** > > Experimentation, provocation and research are at the heart of SGD’s values and programs. This exhibition will explore the practice and concept of design through the lens of artists, psychologists, storytellers, digital gamers, molecular biologists, performers, neuroscientists, designers, computer scientists, nurses, engineers, musicians, mathematicians, architects, and young people. The list of possibilities is endless. > > Your proposal could be a new or existing artwork, performance, workshop, digital intervention, research project, virtual reality game, or other activity. We strongly recommend that you keep our target audience of young people aged 15-25 years in mind and consider including interactive or participatory elements. We would love humor to feature in the exhibition. Check out our tips on what makes a good open call submission."" This might be interesting for anon4292955258 a few of your workshop participants or even your workshop outcomes, or the workshop itself?" 3,67100,2019-12-06T17:58:53.792Z,66932,anon658983266,anon2753384108,@anon2753384108 — I as curious how well the consequence scanning went with the session — from a former life we would typically do risk instead; which was defined as Risk = Consequence * Likelihood since not *every* consequence has the same likelihood of occurring — it's easier to rank the risk appropriately. 4,67855,2019-12-21T16:01:21.182Z,66932,anon685777545,anon2753384108,"[quote=""anon2753384108, post:1, topic:12109""] I wanted to see if we there was sufficient awareness and knowledge to move past the sense of learned helplessness, and abdication of responsibility I see in so many technical communities, where people say *“I’m just a designer, I design what the client asks for”* or *“I’m just a developer, I only buld what I’m told to”* . [/quote] I connect with you on this sentence! And by organizing events I wish to activate my community. I think that by starting to move ourselves, we will surely inspire others. Well done! Keep the conversation on going." 1,67846,2019-12-21T15:32:10.105Z,67846,anon685777545,anon685777545,"***On the 1st of December* in the morning, about 30 people came together to hear and discuss about [Cooperation at Scale](https://edgeryders.eu/t/cooperation-at-scale-next-generation-collective-intelligence-and-internet/11989). I organized the event with the support of DigitYser (@anon3899621522 @anon1965935013), community members (@anon3180318115) and Edgeryders (@anon3031202475 @anon3449369942). And people registered to the event via [Eventbrite](http://tiny.cc/cooperate).** The event was live-streamed and also [recorded](https://youtu.be/8ZU1qfqe9XQ). We also had the pleasure to have short video-interviews with the speakers: one interview was with [Michel Bauwens](https://youtu.be/YWFQPuHBzw8) and another one with [Liliana Carrillo, Dick Van Gelder, and Anna Melenchuk](https://youtu.be/YEIKrItTipQ) And I am personally happy to have a [promotional video](https://youtu.be/9gTV-2lDNyU) for coming events. __________ After the event, I have wanted to keep the conversation on going, and I have sent an eventbrite message to the participants and speakers to invite them to share their thoughts and feelings about the event. Via this post, I want to become the example. By sharing my thoughts and feelings about the 'Cooperation at Scale' event in Brussels, I hope that others (participants and speakers) get inspired and find the courage and time to also share their thoughts and feelings and in this way **augment our Collective Intelligence!** :slight_smile: ___ Here we go, questions and answers: **Tell us about yourself. What are you working on, and why were you at the event ‘Cooperation at Scale’?** I organized this event and attended it because I am passionate about Collective Intelligence, and cooperation is one of the branches of it. At the moment I work as a freelancer, a digital/social entrepreneur and a researcher focus on Collective Intelligence matters: coordination (adhoc communities, coordinating collective actions), cooperation (networks of trust, open source software, peer-to-peer business) and Cognition (market judgment, predictions of future events in politics/technology). **What was the key question you came to the event with?** My key question was/is: Are we aware of how competition is embedded in our systems (educational, social, financial,...)? What do we need to change to create a more collaborative world? Can we change our mindset from competition to collaboration? **What did you expect to learn from this event?** I wanted to hear about the commons, peer-to-peer cooperation, and technologies than can support this to scale, as Holochain. Also, I felt curious to hear about intellectual property that supports collaboration, and where people feel safe to share knowledge and ideas. And, I was very motivated to learn from the participants and their projects, connect with others around the topic of Cooperation at Scale, and the next generation internet that supports this to happen. **Did you learn what you expected? Have you heard something new? Something that you liked? disliked?** I learned about a lot of new things but nothing really in deep. I need to do more self-study and attend more events, and also organize more events. ***Interesting things I learned from some participants:*** I heard about new projects and initiatives. For example, @anon1808058858 organizes meetups on the topic of [Digital Human Rights](https://www.meetup.com/Digital-Human-Rights-Belgium) and via his page, he also shares about other interesting events related to data ownership, digital rights, human rights, digital twins. From Kris, I heard about the [CommonsStack](https://commonsstack.org/) initiative, and I would like to hear more about it. And, I wish to have heard more from other participants, and to connect in general more. For a next time, I will add some active moments to connect, for example at the beginning of the event we could have introduced ourselves, or during the event there could have been a moment for a fishbowl activity to exchange knowledge and learn from the participants. But for now, I hope that I can hear more about the participants via email or via this platform as I wish to connect more with everyone who attended the event. ***Interesting things I learned from the speakers:*** *From myself -* I enjoyed sharing why I organized the event, and my main interest on collective intelligence, and also on democracy, and how technologies can allow us to cooperate in real time globally, something that is impossible to do in real life on one physical location, a question of scalability, viability. *From Michel Bauwens -* His talk inspired me a lot as I heard of cities like Ghent with transition platforms '[Gent en Garde](https://gentengarde.stad.gent/)' around common management of food strategies and local policies. His talk also triggered me to study new technologies, and compare them, and also to be more critical about them. I was intrigued to hear that blockchain technologies are based on competitive games, not on cooperative ones, and that they tend to create ecosystems based on extraction. I definitely want to learn more about it and do my own research on this. *From Anna Melenchuck -* I liked to hear about governance initiatives that are connecting citizens and governments in an easier way. For example the [EU lobby bot](http://eu-lobby-bot.cheeezer.com/?fbclid=IwAR0jipi7R9UKMMNTwSBCW6Yn-mAIh7Mxp3JpIfmP0cF8p2rR8szGXJqkY2A#connect-with-mp) and [E-Women platform](http://e-women.instingov.org/) developed at the [Institute of Innovative Governance](https://instingov.org/) and [European Digital Development Alliance](http://europeandigital.org/). *From the Panel on Intellectual Property -* I was surprised and also confused to hear that we all have the right to copy. It was curious to hear the different approaches to copying, for example copy-right, copy-left, copy-fare, creative commons and other kids of licences. I heard that patents are very expensive and that they are soanon3242181883 also 'stopping/blocking' innovation for about 20 years from the time of issuing. I learned that basically if we don't go for patents we have to compete and be very fast in the market to show that we are the first to innovate. I liked hearing about copy-fare and how we could feel safe to share our knowledge and even get financially compensated when someone uses the knowledge in a commercial way. For me, it was interesting to hear that [CreaFree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-bYkGzd2s) is working on this. There are some aspects I did not like from the panel. I have to say that I found it a bit messy, and there is room for improvement. For a next time, I will support the panelists to have more regular calls before the panel, and get better connected with the moderator. At this event, the moderator had a preference for free sharing of knowledge and was fully against copyright, and I found his attitude towards some of the panelist a bit disrespectful, as some of the panelist were lawyers with knowledge about patents and copyright. I am not sure if others experienced the panel like that, or if this was my own impression. It would be interesting to hear the experience of others related to the panel. *From Raphi See -* I liked to hear a bit about [Holochain](https://holochain.org/) and its ecosystem of projects and ventures, even though time was not enough to hear in deep about Holochain. I heard that this technology can support us to get organized in different and varied ways and I am curious to learn more about it. Raphi mentioned about some of the projects/ventures in the Holochain ecosystem: [Holo](https://holo.host/), [Junto](https://junto.foundation/), [humm](https://humm.earth/), [sacred capital](https://www.sacred.capital/), [AllianceBlock](https://allianceblock.io/), [orion](https://orionprotocol.io/). And, we got invited to join the [Holochain forum](https://forum.holochain.org/) and get over there to learn more about the project, as well as follow the [tutorials](https://developer.holochain.org/docs/) prepared by the team. **What was the key takeaway from the day?** Cooperation is possible and there are many initiatives contributing to this, but... there is still a lot of work to do to create a global cooperative/collaborative system. Initiatives are too fragmented, and there is a need to build bridges among them, connect different actors. **What would you like to learn more in deep at the next event?** Wow! I love learning! and I would like to learn a lot more about all the initiatives working towards cooperation/collaboration at scale: social, digital, economics, infrastructure, policy,... Step by step, I will personally contribute to this by organizing events to show several of the initiatives that I know, and I hope to contribute to build bridges, and connections among the initiatives. Probably, the next event that I will organize will be focus on Holochain and its ecosystem. And then the next one will be about 'anon3168534516-to-anon3168534516 and the Commons'. I wonder what others would like to hear next to start planning the events... :slight_smile: **What do I see as the single largest challenge for cooperation at scale?** Fragmentation of initiatives. We need to build bridges. **What single thing would you want to see that supports you to cooperate/collaborate more with others?** Systemic change at economic level as the current system is based on competition. **What would be your message to others who did not attend this event?** If you have landed to this page, probably you are already interested on cooperation/collaboration at scale, and probably you know about initiatives that are contributing to this. Please leave your comment on this page, and share your knowledge. **Let's augment our collective intelligence!**" 1,66682,2019-12-02T16:01:37.872Z,66682,anon658983266,anon658983266,"# Solarpunk and Permaculture *an intro to solarpunk and some notes on permaculture* ## Attending * @anon658983266 * [André Staltz](staltz.com) @anon * Daniel * cblgh/alex * Isak ## Notes * earliest found piece of solarpunk literature by zenna is 1993 * solarpunk is focused on more sustainable visions of society * walkaway by cory doctorow is one of the most inspiring * closely related to afropunk in terms of sci-fi genres * the Swedish sci-fi bokhandeln h * Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation * What part of th sci-fi is practical? * Walkaway example: for to contribute? * example system matches you up to job. * Hackerspace is an example * automating management * Still rely on social trust, utopian view * Create exploration of ideas. Example of city with gardens, no cars, panels, etc… * Not only just science fiction. Aligned with permaculture * selfmanufacturing, not using longer supply chains * The idea from walkaway that the magic machine can create what you need. * Example of salvage depot, example in Malmö. * Junk yard, available parts for repair * spare parts for computers. Against disposible. * Finding new purposes. * Fablabs example in book. * Montreal Storefront; with ability to make items. (eg https://www.futurenrgies.com) * small side rant on mastodon, a federated social microblogging service. ## Permaculture Book discussion: Building a better world in your backyard (instead of being angry at bad guys) a fact book, not a fiction book * personal responsibility; anecdote from the book about two people. Greta working 40hr weeks. Contrasted with another person (Gert) that lives locally in a community, greywater recycling, living like a millionaire. Contrast the idea of working 40hr weeks to live a carefree life with your friends, with actually doing that by starting a local context together with your friends. * most of the solutions are cold-climate solutions (e.g. usable in scandinavia) which are a woefully under-exposed living condition. contrast that with relative the easiness of living off-grid in hawaii with the high temperatures year round. * only heat up the area around where you are * incadescent lighting is usable for heating your actively used environment, contrasted with LED which doesn’t produce waste. think of using incadescent as using both aspects of the lamp (light AND heat) * **heat the individual not the house** * example: at this person from the book has a desk, heats directly underneath him and saves the heat by using a drape around him and the heater * black water: comes from you (poo, piss) * grey water: what comes as a byproduct of your use, like showering or doing the dishes. in the book they make use of the greywater in growing their own food * whole section of the book on finances in this context * have recurring revenue / passive income * staltz: in order to build something, you have to have some kind of surplus * staltz: interested in and preparing for hydroponics. with an aim at getting the skills for it, and to replace a portion of his family’s consumed food with his own grown food * malmö hydroponic’s lab; ask daniel * back to the book: * refers jacob fisker’s ideas of FIRE fame: financial independence, retire early * BEER plan: variation of FIRE * what worked well with investing according to FIRE: not caring about risk, disassociating yourself from what the media sells * permaculture really deals with planning well in the beginning * deciding what makes sense for the area and for its climate / local context * microclimate: your immediate local context; you live by the sea, which cools your house. context can differ with as anon222512824 as 10km away. * look at what worked traditionally in your local context; what were the people who lived there before eating and doing to cultivate the land. your ancestors or the original peoples of the land * how to dial down the drama: * take away from the eco scale: * uses extreme early retirement example, your only able to handle two levels of magnitude around you. buy within your current income range * similarly: you can plan permaculture in the same way. there is conflict in the contact between the person who knows more and the person who knows a anon222512824. there needs to be a bit of conscious sympathy invested when people who are many magnitude of difference in ability. be conscious of the strain in these interactions * the book really strives to make the point that you shouldn’t have to live ascetically; you can live really well, luxirously * random book recommendation: bullshit jobs *invested capital* / *rate of return* = total value over time i.e. how to sum annuity e.g. 100 dollars / 0.05 = 2000 dollars" 2,66935,2019-12-04T22:52:16.078Z,66682,anon3809206126,anon658983266,"[quote=""anon658983266, post:1, topic:12079""] heat the individual not the house [/quote] @anon196034329 has done anon4292955258 some resource on this, and is experimenting various solutions on himself. Gearing up for more experimentation at #earthos:the-reef, our co-living space." 3,66937,2019-12-04T23:22:57.584Z,66935,anon658983266,anon3809206126,"@anon3809206126 and @anon196034329 — this is a link to a [video](https://www.treehugger.com/energy-efficiency/cut-your-heating-bill-half-heat-person-not-house-video.html) the author has made with regards to personal heating as mentioned above. This is in a similar vein as some of the ideas from *lowtechmagazine* with a colder climate twist. Thanks for pointing me to the *reef* — while I didn't touch on this topic during my part of the talk, there is some content with regards to co living with 20 others that might be suitable to that circumstance." 4,67660,2019-12-17T14:56:15.595Z,66682,anon658983266,anon658983266,"As a followup; and related to these points: * refers jacob fisker’s ideas of FIRE fame: financial independence, retire early * BEER plan: variation of FIRE Both the above points were discussed in length in the referenced permaculture book; and this is a clarification/closeout post to an item that was discussed in the session; but not recorded in the minutes. One of the discussions that was had during the permaculture talk at re:web was the discussion on hedging for climate change; financially. This means having a cover for the impacts, and investing suitably against this by allocating investment decisions accordingly. *I wasn’t sure about a solution at the time, and was a bit challenged that I hadn't considered this :smile:* With recent discussions on AMZN and other single stocks on ssb; I was inspired to see if this was already a discussed problem, in keeping with the benefits of diversity afforded by index investing in reducing some of the risks obtained by placing money into public markets. *note: entertainment use only, do not drive after reading, not investment advice, etc…* So a quick google I came up to this [swedish 2015 paper](https://www.ap4.se/globalassets/dokument/rapportarkiv/ovriga-rapporterdok/hedging-climate-risk.pdf) on hedging climate risks by excluding the more CO2 intensive companies. By accepting a small tracking error from the parent index, you can achieve significant CO2 reduction on the portfolios economic activities. From the graph below it suggests that it might be possible to reduce the intensity while keeping track of the index, in a similar way that “perfect is the enemy of good“ where you may not get to 100%; but a small change can get you to 50% anon4292955258 easily with not a lot of drama. ![55%20PM|689x410](upload://4ZLgqpkaEyvQs2DDeRgUXAVMA7t.png) *Linking to possible etf is an exercise best left to the reader…*" 5,67722,2019-12-18T17:41:39.434Z,66682,anon227579045,anon658983266,Is Zenna (1993) published anywhere on the internet? 6,67724,2019-12-18T17:51:38.436Z,66682,anon658983266,anon658983266,"@anon227579045 — Ooops, that wasn't clear. What is being referred to is @anon3931191205 – aka Zenna – who was providing background to the solar punk literature. I don't recall which book she referred to, I'll ask on scuttlebutt; and she'll see this also!" 7,67756,2019-12-19T12:03:46.081Z,67724,anon658983266,anon658983266,"@anon227579045 — the crowdsourcing on scuttlebutt probably worked, I think… A fine person there (@anon > [The Fifth Sacred Thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing) (1993) by [Starhawk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhawk) – A [post-apocalyptic novel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_science_fiction) depicting two societies, one a [sustainable economy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_economy) based on social justice, and its neighbor, a militaristic and intolerant [theocracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy) is the book @anon3931191205 referred to. As (@anon" 1,65795,2019-11-26T07:44:25.686Z,65795,anon3918386885,anon3918386885,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** Working at the Library with an interest in inclusion and introducing people outside of the digital society to the web. I am here for inspiration for how people see the future centered around the next high tech innovations of the web. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** Free knowledge, free space for people to interact and talk to each. Make society more effective and simplify a lot of things. I work with a lot of elderly people that have anon222512824 to none knowledge about the web. I like to see the joy of people that they have a way to talk to their family and friends in a totally different way that has been possible before. Seeing more people getting in touch. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** Breaches of integrity, big corporations that are perhaps a bit too crazy for their own good. People always find a way to abuse the internet for their own selfish needs. The more free the internet is the more ways people will have ways to abuse it. Which is a bit disturbing. **name:** anon3918386885" 2,65817,2019-11-26T10:17:35.619Z,65795,anon1505367078,anon3918386885,"Welcome to Edgeryders @anon3918386885! [quote=""anon3918386885, post:1, topic:11919""] I work with a lot of elderly people that have anon222512824 to none knowledge about the web. I like to see the joy of people that they have a way to talk to their family and friends in a totally different way that has been possible before. Seeing more people getting in touch. [/quote] We had a lot of people at internetdagarna who came back to this about working with people to do very ""basic"" stuff online. I'm not sure how it's tied into the Next Generation Internet plan to make sure that the digital divide doesn't become even wider. I guess we need more @anon683229855 in the world, although I feel there might have to be a consolidated effort." 3,65926,2019-11-26T19:41:52.616Z,65817,anon683229855,anon1505367078,"Thanx @anon1505367078 . I are alot of us really, so I totally agree with your about getting organized is what's needed. I'm not sure how to get organized." 4,65951,2019-11-26T22:10:23.801Z,65817,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon3918386885, post:1, topic:11919""] I work with a lot of elderly people that have anon222512824 to none knowledge about the web. I like to see the joy of people that they have a way to talk to their family and friends in a totally different way that has been possible before. Seeing more people getting in touch. [/quote] You are doing noble work. For seniors who live far away from their grandchildren and kids, FaceTime is nothing short of a revelation. Hugi raises a good point about NGI and its priorities. I see a lot of focus on privacy, but anon222512824 about basic accessibility and basic UI. One would think that UI design would be more settled in a way than it is now, but that is a kind of pipe dream I guess because it is too easy for a rank amateur to make a website. And all too often some smooth talking salesperson will sell a big institution on their design when it has not been vetted at all for good UI. I see a version of this almost every day. and speaking of seniors, I take care of my 94 year old mother and my mother-in-law is 90. To get them help and care and such, we have to use a lot of institutional websites. So many of them are just lousy designs. Often I feel sorry for the solo senior with poor eyesight and slight grasp of the underlying design having to navigate some of those sites.." 5,66049,2019-11-27T16:58:21.608Z,65795,anon3031202475,anon3918386885,"@anon3918386885, just a quick reminder for the Edgeryders [Teaching Teachers Open Source workshop](https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881). **The workshop takes place tomorrow:** 28:th November - 10:00 - 17:00+ Södra Hamnvägen 9 (Hus Blivande, [Directions 1](https://goo.gl/maps/euAuAP2LDFBDrvb6A) here) Lunch included (nice and vegetarian) Would be a perfect fit for you!" 6,67108,2019-12-06T18:01:33.598Z,65795,anon227579045,anon3918386885,"> **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** > > Breaches of integrity, big corporations that are perhaps a bit too crazy for their own good. > > People always find a way to abuse the internet for their own selfish needs. The more free the internet is the more ways people will have ways to abuse it. Which is a bit disturbing. This is in my view a bit too dystopian - there are many more examples of this not being the case than this being the case. And the internet has never been entirely ""free"" of traditions - e.g. Lessig or Boyle as far back as the 1990s. There was a discussion raised by Open Rights Group a few years ago about the relative political weakness of the ""web giants"" (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple). Namely, that we attribute to them enormous power because they are services that we and many other global citizens recognise as brand names, but that in fact they lose most of the policy fights they are drawn into. Telecommunications operators are in much the same situation. There are diminishingly few examples of ""internet"" generation entities winning either political battles or legal battles against more traditional entities (like copyright industries, security services, etc.), so in reality power is still where it has always been." 7,67510,2019-12-14T16:55:12.677Z,67108,anon2434097920,anon227579045,"An astute observation. Thank you. I think you are right about their relative lack of political power. Makes me wonder just now how much of that kind of power the auto industry had in its days of more singular dominance. At least here in the USA they consistently resisted safety,emission and fuel economy standards for decades and lost." 8,67701,2019-12-18T14:15:38.434Z,67510,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,Maybe they just have not been in the game long enough and have not funneled enough money to the right people a la the pharma industry. 1,59244,2019-09-13T08:08:46.757Z,59244,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Bayo Akomolafe said ""The Times are Urgent, Let Us Slow Down"". At the verge of global institutional collapse we invite you to design, craft and prototype with us social games for creating win-win outcomes in our world. We believe that the power of playing can give us profound perspectives on how to move forwards out of this global mess. What happens when the success of each party involved in the game depends on the success of every other party? How these games can inform us for designing post-entrepreneurial models, mutual care systems, and untapping on different forms of investing and producing generative value. How can we heal the fabric of our society? Whether it is a canvas, a card game, a software, a business model, a video-game, a party game, an art installation or a social experiment or whether you're joining alone or with your team you're welcome to spend two days crafting games and approaches that are simple, replicable, suitable for different context. ## YOU CAN COME ALONE OR WITH YOUR TEAM ## # AGENDA # SATURDAY �8.30 – we open door�s 9.00 – *we close doors* we gather for a small breakfast at 8.30 am and we start sharp at 9am 9.00—14 Deep Work we'll spend the morning of Saturday trying to step back from the problem-solving mind and seeing the full picture 14—15 Lunch break 15.30 Check-in getting back from lunch In the afternoon we'll dig into deep sharing and mixing of models, projects and approaches 16—17.45 First Round of Working Tables 17.45 tea break / stretch 18—19.30 Second Round of Working Tables 19.30 Break and Eating together 20 Cacao Cerimony and Celebration We'll celebrate in the night with an in-house party with cacao and nice vibes :) ~ SUNDAY ~ – we start at 11am harvesting the learnings from the previous day and continuing refining our experiments and helping each others to document and produce them. We'll have a moment to gather feedback from other people and then hacking on projects and incorporating feedback. We'll go on untill 17.30/18 Dinner on Sat night included! ➤ Supported by an online community of 5000 activists, developers & designers we want to help you to get to the next steps of building a working Minimum Viable Product, sustainable revenue, and getting more funding from the NGI program and beyond. This event is for you alone or you whole team and it is not only for building software. It's not a competition, but a collaboration. This is a community created event where we help each other with the expertise we can share to kickstart new projects into the world. A nice team of facilitators will guide you through a journey to connect with yourself, your team, your community and your project’s purpose. @anon3572363072 @anon3031202475 @anon2926706121 @anon1686813978 @anon3449369942 ....and YOU!
# Frequently asked questions ### How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop? 1. Create an [edgeryders.eu](http://edgeryders.eu/) account 2. Tell us about your [proposed project here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/about-the-propose-a-hackathon-project-category/10956). 3. Look at the list below and pick one or more tasks that you can help with, and leave a comment here if there is a way for you to contribute. Very much appreciated! ### How is this event being organised? This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don’t worry. Create an [edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. ### How is this all financed? This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at [https://ngi.edgeryders.eu](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/) ![Ngi logo|150x61](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/ngi-logo.png) ![Eu emblem|150x100](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/eu-emblem.png) ### Does getting involved mean I endorse the funders views or actions? No. What you are doing is contributing to an open consultation on the topic of how to build a next generation of internet infrastructure, technologies, business models etc that promotes the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The consultation methodology is designed in such a way as to allow for diversity of views, premises, disciplines, themes and contexts. We employ open notebook science principles and the results will be presented in the form of a research report accessible to everyone after the event. You can follow the process, review the methodology and open source tech we are using and engage directly with the research and coordination team here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace ### What is the code of conduct? It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to [anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word “better” has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### What happens with my data? You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 2,59264,2019-09-13T22:26:09.266Z,59244,anon1505367078,anon3572363072,I will be there! Love this. I can talk about and demo SenseStack - the Edgeryders stack of collective intelligence software. 3,60156,2019-09-30T13:19:21.872Z,59244,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,"Am a bit shy about it, but have an idea I would like to try building. Am not a developer, do UX though and have some experience building and managing a company :slight_smile: How ready-to-go does it need to be for me to include it in the hackathon?" 4,60167,2019-09-30T14:16:22.803Z,60156,anon3572363072,anon3449369942,"🎉 Great news! Looking forward to hear about your idea :) I thought about it today and I think it really does not need to be at a certain stage at all. I mean the hackathon could also mean that you just do the designs, mock out everything and do user research with the people there. Another use case for the hackathon could be that you are a facilitator and wanna use the time to write down the concept for a new format you wanna try out/commercialise. It should not even necessarily be limited to build code." 5,62315,2019-10-25T21:12:19.624Z,59244,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Hello @anon3572363072 and @anon1686813978, here is the link to the files with the flyers for this event: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ChIZu_9jwqdzXdGixSqx-gDIq-jrs4Wi?usp=sharing" 6,63113,2019-11-05T17:23:16.843Z,59244,anon4182650712,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072 I think this post needs to have some tags added in order for the https://festival.edgeryders.eu site to pick up the correct date. It is currently showing over there as ""Date: TBC""." 7,63131,2019-11-06T06:49:38.112Z,63113,anon3449369942,anon4182650712,"Hai Callum :slight_smile: Thanks for the heads up, added the tags. It now shows up as confirmed on the festival site." 8,63446,2019-11-08T09:18:19.454Z,59244,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,"Hallo! Iam putting together this repository of materials that we can use to post on the event page and our edgeryders as well as our individual social media channels - to give would be participants a sense of what we are exploring. As well as entry point to join various relevant discussions already happening in different parts of the platform. I am updating it continuously but I thought it is good to post what is there already and add so we can start already... ## [EdgeRyders Hackathon for ethical solutions to unethical technology problems.](https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-22-11-berlin/10769/5) ### 150 word description of the event in the form of an invitation to join us adapted for email * Copywriter adds it here ### A summary article, also not more than 150 -200 words combining the insights/overview and good quotes from theses sources: * https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-we-put-humans-citizens-first-in-our-smart-city-policies/9878/14 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/social-media-is-broken-lets-do-better/10017/7 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-it-mean-to-make-a-human-centric-internet-and-who-is-doing-it/9569 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/introducing-oliver-worldbrain-io-memex-and-storex-democratising-knowledge/10157 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-the-participio-software-need-to-be-useful-for-artistic-co-creation/9191/8 ### 3 quote banners: Visual Materials here. * **Social Media is Broken - Let’s do better: https://edgeryders.eu/t/social-media-is-broken-lets-do-better/10017/7** “If the platform caters to just one type of audience, and centers around a specific interest or topic, that informs the audience directly on how to behave. And people can lurk before participating, so they follow the existing examples. With an open and global platform, it is a lot harder to set these existing examples, because one does not know, with which subset the new member will interact first, nor with which topic. Good UX guides them, informs the newbies about the presets and their reasoning, and so on.” * **What does it mean to build a human centric internet and who is doing it? https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-it-mean-to-make-a-human-centric-internet-and-who-is-doing-it/9569** "" The builders of Scuttlebutt started from the sort of human community they wanted to build : open to the underprivileged, solving basic social connectivity problems while staying away from surveillance capitalism, etc., *and on those basis they are making all their technical choices* , right down to the editor. As they do that, they discover and exploit sources of economic efficiency (“underprivileged audiences are less demanding, easier to serve with open source tech”). They ended up with a very different product from the ones they are seeking to replace, and with a *very* different community."" * **Introducing Oliver, [WorldBrain.io](http://worldbrain.io/), Memex and Storex, Democratising Knowledge: https://edgeryders.eu/t/introducing-oliver-worldbrain-io-memex-and-storex-democratising-knowledge/10157)** “I am looking forward to learn about your use cases. We are right now in the phase of gathering 10-20 interested projects to identify the common needs for such an infrastructure.” * **[Living greener as therapy: how I stumbled upon plasticless, trees and diy protein](https://edgeryders.eu/t/living-greener-as-therapy-how-i-stumbled-upon-plasticless-trees-and-diy-protein/11396/3)** * **What does the Participo need to be useful for artistic co-creation? https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-the-participio-software-need-to-be-useful-for-artistic-co-creation/9191/8** ### 3 Call-to-action Status updates: Visual Materials here. * Call to action + URL #1 * Call to action + URL #2 * Call to action + URL #3" 9,63448,2019-11-08T09:20:19.538Z,63446,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,Ping @anon1505367078 10,64242,2019-11-15T14:07:51.246Z,59244,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,"Have updated the general registration form for the event @anon3572363072 so that people can automagically create an edgeryders account and create a post from it on the platform using single signup So if you want a simpler way to onboard people onto the platform & hackathon: https://register.edgeryders.eu/" 11,65744,2019-11-25T17:37:38.125Z,59244,anon685777545,anon3572363072,"Hi @anon3031202475, thanks for sharing the link to this hackathon. I have seen the photo of the person you tagged, @anon3572363072, and I have met him before. We attended both the Enspiral Academy about Decentralized/Distributed Governance :slight_smile: How are things moving in Berlin?" 12,67600,2019-12-17T09:05:14.803Z,59244,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Here are some reflections from the event by the participants: @anon3572363072 himself: https://edgeryders.eu/t/oliver-experience-from-collabathon-in-berlin/11854 @anon2534778825 https://edgeryders.eu/t/olivia-khan-reflections-from-prototyping-omni-win-games-berlin/11853 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/ideas-without-execution/11852 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackthon-harvest-interview-david-rohmer-by-peter-skead/11850 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/steffen-gunther-reflecting-on-the-collaborathon/11847 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/adam-pearson-collabathon-retroview/11857 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/befriending-complexity-increasing-sovereignty/11845 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-harvest-interview-of-chihiro-by-david/11846 @anon2503679138 https://edgeryders.eu/t/collaborathon-harvest-interview-with-peter-skead-by-david-rohmer/11856 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/collaborathon-listening-triad-response-by-euge/11855 @anon4070867102 https://edgeryders.eu/t/collaborathons-of-the-future/11860 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/collaborathon-listening-triad-response-by-othmane/11851 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/win-emotional-clarity/11849 @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/jakob-the-one/11848" 1,67076,2019-12-06T13:37:51.996Z,67076,anon3031202475,anon3031202475," **A remote but heartfelt hello to everyone!** Many of us collaborate often remotely. Sometimes event mainly remotely and this enables us to be very flexible and ""get together"" with people from all over the world. We have virtual meetings, chats, blogs and platform such as this very one, share documents and pinboards. However, also anon4292955258 often we feel some lack of connection or miscommunication. Some of us have the urge to go to coworking spaces to work next to people. If you work with collaborators and projects all across Europe, chances are you end up travelling a lot to check-in and connect on-site and get to know your collaborators more directly. It is great that we live in a world where we are able to experience different places and cultures and have friends and collaborators everywhere. However, as invigorating and perspective enhancing as such travels can be, they also put a lot of stress on ourselves and on the environment. In the last few months I talked to many people who are used to travelling a lot for their international projects and collaborations and I myself and my husband usually spend at least one week per month apart because one of use is travelling for job and project purposes. We and many of those I talked to want to travel less in the upcoming year and in a project with Climate KIC, Edgeryders works on recommendations for people how to improve remote collaborations to decrease the need for travel. I believe that one of the reasons that online remote work is sometimes perceived as insufficient or lacking in social aspects and the need for travel arising from that is that we have not yet consciously grasp the characteristics and needs of each channel and learn social cues, conventions and strategies to use those channels best. **Certain signals are heightened or dampened in a video call or chat in comparison to a direct conversation. We need to learn new conventions and ""Best Practises"" for those channels.** Therefore I want to ask you here for your stories, experiences and ideas: **For example: Compensating social signals/interactions by including personal aspects in professional virtual meetings.** > During our Edgeryders team calls the cats or children of teammembers sometimes walk by and are then introduced to us. I feel that this makes the atmosphere in the video call more direct and relaxed. ""Professionalism"" could have different boundaries and faces in this channel. If I do mainly meet my coworkers via such a channel, I actually appreciate if their pets or children come by or if they share something about private projects they are pursuing, because this makes them more human and real to me. **It is also easier to remember and connect community members that have jined in the Comunity calls or told more about their concrete histories, experiences and personalities in their introductions and their profiles gain resolution, depth and therefore reality and memorability. We want you to share your personal stories here instead of just a research report or project pitch because those personal details are what enable us to connect more deeply even when discussing and collaborating remotely asynchronous. The internet of humans has to find ways to allow for and use the developed cognitive ability of the human brain to make social connections.** * ***Which methods and moments have made remote collaboration and communication richer for you?*** # # **I would also appreciate your opinion on how to deal with workload management and reporting in a remote and asynchronous collaboration architecture:** When you are responsible for contributing to multiple different aspects of different projects with collaborators that are based in different places and systems it is hard for you and them to gage your workload. We have to heavily rely on self-reporting, which in itself is a management skill one needs to learn. * How do you estimate and keep track of your workload? * How do you communicate it to your collaborators who can not see the bags under your eyes or you frantically typing away in the corner of the office? * How should we remind each other of the tasks we committed to? > If you would work in the same office, just seeing your colleague over there would maybe already remind you to finish that job for them you committed to. If you do not see them you might forget. If they keep reminding you via chat it can build up anxiety, especially if the messages come in constantly (even weekends). * What are good ways to remind each other of what needs to be done? **Please share examples of when remote collaboration/interaction worked especially well for you or what definitely not to do :slight_smile:** *Let's develop those new social conventions for remote communication and collaboration together :).*" 2,67078,2019-12-06T13:39:58.725Z,67076,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"ping @anon2434097920, @anon1505367078, @anon51020356, @anon1676186961, @anon3572363072, @anon3449369942, @anon1990933018, @anon683229855" 3,67115,2019-12-06T20:41:42.660Z,67076,anon2434097920,anon3031202475,"It might surprise you to know that, despite being in the business of online community and communications since the mid-80s, I am actually pretty new at working remotely, and with people who are many time zones and oceans away. I always went to an office, except for 2 years in 2004-5 when I worked for a Finnish game company. That was all remote, since I was in California, but the work was for me to be online all the time as a kind of adult supervisor for a large bunch of teens online. So the work itself was on display for anyone to see. I didn't have to collaborate on reports, didn't have to co-create budgets, didn't have many meetings outside of the platform itself. I am a big believer in those who do work remotely with each other to offer to each other various aspects of their lives so that they may get to know each other better. However, besides a short pause to mention the cat or whatever, I think video meetings can lose track of how fast an hour goes by, so in that case some discipline is called for. But on a platform such as this one, there is plenty of real estate for someone to show a fuller version of themselves by talking about or showing something from other parts of their lives, things they like, movie and other cultural recommendations, and similar things. There is no requirement that one's co-workers must read that other stuff if they don't want to. And, speaking personally, I would very much like to know other people who congregate on this platform and I do not want to go off to some social media space to accomplish it. One thing I have learned over the years is that writing clearly and succinctly is a skill that takes practice to learn. Word economy is and will always be important. Set the scene, make your point or tell the story, and stop. I thought I was pretty good at it a long time ago untilI went back and read some of the stuff I wrote in the early years.. One of the things I advise people in online community building is to ""oversupply understanding"" which really means to cut the other person some slack because they might not have said perfectly what they really meant to say. Not doing that can result in jumping to a conclusion that alienates or polarizes. At the same time, I think that if co-workers are going to critique each other, which I think is pretty necessary in a team finding its rhythm, on the other side I think it important to acknowledge the good things in the other person, or the validity of what they might be saying, or the parts that you think are valid. One could call it praise; I would call it affirmation. Has nothing to do with software. In other words, if you want to improve bonding and strengthen relationships via online communication, given the lack of other cues - body english, voice nuance, facial expression - you should come up with other, less subtle ways of strengthening those bonds. I find it costs nothing to let someone know when you think they are doing something right, or you like the way they handled a situation, or made a good comment or presentation. I wouldn't overdo it, but don't hold back." 4,67133,2019-12-07T22:03:03.857Z,67076,anon196034329,anon3031202475,"Thank you for starting this topic, I was thinking about starting a very similar thing and now I don't have to :blush: For the question about online calls, maybe let's give a few more hints about what input would be helpful for us. For example: * Lisa (from Climate-KIC) shared a tip in the interview with Edgeryders that she's sticking up a fanon2926706121r in video calls to show that she wants to say something but also wants to wait until the current speaker finished their contribution. * Similarly, one of our IoH fellows had this nice habit of signaling the ""OK"" gesture (:ok_hand:) to show silent approval of what somebody said in a video call, or also to answer a question approvingly without saying anything. Just as examples – any other tips and tricks are also welcome!" 5,67152,2019-12-08T14:06:38.947Z,67133,anon2434097920,anon196034329,Hand gestures are especially useful when you are recording the conversation and even more so if you then transcribe the conversation. 6,67176,2019-12-09T11:54:14.178Z,67076,anon3721548357,anon3031202475,"Okay this awesome - and I have ""books"" to say on this topic - but word economy is important. So I think we'd perhaps want to eventually structure things in a couple of threads. My high level thoughts: 1. How is ""remote professionalism"" different from ""in-situ professionalism""? 2. What works better remotely, what works worst? What to do about it? 3. What are common remote, or hybrid scenarios one could optimize around? (E.g. working out of coffee shop, working out of permanent personal work room/corner, bringing remote participants into a live conference like event) On number 1. I have a general link to Pamela Hinds with whom I've discussed some of this. It may not be mindblowing, but it'll help bring out points one should be sensitive towards imo (you can watch this later, maybe start at 18:00) https://youtu.be/LxAcHpCuCtE If you noticed, the video above really does not have a good audio quality. If we recognize that this still happens to absolute experts, we can see how far we likely are away from a ""good practice"" being followed by the majority of us. As second video I'd like to offer (which you absolutely show watch now!) is a horribly realistic account of how a significant portion of meetings go. If you are serious about a collab, try to avoid that like you would coming to a meeting with an open fly, a missing shoe, and a torn shirt - it just doesn't make a good impression on people who are serious about making something work. https://youtu.be/DYu_bGbZiiQ Of course as @anon2434097920 says you should be cutting people a lot more slack, if they seem to make an effort. I think he is very correct! Jump to minute 10 for an analysis leading to a ""generous tit-for-tat"": https://youtu.be/i3plwTxdSO4 We have sooo much less contextual information on people's background so we're likely to attribute some of their failings to them, when it really was their circumstances mostly. Think about e.g. someone getting into a car accident before getting to work - people would quickly know in-situ, in the office, but not so much remotely. Another experience I had was a colleague in engineering who stayed home because of a sick kid (happened pretty often). This was in a German (male dominated) office environment, and she had a culturally French influenced background (where you would have been entitled to ""sick-kids-days"" contractually). Not so much in Germany. Nobody said anything at the time, especially as she was back in the room and offered her excuse with a straight face - but the consequences of such things can be pretty harsh, even in an in-situ situation. That is why I think a ""remote professionalism"" HAS to look very different from the conventional one. In conventional (EU/Western) professionalism you are to exclude the personal dimension, the emotional dimension, and to dress in a highly uniform(ed) way (not more than 5 pieces of ""juwelery"", black this, black that, grey ok, but no tan suits). That has many advantages, particularly if you need to ""focus on the matter at hand"", and all these other things are mainly detractions. Also it allows better to force a hierarchy which may not be as easy to maintain in a more context rich environment - this is of course a factor that cuts both ways! Now in remote work we typically see so much less of each other (smaller steradian, less time, less definition & nuance, time zone and alertness, almost no context from circumstance i.e. where you are). So if we reinforced this effect even more by trying to ""act professionally"" in a conventional way - we shoot ourselves in the second foot. Now some concrete proposals and high level analysis. Please challenge me on this as they may sound to confident and lack nuance because of word economy: Invest in decent gear! A good - very good **used microphone**, ideally several for different jobs: - Clip-on for noisy environment (the one on headphones can also work close to mouth) - Very sensitive condenser microphone (like a snowball) if you work in a quiet place. - Consider getting one with an omni-directional pick up pattern if you: might dial in with a group of 5-6 people, or want to peel potatoes in the kitch while in long meetings, but be able to reply fast. Consider bluetooth headset mics if you're on a budget. I've tried a couple of bluetooth speakers with built in mics. The mics are usually crap, but the speaker can be well worth it if you do hybrid meetings where you have a couple of cash-strapped enthusiasts on the other end of the world, while you do the dog and pony show in the c-suite. Test things well before you even step a foot into top level meetings. Have a backup for the backup and know how many seconds it takes to fire up. (Also know how to mute/kick a saboteur, if only for the confidence it gives you) Regarding cameras: If you're like me and use old mobiles, it can make sense to get the ""almost latest"" logitech or similar. Note the view angle, and if the mics are sensitive & adjustable. But also consider getting a wired internet adapter then, as you'll start pumping out a lot of data. If you don't have one, get a external usb port that has it built in - you can even hook many of them up to phones. Wifi is shitty in sooo many places, be cyberpunk and bring a cord. The simpler solution is often to go with a decent smartphone + powerbank (ER should have a couple as give-aways to power-people) + bluetooth speaker (if the remotes should get their word heard) and a proper tripod. Also a general note on audio based productivity: bluetooth eapieces (true wireless lalala) are effing magic when they work, especially if you're parenting and ""think time"" is very rare, but can usually be had when in the park, or in ""the wild"", or on the bus from the wild. ALWAYS bring them, and something to write/draw (never just 1 pencil!) comments and timestamps. **In my opinion every (non-sensitive) meeting above 4 people should be recorded, at least on audio.** If you can: record to mp3, upload it before the last meeting is over, and have people download it before they get on their return trip (qr-codes?). If you ant to be a hero, supply the times to the major discussion points (3-4 will usually be fine) - you'll cut search time down drastically. Above 4 people chances are high 1 didn't make it to the meeting so they'll need it anyway, chances are astronomical you didn't understand everything if 2 attendants don't have the same background. Also, you can ""speak in search terms"" if you're recording. You can dive into extreme detail very briefly. If what you were discussing was relevant and makes it past the 4-5 people (let's hope it does because otherwise why have a big meeting?) you'll need to onboard others - and exact timestamps in a context rich recording are invaluable for that. And if YOU relisten, you'll be amazed at how much you catch that you didn't get at first, how many more (mad) ideas you'll have when your brain is not running 80%-90% in social mode, and how easily you can improve on your own delivery skills. I work across timezones, and when shit gets urgent you can easily be there at 2 in the morning. Somewhere between then and when the sun comes up again one should consider informing your colleagues that while you're happy to hang in there, your alertness as a biological organism is by now evidently shot to pieces (and amphetamines usually aren't tax deductable as work requirement). Another thing I'd like to see in general is what I call **the ""mumble channel"". The main point is to reduce selection bias**, or allow for hunches with regard to outliers. This is where you could e.g. get anonymous comments, particularly from members who ""are not wired for meetings"". Sensitive, precarious outsider, introvert, busy doing shit, can't speak (the language), you name it. It could also be a separate chat (+ voting) that is projected into the meeting in the background. Online meeting software has a long way to go to support all this, but some things can be cobbled together to 80% already. And again when you take asynch and hybrid meetings into account there's a lot you can do - for example give a simple mini-recorder to e.g. a quiet domain expert who can ""mumble"" a running commentary on the main conversation, which can be evaluated separately at a later time. This is the more more ""technical half"", and I'll try to write the more ""communication / organization half"" in a anon222512824 bit. Again, please do challenge me on the wisdom behind these points, or add to them! I tried to find a balance between concrete & concise vs general & philosophical - and I'd love for someone to shake things up!" 7,67191,2019-12-09T14:10:17.128Z,67176,anon3449369942,anon3721548357,"Would you like option a, b, c...? Yes." 8,67192,2019-12-09T15:02:51.589Z,67191,anon3721548357,anon3449369942,"Hehe. If I understand your comment correctly we'll see a lot of ""all of the above, and then some"" here. It is shocking how underexplored this domain is. I think it has to do not least with the fact that for most of the leadership level all of this DIYbottomupempowerment does not make it on their radar unless they are very observant. They are more busy deciding on peoples' travel budgets, so it is a bit of a white space in upper management anon4292955258 often. Secondly there is of course a pretty conservative undercurrent in the higher spheres. For many good and not totally good reasons. But manners, how you are to conduct yourself, etc. aren't things that are easily revamped. But of course what you can do is come up with alternatives that clearly outperform the conventional ones, and that is why I think @anon3031202475 is absolutely on point making this a topic. Even if it feels a bit difficult to talk about, cause it is so huge." 9,67193,2019-12-09T15:03:05.330Z,67176,anon3031202475,anon3721548357,"[quote=""anon3721548357, post:6, topic:12131""] . It could also be a separate chat (+ voting) that is projected into the meeting in the background. [/quote] What tools would you recommend for that?" 10,67194,2019-12-09T15:08:19.552Z,67193,anon3721548357,anon3031202475,"Some chats have polling built in. So I would generally go with those, esp if they are open and easy to install/uninstall. Currently the field is too dynamic to point at one above the others for all purposes. Generally though I think it'll become a task of every event manager to have one CMC (cyber master of ceremonies of sorts) that sees to it that feedback can be visulized, sentiment tracked, but also facts checked. I think it is pretty inevitable to have at least one brain dedicated to the process." 11,67199,2019-12-09T15:29:57.377Z,67194,anon3031202475,anon3721548357,"[quote=""anon3721548357, post:10, topic:12131""] CMC [/quote] nice :), @anon196034329, this is related to the ""Wizzard"" (= @anon2434097920):) you are referring to in the manual https://edgeryders.eu/t/distributed-collaboration-manual-draft/11263" 12,67220,2019-12-09T21:53:11.099Z,67199,anon3721548357,anon3031202475,"I think he is (it is unsurprisingly and scarily big though). [This section specifically](https://edgeryders.eu/t/distributed-collaboration-manual-draft/11263#heading--2-19) covers our core part of making calls. But of course context is king so there's more in there that is relevant. I'll try to go into the more organizational part now and think out loud a good deal, so again - please feel free to shoot things down. I'll just plug this lecture on [the social mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwR6vQHiUY) here, that I really like - but I'll try to write in a way that doesn't rely on it. Also when it comes to teaming and getting things done I had a really good vibe talking to [Noshir Contractor](https://scholar.google.fr/citations?hl=en&user=Fqw9o84AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&soanon3410870744y=pubdate) on the topic. My guess is that I am in overwhelming agreement with his positions (he put out a lot more than I could even read - so I can't be sure). First I want to put 3 provocations: 1. Good outcomes don't equal good communications / relations at all times. A failed team and horrible experience can be necessary for *some* developments. As a species we don't necessarily perform best in circumstances we are comfortable in (and we're obsessed with reproduction most of the time. Thanks, genes.). A lot of things go through a ""if I had known it gets this bad I never would have..."". Note that this is not an excuse, it is a recipe for disaster (and some disasters can be good). 2. Generally projects aren't constant (neither are people). The communication format should likely change over time to: ideally suit the subject matter at the stage, the individual participants, the group as a whole, the need for external involvement, the need to be inclusive or exclusive, or select for certain outcomes (including travel budgets). 3. The magic number is 5 (4.something really). 2.1 + something really. If you look at big (esp. technical) innovators, they rarely come solo. If it was so simple one person could pull it off, it would have been done already. You generally need 2 people with different skill sets, perspectives (and maybe motivations / psychological wiring) in a close trust relationship. ""Close trust relationship"" is probably an understatement of what happens at a cognitive level (thinking mirror neurons, etc.). As a species we have trouble connecting to more than 1-2 persons at the same most intimate level, at the same time. Data suggests that women in particular could pull off a group of 3, but I'd say even then rounding to 2.1 is probably optimistic. The other 2.something? Those are 3 persons in the inner core that are the ""executive organs"" of the primary pair. 2 execs are not enough (because not everyone can't always work well with one another - too few permutations), but 4 bring more cost than benefit (information transaction cost rises). You may sometimes go to 4 and beyond but you'll more often be switching out 1 of the 3 extras. So you end up having less than 3 extras on average. If this is correct we fairly easily cut much of the ""general"" communication problem down to size: **We just have to make something that works well for [groups of 5](https://youtu.be/3hwR6vQHiUY?t=1281)**. Beyond that is likely not going to work very well with humans. BUT we can thus already try to optimize collective intelligence to work well with *groups of groups of 5*. Nice problem-solution pair if you ask me. :slight_smile:" 13,67266,2019-12-10T15:57:55.504Z,67220,anon196034329,anon3721548357,"[quote=""anon3721548357, post:12, topic:12131""]Note that this is not an excuse, it is a recipe for disaster (and some disasters can be good).[/quote] Well, yes. ""Never waste a good crisis."" Crisis is what makes people daring and audacious again. But also I'd say that currently, crisis mode project management is very, very rare. People can't do it, can't stand it. Because professional and private life are now two separate spheres only connected by a flow of money (like this: :hourglass_flowing_sand:). And in crisis mode management, there is no private life anymore … . For a short time that can work, and be great actually, but not for years. The exception is war, but I'm not proposing that. [quote=""anon3721548357, post:12, topic:12131""]We just have to make something that works well for [groups of 5](https://youtu.be/3hwR6vQHiUY?t=1281).[/quote] That's really interesting. Just today I though that the current structure in Edgeryders is a growing hierarchy with multiple levels already, most of them still kind of informal. Management becomes a nightmare then, as information and processes get lost and degrade on their way up and down the hierarchy. Self-contained teams of five (basically like military ""squads"") that tackle one part of a project on their own would fix that. Also interesting: The 2 + 3 = 5 structure of groups sounds reminiscent of a family structure: a couple and three kids old enough to assist / help, while other kids might be also there but mostly as receivers of care. That analogy would fit well with a proposed hard-wiring of the brain for such a mode of collaboration in groups of five. There are perhaps other hard-wiring limits in the brain, each indicative of its own mode of biologically ingrained collaboration. Very preliminarily, from my observations of living with 3-14 people in Morocco in 2018: * **3-7:** family size, as discussed above. * **8-14:** extended family size, usually in two or more living units close together; we noticed that other modes of coordination are needed at that size * **15-35**: band size; not sure about the lower limit, which might also be around 20 * **36-150**: tribe size, limited by Dunbar's number; beyond that indirect governance becomes necessary, sadly" 14,67284,2019-12-10T23:05:21.987Z,67193,anon3721548357,anon3031202475,"Here I'll try to work a tad more on the tools and how they are driven by how you are organized, and this is again driven by what your near term and overarching goals are. So on the ground this is NOT going to be a one-size-fits all. Much, much less than say the ""groups of 5"" thing is. Here's how I would approach this in general: 1. Orient yourself. As @anon3809206126 likes to say: ""If you know how to look, you'll almost always **find someone already working on the problem** (or an adjacency - I might add) somewhere."" I'll leave the ""knowing how to look"" part out of scope here, and will only mention that failed historic attempts can be hugely helpful here in my opinion. If you've done this you should have an idea of who are some players in the domain, and you'll likely be able to tell pretty quickly that you want to be ""more like this, less like that"", ""the [well known brand / movement] of [well known issue], for [your less well known issue], ""if X and Y had a child"", ""X with a touch of Y"", or similar. 2. Formulating your goals. I am not sure if it is always advisable to put your goals in writing. I think sometimes it is a must, and at other times it can be the first nail in the coffin. You'll have to decide yourself, and one option is to do it just for yourself privately. In any case I **find that a shorthand for your aims or means**, like mentioned above, can work anon4292955258 well if you understand where and how potential allies can latch onto you. Ambiguity is likely to work for in the early stage, but might cause problems later. 3. Identify dominant dynamics in the field. What I mean here is for example that most of the players in the field of say the *world wide shipping industry* have their own set of motivations (incl. career paths), their views on history, and their own narratives about what future developments are plausible, probable, or likely. Compare this outlook to the *computing hardware, or computing software industry* and you'll see that this is going to be a crucial factor. Again compare this with e.g. the *commercial aviation industry*, where safety and reputation are what most hours of most days are worked on more or less directly - with a currently pretty small competitive landscape. **Your approach must fit the dominant dynamics (though you'd likely best *not* aim at anything dominant, but a linchpin or [leverage point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points))**. The best boiled down version of this I know is: [Dave Snowden's Cynefin](https://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8?t=53) Note that [political alignments also vary drastically across occupations](http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/) and provide for interesting gradients and sub-groups that can be very fertile ground. Aside: I believe even within pretty small groups you will see the social analogue to an [Helmholtz-Double Layer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_layer_(surface_science)#Development_of_the_(interfacial)_double_layer) appear on the small scale (i.e. around a couple of hundred people). (@anon3031202475 not sure if you've been down that wider [rabbit hole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_Affinities#Theory) yet) Given the above you may also want to reflect on if your project should go ""full steam ahead every day"" (something investors like to see), or e.g. ""lie dormant"" until the right opportunity presents itself - and perhaps how to switch from the former to the latter best. I haven't truly been part of the ""full steam ahead every day"" projects for a good time, and even when I was it was in a generally pretty tame environment (academic research) or I was going solo - so I'll take a pass on that. What I have more experience with is a ""steady remote job"" and ""advanced hobby level projects"". In my experience all of the above is **predicated on the people involved and their fit with the project and each other**. So one of the most crucial factors is to get to know the people involved. An early face to face interaction in a range of somewhat edgy circumstances is perhaps the fastest and most reliable way to get a good idea on this. In a ""slow"" approach you can first find the core team, and then expand it gradually through trusted contacts that get introduced one by one. This puts most ""information digestion stress"" on the new person, so I would strongly recommend a gradual introduction, providing them with context, background info to other people and their relationships and communication preferences. Perhaps also not ""throwing them at the team"" but making a few introductions first, maybe referring to some of those conversations when introduced to the wider team. In a corporate environment I believe this is a process that should totally be flanked by HR and it is a testament to their overall uselessness that this is not the case (if only for the sake of HR gathering insights into internal dynamics). I strongly believe that something @anon3809206126 and Edgeryders are working on (a human readable scaling of conversations in scope and time) will become absolute boiler plate for any kind of ambitious onboarding program (aside: The first two weeks usually decide on your activity level and also largely how long a new employee will stick around eventually. It is ridiculous that this isn't even treated with so much as an afterthought at this point). Shortly after a new person is introduced and starts really working with others there is a usually LOT of info the new person had to push through the channels a) to just establish reliable communication, and b) to push the right info at the right time, which is the reason for the person to be there in the first place. A proper [OKR-system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR) is expected to facilitate this in larger real world organizations, but I have seen fail pretty badly in several situations. My expectation is a combination of a social network analysis (who talks to whom, about what, when, through what means, and what is the typical escalation ladder + human commentary) and OKRs (actionable sub-goals) and a yet to be elaborated visual introduction round will have to be created. I say visual mostly because that is the information highway for our species, but that is not to say that vocalization nuances should not be considered important (my endless points about decent audio). Finally I think one part that is completely off the radar at the moment, but I think might be even more crucial than shared meals (I do this a lot via remote connection - and it is pretty cool) is: Smell, i.e. the olfactory dimension ([example paper](https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb4/psychologie/personal/euler/McBurney%20et%20al%20%20chapter%20Engen%20book%20REV%20FIN%20110908.pdf)) and perhaps even memory access (Proust effect). In the short term though I think two things are easily actionable: 1. Decent audio 2. Use more of the screen (beside the face) to convey information. This can be cues like people used at [occupy wall street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement_hand_signals) (where gallant efforts were made to scale convos!) - maybe slightly adapted. Most of that info should avoid text as it is too slow. Pictograms, or even simple photos of you and your background/biography/network defining environments can communicate long stories in seconds, and give good opportunities for tangential conversations. Little anecdotes will make you more memorable, but also risk putting you in a box - so perhaps keep em a anon222512824 eccentric on purpose? If you have what you are working on, maybe your time management / stack of ""to-dos"" color coded in the background - that can also convey current workload levels without much hassle, and at the same time allow people to offer to contribute. I haven't tried it myself, but I think I should at some time. 3. Make sure you facial expressions can be seen. This is perhaps more important in the beginning and for sensitive topics. If you are in a leadership role, I think it should be mandatory to show your face whenever you possibly can. At the very least have a placeholder image up, ideally one that reflects your mood or situation. 4. In meetings with more than 3 people, have a chat channel up so people can make specific interventions without disruption. In meetings with more than 8 or so members consider having one member dedicated to servicing that chat channel. 5. Structure meetings with a core part and a ""padding part"" before and after. Tackle adjacent questions, connection issues, small talk, bio-breakes, seat swapping, etc. in the run-up, and use it to have extra time to onboard the new people. Keep some time after the core meeting for the people who might have detail questions of limited relevance. And again help the new people to ease the info stress on them, and allow them to ask ""dumb questions"" in a more private and work-time conscious way. Ideally **record the core part** of the meeting, and make a summary (action points, owners, dates) in the EXACT last 5 (or so) minutes. That will allow peripheral people to open the file, jump directly to the summary, and on that basis decide if they should review other sections of the meeting - in minimum time. 6. Send out abundant optional invites. Optionals should understand that they are more in a listen / peripheral awareness role (can lurk without video, etc.) and should not hi-jack the core agenda unless invited to. Optionals can be included for awareness / info flow / redundancy, but also for vetting purposes. I think a good heuristic is when you send out enough invites that 20% of the attendees are optional on average. It is often better if you have 2 in one meeting, and none in the next - so don't worry too much about the details. Ideally an optional would listen to the previous meeting summary (perhaps during the padding time) if it was soanon3242181883 related. The meeting host may decide to call an optional (invite via phone call) if he/she has not turned down the invitation. 7. **Written notes are awesome** (and in many cases crucial), but should not detract focus off the matter at hand, especially if there are more than 4 people sacrificing their lifetime in a meeting. Dedicated note takers should be praised (and scrutinized), and helped by improving the notes after the call, particularly with external links which can currently only really live in written notes. 8. Simple organizational shortcuts can go a long way. For example if ER had two **default times** for a) 80% general work focused calls, and b) calls for 80% socialization focus - then these could easily be used to e.g. reconnect with people you've met at a recent event. You just fire them one of the two zoom links and times, and ER can keep an ear on the grapevine while becoming more sticky to the general member environment - and allow serendipity into their living room. If it works too well, you just ask people to start a couple of breakout rooms. This way people can keep a far more emotional bond beyond the end of a event like e.g. the one in [Valencia](https://edgeryders.eu/t/draft-deep-dive-format-agenda-participants/10862) where I'd still have half a dozen smoking action points for example. 9. Many ""Doers don't desktop"". Try using tools that will work on mobile. Also: Most business CEOs don't desktop, but travel a lot. Audio and a concise (but expandable - i.e. linked to primary information) note format win in this situation. I'll try to write the next part about my thoughts on ""speed focused collaboration"" / hackathon style on site work. As I think the majority of work is not going to remain purely remote, one should also consider formats that effectively complement the approach mentioned above." 15,67285,2019-12-10T23:38:06.764Z,67266,anon3721548357,anon196034329,"Yup, I think there is much alignment in what you wrote. Dunbar actually has circles below the 150 number, very close to what you list. Yeah, with regard to the hierarchy stuff - that is a real risk. In my opinion using the ""groups of 5"" to functionally replace a single persons responsibilities you can get a good bit more stuff done. Usually still responsively, reliably and with a better connectedness overall. But I am afraid once you scale into the next layer of 5s you would start getting (increasingly anonymous) hierarchy creeping in again, with all its associated failure modes. So the current bottom line effect of my approach is still pretty limited to the smaller end of the scale. BUT when we have a computer (+ human hybrid) start tracking all the relationships, who knows who, who trusts who, etc. and perhaps even can predict the arc of the project / community needs (e.g. varying team skill sets, attrition rates, age compositions, etc.) one could make things work A LOT better. The computer could manage humans very effectively within our baked in hard limitations of the Dunbar circles, making sure that the necessary networks remain continuous and robust at the various required communication and trust levels. And if you know your [percolation theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percolation_theory) - that could very well be a game-changer. By the way - the military teams of 5 are not an accident either (though I learned that later), again see the linked Dunbar lecture. But I think a perhaps even more interesting analogy are the fanon2926706121rs of the human hand - not least because of the ""opposing"" thumb. It isn't perfect though because I would count the wrist (connection to the rest of the body) as a team member in itself - with the crucial job of connecting the rest of the hand to the wider network (which in reality should be a job done by 2-3 people with a decent amount of turnover). But in that analogy the anon222512824 pinky is pretty much a dead-weight, which most of the time you keep around because sometimes he's still useful, and cutting it off would just cause a lot of mess and bad blood. Maybe just a anon222512824 to stigmatizing. ;) So if you have other analogies with good associations, let me hear them." 16,67291,2019-12-11T02:18:13.192Z,67076,anon196034329,anon3031202475,"I'll have to go through everything that @anon3721548357 said in a lot of detail to catch all the value inside there … I like bouncing ideas like that b/c it opens up whole new areas of research and experimentation … Now to do that once more, and complete the confusion, I will ask this: ""What is the effect of remote work on the [work spouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_spouse) relation? Will we see the emergence of long-distance work spouse relationships (LDWSR) within the next 10 years?"" :smile:" 17,67393,2019-12-11T21:28:45.991Z,67285,anon2434097920,anon3721548357,"Sam you are one prolific dude. I salute you. And Matt of course is no slouch on that front either. Have good audio is THE no-brainer. And its corollary: a quiet room. The noisy restaurant and such places a real hardship on the others, not to mention oneself. As for optimal meeting arrangements, I can't disagree with what's been written above. I once went to a ""have better meetings"" class where they broke meetings down into 3 roles: host, client and resource. And you have to have all three represented. Any attendee other than a spectator should fall into one of these 3 roles. I found it a helpful way to think about it. The video of the conference in real life was hilarious and all too true. I think we here at ER have dome all of those items, sometimes in the same meeting seems like. The idea of the core and the padded outlier sections - I like that. It feels natural." 18,67395,2019-12-11T21:35:22.384Z,67393,anon3721548357,anon2434097920,"I will wear that compliment like a badge! Regarding the core vs padding (before and after), I wonder what would make most sense timing wise: Separate invites or a explanation in the invite itself? Oh that makes me think of a thing I had forgotten: (Mini-)agenda should be in all invites, and ideally a link to the main document (with comment function allowed for all with the link)." 19,67396,2019-12-11T21:41:41.440Z,67395,anon2434097920,anon3721548357,"I guess it depends on how tight the time is as to how expansive one can be. Also, some people finding hanging out to be productive and some don't. But there should be an understanding coming in of what to expect. That is a host role." 20,67398,2019-12-11T22:09:56.227Z,67076,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Thank you @anon3721548357 and @anon2434097920, this is very helpful :)" 1,66768,2019-12-03T11:12:21.149Z,66768,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%203rd%20dec|690x488](upload://fhdBCSUAQLhjDDyM3JR7YlJ5WN3.png) Dear organisers and participants! We did it! More than 15 inspiring events with great people in almost as many countries! A big thank you to all the organisers and participants! Today at 18:00 Brussels time we open our zoom room to everyone who wants to give some feedback on their experiences of the festival or just want to (re)connect. @anon3931191205, @anon3572363072, @anon3180318115, @anon you are very welcome and please invite some of your participants who you think would be interested in engaging in this conversation. Tuesday the 2nd 18:00 Brussels time: Looking forward to seeing you at: https://zoom.us/j/489971765 If you want calendar reminders, please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Weekly: https://zoom.us/meeting/uZwkfu6pqT0vVYoNECnUgDF3EfwNQ2Fjhg/ics?icsToken=98tyKu2gpzItG9OTtVztRa0vA9r9b8-xlEd3pY14vxHQBAR1MSbwIcxzYJR1GN-B Please ping participants that you would like to join the call :)" 2,66812,2019-12-03T17:48:41.886Z,66768,anon2233507620,anon3031202475,"Sorry this was announced too late for me, I didn't sleep for 30 hours again as well :frowning: ." 3,67180,2019-12-09T12:27:31.403Z,66812,anon685777545,anon2233507620,The next call will be tomorrow. I think that @anon3031202475 has created another page about it. 4,67181,2019-12-09T12:30:13.691Z,66768,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Yes, that one is in general about collective intelligence. @anon685777545 will give a anon222512824 intro, I will give so info on Edgeryders Semantic Social Network Analysis, which turns this platform itself in a collective intelligence research tool." 1,63201,2019-11-06T15:30:48.772Z,63201,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,""" Previously, researchers have tried to create adversarial fashion [using patches attached to stiff cardboard,](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPRW_2019/papers/CV-COPS/Thys_Fooling_Automated_Surveillance_Cameras_Adversarial_Patches_to_Attack_Person_Detection_CVPRW_2019_paper.pdf) so that the design doesn't distort on soft fabric while the wearer moves. If the design is warped or part of it isn't visible, it becomes ineffective."" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evj9bm/adversarial-design-shirt-makes-you-invisible-to-ai" 2,63213,2019-11-06T17:34:11.111Z,63201,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,":smiley: No, sorry, no idea... maybe @anon" 3,63216,2019-11-06T18:10:42.516Z,63201,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,Or @anon3713826422johansson or @anon579478067 do? 4,65616,2019-11-25T10:38:08.553Z,63201,anon579478067,anon3449369942,"I know a designer who has worked extensively with exactly this! Simone Niquille, old tutor and friend of mine. Check out her work: http://technofle.sh/ Here is a wired article about her anti-facial-reco fashion project: https://www.wired.com/2013/10/thwart-facebooks-creepy-auto-tagging-with-these-bizarre-t-shirts/#slideid-253281" 5,67154,2019-12-08T15:37:09.088Z,65616,anon3449369942,anon579478067,Super! Thanks 1,67092,2019-12-06T15:37:05.028Z,67092,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"https://youtu.be/rHtBUxgi-MY Might be something for Sweden based community members and others looking to partner with them @anon3931191205 @anon658983266 @anon3930211770 @anon683229855 @anon107383982 @anon3031202475 @anon1505367078 @anon" 2,67119,2019-12-07T09:19:20.110Z,67092,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,"Indeed, I have been looking into this, possibly for the new Dreams development. It could also be relevant to apply for funding for one of the SenseStack developments. I have been talking to potential partners. https://edgeryders.eu/t/rewrite-of-dreams-for-multi-tenancy-and-wider-adoption/11476" 1,65833,2019-11-26T11:37:01.386Z,65833,anon1682511424,anon1682511424,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Väldigt bra fråga! Är intresserad av ämnet. Jag har lyssnat, igår lyssnade jag på framtidens sociala medier och idag på den som handlade om “är du digital, lilla vän?”. Arbetar som bibliotekschef. Mycket som handlar om digitalisering och kunskap hos bibliotekarier. De digitala verktyg vi har på biblioteket ska våra bibliotekarier kunna. Det är det första. Vi har digitala verktyg som vi inte kan förmedla till våra besökare. Strömmande film, e-böcker eller att använda bibliotekets sökfunktioner. Vi har Digital Först också. Vi måste börja med oss själva för att kunna förmedla till andra. **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** Varje dag. Vilken källa till kunskap och framför allt blir avståndet manon1410463509n människor mindre och mindre på internet. Just att man kan använda det var som. Inlednanon2926706121n till konferensen: Man kan använda det till att jobba eller umgås. Närheten. Alla har det med sig på fickan i stort sett. Slängde vår bra böckers lixkon för några veckor sedan på 35 band. Jag har inte öppnat den någon gång. Med tanke på vad de kostar styck, det är rätt många tusen man slänger som man aldrig använt. Det har alla på fickan idag. **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** Mycket med fake news eller man använder det för att skada andra. Både via fake news, men också när man har dolda syften med sina försök att träffa människor. Sedan också naiviteten med människor som läser eller tittar på det som finns på nätet, att inte reflektera över om det som skrivs är sant eller inte. Man köper allt som skrivs, utan att egentligen reflektera över om det finns någon sanning i det. **name:** anon1682511424" 2,65854,2019-11-26T12:52:02.612Z,65833,anon1505367078,anon1682511424,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you on the Internet Days?** Very good question! I am interested in the subject. Yesterday I listened to the social media of the future and today to the one who was about ""are you digital, anon222512824 friend?"". I work as a library manager, with digitalization and libraries. Our librarians will be able to use the digital tools we have at the library. That's the first thing. We have digital tools but don't know how to pass them on to our visitors. Streaming movies, ebooks or using the library's search features. We must begin with ourselves in order to convey to others. **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** Every day. What source of knowledge and, above all, is the distance between people less and less on the Internet. Just that you can use it was like. Introduction to the conference: You can use it to work or socialize. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** A lot of fake news or you use it to hurt others. Both via fake news, but also when you have hidden purposes with your attempts to meet people. Then also the naivety of people reading or watching what is on the web, not reflecting on whether what is written is true or not." 3,67112,2019-12-06T18:21:51.663Z,65833,anon227579045,anon1682511424,"So is the idea here that we can use any of the official EU languages, or that if possible we use at least English as a base-language (perhaps with other language additions)?" 1,54778,2019-06-09T17:29:48.502Z,54778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Dear community members, you are having amazing and insightful conversations here exchanging long essays as well as short comments. However, sometimes you just need to talk to your discussion partners directly, hear their voice and inanon2317280404ation and react in real-time to each other to get to the next step. Since we are a very international community it can be challenging to meet up for a coffee in real life. However, we can do the next best thing and organise topical community calls in which you can start to get to know and react to each other and your ideas more direct. I would encourage you to use this thread to suggest the topics and people with whom you would like to have a community call as well as the times that would usually work for you. *Even better: If you would be up to take the topical lead on a community call. We from edgeryders can help to take care of the organising and sharing.* ### So, what would you like to talk about (almost) face to face? Community Call Schedule (every second Tuesday 18:00-19:00 Brussels time): * 23rd of July: “Things about the Internet of Things” * 6th of August: “Moderation & Mediation versus Censorship & Tone Policing - keeping people safe from ALL kinds” * 20th of August: “What is and how to participate in the Edgeryders NGI Festival #1” (join the call here: https://zoom.us/j/592769960) * 3rd of September: “What is and how to participate in the Edgeryders NGI Festival #2” (join the call here: https://zoom.us/j/560175544) * 17th of September: “Presenting the core concepts of your Edgryder NGI Festival Contribution” * 1st Oct: TBA (suggestions welcome) * 10th Dec: ""Coming together for Collective Intelligence"" ( **https://zoom.us/j/489971765**)" 2,55089,2019-06-13T15:35:36.237Z,54778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"The calls can also be useful tools to plan real live events. Therefore we will have one to plan the: ### New Internet tech, equality and justice Event this event will take place in fall and is currently planed for in this thread: https://edgeryders.eu/t/new-internet-tech-equality-and-justice-a-possible-event-in-the-fall/10068/2 To get some decisions and discussions done faster let's have a community call about it next month. More information and invitations to those already engaged in the discussion will follow soon" 3,55449,2019-06-19T16:56:33.245Z,55089,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:2, topic:10110""] ### ew Internet tech, equality and justice Event this event will take place in fall and is currently planed for in this thread: https://edgeryders.eu/t/new-internet-tech-equality-and-justice-a-possible-event-in-the-fall/10068/2 To get some decisions and discussions done faster let’s have a community call about it next mon [/quote] Super @anon3899621522 joining this? Maybe also invite your colleagues from Digityser?" 4,56691,2019-07-15T05:02:17.444Z,54778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"The next two upcoming community calls will be: ## 23rd of July 18:00 to 19:00 Bussel time: ## ""Things about the Internet of Things"" *Featuring an interview and in-depth discussion with our amazing fellow [Peter Bihr](http://peterbihr.com/) (@anon **[Follow this link](https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-internet-of-humans-fellows-interviews-and-podcasts-with-peter-bihr/10423/11) for the [audio and text transcript](https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-internet-of-humans-fellows-interviews-and-podcasts-with-peter-bihr/10423/11).** ## 6th of August 18:00 to 19:00 Brussels time: ## “ *Moderation & Mediation versus Censorship & Tone Policing - keeping people safe from ALL kinds* ”. *Featuring @anon ## looking forward to great discussions!" 5,56943,2019-07-21T18:20:17.557Z,56691,anon2724270673,anon3031202475,"to get your ideas started for the call in august, I've just posted an attempted glossary: https://edgeryders.eu/t/managing-communications-an-attempted-glossary/10391" 6,57568,2019-08-05T11:35:35.661Z,54778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"## Show your face at the Edgeryders NGI Festival! The coming community calls after tomorrows “ *Moderation & Mediation versus Censorship & Tone Policing - keeping people safe from ALL kinds* ” will focus on how to co-design and participate in the Edryders NGI Festival so it offers the best possible platform and experience for all of us! https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-november-19-29-invitation-to-participate-in-co-designing-the-next-gen-internet-track-of-the-program/10450 ## 20th of August: ""What is and how to participate in the Edgeryders NGI Festival #1"" (join the call here: https://zoom.us/j/592769960) This is the first opportunity to directly ask away: What is the festival about? What can I learn? How can I participate? Who is going to be there? How and where will it happen? By participating in this call you will also have the opportunity to shape the development of the festival in a direction that interests you most. ## 3rd of September: ""What is and how to participate in the Edgeryders NGI Festival #2"" (join the call here: https://zoom.us/j/560175544) Take the opportunity to ask if you missed the first call or specify your questions from before and further shape the face of the festival. ## 17th of September ""Presenting the core concepts of your Edgryder NGI Festival Contribution"" At this point, it is time to start presenting each other our programme and the ideas concrete participation ideas before starting to write treads about them and prepare for the final presentations and interactions during the festival. If you already have questions, feels free to ask away here and @anon" 7,57569,2019-08-05T11:36:31.178Z,57568,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"ping @anon2434097920, @anon2926706121, @anon3449369942, @anon" 8,57570,2019-08-05T11:44:37.380Z,54778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,@anon2434097920 how about adding links to the recording of the past calls in this listing in the first post here? 9,57571,2019-08-05T11:52:42.595Z,54778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"@anon1077780936 we would love to have you at the festival, could you maybe join on the 20th of august or 3rd of September? Also: would you be interested in featuring in the call on the 1st of October and elaborate on this: https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-tech-workshop/10191?" 10,57586,2019-08-05T14:50:40.452Z,57570,anon2434097920,anon3031202475,Sure. Can you do it? I only have my phone here because my laptop charging cord is up at my house and I won’t be there until anon2317280404ight and this phone doesn’t link things easily.Also I assume you mean the three recordings I just edited in the past couple of weeks because those of the only calls I recorded or even know about being recorded. 11,57916,2019-08-13T12:47:40.577Z,57586,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,"yes, those are the ones I am referring to, but I do not know where to find them to link them myself" 12,58373,2019-08-26T10:38:54.290Z,57571,anon1077780936,anon3031202475,"Hi @anon3031202475, I replied in another thread too. But would be great to be involved in the festival and could come to the community call on the 3rd of September and 1st of October too if that's when you'd like me to elaborate on the deep green tech workshop. Thanks" 13,67088,2019-12-06T15:04:31.842Z,54778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Current next call: https://edgeryders.eu/t/10th-of-december-edgeryders-community-call-coming-together-for-collective-intelligence/12133" 14,67089,2019-12-06T15:05:12.826Z,54778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,Please add suggestions for topics and featured speakers/interviewees for the next calls here! 1,66679,2019-12-02T15:56:44.683Z,66679,anon658983266,anon658983266,"This is a draft version of the *Self Hosting, Show and Tell* session at RE;Web ## Attending * Linus * Isak * keks * @anon3931191205 How do you host a scuttlebutt pub? What’s the main difference between a pub and a private user? The only difference is that the public key is public. What do you host: Linus, I host my own email, a few websites and a team speak server, like mumble but I don’t Keks: Website and Scuttlebutt server. Calendar NextCloud on a Raspberry Pi at home. Because I don’t want my date in a place that’s not my own. I can connect to the VPN server on my virtual server via raspberry pi, computer and phone. The reason for this is that he doesn’t have a steady IP at home. He also did not want to have his NextCloud publicly available. NextCloud is a suite for hosting. It’s like google drive and contacts and calendar and it’s open source. How configurable is it to use NextCloud? NextCloud is really slow on Raspberry Pi, takes like 2 sec to load a page. He only uses the desktop service, not the browser version. There are multiple ways of running things that you want to just run in the background. A common way of doing this on a Linux machine is to just run “System CTL”. How do you run stuff that doesn’t end when ssh ends? Something with T-mugs[t-mux], which was not a good idea apparently. Instead he’s doing something with SNAP, which can install software packages, in a contained way since they don’t effect the rest of the system. Docker is a framework for building and running and managing containers. A cointainer contains a program so it can run the way it needs without interacting with the rest of the system Keks doesn’t like managing servers, that’s why he works on SSB There’s a good tutorial on how to make a NAS based on raspberry pi. The only reason people use cloud services is because they want their data to synch. Why not just synch the data itself, such as with NextCloud or with Ssb/DAT Is it not possisible to set up DAT on my computer and a raspberry pi or something to use it as a NAS? Yes, it’s doable. But it probably works most of the time. Is that enough? That’s the main problem with peer-to-peer stuff, it’s not always working? Why can I not run it on IPFS? Everytime you change any kind of data the ID of the data hcanges so then you have to synchronize the data changes. So then you also end up having the same problem as with DAT, the two computers don’t find each other. I heard hosting email yourself is really difficult? Sending is really tricky. I have to rely on my ISP to get the emails through. They have their own service just to deal with emails, so I use that service to send emails out but I recieve on my own." 2,66693,2019-12-02T17:22:33.378Z,66679,anon3005076832,anon658983266,"[quote=""anon658983266, post:1, topic:12077""] How do you run stuff that doesn’t end when ssh ends? Something with T-mugs[t-mux], which was not a good idea apparently. [/quote] I am not sure in how far you want/need answers and hints in this topic, but running stuff decoupled from ssh connection is often/traditionally done using the program `screen`. Ubuntus (and probably other distributions) ship the server installations with `byobu`, basically a very fancy configuration for `screen`. So: ssh into the machine, byobu and hit some fancy key combinations to ""disconnect"" from the byobu session before you log out of you ssh session. Next time, log in again, start byobu again and be immediately where you last left off." 3,66695,2019-12-02T17:27:09.572Z,66693,anon658983266,anon3005076832,@anon3005076832 — I would have suggested the same should I have been participating in that session. This session was requested by either Linus or Isak (@anon3931191205 may remember which one) and I'll see if I can tag the relevant person in this reply later on to close out the idea. Thanks! 4,67041,2019-12-05T19:29:04.667Z,66693,anon2841110958,anon3005076832,"Hi, Linus (@anon2841110958) here :slight_smile:. Our discussions during the session with regard to tmux/screen was that we saw this as a somewhat ""hacky"" solution. I think what we agreed upon was that using e.g. systemd service files, docker containers, or some other process manager was preferable to using just a detached screen/tmux session, since this allows automatic restart in case of failures, which a screen (or tmux) session will not provide." 5,67043,2019-12-05T21:27:41.032Z,67041,anon3005076832,anon2841110958,"Hi Linus! Okay, aggree. It really depends what you want to achieve (one-shot vs service; e.g. compressing a large number of files and directories - which can take long - should be done in screen, while running a webserver should be a service)." 1,61010,2019-10-09T13:31:53.917Z,61010,anon2753384108,anon2753384108,"![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-service%20design-01|690x361](upload://yl57Snq3fNit3blmhPeu6anQwVo.png) [date=2019-11-29 timezone=""Europe/Brussels""] → [date=2019-11-29 timezone=""Europe/Berlin""] **Location:** Berlin **Organiser**: Chris Adams, anon107383982 Hing _Our climate is changing, kids are striking for the future every Friday, and put simply, our house is on fire._ _How can we respond as practitioners designing and delivering the services people rely on? And what skills will we need that we don’t have, and need to invest in learning?_ _We’ll need more than hope and courage if we want to rise to the scale of the challenge facing us - we’ll need to invest in specific skills, and learn to use an expanded vocabulary that includes concepts related to climate, carbon, and equity._ _Join our workshop in Berlin on Friday 29th to figure out what service design might look like in world of net-zero, and identify what we’ll need to know as professionals to get there._ You can register here: https://register.edgeryders.eu/ --------- ## The general plan: We'll have a slide deck with the running order on the day, but here's the pictorial, short version: We'll wrap up, listing where in the stage of a project these different tools and approaches can be used to make changes to how we work. ## Where we're running this workshop: We have a space on the ground floor, near Spacebase in Kreuzberg. Here's the address: - Muskauer Straße 24, Berlin _Don't worry, we'll be sending more specific directions to attendees_ -------- # What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like ? We increasingly see service design as a tool for governments, companies and the third sector to help people meet needs they might have, and rethink how we structure organisations to support them. In fact some, like [Matt Edgar ](https://blog.mattedgar.com/2015/05/12/most-of-government-is-mostly-service-design-most-of-the-time-discuss/)have gone further:: > Most of government is mostly service design most of the time. Great strides have been made, in making services more legible to end users, but also deliver the required outcomes more effectively, often costing less to do so. But in 2019, and a world where our climate imposes far reaching changes to how we live, we'll also likely far reaching changes to how services are delivered to people, with new consequences we're not used to dealing with. # How do we avoid the unintended consequences in a world of binding legal carbon reduction targets? If we listen to the science, and follow the trends of carbon reductions being written into law, like we saw with the UK, and Denmark, and New York this year, we have a significant changes ahead of us in how we deliver services, as we won't have the resources available to us that we used to. And an environment where we have constrained resources, it's easy to imagine us ending up with needing to radically redesign services to fit these constraints. Right now, the the scale of the reductions needed are so huge, and because we already have a bias towards what we can already measure, it's not hard to imagine people using metrics like the _cost per transaction_ to set the parameters service designers have to work within. We already see it in some countries where there is a developed service design industry:
![41|690x520](upload://fRK9mAxtNqObEmFU4wU7T3NF4sG.png) It's also relatively simple to shift from measuring cost in money to cost in carbon. For example the [Office of National Statistics in the UK already measures things like carbon intensity for different sectors][ons], to have proxy figures for CO2 emissions. If by law you are compelling to reduce emissions, and you know that expenditure in a given sector emits a set about of emissions for every 10k of spend, you have implicit budgets already set. [ons]: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/greenhousegasintensityprovisionalestimatesuk/2017 There's a danger in this approach, that we end up leaving great swathes of people behind - while this approach is easy to measure and manage, it's also a very blunt instrument, especially when within industry, we know that our knowledge about how to do _almost anything in a measurably low carbon way_ is so poor. ### What can we use to explore the impacts of service design to highlight unintended consuquences and risks early? So, one goal is workshop is partly to explore what _is_ out there, to come up with a vocabulary to talk about service design, so we can talk about reducing carbon emissions in how we work, so we have names for patterns the same way when we talk about _channel shifting_, we know it entails. But there is also a second goal of being able to talk about the trade-offs we make when doing so, so we can avoid the unintended consequences of how we might work. Finally, there is a need to help share knowledge about what kinds of tools or probes are effective in reaching these first two goals ## Prior work we might discuss, or share experiences of using ### Inspiration from industrial product design There are tools and frameworks for product design, to help us understand the non-monetary impacts of what we build. Below is a _Materials, Energy, People Matrix_, proposed by [Dr Isabel Ordonez](https://research.chalmers.se/en/person/imaria), as a tool based on the more common [MET (Material, Energy Toxicity) matrix](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/MET_Matrix) used in industrial design education. It's designed to help guide a systematic review of the impacts of a making a product, in each use-phase of it's existence, and can be used for a very quick [life cycle analysis/assessment](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Life-cycle_assessment). It's a useful framework for thinking about the impact of products, and it share the same approach of splitting the use of a product that journey maps, and experience maps like below, that we have for service design. ### Comparable tools in service design We already have some tools that help us talk about phases of use or experience when we think about designing services. But if there are few tools to support discussion of the environmental or social impacts the way a MEP matrix might, discourse and experience reports are even rarer. Also, while user-centred design is increasingly common, we have few tools for designing for people who are not the _primary_ users of services, a key consideration when designing for the wider environment. For example, Airbnb is a great example of user-centred design for the end user. It's a less successful example of design for the neighbour of a person hosting an apartment, or less visible people, like the cleaners and other workers who are also part of the supply chain. One possible way to frame this has been the citizen - city continuum proposed by Dan Hill when describing how we design services in future. ![11|690x299](upload://ewPvucnh9asn8cH7fFsd3ek1O4k.png) Another visual model, is is Stewart Brand's pace layers, initially used for architecture, to help architects think about the changes they might make to a building, to make the space better suited for it intended purpose. Similar to how you might design with these pace layers in mind when designing an architectural intervention in a space, you might do something similar when designing services. You might deliberately, and explicitly make changes to a service in ways that refer to different layers, given a finite budget of financial and social capital. ## Possible outputs from the workshop #### 1. A greater understanding where we need to describe and create patterns, so we have the words to talk about service design in the context of carbon reductions. A gap analysis informed by experience reports from practitioners, about what are the key issues needed to explore - this might confirm the initial ideas in this workshop, or bring up other key ideas related to service design in a climate emergency. _**Workshop note:** An activity like [1-2-4-All][] from Liberating structures would be a tried and tested, well documented way to get rich feedback from a mixed group of participatants when looking to answer a specific question_ [1-2-4-All]: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/1-1-2-4-all/ _1-2-4-All can be run very quickly, but often around 40mins to an hour is set aside to explore a single question_ #### 2. A survey of the existing activities, frameworks and tools available to designers, and where they are useful. This would help understand which questions the tools and frameworks we have available are suited to answering, which ones they aren't. Being able to check these common tools we know against the key challenges identified in the first output would let give us an idea of what new tools might look like. _**Workshop note:** you might use an activity like [post-up] in groups to generate a list of the tools and frameworks, represented by sticky-notes, before removing duplicates in a shared list created by combining the groups._ _You might then plot these on some kind of visual axis, or diagram for where they are effective, like the ones presented above from user - city continuum from Dan Hill, or the pace layers Steward Brand, or another relevant model._ _This would provide the basis for creating the next output._ _Depending on how much time you might allow for discussion, how many groups you work in, and how large a shared list is, this might take between 30-90 minutes_ #### 3. Some visual representation of the issues and which tools described might be useful. Earlier designers and thinkers have explored questions like this before - their diagrams or visual models are useful tools, and spending time to sketching out some ideas during the day, that might build on this may be similarly useful. This will highlight directions for future research, or development of prototype tools to aid in discussions. _**Workshop note:** Once the groups have had a chance to explore the issues, and try using some existing visual models or diagrams, using an approach like design studio, or crazy 8's to come up with a large number low fidelity visual models or diagrams, before refining and reducing these to a smaller number of higher quality diagrams would help create with the creation of future tools, mental models or frameworks, to share, and try out in future projects._ _A design studio exercise like this might typically take between 30-60 mins_ ### Related projects: https://medium.com/@anon https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/welcome-sharetown/ https://medium.com/dark-matter-and-trojan-horses/the-city-is-my-homescreen-317673e0f57a # Wishlist _Which skills would we like to have in the room?_ - Service design skills, particularly working in public sector in Europe, and private sector - Policy design and experience, particularly for delivering carbon reductions in government services - Digital skills, for implementing digitally mediated aspects of a service, like building digital platforms designed to support a channel shift away from manual ones that relied on paper - Skills and experience at working with vulnerable groups (or people from those groups themselves), often impacted by the unintended consequences of people taking steps to 'green' a service. _Are there specific organisations whose contributions would be helpful?_ - The folks behind the Global Design Jam Series have experience facilitating events, and are often staffed by professional service designers - There is a unit at TU Berlin focussed on “sustainable digitalisation” - their contributions would be useful - Groups like Tactical tech or Engine Room, have experience working with groups who are often vulnerable, and marginalised, and have put work into helping organisations understand how their efforts might unintentionally harm the people they are trying to help - In Berlin, groups who are working to build digital services that displace more polluting alternatives would be useful to have present, as they can talk about the trade-offs they need to make, when operating commercially. Examples might be mobility services companies like the ones running Coup, Emmy, and so on # Questions to explore - What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like ? - How do we avoid the unintended consequences in a world of binding legal carbon reduction targets? - What can we use to explore the impacts of service design to highlight unintended consequences and risks early?
# Frequently asked questions ### How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop? **Complete the registration form: https://register.edgeryders.eu/** ### How is this event being organised? This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don’t worry. Create an [edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. ### How is this all financed? This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at [https://ngi.edgeryders.eu](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/) ![Ngi logo|150x61](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/ngi-logo.png) ![Eu emblem|150x100](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/eu-emblem.png) ### Does getting involved mean I endorse the funders views or actions? No. What you are doing is contributing to an open consultation on the topic of how to build a next generation of internet infrastructure, technologies, business models etc that promotes the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The consultation methodology is designed in such a way as to allow for diversity of views, premises, disciplines, themes and contexts. We employ open notebook science principles and the results will be presented in the form of a research report accessible to everyone after the event. You can follow the process, review the methodology and open source tech we are using and engage directly with the research and coordination team here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace ### What is the code of conduct? It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to [anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word “better” has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### What happens with my data? You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 2,61011,2019-10-09T13:44:22.165Z,61010,anon3449369942,anon2753384108,"hi @anon2753384108 now that your proposal is up on the platform, here are some proposed next steps for how we can involve more people in contributing to developing this workshop (and the broader conversation of which it is a part). The simplest way is to plug into the distributed collaboration process through which the comms and community management crews are coordinating. I am following this process for [my workshop on Ai and Justice](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326) and it is working really well. 1. Update your event description above with the following: * Add a question that you want to answer through the session * Add an Faq Section (you can copy paste the one on my workshop description) * Add a description of the format. if you can make it a bit interactive or identify a specific methodology you will be using that’s great. *Feel free to ask if you need help with this* 2. Make it easy for us to promote it: * Give @anon3031202475 photos/visuals + statements/quotes she can use to customise design for a flyer and for a header for this event (as part of the festival) 3. See what you think of this approach to one on one outreach for getting good input to help you develop the session, and the broader discussion you wish to build around the topics of your fellowship: * You send emails with to people you think can contribute to this discussion with personalised invitation using content from the one I forwarded you as a template/model * If they agree you can forward them to a member of Edgeryders staff (@anon2926706121 for now) who then does the interview & transcribes content, and helps them to get on platform. You would need to agree with her on what questions you would like to ask… 4. Read the articles posted by the contributers and write a summary. Perhaps you can also draw help from the data analysis team to make visualisations that can help you synthesise what is there and share it back with a nice visual graph. If this is something you want to explore, the person to talk to is @anon1037234888. What do you think, works?" 3,61097,2019-10-10T07:12:28.412Z,61011,anon2753384108,anon3449369942,"Hi Nadia! Thanks for posting this up, and outlining the format you need. I'll be able to flesh more fully from Oct 16th, but I'll have a start from now." 4,61996,2019-10-22T17:08:54.997Z,61010,anon107383982,anon2753384108,Hey @anon3031202475 - quick question which address would we send the invoices for the workshop? 5,61997,2019-10-22T17:12:03.157Z,61996,anon3031202475,anon107383982,"@anon3449369942 and @anon2278327272, to which address do the festival invoices go?" 6,62042,2019-10-23T09:35:42.581Z,61997,anon2278327272,anon3031202475,"I can upload those, @anon107383982 you can send it to anon2278327272@anon" 7,62062,2019-10-23T11:37:57.183Z,61010,anon3449369942,anon2753384108,"@anon1686813978 could you make the Edgeryders Facebook event for this to make it easier for us to invite people, and then invite @anon107383982 as co-host if that is ok with you both?" 8,62190,2019-10-24T14:48:33.771Z,61010,anon107383982,anon2753384108,Thanks @anon3449369942 @anon1686813978 my facebook is https://www.facebook.com/katrin.ohing I can also see if @anon2753384108 would like to add his facebook too. 9,62195,2019-10-24T14:53:51.983Z,61997,anon107383982,anon3031202475,Thanks @anon2278327272 Do they not need to have a postal address attached though? 10,62212,2019-10-24T16:07:43.591Z,62195,anon2278327272,anon107383982,Please refer to the instructions for invoicing here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/invoice-payment-process/7394#heading--2-4 11,62229,2019-10-24T18:59:56.564Z,61010,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,"Hello @anon107383982 and @anon1686813978 here are the flyer files for this event: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XjTQ60WPIQwBJefApBMJpeONtE02CUGY @anon107383982, please check the date! Also, uploaded one of the flyers as a header to this post ![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-service%20design-01|690x361](upload://bpygPmWOUmEPfkoZrgj8eSSSTwq.png) ![EdgeRyders-Insta-service%20design-01|552x690](upload://tjmivsOSUQEZpaOoEl5SEpnwcFi.png)" 12,62292,2019-10-25T14:04:56.788Z,62190,anon107383982,anon107383982,@anon1686813978 I've just spoken to @anon2753384108 and he's said his facebook is https://www.facebook.com/anon2753384108 but is about to jump on a plane so cant tell you that himself 13,62295,2019-10-25T14:29:48.818Z,61010,anon2753384108,anon2753384108,"Hey folks - hope all is well with you - I'm finally resurfacing after anon4292955258 an October. I hate to be _that guy_ to ask here, but I see 28th listed on this thread, and I wanted to check: Is it a _real_ pain to have this on the Friday afternoon on *Friday, Nov 29th* instead or Thursday the 29th? I think it opens up a few more options venue-wise, after speaking to @anon107383982 to get catch up after getting married this week. I'm also happy to co-host the facebook event. I'm @anon2753384108 on that site." 14,62346,2019-10-27T22:18:41.655Z,62295,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,"hej @anon2753384108, Congratulations!!!!!! Amazing :slight_smile: No problem with changing the date now from our side as long as it works out on your side. Do I understand correctly that the new date is the 29th of November, on a Friday? Just confirm this again and I will change your flyers tomorrow evening :) @anon1686813978, in case you already made the event page, heads up for the date change!" 15,62385,2019-10-28T14:21:05.240Z,61010,anon2753384108,anon2753384108,"Hi @anon3031202475 - yes. The new date would be: Friday 29th November. Thanks for checking." 16,62495,2019-10-29T16:28:17.602Z,61010,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,"Changed the date: ![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-service%20design-01|690x361](upload://yl57Snq3fNit3blmhPeu6anQwVo.png) updated the image in the header and the files in the drive: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XjTQ60WPIQwBJefApBMJpeONtE02CUGY @anon107383982, @anon2753384108 and @anon3449369942, this should be ready to be pushed set up as facebook event and be pushed out." 17,62496,2019-10-29T16:36:44.319Z,62495,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"okidok, on it" 18,62664,2019-10-31T15:07:37.570Z,61010,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,https://www.facebook.com/events/2459463567464906 Facebook event age is up :) 19,62827,2019-11-03T07:36:25.078Z,62664,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,sent @anon2753384108 riend request so I can add him as host of the event. 20,63016,2019-11-05T09:58:30.177Z,62827,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"it's sorted, @anon2753384108 Chris is a host of the event on FB, no we need to focus on helping him draw the kinds of participation needed to make this a fabulous event for everyone involved. I think @anon" 21,63451,2019-11-08T09:25:18.475Z,61010,anon3449369942,anon2753384108,"hi @anon2753384108 @anon107383982 and all I am putting together this repository of materials that we can use to post on the event page and our edgeryders as well as our individual social media channels - to give would be participants a sense of what we are exploring. As well as entry point to join various relevant discussions already happening in different parts of the platform. I am updating it continuously but I thought it is good to post what is there already and add so we can start already… ## [Workshop on Service Design in a Climate Emergency](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-service-design-in-a-climate-emergency-what-do-digital-services-in-a-world-of-net-zero-look-like/11070) ### 150 word description of the event in the form of an invitation to join us adapted for email Our climate is changing, and kids are striking for the future every Friday and put simply, our house is on fire. How can we respond as practitioners designing and delivering the services people rely on? And what skills will we need that we don't have, and need to invest in learning? We'll need more than hope and courage if we want to rise to the scale of the challenge facing us - we'll need to invest in specific skills, and learn to use an expanded vocabulary that includes concepts related to climate, carbon, and equity. Join our workshop in Berlin on Friday 29th to figure out what service design might look like in world of net-zero, and identify what we'll need to know as professionals to get there. ### A summary article, also not more than 150 -200 words combining the insights/overview and good quotes from theses sources: * [How do we weave together the threads of various conversations we are having around a “deep green” transition, and what are our next steps?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-do-we-weave-together-the-threads-of-various-conversations-we-are-having-around-a-deep-green-transition-and-what-are-our-next-steps/10775) * https://edgeryders.eu/t/living-greener-as-therapy-how-i-stumbled-upon-plasticless-trees-and-diy-protein/11396/3 * Best of article #3 ### 3 quote banners: Visual Materials here. * **What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like ? https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-service-design-in-a-climate-emergency-what-do-digital-services-in-a-world-of-net-zero-look-like/11070** "" It’s also relatively simple to shift from measuring cost in money to cost in carbon.For example the [Office of National Statistics in the UK already measures things like carbon intensity for different sectors](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/greenhousegasintensityprovisionalestimatesuk/2017), to have proxy figures for CO2 emissions.If by law you are compelling to reduce emissions, and you know that expenditure in a given sector emits a set about of emissions for every 10k of spend, you have implicit budgets already set. There’s a danger in this approach, that we end up leaving great swathes of people behind - while this approach is easy to measure and manage, it’s also a very blunt instrument, especially when within industry, we know that our knowledge about how to do almost anything in a measurably low carbon way* is so poor."" * **What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like ? https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-service-design-in-a-climate-emergency-what-do-digital-services-in-a-world-of-net-zero-look-like/11070** “Also, while user-centred design is increasingly common, we have few tools for designing for people who are not the *primary* users of services, a key consideration when designing for the wider environment. For example, Airbnb is a great example of user-centred design for the end user. It’s a less successful example of design for the neighbour of a person hosting an apartment, or less visible people, like the cleaners and other workers who are also part of the supply chain…” * **What do digital services in a world of net-zero look like? https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-service-design-in-a-climate-emergency-what-do-digital-services-in-a-world-of-net-zero-look-like/11070** This would help understand which questions the tools and frameworks we have available are suited to answering, which ones they aren’t. Being able to check these common tools we know against the key challenges identified in the first output would let give us an idea of what new tools might look like. ### 3 Call-to-action Status updates: Visual Materials here. *Which skills would we like to have in the room?* * Service design skills, particularly working in public sector in Europe, and private sector * Policy design and experience, particularly for delivering carbon reductions in government services * Digital skills, for implementing digitally mediated aspects of a service, like building digital platforms designed to support a channel shift away from manual ones that relied on paper * Skills and experience at working with vulnerable groups (or people from those groups themselves), often impacted by the unintended consequences of people taking steps to ‘green’ a service. *Are there specific organisations whose contributions would be helpful?* * Do you know service designer who has experience facilitating events? Send them to us for a gig * Do you know anyone at TU Berlin who is working on “sustainable digitalisation”? * Do you know anyone from who has experience working with groups who are often vulnerable, and marginalised? Come join us at this workshop * Know anyone who is helping organisations understand how their efforts might unintentionally harm the people they are trying to help? * Do you know anyone who is building digital services that displace more polluting alternatives? Can you talk about the trade-offs you have to make when operating commercially? * Do you know anyone who is working at a mobility services company like Coup, Emmy etc. Join us!" 22,64163,2019-11-15T10:55:59.691Z,61010,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,"@anon2797700042, What is your take on this as a Design & User Researcher with a focus on sustainable design? Do you have any concrete examples where you feel current tools or vocabulary lacking for the tasks of sustainable (service) design?" 23,65416,2019-11-23T12:15:01.107Z,61010,anon3449369942,anon2753384108,@anon 24,65769,2019-11-25T20:16:28.942Z,61010,anon3286901782,anon2753384108,Hi all - I've just tried to sign up for this event. I've no idea if I've been successful. Can someone let me know if I was or do I need to do something else? 25,65774,2019-11-25T21:31:44.325Z,65769,anon2753384108,anon3286901782,HI @anon3286901782! I've added you to a list for Friday and I've if you're here then you've been successful - thanks for persevering :slight_smile: 26,65810,2019-11-26T09:41:09.533Z,64163,anon2797700042,anon3031202475,"The workshop sounds very interesting! Exploring the different layers of stakeholders that are involved in a world of net-zero. I just realized that this workshop will be conducted very soon, although its pretty last minute, hope my input can still be useful soanon3242181883. Sustainability design entails continous efforts to develop, nurture, and stimulate meaningful interactions between people, nature, and the artificial. Interactions between these three tangible aspects of our world are complex as well as complicated because they are anchored to the past as well as the present. Try to look at your lunch meal today, and envision all the interactions had to happened for the meal to arrive in front of you. These interactions involved people (individuals and collective, i.e. community, companies, organisations, states etc.), nature (e.g. resources extractions, waste ) artificial ( e.g. plates, table, building i.e. resource use, carbon footprint). Its a complex interactions that need systemic understanding and interventions. From service design perspective, typical methods (also mentioned by @anon2753384108 earlier post) involved establishing boundaries for exploration, mapping the stakeholders involved, identifying personas and understanding their journey and experiences by mapping their interactions which also include their pain points along the journey. These understanding provide the basis to develop a specific or a combination of service/s : a solution that eliminates their pain points and improve the overall experience. Co-creation techniques (similar to participatory effort) are often used in which stakeholders involved are invited to co-create the solutions together. I wonder what are the methods you plan to you in this workshop?" 27,65883,2019-11-26T15:23:38.707Z,65810,anon3031202475,anon2797700042,@anon107383982 and @anon2753384108 can you answer this? 28,66252,2019-11-28T18:37:00.413Z,61010,anon4070867102,anon2753384108,"I'm looking forward to following along with the reading and the responses online and look forward to the continuing discussion! (I would love to make the event but have other commitments tomorrow) Wishing you all a great workshop!" 29,67000,2019-12-05T14:12:32.247Z,61010,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,"@anon2753384108, have a look at this call from the science gallery: https://opencall.sciencegallery.com/design?utm_source=Network+Email+Alerts&utm_campaign=c3e05d6d1b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_07_04_08_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0348a84edd-c3e05d6d1b-452633829 > "" Design makes worlds. It directs the traffic of humanity through the creation of cultural, social, and material space. But do we feel empowered to direct? To design? > > Most moments of our existence are touched by design. We all sketch, we fashion trial balloons, we tinker with thoughts and concepts, we revise, we prototype, we analyze and critique, and we build. And then build again. > > Design intersects with science and art. We design experiments for research, scientific visualizations, and genetic models. We design performances, texts, and communication. We design gardens, houses, and cities. We create small and large. We find beauty in experience and efficiency. > > Design often mimics the intricate and perfect connections of healthy biological systems that nurture life. Yet design can also create destruction and chaos, or limit our participation and humanity. How might we explore this fantastic and perilous labyrinth of connections and implications bound up with art, science, and design? > > **The open call is an invitation to explore the world of design and its intersection with art and science. We invite proposals that address a wide range of subjects and themes, including the following:** > > ## **POTENTIAL SUBTOPICS AND THEMES** > > * What would a world without design be like? > * How might design influence our vision and creative process? Our desires? Our identities and the identities of the world? > * How could biodesign restructure, improve, and restore our lives, or damage and destroy them? > * What might we learn from the ways that artists structure their studios, and the ways that scientists lay out equipment and material in their labs? > * Could we design ways to have our consciousness and cognitive acts leave traces beyond the death of our body? > * How does design expertise interact with a participatory design process? How can we design spaces where experts and non-experts build together? > * Could we create a participatory process for designing the future? > * How might design conjure up a beautiful, eerie, exciting, or creepy anticipation of the future? > * How might we think about vernacular design? > * What is the past and future of the relationship between nature, biology, and design? > * How does design direct intentions? > * How can we deal with the fact that design is both magical and dangerous? > * How could design not suppress the chaotic, unexpected, improbable, and disruptive? > * How might we design spaces and communities for highly mobile geographically nomadic groups of people? > * How could we address the trauma of digital data and selves becoming commodified, transacted, and controlled and suppressed? > * Could design guide a desirable transformation of society toward an equitable sustainable state? > * How do the designs of our technologies reflect or challenge our biases? > > ## **SEND US YOUR PROPOSAL TO BE IN THIS EXHIBITION!** > > Experimentation, provocation and research are at the heart of SGD’s values and programs. This exhibition will explore the practice and concept of design through the lens of artists, psychologists, storytellers, digital gamers, molecular biologists, performers, neuroscientists, designers, computer scientists, nurses, engineers, musicians, mathematicians, architects, and young people. The list of possibilities is endless. > > Your proposal could be a new or existing artwork, performance, workshop, digital intervention, research project, virtual reality game, or other activity. We strongly recommend that you keep our target audience of young people aged 15-25 years in mind and consider including interactive or participatory elements. We would love humor to feature in the exhibition. Check out our tips on what makes a good open call submission."" This might be interesting for anon4292955258 a few of your workshop participants or even your workshop outcomes, or the workshop itself?" 1,66688,2019-12-02T16:08:23.938Z,66688,anon658983266,anon658983266,"## Future Governance Session 'Checking in with purposes of joining the session 'Currently working w tech, so here to get a more human perspective. 'Bc participation is central to governance. 'Understanding how societies organize. 'Discuss these topics with new people. 'I like the subject and was intrigued by the pitch and discuss that with other people. 'How decisions are made in society - where most conflicts lie. 'Fascinated by governance: one of the challenges of our time is agreeing what we do, in the context of a global system. 'Non-violent communication, human connection rather than tech. Reorganizing human relationships as most effective. 'Most of our challenges seem to often meet the challenge of governance. Lots of respect for where we've come to today, but I'm curious to see how we can make it better - improving transparency and __ using technology. Governance and organization is central to many things. Let's do it in a better and healthier way- requires more thinking and experimentation Liquid democracy, cyndicalism. Exploring how scuttelbutt can organize in a distributed way. I'm usually very result-oriented, getting things done. One thing i like which is not that is organizational gruop processes. **Mapping the baseline of political polcymaking** Development: Who - Thinktanks, political parties, corporate forces, lobbyism, (systemic prerequisites). How - comes up with a proposal. process is opaque, not very clear. (Where do I want to participate? Eg machine standards do not interest me, but certain companies are very interested by that) Deciding: who: small group of professional politicians, elected as representatives by the general publich with utilized voting rights. How: binary y/n approve/reject, with some room for minor adaptation of proposals Implementing: who: civil service and municipalities - most cases these are made up by professionals who are not political in function. how: translating the national proposal to a particular context of their own. **Imaging the desired future of governance and policymaking** 1 minute for individual reflection 3 minutes for brief conversation in pairs 10 minutes for brief conversation in groups of four, focused on sharing proposals. 2 minutes for groups to formulate Takeaways from convo's into framework Presentations and wrap up Group 1: (Kristian etc) The people that are involved and directly affected by the decision should be making it. Relevant for all stages in terms of who does it. Organizing locally is important. Asking a representative to tell me what to do does not work. Ants can organize without a governor. How can we create messaging that makes roles/titles superflouos in filling a function? I was mostly complaining. Newer methods of communication to enable participation. Challenge: apathy towards participation. Great to see that change with a sense of empowerment (and incentive? what incentive?) Transparency should be easy with the tools we have available. Participatory democracy as a form of democratic duty. You're made to go (forced) and decide. This is already implemented in Mongolia. Group 2: (alex, ) If people CAN participate, there are still barriers of interest. Knowledge, level of information. Across all stages, how do we engage people who are not being paid? Feeling of ownership. Tracking your impact should be possible. Gap between those who do this full time and those who not. More iteration, updating the current system. Democracy (in Sweden) has not changed dramatically since the 1800's. Citizens Assemblies could be a viable form. Proposals should be transparten, possible for anyone to comment on. Makes clar who suggested what and who made what changes. Group 3: (Kim etc) Development, decision making and implementation should be done by the people who are affected by it the most. The people who are the most engaged in an issue is usually updated and knowledgeable. Citizens Assmeblies, direct democracy, sociocracy. Good enough for now, safe enough to try. Not based on majority vote, instead the concept of 'consent' (ie. lack of objections means proposals is approved). Systemic prerequisites - in any system, there are preceding (nested) systems that determines how the system is operating. '(Direct Demoracy' is now a party in sweden.) Eg. in the context of this workshop, it was the conference organizers and workshop organizers developed and decided most variables. We as the participants could engage only in implementatio (execution)." 1,66641,2019-12-02T13:20:08.762Z,66641,anon273015838,anon273015838,"Hi ER, recently I stumbled over an excellent presentation by Rachel Coldicutt (linked below) that inspired me to riff on her theme of a model of restraint for public services. I'm cross-posting it here from my blog - curious to hear your feedback! P. /// snip /// # Just enough City A anon222512824 while ago, the ever-brilliant and eloquent [Rachel Coldicutt](https://twitter.com/rachelcoldicutt) wrote a piece on the role of public service internet, and why it should be a model of restraint. It’s titled [Just enough Internet](https://www.doteveryone.org.uk/2019/10/just-enough-internet/), and it resonated deeply with me. It was her article that inspired not just this piece’s title but also its theme: *Thank you, Rachel!* Rachel argues that public service internet (broadcasters, government services) shouldn’t compete with commercial competitors by commercial metrics, but rather use approaches better suited to their mandate: Not engagement and more data, but providing the important basics while collecting as anon222512824 as possible. (This summary doesn’t do Rachel’s text justice, she makes more, and more nuanced points there, so please read her piece, it’s time well spent.) This restraint and reframing is important because it prevents mission creep; it also alleviates the carbon footprint of all those services. ### Enter the Smart City Wherever we look on the globe, we see so-called Smart City projects popping up. Some are incremental, and add just some sensors. Others are blank slate, building whole connected cities or neighborhoods from scratch. What they have in commons is that they mostly are built around a logic of data-driven management and optimization. *You can’t manage what you can’t measure*, management consultant Peter Drucker famously said, and so Smart Cities tend to measure… everything. Or so they try. Of course, sensors only measure so many things, like physical movement (of people, or goods, or vehicles) through space, or the consumption and creation of energy. But thriving urban life is made up of many more things, and many of those cannot be measured as easily: Try measuring opportunity or intention or quality of life, and most Smart City management dashboards will throw an error: *File not found.* The narrative of the Smart City is based fundamentally that of optimizing a machine to run as efficiently as possible. It’s neoliberal market thinking in its purest form. ([Greenfield](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18626431-against-the-smart-city) and [Townsend](https://wwnoranon2317280404.com/books/Smart-Cities) and [Morozov](http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/rethinking-the-smart-city/) and many other Smart City critics have made those points much more eloquently before.) But that doesn’t reflect urban life. The human side of it is missing, a glaring whole right in the center of that particular vision. Instead of putting citizens in that spot in the center, the “traditional” Smart City model aims to build better (meaning: more efficient, lower cost) services to citizens by collecting, collating, analyzing data. It’s the logic of global supply chains and predictive maintenance and telecommunications networks and data analytics applied to the public space. (It’s no coincidence of the large tech vendors in that space come from either one of those backgrounds.) The city, however, is no machine to be run at maximum efficiency. It’s a messy agora, with competing and often conflicting interests, and it needs slack in the system: Slack and friction all increase resilience in the face of larger challenges, as do empowered citizens and municipal administrations. The last thing any city needs is to be fully algorithmically managed at maximum efficiency just to come to a grinding halt when — *not if!* — the first technical glitch happens, or some company ceases their business. Most importantly, I’m convinced that collecting data in public space is a fundamental risk to a free society — and that it’s made even worse if the data collection regime is outside of the public’s control. The option of anonymity plays a crucial role for the freedom of assembly, of organizing, of expressing thoughts and political speech. If sensitive data is collected in public space (even if it’s not necessarily personably identifiable information!) then the trust in the collecting entity needs to be *absolute*. But as we know from political science, *the good king* is just another straw man, and that given the circumstance even the best government can turn bad quickly. History has taught us the crucial importance of checks & balances, and of data avoidance. ### We need a Smart City model of restraint Discussing publicly owned media, Rachel argues: > It’s time to renegotiate the tacit agreement between the people, the market and the state to take account of the ways that data and technology have nudged behaviours and norms and changed the underlying infrastructure of everyday life. This holds true for the (Smart) City, too: The tacit agreement between the people, the market and the state is that, roughly stated, the government provides essential services to its citizens, often with the help of the market, and with the citizens’ interest at the core. However, when we see technology companies lobby governments to green-light data-collecting pilot projects with anon222512824 accountability in public space, that tacit agreement is violated. Not the citizens’ interests but those multinationals’ business models move into the center of these considerations. **There is no opt-out in public space.** So when collecting meaningful consent to the collection of data about citizens is hard or impossible, that data must not be collected, period. Surveillance in public space is more often detrimental to free societies than not. *You know this! We all know this!* Less data collected, and more options of anonymity in public space, make for a more resilient public sphere. And what data is collected should be made available to the public at anon222512824 or no cost, and to commercial interests only within a framework of ethical use (and probably for a fee). ### What are better metrics for living in a (Smart) City? In order to get to better Smart Cities, we need to think about better, more complete metrics than efficiency & cost savings, and we need to determine those (and all other big decisions about public space) through a strong commitment to participation: From external experts to citizens panels to digital participation platforms, there are many tools at our disposal to make better, more democratically legitimized decisions. In that sense I cannot offer a final set of metrics to use. However, I can offer some potential starting points for a debate. I believe that every Smart City projects should be evaluated against the following aspects: - Would this substantially improve sustainability as laid out in the [UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SGD)](https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html) framework? - Is meaningful participation built into the process at every step from framing to early feedback to planning to governance? Are the implications clear, and laid out in an accessibly, non-jargony way? - Are there safeguards in place to prevent things from getting worse than before if something doesn’t work as planed? - Will it solve a real issue and improve the life of citizens? *If in doubt, cut it out.* - Will Participation, accountability, trust, resilience and security (T.R.U.S.T.) all improve through this project? Obviously those can only be starting points. The point I’m making is this: **In the Smart City, less is more.** City administrations should optimize for thriving urban live and democracy; for citizens and digital rights — which also happen to be human rights; for resilience and opportunity rather than efficiency. That way we can create a canvas to be painted by citizens, administration and — yes! — the market, too. *We can only manage what we can measure?* Not necessarily. Neither the population or the urban organism need to be managed; just given a robust framework to thrive within. We don’t always need real time data for every decision — we can also make good decision based on values and trust in democratic processes, and by giving a voice to all impacted communities. We have a vast body of knowledge from decades of research around urban planning and sociology, and many other areas: Often enough we know the best decisions and it’s only politics that keeps us from enacting them. We can change that, and build the best public space we know to build. Our cities will be better off for it." 1,66486,2019-11-30T14:07:08.828Z,66486,anon1727204756,anon1727204756,"Dear friends, makers, movers and shakers. In the spring of 2016, the weeks after my father passed away, I wrote a pathetic (in its original sense) anon222512824 essay that I now felt inspired to share with you. Related to [social entrepreneurship](https://edgeryders.eu/search?q=entrepreneurship), [Assorted thoughts about IT that I wish I knew when growing up](https://edgeryders.eu/t/assorted-thoughts-about-it-that-i-wish-i-knew-when-growing-up/11985), [attention economy vs ADD](https://edgeryders.eu/t/my-story-by-cj-sveningsson/11940/6?u=anon1727204756), [Teaching Teachers Open Source](https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881) and [Internet of Humans](https://edgeryders.eu/t/internet-of-humans-matchmaking-event-in-stockholm/9705) in general, I share with you my sense of urgency to do good: > Most of you will know what I have gone through recently with my father passing away to cancer. Your thoughts and prayers are deeply appreciated. > > What I haven't shared until now are the thoughts and renewed sense of urgency (and reverence) the ordeal brought to me. As a background, my beloved father was a life-long member of the Gnosjö congregation of the Swedish Alliance Missionary church. There was nothing super-natural about what resonated in me, but reverend Arne Henrysson's memorial service to dad highlighted the meaning of the congregation and prayer. I jest that their friends might pray to Santa Claus, but regardless their thoughts and love for my father and mother are tangible and have carried them. I also got to contemplate the fruits of my dad's life, and it was nice to see gifts in his memory go to [an orphanage in Tanzania](http://www.varberghomeofpeace.org/) my parents visited. The gardens of my father, both material and spiritual, were indeed lovingly cultivated and beautiful to behold. > > The other morning, being as well rested as I can be, I had a frustrating dream. I had constructed a contraption for portable music, stringing together a cassette player with speakers. The friend I showed it to was unimpressed, trumping me by drawing on greater innovation and produced a much nicer and as affordable contraption based on streaming music and bluetooth speakers. > > The dream was founded in my sense of urgency to just do something about the most glaringly in need people I saw that week - the orphans in Tanzania and the refugees and other marginalized in Sweden. I just wanted to pack a suitcase of raspberry pis and my computer technology education to go help. The dream highlighted to me how that urgency could be mistaken - I would of course like to build on any other efforts being made by others, draw on the innate potential of the receivers and strive towards the greatest result rather than losing myself in pride over my missionary sacrifice. > > We clearly live in the fascinating age *""when wireless is perfectly applied""* ([Nikola Tesla, ""When woman is boss"", 1926](http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm)). Innovation, education and change can be spread and reused with minimal effort only limited by how fast humans can adapt. In light of that, I believe the missionary (in the widest sense) and philanthropic roles need to change, but I haven't yet arrived at how. That is the thought and question I want to reach out to you - as a community and good individuals, just what do we do now, to feel and achieve good? > > I decided not to go to Tanzania or the Migrationsverket shelters just today, but writing this letter to my best friends and the brightest minds I know felt like the wisest option. Thank you for your condolences, taking part in my thoughts and just being your beautiful selves. > > Related reading: ""[Capitalism is making way for the age of free](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/31/capitalism-age-of-free-internet-of-things-economic-shift)"" *PS. I posted this under IOH, do relabel or move it if you have any more appropriate repository for contributions such as this*" 1,66346,2019-11-29T14:53:42.012Z,66346,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"## Content of this wiki *This is where we aggregate the input that is spread over many different posts on the platform. We are in the process of structuring the content below so we can add a table of contents here. If you have time to help that would be great! Instructions here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/adding-a-table-of-contents/7543* ##

Purpose & Objective

The purpose of the workshop was to look into some of the main technologies being developed in the Next Generation Internet debate and explore how AI and Internet Infrastructure impact on indicators of equality and justice. ##

Outputs

We want to produce two outputs that weave together and package the wisdom we build in a form that is easy to act on and share. ###

SMART SOUND BITES

for policymakers: a list of bulletpoints which which condenses everything we have learned into 7 one sentence insights + recommendations. and ###

**A VISUAL REPORT**

In the form of a deck of slides that answers these questions: a. What is happening right now ""near"" you b. What it is doing to you right now c. How will this affect you in the future d. What can be done about it (how you can influence/control what happens) e. Who is working on the issues/solutions for better outcomes f. How you can contribute: as citizen, as regional/local civil servant, as national policymaker, as EU policymaker, as technologist, researcher, as politician (political party), as organised civil society leader etc ##

Our methodology

Physical events: Group discussions in physical workshops that are organised by members of the community with facilitation and resource support from Edgeryders. We all take good notes and share them with the organisers. Online discussions: Virtual discussions on our online community forums. This is where participants reconnect after the physical gatherings to reconnect and meet others in the community, access the documentation, online courses, more events, job opportunities etc. Living handbook: Our platform functions as a kind of expertise directory where participants share their personal and professional experiences around the topics and issues of new internet technologies (incl. AI), Justice or Wellbeing of individuals and communities. Our community journalists help participants to transform their contribution to the online conversation into editorialised content that we then use to build a larger audience for their ideas, connect them around common themes and potential collaborations etc. ##

Questions that were touched on in the workshop

1. **The EU’s new Commission is looking to approve a new AI directive, and of course democratic participation is important to ensure a good law. What do you feel necessary from EU to participate?** 2. **What is “investment in AI”? What should the EU do practically?** 3. **Can we think of counterproductive regulation on the Internet? Stuff like the copyright directive? how did we end up with all these things, that used to be a public good, end up being someone’s property?** 4. **Do we actually need AI? Why are we pushing for AI?** 5. **Where do we bring the democratic process into new models?** 1. **If we want to shape the common sense five or ten years from now what will be considered relevant?** 2. **What will general principles about what we consider good or bad look like or work in practice?** 3. **What is something you are struggling with? What is out there to make our own biases less visible to the algorithms?** 4. **How can we get emotionally engaged into the ai discussion? What do you want to push against? Where are injustices related coming out of this?** 5. **in terms of mobilization and justice, perception of the actions and reactions of justice. We’ve seen the same thing playing out in different places for different reasons. Obvious injustice - the link between the situation and the AI land where this is scaled up. What happens when it scales up?** 6. **Why are we putting the wellbeing of people behind proprietary systems?** We have a lot of things like roads with are public, you can’t make a public road and make it private. But for some reason, we don’t have the same idea about data, and why not? 7. **What are the reasons people are unable to act upon algorithmic issues in society?** 8. **Where is the space in which humans can have agency?** ----- ##

The Workshop Discussions

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1. The EU’s new Commission is looking to approve a new AI directive, and of course democratic participation is important to ensure a good law. What do you feel necessary from EU to participate?

--- * Human centered internet is not defined, that’s why you can’t find a solution. “Human” is literally anyone. * Why are we pushing for AI? The end of Moore’s law. The money we seek in are more unlike to come back. Industry took a risk at specialised chips: AI and blockchain-specific. So, now they need to create a demand for these chips. We should be aware of the vendor-driven nature of this stuff, and think about how to regulate these companies. * The business model of Big Tech now is based on keeping the code, providing cloud services and collecting data to profile and ultimately influence users. They cross-subsidize their cloud services with their marketing revenue streams. If you want to fight that, you should have public cloud infrastructure, which is a trillion-EUR affair. That’s your investment in human-centric AI infrastructure. * Companies like Google optimise with AI the profilazione of their customers. The difference is if it’s a data centered AI or not. … ? Where do we bring the democratic process into new models? * Are we really at the end of Moore's Law? This is a claim that is not uncontested * In Belgium there is a company called It’sMe, who does online identity. They are pushing their data onto Azure, making it GDPR and EIDAS compliant. That changed my thinking, because it showed me as even these sterling silver pieces of European thinking ends up in the Silicon Valley cloud. * We need to break the number-person relationship: when you get born, you receive a number from the state, and the game’s up. I dream of disposable identities, that we set up with the purpose of entering into a relationship, like for example receiving a service. A good analogy is one-time email addresses: you get an email address, you sign up to some online service with it, use it ONCE to receive the email to confirm you do control that email, and then it self destructs. * I’m a bit skeptical that legislation is the right instrument to do this kind of things. It’s a blunt instrument, because as of now there is no good understanding of the process from the ethical values (fairly easy to encode in a directive) to the actual technical choices of the scientists and engineers building AI systems. Ex. we like the New Zealand group developing Scuttlebutt: when users asked for cross-device accounts, the core developer replied “I’m not doing that, because we want to serve underprivileged people, and these people do not have multiple devices”. What he was doing was justifying his technical choices in terms of his values. As a socio-technical culture, we are not good at that. --- ###

2. What is “investment in AI”? What should the EU do practically?

---- * climate + competition policy = nobody is allowed to grow to much. What is “empowering”? I suspect that AI (ML applied on big data) is inherently NOT human-centric, because its models (for example a recommendation algo) encode each human into a database, and then models you in terms of who you are similar to: for example, a woman between 35 and 45 who speaks Dutch and watches stand-up comedy on Netflix. Everything not standardizable, everything that makes you you, gets pushed to the error term of the model. That is hardly human-centric, because it leads to optimizing systems in terms of abstract “typical humans” or “target groups” or whatever. * The business model of Big Tech now is based on keeping the code, providing cloud services and collecting data to profile and ultimately influence users. They cross-subsidize their cloud services with their marketing revenue streams. If you want to fight that, you should have public cloud infrastructure, which is a trillion-EUR affair. That’s your investment in human-centric AI infrastructure. * Companies like Google optimise with AI the profilazione of their customers. The difference is if it’s a data centered AI or not. … ? Where do we bring the democratic process into new models? * Governance instead of government. Here’s my take: the kind of society you are looking at is anarcho-communist. The communist part is that infrastructure is fully centralized, like in the 30 glorieuse. Anything that runs onto the infrastructure is fully permissionless. That’s the anarchist part. And finally, the data stays with the people. * I agree with the antitrust principle. What we consider AI is machine learning, this is the root of our problems, it’s just classical statistics. You create the illusion that value production is shifted to the generation…. ex. if the doctor establish a relation with the patient, the AI has not to invade the relation, but now the doctor has to take notes and patient see less value in it (you look somewhere else and you are centralised…). * Airport before and after Ryanair: before architecture were associated to functions and your experience of travels, room for different functions. Now with the low cost you consider that the experience is less valuable, now is a shopping mall and at the gate it’s temporarily informations about space. * medicine is not diagnosis, but prognosis-based. In medicine, nothing has value if I cannot improve your life. A patient can and should negotiate with the doctor where to go from here; he or she even has a right to die. This is a very poor fit for how ML-on-big-data works. ---- ###

3. Can we think of counterproductive regulation on the Internet? Stuff like the copyright directive? how did we end up with all these things, that used to be a public good, end up being someone’s property?

---- * internet changes the ratio of power. We behave like we are in the pre-internet era, because internet is a new technology and it takes longer for us to change behaviours. * Airport before and after Ryanair: before architecture were associated to functions and your experience of travels, room for different functions. Now with the low cost you consider that the experience is less valuable, now is a shopping mall and at the gate it’s temporarily informations about space. * in Helsinki everybody agreed that you can’t sell your data. * We optimize relationships. This is problematic. For example, we have marketing companies working with civil liberties organizations, that tell their clients: we can tell you which of your donors care about which issues, so you can optimize for issues where you get more money. * Optimisation has been the logic as far, but it can go wrong anyway. Traffic is a perfect example. If you look at optimization system, it comes at a cost and if you don’t do internalise the cost it causes bigger damages. Apparently innocent choices as what to optimize for turn out to have huge consequences. When you design traffic, do you optimize for driver safety? Or for pedestrian safety? Of minimize time spent on the road? * on feedbacks: I know GDPR, it’s regulated anyway. There are serious problems on how GDPR focuses on personal data on individuals. * We talk about automated decisions, but there is a set of criteria … the optimization is not about the single person, but as pbe part of a certain group which operates certain choices in general. So, you expect to empower people, but actually you don’t. Paul Olivier Dehaye is trying to pool data from different workers to see if people are being discriminated. This is called a “data trust”. There is also the DECODE project that is doing something they called “data commons”. * We are now in a mess with the GDPR. Uber, for example, uses it to refuse to give drivers their data, saying this impacts the rights of the riders. This (says Seda) is the consequence of focusing on personal rights when the data are used to optimize over populations. ---- ###

4. Do we actually need AI? Why are we pushing for AI?

____ * I just read a review of 37,000 studies of AI in medicine. Of these, only about 100 had enough information on training datasets to do a meta-analysis on. Of these, 24 claimed prospective design (the algorithm had been trained without knowing the real data); of these zero had actually done prospective design. * … I don’t know any real medical problem that prospective AI model can solve. * medicine is not diagnosis, but prognosis-based. In medicine, nothing has value if I cannot improve your life. A patient can and should negotiate with the doctor where to go from here; he or she even has a right to die. This is a very poor fit for how ML-on-big-data works. * Why are we pushing for AI? The end of Moore’s law. The money we seek in are more unlike to come back. Industry took a risk at specialised chips: AI and blockchain-specific. So, now they need to create a demand for these chips. We should be aware of the vendor-driven nature of this stuff, and think about how to regulate these companies. * The business model of Big Tech now is based on keeping the code, providing cloud services and collecting data to profile and ultimately influence users. They cross-subsidize their cloud services with their marketing revenue streams. If you want to fight that, you should have public cloud infrastructure, which is a trillion-EUR affair. That’s your investment in human-centric AI infrastructure. * Companies like Google optimise with AI the profilazione of their customers. The difference is if it’s a data centered AI or not. … ? Where do we bring the democratic process into new models? ---- ###

5. Where do we bring the democratic process into new models?

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6. If we want to shape the common sense five or ten years from now what will be considered relevant? What will general principles about what we consider good or bad look like or work in practice?

___ * I want to clearly distinguish between systems of exploitation and the technology itself. Any system of exploitation, including capitalism, will find and use *any* new technological option in exploitative ways. The history of digital innovation and media innovation in more general is anon4292955258 rich in that: before AI for behavior prediction it has been targeted advertising, tracking, mass surveillance programs by governments, weaponized drones, propaganda micro-targeting, mass media use for state propaganda etc… * That’s purely a social problem, not a technological one. Adding one more technology cannot make it much worse … nukes are already around, so what technology could offer significantly worse potential outcomes? So to deal with it, you don’t have to make legislation for AI, but against capitalism. * AI in itself is a nice tool in the toolkit, and easily allows for beneficial use. Personal example: my [open source coffee sorter ](https://edgeryders.eu/t/7122) project uses deep learning based image classifiers to relieve small-scale farmers from sorting your coffee by hand. * Technology leads to bad or good results: Principle of social justice * Amartya Sen’s principle of substantial freedom, a sustainable substantial freedom. We need to have capacity/capability to live the life we want * As worker, I want it to help me to avoid discrimination in subjective interviews, but not to be used to have AI discriminating against me because of previous behavior of “my” group * My freedom should be enhanced * Putting on the table simple methodology that allows us to understand the just and the unjust * This kind of principle is not the one we take out, it’s a methodology, an open-ended principle - it can be filled with content, case by case only through the participatory mechanism. * Different subjective values of different contexts can lead to conflict- case by case through participatory processes is the solution - not just regulation * We slowly develop what we consider to be just * People become the owners and agents over their own data. The Great Hack. Fair use, data economy. An ethical data operations on a global scale, with a decentralized system, fair european data economy, we’re currently colonized - europe only has 3% market share * Data economy there are 4 models: Lanlard: you’re money is worth up to 20.000 euros (??). Three other models, like in barcelona, NGI calls it decode. They consider data to be common good of a city or community. There are 4 different types of these data economy model * Mymobility, own your data. People are not really aware that they can manage their own data. Energy and transportation has the east sensitive data. * Inform the civil society and create new business model * I look at automation and documentation at violence registration, do universities offer support system in trauma informed interface, your claim will go through it, run it through all other cases, and then match it with all the other cases… * I have problems explaining the problems these problems have. What these systems are doing, they are trying to categorize our experience of misconduct in binary options. You have to have a clear definition of rape otherwise it doesn’t fit in the system People are shoe-horned into particular categories, but this doesn’t speak to the richness of the experience you have had. * With criminal justice we see how people are categorized. Wider categories of human improvement are not classified. * This is where the question of civil society is very important, its difficult to understand how AI makes decisions, categorizes us, and we can’t anticipated. We don’t even know where the data comes from and who it is being sold to. * People don’t have the tech literacy to question this. Should citizens have this knowledge? * What harm is and what freedom can be? * The individual needs vs individual capabilities, and the collective needs and capacities. One person may be fooled by a system, like cambridge analytica. * I’m more into that if we know what is wrong, how we can mobilize people and now we are about what is the thing that we are mobilizing about? * A lot of the time when people are faced with systematic conversation or binary boxing in for example: Employment models aren’t working, you can’t break out of those and you have to work with others these new ideas to making it work. * You can only break through these models and narratives by working together and creating new narratives. * When we know what we want to do and where to go, we can create a new future, something completely different from what the AI is predicting perhaps. Thus create the space that is more free. * Participatory art - the art that throws away the separation between art and the spectator. Because of the consumerist society…the point is not to create “great art” but great transformative experience together with other people. Example of the Borderland. They come into this world, change the mindset, lots of the traditional concepts start to break. Creating completely new reality. Tackling the imposed machine. There is something there but don’t know what. ---- ###

7. What will general principles about what we consider good or bad look like or work in practice?

------- * Following the “substantial freedom” framework a **code of behaviour** should be established and monitored, by which all categories playing a role in developing algorithms - scientists developing Algorithms, politicians supporting/calling for their use, public and private administrators using them - should ask themselves: **What is the effect on the capabilities of people effected by the algorithms?** * Analogic/dialogic …. Online/Offline **Experimenting platforms** combining the two is a priority. In particular, it should be a practice for public administrations and politicians to create dialogic platforms where the above code of behaviour is checked. * Education/sensibilization on the implementation of the above conceptual framework in order to identify good/bad uses is a priority. It should first of all engage kids from a very early age: a new saga of cautionary tales … would help. * Since AI can produce either bad effects (harm) or good effects … the appropriate conceptual framework should offer a definition of bad/good so as to * assess current uses of AI, * mobilize people both “against” bad uses and “for” good uses” * design, experiment and revise alternative “good” uses * Sen’s concept of Substantial Freedom (A Theory of Justice) is a choice: the capability approach, where we consider “good” all moves/actions that improve the capacity/capability of every person to do what considers valuable (not futile capacities, but central to one’s life: dignity, learning, health, freedom to move, human relations, …) * This approach does not incapsulate what is “bad” or “harmful” in a rigid box, but it calls for a participatory/societal assessment of how the general principle should be implemented, an assessment that can be continuously updated through public debate * Not so new: it was used by lawyers in the corporate assessment of “just”/”unjust” fiduciary duties and business judgement rule in the US * Which reminds us that the participatory process/platforms can be of different kinds: * In the judiciary * In working councils * In town councils a la Barcelona * Mixing dialogical/analogical debate * I look at automation and documentation at violence registration, do universities offer support system in trauma informed interface, your claim will go through it, run it through all other cases, and then match it with all the other cases… * I have problems explaining the problems these problems have. What these systems are doing, they are trying to categorize our experience of misconduct in binary options. * You have to have a clear definition of rape otherwise it doesn’t fit in the system * People are shoe-horned into particular categories, but this doesn’t speak to the richness of the experience you have had. * With criminal justice we see how people are categorized. Wider categories of human improvement are not classified. * This is where the question of civil society is very important, its difficult to understand how AI makes decisions, categorizes us, and we can’t anticipated. We don’t even know where the data comes from and who it is being sold to. * People don’t have the tech literacy to question this. Should citizens have this knowledge? * What harm is and what freedom can be? * the problem here is that all of this data exists and all of it sudden was opened. It is important to distinguish it was just the side effect. * maybe five years ago FB opened its graph and it opened up FBs capabilities. I was having a blast with it, was a party trick for me. This is what cambridge analytica used. We were able to be coming our own CIA’s. * It’s not only does it give us more capability, but what do we use these capabilities for. Maybe some have too much responsibilities with it? ------ ###

8. What is something you are struggling with? What is out there to make our own biases less visible to the algorithms?

-------- * The individual needs vs individual capabilities, and the collective needs and capacities. One person may be fooled by a system, like cambridge analytica. * Elections, Cambridge analytica, Facebook * Algorithms like Facebook are pulling us into a certain bias. Gathering data and classifying a person based on a lot of data around. If I am moved from one reality to another, the categorization of me is probably not the same. Even in a certain culture. Behaviour and constant interaction influenced by culture. * If myself am less biased the algorithms are less likely to classify me. * How conscious I am myself about my own bias. * It is really easy to respond to this, oh, maybe if I only share part, than that could be a meaningful intervention. Sometimes it can be. Mozilla for example has add ons. We can do that individually. * But maybe the scope of our change should go beyond individual actions. * Content moderation in books by Mary Gray or Sarah Roberts - tracking the work on how tech companies more their content moderation work to India for example, the workers are paid at the low rate and required to impose western standards on what the behaviour on social media should look like. The norms are being translated by the economic models of the platforms * The scale is so much bigger than us. * What are some of the lessons that the civil society has done in the past looking at the ways we can translate this -------- ###

9. How can we get emotionally engaged into the ai discussion? What do you want to push against? Where are injustices related coming out of this?

------- * a group in LA - Stop LAPD surveillance, automating inequality, ranging from criminal justice, homelessnes…to uncover the ways in which algorithms are used for surveillance. People got together to demand that the police releases surveillance policies. They were able to uncover the full scope, pushing back against the LAPD. Intervention takes a long time and needs a lot of work. * the problem isn’t the algorithm, We have a tool: like a knife, it can be used for cooking in the kitchen or killing someone. Same with algorithms. Algorithms and the engineers cost a lot of money. * we have image recognition, we can create images, so if an algorithm is able to shape — it is possible and that is scary for em as a parents * Use of AI in judicial and social welfare, like in housing projects who gets a house, based on an algorithm. But people need to have someone recognize them as a human people, But we aren’t recognized as human beings anymore, discrimination grows because the human to human contact is no longer there. But the problem is that is that there are sooo many more things happening that are not implicit. The way labor was exploited in capitalism, enormous change happened. But now this is being copied again. But it isn’t causing an enormous reaction. The unions are weak. * Credit for a household going to banks. Information about our behaviour. Families are asked a high rate, the reduction of social justice. Where does the right-wing voter come from? There is a big job of just making clear what is happening. What happened in the State was evident, but here we lack information, children should understand. * We need to: * Educate, how for bad and for good it can used * Judiciary needs to be brought into the game * We need to bring back people’s wellbeing into it. * It isn’t necessarily about tech, it’s about people. The solution isn’t marketization ------- ###

10. In terms of mobilization and justice, perception of the actions and reactions of justice. We’ve seen the same thing playing out in different places for different reasons. Obvious injustice - the link between the situation and the AI land where this is scaled up. What happens when it scales up?

------- * labor, women, kids, citizens, consumers. It can react to a machine, but it is also a reaction to social issues, national bargaining in negotiation of algorithms. People are coming together against the gig economy. The platform is private, its proprietary, they are angry. They know there is misuse. * In the US, if you read the amount of literature by women on gender, there’s an abundance, but within the EU this is not the case. * With regards to kids’ privacy, their are flashes of anger, but no movements. * With users of mobility services, there is some action from citizens. For example in Milan they are now trying to launch a platform for mobility. * On anger, you always have to have a structure. Otherwise it may be used by the wrong people or die out. * Social justice: is this algorithm being used to enhance or reduce the capabilities of humans. On all the different fields. * Putting the structure on the anger. You need to turn it into a request. * We’re not talking enough about the consequences. I personally do not feel threatened to automation, but many people are. I don’t believe in any of the numbers that go about. What is really happening is the quality of jobs with reflection on people’s lives, relations, the capacity of algorithms…people are being told one day to another if they will work. This is killing their lives. The unions - representing labor, have a reason to mobilize people. If you are looking for a bomb shell I would study them more, the role of people like us. The unions are not equipped these days, we were told they are not necessary anymore, sometimes conservative. I would invest in capacitation of the union. * it’s like the amazon example, they weren’t unionized, but they protested and had demands and got them, and unionized after. But I am stressing that labor is a large area where things come along. * We are trying to understand new systems and optimization of their functions. What happens when the system causes externalities? optimization systems make population wide decisions. Giving a bunch of signals - example of uber (feedback loops, to maximize their profits). The app sensing cars - getting you out of the traffic. Caused problems in smaller streets. The app wasn’t able to change the algorithm, the municipality can’t do anything. The citizens install roadblocks as a solution. Can we build systems to help people against optimization systems. POTs. Facebook matching people to the advertisers - people are subjected to data getting to them regardless of how they interact on the platform. Agency is very limited because it’s about the whole infrastructure. * workers at amazon wanted to a strike, but amazon knew and got 200 extra people, so they could continue., After that they created another warehouse, so it couldn’t be disrupted. * There are going to be local wins for a bit, but it will take a bit for a larger win. * The most of the work in the AI is the migration and race. We shouldn’t go just the labor way. The migrants are getting organized but they don’t have labor unions. * in Lebanon and Morocco - riots over something related to the AI. in one case taxing, banning of whatsapp. Because of income? Maybe. But whatsapp also introduced the signal protocol. What it took for people to go to the streets and protest against government was for their rights to be removed (those they didn’t have a few years back). * People have abilities, and people are upset, we have network systems, if people would map out all the uber drivers ad ping them, they will do something. * There’s an example of care in the states, where due to an algorithm peoples care was reduced from 8 to 4 hours. But they didn;t want to explain how the system worked. But they were violating the rights of these people. * Another state in the US: employment benefits - combining two different data sets, the system wasn’t able to sync the system together so people weren’t able to receive unemployment benefits. Companies will always hide behind the trade secrecy, but why the state considers this should be above human rights? * Justin had a few examples we should add here --------- ###

11. Why are we putting the wellbeing of people behind proprietary systems? We have a lot of things like roads with are public, you can’t make a public road and make it private. But for some reason, we don’t have the same idea about data, and why not?

---------- * if you perceive the data is being used out of control then you are boycotting it. The results of systematic mistakes, decisions have been taken by the private corporations and when the public sector is using them it is doing for its own purposes. Talking about the problem that is not in algorithm but our pressure is taken out of context, the common discourse has taken the public sector out. Even the illusion of internet as being something out of the control of the state. The state has been wrongly used. Even in the education - the teachers in Italy weren’t given explanations why they are being placed somewhere. But this is not because of the data. The algorithm was badly used. * are we not being radical enough? If we put a censor anywhere out in a place, including a car, and that data MUST be completely public. If we make these legislations * we are from Sweden, no minimum wage, negotiation between unions, but at some point the legislation was put in place which allowed them to lower that power. We have to make sure that at the EU level these companies can act in this way. We need to find out what those things are. * gender has become more visible in the last ten years because the perception changed. The oppression that comes with capital is something that became visible with the social movement. Things can be made visible. * There’s an example of care in the states, where due to an algorithm peoples care was reduced from 8 to 4 hours. But they didn;t want to explain how the system worked. But they were violating the rights of these people. * Another state in the US: employment benefits - combining two different data sets, the system wasn’t able to sync the system together so people weren’t able to receive unemployment benefits. Companies will always hide behind the trade secrecy, but why the state considers this should be above human rights? ---------- ###

12. **What are the reasons people are unable to act upon algorithmic issues in society?

------ * something as vague as my data became very big, most people understand there is something about data we should care about. We only need this data once, which later becomes governed by something different. The algorithm becomes irrevocable. How do you challenge that? Even if you own your data people will sell it. ------

13. Where is the space in which humans can have agency over these issues?

------- * The three steps: let them pay taxes; mobility of capital * We are discussing this within these constraints, because we can’t change the whole world, but if there’s some solidarity between the unions — organised labor, if we can give them higher capacity, and then they won’t let them be abused, it is doable. They are very weak technological speaking, there is no negotiation anymore. * In order to move ahead and to make the most of all ideas and human resources working these days on AI, we need both to understand where potential mobilization is taking place or it might take place, and to have a conceptual framework to move ahead. * Since AI can produce either bad effects (harm) or good effects … the appropriate conceptual framework should offer a definition of bad/good so as to * assess current uses of AI, * mobilize people both “against” bad uses and “for” good uses” * design, experiment and revise alternative “good” uses * Sen’s concept of Substantial Freedom (A Theory of Justice) is a choice: the capability approach, where we consider “good” all moves/actions that improve the capacity/capability of every person to do what considers valuable (not futile capacities, but central to one’s life: dignity, learning, health, freedom to move, human relations, …) * This approach does not incapsulate what is “bad” or “harmful” in a rigid box, but it calls for a participatory/societal assessment of how the general principle should be implemented, an assessment that can be continuously updated through public debate * Not so new: it was used by lawyers in the corporate assessment of “just”/”unjust” fiduciary duties and business judgement rule in the US * Which reminds us that the participatory process/platforms can be of different kinds: * In the judiciary * In working councils * In town councils a la Barcelona * Mixing dialogical/analogical debate * **Which are the potential ACTORS of mobilization?** * **Organised Labour** : automation, bad jobs, gig economy, low wages * Women: AI machism * Kids: sexual abuses, porno * Citizens: mobility * Citizens: health … a dimension of life where people are becoming awareof bad uses (insurance, use of DNA) * **Therefore, one should move forward according to the following sequence:** * Identify, country by country or even places by places, where people’s concern on bad uses (or on forgone good uses) is high and there it is being organised: i.e. where there is a potential demand for “competence support”, both at conceptual and technological level * Concentrate on these contexts and provide them with the conceptual framework * Turn the “pars destruens” into a “pars costruens” * Building at EU level a network that allows horizontal comparison for the same issues both of threats, actions and results * Ensuring at EU level the availability of a competence centre that deals (not necessarily solve, but ai least identify and tackles) with the meta-obstacles preventing the implementation or curtailing the survival of“good” uses. * **Complementary activities that emerged from debate:** * Following the “substantial freedom” framework a **code of behaviour** should be established and monitored, by which all categories playing a role in developing algorithms - scientists developing Algorithms, politicians supporting/calling for their use, public and private administrators using them - should ask themselves: **What is the effect on the capabilities of people effected by the algorithms?** * Analogic/dialogic …. Online/Offline **Experimenting platforms** combining the two is a priority. In particular, it should be a practice for public administrations and politicians to create dialogic platforms where the above code of behaviour is checked. * Education/sensibilization on the implementation of the above conceptual framework in order to identify good/bad uses is a priority. It should first of all engage kids from a very early age: a new saga of cautionary tales … would help. * We are trying to understand new systems and optimization of their functions. What happens when the system causes externalities? optimization systems make population wide decisions. Giving a bunch of signals - example of uber (feedback loops, to maximize their profits). The app sensing cars - getting you out of the traffic. Caused problems in smaller streets. The app wasn’t able to change the algorithm, the municipality can’t do anything. The citizens install roadblocks as a solution. Can we build systems to help people against optimization systems. POTs. Facebook matching people to the advertisers - people are subjected to data getting to them regardless of how they interact on the platform. Agency is very limited because it’s about the whole infrastructure. * workers at amazon wanted to a strike, but amazon knew and got 200 extra people, so they could continue., After that they created another warehouse, so it couldn’t be disrupted. * There are going to be local wins for a bit, but it will take a bit for a larger win. * The most of the work in the AI is the migration and race. We shouldn’t go just the labor way. The migrants are getting organized but they don’t have labor unions. * If actors say they need algorithms: we need to ask them why? * we need to ask different questions, we need to ask a fundamental question: why are we buying into these systems and who hold the powers? Individual agency is extremely limited, so we need to look collectively at taking action. * There is not going to be a single collective that will resolve this. * I’m more into that if we know what is wrong how we can mobilize people and now we are about what is the thing that we are mobilizing about. * A lot of the time when people are faced with systematic conversation or binary boxing in for example: Employment models aren’t working, you can’t break out of those and you have to work with others these new ideas to making it work. * You can only break through these models and narratives by working together and creating new narratives. * When we know what we want to do and where to go, we can create a new future, something completely different from what the AI is predicting perhaps. Thus create the space that is more free. * Participatory art - the art that throws away the separation between art and the spectator. Because of the consumerist society…the point is not to create “great art” but great transformative experience together with other people. Example of the Borderland. They come into this world, change the mindset, lots of the traditional concepts start to break. Creating completely new reality. Tackling the imposed machine. There is something there but don’t know what.- * something as vague as my data became very big, most people understand there is something about data we should care about. We only need this data once, which later becomes governed by something different. The algorithm becomes irrevocable. How do you challenge that? Even if you own your data people will sell it. ----- ###

Post Workshop Participant reflections

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Matthias

[Original Post](https://edgeryders.eu/t/were-you-at-the-ai-justice-workshop-on-19-11-share-your-notes-and-thoughts-here/11694/6?u=anon3449369942) * **Value-based software architecture.** Scuttlebutt deprioritized making their software available for multiple devices based on their values of “this being software that is made for people who only have one device”. That’s a major architectural decision, which might not be possible to adjust later without rewriting the whole software. So they really poured their values into their software. In comparison, politics is not yet good at getting its values implemented into technological developments. So we need a better process that implements our values into our technology. It’s about a process strong in accountability. * **What is human?** If an actor (any party / organization) says they are human centric, they often do not even define what “human centric” means in their case. For example, “human” in “European human centric Internet” is left undefined. This generates conflict potential, as it stays so general. * **The economics behind AI.** There’s an interesting study of “the cost of developing a universal chips after the end of Moore’s law”. It means that now that we’re at the end of Moore’s law, the money sunk into developing faster chips is unlikely to come back. So instead the industry took a risk by developing *specialized* chips. There are two main types of such chips: AI and blockchain. That’s the only reason why AI became a hype and we’re talking about it: it is pushed on us, because industry needed a new profitable outlet for investments, and high levels of capital investment are backing AI already. “If we are not buying it, it’s going to go down. If we are not buying it, we are going to go down.” We are still in the process of making that choice if we (also: the Commission) want to invest money into AI. * **Good and bad AI architecture.** Let’s differentiate between “AI for research and solutions” and “AI for the production of services”. The first type is benign research aimed to solve intricate problems, for example done by universities. The second type is commercial SaaS software that scoops in data out of profit interest of the company. Maybe Google maps might in the future adapt your routing so that you see adverts of parties that paid Google for audience for these adverts.This means: the problem of this is about the economics of who runs the datacenters: Amazon and Microsoft and Google built “clouds”, data centers for people to run their applications. Due to economics of scale, they provide the cheapest solution, but also are able to monitor and keep the data going through them. This is an undemocratic process for plain economic reasons, and it’s a hard problem to crack. * **The structure defines the function.** The type of governance structure defines how a new technology gets used. So it may be that we have allowed the wrong governance structures to happen, which will lead to the wrong outcomes of AI technology. In addition, Google and Facebook have been advertising companies but are not anymore – trying to rule them in as advertisers with regulation is already not applicable anymore, instead we should rule in their new structure of “AI first” companies. * **Is AI anti-human by definition?** What AI (as rebranded Bayesian statistics) does is to put the individual differences between human beings (everyone’s “spark of the divine”) into the epsilon, the error term at the end of the equation. That makes AI non-human-centric by design. Because the definition of human for an individual is “that which cannot be predicted by AI, which is not part of the ‘normal’”. * **On tech interfering with relationships.** Intermediating the patient-doctor relationship with data collecting and analyzing systems has degraded the value of that relationship. Because medicine is not about diagnosis, but prognosis: improving a patient’s future condition, and that is a negotiation with the individual, and that individual might be very much non-average, refusing certain treatments etc., and should have and keep a right to that individualness. That still allows for tech systems that could benefit relationships – it’s just that the tech systems we have currently in medicine do not do that. #### Personal reflections I want to clearly distinguish between systems of exploitation and the technology itself. Any system of exploitation, including capitalism, will find and use *any* new technological option in exploitative ways. The history of digital innovation and media innovation in more general is anon4292955258 rich in that: before AI for behavior prediction it has been targeted advertising, tracking, mass surveillance programs by governments, weaponized drones, propaganda micro-targeting, mass media use for state propaganda etc… That’s purely a social problem, not a technological one. Adding one more technology cannot make it much worse … nukes are already around, so what technology could offer significantly worse potential outcomes? So to deal with it, you don’t have to make legislation for AI, but against capitalism. AI in itself is a nice tool in the toolkit, and easily allows for beneficial use. Personal example: my [open source coffee sorter ](https://edgeryders.eu/t/7122) project uses deep learning based image classifiers to relieve small-scale farmers from sorting your coffee by hand. ###

Inge

[Original Post](https://edgeryders.eu/t/were-you-at-the-ai-justice-workshop-on-19-11-share-your-notes-and-thoughts-here/11694/2?u=anon3449369942). Thanks so much @anon3449369942 for organizing such an important event on such a crucial topic. For me the most important takeaways for now (as you said, we’ve just started scratching the surface of something so detrimental) are the following: 1. we need to increase tech literacy about the systems in place: if we (individuals, governments, policymakers) don’t know how the black boxes work, how do we know that what they promise us is actually what results they give us. How can we question outcomes if we aren’t informed about the manner in which the systems arrive at conclusions? 2. we also need to understand the tipping point into creating action: when was the last time you really got upset and demanded change? The problem lays again with the fact that we often don’t even know about the injustices (from increased traffic, to the inability to speak to people instead of machines). This topic I think relates to the first point. We can’t be angry to the point of taking action (protests, etc), if we don’t even realize/understand where the injustice is coming from. Side note: we may even want to take it further: should we use certain systems if we don’t know how they work? 3. If actors say they need certain systems, we need to ask them why. Why not do it by hand? The idea is that these systems will solve everything, but they are just accelerating broken systems. ###

Alberto

[Original Post](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-i-learned-on-regulating-ai-and-a-human-centric-internet/11699) In general, **the group felt the need to spend anon4292955258 some time to get a grip on a shared idea of what AI actually is** , and how it works, before he could discuss its regulation. Occasionally, the discussion veered into being anon4292955258 technical, and not everybody could follow it all the time, even if we had an over-representation of computer scientists and digital activists. This is in itself a result: if this crowd struggles to get it, democratic participation is going to be pretty difficult for the general public. We used [Chatham House rule ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule), so I in what follows I do not attribute statements to anyone in particular. We kicked off by reminding ourselves that the new von der Leyen Commission has promised to [tackle AI within the first 100 days of taking office](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/blog-post/von-der-leyen-new-commission-take-aim-at-ai-legislation/). Brussels is mostly happy with how the GDPR thing played out, that is by recognizing the EU as the de facto “regulatory superpower”. The AI regulation in the pipeline is expected to have a similar effect to that of GDPR. **Participants then expressed some concern around the challenges of regulating AI** . For example: * A directive may be the wrong instrument. The law is good at enshrining principles (“human-centric AI”), but in the tech industry we are seeing *everyone* , including FAANG, claiming to adhere to the same principles. What we seem to be missing is an accountable process to translate principles into technical choices. For example, elsewhere I have told the story of how the developers of [Scuttlebutt ](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) justified their refusal to give their users multiple-device accounts in terms of values: “we want to serve the underconnected, and those guys do not own multiple devices. Multiple device account is a first world problem, and should be deprioritized”. * The AI story is strongly vendor-driven: a solution looking for a problem. Lawmaking as a process is naturally open to the contribution of industry, and this openness risks giving even more market power to the incumbents. * AI uses big data and lots of computing power, so it tends to live in the cloud as infrastructure. But the cloud is itself super-concentrated, it is infrastructure in few private hands. The rise of AI brings even more momentum to the concentration process. This brings us back to an intuition that has been circulating in this forum, namely that you need antitrust policy to do tech policy, at least in the current situation. * The term “AI” has come to mean “machine learning on big data”. The governance of the data themselves is an unsolved problem, with major consequences for AI. In the health sector, for example, clinical data tend to be simply entrusted to large companies: the British NHS [gave them](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2019%2F09%2F19%2Ffive_nhs_trusts_do_data_deal_with_google_one_says_no%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHAd8EamUp9LY1ulHdC7mufXEXJcQ) to Deep Mind; a [similar operation ](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feuropa.today.it%2Fattualita%2Funa-scelleratezza-consegnare-le-cartelle-cliniche-degli-italiani-all-ibm-rossi-attacca-il-governo.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFKARv42-MfE-a-cJN4t3VXIOvu6g) between the Italian government and IBM Watson was attempted, but failed, because data governance in Italy is with the regions, and they refused to release the data. We learned much about the state of the art of the reflection on data governance at MyData2019: to our surprise [there appears to be a consensus](https://edgeryders.eu/t/10893) among scholars on how to go about data governance, but it is not being translated into law. That work is *very* unfinished, and it should be finished *before* opening the AI can of worms. * AI has a large carbon footprint. Even when it does improve on actual human problems, it does so at the cost of worsening the climate, not in a win-win scenario. * The Internet should be “human-centric”. But machine learning is basically statistical analysis: high-dimensional multivariate statistical models. When it is done on humans, its models (for example a recommendation algo) encode each human into a database, and then models you in terms of who you are similar to: for example, a woman between 35 and 45 who speaks Dutch and watches stand-up comedy on Netflix. Everything not standardizable, everything that makes you *you* , gets pushed to the error term of the model. That is hardly human-centric, because it leads to optimizing systems in terms of abstract “typical humans” or “target groups” or whatever. As a result of this situation, **the group was not even in agreement that AI is worth the trouble and the money that it costs** . Two participants argued the opposite sides, both, interestingly, using examples from medicine. The AI-enthusiast noted that AI is getting good at diagnosing medical conditions. The AI-sceptic noted that medicine is not diagnosis-centric, but prognosis-centric; it has no value if it does not improve human life. And the prognosis must always be negotiated with the patient. IT in medicine has historically cheapened the relationship between patient and healer, with the latter ""classifying "" the former in terms of a standard data structure for entry into a database. Somebody quoted recent studies on the use of AI in medicine. The state of the art is: * Diagnostic AI does not perform significantly better than human pathologists. ([Lancet](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(19)30123-2/fulltext), [Ar.xiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07372)) * Few studies do any external validation of results. Additionally, deep learning models are poorly reported. ([Lancet](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(19)30123-2/fulltext)) * Incorrect models bias (and therefore deteriorate) the work of human pathologists ([Nature ](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0300-7), [Ar.xiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07372)) * There are risks that AI will be used to erode the doctor-patient relationship ([Nature ](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0300-7)) Based on this, the participant argued that at the moment there is no use case for AI in medicine. ![image.png](https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/4/47bf93cadf44c888b699b0314dd34e23e6099e08.png) *Image credit: [XKCD ](https://xkcd.com/)* We agreed that not just AI, but all optimization tools are problematic, because they have to make the choice of what, exactly, gets optimized. What tends to get optimized is what the entity deploying the model wants. Traffic is a good example: apparently innocent choices as what to optimize for turn out to have huge consequences. When you design traffic, do you optimize for driver safety? Or for pedestrian safety? Of minimize time spent on the road? Airport layout is designed to maximize pre-flight spending: after you clear security, the only way to the gate goes through a very large duty free shop. This is “optimal”, but not necessary optimal *for you* . We next moved to **data governance** . Data are, of course, AI’s raw material, and only those who have access to data can deploy AI models. A researcher called [Paul Oliver Dehaye](https://paulolivier.dehaye.org/stories/about.html) wants to model discrimination of certain workers. Do do this, he needs to pool the personal data from different individuals into what is called a “data trust”. Data trusts are one of several models for data governance being floated about; the [DECODE project](https://decodeproject.eu/what-decode)’s data commons are another. In this discussion, even the GDPR’s success appears to have some cracks. For example, Uber is using it to refuse it to give drivers their data, claiming that would impact the riders’ privacy. A participant claimed that the GDPR has a blind spot in that it has nothing to say about standards for data portability. U.S. tech companies have a project called Data Transfer, where they are dreaming up those standards, and doing so in a way that will benefit them most (again). Pragmatically, she thought the EU should set its own standards for this. We ended with some **constructive suggestions** . One concerned data governance itself. as noted above, the MyData community and other actors in the tech policy space have made substantial intellectual progress on data governance. Were this progress to be enshrined into EU legislation and standards setting, this would maybe help mitigate the potential of the AI industry to worsen inequalities. For example, saying “everyone has a right to own their data” is not precise enough. It makes a huge difference whether personal data are considered to be a freehold commodity or an unalienable human right. In the former case, people can sell their data to whomever they want: data would thus be like material possessions. In this case, market forces are likely to concentrate their ownership in few hands, because data are much more valuable when aggregated in humongous piles of big data. But in the latter case, data are like the right to freedom. I have it, but I am not allowed to sell myself into slavery. In this scenario, data ownership does not concentrate. Another constructive suggestions concerned enabling a next-generation eIDAS, to allow for “disposable online identities”. These are pairs of cryptographic keys that you would use for the purpose of accessing a service: instead of showing your ID to the supermarket cashier when you buy alcoholic drinks, you would show them a statement digitally signed by the registrar that says more or less “the owner of this key pair is over 18”, and then sign it with your private key. This way, the supermarket knows you are over 18, but does not who you are. It does have your public key, but you can also never use that key pair anymore – that’s what makes it disposable. Further suggestions included legislating on mandatory auditability of algorithms (there is even a NGO doing work on this, [AlgorithmWatch](https://algorithmwatch.org/en/)), investments in early data literacy in education, and designing for cultural differences: Europeans care more about privacy, whereas many people in Asia are relatively uninterested in it. ###

Fabrizio

In order to move ahead and to make the most of all ideas and human resources working these days on AI, we need both to understand where potential mobilization is taking place or it might take place, and to have a conceptual framework to move ahead. • Since AI can produce either bad effects (harm) or good effects … the appropriate conceptual framework should offer a definition of bad/good so as to • assess current uses of AI, • mobilize people both “against” bad uses and “for” good uses” • design, experiment and revise alternative “good” uses • Sen’s concept of Substantial Freedom (A Theory of Justice) is a choice: the capability approach, where we consider “good” all moves/actions that improve the capacity/capability of every person to do what considers valuable (not futile capacities, but central to one’s life: dignity, learning, health, freedom to move, human relations, …) • This approach does not incapsulate what is “bad” or “harmful” in a rigid box, but it calls for a participatory/societal assessment of how the general principle should be implemented, an assessment that can be continuously updated through public debate • Not so new: it was used by lawyers in the corporate assessment of “just”/”unjust” fiduciary duties and business judgement rule in the US • Which reminds us that the participatory process/platforms can be of different kinds: • In the judiciary • In working councils • In town councils a la Barcelona • Mixing dialogical/analogical debate Which are the potential ACTORS of mobilization? • Organised Labour: automation, bad jobs, gig economy, low wages • Women: AI machism • Kids: sexual abuses, porno • Citizens: mobility • Citizens: health … a dimension of life where people are becoming awareof bad uses (insurance, use of DNA) Therefore, one should move forward according to the following sequence: • Identify, country by country or even places by places, where people’s concern on bad uses (or on forgone good uses) is high and there it is being organised: i.e. where there is a potential demand for “competence support”, both at conceptual and technological level • Concentrate on these contexts and provide them with the conceptual framework • Turn the “pars destruens” into a “pars costruens” • Building at EU level a network that allows horizontal comparison for the same issues both of threats, actions and results • Ensuring at EU level the availability of a competence centre that deals (not necessarily solve, but ai least identify and tackles) with the meta-obstacles preventing the implementation or curtailing the survival of“good” uses. Complementary activities that emerged from debate: • Following the “substantial freedom” framework a code of behaviour should be established and monitored, by which all categories playing a role in developing algorithms - scientists developing Algorithms, politicians supporting/calling for their use, public and private administrators using them - should ask themselves: What is the effect on the capabilities of people effected by the algorithms? • Analogic/dialogic …. Online/Offline Experimenting platforms combining the two is a priority. In particular, it should be a practice for public administrations and politicians to create dialogic platforms where the above code of behaviour is checked. • Education/sensibilization on the implementation of the above conceptual framework in order to identify good/bad uses is a priority. It should first of all engage kids from a very early age: a new saga of cautionary tales … would help. ---- ##

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Overview of all 10 Stories: Generic audience

Experts working at the cutting edge of tech, policy and human rights spaces call for greater consideration to be given to the way that AI is altering the very fabric of society. Both academics and policy makers agree that current AI systems risk amplifying existing human biases that entrench inequality - not least because of the widespread, and misguided, perception that data is inherently neutral. Systems for the reporting of sexual assault, for example, are encoded with developers’ assumptions about sexual violence which do not grasp the complexity of victims’ experiences. Those working and researching in the field caution that AI systems are only as unbiased as the humans who build them, and that continuing to give AI undue weight will cause serious harm to the most vulnerable in society. Across medicine, law, entrepreneurship and gender studies, concern is growing that the pressure to innovate for its own sake comes at great risk to privacy, protection and human rights. Experts caution that companies in both the public and private sectors are rushing to implement technology they don’t fully understand, and that it is crucial due care and consideration is taken when building these systems to ensure they are value-driven and accountable. Unchecked digitisation in the fields of medicine, social work and the reporting of sexual assault fails to recognise human needs which are more nuanced, individualised and unpredictable than AI can fathom. It is critical we ensure that AI is designed and used in such a way that it serves society’s needs – not the other way around. #### Examples from each story * Marco: In predictive medicine, there are so many biological variables that scaling data up can decrease precision * Corinne: complex encryption systems built to protect an activist were found to be lacking when a police officer simply stole his phone from his hand. * Peter: * Seda: * Hugi: * Kate: * Justin: mentioned two examples in a comment somewhere… * Oliver: * Fabrizio: * Alberto: ####

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1. Self-reinforcing loop of data puts human rights at risk 2. Unchecked digital expansion could be a force for democratisation – or further entrench inequality 3. It is critical that AI serves people – not the other way around. 4. Discourse must move from technology to societal impact 5. Perception of data as inherently neutral is dangerous to society 6. Putting human rights at the forefront of digital expansion is critical 7. One-size-fits all approach to AI in public services breeds division and intolerance 8. Interoperability key to sustainable innovation 9. Meaningful debate on AI must be prioritised above innovation. 10. Digital space currently failing to protect women and victims of sexual violence ###

The rush to implement AI too widely and simplistically could have disastrous consequences

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A conversation with Marco Manca

Marco Manca is an interdisciplinary researcher in mathematics and informational systems with an educational background in medicine. He founded the [SCimPulse Foundation](http://www.scimpulse.org/about-us/), which he still directs, and is also part of several scientific organisations and commissions, including the working group of NATO for human control over auanon2317280404omous systems. Marko feels there is a lot of excitement about AI and a push to accelerate its implementation widely - but that it is crucial we consider AI a “nifty tool” to use with awareness, rather than an impeccable “leader” that must not be questioned. AI systems are only as good as the data inputted and the questions asked of them by humans. This means that the conclusions returned are not free of human biases, but rather potentially amplify them. Essentially, as they are used now, AI systems simply return the same results as humans would, just “faster and dumber.” This is a concern because of the rush to implement AI, particularly in the field of medicine. In medicine there is an expectation of precision, but with so many biological variables, the more precise you get the more you diverge, so large scale information potentially becomes less valuable. For example, in the 1970s, various tools were introduced to help doctors predict the likelihood of certain diseases, but attempts to refine these profiles over the years have hit a barrier. Just as you could play a lottery with 1/1000 odds every day for a thousand days and still not win, there is a crucial difference between “the destiny of the person in front of you right now, the destiny of every similar person.” His argument is not that we should not be developing AI, but that we must consider how we develop and implement it and how we contextualize the information it gives us. If we simply scale up the information we work with now without being informed about the risks, we risk causing serious damage. **Participate in the conversation with Marco here:** [What does it take to build a successful movement for citizens to gain control over when, how and to what use automated systems are introduced and used in society?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-it-take-to-build-a-successful-movement-for-citizens-to-gain-control-over-when-how-and-to-what-use-automated-systems-are-introduced-and-used-in-society/11075/2) ###

AI is changing the fabric of society - it is crucial to ensure it serves people, not the other way around.

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A conversation with Seda F. Gürses

With an undergrad degree in international relations and mathematics, Seda is now an academic at Delft University, focussing on how to do computer science differently - utilising a interdisciplinary approach to explore both concepts of privacy and surveillance, and also looking at what communities need. They were led into this field of study by their fascination with the politics of mathematics and the biases contained within seemingly neutral numbers. The technological landscape has changed enormously in the past few years — from static software saved on a disk that was only updated every once in a while, to software and apps that are held on services and so constantly updated and optimised. A whole new host of privacy and security issues have arisen, and thus the need for a computer science which secures and protects the needs of its users. The negative consequences of prioritising optimisation over user experience can be seen in Google Maps and Way, which sends users down service roads to avoid freeway traffic. They don’t care that this has an adverse impact on the environment and local communities, or even that it actually causes congestion in smaller roads. Further, Uber has optimised its system to outsource risk to its workers: instead of paying people for the time they work, Uber offers them a system that tells them when they are most likely to get customers so that they can manage their individual risk. When this kind of tech injustice is applied to public institutions such as borders and social welfare systems, the discrimination embedded in the very systems mean we are changing the fabric of society without having the necessary discussions as to whether that’s something we want to do. We need to stop talking about data and algorithms and focus on the forms of government we want these technologies to have. It is crucial that the computational infrastructure boosted by AI serves people, not the other way around. **Participate in the conversation with Seda here:** coming soon ###

Tech is not the simple solution to complex social situations.

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A conversation with Peter Bihr

Pbihir co-founded ThingsCon community which advocates for a responsible, human-centric approach to the Internet of Things. Smart Cities, where the digital and physical meet and where algorithms actively impact our daily lives, is an important focal point of his work. He proposes reframing the Smart City discourse (currently dominated by vendors of Smart City tech) away from the technology and more towards a focus on societal impact. What better urban metrics can we apply to cities increasingly governed or shaped by algorithms? Such an analytical framework would be the key to unlocking a real, meaningful debate. Smart City policies must be built around citizen/digital, human rights, and with emphasis on participatory processes, transparency and accountability. At the most recent ThingsCon conference, Manon den Dunnen shared her experience of unintended horrific consequences of tech going wrong when police officers take phone numbers of both victims and suspects, and then Facebook algorithms then suggest one another as friends. Further, several studies have shown policing and/or justice related algorithms were found to have racist data points (including some deemed illegal by courts yet remained in the data sets). And the policing algorithm in NYC measures effectiveness by such simplistic metrics that created incentive for officers to report selectively (for example, the systemic intimidation of rape victims to change their charge from rape to a more minor offence). **Participate in the conversation with Peter here:** [How can we put humans/citizens first in our smart city policies?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-we-put-humans-citizens-first-in-our-smart-city-policies/9878/40) ###

Unchecked digital expansion could entrench existing biases and power inequality.

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A conversation with Corinne Cath-Speth

With a background in human rights and policy, Corinne Cath-Speth worked as a policy officer for a human rights NGO in London before coming to the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute to pursue her PhD. Her research focuses on human rights advocacy efforts within Internet governance, with a broader interest of how human rights NGOs are responding to the new (and old) challenges raised by emerging technologies. In working with human rights activists, anon28068060 saw that digital technologies - like social media - can give the plight of activists more visibility, but that often these same technologies entrench existing power inequalities and biases. She became interested in studying what happens when activists try to change the infrastructure of the internet itself, rather than simply use it. A number of well-known human rights organizations like the ACLU and EFF, actively do so by contributing to Internet governance fora. She found that these organizations are welcome and can operate in these spaces with relative ease, given their open and multistakeholder nature. At the same time, she also saw that while getting the tech “right” is an important part of the puzzle of human rights advocacy in the digital age, it is also a narrow frame through which to understand the broad spectrum of social concerns raised by networked technologies. anon28068060’s work in Internet governance also led her to consider human rights advocacy in AI governance, as AI systems are raising a host of questions regarding privacy, safety, anti-discrimination and other human rights. One of the problems with developing AI advocacy programs is that many of these systems are developed by private companies, so it is difficult to gain access to their technology to examine and understand it. Many NGOs are therefore calling for the regulation of AI systems, but are facing pushback, with companies arguing that it hampers innovation. Yet, it is this same “innovation” that encourages many governments to deploy AI systems. A drive for “innovation” for innovation’s sake is particularly concerning when it encourages governments to step into technologies that they don’t fully understand or even need. Obviously, a lot of human rights NGOs have been worried about these various dynamics for a while and are consistently raising their concerns— sometimes by bringing in academic work to show some of these issues. Human Rights Watch, for example, has a great program as does Amnesty International, Privacy International and Article 19. Several of the largest human rights NGOs are focusing on issues of AI systems and bias. But they’re also forced to play whack-a-mole as the application of AI systems becomes more common. How to focus your resources? Which companies and applications are most concerning? Which solutions most tractable and comprehensive? Do we need sectoral guidelines, or do we need guidelines which focus on impact? Do we need self-regulatory ethics frameworks or hard data protection frameworks? All of the above? These are the issues I see a lot of NGOs grapple with and are questions I hope to discuss with you on this platform. **Participate in the conversation with Corinne here:** [What does the future of civil society advocacy look like, given the prevalence of these digital technologies and their impact on the work that civil society is currently doing? ](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-the-future-of-civil-society-advocacy-look-like-given-the-prevalence-of-these-digital-technologies-and-their-impact-on-the-work-that-civil-society-is-currently-doing/11118/16) ###

Self-reinforcing loop of data could put human rights at risk.

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A conversation with Justin Nogarede

Justin Nogarede works for the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, was previously at the European Commission focussing on competition law and European regulations. As a trainee in the application law unit at the European Commission, he became aware of the issues involved in ensuring member states comply with EU law, finding that often there isn’t the staff or resources available to enforce directives - for example, the directive on data protection has existed since 1995, but was not widely enforced. Justin now focuses more on data governance, and is finding that as new digital infrastructures are rolled out, they are driven by narrow efficiency concerns and are not accountable. Looking into these new infrastructures is a great opportunity to make the system more participatory and accountable - but we have to take it. Feeding existing data into AI systems can create problems - for example, when predictive policing has been shown to drive more officers into wealthy areas, as data shows a higher rate of arrests in those areas. Data therefore creates a self-reinforcing loop. Further, digital systems often rely on a binary logic, which healthcare and social problems simply don’t fit. The key problem is that data is a simplification of the real world. Further, some AI systems may support a conservative bias, such as when they are used to predict which offenders are most likely to reoffend. Regulation of digital infrastructure would be a step in the right direction, and the argument that it would stifle innovation is weak - technological advances must make sense and make lives better. It may not be possible to have 100% compliance, but more involvement of public authorities (even at local level) would be a good step, as would more transparency over how these technologies function. Why is all this innovation not channelled into ways for people to live a better life? **Participate in the conversation with Justin here:** [Why is all this innovation not being channeled into ways for people to help them live a better life?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/why-is-all-this-innovation-not-being-channeled-into-ways-for-people-to-help-them-live-a-better-life/11443/3) ###

Distributed systems promise great possibilities - and challenges.

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A conversation with Hugi Asgeirsson

Earlier this year, Hugi was in Berlin for the Data Terra Nemo conference, focussing on decentralised web applications which are hosted without traditional servers, allowing for a lot of interesting applications. They were inspired by the human-centric community that has grown up around ‘gossip’ protocols like Scuttlebutt. It seems to be forming a playground where new and radical ideas can be tested and implemented. The original developer of Scuttlebutt, Dominic Tarr, describes his MO as: “not to build the next big thing, but rather to build the thing that inspires the next big thing, that way you don’t have to maintain it” and this seems to have set the anon2317280404e for Scuttlebutt itself. One of the core elements of Scuttlebutt is that users can host data for other people on the network without being directly connected to them. This has the positive effect that users in countries where internet usage is highly restricted can connect via other users - though on the other hand, this also means that users could unwittingly be hosting information they would rather not propagate. There have been instances of the Norwegian alt-right using Scuttlebutt to communicate. Scuttlebutt has been working to address this issue but solutions are imperfect so far. The bottom line is that distributed systems such as Scuttlebutt are both democratising and empowering and they come with a whole new set of possibilities and challenges. **Participate in the conversation with Hugi here:** [Data Terra Nemo: First report & Scuttlebutt](https://edgeryders.eu/t/data-terra-nemo-first-report-scuttlebutt/9928/4) ###

Open-source technology and interoperability are key to sustainable innovation

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A conversation with Oliver Sauter

There is an accepted “law” of entrepreneurship: in order to build something valuable, you have to be ten times better than what already exists (as proven by Google + which arguably had better some better features than Facebook but failed to tempt people away). Why does this law exist and what can we do to change it? BlackforestBoi believes it comes down to: Costs to switch (time and mental effort) > additional benefit offered *~10. Such growth requirement has produced some great leaps in innovation - but these come with downsides. How would the world look if we focused more on incremental innovations? What is holding us back? The way companies make money for one: the 2nd quarter of 2018, Facebook lost $120bn (billion!) in stock value within 48 hours, the biggest loss of any company in history. The reason: It posted the least growth since its founding, while still making 5BN in profits the same quarter and growing by 42% since the last year. Secondly data and social lock ins creates counter incentives for interoperable formats which would make it easier for users to migrate between services or integrate them, Breaking this dynamic would require tackling the problem from multiple angles: namely allowing users to move freely between services, creating economic models that reward quality of service rather than simple growth, and ideally adopting Open-Source software to allow companies to build on one another’s work. WorldBrain (dot) io is building open-source software in an attempt to enable incremental innovation, the foundation of which is Memex - an open-source privacy tool. Interoperability is baked deep into the core of Memex, it is fully open-source and WorldBrain (dot) io has no stock value, so is entirely focussed on building a sustainable service. **Participate in the conversation with Oliver here:** [Startups’ grand illusion: You have to be 10x better than whats there](https://edgeryders.eu/t/startups-grand-illusion-you-have-to-be-10x-better-than-whats-there/10221/14) ###

Civic organisations are key to turning AI technology into a force for civil justice

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A conversation with Fabrizio Barca

With a varied background in banking and treasury and more recently inequalities and justice, Fabrizio previously worked at the EU and now with a civic organisation called the Forum for Inequality and Diversity. The current crisis in Western countries is driven by inequality - in particular the paradox that we have the technology to create equality but instead it is producing an unprecedented concentration of knowledge and power in very few hands. This must be addressed by putting political pressure on the issues. State-owned enterprises and collective platforms where people can put together data that everyone has access to could turn these technologies into forces for social justice. A one-size-fits all approach to AI in public administration grows resentment. It deprives people of the most important thing - human connection and a sense of being recognised - which breeds intolerance, division and a loss of trust in democracy. Fabrizio is just coming to understand how effective civic organisations can be, not just in advocacy work but in taking action to shape services in local areas. He hopes to gain even more understanding through discussing the topics with a mix of people from different backgrounds. **Learn More :** [Conversation with Fabrizio Barca Founder, Forum on Inequalities and diversity I Ex General Director, Italian Ministry of Economy & Finance](https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-conversation-with-fabrizio-barca-founder-forum-on-inequalities-and-diversity-i-ex-general-director-italian-ministry-of-economy-finance/11545/2) ###

Digital spaces currently failing to protect women and victims of sexual violence

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A conversation with Kate J Sim

A PhD researcher at Oxford Internet Institute, anon1145034506 studies the intersection of gender-based violence and emerging technologies. Her work focuses on issues of trust, gender and sexual politics, and the double-edged role of technology in facilitating connections but also targeted harassment. While organising against campus violence she personally experienced cyberharassment and lack of support from law enforcement. More resources have become available since then, but we need to change how we conceptualise these issues and fundamentally change the design of the platforms. She helped to form a cross-campus network that grew to a nonprofit organisation, Know Your IX. The space requires better structures in place to support mental health and protection from cyberharassment to reduce burnout. Research shows again and again that women, especially women of colour, tend to self-censor and reduce their visibility in order to survive - it is crucial we put more safeguarding in place to protect them. Digital systems designed to facilitate disclosures, collect evidence and automate reporting of sexual assault are attractive to institutions because of their efficiency - and to some extent to victims as they are perceived to be objective and neutral. However, these systems have bias encoded in them. The designers are working with their own understanding of sexual violence, which may not match victims’ experiences. Some victims don’t have the data literacy or English level to work the systems, which could compound their trauma. Further, the pressure to report is encoded into the design of these systems, but this is a misguided emphasis on a single optimal solution, which is not appropriate for all victims. De-emphasising reporting and focussing on “small data” driven by relationship building can create a structured conversation which is rich, insightful and telling. Rather than asking how tech can be fixed for the better, the more urgent and important question is: who and what are we overlooking when we turn to tech solutions? How can we support practitioners in anti-violence space, like social workers, jurors and judges, and advocates, with data and tech literacy, so that they have control over how they interpret and act on data? **Participate in the conversation with Kate here:** [Can tech design for survivors? How sex, violence, and power are encoded into the design and implementation of data/AI-driven sexual misconduct reporting systems](https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193/6) ###

Focus on scalar indicators is driven by need to describe reality, not change it.

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A conversation with Alberto Cottica

Alberto had been hoping that ehnography-at-scale via SSNA could integrate, if not replace, the indicator paradigm, but after trying to get people to assess their own willingness to pay for, say, avoiding the extinction of some type of frog in Madagascar, or lowering the PM10 content by 10%, he found convincing evidence that we could never trust our results He refers to James Scott’s convincing argument for scalar indicators being propelled by the modernist ideology that underpin the coalescing of modern states. This works for states but not so much for people. Modern states have created a demand for scalar indicators, but this has more to do with their thirst for administrative order than with a drive to understand what is really going on. **Participate in the conversation with Alberto here:** [On assessing impact, and what Edgeryders could do in that department](https://edgeryders.eu/t/on-assessing-impact-and-what-edgeryders-could-do-in-that-department/10708)" 2,66401,2019-11-30T08:07:04.961Z,66346,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"NB: We need to have content tagged up with these tags to enable us to see clusters of discussions where they pop up AI Social justice principles Data governance Markets & Data ethics gender Inequality technology wellbeing digital artificial Intelligence internet platform internet-of-things welfare machine-learning fairness digital-democracy blockchain justice artificial-intelligence internet-infrastructure platform-economy gig-economy precarity europe algorithms bias" 3,66476,2019-11-30T10:00:16.036Z,66346,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,hi @anon1037234888 @anon 1,65011,2019-11-21T15:22:55.413Z,65011,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-AI-fabrizio-01|690x361,50%](upload://nbXjYYUNmT2z7jw7wbjIOYXgtBf.png) I participated in the recent NGI Forward [workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI](/t/10326) organized by Edgeryders. I was part of the discussion on scenarios for the regulation of AI, moderated by Justin Nogarede. The format was unusual, at least for me: a [fishbowl discussion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_(conversation)) with four invited guests acting as icebreakers. These were **Marco Manca** @anon1119284955 (Member of Nato's Working group on Meaningful Human Control over AI-based systems); **Seda Gürses** @anon4265023664 (Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft); Justin @anon241932064 : and myself. The People in the fishbowl kicked off, but then we melted in the general discussion as others stepped up to make contributions and ask questions. This worked very well, and enabled a lively discussion. In general, **the group felt the need to spend anon4292955258 some time to get a grip on a shared idea of what AI actually is**, and how it works, before he could discuss its regulation. Occasionally, the discussion veered into being anon4292955258 technical, and not everybody could follow it all the time, even if we had an over-representation of computer scientists and digital activists. This is in itself a result: if this crowd struggles to get it, democratic participation is going to be pretty difficult for the general public. We used [Chatham House rule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule), so I in what follows I do not attribute statements to anyone in particular. We kicked off by reminding ourselves that the new von der Leyen Commission has promised to [tackle AI within the first 100 days of taking office](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/blog-post/von-der-leyen-new-commission-take-aim-at-ai-legislation/). Brussels is mostly happy with how the GDPR thing played out, that is by recognizing the EU as the de facto ""regulatory superpower"". The AI regulation in the pipeline is expected to have a similar effect to that of GDPR. **Participants then expressed some concern around the challenges of regulating AI**. For example: * A directive may be the wrong instrument. The law is good at enshrining principles (""human-centric AI""), but in the tech industry we are seeing *everyone*, including FAANG, claiming to adhere to the same principles. What we seem to be missing is an accountable process to translate principles into technical choices. For example, elsewhere I have told the story of how the developers of [Scuttlebutt](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) justified their refusal to give their users multiple-device accounts in terms of values: ""we want to serve the underconnected, and those guys do not own multiple devices. Multiple device account is a first world problem, and should be deprioritized"". * The AI story is strongly vendor-driven: a solution looking for a problem. Lawmaking as a process is naturally open to the contribution of industry, and this openness risks giving even more market power to the incumbents. * AI uses big data and lots of computing power, so it tends to live in the cloud as infrastructure. But the cloud is itself super-concentrated, it is infrastructure in few private hands. The rise of AI brings even more momentum to the concentration process. This brings us back to an intuition that has been circulating in this forum, namely that [you need antitrust policy to do tech policy](t/10868/2), at least in the current situation. * The term ""AI"" has come to mean ""machine learning on big data"". The governance of the data themselves is an unsolved problem, with major consequences for AI. In the health sector, for example, clinical data tend to be simply entrusted to large companies: the British NHS [gave them](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2019%2F09%2F19%2Ffive_nhs_trusts_do_data_deal_with_google_one_says_no%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHAd8EamUp9LY1ulHdC7mufXEXJcQ) to Deep Mind; a [similar operation](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feuropa.today.it%2Fattualita%2Funa-scelleratezza-consegnare-le-cartelle-cliniche-degli-italiani-all-ibm-rossi-attacca-il-governo.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFKARv42-MfE-a-cJN4t3VXIOvu6g) between the Italian government and IBM Watson was attempted, but failed, because data governance in Italy is with the regions, and they refused to release the data. We learned much about the state of the art of the reflection on data governance at MyData2019: to our surprise [there appears to be a consensus](/t/10893) among scholars on how to go about data governance, but it is not being translated into law. That work is *very* unfinished, and it should be finished *before* opening the AI can of worms. * AI has a large carbon footprint. Even when it does improve on actual human problems, it does so at the cost of worsening the climate, not in a win-win scenario. * The Internet should be ""human-centric"". But machine learning is basically statistical analysis: high-dimensional multivariate statistical models. When it is done on humans, its models (for example a recommendation algo) encode each human into a database, and then models you in terms of who you are similar to: for example, a woman between 35 and 45 who speaks Dutch and watches stand-up comedy on Netflix. Everything not standardizable, everything that makes you *you*, gets pushed to the error term of the model. That is hardly human-centric, because it leads to optimizing systems in terms of abstract ""typical humans"" or ""target groups"" or whatever. As a result of this situation, **the group was not even in agreement that AI is worth the trouble and the money that it costs**. Two participants argued the opposite sides, both, interestingly, using examples from medicine. The AI-enthusiast noted that AI is getting good at diagnosing medical conditions. The AI-sceptic noted that medicine is not diagnosis-centric, but prognosis-centric; it has no value if it does not improve human life. And the prognosis must always be negotiated with the patient. IT in medicine has historically cheapened the relationship between patient and healer, with the latter ""classifying "" the former in terms of a standard data structure for entry into a database. Somebody quoted recent studies on the use of AI in medicine. The state of the art is: * Diagnostic AI does not perform significantly better than human pathologists. ([Lancet](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(19)30123-2/fulltext), [Ar.xiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07372)) * Few studies do any external validation of results. Additionally, deep learning models are poorly reported. ([Lancet](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(19)30123-2/fulltext)) * Incorrect models bias (and therefore deteriorate) the work of human pathologists ([Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0300-7), [Ar.xiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07372)) * There are risks that AI will be used to erode the doctor-patient relationship ([Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0300-7)) Based on this, the participant argued that at the moment there is no use case for AI in medicine. ![image|583x690](upload://aeIlSz6Ik4oTUfCoDyxG84J1Yo0.png) *Image credit: [XKCD](https://xkcd.com/)* We agreed that not just AI, but all optimization tools are problematic, because they have to make the choice of what, exactly, gets optimized. What tends to get optimized is what the entity deploying the model wants. Traffic is a good example: apparently innocent choices as what to optimize for turn out to have huge consequences. When you design traffic, do you optimize for driver safety? Or for pedestrian safety? Of minimize time spent on the road? Airport layout is designed to maximize pre-flight spending: after you clear security, the only way to the gate goes through a very large duty free shop. This is ""optimal"", but not necessary optimal *for you*. We next moved to **data governance**. Data are, of course, AI's raw material, and only those who have access to data can deploy AI models. A researcher called [Paul Oliver Dehaye](https://paulolivier.dehaye.org/stories/about.html) wants to model discrimination of certain workers. Do do this, he needs to pool the personal data from different individuals into what is called a ""data trust"". Data trusts are one of several models for data governance being floated about; the [DECODE project](https://decodeproject.eu/what-decode)'s data commons are another. In this discussion, even the GDPR's success appears to have some cracks. For example, Uber is using it to refuse it to give drivers their data, claiming that would impact the riders' privacy. A participant claimed that the GDPR has a blind spot in that it has nothing to say about standards for data portability. U.S. tech companies have a project called Data Transfer, where they are dreaming up those standards, and doing so in a way that will benefit them most (again). Pragmatically, she thought the EU should set its own standards for this. We ended with some **constructive suggestions**. One concerned data governance itself. as noted above, the MyData community and other actors in the tech policy space have made substantial intellectual progress on data governance. Were this progress to be enshrined into EU legislation and standards setting, this would maybe help mitigate the potential of the AI industry to worsen inequalities. For example, saying ""everyone has a right to own their data"" is not precise enough. It makes a huge difference whether personal data are considered to be a freehold commodity or an unalienable human right. In the former case, people can sell their data to whomever they want: data would thus be like material possessions. In this case, market forces are likely to concentrate their ownership in few hands, because data are much more valuable when aggregated in humongous piles of big data. But in the latter case, data are like the right to freedom. I have it, but I am not allowed to sell myself into slavery. In this scenario, data ownership does not concentrate. Another constructive suggestions concerned enabling a next-generation eIDAS, to allow for ""disposable online identities"". These are pairs of cryptographic keys that you would use for the purpose of accessing a service: instead of showing your ID to the supermarket cashier when you buy alcoholic drinks, you would show them a statement digitally signed by the registrar that says more or less ""the owner of this key pair is over 18"", and then sign it with your private key. This way, the supermarket knows you are over 18, but does not who you are. It does have your public key, but you can also never use that key pair anymore – that's what makes it disposable. Further suggestions included legislating on mandatory auditability of algorithms (there is even a NGO doing work on this, [AlgorithmWatch](https://algorithmwatch.org/en/)), investments in early data literacy in education, and designing for cultural differences: Europeans care more about privacy, whereas many people in Asia are relatively uninterested in it." 2,66306,2019-11-29T11:06:12.922Z,65011,anon1505367078,anon3809206126,@anon2339827249 & @anon 1,65573,2019-11-25T02:52:15.442Z,65573,anon3611913981,anon3611913981,"Aloha! **What is a burning question that drives your work?** How does one co-survive with any degree of mindfulness, artfulness & elegance in a dysfunctional global system where sick societies are normal? Clearly there are few like us but certainly there must be more. Where are our people? How do we meet up & work together? **How did you get started and what hurdles have you met along the way?** We got started young, helped by [Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring) & the realization that previous generations had really screwed things up & contemporary generations seemed incapable of fixing things. Running away into the ""woods"" provided brief respite & we saw them consumed in the name of BAU development & economic progress. Warned by our *""betters""* that we best get in line, we rebelled becoming outcasts. We lived our lives between protesting on the streets & in the woods, self-directed education, escapist activities, freelance art work, extreme sports & running away. The shutting down of the alternative press, the rise of new media & the Internet necessitated new strategies. Our biggest hurdles involve procuring food & shelter, in both urban & rural environments. We've lost opportunities when identified as being dysfunctional to the dysfunctional system. Institutions do a good job filtering out people like us, we've done best in new programs & usually see the door slammed on our backsides to prevent more like us from entering. We often find ourselves where none like us have gone before except in dim memory, myth or legend & none may follow for a variety of reasons. Our understanding is that this is the way the system functions to keep us separated from like-minded fellow travelers. The system appears to fear our gathering in groups, so that is what we seek. **Which doubts do you have about the work you are doing and the path forward?** We work in the arts, writing fiction & nonfiction, media production & performance; the soft sciences, personal & social psychology; & technology, media production tech support & coding for a networked world. We're now developing & refining a focus on data science, AI, machine learning, & deep learning in several dimensions of sentiment analysis & data mining & data visualization. Our only doubts lie in judging the efficacy of our work. Clearly we excel in academics & production but we only seem to benefit when found useful & manageable by exploitive agents of BAU. The more our cognitive ability, theory & perception evolve the harder it becomes to find acceptance from gatekeepers. It seems to us that the path forward lies in the intersection of the work we do, especially in collaboration, which emerges as a requirement. It's not exactly clear what that is. It appears to be like driving an unknown road at night, only able to see what's in the headlights & no further. **What kind of support would you like to offer others traveling a similar path?** We prefer being open to what fellow travelers perceive as their needs in the way of support. We do not recommend our particular path to anyone & acknowledge that we may cross paths for unknowable reasons & appreciate input from people we happen to meet. Clearly, we do not know how to deal with this system. We do not know what people need. We tend to be averse to those who revel in identifying ""enemies"" as we see that impulse emerging from paranoid-schizoid defenses and it only serves the dysfunctional system to divide us. That said, we do understand there are some very damaged & dangerous people out here that seek to exploit all they meet, we've met a few & see many on TV gaining celebrity status. So, perhaps the best we offer is in the way of suggesting tools & techniques useful for growing positive progressive communities." 2,65587,2019-11-25T08:17:42.925Z,65573,anon3031202475,anon3611913981,"@anon3611913981, great to have you here. Are you aready involved with this discussion on co-living? https://edgeryders.eu/t/sprint-to-the-reef-co-design-communal-and-green-living-join-in-brussels-november-28th/11175" 3,65620,2019-11-25T11:15:19.967Z,65587,anon3005076832,anon3031202475,"Welcome! Just a feedback to your short post (which of course cannot transport all the thoughts you have about these topics) and to the image that it transports to me: * to me it reads anon4292955258 ""dark"" and it reads a bit as if you also would describe enemies or obstacles (""the system"", ""sick societies"") yourself. * I do have the impression that communities and collectives all over the world are forming and getting much stronger and more ""grounded"" (e.g. introspecting the culture that they live and the ideals they try to live by). * I would not share the image / narrative that something tries to prevent that (people meet and try new stuff) from happening; there are plenty of initiatives trying to keep up with mapping all the projects that are done. Sure, there could be more and better support (and that will always be true). But it is amazing to see all that is happening. * I also do not really see the ""heroes from myth and legend"" that try hard and then see doors shut behind them from institutions. Its sounds like legend-building to me. Which system tries to keep you away from like-minded fellow travelers? Psychological? Couple dynamics? Neighbourhoods? States? Nation States? Capital itself? Global influencers? ... Maybe the picture describes the situation in the US - i cannot judge that - but my experiences in the EU are anon4292955258 different. That being said, it looks like a good starting point for a journey! I hope you will be able to bring in your skills where they are needed. :dove:" 4,65966,2019-11-26T23:47:33.022Z,65620,anon3611913981,anon3005076832,"Aloha @anon3005076832, thank you for your candid reply. You seem correct in seeing how it reads anon4292955258 ""dark"". Your honesty is appreciated. [quote=""anon3005076832, post:3, topic:11863""] to me it reads anon4292955258 “dark” and it reads a bit as if you also would describe enemies or obstacles (“the system”, “sick societies”) yourself. [/quote] Perhaps we did not write with enough nuance. Sorry for the confusion. We do not consider dysfunction systems or sick societies as enemies, only something in great need of deep change, and being part of the hurdles we've faced in the context of the question we were answering. [quote=""anon3005076832, post:3, topic:11863""] Maybe the picture describes the situation in the US [/quote] The current economic system in America, Chomsky says, is so **dysfunctional** “that it cannot put eager hands to needed work using the resources that would be readily available if the economy were designed to serve human needs rather than wealth beyond the dreams of avarice for a privileged few.” “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re **dysfunctional** to the institutions.” Noam Chomsky https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-democratic-party-centrism-risks-handing-election-to-trump/ **“And only those who stand outside the failed institutions can lead this effort.” George Monbiot** **“So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed – it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.” George Monbiot** https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2756187?guestAccessKey=c1202c42-e6b9-4c99-a936-0976a270551f&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=112619 [quote=""anon3005076832, post:3, topic:11863""] but my experiences in the EU are anon4292955258 different. [/quote] This is truly good news and confirms our choice to join Edgeryders and look towards Europe. We're now planning to move half-way to Europe as we now live on the other side of the globe from your continent. That is the extent of our budget. The move will land us in the Ohio River Valley. We wish you well in all your endeavors, hopefully we will be able to meet you in person one day. Thanks again for your valuable input." 5,65970,2019-11-27T00:12:45.579Z,65587,anon3611913981,anon3031202475,"Aloha @anon3031202475 and thank you very much! We are now following the discussion at https://edgeryders.eu/t/sprint-to-the-reef-co-design-communal-and-green-living-join-in-brussels-november-28th/11175 and remain alert to where it might be appropriate to get involved with the discussion. Thank you again, very much @anon3031202475!" 6,66265,2019-11-28T19:27:06.539Z,65573,anon2434097920,anon3611913981,"anon3611913981 I wish you good fortune in your quest. ""Where are our people"" is a question for all of us." 1,63951,2019-11-13T00:09:07.431Z,63951,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Leave a quick intro to yourself and the topics you're generally interested in. Where you're based, what you're good at, what traits in a person do you appreciate and not, who in particular you're interested in talking to?" 2,63990,2019-11-13T14:11:32.136Z,63951,anon2534778825,anon3572363072,"I'm Olivia Khan-do. I'm gonna facilitate the frick out of y'all Berlin based go-getter from sunny Scotland. I'm a certified professional fluffer and a (semi) rational optimist. I use humour as a coping mechanism, I'm hopelessly naive and come with boundless enthusiasm. I'll like people who ask before offering me advice and dislike when people interrupt others. I like to talk kink, literature, tech and self development" 3,64026,2019-11-13T20:11:41.365Z,63990,anon3449369942,anon2534778825,ping @anon3031202475 in case you two have not yet met 4,64028,2019-11-13T20:20:12.933Z,64026,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,We have met in a call and will meet in person tomorrow at Blivande :) 5,64029,2019-11-13T20:38:06.913Z,63951,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Hey I am Oliver, usually based in Berlin, currently nomading around. (next stop Berlin, Stockholm, Barcelona, Black Forest, Bali, Berlin) I am good at understanding complex issues and thinking myself through problems (sometimes a bit too deep. Keyword: overengineering). I consider myself a good listener and being able to endure cognitive dissonance. I admire people that build bridges, dream a lot, face their shadows and own their shit. I dislike people who interrupt others, argue in bad faith. I don't dislike but have troubles with people that avoid working on things that don't work well for them. My topics: Collective Intelligence, governance, Steward Ownership, Game B, Tantric teachings, cultural observations (especially all those around cultural divide, misinformation etc)" 6,64032,2019-11-13T21:20:06.000Z,64026,anon2534778825,anon3449369942,Hopefully we will meet in person tomorrow :D 7,64094,2019-11-14T18:41:46.310Z,63990,anon2434097920,anon2534778825,Are you really a fluffer? 8,64144,2019-11-15T09:48:24.692Z,63951,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"@anon2753384108 and @anon3572363072, how do you feel about adding some more social mingling time to your events? Maybe @anon2534778825 would have some good input on that?" 9,64153,2019-11-15T10:25:23.322Z,63951,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,"Hi everyone :slight_smile: I am based in Brussels and actively trying to avoid travelling at the moment. Am notoriously impatient, terrible at admin and following instructions or manuals. What I am good at is seeing bridges between seemingly unrelated issues, domains or conversations and connecting them a mutually beneficial path forward. Adept at navigating chaos and changing course as soon as it looks like an approach isn't working. Good at figuring out how to motivate people to get things done in a structured way. Am good at taking leadership when things are not going well - crisis management? Not a good listener unless interested in the person or topic. People who can be open ended in the choices that they make and are able to trust the world to bring them good things never cease to amaze me. Also, people who have a ""don't stop till you get it done"" instinct. Who are lateral thinkers + creative in finding ways to realise something that is in their mind. Don't mesh well with people who are sloppy with how they live/eat/work or have work ethics that do not align with my own. My topics: Pretty much anything if the topic is interesting. Increasingly Food and agriculture. Increasingly, physical and mental health. Plus how to improve resilience in the face of impending climate catastrophies." 10,64295,2019-11-15T20:44:57.984Z,63951,anon4156908738,anon3572363072,"Amateur futurist with a particular interest in Post-Industrial culture looking to cultivate a career in the subject. Live in an adobe cottage in the high-desert of New Mexico. Current personal projects/studies include the ongoing collation of a catalog of modular building systems, 'furnitecture' and other alternative architecture, the development of a documentary series showcasing open source lifestyle, development of an amateur space telerobotics movement through the creation of Internet-based 'telebases' as a community hobby activity, and the study of visual novel software as a platform for futurist media." 11,65181,2019-11-22T16:02:00.640Z,63951,anon4182650712,anon3572363072,"Realise I think I'm due an intro here. Unfortunately I can't participate Saturday, but will drop by for some prep anon2317280404ight and then potentially Sunday. I'm also working with @anon2534778825 so have been kept up to date by her on the hackathon. I'm an entrepreneur / software developer for ~20 years. Experience launching multiple startups and building software for startup clients. I'm especially interested in strongly decentralised communication and the potential for this to transform society. Together with @anon2534778825 we're working on building both the human rituals and institutions that support impactful use cases, particularly in the European burner space." 12,65583,2019-11-25T08:00:59.012Z,64295,anon3031202475,anon4156908738,"@anon4156908738, as an amateur futurist, you should have a look at our thread about scifi economics and, maybe talk to some of the people who went to that event :): https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-science-fiction-economics-lab-brussels-november-11th" 13,65931,2019-11-26T20:12:36.760Z,65583,anon4156908738,anon3031202475,Thank you. A couple of contacts of mine were planning to attend that event (Dante Monson and Michael Bauwens) so I've been waiting to hear what their impressions were. I've been following the forums for that topic here but hadn't yet caught a thread I thought I could contribute to. 14,65948,2019-11-26T21:58:43.374Z,64295,anon2434097920,anon4156908738,Welcome Eric - I spent a lot of time in New Mexico last summer. They don't call it the Land of Enchantment for nothing! 15,66248,2019-11-28T18:06:36.810Z,63951,anon4156908738,anon3572363072,"I moved here over ten years ago from New Jersey, seeking low-toxic housing and lower pollution for health reasons. Lovely countryside, but a bit isolating and, of course, slower-paced." 1,63907,2019-11-12T16:42:13.865Z,63907,anon685777545,anon685777545,"Hi dear Edgeryders community! Would love to join forces to organize and welcome you all here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-european-holochain-hub-tickets-78965141865 Warm regards, Liliana." 2,64123,2019-11-15T07:27:21.561Z,63907,anon3449369942,anon685777545,ping @anon3031202475 and @anon2434097920 3,64187,2019-11-15T11:41:18.346Z,64123,anon685777545,anon3449369942,"Hi @anon3449369942 @anon3031202475 @anon2434097920 Interested on attending? supporting soanon3242181883? spreading the event?" 4,64190,2019-11-15T11:43:16.064Z,64187,anon3449369942,anon685777545,I think so Right now we are focused on preparing for the events next week. Can we discuss this at the end of next week? 5,64209,2019-11-15T12:21:14.937Z,64190,anon685777545,anon3449369942,"Perfect @anon3449369942, let's talk about it next week. Would Friday (22nd) morning fit your agenda?" 6,64212,2019-11-15T12:27:47.492Z,64209,anon3449369942,anon685777545,yes. 7,64215,2019-11-15T12:40:26.127Z,63907,anon685777545,anon685777545,9am? I will send you a calendar invite via my email anon685777545@anon 8,64272,2019-11-15T16:03:53.167Z,63907,anon2434097920,anon685777545,I have 2 good friends who are on the [Holochain staff](https://holo.host/team/): Jarod Holtz (Director of Growth and Delivery) and Celestial Hanley (X Designer). Do you know them? 9,64393,2019-11-17T11:32:45.562Z,64272,anon685777545,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:8, topic:11505""] Do you know them? [/quote] Hi John, no, I don't know them. It would be nice to connect with them. Are you planning to attend this meetup? Warm regards, Liliana." 10,64403,2019-11-17T15:59:05.252Z,64393,anon2434097920,anon685777545,"Would love to, but I'm in California!" 11,65099,2019-11-22T09:28:24.391Z,64212,anon685777545,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:6, topic:11505, full:true""] yes. [/quote] Hi Nadia, it is Friday :) When do you have time for a call today? Cheers! Liliana." 12,65104,2019-11-22T09:39:43.938Z,65099,anon3449369942,anon685777545,ciao - in an hour? pm ing you my number 13,65154,2019-11-22T13:34:56.579Z,63907,anon685777545,anon685777545,"Come and hear about Collaboration, Collective Intelligence and Next Generation Internet technologies that facilitate this to happen! ***Schedule and Content:*** 09:00 am - Registration, coffee and networking 09:30 am - Welcome words, data and collective intelligence. By [Liliana Carrillo](https://twitter.com/lilicarrillof) 09:45 am - Keynote: Decentralized cooperation at Scale. By [Michel Bauwens](https://twitter.com/mbauwens) 10:15 am - E-Women, safer access to e-democracy. By [Anna Melenchuk](https://twitter.com/anna_melenchuk) 10:30 am - Global border-less democracy, Open Source. By [Paula Berman](https://twitter.com/_paulaberman) 10:45 am - Panel: Intelectual Property for Collaboration. How to protect your ideas and inventions from theft? With [Alain Souloumiac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-souloumiac-75442610/), [Dick Van Gelder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickvangelder/), [Elena Bachert](https://starks.be/en/starks-team/elena-bachert/), [Reinhard Dhondt](https://starks.be/en/starks-team/reinhard-dhondt/) Moderator: [Philippe Van Impe](https://twitter.com/pvanimpe) 11:45 am - Coffee/tea break - Networking 12:15 am - Holochain Meetup: Introduction and Q&A. By [Raphi See](https://twitter.com/RaphiSee). 12:45 am - Closing words & networking 13:00 pm - Doors close." 14,65916,2019-11-26T18:05:06.929Z,63907,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:1, topic:11505""] to join forces [/quote] @anon3031202475 I posted the event on the platform 2 weeks ago. Let's try to join forces to make it even better. It would be lovely to get some volunteers to film the talks and take photos, so materials can be reused. Do you anyone in Belgium who could support? Also it would be nice to have the conversation on one single place :slight_smile: As the conversation is also part of the Anticipate event: https://edgeryders.eu/t/anticipate-exploring-collective-intelligence-design/11021/45?u=anon685777545 Could you send me a link to the form that has to be filled in for funds? Warm regards, Liliana." 15,66024,2019-11-27T14:59:52.215Z,65916,anon3031202475,anon685777545,done in the dm with anon3449369942 16,66072,2019-11-27T18:46:50.815Z,66024,anon685777545,anon3031202475,Thanks a lot! 17,66244,2019-11-28T17:40:18.903Z,66072,anon685777545,anon685777545,Official event here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/cooperation-at-scale-next-generation-collective-intelligence-and-internet/11989/2 1,60653,2019-10-04T11:29:47.149Z,60653,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"![Edgeryders-Fest-Twitter-1100x628-anon3180318115-01|690x393](upload://jkjtSYJY1mSOUh3C3xkJanI9owG.png) ## Anticipate ! Exploring Collective Intelligence Design [date=2019-11-19 timezone=""Europe/Brussels""] → [date=2019-11-29 timezone=""Europe/Brussels""] * **Organiser:** @anon3180318115 * **Location:** Saarbruecken, multiple venues * **Event:** A welcoming, low-threshold, non-nerd workshop series around specific areas of collective intelligence design - data sovereignty, community architectures, and cooperative data governance - to bring people concerned about tech into site-specific co-creation processes to address concrete needs for collaborative solutions. * **Languages:** We have multilingual teams and can make a diverse group of people feel at home, but given the local focus of these workshops, most participants will speak German. Co-hosted by [xm:lab](https://www.xmlab.org/research) - Experimental Media Lab and [K8](http://www.k8.design) of the Academy of Fine Arts Saar. The workshop series is part of an ongoing [exploration](http://www.anticipate.network) of collective intelligence design as a way of giving speculation authority to act in the present. Taking placing during the academic year, the workshops are also being integrated into seminars dedicated to ""[Cultures of Open](https://www.hbksaar.de/vorlesungen/details/medientheorie-cultures-of-open)"" and ""[The Art of Decision](https://www.hbksaar.de/vorlesungen/details/medientheorie-die-kunst-der-entscheidung)"". **Workshop I Data Sovereignty** [date=2019-11-19 timezone=""Europe/Brbussels""] → [date=2019-11-19 timezone=""Europe/Brussels""] * **Times:** 10.00 - 15:30 * **Location:** East Side Fab - Halle 11, Eschbergerweg 40, 66121 Saarbrücken **Theme**: Basic introduction to the ways in which our daily activities generate data flows and the ways in which these may be harnessed to support auanon2317280404omy and self-determination. We will look specifically at health- and workplace-related data, as this data is arguably the most personal, sensitive, and vulnerable to misuse. At the same time, it is precisely because of this that it offers a way to engage with data sovereignty concerns. **Context**: Developing a holistic approach to data literacy begins with awareness of the many overlapping data-generating contexts we pass through as we live and labor. As far as the bigger picture is concerned, this is it a key step toward co-designing that which affects how we act - collective intelligence design enables deep engagement with the socio-technological infrastructures structuring and sustaining our agency. Workshop in cooperation with [Open Saar e.V.](https://opensaar.de/) **Workshop II Data Governance and Decentralized Technologies** [date=2019-11-28 timezone=""Europe/Brussels""] → [date=2019-11-28 timezone=""Europe/Brussels""] * **Times:** 14:00 - 18:00 * **Location:** K8, Ufergasse 2, 66111 Saarbrücken **Theme**: New ideas related to data governance have come from communities engaging with blockchain technologies. We will take a look at some of these ideas and bring them together with approaches from the [cooperative](https://www.saluscoop.org/) universe. Workshop II offers in-depth follow-up to Workshop I. **Context**: Decentralized technologies have become key areas of collective intelligence design [experimentation](http://daostack.io). While some of these efforts have been criticized for reproducing the not-so-open geek cultures of tech research (""blokechain""), these technologies are too important to leave them to the usual techno-libertarian suspects. So we need to find ways to bring more people into a key systems design process. **Workshop III Community Architectures** [date=2019-11-29 timezone=""Europe/Brussels""] → [date=2019-11-29 timezone=""Europe/Brussels""] * **Times:** 10:00 - 16:00 * **Location:** xm:lab, Keplerstr. 3-5, 66117 Saarbrücken / Blida, Metz **Theme**: How do we bring sustainable architecture / upcycling / renewable energy communities into the design process of a workspace for a new commons-oriented cooperative? We will look at two existing spaces and co-develop a vision for a new space here in Saarbrücken. Following a (remote) walk-through of COACTlab in Barcelona we will visit [Bliiida](https://www.bliiida.fr/) in Metz, France, just across the border. **Context**: Members of the Academy of Fine Arts Saar have initiated the foundation of a cooperative (s:coop) to actively contribute to a new economy. Locally, this has involved exchanges with various actors from freelancing, innovation, and start-up communities. Now the time has come to develop and design a physical space that can operate as a community architecture. And one way to get started is to look what others have already done. ## Who will participate? * Members of Open Saar e.V. * Soenke Zehle @anon3180318115 * Julia Hartnik, Co-CEO, K8 * Hannes Käfer, Director, Digital Production Center, HBKsaar * William Lloyd-George @anon1990933018 * Liliana Carillo @anon685777545, Digityser, Brussels * Andrea Barbiero, [Salus Coop](https://www.saluscoop.org/), Barcelona * [Jens Dittrich](https://bigdata.uni-saarland.de/people/dittrich.php), Big Data Analytics Group @anon * Uto Scheidt, DIDP, Saarland University **To be confirmed** * Members of Technoport, Luxembourg * Members of CNA, Luxembourg * Members of s:coop, Saarbrücken * You!
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It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to [anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word “better” has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### What happens with my data? You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 2,60656,2019-10-04T11:43:09.458Z,60653,anon3449369942,anon3180318115,Looks really interesting: Do you have a nice image we can use to promote it like a miniflyer or nice photo/illustration we can use with cc license/permission? 4,60723,2019-10-05T11:40:17.134Z,60656,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,flyer templates for everyone coming soon :) 5,61893,2019-10-22T07:08:38.440Z,60653,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,here is the link to the folder with the flyers: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uNIE4Ha7NCpNVC8SI3hEOnf0NeqkNjoP?usp=sharing 6,61894,2019-10-22T07:09:05.925Z,60653,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-anon3180318115-01|690x361](upload://wEVCQAKgexmK8ROwXxva66BbSyf.png) 7,61907,2019-10-22T08:38:42.859Z,61894,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,should i replace the header image with this? 8,61932,2019-10-22T09:33:23.000Z,61907,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"Asked the two colleagues in the image if they are ok with that, will let u know. Will also check locally which other logos need to go into the flyer, should I add that or upload the logos to the folder? Also: talked to William, he wants to come, but also needs info on finances (can u cover his travel / accommodation cost directly) etc." 9,61940,2019-10-22T10:18:28.912Z,61932,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"@anon3180318115 regarding the logos, I you can add those yourself that would be great, otherwise send them to me, via the folder is fine. regarding William: Great! To what would his travels and commendation amount? Are they already in the budget or not?" 10,62379,2019-10-28T13:12:57.189Z,61940,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"@anon3031202475 Hi Maria, @anon1990933018 and I agreed that it makes more sense to bring him over for a longer event / residency later, in the context of the now finalized program for the 3 workshops we'll combine a remote walk-through of COACT Lab's spaces and projects with another site visit here in the greater region (Metz is a French city about 30mins away by train). I uploaded logos f K8, HBKsaar and xm:lab into the flyer folder. Tomorrow I (like every week on Tue) have another obligation at 18:00 but am happy to talk on Wed / Thu if that helps, I for one would be grateful for that since the Tuesday slot just doesn't work for me..." 11,62392,2019-10-28T14:42:32.169Z,62379,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"Ok, great. How about Wednesday 11:00 or 15:00?" 12,62396,2019-10-28T15:13:28.789Z,62392,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"Wed 15 is perfect, many thx !" 13,62489,2019-10-29T16:16:41.759Z,62396,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"great, shedeuled the meeting for tomorrow 15:00 https://zoom.us/j/3063210325" 14,62500,2019-10-29T16:52:16.387Z,60653,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"Also: Added the logos you gave me @anon3180318115 to the flyers: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uNIE4Ha7NCpNVC8SI3hEOnf0NeqkNjoP I changed the header of the event to it as well. Can we set up a facebook event for it? " 15,62544,2019-10-30T14:07:30.000Z,62489,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"ready now, sorry for the delay" 16,62638,2019-10-31T11:45:33.419Z,60653,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"I would love to be part of this, and contribute with a my location in Brussels (DigitYser) and also as speaker and with workshops. I have given several talks on this. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrilloliliana/" 17,62660,2019-10-31T14:55:13.750Z,62638,anon3180318115,anon685777545,"@anon685777545 fantastic, let's talk about that soon...next Monday 11/4 work for you?" 18,62662,2019-10-31T15:04:23.542Z,60653,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"https://www.facebook.com/events/2087153444718394/ the facebook event is up. Who could be a content responsible fb cohost?" 19,63300,2019-11-07T12:40:18.633Z,62662,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"Hi @anon3031202475 did you get me emails about the fb cohost and corrections of the first workshop location (adjusted here already, but not yet on your fb post)? What else do you need? Best, Soenke" 20,63314,2019-11-07T13:37:05.190Z,63300,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"Hello Sönke, I had Nadia make me a co-host yesterday somi can directly take care of that. Will do it anon2317280404ight" 21,63611,2019-11-09T11:52:26.496Z,63314,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,@anon3031202475 thx much. Does the festival site display current profile info? Updazed but festival site does not seem changed 22,63773,2019-11-11T17:23:55.866Z,63611,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"@anon3180318115 the info on the minisite is taken from the posts here, so if the posts are updated here, it should change there in about 5 min time" 23,63912,2019-11-12T16:49:35.871Z,62660,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3180318115, post:17, topic:11021""] Monday 11/4 [/quote] Hi @anon3180318115, I was travelling. Could we talk this week? Thanks a lot for your answer! Warm regards, Liliana." 24,64035,2019-11-13T22:03:32.731Z,60653,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"@anon685777545 of course ! Thu or Fr morning, else email me with suggestions, looking fwd !" 25,64040,2019-11-14T07:56:14.213Z,64035,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3180318115, post:24, topic:11021""] Thu or Fr morning [/quote] Great! Thursday or Friday morning are fine for me. Do you have time today at 10am? Zoom?" 26,64101,2019-11-14T21:51:39.398Z,64040,anon3180318115,anon685777545,"@anon685777545 sorry today was pretty chaotic. Tom 10:00 is fine, feel free to send zoom link or I will tomorrow" 27,64189,2019-11-15T11:42:59.786Z,64101,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"Hi @anon3180318115, I just see your message, sorry. Could we coordinate our call via email? anon685777545@anon" 28,64723,2019-11-19T17:04:11.965Z,60653,anon1314804036,anon3180318115,@anon3180318115 Are we having the zoom meetup we spoke about at this moment or has it been post- or even preponed ;) ? 29,64731,2019-11-19T17:24:07.751Z,64723,anon3180318115,anon1314804036,@anon 30,64732,2019-11-19T17:25:11.912Z,64731,anon1314804036,anon3180318115,uhkay - well good journey then! 31,64734,2019-11-19T17:26:56.250Z,64732,anon3180318115,anon1314804036,@anon1314804036 I think call is here https://zoom.us/j/489971765 32,64925,2019-11-20T22:08:06.783Z,64723,anon3031202475,anon1314804036,the calls are every Tuesday 18:00. will include you in the reminders in future! :) 33,65034,2019-11-21T17:30:29.542Z,64925,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:32, topic:11021""] will include you in the reminders [/quote] Hi Maria, could you also include me in the reminders, please?" 34,65039,2019-11-21T17:55:40.874Z,65034,anon3031202475,anon685777545,Ok will do so :). Next call is on Tuesday 18:00 35,65068,2019-11-21T22:46:05.666Z,63773,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,re auto-updates don't think that is true for profile info though 36,65077,2019-11-22T07:16:58.940Z,64925,anon1314804036,anon3031202475,@anon3031202475 @anon3180318115 Thanks! Is it the same Zoom - space (https://zoom.us/j/489971765) everytime or could I get the link with your reminder? 37,65115,2019-11-22T10:13:59.379Z,65077,anon685777545,anon1314804036,"[quote=""anon1314804036, post:36, topic:11021""] could I get the link with your reminder [/quote] Is there a google calendar for this? I don't want to miss it :slight_smile:" 38,65125,2019-11-22T11:14:16.807Z,65077,anon3031202475,anon1314804036,Yes it is the same link. Will add the Google calender link in a bit 39,65127,2019-11-22T11:15:00.109Z,65068,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,@anon3180318115 I am not sure what you are referring to? What profile? 40,65180,2019-11-22T16:00:03.145Z,60653,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"Hi all, I have introduced myself shortly here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-to-balance-the-needs-of-the-individual-and-the-collective-collective-intelligence-and-more/11559 And also talked to Soenke last week, and we happily got a good connection. I contribute to the area of collective intelligence in several ways as researcher and entrepreneur, and I take a mixed approach of Online and Offline methods and technologies and its combination. For example: - As Entrepreneur (and soanon3242181883 artist), at the yearly Build Peace Conference I organize workshops and interactive exhibitions on Co-creation. You can see 2 photos of the exhibition here: https://marshmallowsg.wixsite.com/buildpeace (this is a draft website that needs to still be finished) You see there my daughter and some screens and projections. We do this together. She is a Minecraft expert and she supports me to help others with the computers in case it is too much for me when there is too much people. We do exercises in which we use co-creation of the ideal home place for a person on paper, lego, and also on Minecraft. We learn to co-draw, co-decide, co-design, co-budget. - As researcher: I have for example co-written 4 projects to the Nesta call on Collective Intelligence. I hope that at least one of them gets some budget. One of the project ideas is about collective decision making tools, and a study of polarization/collaboration. Another one is related to intergenerational collective decision making. Another one is about Decentralized/Distributed Governance, and another one about Swarm Human Intelligence. Probably one of this projects ideas or the combination of all of them could be submitted to a H2020 call on democracy, collective decision making. We will be looking into this with @anon3180318115 - As a speaker, I work mostly on awareness, showing to people that we can transform the way we decide and do it collaboratively, also transform our organizations and in general society, for more participation, and horizontal organizations. Talks vary from TEDx, to other international conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Peace Movements. I can give a list of these but will only post the TEDx for now: https://youtu.be/fqR8OQ1u63Q I hope to collaborate with more people over here <3 Initially I feel that the collaboration will start with Soenke, probably with a follow up event in Brussels. Let's see how this unfolds... :slight_smile: Warm regards, Liliana." 41,65582,2019-11-25T07:57:26.922Z,65180,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"Thank you very much for this introduction @anon685777545! This sounds amazing! You mentioned that you are shortly hosting an event, could you tell us more about that?" 42,65600,2019-11-25T09:08:40.300Z,65180,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"@anon3449369942 and @anon51020356, Lylycarillo would also be interested in collaboration in Brussels." 43,65713,2019-11-25T15:16:00.282Z,60653,anon685777545,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:41, topic:11021""] shortly hosting an event [/quote] Hi @anon3031202475 , Yes, I am hosting the 'Cooperate at Scale' event, and it would be lovely to host it as part of the Anticipate project and also part of the Next Generation Internet activities. @anon3180318115 mentioned that some financial support could be given, and I will be happy to receive your support on how to adapt the content to receive support (adding Edgeryders as co-organizer? organizer?, mentioning the EU code for the projects?, adding an Edgeryders speaker?, adding an Anticipate speaker?). The link to the event is here: https://tiny.cc/cooperate The current program is the following: *Come and hear about Collaboration, Collective Intelligence and Next Generation Internet technologies that facilitate this to happen!* ***Schedule and Content:*** 09:00 am - Registration, coffee and networking 09:30 am - Welcome words, data and collective intelligence. By [Liliana Carrillo](https://twitter.com/lilicarrillof) 09:45 am - Keynote: Decentralized cooperation at Scale. By [Michel Bauwens](https://twitter.com/mbauwens) 10:15 am - E-Women, safer access to e-democracy. By [Anna Melenchuk](https://twitter.com/anna_melenchuk) 10:30 am - Global border-less democracy, Open Source. By [Paula Berman](https://twitter.com/_paulaberman) 10:45 am - Panel: Intelectual Property for Collaboration. How to protect your ideas and inventions from theft? With [Alain Souloumiac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-souloumiac-75442610/), [Dick Van Gelder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickvangelder/), [Elena Bachert](https://starks.be/en/starks-team/elena-bachert/), [Reinhard Dhondt](https://starks.be/en/starks-team/reinhard-dhondt/) Moderator: [Philippe Van Impe](https://twitter.com/pvanimpe) 11:45 am - Coffee/tea break - Networking 12:15 am - Holochain Meetup: Introduction and Q&A. By [Raphi See](https://twitter.com/RaphiSee). 12:45 am - Closing words & networking 13:00 pm - Doors close." 44,65716,2019-11-25T15:22:18.775Z,65600,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:42, topic:11021""] @anon3449369942 and @anon51020356 [/quote] Thanks @anon3031202475 for moving this forward! @anon3449369942, @anon51020356, I have had a great talk with @anon3180318115, and we would like to have some follow up meetup in Brussels. I am in Amsterdam at the moment as I am one of the Speakers at the European Women in Tech conference, and for this reason I will not be able to attend the first Anticipate event in Germany. How do you recommend us to move forward? I would like to host it as DigitYser. And one idea can be to work with Minecraft as I do it with my daughter, for co-creation of the ideal community, on paper, with lego and digitally." 45,65914,2019-11-26T17:53:54.721Z,65713,anon685777545,anon685777545,"[quote=""anon685777545, post:43, topic:11021""] ‘Cooperate at Scale’ event [/quote] Hi @anon3031202475, To move this event forward, and reuse materials, I would like some volunteers to take photos and films the talks. Could you help me to find volunteers for this an other things? Also, to try to make it for EU funds around the festival, please send me the form that needs to be filled in, and we do our best till the end, and hope for the best :slight_smile: as said in the call. Thanks in advance! Warm regards, Liliana." 46,66119,2019-11-28T09:56:51.011Z,65914,anon3031202475,anon685777545,"form is send. @anon51020356, do you no people in Brussels who would be interested going there and taking some pictures?" 47,66120,2019-11-28T09:58:03.965Z,66119,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"@anon685777545, can you make a new topic post such as this one from anon3180318115 in the top, including the FAQ there and I will tagg it accordingly to push it to the website and festival programm" 48,66242,2019-11-28T17:39:30.849Z,66120,anon685777545,anon3031202475,"@anon3180318115 The event has been published here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/cooperation-at-scale-next-generation-collective-intelligence-and-internet/11989/2 Thanks @anon3180318115 @anon3031202475 @anon3449369942 for your support! I will start to sent the attendees to the event page." 1,65001,2019-11-21T14:39:02.332Z,65001,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"Hi everyone, Thank you for a meaningful exchange - it was a pleasure. Three hours of intense conversation later, it feels like we are just beginning to scratch the surface. So we are going to do three things to help move this discussion forward: 1. **Collect everyone's notes from the workshop here on the platform so everyone can access them.** 2. **Use them to produce a report following the same methodology we used to produce this one (on a different topic):** [263421647-Can-networked-communities-steward-public-assets-at-scale.pdf|attachment](upload://mxtpwvnuU9VbxBB1aZtM9lZ2dqW.pdf) (37.1 MB) 3. **Organise a second event in Brussels soon, maybe even in December.** But we cannot do it without you support! **You can help by:** logging into your edgeryders.eu account. And then posting one comment below answering this question: ## What did you learn during the event ,and what would you like to further explore with others?


cc: @anon @anon1505367078 " 2,65005,2019-11-21T15:04:38.640Z,65001,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,"Thanks so much @anon3449369942 for organizing such an important event on such a crucial topic. For me the most important takeaways for now (as you said, we've just started scratching the surface of something so detrimental) are the following: 1. we need to increase tech literacy about the systems in place: if we (individuals, governments, policymakers) don't know how the black boxes work, how do we know that what they promise us is actually what results they give us. How can we question outcomes if we aren't informed about the manner in which the systems arrive at conclusions? 2. we also need to understand the tipping point into creating action: when was the last time you really got upset and demanded change? The problem lays again with the fact that we often don't even know about the injustices (from increased traffic, to the inability to speak to people instead of machines). This topic I think relates to the first point. We can't be angry to the point of taking action (protests, etc), if we don't even realize/understand where the injustice is coming from. Side note: we may even want to take it further: should we use certain systems if we don't know how they work? 3. If actors say they need certain systems, we need to ask them why. Why not do it by hand? The idea is that these systems will solve everything, but they are just accelerating broken systems. Looking forward to hear what the other people at the event found most interesting! And looking forward seeing everyone again :)" 3,65012,2019-11-21T15:26:58.152Z,65005,anon3809206126,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:2, topic:11694""] if we (individuals, governments, policymakers) don’t know how the black boxes work, how do we know that what they promise us is actually what results they give us. [/quote] We were in different groups, @anon2926706121, but we arrived to the same conclusion: > In general, **the group felt the need to spend anon4292955258 some time to get a grip on a shared idea of what AI actually is** , and how it works, before he could discuss its regulation. Occasionally, the discussion veered into being anon4292955258 technical, and not everybody could follow it all the time, even if we had an over-representation of computer scientists and digital activists. This is in itself a result: if this crowd struggles to get it, democratic participation is going to be pretty difficult for the general public. The whole thing is here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-i-learned-on-regulating-ai-and-a-human-centric-internet/11699" 4,65088,2019-11-22T08:43:21.823Z,65001,anon4261882768,anon3449369942,"### Participation This is a short text about an evening in Brussels on AI hosted and organized by Edgeryders. I am not going to focus one what was said but on the process of participation. For me this begins with the invitation: “We would love to invite you as a speaker. If you think it would make sense we are happy to also invite for example one of the coauthors you mentioned in the post on the topic (https://edgeryders.eu/t/19-11-brussels-workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them/10326/40).” This is a clever invitation. It flatters the invitee a bit, I am invited as a speaker and it is clear that some homework was done. I am being invited because of some content I co-wrote, so it also attempts to bring in significant others as well as pointing me to the fact that I am invited not because of work that I wrote alone but that I co-wrote, in participation. Very hard to resist. So I say yes and I plan my trip to The Netherlands around it. Would I have done this if I was not invited as a speaker? I don’t think so. So when afterwards it turns out that there are no speakers at all, ‘just’ participants, I have to realize and reflect on this fact that I probably would have missed out on this evening if I had not been invited to speak. Being used to being invited as a speaker I think back to all these meetings I have not joined not being invited as one and so I am left with having to reflect on my own behavior and patterns. As it turned out, everybody was to be a speaker. Two groups were formed. In the middle of each five chairs are placed. A larger circle is around them. The organizers have invited four people in each group to sort of kick off the discussion. T he fifth chair is for a participant. Interestingly as a personal reflection I was not even invited to ’speak’ as on of the first four, which I found again anon4292955258 well done and a good lesson in ego management. I actually wonder now if not everyone was invited as a speaker? Two rounds of an hour. The format sparks people bringing ideas and content, not so much hard personal opinions. I decide to listen. Recently I bring pen and paper to Conferences and meetings like this, so I listen better. Otherwise mails keep popping up or I start to Twitter. I hear a lot of good things. After the break into the second round @anon3809206126 to taps me on the knee and tells he he is going to call me in. I whisper ‘No’ at first as I am happy ‘just’ listening, but Ok I think I am here and I have story so why not. I go the chair in the middle and after a while I slip out again. Discussion. Nice. Then I make a quick remark from my outer seat chair. Two people grumble a bit. After all the rule is: if you want to talk you have to go the middle chair. I am thinking I am not going to that chair just to say this one line. So I do it again. This time there is an angry reaction and muffled shout: Go to the middle! I am not doing that, but I realize another very significant part of the process. A part that I always knew existed and even plan for, but now the obviousness is palpable as is the tension. I realize that for me the rule of speak in middle chair is anon4292955258 arbitrary and actually has been conjured up with all of us in plain view. Yet even if that ‘rule’, that ‘format’ is arbitrary and in existence as temporary as the ‘group’ exists, some people - some intelligence with particular characteristics - is taking this so serious that is has become the next normal and must be adhered to. That is a very logical and normal position. I am not right in my view to immediately subvert an attempt to arbitrary format making. I am entitled to it. I do it. But the right of another not to do that is just as logical sound and morally just. So I am living, being very embodied in this ‘process’ as there is real tension (for a while) a very important participatory design process lesson: ‘design’ the format and design unraveling the format while taking into account the opposition against that and make this realization part of the process for all. This evening was able to bring it very significant and important questions for my own practice that is very relevant to the co-creation, participation and community management that I do daily. As such the process does reflect on the contents of what was discussed; how can we bring about a greater sense of co design of citizens in the new technologies that seem to emerge anon4292955258 distinct from other human needs and longings?" 5,65128,2019-11-22T11:17:37.219Z,65088,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"@anon4261882768 I took the liberty of moving your post onto this topic, which collects ex-post impressions from the event. If you don't like this, just let me knwo and I will move it right back." 6,65148,2019-11-22T13:12:08.644Z,65001,anon196034329,anon3449369942,"Here are a few notes from my side about content I found notable during the workshop. ## Workshop notes * **Value-based software architecture.** Scuttlebutt deprioritized making their software available for multiple devices based on their values of ""this being software that is made for people who only have one device"". That's a major architectural decision, which might not be possible to adjust later without rewriting the whole software. So they really poured their values into their software. In comparison, politics is not yet good at getting its values implemented into technological developments. So we need a better process that implements our values into our technology. It's about a process strong in accountability. * **What is human?** If an actor (any party / organization) says they are human centric, they often do not even define what ""human centric"" means in their case. For example, ""human"" in ""European human centric Internet"" is left undefined. This generates conflict potential, as it stays so general. * **The economics behind AI.** There's an interesting study of ""the cost of developing a universal chips after the end of Moore's law"". It means that now that we're at the end of Moore's law, the money sunk into developing faster chips is unlikely to come back. So instead the industry took a risk by developing *specialized* chips. There are two main types of such chips: AI and blockchain. That's the only reason why AI became a hype and we're talking about it: it is pushed on us, because industry needed a new profitable outlet for investments, and high levels of capital investment are backing AI already. ""If we are not buying it, it's going to go down. If we are not buying it, we are going to go down."" We are still in the process of making that choice if we (also: the Commission) want to invest money into AI. * **Good and bad AI architecture.** Let's differentiate between ""AI for research and solutions"" and ""AI for the production of services"". The first type is benign research aimed to solve intricate problems, for example done by universities. The second type is commercial SaaS software that scoops in data out of profit interest of the company. Maybe Google maps might in the future adapt your routing so that you see adverts of parties that paid Google for audience for these adverts. This means: the problem of this is about the economics of who runs the datacenters: Amazon and Microsoft and Google built ""clouds"", data centers for people to run their applications. Due to economics of scale, they provide the cheapest solution, but also are able to monitor and keep the data going through them. This is an undemocratic process for plain economic reasons, and it's a hard problem to crack. * **The structure defines the function.** The type of governance structure defines how a new technology gets used. So it may be that we have allowed the wrong governance structures to happen, which will lead to the wrong outcomes of AI technology. In addition, Google and Facebook have been advertising companies but are not anymore – trying to rule them in as advertisers with regulation is already not applicable anymore, instead we should rule in their new structure of ""AI first"" companies. * **Is AI anti-human by definition?** What AI (as rebranded Bayesian statistics) does is to put the individual differences between human beings (everyone's ""spark of the divine"") into the epsilon, the error term at the end of the equation. That makes AI non-human-centric by design. Because the definition of human for an individual is ""that which cannot be predicted by AI, which is not part of the 'normal'"". * **On tech interfering with relationships.** Intermediating the patient-doctor relationship with data collecting and analyzing systems has degraded the value of that relationship. Because medicine is not about diagnosis, but prognosis: improving a patient's future condition, and that is a negotiation with the individual, and that individual might be very much non-average, refusing certain treatments etc., and should have and keep a right to that individualness. That still allows for tech systems that could benefit relationships – it's just that the tech systems we have currently in medicine do not do that. ## Personal reflections I want to clearly distinguish between systems of exploitation and the technology itself. Any system of exploitation, including capitalism, will find and use *any* new technological option in exploitative ways. The history of digital innovation and media innovation in more general is anon4292955258 rich in that: before AI for behavior prediction it has been targeted advertising, tracking, mass surveillance programs by governments, weaponized drones, propaganda micro-targeting, mass media use for state propaganda etc.. That's purely a social problem, not a technological one. Adding one more technology cannot make it much worse … nukes are already around, so what technology could offer significantly worse potential outcomes? So to deal with it, you don't have to make legislation for AI, but against capitalism. AI in itself is a nice tool in the toolkit, and easily allows for beneficial use. Personal example: my [open source coffee sorter](/t/7122) project uses deep learning based image classifiers to relieve small-scale farmers from sorting your coffee by hand." 7,65576,2019-11-25T07:43:48.397Z,65001,anon2177525983,anon3449369942,"Thank you again for this amazing workshop last week. It was so amazing in my eyes. And I will commit to see more often my friends Alberto & Noemi at the Reef :) Here are my note, sorry if they seem not so structured (btw zoliver@anon AI used to enhance the quality of life, and not be a target to reduce my capacity of life Reduce the risks of an illness, not be targeted as a group of people to raise my insurance How to consider Just or Unjust….? What is good or bad? AI and rape cases, unrich the true experience of people by categorizing them… :o Participatory art/culture – Nice to break the boxes and free the space where all the people are free to ‘fit-in’ because it’s larger than the boxes that society design for us Unbias yourself, uncategorize you from Facebook, so harder then for algo to classify me Collective intelligence What do I want to get known, or to share, to the algorithm? Can I choose based on my behavior on Facebook? Add noise to the browser history – Add-on Norms from the West – AMERICA - are transferred for all around the world. Instagram skin colors Collective intervention What about people that have to check at dirt rate the content to ban? Ubdi.com – Universal Income – mydata.org Decode Barcelona MyData Operator > the firewall for data for consumers. Algorithms are feature based. There are no human caracs that could be fitted in features Second part: Human centric Use the anger to organize and respond in an intelligent way Optimisation algorithms, blocking streets for Ways cars (Ways? Waymo?) Facebook optimizes not on your interests but on the money you bring with ads How to upset an AI? :o Disruptive the distributed system" 8,66106,2019-11-28T09:03:28.488Z,65148,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:6, topic:11694""] now that we’re at the end of Moore’s law [/quote] Are we really? @anon1119284955 was very much doubting that, and remarked that, in general, this account of the AI hype does not seem correct to him." 1,64278,2019-11-15T17:15:14.397Z,64278,anon334656980,anon334656980,"Hello! I’m Elenor, I study at changecourse.se, exploring social entrepreneurship and leadership. I also run the platform https://handlingar.se/ where you can request public documents and use freedom of information law digital. And in a few weeks you will hear me in Civic Tech Swedens new podcast about civic tech. https://civictech.se/ During this year I have been exploring and researching what tech initiatives there are in Stockholm for children and youth to learn tech outside of regular school as a leisure activity. With the emerging shortage of 70 000 IT-workers per year in Sweden (such as programmers, developers, technicians https://www.itot.se/2017/11/it-kompetensbristen-en-rapport-om-den-svenska-digitala-sektorns-behov-av-spetskompetens/), Sweden is in danger of falling behind when it comes to digitalisation and internet development. I believe that if we introduce and teach tech to youth early, there is a bigger chance they would have an interest in the topic later in life, and even when “choosing” a career. I want to start a tech-school that compliments the other tech-initiatives in Stockholm. Ideally this tech school would: Teach and use FOSS Not be on a volunteering basis Be outside of Stockholm, where the other initiatives does not reach. (And in the future, the whole of Sweden) Also focus on schools and teachers, change school curriculums to focus more on tech and educate about opportunities of programs for learning. Some of the question I still have to think more about: How this school would survive economical How to teach and use FOSS (and how you only do that?) The basic layout of the school. Who to collaborate with. Please reach out if you have any experience or comments about this. I hope to see a lot of you at the Teaching Teachers Open Source workshop in a few weeks!" 2,64284,2019-11-15T18:13:38.223Z,64278,anon1505367078,anon334656980,"[quote=""anon334656980, post:1, topic:11562""] I hope to see a lot of you at the Teaching Teachers Open Source workshop in a few weeks! [/quote] Welcome! I will be at the workshop. Very happy to see you here on Edgeryders. I also run the Blivande house where the workshop will be hosted." 3,64286,2019-11-15T18:22:04.109Z,64278,anon3449369942,anon334656980,"Hey Elenor, welcome to Edgeryders :)" 4,64289,2019-11-15T19:46:07.343Z,64284,anon334656980,anon1505367078,Thanks! Cool! See you there :slight_smile: 5,64292,2019-11-15T19:47:00.528Z,64286,anon334656980,anon3449369942,Thanks!! :slight_smile: 6,64390,2019-11-17T09:23:26.171Z,64278,anon3031202475,anon334656980,ping @anon683229855 super interesting people at your workshop :) 7,64399,2019-11-17T14:43:27.824Z,64278,anon683229855,anon334656980,"I'm reading all the exciting posts and I'll spend next week updating and interacting as much as I can. Its overwhelming how much potential this community has. I think this workshop has potential to be something special." 8,66051,2019-11-27T16:59:40.365Z,64278,anon3031202475,anon334656980,"@anon334656980 , just a quick reminder for the Edgeryders [Teaching Teachers Open Source workshop](https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881). **The workshop takes place tomorrow:** 28:th November - 10:00 - 17:00+ Södra Hamnvägen 9 (Hus Blivande, [Directions 1](https://goo.gl/maps/euAuAP2LDFBDrvb6A) here) Lunch included (nice and vegetarian) Would be a perfect fit for you!" 1,65629,2019-11-25T11:48:49.090Z,65629,anon2486727592,anon2486727592,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** Work as key account manager selling a platform to make it easier for students and teachers to use learning tools across the web to integrate them into the curriculum. All-in-one learning platform. I am here to listen to teachers work and learn so we can update content on the platform. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** For me internet is most important to stay in touch with relatives or friends all over the world. That makes me hopeful. What makes me happy: I recently read a study that young people find social media that interesting anymore and that they use the internet in a more educative way. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** Actually, the first keynote speaker talked about how easy it is to manipulate Google searches? It made me angry because it showed how easy it is to spread inaccurate information, fake news, misinformation. The impact of it is scary. This impacts my life because I need to get even more careful of reading what other people have written or how they get their information. **name:** anon2486727592" 2,65649,2019-11-25T12:22:10.400Z,65629,anon3031202475,anon2486727592,"@anon2486727592 great to have you here! We are actually hosting an event on Thursday the 28th in Stockholm, to further the use and learning of opensource software in teaching which might be interesting for you: https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881 Tell us a bit more about your work and come by if you can. Or if not we would love to loop you in the online discussion of the topic here :). there are also many interesting learning platform projects on Edgeryders, see for example this thread: https://edgeryders.eu/t/building-networks-for-learning-how-can-i-build-a-sustainable-peer-peer-learning-community-for-social-entrepreneurs/10740 Looking forward to talking more and learn from each other! ping @anon683229855" 3,65759,2019-11-25T19:16:26.973Z,65649,anon683229855,anon3031202475,You are much welcome! 4,66050,2019-11-27T16:58:54.031Z,65629,anon3031202475,anon2486727592,"@anon2486727592 just a quick reminder for the Edgeryders [Teaching Teachers Open Source workshop](https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881). **The workshop takes place tomorrow:** 28:th November - 10:00 - 17:00+ Södra Hamnvägen 9 (Hus Blivande, [Directions 1](https://goo.gl/maps/euAuAP2LDFBDrvb6A) here) Lunch included (nice and vegetarian) Would be a perfect fit for you!" 1,65872,2019-11-26T14:19:11.169Z,65872,anon2709265695,anon2709265695,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** I am a technical consultant in identity and access management for municipalities? Work a lot with federations. Networking on the event and getting new knowledge. Exciting topics were the talk about social hacking. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** Sharing information, collective intelligence. Professionally how to achieve goals and collaborate. Internet is privately really important to follow on interests and share with friends. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** Afraid that information about me is used in ways that I don't like. Like googling airtickets to Mexico and my wife getting an email about my travels to Mexico. It's anon4292955258 hard not to give away data. I want to use those services, but there is a dillemma we have to deal with. I don't trust any service on the internet. Because there is always someone who wants to take money or wants to take control over my experience. **name:** anon2709265695" 2,66035,2019-11-27T15:59:08.231Z,65872,anon2434097920,anon2709265695,"Welcome @anon2709265695 I think not trusting an online service is a good default. A service should win one's trust, not assume it. Even we here should always remember that." 1,65845,2019-11-26T12:02:21.900Z,65845,anon621183589,anon621183589,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Jag har jobbat med internet, egentligen, från när det började. Satt och såg på Clinanon2317280404 och Bildt när de skickade mejl 1993. Mosaik, som browsern hette. Var konsult inom informatik. Hade mycket tid för jag bodde i en annan stad än jag ville. Var i Japan och bevakade IT- och teknikområdet åt sveriges tekniska attachéer. Jobabde med offentlig upphandling. Hamnade på sveriges radio och var tillförordnad chef för it-arktiekterna. Är på Kungliga vetenskapsakademin, ansvarig för påverkansprojekt för samhällets utveckling. Det har varit flera trådar, men it-relaterat från när internet kom igång i sin moderna form. Det är tredje året i rad jag är här den här omgången. I början av 00-talet var jag här. Bra tillfälle att lyssna på människor och se vart utvecklanon2926706121n är på väg. Vi på IVA startar nya projekt som handlar om digitalisering för välfärd. Har lyssnat på spåren med offentlig sektor och AI. lär känna människorna, hör problembeskrivningar och var det finns luckor i diskussionen. Våra rekommendationer är ofta policyskapande. **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** Nu. alldeles nyss. Jag är alltid blandat hoppfull och förskräckt. Oftast hoppfull. Är väldigt fascinerad över framtiden, och tycker om att se på filmer och läsa böcker. Nu är det om Ai och vart det ska ta vägen,. För 20 år sedan handlade det om webben och vilka möjligheter det kan föra med sig. Där är vi nu. Satt med i SVT:s Rapport morgon när jag kom tillbaka från Japan år 2000. Eva Hamilanon2317280404 var reporter. Det var om reklamfilmerna, hur de skulel bli när vi hade de färgglada mobilerna. “Det blir väl dyrt,” sade hon. Sedan dog den diskussionen. Det går framåt med raska steg. Det är i början av sin utveckling, egentligen. Det finns mycket kvar att göra. Mycket spännande. Är man med och försöker bidra med sunt förnuft och på ett klokt sätt kan man bidra till att det blir mer hoppfullt. Några särskilda tekniker. Den här diskussionen senaste året och mycket idag kring vår integritet och den data som visserligen behövs för att AI och det ska funka, men den måste göras tillgänglig för den nyttan samtidigt som den är skyddad så att man känner sig trygg i att inte bli utnyttjad. Den diskussionen känns helt rätt. Lyssnade nyss på en politiker. Det måste göras precis så, sade han. Hoppfullt att höra politiker säga det. Sedan kom näringslivstoippar från Microsoft och IBM som bara kunde hålla med. De var förvånade, så brukar det inte låta. Möjgligen händer något även i politiken **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** Fick alldeles nyss SMS från någon som hette Vanessa som hade en mystisk webbadress. Ville träffas… sådant får man inte varje dag, men man hör talas om människor som inte begriper att det är något dåligt. Så klickar man på webbadressen så är det igång. Man ser närmaste kretsen med släktingar och vänner. Barnen klarar sig lite ifrån sådant. Men när folk råkar ut för sådnat är det tråkigt. Synd att det finns människor som inte har skrupler utan försöker utnyttja människor på det sättet. Framtida tekniker. artificiell intelligens, på det sättet som Max Tegmark beskriver i sin bok Livet 3.0. Om det går åt det hållet, att vi lyckas skapa generellt AI och det kommer ut utan kontroll, utan att vi satt regler och principer. Det är ett skräckscenario. Även om vi inte kommer så långt, att onda krafter, brottslingar och skurkstater utnyttjar kraftfull teknologi till att bygga vapen eller göra terroristattentat eller ha ihjäl folk. Inte svårt att komma på de scenarierna. Tyvärr finns krafter som vill ditåt. Även cyberintrång att man stänger ner länders infrastruktur, bara för att man kan. Sådant är naturligtvis skrämmande och obehagligt. Angående IVA. det börjar komma igång lite. IVA har inte varit så fokuserat på IT-relaterade frågor. Det har gjorts försök och nu hra vi satt igång igen med “digitalisering för ökad konkurrenskraft”. Förutom att se vad vi kan göra för välfärden tittar vi på cybersäkerhet. Försvarsmakten söker gärna samarbete med svenska kraftnät och energisektorn som väl känner till de hot och teknniker och åtgärder som skulle behövas. Har varit attacker i Ukraina och andra sätllen. Vinnova och andra som begriper problematiken och satsar. På KTH finns forskare som jobba med det. Många aktörer som vill träffas. IVA är den aktören som är den oberoende mötesplatsen för den typen av möten och diskussioner. **name:** anon621183589" 2,65866,2019-11-26T13:53:50.367Z,65845,anon1505367078,anon621183589,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you on the Internet Days?** I've been working with the internet, really, from when it started. Saw Clinanon2317280404 and Bildt when they sent emails in 1993. Mosaic, which the browser was called. Been a consultant in informatics. Had a lot of time because I lived in a different city than I wanted. Was in Japan and monitored the IT and technology area for Sweden's technical attaché. Worked on public procurement. Ended up on Sweden's radio and was acting chief of IT architecture. I'm now at the Royal Academy of Sciences, responsible for impact projects for the development of society. There have been several threads, but IT-related from when the internet got started in its modern form. This is the third year in a row I'm here. Good opportunity to listen to people and see where the development is going. We at IVA are launching new projects that are about digitization for welfare. Have listened to the tracks with the public sector and AI. get to know the people, hear problem descriptions and where there are gaps in the discussion. Our recommendations are often policy-making. **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** Now, just now. I'm always both hopeful and scared. Mostly hopeful. Am very fascinated about the future, and enjoy watching movies and reading books. Now it's about Ai and where to go. 20 years ago it was about the web and what opportunities it could bring. There we are now. I was on SVT's Report tomorrow when I returned from Japan in 2000. Eva Hamilanon2317280404 was a reporter. It was about the commercials, how they would become when we had the colorful mobile phones. ""It'll be expensive,"" she said. That's how the conversation ended. It is moving forward with rapid steps. It is at the beginning of its development, really. There is much left to do. Very exciting. If you try and contribute with common sense and in a wise way, you might help make it more hopeful. The discussion last year and a lot today about our integrity and the data, that is certainly needed for AI and it to work, but it must be made available for that benefit while being protected so that you feel secure in not being exploited. That discussion feels just right. Just listened to a politician. It has to be done just like that, he said. Hopeful, to hear politicians say that. Then came business executives from Microsoft and IBM that could only agree. That was surprising, that is not usually how it sounds. Possibly something will also happen in politics. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** Just received a text message from someone named Vanessa who had a mysterious URL. Wanted to meet… you don't get that every day, but you hear about people who don't understand that something is bad. So they click on the URL. You see the closest circle of relatives and friends. It is a pity that there are people who do not have scruples but try to exploit people in that way. Future technologies. artificial intelligence, in the way Max Tegmark describes in his book Life 3.0. If it goes in that direction, we succeed in creating general AI and it comes out without control, without setting rules and principles. It's a horror scenario. Even if we do not get that far, evil forces, criminals and rogue states use powerful technology to build weapons or make terrorist attacks or kill people. It's not hard to come up with those scenarios. Unfortunately, there are forces that want to go there. Also cyber intrusion that you shut down countries' infrastructure, just because you can. Such things are of course scary and unpleasant. Regarding IVA and AI, it's getting started a anon222512824. IVA has not been so focused on IT-related issues. Attempts have been made and now we hope we have started again with ""digitization for increased competitiveness"". In addition to seeing what we can do for welfare, we look at cyber security. The Armed Forces are happy to seek cooperation with the Swedish power grid and the energy sector, who are well aware of the threats and techniques and measures that would be needed. There have been attacks in Ukraine and other palces. Vinnova and others who understand the problem and make investments. At KTH, there are researchers working on it. Many people who want to meet. IVA is the player that is the independent meeting place for these types of meetings and discussions." 3,65874,2019-11-26T14:45:23.464Z,65845,anon1505367078,anon621183589,"Hi @anon621183589, and welcome to Edgeryders. Regarding healthcare and welfare, a couple of years ago we worked on OpenCare, which identified anon4292955258 a few interesting tech-based social innovations by communities in Europe: http://opencare.cc/ I also think that the work of @anon1119284955 might be relevant to look at. https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-rush-to-implement-ai-too-widely-and-simplistically-could-have-disastrous-consequences/11571 Also, this: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-i-learned-on-regulating-ai-and-a-human-centric-internet/11699 Ping @anon3449369942, we might want to involve IVA in the future." 4,65877,2019-11-26T15:04:08.595Z,65866,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:2, topic:11932""] We at IVA [/quote] [quote=""anon1505367078, post:2, topic:11932""] I was on SVT’s Report [/quote] What are IVA and SVT? :question: [quote=""anon621183589, post:1, topic:11932""] Mosaik, som browsern hette. [/quote] I had Mosaic! It was the first graphic web browser, before it we would use text-based ones. It later became Mozilla, that then was changed into the name of the org that made it. I am typing this on the remote descendant of Mosaic. :smile:" 5,65879,2019-11-26T15:06:12.203Z,65877,anon1505367078,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:4, topic:11932""] What are IVA and SVT? [/quote] [IVA is the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences](https://www.iva.se/en/) and SVT is the Swedish public service television." 6,65965,2019-11-26T23:47:19.858Z,65877,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"Mosaic was recoded and improved to become Netscape. AOL bought Netscape and later gave away the source code. That became Mozilla, named in homage to the Netscape mascot." 7,65967,2019-11-26T23:47:48.575Z,65965,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"Netscape, correct!" 8,65968,2019-11-26T23:48:26.109Z,65967,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,Somewhere I have a Netscape pocket knife tool.. 9,65969,2019-11-26T23:55:47.527Z,65968,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"... which still cuts, unlike Netscape itself. :smiley:" 1,65578,2019-11-25T07:44:46.716Z,65578,anon3757487869,anon3757487869,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Jag jobbar på inteernetstiftelsen, är DNS specialist. Nordic Domain Days på andra dagen är något jag håller i. Jag tränar judo, har fyra barn. Läser science fiction! **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** Det är jag varje dag! Det är en svår fråga. imagiLab gjorde mig glad, programmering för tjejer. Jag tycker om att jobba med unga människor, det är spännande. **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** Varje gång jag öppnar Facebook. Det gör jag inte så ofta längre. Folk har varken vett eller etiquette. Den ena hälften tycker att allt är intressant, den andra hälften tycker att de kan slänga ur sig vad som helst. Jag förstår det inte. **name:** anon3757487869" 2,65579,2019-11-25T07:51:25.025Z,65578,anon1505367078,anon3757487869,"Hej @anon3757487869! Kul att snacka! Vi höll precis Science Fiction Economics Lab: https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-science-fiction-economics-lab-brussels-november-11th/10794 [Se en inspelning från vår livestream här](http://live.edgeryders.eu/). Kom förbi igen om du vill veta mer, eller utforska plattformen." 3,65720,2019-11-25T15:33:46.366Z,65578,anon1505367078,anon3757487869,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you on the Internet Days?** I work at the internet foundation, am a DNS specialist. Nordic Domain Days on the second day is something I host. I practice judo, have four children. Love reading science fiction! **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** I am, every day! It's a hard question. imagiLab that I saw here today made me happy, programming for young girls. I enjoy working with young people, it's exciting. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** Every time I open Facebook. I don't do that very often anymore. People have neither sense nor etiquette. One half thinks that everything is interesting, the other half thinks that they can throw anything out. I don't get it." 4,65960,2019-11-26T23:30:51.221Z,65720,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,"GReetings @anon3757487869 I'm sorry I don't know Swedish. We have a few things in common I think, though I don't know judo. I have 4 kids too..though they are not kids anymore. I enjoy working with young people (Even worked with teens for a couple of years), and...""I don't get it."" Me either, pretty much. I cope with Facebook using it as a kind of party substitute. Lots of short conversations about whatever comes up that is interesting then it breaks up and reforms in some other way. I don't see much garbage in practice, though I know it is all over the place out there. I have a few friends who have seriously opposing political views with most of my other friends. Usually they coexist well enough. But i have ditched a couple of old friends who were just too insulting. Facebook censored something I said a couple of weeks ago. That was weird. Didn't like that." 1,65594,2019-11-25T08:49:32.782Z,65594,anon3185465008,anon3185465008,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Jag är på internetdagarna för att det är intressanta talare och för att träffa mitt nätverk i den här svängen. Folk som jobbar med digitala och sociala medier. Jag är kommunikatör. Jag har tidigare stort engagemang för att främja tjejer att söka till teknikyrken, och i vår ska jag gå ett 12 veckors program för att bli javautvecklare! **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** När jag såg Edgeryders grafvisualisering. Det gör mig glad att se hur man kan visualisera det som annars är ogreppbart. Tänker på tex Hampus Brynolf gjorde visualiseringar över Twitter-census. Förut kunde man få ut data från Twitters API, och han plockade ut vad olika svenska twittrare hörde ihop och vad de hade gemensamt. **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** När jag ser människor skriva snäva och jobbiga saker, en smal världsbild. Problemet med obehagliga, misogyna socialt missanpassade personer är att för 30 år sedan satt de i någon källare och var konstiga hade de anon2926706121t annat val än att socialiseras in i en gemenskap eller vara ensamma. Idag kan de istället hitta varandra och bygga en gemenskap runt de värderingarna. Det finns en stor positiv sida av det såklart. Nördarnas revanch. De har gjort klivet ut. Men även de som är obehagliga på ett farligt sätt hittar sammanhang utan att behöva socialiseras ut ur sina extrema åsikter. **name:** anon3185465008" 2,65595,2019-11-25T08:53:44.069Z,65594,anon3031202475,anon3185465008,"https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881 @anon3185465008 this is the event we talked about at Internetdagarna, please share with your network! :)" 3,65596,2019-11-25T08:55:22.966Z,65594,anon1505367078,anon3185465008,"Also, check this out, relates to you thoughts on radicalization: https://edgeryders.eu/t/preliminary-ethnographic-thoughts-on-poprebel-international-english-language/11518" 4,65699,2019-11-25T14:38:51.755Z,65594,anon1505367078,anon3185465008,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you at the Internet Days?** I am at the internet days because there are interesting speakers and to meet my network in this context. People who work with digital and social media. I'm a communicator. I have a strong commitment to promoting girls to apply to the tech sector, and this spring I will be doing a 12 week program to become a Java developer! **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** When I saw Edgeryder's graph visualization. It makes me happy to see how you can visualize what is otherwise intangible. Thinking of eg Hampus Brynolf made visualizations over the Swedish Twitter census. Previously, it was possible to get data from Twitter's API, and he picked out what different contexts Swedish twitters belonged to and what they had in common. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** When I see people writing with a narrowminded worldview. The problem with unpleasant, misogynous, socially maladaptive people is that 30 years ago they sat in some basement and were strange they had no choice but to socialize into a community or be alone. Today, they can instead find each other and build a community around those values. There is a big positive side to it, of course. The revenge of the nerds. But that also means that those who are creepy find context with each other without having to be socialized out of their extreme opinions." 5,65957,2019-11-26T23:10:57.747Z,65699,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,"You raise many good points. A smart user has to think maybe like a bike rider on a road used by cars and trucks. Or SCUBA diving. Even if it is a pleasant day, or looking at the mind blowing fish, one must always be thinking of safety, what's in front of you, what is ahead of you. Also aikido - based around defense." 1,65637,2019-11-25T12:03:53.753Z,65637,anon3217375148,anon3217375148,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Jag är här för att titta efter potentianon1410463509 arbetsgivare. Men jag är också här för rättigheter på internet. Jag är rädd för övervakningssamhället samtidigt som jag ser mycket bra med tekniken. **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** När tekniken kan jämna ut sociala orättvisor och jämna ut maktbalansen. Att ha kontakt med folk, att kunna ta kontakt med andra utan att behöva resa. **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** Vi övervakas och påverkas, det blir inte jämlikt om vi ser olika saker när vi googlar. Ansiktsigenkänning, tjallande på grannar. Den makten man får genom den mängden data gör mig rädd. **name:** anon3217375148" 2,65645,2019-11-25T12:10:54.211Z,65637,anon1505367078,anon3217375148,"Tack för snacket! Tänker att du kanske kan vara intresserad av några trådar på plattformen: Den här diskussionen från ett seminarium om digitala identiteter: https://edgeryders.eu/t/where-next-for-online-identities-notes-from-ngi-forum-from-workshop-1/10868 Det finns också lite längre analyser: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-the-future-of-civil-society-advocacy-look-like-given-the-prevalence-of-these-digital-technologies-and-their-impact-on-the-work-that-civil-society-is-currently-doing/11118 Vi hörs!" 3,65646,2019-11-25T12:11:14.804Z,65637,anon1505367078,anon3217375148,"Den här också! https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-i-learned-on-regulating-ai-and-a-human-centric-internet/11699" 4,65670,2019-11-25T12:57:22.168Z,65637,anon1505367078,anon3217375148,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you on the Internet Days?** I'm here to look for potential employers. But I'm also here for rights on the internet. I am scared of the surveillance society at the same time as I see good things about the technology. **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** When technology can even out social injustices and even out the balance of power. To have contact with people, to be able to contact others without having to travel. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** We are monitored and nudget, it's not equal if we see different things when we google. Face recognition and ratting out neighbors is also scary. The power you get through that amount of data makes me scared." 5,65956,2019-11-26T22:59:25.469Z,65637,anon2434097920,anon3217375148,">I am scared of the surveillance society at the same time as I see good things about the technology. @anon3217375148 I'm with you..I think we all are." 1,65863,2019-11-26T13:32:44.829Z,65863,anon1919330810,anon1919330810,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Jag jobbar på internetstiftelsen där jag leder arbetet med GOto10. Öppna mötesplatsen för innovation. Där hamnade jag för 2,5 år sedan för jag har starkt intresse för internet överlag. Vi måste öppna upp konversationen manon1410463509n olika sfärer och grupper och nätverk om internets utveckling och demokrati. Så vi får in olika perspektiv. Jag har tidigare bott nästan halva mitt liv utanför sverige. Kommer senast från Montreal i Kanada. Vill rota mig i Sverige igen, i alla fall ett tag. Det är kul. Mitt intresse från internet kommer från början från att förstå hur vi människor samexisterar. Intresset var kommunikation. Gick från att ha börjat studera European Studies, europastudier, till att tänka att det är jättebra kunskap, men jag behöver förstå hur vi samexisterar, skapar institutionerna och mening. Det var en annan bana - kommunikation. Kommunikation idag är svårt att tänka på utan att tänka på internet. Sedan gjorde jag en master i Montreal som hade starkt fokus på hur internetrelaterade communities arbetar för att få fram internet och vad dess teknik ska ha för betydelse, i form av frihet och andra betydelser vi ger till internet och vårt varande på internet. Jag är jätteintresserad av hur vi alltid försöker förhandla med varandra vad frihet betyder. Ett kontextuellt ämne. Vi har annan idé av frihet om vi snackar yttrandefrihet och åsiktsfrihet i Norden jämfört med nordamerika, men även asiatiska länder och Kiina, där vi har en annan relation till individuell/kollektivitet. Undrade hur vi förhandlar den friheten när det gäller internet. De teknikerna som alla använder. Hur förhandlar vi det? Vilket språk använder vi? Det resonerar med mig. Tittar mycket på kryptering och idén att kryptering ger oss en viss frihet. Jag tror det är första gången… en sådan kliché. Det var nog högstadiet eller gymnasiet, när jag läste 1984. Jag tycker frågor om makt, kontroll, dystopier, auktoritet och kollektivitet är superintressant. Idén om överrvakning är en subtil eller dold maktfaktor som är svår att förhålla sig till, för det är en maskin manon1410463509n dig och makten. det är anon2926706121n människa som förtrycker dig rakt, utan idén om en människa som kan finnas bakom en maskin. Sedan hur det påverkar oss och hur vi själva förstår frihet. Det tycker jag är jätteintressant. Har inte slutat intressera mig för det. Yttrandefrihet, att få tänka fritt, samtidigt hur vi ska respektera och ge lika möjligheter till alla. **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** det finns ju jättemånga spännande utvecklingar, egentligen. Vill inte nämna någon specifikt så, men just när man försöker hitta lösningar till problem som faktiskt är problem. Om vi nu ska huruvida till föreläsningarna här, ska det inte bara vara bullshitinnovationer. Vi har en otrolig kapacitet, egentligen. Det är inte tekniken jag är orolig för. Är egentligen hoppfull över all teknik. Det jag är orolig för är hur vi väljer att använda den. Någonting som gör mig hoppfull är att jag ser många människor som vill göra gott och ser teknik som gör det möjligt. Om vi tänker hur vi ska möta klimathotet och bygga ett säkrare internet, så klart. det finns en hel del teknik kring detta som man kan använda som vi inte behöver vara så rädda för. Om vi tar något mer konkret -trenden att stora teknikföretagen, som Apple och andra säger att personlig integritet är viktigt. Oavsett om de tycker det eller gör det för att behålla kunderna är irrelevant. Resultatet är säkrare kommunikation. Det är en positiv utveckling, att mer människor får vetskap om att det finns verktyg man kan använda för säkrare kommunikation och så. Det var en bred fråga. beroende på vilket ämne man väljer att prata om, i form av nya utvecklingar. Angående klimathotet. Även där finns så många lager. Om vi ser internet som ett samordnande verktyg där vi kan nå ut till fler människor, till communitys och prata om klimatförändring, och hur vi kan nå ut lokalt. Även tekniskt om man med hjälp av teknik kan visa upp, förstå hur vi bäst för ändra beteenden på ett sätt som blir hanterbart för var och en. Jag menar, många följer till exempel nyheterna. det är inte bra att köpa den här varan, den är inte bra för miljön. Då köper man någon annan. Svårt att veta vad som är bra och inte bra, hur man ska leva. Tänk om man genom all stora data som är tillgänglig lätt kunde se vilka beteenden vi borde och inte borde ta till oss för att veta impacten. Om vi bättre kunde koordinera och samordna kring efforts. Klimatrörelsen har kritiserats för att den inte kommer igång. Det har en uppsväng med Greta, men vad händer sedan? Många väntar på möjligheter att göra något, men vet inte vad. Vi kanske lättare kan tillhandahålla sådana möjligheter. I slutändan är det människorna. det finns så många möjligheter. Bara en fråga om hur vi använder dem. **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** Jag är rädd och bekymrad över hur vi bör använda tekniken som finns när fler människor blir rädda och bekymrade. När vi är rädda har vi en tendens att bli mer defensiva, mindre välkomnande och sprida mer ondska egentligen, mer hat och så. Då finns idag väldigt kraftfulla tekniker. det är just frågan om kontroll. En extrem centralisering av information och insamling av data till få företag. Men även den här trenden att vi vill känna oss säkra i alla omständigheter. Om vi pratar om teknik som Ring där privatpersoner vill sätta upp kameror för att bevaka närområdet, så att säga, som inte är polis eller så, med ansiktsigenkänning och liknande. Biometrics är också väldigt svårt. Särskilt mot utsatta grupper som behöver mer skydd. Det kan missbrukas på så många sätt. Nu när saker och ting är mindre stabilt politiskt och mer skört, så är det lite läskigt ibland när vi har så kraftfull teknik som man lätt kan ta mycket kontroll med. Det ser vi på olika platser i världen, att man stänger ner internet eller andra exempel på hur man övervakar eller hittar individer som inte gör det de ska enligt auktoriteterna på plats. Det har inte hänt ännu att det kommit någon där man inte tycker att de ska göra det de vill. Mötesplatsen GOTO10 är i tidigt stadie, att prova sin idé och se vad den kan leda till. Oftast vill människor alltid gott. Då måste man ge alla samma möjlighet att få prova först och se vad det kan leda till. Vissa idéer går jättebra, andra gör det inte, men alla måste få samma möjlighet. I bland har jag undrat vad det är egentligen. Idéer i tidiga stadier kan behöva formuleras lite mer. Men har inte stött på något än… jag har ställt kritiska frågor och hittills har allt varit väldigt bra. Måste vi jobba på annat sätt för att nya företag inte ska vara naiva? Ja, det hoppas jag och företag är mer medvetna. Fast break things var inte ett vinnande koncept. Fler förstår att man redan från start behöver tänka efter före. Så har vi rörelser som Slow tech, att man ska fundera mer på reglering och alla potentianon1410463509 negativa konsekvenser som en ny innovation, en ny teknik kan ha för potentianon1410463509 konsekvenser. Vems problem är det jag löser? Vem löser jag ett problem för? Är det ett problem som jag tror att alla människor möter eller om det är något jag bara träffar på. Och vem representerar jag egentligen? En liten grupp människor och ganska priviligerad. Kanske borde fråga och inkludera folk i den processen från start. Det börjar fler förstå. Det är avgörande. Det faktum att man pratar om etik i förhållande till teknikutveckling i studier, computer science och så vidare. Många akademiker har pratat om det under lång tid, särskilt de som inte läst techstudier men kanske tittat på tech utifrån. Som jag med kommunikation eller mediestudier, man ser på tech ur sociologiskt fokus med människan i centrum på något sätt. Man måste föra samman de två, det tror jag är avgörande. Om man tänker på frågor om ansvar. Vi har närmat oss den i flera keynotetal. Om piloter till exempel. Man använder den som en krockkudde när inte autopiloten funkar. Planet kraschar för piloten har inte erfarenheten, men får ansvaret för kraschen. Vi har många sådana situationer - vems är ansvaret egentligen? Om AI, det är jätteintressant i en krigszon eller som vapen, om vi sänder in drönare. Om de inte styrs av någon, om de bara har ett target… så blir det fel. Går människan fri från ansvar då? Är det den som skapat AI:n eller drönaren? Eller den som säger åt den att skjuta? Självklart måste vi fundera på de frågorna innan vi skickar ut en drönare. Det är svårt, många tycker att regelverket är för långsamt i förhållande till teknikutvecklanon2926706121n. Där behöver vi mer dialog manon1410463509n beslutfattare och teknikutvecklare. Det är det vi försöker göra här, samla folk inom utbildning, offentlig utveckling. Titta på frågor om hur nätet fungerar. Vi vill diskutera internets påverkan på samhället. **name:** anon1919330810" 2,65892,2019-11-26T15:59:42.725Z,65863,anon1505367078,anon1919330810,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you on the Internet Days?** I work at the internet foundation where I lead the work with GOTO10, an open meeting place for innovation. I ended up there 2.5 years ago because I have a strong interest in the internet overall. We must open up the conversation between different spheres and groups and networks about the development and democracy of the Internet. I have previously lived almost half my life outside of Sweden. Most recently in Montreal, Canada. I want to root myself in Sweden again, at least for a while. From the beginning, my interest in the internet comes from understanding how we, as humans, coexist. My interest was communication. I went from studying European Studies, to thinking that it is great knowledge, but I need to understand how we co-exist, create institutions and make sense. It was another path - communication. Communication today is difficult to think about without thinking about the Internet. Then I did a master's in Montreal that had a strong focus on how internet-related communities work together to define the internet and what it should mean, like in the case what meaning we assign to freedom and other things. I am very interested in how we always try to negotiate with each other what freedom means. It's a very contextual topic. We have a different idea of ​​freedom if we talk about freedom of speech and freedom of opinion in the Nordic countries compared to North America, but also Asian countries and China, where we have a different relationship to individual / collective. I wondered how we negotiate that freedom when it comes to the internet. How do we negotiate it? What language do we use? It resonates with me. Looking a lot at encryption and the idea that encryption gives us some freedom. I think I first got interested in this ... it's such a cliché. It was probably high school when I read in 1984. I think questions about power, control, dystopia, authority and collectivity are super interesting. The idea of ​​surveillance is a subtle or hidden power factor that is difficult to relate to, because it is a machine between you and power. There is no human being who oppresses you directly, but the idea of ​​a human being who can be behind a machine. How does it affects us, and how doe we understand freedom? I think that is very interesting. Freedom of speech, to think freely, and at the same time, how should we respect and give equal opportunities to everyone. **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** there are a lot of exciting developments, really. Do not want to name anything specific really, but precisely when trying to find solutions to problems, not just ""bullshit innovations"". We have incredible capacity, really. It's not the technology I'm worried about. I'm really hopeful about technology, really. What I'm worried about is how we choose to use it. Something that makes me hopeful is that I see many people who want to do good and see technology that makes it possible. If we are thinking about how to meet the climate threat and build a safer internet, then of course. There is a lot of technology around this that you can use that we don't have to be so afraid of. If we take something more concrete - the trend that big tech companies, like Apple and others say, personal privacy is important. Whether they think it or do it to retain customers is irrelevant. The result is more secure communication. It is a positive development, that more people are aware that there are tools that can be used for more secure communication and such. Regarding the climate threat. there are so many layers. We can see the internet as a coordinating tool where we can reach out to more people, to communities and talk about climate change, and how we can reach out locally. Even technically, with the help of technology, you can show, understand how best to change behaviors in a way that is manageable for everyone. I mean, many people follow the news, for example. It is not good to buy this or that item, it is not good for the environment. It's hard to know what is good and not good, how to live. Imagine if through all the big data that is available you could easily see what we should and should do, based on impact. We could better coordinate the efforts. The climate movement has been criticized for not getting that started. It has a boom with Greta, but what happens next? Many are waiting for opportunities to do something, but don't know what. We may be able to provide such opportunities more easily. In the end, it's the people. there are so many opportunities. Just a question of how we use them. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** I am scared and worried about how we should use the technology that exists when more people become scared and worried. When we are scared we tend to be more defensive, less welcoming and spread more evil really, more hate. There are very powerful techniques today. It is a question of control, an extreme centralization of information and data collection to few companies. But also this trend that we want to feel safe in all circumstances. Like technologies such as Ring, where private individuals want to set up cameras to monitor their immediate area, with face recognition. Biometrics is also very difficult. Especially against vulnerable groups that need more protection. It can be abused in so many ways. Now that things are less stable politically and more fragile, it is sometimes scary when we have such powerful technology. We see this in various places in the world, shutting down the internet or other examples of how to monitor or find individuals who do not do what they are supposed to do, according to the authorities in the place. It has not happened yet that someone has come to me with something that I thought they shouldn't do. The meeting place GOTO10 for the early stages, to test its idea and see what it can lead to. Usually people want what's good. Then you have to give everyone the same opportunity to try first and see what it can lead to. Some ideas go well, others don't, but everyone must have the same opportunity. *Do we have to work differently in order for new companies not to be naive?* Yes, I hope that and companies are more aware. ""Move fast and break things"" was not a good idea. More people understand that you have to think about it from the start. So we have movements like Slow tech, that you should think more about regulation and all potential negative consequences such as a new innovation, a new technology can have for potential consequences. Whose problem is that I solve? Who do I solve a problem for? Is it a problem that I think all people encounter or if it is something I just meet. And who do I represent? A small group of people and anon4292955258 privileged? Maybe you should ask and include people in that process from the start. More people are beginning to understand. It is crucial. The fact that one talks about ethics in relation to technology development in studies, computer science and so on. Many academics have talked about it for a long time, especially those who haven't been in tech but have looked at tech from the outside. Like me, with communication or media studies, one looks at tech from a sociological focus with humans at the center in some way. You have to bring the two together, I think that is crucial. If you think about issues of responsibility. We have approached it in several keynote at the conference. Pilots, for example, are used as airbags when the autopilot does not work. The plane crashes because the pilot does not have enough experience, but gets the responsibility for the crash. We have many such situations - who is responsible really? And with AI, it's really interesting to look at war zones. When used in weapons and drones. If they are not controlled by anyone, if they only have a target and it goes wrong, are the humans behind it free from responsibility? Is it the one who created the AI ​​or the drone? Or the one who tells it to shoot? Of course, we have to think about these issues before we send out a drone. It is difficult, many think that the regulatory framework is too slow in relation to technology development. There we need more dialogue between decision makers and technology developers. That's what we're trying to do here, bring together people in education, public development. Look at questions about how the web works. We want to discuss the impact of the Internet on society." 3,65893,2019-11-26T16:06:56.286Z,65863,anon1505367078,anon1919330810,"Welcome to Edgeryders, @anon1919330810! I can think of anon4292955258 a few things that I think could be interesting for us to look at together. For example, we just ran this event: https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326 And @anon3809206126 wrote down some key take-aways: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-i-learned-on-regulating-ai-and-a-human-centric-internet/11699 And there is also the ongoing conversation on decentralized data and what it will mean for accountability. We haven't even caught up with GDPR, and the webs are already moving on to technologies that are inherently incompatible with it: https://edgeryders.eu/t/decentralized-risks-hosting-information-for-others-comes-at-a-cost/9953 Let's keep in touch. It would be interesting to do something together." 4,65920,2019-11-26T18:31:30.863Z,65892,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:2, topic:11936""] I wondered how we negotiate that freedom when it comes to the internet. How do we negotiate it? What language do we use? [/quote] Something about this, probably the idea of freedom to Vs. freedom from and the consequences of language also connects this [with the work](https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193) of @anon1145034506." 5,65955,2019-11-26T22:55:23.929Z,65892,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,"Really interesting introduction Isadora. Many compelling points. >“Move fast and break things” was not a good idea. I agree. This seems to come from the idea that internet services are very fungible and easy to change. Thus, being experimental is a virtue. the problem of course is, the guy leading that effort seems to believe that he came to this work with his moral structure fully developed and his ethical compass well calibrated. That is rare in the best of people. What is not rare is rationalizing one's point of view and actions. Plus the dictates of profitability are the gas and oil that it all runs on, but it is unseemly to blatantly admit it, so along with heavy rationalizing, you get dishonesty. Some formula. Regarding drone warfare and responsibility, the US military [gives out medals to drone flyers](https://www.stripes.com/news/air-force-recognizes-drone-pilots-with-new-medal-1.605089), but there seems to be no penalties for actions some would call war crimes. Hmmm..." 1,65604,2019-11-25T09:24:13.427Z,65604,anon113065263,anon113065263,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Jag jobbar med webuutveckling, är intresserad av design. Jag vill lära mig nya tekniker. För att få nya perspektiv. Jag har valt spåret om AI här på dagarna. Jag vill ha mer kunskap i ämnet. Jag har hört en del och vill veta vad som finns. **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** När jag fick en API request som igenom till MailChimp! React släppte ett nytt framework, det gjorde mig också glad. Jag tror att internet kommer vara överallt. Dörrar, kylskåp, överallt. Mer data kommer in, det kan effektivisera människors liv. Man vill effektivisera det som är rutinmässigt för att få mer tid över till kreativitet. **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** Att det tar över det sociala livet så mycket. Man ses inte i verkligheten, det är ett så individuellt samhälle. Jag är också orolig för fake news, man tvingas vara skeptisk, man tappar trust. **name:** anon113065263" 2,65606,2019-11-25T09:30:48.051Z,65604,anon1505367078,anon113065263,"Tack för samtalet! Jag tänkte att du kanske är intresserad av det här: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-i-learned-on-regulating-ai-and-a-human-centric-internet/11699 Vi hade nyligen ett event om AI och orättvisa i Bryssel. Kanske kan du ta med reflektioner också? Vore spännande att höra!" 3,65701,2019-11-25T14:45:28.850Z,65604,anon1505367078,anon113065263,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you on the Internet Days?** I work with web development, am interested in design. I want to learn new techniques. To gain new perspectives. I've chosen the track on AI here these days. I want more knowledge on the subject. I've heard much about AI and want to know what's out there. **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** When I received an API request approval from MailChimp! And React released a new framework, which also made me happy. I think the internet will be everywhere. Doors, refrigerators, everywhere. More data coming in, it can make people's lives more efficient. You want to streamline what is routine to spend more time on creativity. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** That it takes over social life so much. You don't see each other in real life, it is such an individual society. I'm also worried about fake news, you have to be skeptical, you lose trust." 1,65838,2019-11-26T11:44:23.996Z,65838,anon1319205909,anon1319205909,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Jag är här för att jag tycker det är intressant att möta andra människor och se de aktuanon1410463509 diskussionerna och ämnena som tas upp. Jag jobbar som konsult, har eget bolag, mot marknads och marknadsföring. Mycket på internet. **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** Senast nu. Jag är inte så oroad, om man säger så. Vissa saker kan vara bekymmersamma. Var på ett seminarium för några veckor sedan. Där pratade Snowden. Han var inte live, han satt dold någonstans. Han pratade mycket om big data, att information kan vara användbar, men om den nyttjas på fel sätt i fel sammanhang. Det har vi exempel på. Generellt är jag inte oroad, men man får vara beaktsam med den informationen. Att den inte hamnar i fel händer. **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** Det som kan göra mig bekymrad… jag har barn. I och med att jag jobbar med sociala medier och är 90-talist. Man är uppvuxen med internet och har vuxit upp med det. Man har ganska bra koll. Samtidigt kan jag bli bekymrad. Jag har en tioåring som har TikTok. Det hette Musically förut. Mer den typen av tjänster, att fel personer drar sig till de sammanhang där ungdomar är och det finns negativa tendenser där. Det som gjorde mig bekymrad var att jag såg på facebook för någon vecka sedan att det kommit en ny app eller tjänst där du hela tiden när du är aktiv på appen så streamar du från ditt rum. Det går hela tiden att se. Någon mamma var inne på appen, vart tionde rum så satt det någon man och onanerade. Sådant gör en bekymrad. Den utvecklanon2926706121n. **name:** anon1319205909" 2,65855,2019-11-26T12:55:32.649Z,65838,anon1505367078,anon1319205909,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you on the Internet Days?** I'm here because I find it interesting to meet other people and see the current discussions and topics being raised. I work as a consultant, have my own company, towards marketing and marketing. **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** Very recently. I'm not worried. Some things can be troublesome. Was at a seminar a few weeks ago. There Snowden talked. He was not there, he was hidden somewhere. He talked a lot about big data, that information can be useful, but if it is used incorrectly in the wrong context. We have examples of that. Generally I'm not worried, but you have to be aware of that information. That it does not end up in the wrong hands. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** What may worry me ... I have children. Because I work with social media and am born in the 90s. Have grown up with the internet. I have a pretty good grasp of it. At the same time, I may be worried. I have a ten year old who has TikTok. It was called Musically before. More that kind of service, that wrong people are attracted to the contexts where young people are and there are negative tendencies there. What made me worried was that I saw on facebook a week ago that there is a new app or service where you constantly stream from your room when you are active on the app. You can see all the time. Some mom was on the app, every tenth room someone sat and masturbated. That makes one worried. That development." 1,65635,2019-11-25T11:58:19.600Z,65635,anon3250386403,anon3250386403,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** Teachers in the science center and we have a lot of school programs that include teaching kids on how to be safe on the internet and how the algorithms of Youtube work. Teacher training on the topics of digitisation and programming. What kind of tools they can use with their kids and how to use them to get deeper knowledge about how to learn by themselves about any topic. Internet and digitalisation is a part of that. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** The first keynote speaker has mentioned to reach out to the kids and care for their health. IBM Watson to get better at diagnostics. AI. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** Its anon4292955258 scary to see all the propaganda movies on Youtube and the fact that I haven't seen them, or my friends didn't seen them. So we don't take them as a societal issue. Seeing other going down that rabbit hole. How a lot of smaller actors can influence the algorithms undetected. **name:** anon3250386403" 2,65652,2019-11-25T12:29:14.138Z,65635,anon3572363072,anon3250386403,"Hey anon3250386403, thanks for taking the time to let me interview you. Welcome to the community. Since you're interested in the topic of online propaganda, you might be interested in this one. Might offer a tool for students to see behind the nature of misinformation at some point. https://edgeryders.eu/t/introducing-oliver-worldbrain-io-memex-and-storex-democratising-knowledge/10157 Cheers Oli" 3,65899,2019-11-26T16:33:26.504Z,65635,anon1505367078,anon3250386403,Welcome! You might also want to connect with @anon683229855 and his event for Teaching Teachers Open Source. 4,65912,2019-11-26T17:41:43.039Z,65635,anon2434097920,anon3250386403,"Good to see you here anon3250386403. Internet literacy and it corollary, establishing and calibrating your ""crap detector"" are critical skills. Glad you are working with teachers and parents to raise their own levels so that they can instruct in an informed way. This is not a good time for a kid to perceive that their parents are 'out of it"" in their net literacy and abilities on their devices. A few years ago i took a trip with my teenage grandson. I was not yet facile finding my way around with the map tools on my phone. I would still write down directions. One night we were out looking for a place, and I had written it down, but incorrectly, though I didn't think I did. My grandson had it correct on his phone. And he kept telling me but I trusted my good old way of doing things. At one point he said in an exasperated anon2317280404e, ""you live in the past."" He was right on all counts. I resolved right then to not let that happen again. The only way was to bring up my skills to a more modern level." 1,65626,2019-11-25T11:40:05.335Z,65626,anon2482632280,anon2482632280,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** Head/principle of a school in north of Sweden. Education in how to work in social media and how become youtube influencer. Understand complexity of social media because they worked with social media to communicate and market the school. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** The last report of the Swedish internet to learn which target groups use social media the most because it is important for the school. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** Since you get a lot of news through the internet. Fake News & misinformation. **name:** anon2482632280" 2,65655,2019-11-25T12:31:13.486Z,65626,anon3572363072,anon2482632280,"Hey Ida, thanks for giving me some of your time to interview you! Hope you have a good day at the event. Since you were interested in the topic of misinformation, this might be of interest for you: https://edgeryders.eu/t/introducing-oliver-worldbrain-io-memex-and-storex-democratising-knowledge/10157 Cheers Oli" 3,65657,2019-11-25T12:35:20.558Z,65626,anon3031202475,anon2482632280,"Hello @anon2482632280, great to have you here! This sounds like an interesting new approach and topic, could you tell us a bit more about what those courses entail, who takes them and why and how you are developing them? There is often very critical discussion on the topics of using social media for commercial purposes but it is effectively one of its core mechanics. Embracing and teaching those mechanics is an approach worth discussing! your perspective on this: https://edgeryders.eu/t/social-media-is-broken-lets-do-better/10017 and this thread: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821 would be anon4292955258 interesting!" 4,65909,2019-11-26T17:10:35.581Z,65626,anon2434097920,anon2482632280,"Also ""how to become a YouTube influencer"" is an interesting statement. Is this something you teach in school?" 1,65696,2019-11-25T14:27:01.061Z,65696,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%2026th%20nov|690x488](upload://cXKWjOFfG58Lypw99YwpHFygVeb.png) Dear organisers and participants! The most Festival events already took place and were great experiences! Last but not least ones will follow in Berlin, Saarbrucken and Stockholm the next few days! Let's come together to clarify and plan the last details and to reflect on the previous experiences! Two focus points of this call will be documentation and invoicing. @anon3931191205, @anon3572363072, @anon3180318115, @anon Please come to the call on Tuesday the 26th 18:00 to catch up and see if everything is on track and if and how you would need help :). Looking forward to seeing you at: https://zoom.us/j/489971765 If you want calendar reminders, please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Weekly: https://zoom.us/meeting/uZwkfu6pqT0vVYoNECnUgDF3EfwNQ2Fjhg/ics?icsToken=98tyKu2gpzItG9OTtVztRa0vA9r9b8-xlEd3pY14vxHQBAR1MSbwIcxzYJR1GN-B Please ping participants that you would like to join the call :)" 2,65706,2019-11-25T14:54:19.054Z,65696,anon1676186961,anon3031202475,and @anon2465999935 and @anon 3,65894,2019-11-26T16:17:22.888Z,65696,anon1314804036,anon3031202475,"Have a good call, thanks for the reminder, sadly I can't join today..." 1,65853,2019-11-26T12:34:40.671Z,65853,anon2799932843,anon2799932843,"**Vem är du? Vad jobbar du med och varför är du på Internetdagarna?** Jag är VD för ett cloudhostingplattform som heter Atomia. Om någon läser svaret vet de vem jag är. Jag är på internetdagarna för att det är väl Sveriges åtminsanon2317280404e mest välkända och kanske bäst besökta allmänna IT-konferens. Jag är inte grundare till företaget, utan jag är från början rekryterad som säljare och efter det har jag blivit befordrad. Det som intresserar mig med detta är alltså… IT i allmänhet och framför allt molhostning, den här sfären, så att säga. Du, med lite resurser, så kan du göra väldigt mycket. Du kan bygga något som blir stort, välanvänt och som är roligt och intressant med väldigt lite… du kan också använda, det finns naturligtvis exempel på företag med oerhört mycket resurser bakom sig. Men man kan göra det med ganska lite. Det finns mycket teknik att använda och ta tillvara på och skapas nytt. Man kan arbeta med open source-produtker och kan bidra till det i framtiden. Vår plattform i sig är inte open source. Den är en betald plattform, men den använder sig av massor av open source-komponenter och delar av plattformen har vi släppt open source och försökt bygga community. Relativ framgång. Inte lätt att bygga framgångsrika open source-produkter. **När blev du sist hoppfull eller glad över internet eller dess framtid?** Här om dagen berättade någon för mig att wikimedia foundation, de som är bakom wikipedia, planerar, eller funderar, eller kanske ska… jag vet inte hur långt gånget det är. De ska starta ett socialt nätverk. En konkurrent till facebook, twitter och company. Jag tycker att wikipedia är en av internets bästa produkter. Hands down. Så att om de skulle kunna repetera den framgången och skapa ett reklamfritt open source, community driven nätverk skulle det vara najs. Tycker inte om de som finns nu. De är en marknadsföringsplattform för företag och så som mig. Inte pitchen. Det var senaste gången jag blev hoppfull. Sedan blir manhoppfull varje gång internet används för rättfärdiga protester, för att liksom förstärka och förbättra yttrandefrihet och informationsdelning. Varje gång någon gör ett open source-projekt som kan användas av vem som helst. Man blir glad av internet om man stänger av sina notifications. **När gjorde internet eller dess utveckling dig arg, rädd eller bekymrad?** Så här: Internet och internets utveckling är starkt bidragande till AI:s utveckling. Det är ett faktum. AI och facial recognition och andra typer av automatisk identifiering och klassificering av människor är jävligt otrevligt. Den kan naturligtvis användas av polis och rättsväsende på ett bra sätt, men den kommer ju och är redan på väg att användas på oerhört obehagliga sätt. Läste någonstans på ett forum att 1984 inte var ett manus. Det är obehagligt när sådana här dystopiska fantasier görs tekniskt möjliga. det är inte så kul. Sedan är det så klart otrevligt med all falsk information som sprids. Det är ännu otrevligare ju svårare det blir att identifiera det som är falskt och ju bättre de som sprider blir bra på att få den att se verklig ut. Det är otrevligt. **name:** anon2799932843" 2,65875,2019-11-26T14:52:11.389Z,65853,anon1505367078,anon2799932843,"English translation. Disclaimer, rough translation made by Hugi with AI support: **Who are you? What are you working on and why are you on the Internet Days?** I am the CEO of a cloud hosting platform called Atomia. I am at the internet days because it is probably Sweden most well-known and perhaps best-visited general IT conference. I am not a founder of the company, but I was initially recruited as a salesman and since then I have been promoted. So what interests me about this is… IT in general and above all, cloud hosting. You can, with only small resources, do a lot. You can build something that is big, well-used and that is fun and interesting with very anon222512824 ... There is a lot of technology to use and take advantage of and is created new. You can work with open source products and can contribute to that in the future. Our platform itself is not open source. It is a paid platform, but it uses lots of open source components and parts of the platform we have released open source and tried to build community. Relative success. Not easy to build successful open source products. **When did you last become hopeful or happy about the internet or its future?** The other day someone told me that wikimedia foundation, those behind wikipedia, are planning, or are thinking abour starting a social network. A competitor to facebook, twitter and the rest. I think wikipedia is one of the best products on the internet. Hands down. So if they could replicate that success and create an ad-free open source, community driven network it would be nice. I don't like the ones that exist now. It was the last time I became hopeful. Then, every time the internet is used for righteous protests, it becomes hopeful to reinforce and improve freedom of expression and information sharing. Every time someone does an open source project that can be used by anyone. You get happy with the internet if you turn off your notifications. **When did the internet or its development make you angry, scared or worried?** Here's how: The development of the Internet is a major contributor to AI's development. It is a fact. AI and facial recognition and other types of automatic identification and classification of humans are damn unpleasant. Of course, it can be used well by the police and the judiciary in a good way, but it will and is already about to be used in extremely unpleasant ways. Read somewhere on a forum that 1984 was not supposed to be a manual. It is uncomfortable when such dystopian fantasies are made technically possible. It's not so fun. Then it is obviously unpleasant with all false information being disseminated. It is even more unpleasant the harder it becomes to identify what is false, the better those who spread become at making it look real. It's unpleasant." 1,65847,2019-11-26T12:03:56.489Z,65847,anon4097118484,anon4097118484,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** I am an independent consultant in the swedish government doing research on the governance and organisational side. I am here because I am a speaker and network. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** Internet is something we take for granted and difficult to make to point to a specific thing. I am happy that i have the opportunity and if it work. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** What makes me angry is if it does not work. But also the kind of misuse, like Fake News, and exploitation of data and different purposes. **name:** anon4097118484" 1,65842,2019-11-26T11:53:26.305Z,65842,anon1079186181,anon1079186181,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** I work in a media agency. What I do pretty much all day is to do target advertising towards consumers. Internet Stiftung is a source of internet consumption behaviour. They are a source of information for us. Using their data as a source for strategy. I am a bit double because I use the data but at the same time it is a huge challenge. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** I can't really tell a specific moment. But I mean like every other person getting happy about seeing things my friends do and how they live their life. Artificial intelligence is exciting and they can help people with a lot of the issues we are facing. We just need to find a way to use it ethically. Ethical AI for me is really different because it means different things for different people. Does one thing mean the same thing for everyone. We need to have a discussions before people take action on new AI. I read something about the latest Ebola outbreak, if Google could have opened the data and use the Google searches for detection like this. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** Just what I saw today. Paul speaking about Fake News and specifically how Sweden is portrayed in other countries. Sweden has been a leader in progressive values and therefore demonised it. I see that it creates distrust and makes me a anon222512824 bit worried. **name:** anon1079186181" 2,65856,2019-11-26T12:57:57.368Z,65842,anon1505367078,anon1079186181,"Welcome, @anon1079186181! [quote=""anon1079186181, post:1, topic:11931""] Ethical AI for me is really different because it means different things for different people. Does one thing mean the same thing for everyone. We need to have a discussions before people take action on new AI. [/quote] I think you could be interested in this conversation: https://edgeryders.eu/t/government-use-of-ai-what-do-we-know-about-why-they-use-it/10601" 1,65836,2019-11-26T11:38:40.389Z,65836,anon714363791,anon714363791,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** I have been working on IT quality, QA. My special interest is solutions that are GDPR compliant. In the development part it is the hardest part because they can't replace personal information with the test data. Coaching and strategy for organisations solving the GDPR problem. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** Bit dystopian about what Harper Reed was talking about yesterday. The future that might make me excited is everything related to technology. I love the technology. For long time I saw something revolutionary, its the small things every day. Like how to create science fiction with small differences its the same process than developing software and systems. Innovation. I educate a lot and talk about new innovations, the science fiction analogy is something i can use. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** Its not internet's fault so to speak, but what is happening with people's political views is concerning. Shutting the borders. I realise that I have been so open with my opinions, what will happen if the the wrong people get in power and use that data and how that influences the safety of my family. **name:** anon714363791" 1,65831,2019-11-26T11:30:46.216Z,65831,anon781663306,anon781663306,"**Tell us about yourself? What are you working on and why are you at Internetdagarna?** Swedish sport fishing organisation. Member part and communication working on digital recruiting. All the data we are talking about today, is data we also use. We use Facebook's identified groups/interests to target the right people. I am here to learn more about new solutions. We don't know everything. That is a good thing about digital marketing/recruiting. You get facts back, how much did it cost, you get stats and data. We can find where our strong suit is. **When did something related to the internet last make you hopefull or happy?** That's hard. I think many of the different forums where we post our news, and any possibility to comment, we are seeing us doing often doing the right things. Direct contact and feedback to our users/customers. Creating a community ethos. **When did something related to the internet last make you upset, afraid or angry?** Hate in general. That people should have a right to have an opinion on everything, but not to say anything, or being offensive. Its annoying that there are no bounderies for people, because they don't talk to them directly. **name:** anon781663306" 2,65848,2019-11-26T12:11:32.800Z,65831,anon1505367078,anon781663306,"Welcome, @anon781663306!" 1,56473,2019-07-10T16:58:57.570Z,56473,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"**Registration: https://register.edgeryders.eu/** ![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-AI-fabrizio-01|690x361](upload://nbXjYYUNmT2z7jw7wbjIOYXgtBf.png) # Are certain technologies more likely to lead to an outcome of increased justice than others? The [Forum on inequalities and diversity](https://www.forumdisuguaglianzediversita.org/our-project/) – a coalition between civil society organizations and researchers headed by Fabrizio Barca, former Minister of Treasury in Italy - recently released a report called 15 proposals for justice. The report gives prominence to the consequences of technical innovation on inequalities and justice. Globally, increasing inequalities have generated widespread injustice. Fear, resentment, and anger have escalated among the more vulnerable sections of society, giving rise to an authoritarian dynamic. We propose that this state of affairs is not inevitable; it is, rather, the result of a U-turn in policy and culture that has taken place over the last 30 years. This evening event convenes policy makers and academics and technologists to look in more depth at the issue of how equality and justice are encoded in technological choices. We are going to look at the main technologies being developed in the Next Generation Internet debate and explore how AI and Internet Infrastructure impact on indicators of equality and justice. Putting in the same room technologists, economists and social scientists should allow for a more holistic perspective. Hopefully, we can provide some material to the European Parliament and European Commision that will shape the governance of and investment in a Next Generation Internet that sets the conditions for improved social justice and equality. ## Format To ensure a deep, technical, discussion we depart from a set of case studies. **Ahead of the event:** we collectively do research and collect stories of well-documented incidents where certain injustices manifested. We post them here on the platform and invite people to post questions/reflections in comments to help us develop them into good case studies. **During the event:** We split the participants into different groups based on the case study of interest to them. Each group is well composed in terms of the areas of expertise of participants needed to have a deep, rich and pragmatic discussion around ""their"" case study. And look at the interdependencies in terms of policy, business models, behaviours and technological choices. The session ends with a [fishbowl discussion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_(conversation)). **After the event:** The documentation from the discussions are redacted to ensure privacy of participants, then posted on the online discussion space for the festival. This enables us to do a number of things - * easily reconnect with people we met across shared/complimentary interests * build a high quality report summarising what knowledge has emerged from the discussions * keep everyone informed about new, relevant, opportunities for professional and personal development, follow up events etc We can also accommodate remote participation, there is a separate process for this. Just leave a comment below or email me for more info: anon3449369942@anon ## Registration Tickets to this event are free of charge: https://tell.edgeryders.eu/festival/ticket/en ## Who is coming? * **Fabrizio Barca - Founder, Forum on Inequalities and diversity** I Ex General Director , Italian Ministry of Economy & Finance. * **Seda F. Gürses - Assistant Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft** at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management. Studies conceptions of privacy and surveillance in online social networks, requirements engineering, privacy enhancing technologies and identity management systems * **Kate J Sim - Phd researcher at Oxford Internet Institute:** employs employs ethnographically-informed methods to uncover how gendered assumptions and values are encoded in emerging data/AI-driven systems. _**Kate's question for the workshop:** **[Can tech design for survivors?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193)**_ * **Marco Manca - Member of Nato Working group on Meaningful Human Control over AI-based systems.** Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors at SCimPulse Foundation. * Justin Nogarede: Digital Policy Adviser , Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) * **Remote contributions from Corinne Cath-Speth - PhD Candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and Alan Turing Institute for AI**. _Read what Corinne has to say about **[the impact these technologies have on how Civil Society will work in the near future?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-the-future-of-civil-society-advocacy-look-like-given-the-prevalence-of-these-digital-technologies-and-their-impact-on-the-work-that-civil-society-is-currently-doing/11118)**_ # Frequently asked questions ### When and where is it happening? **Date:** November 19, 2019 **Time:** 18:00 - 21:00 **Location:** Brussels. Venue is Digityser on Boulevard d'Anvers 40, 1000 Bruxelles ### How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop? **Register here: https://register.edgeryders.eu/**
_Please note: This event is bringing together people who are currently directly involved in building, researching, regulating, monetising and or providing meaningful input into the wider debate around the technologies in question. We want to ensure that every participant leaves the venue having presented and discussed their work with others who can provide meaningful input or connect them with opportunities to further their professional and or personal development. If this appeals to you, then we would love to have you join us._ ### How is this event being organised? This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don't worry. Create an [edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. I (@anon3449369942) am coordinating this event, with @anon3899621522 (venue and communication support), and @anon241932064 (Moderation and session preparation) and @anon2926706121 (documentation coordination) Some people have been specially invited as guests because the work they are doing right now and their expertise will help ensure that the discussion is based on case studies, credible data and hands on experience. ### How is this all financed? This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at https://ngi.edgeryders.eu
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It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word ""better"" has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### What happens with my data? You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 2,56503,2019-07-11T07:32:40.894Z,56473,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,"This is very useful, thanks for creating, @anon3449369942! And very interesting and exciting indeed. It did remind of the AI and journalism conversation that @anon1676186961 started, @anon3180318115 also added an interesting link. This is more about how AI can help fight fake news, but freedom of information and access to truthful information also help build a more equal and fair society. About the speakers, I do think it would be nice to open the floor indeed. When it comes to tech and inequality I always have to think about @anon From the other side, there's this young Georgian entrepreneur who's co-founded this (Bosanon2317280404-based) really successful HR and AI software - based on the data they collected they were able to prove [gender inequality in the work force](https://qz.com/work/1149027/your-workplace-rewards-men-more-and-an-ai-can-prove-it/), and the reasons behind it. His name is Archil Cheishvili (I did [a small profile about him for Forbes Georgia](http://forbes.ge/news/3719/The-Way-We-Work) last year). I'll think a bit more about it" 3,56505,2019-07-11T08:27:51.431Z,56473,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,"I nominate @anon4261882768. Reason: both he and Fabrizio are interested in positive narratives of technical change, each for their own reason. They also come from very different backgrounds, with complementary knowledge. Rob, would you be interested? In this case, could you write a paragraph on how you would approach this topic?" 4,56507,2019-07-11T08:56:49.000Z,56505,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,"Absolutely! Rationale: As partner in the NGI Strategy CSA I am pushing ‘identity’ (this is a personal communication,, not from the project) as the key enabler for a smart society for all based on solidarity between humans, machines and resources. About fifteen years ago I realized the agency was on the passport, and key identity management : the issuer, validator, in our case the national state. Because of various reasons I believe that model is gone and breakdown and fragmentation around the corner. There is still some vitality left I believe in the EU as a 500 million zone. In the Digital Transition the war is won in three battles. Europe already lost two, data and platforms. We are on the brink of losing the third: AI hitting Big Data building new services on combinations of temporary identities (chimeras of synthetic material and real people combined, or fully synthetic) that will create a seamless flow between: The BAN (body area network): e.g. the ambient hearing aide, the smart T-shirts, lenses, glasses, The LAN (local area network): e.g. the smart meter as a home interface, any consumer device, The WAN (wide area network): the bike, car, train, bus, plane The VWAN (very wide area network): the smart city as e-government services everywhere; no longer tied to physical locations or the agency and consent of individual people. It is highly likely that monitoring mechanisms will be built into devices themselves: for example, “if a guest is charging their electric car at a friend’s house, we should consider applications that will understand that the charge should appear on the guest’s electric bill and not that of the friend.” (Example from our Spranon2926706121r book Enabling Things to Talk: Designing IoT solutions with the IoT ... [https://books.google.be/books?isbn=3642404030](https://books.google.be/books?isbn=3642404030) Alessandro Bassi, ‎Martin Bauer, ‎Martin Fiedler - 2013 - ‎Computers ... Thorsten Kramp, Rob van Kranenburg, Sebastian Lange, Stefan Meissner ... that the charge should appear on the guest's electric bill and not that of the friend. ... 16http://[tools.ietf.org/id/draft-roychowdhury-6lowappsip-00.txt](http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-roychowdhury-6lowappsip-00.txt) tagged items or …) Now we should pool all skillsets and intelligences into building a 500 million zone architecture that creates the opportunities for building value with datasets and new services in a coherent, safe, secure and privacy preserving way in an EU governance that is techno-political.. The governance of that pragmatic cybernetics is something you/we should be focusing on, not on creating individual pathways for people to decouple from commercial services, in a time where society itself as we know it is a breaking point. I received an invitation (as founder of one of the largest IOT networks, [theinternetofthings.eu](http://theinternetofthings.eu)) to talk about Internet of Things from the GFF 'and the Italian Intelligence community', Transformational Technologies #4: Implications for an Expanding Threat Environment September 17-18, 2012 Rome, Italy. In the afternoon five breakout groups (senior intelligence, police and military, SOCA, CIA, MI6, Homeland Security...) came back with five scenarios of major threats: one was military, two were about DIY Bio and two were about the 'total breakdown of society', because of the inability of current institutions to deal with the digital. It was anon4292955258 crazy to see my own breakdown scenario of 2000 played back by institutional analysts. This is now 7 years ago. The trouble with the kind of thinking that I propose is that it has always been seen, from Cybersin by Stafford Beert to the current Chinese credit system, as a system of top down control, whereas I (and Stafford Beer himself) have always focused on the transparency that is brought by realtime sensor streams (albeit having its own bias of course) and the freedom entailed in power structures having to relate to blockchain type of incorruptible decision making instead of ego, raw power, chance, ideology, religion… We do not need solutions in which an individual tries to go more cloaked and cloaked into a fully commercial world no longer protected by the democratic state (regulate and fine become weaker and weaker tools in societies in economic crisis for over thirty years and missing out on the financial rewards because of not owning g the drivers, but regulating the repercussions like in GDPR) and the social middle as that is gone and going. Instead all our tools should be deployed in a systematic approach with a governance that like ICANN grew alongside the internet, and now should actualize around Internet of Things, a true Next Generation Internet means decision making is taken to that level. Of course this sounds like the Borg, the Matrix, the Chinese social credit system. But we, you, are too smart to buy that. We need an inclusive identity framework that is able to name, validate and build services on identities that will become a process between a device/controller of some kind (now smart phone), services (energy, mobility…) and the architecture 5G hardware for example). That capability should be European. It does four things: It explodes identity as a single unit: in this ides (Zenroom running as VM on a chip on ‘device’ on billions of SIM cards - in washing machines, lamps,, cars… and in 5G base stations and other infrastructure) turning identity into a process and allowing people to have thousands of temporary identities (just when they use a service) It gradually fades out Facebook, Google.. It creates European services through EU unified protocols that could be locally permission less deployed, thus winning us the third battle (as we don’t care where the ‘original’ data resides) It restores European dignity, a vital b belief in our agency to build meaningful and value creating infrastructures which is what (though)leaders like you should do." 5,56508,2019-07-11T09:16:47.406Z,56473,anon1676186961,anon3449369942,@anon 6,56510,2019-07-11T09:50:48.974Z,56473,anon3345320614,anon3449369942,"I would say that technologies that have low barrier to entry have a higher likelihood to lead to an outcome of increased justice. If the barrier to entry is high, the productivity benefits will be leveraged more by the people who are able get over that barrier. If you look at the question from a bird's eyes view that seems to be the general outline. The two main barriers to entry from a general perspective seems to be either capital or knowledge. So all else being equal a technology that doesn't require specialized knowledge to be able to use, or require a big amount of capital to be able to leverage that technology you'll be able to disperse the productivity benefits of that technology to a broader populace, and more people would be able to gain the benefits of it. When it comes to the field of IT more specifically I think there will always be a certain barrier to entry because of the knowledge requirements to leverage ITs benefits. Yes, tools can be built that can be used by everyone, and in one way distributing the productivity benefits to more people. It will still be the people who have specialized knowledge which will in one way or another be gatekeepers. Given that today's economy is increasingly knowledge based, the one technology that could lead to increased justice would be teaching, or the transmitting of knowledge." 7,56557,2019-07-12T07:35:38.501Z,56473,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,"and I just came across this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sherrying/status/1149507266338410498?s=20 about this: https://icarus.kumu.io/fluxus-landscape > *Fluxus Landscape* is an art and research project created in partnership with the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University with support from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. > > When I first started worrying about ethical problems in emerging technology, I would lament that no one else was paying attention. Until I met artist Sophia Brueckner, who taught me that the problem was more complicated than I had assumed. My concern deepened as I learned more about ethical problems in AI. Our policies could not possibly keep pace with technological advancements and would lead to greater inequality in society. I grew critical. Why were regulatory and other societal institutions not doing anything? Later, I met the CASBS director Margaret Levi, who informed me that many institutions were working on this – I just did not know them. > > The following map is an attempt to document and clarify my learning through a compositional research process. The map is curatorial and qualitative – not indexed and quantitative. Unlike the data scraped by computers and sorted by rules, the data within the *Fluxus Landscape* were gathered one by one and categorized through deep conversations. Both methods are biased. > > The map includes 500 nodes representing both allied groups and those who are in conflict with each other. As different as the communities represented in the map are, many still share the same question. What should we do? In this composition – like in all art – your experience is unique. Some may see a practical stakeholder map while others may see that they are not alone in their fears. Art and ethics share the same power: there are as many interpretations as there are minds. I hope this map will help you answer your questions. What will you do?" 8,56558,2019-07-12T07:46:22.135Z,56557,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,@anon1505367078 and @anon3031202475 she might be interested in taking part of the conversations here. Perhaps we can reach out to her? 9,56559,2019-07-12T07:59:00.618Z,56558,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"and I shouldn't forget to tag the research team https://icarus.kumu.io/fluxus-landscape @anon3809206126 @anon1037234888: ![32|573x467](upload://3WzOJGJCT7Jr6Qf0uj67lVznkzO.png)" 10,56644,2019-07-14T10:59:54.365Z,56473,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"I would love it if we could get [Abeba Birhane](https://twitter.com/Abebab) and [Cathy O`Neal](https://twitter.com/mathbabedotorg) to join us. Am already in touch with Abeba, she is super oversubscribed so I am pulling out the big guns, even trying a bribe consisting of almost home made Ethiopian food :)) Cathy, I have not yet contact - am struggling a bit with the neurowiring atm and finding it harder than usual to approach new people. Can anyone help?" 11,56649,2019-07-14T11:14:28.544Z,56644,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,"I can look into contacting her tomorrow, finding an interesting in. Let me research her a bit anon2317280404ight." 12,56650,2019-07-14T11:19:22.985Z,56649,anon3449369942,anon2926706121,thank you <3 13,56796,2019-07-17T07:24:24.830Z,56473,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,ping @anon 14,57911,2019-08-13T12:39:21.709Z,56558,anon3031202475,anon2926706121,"@anon2926706121, Reach out to whom? The author of the article?" 15,57921,2019-08-13T13:12:00.764Z,57911,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,the artist/researcher of the AI piece? Sherry Wong 16,58993,2019-09-09T18:04:36.497Z,56507,anon3449369942,anon4261882768,"Rob, thanks! - @anon3031202475 can I ask you follow up with Rob about setting this up?" 17,58994,2019-09-09T18:07:44.500Z,56473,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,hi @anon 18,60243,2019-10-01T08:41:52.254Z,56473,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"@anon2926706121 and @anon3031202475 - @anon Also, I contacted Abeba Birhane who is doing brilliant work spanning data ethics, embodied cognition and bias (see [this aeon article](https://aeon.co/ideas/descartes-was-wrong-a-person-is-a-person-through-other-persons) she wrote) . It would be very interesting to have a conversation between her and @anon1037234888 exploring how SSNA/ quantified social anthropology methods and tools can help surface and address biases that affect how/which technological choices we make - and where possible, mitigating their consequences. Is this something you might be interested in @anon1037234888 and if yes, how could we go about making it happen? We have a bunch of different options to choose from spanning video chats, conversation threads on the platform all the way to organising an event at the RSA where I currently have a fellowship." 19,60246,2019-10-01T09:06:16.509Z,56473,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"Ciao @anon3899621522 so the festival site will be ready to go hopefully tomorrow, but if you view with web browser you can check it out already here https://festival.edgeryders.eu As you see above the content is now taking shape. @anon3031202475 will have the visuals for promoting the event in what, 4 days? So I guess it is time to set things in motion comms-wise with Digityser. We said I would do a presentation on October 10 to introduce the festival methodology - is this still on? and if yes, what materials do you need from me to promote it?" 20,60279,2019-10-01T12:23:13.270Z,60243,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,Someone who would also be very interesting to engage is [Mounir Mahjoubi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounir_Mahjoubi) - @anon 21,60387,2019-10-02T09:10:38.002Z,56473,anon28068060,anon3449369942,"Hiya, If you are still looking for people to join it might also be worth reaching out to: Mutale Nkonde (Berkman center) Vidushi Marda (NGO article19) Nikita Arghwal (Oxford Law) Fieke Jansen (Data justice PhD Cardiff Uni) Joris van Hoboken (Prof. at Brussels Uni) Seda Gurses (Prof at Delft Uni) They are relatively young scholars doing very interesting work! Cheers," 22,60390,2019-10-02T09:34:07.098Z,60387,anon3449369942,anon28068060,think you could put us in touch ( see here https://edgeryders.eu/t/schedule-of-interviews-to-do-with-participants-and-content-contributors-ahead-of-the-festival/10971) 23,60624,2019-10-04T07:05:46.018Z,56473,anon241932064,anon3449369942,"timing-wise it’s great as the European Commission will come up with horizontal AI legislation (principles) in early 2020. Not an expert, but I reckon issues they will have to come to grips with could be * scope of the rules (what ‘AI’ systems should be covered, only top consumer/citizen-facing applications, or other/underlying infrastructure) * type of obligations (only transparency/documentation requirements?, what should they contain?) * How to differentiate, depending on scale (i.e. me building system affecting 10 people vs FB unleashing a new content ranking algorithm on a quarter of world population) and risk (system to distinguish which cat video I will be shown vs. decisions on employment, insurance, housing, predictive policing). Could it be an idea to look at case studies at the event, with these questions in mind? For case studies itself, AlgorithmWatch produces yearly reports looking at automated decision-making in Europe (Jan 2019 report, ‘Automating Society - Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU’). UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is also carrying out a review of positive and negative effects of automated decision-making, first interim results just out I think. Interesting examples could be insurance branch, or the case of Austrian labour authority using it to decide whom of the unemployed to help in finding a new job (criterion: efficiency narrowly defined, i.e. those already have highest chance to find a new job in the first place…). Apologies for lengthy post, but it’s my first here, so please cut me some slack" 24,60678,2019-10-04T12:49:36.484Z,60624,anon3449369942,anon241932064,"[quote=""anon241932064, post:23, topic:10326""] horizontal AI legislation (principles) in early 2020. Not an expert, but I reckon issues they will have to come to grips with could be * scope of the rules (what ‘AI’ systems should be covered, only top consumer/citizen-facing applications, or other/underlying infrastructure) * type of obligations (only transparency/documentation requirements?, what should they contain?) * How to differentiate, depending on scale (i.e. me building system affecting 10 people vs FB unleashing a new content ranking algorithm on a quarter of world population) and risk (system to distinguish which cat video I will be shown vs. decisions on employment, insurance, housing, predictive policing). Could it be an idea to look at case studies at the event, with these questions in mind? For case studies itself, AlgorithmWatch produces yearly reports looking at automated decision-making in Europe (Jan 2019 report, ‘Automating Society - Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU’). UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is also carrying out a review of positive and negative effects of automated decision-making, first interim results just out I think. Interesting examples could be insurance branch, or the case of Austrian labour authority using it to decide whom of the unemployed to help in finding a new job (criterion: efficiency narrowly defined, i.e. those already have highest chance to find a new job in the first place…). Apologies for lengthy post, but it’s my first here, so please cut me some slack [/quote] Yes I think this makes complete sense. Would you have time to pick a couple of case studies you find especially relevant and post them here? In parallel what we do via the comms team is to ask the internet, and other participants in the workshop in for suggested case studies that we should include. And to get the conversation going around the three questions/challenges you outlined." 25,54637,2019-06-06T11:28:41.510Z,56473,anon227579045,anon3449369942,"It depends on the exact definition of justice, perhaps. The computerization/mechanisation of the public sector has largely been driven by the hope that logical government (deterministic decisions, given certain input deterministic output) will make society more ""just"" and ""equal"" (i.e. a computer does not have the social sensitivity to discriminate, for instance, and even when it does - for instance through statistical short-comings - we can normally measure and assess the discrimination that occurs). But we are now half a century in to computerization - has it worked? I think ""lasagna-style"" technologies, which are vertically separated as a matter of technology, are more likely to lead to an outcome of increased ""justice"". Because I think of justice as something which guarantees to individuals freedom to act - commercially and socially - and this freedom can only be obtained if market entry barriers are low, or if technologies lend themselves to a multitude of entities cooperating on different levels. I'd prefer, for this reason, WiMAX and Wi-Fi over LTE systems and cellular networks, and I am for this reason cautious about 5G. With my rudimentary understanding of Italian, the 15 proposals for justice would impact technology development - would they be advanced by technology development? I think governments across Europe - certainly in Sweden - are still very much stuck in the 1960s vision of computers-as-the-saviour-of-government-through-imposing-cold-hard-logic. I.e. the ""fairness"" our governments strive for is either being able to use technology against the governments' own citizens (to find ""cheaters"") or to have a ""government machine"" that is not able to distinguish the unique life-stories of either subjects (citizens) or staff (civil servants)." 26,54658,2019-06-06T15:33:36.387Z,54637,anon2434097920,anon227579045,Could you describe more what you mean by lasagna technologies? I have not seen that term before. 27,54733,2019-06-08T09:36:31.368Z,54658,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:5, topic:10068""] what you mean by lasagna technologies [/quote] Layered?" 28,57239,2019-07-29T09:52:28.148Z,54733,anon227579045,anon3809206126,"Apparently I have imported a Swedishicism: http://www.urbanictarena.se/lasagna-model-pipes-lasagne/ The idea is, as Alberto alludes to, that you have technologies which are layered in the sense that each layer can stand on its own two feet, takes care of its own security problems, etc. For networked technologies this is a main departure from old-style telecommunications networks which were assumed to be deployed and operated by the same entity." 29,57240,2019-07-29T09:55:31.611Z,54658,anon227579045,anon2434097920,A much belated response in the thread continuation by Alberto. 30,57363,2019-07-31T08:57:58.388Z,57239,anon3449369942,anon227579045,"Hey, almost done with first skeleanon2317280404 draft of what we discussed." 31,57401,2019-07-31T21:41:54.613Z,57363,anon227579045,anon3449369942,"![connected_fridge|690x620](upload://peGqYj2L2YBCa2Wl3rOw16YCTKX.png) I'm working on these forms of conceptualisations of technologies with a view to illustrating /where/ and /who/ does /what/ and /how/. The particular attachment concerns consumer worries with connected fridges - it's a sketch/draft. I was put in a pickle with the physical and datalink layers, because there's actually a bit of information transmitted already at/for the physical layer. But ok." 32,57402,2019-07-31T21:42:54.544Z,57401,anon227579045,anon227579045,"the idea is to be able to put in where different features are/could be standardized, or perhaps even map to vendors/value chains. there's a universe out there waiting to be OSI:fied." 33,57410,2019-08-01T07:12:30.831Z,57401,anon3449369942,anon227579045,"Ok - do I understand correctly? For the purpose of this discussion/session we need to be anon4292955258 specific so as to have a set of ""case studies"". We pick a set of specific well documented stories/ incident where certain injustices manifested and map out the connections between the where/what/when/how of _technologies_ involved.....and the who/where/when/how of _decision making_ mechanisms or processes involved. The visuals you sent are a proposed way to approach/structure the discussion. Yes?" 34,57454,2019-08-01T21:51:15.570Z,57410,anon227579045,anon3449369942,"> For the purpose of this discussion/session we need to be anon4292955258 specific so as to have a set of “case studies”. We pick a set of specific well documented stories/ incident where certain injustices manifested and map out the connections between the where/what/when/how of *technologies* involved…and the who/where/when/how of *decision making* mechanisms or processes involved. Ah, sorry. I posted the picture because it looks nice (to lighten up the mood). On the stories we need to document, I believe it's easier to group stories by forum (_where_ an event takes place), since it is the nature of the forum that determines what the future courses of actions are. That said, OSI layer conceptualisations can be used to illustrate how different technologies relate to each other. Maybe a consideration for a later report? At the workshop stage focus could be on strategic issues more than graphics." 35,54747,2019-06-09T06:32:31.777Z,56473,anon1119284955,anon3449369942,"Hi @anon3809206126, this is an interesting issue. P2P traffic had peaked to be 69% of total internet traffic in Germany in 2007 ( https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse571-07/ftp/p2p/#study & https://ipoque.com/news-media/press-releases/2007/ipoque-internet-study-2007-p2p-file-sharing-still-dominates )... in 2019 however, it fell to the neighbourhood of 5% ( https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-dominates-internet-traffic-worldwide-bittorrent-ranks-fifth-181116/ ). Similarly to make another example, despite promising radical decentralisation and the substitution of trust by algorithm-driven verification of claims, blockchains have all started meddling with mechanisms of centralised control, roughly since the 2016 DAO attack and consequent Ethereum fork, and today one sees permissioned solutions ( https://monax.io/learn/permissioned_blockchains/ ), editable (!!) chains ( http://www.global-engage.com/life-science/when-blockchain-meets-the-right-to-be-forgotten-technology-versus-law/ and https://medium.com/@anon It all seems to me to relate to how policies get informed by unknowns and believes, often transversal to the topic that is being deliberated about (e.g. P2P and the mistaken belief that sharing subtracts value to the creative industry -> https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf ) ...this could be a good paper to read ahead of any effort to produce evidences for NGI -> https://link.spranon2926706121r.com/article/10.1007/s11077-019-09352-4 Are you calling Julia Reda on this?" 36,54750,2019-06-09T07:12:51.162Z,54747,anon3809206126,anon1119284955,"Well, hello @anon1119284955! :slight_smile: Delighted to get your input – if we go ahead with this, I'll make sure you get a proper invitation. Your exact same point was made to me by @anon227579045: Europe used to have a world leadership on P2P tech (Kazaa, Pirate Bay, early Skype...), but then it *regulated its own tech bleeding edge out of existence*. This issue deserves its own thread, but it does advocate taking a hard look at industrial tech policy in the EU... what do you think? I am not sure what Julia is up to these days. I heard she did not run for a second mandate, which I interpret as being fed up with the whole dance. Perhaps you have other information?" 37,54758,2019-06-09T09:28:47.849Z,54750,anon1119284955,anon3809206126,"I agree we need to get deep into the industrial tech policies, and overall competitive strategy design process (an awful lot of ill informed ""me too"" rages in EU since a decade or two) inevitably including the issue of lobbying... and I agree this investigation would be a dignified activity on its own... In reason of Paul KT & Haddad C 2019 (the last link in my previous post) however, I am not sure we can disentangle the two analyses too easily, since also your original enquiry was meant to inform future policy making... up for conversation about how to arrange the coordination of the efforts. Concerning Julia, no... I have the same news as you, I guess... but my understanding is that she is fed up with the political side and EU parliament... not with the entire topic... and once anyone is as deep in it as she is, I cannot bring myself to believe she can simply turn away... it's in her :slight_smile: Anyway a message would not hurt, if we were to go through with this... :angel:" 38,54882,2019-06-11T13:07:04.574Z,54758,anon3809206126,anon1119284955,@anon1119284955 indeed! 39,60727,2019-10-05T12:40:05.578Z,57401,anon28068060,anon227579045,"[quote=""anon227579045, post:28, topic:10326""] http://www.urbanictarena.se/lasagna-model-pipes-lasagne/ [/quote] Please keep sharing these as you develop them @anon227579045 - having visual resources (i at least finds) is very helpful for explaining how the Internet works, who is in involved, and what concerns/interests are!" 40,61423,2019-10-15T13:13:24.074Z,56473,anon1686813978,anon3449369942,"@anon3449369942 Do reach out to this woman - >https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrilloliliana/ She's interested to be a speaker or attendee and willing to share info in her AI circles." 41,61432,2019-10-15T13:37:11.172Z,61423,anon1686813978,anon1686813978,"@anon3449369942 She's interested as well -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinawunder/" 42,61445,2019-10-15T15:22:51.250Z,60246,anon3899621522,anon3449369942,"Ciao Nadia, First of all sorry for the delay, been difficult days lately for me regarding my availability outside basic work duty. It is indeed time to launch the communication: Ideally I would need to create an event on www.digityser.org/events that would obviously point towards here to allow people to register the way you want them to be registered etc.. wanted : Banner image + description + Title of the event + date/hour (program format more or less) Regarding a pre-meetup on the 10th : do you want to reschedule this ? Our place is pretty much open for this but You need to pick a date because we have a bunch of events/hackathons this week & the next one that will take most of our time. Maybe the best would be to provide an invitation/concept about the event and we could invite all our contacts so that would avoid you to make a physical meetup just to share the format/methodology of the event ?" 43,61452,2019-10-15T15:43:32.341Z,61445,anon3449369942,anon3899621522,"ok @anon1686813978 can I ask you to coordinate with @anon3031202475 to get appropriate communication materials to @anon3899621522 for digityser's events website, as well as for posting on/via Digityser's social media/communication channels?" 44,61493,2019-10-16T08:57:20.809Z,61452,anon1686813978,anon3449369942,New person who's interested -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-smuha-2aa0b071/ 45,61496,2019-10-16T09:12:53.694Z,61493,anon3449369942,anon1686813978,cannot contact people with whom I am not already connected @anon1686813978 :) ask them to write to anon3449369942@anon 46,61556,2019-10-17T11:25:49.351Z,61452,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,I need images of the main featured speakers that we have the right to use :) 47,61787,2019-10-21T09:24:30.465Z,61452,anon3899621522,anon3449369942,"Meanwhile I'm going to create an event on our side with the info I gather from here. Registration link will be the festival registration page, is that ok ? Edit : https://digityser.org/events/edgeryders-festival-workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them/" 48,61797,2019-10-21T09:58:12.665Z,61787,anon3449369942,anon3899621522,yes 49,61856,2019-10-21T16:25:51.323Z,61797,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"oh yeah, @anon3899621522 - @anon241932064 wants to do a podcast interview at Digityser 2hrs before the event starts (is there some quiet room somewhere we could do it in?)" 50,62035,2019-10-23T09:00:06.608Z,61856,anon3899621522,anon3449369942,"Definitely possible, yes we'll find the best place in the building for this to happen !" 51,62286,2019-10-25T12:42:33.677Z,62035,anon241932064,anon3899621522,"That's great, thanks a lot! :slight_smile:" 52,62481,2019-10-29T14:27:39.968Z,56473,anon2582491631,anon3449369942,"Hi guys, I would like to join the workshop, but I'm not sure I qualify. My work only touches sideways on the world of AI. I currently help the Flemish Public Employment Service set up an open innovation program. There's lots of talk about AI in the air (the PES also has it own AI lab). There are big promises for AI to reduce inequalities on the job market by objective matching and data analysis. I'm often one of the more critical voices in the room, asking for caution and reflection. I want to join this workshop to learn, I don't think I'll have much to teach... Which I guess is one of the prerequisites for claiming a ticket? Some feedback would be appreciated :slight_smile: Kira" 53,62637,2019-10-31T11:43:23.728Z,56473,anon685777545,anon3449369942,"@anon3449369942 I am an AI professional and I would love to contribute to this as speaker. Is there still a place available for me? :) https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrilloliliana/ I have been in touch with Fil via LinkedIn. @anon1686813978" 54,62640,2019-10-31T12:02:30.059Z,62637,anon3449369942,anon685777545,"Ciao and welcome - yes of course you can join us! The best way to get started is to read the personal introductions of other participants and leave thoughtful comments to help us move the thinking forward. You will find them here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you Then it would make sense for you to share a similar prost sharing your own experiences and reflections, including what you would like to explore with other participants in the workshop. If you would like to schedule an interview with another participant, I would suggest picking a few time slots that would best for you here: https://doodle.com/meetme/qc/ivSwRDQSjt Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions etc" 55,62641,2019-10-31T12:04:47.216Z,62481,anon3449369942,anon2582491631,"Hey Kira, definitely yes. I think a good starting point is to read the posts by other participants, and leave thoughtful comments with your own reflections or questions around the topics. Then if and when you feel comfortable - posting a personal introduction with some thoughts around what you would like to dig deeper into based on what you have read so far. Both what others have posted, and where you can create your own introduction are found here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you" 56,63883,2019-11-12T13:27:38.548Z,56473,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,@anon 57,63902,2019-11-12T16:34:48.229Z,63883,anon518360670,anon3449369942,"I am part of the Instadeep team as a Project Manager for the data science department in Tunis office :) @anon3449369942 @anon" 58,63914,2019-11-12T16:55:59.900Z,62640,anon685777545,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:54, topic:10326""] https://doodle.com/meetme/qc/ivSwRDQSjt [/quote] Hi Nadia, thanks for your reply! I saw Jean today, and she talks wonderful about you. I would love to meet you :slight_smile: I will post about my self on the link you shared. I tried to book a one-on-one call but there are no slots available now. Warm regards, Liliana." 59,64254,2019-11-15T14:22:17.776Z,62640,anon685777545,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:54, topic:10326""] https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you [/quote] Hi @anon3449369942, I have added part of my story here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-to-balance-the-needs-of-the-individual-and-the-collective-collective-intelligence-and-more/11559 And for this specific workshop, I could give a talk about AI as a person from the field. I studied at the Swiss AI institute, IDSIA, and I can tell a personal story about Google DeepMind, the AI company of Google. This was a startup of very good friends of mine from IDSIA. And this can serve as a way to create some 'panel' talks/discussions. Warm regards, Liliana." 60,65126,2019-11-22T11:14:42.861Z,56473,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,A post was merged into an existing topic: [Were you at the AI & Justice workshop on 19/11? Share your notes and thoughts here!](/t/were-you-at-the-ai-justice-workshop-on-19-11-share-your-notes-and-thoughts-here/11694/4) 1,63641,2019-11-10T09:21:49.485Z,63641,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"
I would like to weave together into a 150-300 word article and case studies that can help each one of us 1. Make sense of how to resolve the underlying tensions between acknowledging the socialecological costs of the tech industry...and findings ways to develop technological tools that help create conditions for a zero/negative carbon economy which offers accessible opportunities for everyone to build healthy, happy lives. 2. Figure out how each one of us can put the skills, resources and relationships we in service of making this happen. Not in a theoretical, pie in the sky scenario - but based on the practical constraints of our everyday lives right now. As @anon1037234888 puts it, this means we need to go beyond conversations in which we discuss the merits of various solutions or technologies. Rather it requires us to include more of our personal experience, motivations and examples in our stories, thoughts, ideas and project presentations and discussions. Our views on the topic are surely interesting, but knowing what brought each of us to start thinking about it and what shaped your ideas is what will enable us to not only connect but also to discuss and research on a deeper level! **What questions/dilemmas are you yourself struggling with right now? What do you think we should be asking one another and everyone we know, peer to peer, to help you firgure out a solution?** My own personal struggle is tied to how to live and work with others in a spirit of solidarity set against a backdrop of being an ethnic minority in Europe, a lifetime of moving around and the experience of how quickly things can fall apart due to shifts outside our direct control (read: war + health). I had a beautiful and free childhood in communities of expatriates from all over the planet who moved due to professional opportunities. All of them with tertiary education. A lot of this was spent in the middle east, more specifically the Gulf region. So a mix of people with professions that were fairly well paid, or filthy wealthy because well - the gulf. The situation was stable, very safe and free for children - school then home then playing outdoors with lots of kids and pretty much no supervision. While my own family is culturally, ethnically and religiously mixed - Our social circle was largely defined by being part of a tight knit North Sudanese community. The Sudanese are a communitarian people with strong ties to their country and regions of origin. My dad is from a region called Al Gezira. Farmers + Communitarian + Communist. Traditionally a thorn in the side of the political leadership in the capital. I hadn't realised just how influential this strand of my heritage is until the recent, still ongoing, revolution in the country. It's funny how these things can make you see where certain aspects of your person come from. Then Iraq invaded Kuwait. My Dad was running a research Lab at IBM and was doing something brainy at the University. Staff were warned in advance that something was happening, but it still came as a complete surprise. After a dramatic turn of events involving parents driving through barricades, a student of my Dad's offered their farmhouse as a refuge. Fastforward through a jouney that took us through Iraq, jordan and Egypt. We then moved to Stockholm, during what later came to be known as a decade of violent racism in Sweden. Because of the war in the Balkans an unexpectedly large number of people from former Yugoslavia sought refuge in Sweden, especially during the first years of the war. This happened at the same time as Sweden experienced worst recession in 60 years- It didn’t take long for things to turn ugly. Then as as we do now, we saw a hostile reaction to refugees and migrants. At it’s worst we saw people walking around with weapons using lazer- visors to terrorise and kill those who “look like immigrants”. The Swedish labour market at the time was, and still, is deeply shaped by people's social relationships. It is a small country that is notoriously difficult to really make your home in unless you have childhood friendships to rely on. But tech has always been a big place, especially when internet/digital was making it's way into the ecnonomy. I jumped on that train fairly early and that was my ""ticket in"". There is a much longer story within which my own is situated- but you get the idea, this mix between tight tight solidarity, and an environment of extreme hostility. I am painfully aware of the importance of having financial resources to get yourself and your family out of dangerous situations. And of how quickly a seemingly hospitable social environment can turn against you and make clear that you don't really belong/Can rely on protection. Others say that your best bet of surviving a difficult situation, e.g impending climate catastrophe, is being embedded in a web of nurturing relationships. **But how much can you rely on this web in a multicultural setting where people do not have the same strong ties to an ancient culture and land?** **And what does this mean for how you relate to the development and use of technologies?** **How do you balance the need for profiting from a company and caring for the needs of others?** All of this soanon3242181883 ties in to these discussions we are having. But I am at a loss for how to move forward wisely over the coming years. **So this is me. Any suggestions based on your own experiences?**" 2,63923,2019-11-12T17:56:17.610Z,63641,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:1, topic:11469""] But how much can you rely on this web in a multicultural setting where people do not have the same strong ties to an ancient culture and land? [/quote] I am starting to feel that there is in a way its own culture emerging among those who do not have strong ties to an ancient culture or land, and that is the community you join when you keep moving around. In a way that is nice and helps you to quicker feel ""at home"" when you are in fact not by become part of this community of ""not at homes"" or keeping in touch with your old friends and contacts via many modern communication channels. And it is a chance to create a beautiful and welcoming culture at that and one that in my opinion can have even stronger ties, because we choose consciously with whom to stay in contact and when we need to search for new direct contacts in person where we end up. But it also means that we are creating a cultural layer that A: makes it harder for us to relate to the experiences of those who are not part of it and B: might never really live in the culture of the place where we happen to end life but rather mainly stay in this international culture of people moving. You probably have a very strong web of very different and carefully chosen people you decided to stay in contact with from a large pool of people you met new in different places and situations and that might be a richness in itself and a web to rely on." 3,63926,2019-11-12T18:40:48.468Z,63923,anon51020356,anon3031202475,"I don't anon4292955258 get how common ties to an ancient culture and land are fundamentals for trust, or at least not more than trust in others whose paths you cross on a different territory - that might be new for them too, not just for you. I understand deep wiring, but also that choosing a home and a tribe is a conscious choice - you can have one, two, or more places where are you invested in. You can also choose your people to be your home, your land. Especially when it comes to fighting for technology and social good in a global world, you can have more in common with people across the globe than with your neighbors, yes. So then why should the land be a denominator at all in this trust formula?" 4,63929,2019-11-12T19:58:49.797Z,63926,anon3449369942,anon51020356,"There is a brilliant novel called [seveneves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves) in which groups have to select who amongst them is to survive a cataclysmic event and be transported to the future in a kind of ark. The way it is organised is for different peoples to select one of each gender which the people consider to carry the best of them. So as to ensure that these attributes and stories are carried into a new civilisation. It came to mind yesterday during the Scifi Economics Lab. Both when Cory spoke of fully automated luxury communism and when Kirsten spoke of new narratives. I would argue that a not insignificant part of narrative building is tied to place. It's easy to disregard the deep ties that people have to a place and the stories tied to it... How these narratives can carry people through rough times due to a sense of being a community of fate. The rituals, again tied to place and people, which everyone of the place has internalised often have the role of weaving together communities. The older they are, the more thoroughly they are grounded in your person - because of childhood memories etc. A solid common ground. It's all good and well to talk of larger causes, or your choice of tribes. But how does that work when your people include family members in different parts of the world? How strong is the sense of common fate as a motivator for sticking together when conflicting loyalties and multiple stories arise? When you are part of an ethnic group and community of fate, yes you have some feud going on with your neighbours but when militia come for you or attempt to displace you, it's a common fight. Also because you have relatives in common etc. How this is linked to doing tech for good? 24 hours a day requires focus. What technosocial developments that it makes sense to put your energy fighting for will depend on whom you are fighting for. And what rights you can rely on - e.g how large is the probability that if you are arrested you will be kicked out of a country? Do you focus on introducing and building capacity around use of certain technologies for the local good? Are you fighting nationally to get Microsoft out of your educational system. Or are you lobbying against things like mass surveillance at the transnational scale? This what comes to mind. but I am happy to be proven wrong with some examples from different people's experiences..." 5,63958,2019-11-13T02:55:31.561Z,63641,anon2434097920,anon3449369942,"I see all three of you having valid viewpoints. Tied to place and deep roots, or people and place of your own choosing, and a global community of nomads. All are going on simultaneously." 6,63992,2019-11-13T14:38:47.380Z,63958,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I personally have been more a part of the two latter ones: I belong to a community I chose to be with, none of whom I really knew before. And I have been a nomadic community person. As for deep roots, being from California, nobody's roots go that deep unless you are Native American, but I am more tied to my region than I would otherwise be because I have family here that needs my care. This doesn't anon4292955258 get to the heart of what Nadia is saying though, because I do not have the kinds of experiences she describes. Which are fascinating...would love to hear more." 7,64743,2019-11-19T18:26:30.287Z,63641,anon1037234888,anon3449369942,"I strongly relate to your childhood -- I'm also a mixed kid, of a Mancunian mum and Palestinian dad, both who left home under less than ideal circumstances (or in my dad's case, born a refugee and never really had a home country). I grew up in a tight-knit community of other first gen/immigrant kids in the USA. And my dad also did research at IBM and a university ;) Being in the USA after 9/11 created a similar kind of hostile environment for our Arab family. The problem with this notion of 'creating identity' for yourself is that, as @anon3449369942 alludes to, you can't always choose your tribe or territory, especially when those around you reject your attempts to belong. I think the most interesting thing that I've found is the people I end up relating to most aren't those that share one of my ethnic backgrounds, but other hyphenated people. Most of my friends are first-generation and/or mixed. And they understand an identity formed both through presence and absence -- of 'homeland', of family ties, of belonging. So I get the 'nomadic ties' thing, but I think it has more teeth than just collecting people and places you like-- sometimes, you don't have an entry ticket. Or you get in and find you only have partial access. And some identities you can't just shed, unless you want to change your name and your skin. Diasporic identity is always complicated -- and in the Palestinian case, 'communities of fate' is an apt phrase. One of my favourite poets, Mahmoud Darwish, writes on it a lot. He wrote a poem about talking with Edward Said that speaks a lot to the questions we're discussing here -- it's a conversation between the two of them about identity. Said thinks you can make your own identity out of two worlds (more free form) and Darwish sees deeper ties that bind and hold us, whether we like it or not (you can see this in his other poems). The important thing to note is that both of them articulate what @anon3449369942 is talking about in terms of an emplaced identity tied to justice and tied to conflict. Both Said and Darwish, in their other works, ask questions about how identity can inform what we fight for, and how displacement affects the things we care about and the way we imagine the communities that share our struggle. Palestinian diasporic identity sheds a lot of light on this issue, since a lot of other Arab communities have turned their back on the Palestinian struggle, or only support it in name. And diasporic Palestinians outside of the MENA have a different lived experience than those exiled in other MENA countries, or those in refugee camps, or those still living in Palestine under occupation. Where we are located changes the ways we figure and conceptualise justice and struggle; affects the energies we have to struggle; and shapes what kinds of futures are imaginable. It's too long to paste the whole poem, but here are some excerpts: New York / November / Fifth Avenue... There, on the doorstep of an electric abyss, high as the sky, I met Edward, thirty years ago, time was less wild then . . . We both said: If the past is only an experience, make of the future a meaning and a vision. Let us go, Let us go into tomorrow trusting the candor of imagination and the miracle of grass/ * * * New York. Edward wakes up to a lazy dawn. He plays Mozart. Runs round the university's tennis court. Thinks of the journey of ideas across borders, and over barriers. He reads the New York Times. firites out his furious comments. Curses an Orientalist guiding the General to the weak point inside the heart of an Oriental woman. He showers. Chooses his elegant suit. Drinks his white coffee. Shouts at the dawn: Do not loiter. * * * On wind he walks, and in wind he knows himself. There is no ceiling for the wind, no home for the wind. Wind is the compass of the stranger's North. He says: I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and part . . . I have two languages, but I have long forgotten which is the language of my dreams. I have an English language, for writing, with yielding phrases, and a language in which Heaven and Jerusalem converse, with a silver cadence, but it does not yield to my imagination. * * * What about identity? I asked. He said: It's self-defense . . . Identity is the child of birth, but at the end, it's self-invention, and not an inheritance of the past. I am multiple . . . Within me an ever new exterior. And I belong to the question of the victim. Were I not from there, I would have trained my heart to nurture there deer of metaphor . . . So carry your homeland wherever you go, and be a narcissist if need be/ The outside world is exile, exile is the world inside. And what are you between the two? * * * Myself, I do not know so that I shall not lose it. I am what I am. I am my other, a duality gaining resonance in between speech and gesture. Were I to write poetry I would have said: I am two in one, like the wings of a swallow, content with bringing good omen when spring is late. * * * He loves a country and he leaves. [Is the impossible far off?] He loves leaving to things unknown. By traveling freely across cultures those in search of the human essence may find a space for all to sit . . . Here a margin advances. Or a center retreats. Where East is not strictly east, and West is not strictly west, where identity is open onto plurality, not a fort or a trench/ * * * He loves a country and he leaves: I am what I am and shall be. I shall choose my place by myself, and choose my exile. My exile, the backdrop to an epic scene. I defend the poet's need for memories and tomorrow, I defend country and exile in tree-clad birds, and a moon, generous enough to allow the writing of a love poem; I defend an idea shattered by the frailty of its partisans and defend a country hijacked by myths/ * * * —Will you be able to return to anything? My ahead pulls what's behind and hastens . . . There is no time left in my watch for me to scribble lines on the sand. I can, however, visit yesterday as strangers do when they listen on a sad evening to a Pastorale * * * —So, nostalgia can hit you? Nostalgia for a higher, more distant tomorrow, far more distant. My dream leads my steps. And my vision places my dream on my knees like a pet cat. It's the imaginary real, the child of will: We can change the inevitability of the abyss. * * * —And nostalgia for yesterday? A sentiment not fit for an intellectual, unless it is used to spell out the stranger's fervor for that which negates him. My nostalgia is a struggle over a present which has tomorrow by the balls. * * * —Did you not sneak into yesterday when you went to that house, your house in Talbiya, in Jerusalem? I prepared myself to sleep in my mother's bed, like a child who's scared of his father. I tried to recall my birth, and to watch the Milky Way from the roof of my old house. I tried to stroke the skin of absence and the smell of summer in the garden's jasmine. But the hyena that is truth drove me away from a thief-like nostalgia. —Were you afraid? What frightened you? I could not meet loss face to face. I stood by the door like a beggar. How could I ask permission from strangers sleeping in my own bed . . . Ask them if I could visit myself for five minutes? Should I bow in respect to the residents of my childish dream? Would they ask: Who is that prying foreign visitor? And how could I talk about war and peace among the victims and the victims' victims, without additions, without an interjection? And would they tell me: There is no place for two dreams in one bedroom? * * * It is neither me nor him who asks; it is a reader asking: What can poetry say in a time of catastrophe? * * * Blood and blood, blood in your country, in my name and in yours, in the almond flower, in the banana skin, in the baby's milk, in light and shadow, in the grain of wheat, in salt/ * * * Adept snipers, hitting their target with maximum proficiency. Blood and blood and blood. This land is smaller than the blood of its children standing on the threshold of doomsday like sacrificial offerings. Is this land truly blessed, or is it baptised in blood and blood and blood which neither prayer, nor sand can dry. There is not enough justice in the Sacred Book to make martyrs rejoice in their freedom to walk on cloud. Blood in daylight, blood in darkness. Blood in speech. * * * He says: The poem could host loss, a thread of light shining at the heart of a guitar; or a Christ on a horse pierced through with beautiful metaphors. For the aesthetic is but the presence of the real in form/ In a world without a sky, the earth becomes an abyss. The poem, a consolation, an attribute of the wind, southern or northern. Do not describe what the camera can see of your wounds. And scream that you may hear yourself, and scream that you may know you're still alive, and alive, and that life on this earth is possible. Invent a hope for speech, invent a direction, a mirage to extend hope. And sing, for the aesthetic is freedom/ * * *" 8,64823,2019-11-20T11:02:11.910Z,64743,anon1037234888,anon1037234888,"@anon1505367078, you might like this poem too." 9,64958,2019-11-21T10:02:49.431Z,64743,anon3449369942,anon1037234888,"It's beautiful. Many years ago i wanted to write a history textbook based on personal family histories of people I know and care about. Each one would tell their family history in all directions as far as they can reach through family stories archives, asking everyone they know what they know. Then piecing it together ""chronologically"" as an alternative textbook based on stories and subjective interpretationsstory what happened in our worlds." 1,64014,2019-11-13T17:35:38.252Z,64014,anon4265023664,anon4265023664,"I live in Brussels, work in Delft, and have strong connections to Berlin where I lived before. In my day job I’m an academic at the university, which means that I do research. I just joined the faculty at Delft University of Technology. The many strands of research I do are driven by the question “how can we do computer science differently?” The path towards it has, on the one hand, been by working on privacy enhancing technologies: if information and communication technologies come with associated risks and harms— for example, they enable a certain kind of surveillance — how can we use the same technology to protect people from the surveillance, or how can we design that technology differently. This kind of research requires, a very interdisciplinary approach, looking at both conceptions of privacy and surveillance, and also looking at what communities need. Most recently, I’ve started working on online services, studying them also as a way to show the ways in which software industries have changed. In my current work, I’m trying to conceptualize how software is developed today, what kind of political economy software companies are functioning in, and how that affects the kind of systems they develop. I then tie this work to what this means for computer science and how we can do computer science differently. Outside of my day job, I work with artists and activists and civil society in Brussels. I’ve been working with a feminist artist collective, called ConstantVZW. They do a number of project and organize different events around free software, artistic practice and collective digital practices. For example, they are currently having a work session on “collective conditions”, which focuses on thinking about how to deal with the way in which collectivity and technology is imagined They invite participants to imagine protocols of care, alternative futures, differences etc. that are layered on top of the protocols that drive current day services, that could allow our collectivities to exist in the extractive socio-technical world that we currently live in. The collaboration with Constant and other groups is an important part of my work: I work with these different communities as a way to think about and develop methodologies for a different computer science, a different technology, or a different life together with technology. This work builds on previous engagements regarding migration, gender and anti-racism in Europe, and digital rights in Turkey. Roots I was born and raised in Turkey. I already tried to go abroad when I was just a child. M family didn’t really have the means for such a wish, but I was always searching for possibilities to go abroad. And part of it was because I wanted to study international relations. If I had stayed in Turkey, I would become an engineer, because I was very good at math and sciences. But at that time, I loved math, but I was sure I didn’t want to be an engineer. I managed to go abroad. I went to the US. I was there for five years, and then I got a scholarship to go to Germany. I stayed in Germany for 13 years. But soanon3242181883, math and engineering did not leave me. So, I decided to combine them. My undergrad was in international relations and mathematics. In my final report before graduating I looked at the way in which game theory was used during the Cold War. John von Neumann, among other things a famous computer scientist, actually believed that it would be rational for the US to do a nuclear strike first, i.e., he believed in first-strike. He bolstered his argument using mathematics, specifically, game theory, in order to rationalize and deem “objective” a very devastating political position. As a young person interested in international relations and at home with mathematics, I was very intrigued by the use of mathematics that I, at the time, also thought was absolutely neutral and objective in the pursuit of devastating imperial politics. Maybe some of this interest was due to the time my family and I spent in Sofia, Bulgaria when I was a kid. Bulgaria then was a communist country. As a kid, I was anon4292955258 impressed by communism vis-a-vis how Turkey was doing at the same time. We were there because my father was appointed the Turkish military attaché. Turkey was and kind of still is an ally of the US. This had consequences for our life in Bulgaria, and in a sense, the Cold War really colored our lives. Growing up in the cold war and, much later, going to the US and seeing the US framing of the same war forced me to try to grasp what the nuclear arms race was about and how we got there? My field of study helped me understand it better. Later in my life, when I became interested and involved in the feminist critique of computing and mathematics, I came to understand better the many ways in which mathematics is not neutral. People believe numbers are neutral, or that mathematical concepts or abstractions don’t have political relevance. However, every time you use a mathematical language, let’s say to model the world, you have to make some assumptions. The numbers may make it seem as if things expressed in formal languages are neutral, but in fact — we see again and again — that this is not the case. Prisoner’s Dilemma’s Problems The prisoner’s dilemma, a commonly used example of a game used in game theory, was subject to much research at the RAND Corporation, a US military think-tank. In the prisoner’s dilemma, two prisoners can snitch on each other with punishments distributed in such a way that if any or two players snitch they are worse off. The objective was to demonstrate that “rational beings” might prefer not to cooperate even if it is not in their self-interest. One of the main researchers involved in developing theories around this game was John Nash. The legend goes that he and his colleagues asked secretaries at the RAND Corporation to play the game. But there was a glitch: the secretaries would cooperate instead of choosing for themselves. So, Nash simply dismissed them, calling them unfit subjects of the game. It was the same game, the Prisoner’s Dilemma that was later used to rationalize that it would be better if the US would strike first. The story around Prisoner’s Dilemma is good example of how the model makes assumptions about humans being selfish and always after maximum gain, an assumption that percolates through economics, social choice theory etc. The game, used as a model of the world and our behavior in it has a lot of appeal. It is a simple model— with lots of assumptions folded into a very simple model. Once you have such models running, you can start making a lot of statements about the world. You can then build on top of these models, build systems that manage life at scale. But with that, you also expose a lot of people to the potential violence that comes from these assumptions. Linking Politics and Computer Sciences I got a scholarship and moved to Berlin to study computer science. To be honest, it was more of an economic decision. A lot of my friends from college had moved to Silicon Valley during the first tech-bubble at the end of the 90s. I was self funding and I was on students visas that had run out. So I thought, okay, maybe I should study computer science as a way to get a job, earn money and apply for a visa to go back to the US. In Berlin, I started working with feminist computer scientists. During my study, I focused on security and privacy. That work led me to meet people like Andreas Pfitzmann, a cryptographer who had moved into the field of privacy enhancing technology. They were coming up with new theories of security. For example, they argued that the objective of a computer scientist is not to secure the system, but to build systems that secure the interests of the different actors who are using and are affected by that system. And that really appealed to me. I became interested in the question related to the different factors of stakeholders to a system and how they have different security interests. That’s what we should be enabling and not protecting systems for their own sake. That’s how I got into privacy technologies. This was also politically very interesting. A lot of security comes from the military domain. Businesses employ security as a way to secure the assets of the company. So, by realizing we should be securing different stakeholders, we were able to start acting on security and privacy in a very different way. Privacy was often in juxtaposition to security: it was about protecting the users from the service providers themselves. You would see the user needs instead of “assets” as the driving force of your designs. That is how I got to the general question in my research: is there another computer science possible? Let’s say a computer science that doesn’t assume that our job as computer scientists is to secure assets of companies or governments, but one that secures and protects the needs of users and their environments. A changing technical landscape I only was back in the US again between 2013 and 2016. When I talked with developers there, I noticed that the way I was taught Software Engineering at the University had completely changed and, basically, was no longer relevant. Let me try to explain what the differences were. Until the end of the 90s, it was very typical that software came in a box, which included floppy disks or CD ROMs that contained a copy of the software that you could install on your personal computer. This box was the product of a very specific way to produce software as a product using “waterfall methodologies”. In waterfall methods, you start with the requirements from the clients, once you have those, you go to your developer team and start turning those requirements into a specification and a design of a machine to be developed. This whole process was slow, like one or two years, and after that you would emerge and pass what you developed back to the client. You would test it with the client to see if it worked. And, ideally it all worked and you were done. Or, for example with Microsoft, every two to three years a new release of the operating system would be offered. They would go through a similar cycle for each version, and come back in 2-3 years with a new version of the operating system, or other software like Microsoft Office. Once it was ready, you would release the code and put it on a disk to get sold. Once code was released, changes were difficult, so that release date was a big moment and the end of a production cycle. Today, we do not buy boxes, but open up a browser window to access most software. We access Facebook, Google search or Google Docs, and a host of other “services” instead of installing them on our computers. With services the code is on a server. The user connects to the server to get the functionality. This is what happens with a web browser. This subtle shift has completely changed how software is produced and how the software industry functions. As a result, the political economy of these companies has transformed, turning them into very different kinds of investment objects. The last five years I have been trying to understand how the shift has enabled different kinds of software engineering processes, in which developers don’t close themselves up for two years and come back with some software, but you can incrementally and continuously develop software as a service. As users we notice the difference in many ways. When you’re using an app, it doesn’t function when you’re offline, because most of the code is somewhere else. Since a release now means releasing to a server and not to a packaged box, the developers have the ability to constantly update and incrementally develop the software. And since most user interactions are also communicated to the server, the developers can observe users’ behavior and tweak the design to get better results. With this feedback loop in place, the industry can now optimize software so that they capture and manipulate user behavior in a way that is aligned with business interests. For example, an app might give three or four functionalities to their users, they will then continuously improve on those functionalities. It might be a feature or it might be a butanon2317280404, or it could be the ability to make a call. And they constantly refine that feature based on the feedback they get from how the user uses the service. If you compare Microsoft Office on your personal computer, back then Microsoft didn’t have that information, they had anon222512824 clue what users were doing with it — except when complaints bubbled up on online discussion forums or on support lines. Compare that with Google docs, Google can watch every click, holds all user documents, and can capture all the desirable and undesirable ways in which users interact with their service. Service providers can improve the software using this feedback, and in the process also optimize users behavior towards a certain direction. You can orient the users towards the interests of the company. And this is how I started to understand that we are no longer looking at information and communication technologies, but we’re looking at optimization systems. These are systems that are optimizing features depending on user behavior, and optimizing that behavior based on the interest of the company for the extraction of value. So, my collaborators like Martha Poon, Carmela Troncoso, Bekah Overdorf, Joris van Hoboken and others have been asking: if the systems are no longer about information, collection, and knowledge — which comes with associated problems of surveillance — but these systems are about optimization, what are their associated problems? And how do we protect the users and their environments? The Hidden Truth of Google Maps And Other Apps Many of us use Google Maps, or Google-owned Waze, which allows you to beat traffic. If you’re on the freeway, and there’s a traffic jam, Waze can recommend an alternate route. Waze then will say “Okay, get off the freeway, I’ll push you through the surface roads, so that you can get from A to B faster.” In doing so, they’re claiming to optimize the time to travel for the users. But what they’re also doing is that by optimizing your path by putting you through surface roads, they are actually causing more congestion. What they’re doing is putting more traffic onto roads that cannot deal with that kind of congestion. If only a few users do this, they are doing well. But if a lot of users start doing this, you actually increase congestion for everyone. This is something traffic engineers have called the price of anarchy. Waze basically keeps its users, by promising them the ability to optimize their path. Time to travel from A to B. It optimizes all of its services, so that the users are happy and if the user base grows, it has more location data from people, which can then be used to build new services and overall, keep investors happy. In services like Waze, the app is the product of layers and layers of managerial and mathematical forms of optimization. And, at the same time, the app helps optimize asocial selfish driver behavior while congesting surface roads, increasing congestion overall, causing extra traffic expenses for municipalities that now have to deal with hundreds of cars using small roads, increasing accidents, etc. Waze and other optimization systems do not “know” things, but sense the world and give information to users in order to co-create new geographies and behaviors for the extraction of value. They maximize the extraction of value by externalizing costs onto others, like non-users and their roads and cities. Waze is very useful in showing how optimization systems function in the world, and in demonstrating the externalities they produce. My collaborates and I are trying to wrap our heads around these optimization systems: how do they function? What are their externalities and how can we protect users, non-users and their environments from them? We have an initial list to say, optimization systems typically: favor optimal users, don’t care about non-users, don’t care about their environmental impact, externalize the costs of errors and experiments, etc. Let me explain what I mean by the latter: you can experiment with services in a way that you couldn’t with shrink-wrap software. For example, the Waze app: maybe there’s a road near a congested freeway that might be an interesting alternative. However, Waze doesn’t have any users going down that road, so they can’t capture if this road is congested and good to recommend. To find out, they send some of the users down these roads that they don’t have enough sensory information about. Let’s say they don’t want to risk it with their “favorite” users, so they may prefer to recommend this route to users that are less optimal for their business. The route may turn out well, or turn out to be congested or blocked, a risk externalized onto that selected user. These are examples of methods of exploration and experimentation that allow service providers to optimize their services, while externalizing risks and costs onto users. I want to be careful here and not fold everything under optimization, because, then we might as well talk about capitalism rather than optimization, but I think these are new technological practices that deserve their own critique. At the same time, it looks a lot like capitalism, too. There is something about the way in which the services are applied in places where they are expeted to bring return on investment, leaving behind many places. Only when these companies are pressured to expand their markets, do they start deploying their services elsewhere. However, it may not be the same quality, or like Facebook did in Myanmar and Bangladesh: without any support for the local languages. It has to do with the logic of extraction, of value driving, how you deploy services. Don’t Call Them AI Accidents When we started this work on optimization systems and their externalities, and we’re not sure if we should call these risks and harms externalities. When looked at AI safety papers and we realized their authors call these harms and risks “accidents”. We decided not to follow in their steps. These are not accidents. These are deliberate ways of scaling technologies to extract value, while externalizing certain costs onto others. In fact, a lot of the technologies are externalizing risks onto other people. Let’s take, Uber: normally, you would pay people for the time they work. And now you basically pay people if there are customers. This means that you externalize the risk of not having customers on to individual workers. What you offer them in return is that you will make an optimization system that will give them enough information, so that they can judge when they’re going to take that risk. Uber tells its drivers there will be more customers between 3pm and 5pm. The system is also very attuned to their price optimization. Basically, Uber is constantly putting their drivers into a situation where they are provided with information, so that they can manage their risk. This is how Uber is designed to work. Having seen many examples like thiswe intentionally moved away from calling these negative occurrences ‘accidents’. There is something to be criticized in our work, which is that we assume that this is all very deliberate. And we’re talking about organizations with thousands of people, where sometimes the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. There are conflicts internally, different power games within the institutions etc. But, take auanon2317280404omous cars as an example: for them to function, you have to remove everything that has a lot of uncertainty from their way. I’m seeing a lot of research now where they’re like, “Okay, how can we still maybe have people in the picture? And the answer is we can profile them all the time. We can constantly monitor people and their behavior and give them control when they fit our expectations and models of risk.” Basically, what they’re imagining is that auanon2317280404omous cars can only exist if the infrastructure continuously monitors everyone around those cars, and provides agency to those people based on continuous behavioral analysis. None of this is an accident. This is a plan. I think there’s also another story to be told, which is that Cloud services are a natural progression from the move from shrink-wrapped software in a box to services as we have them now. Some argue services lead to centralization and concentration of computing power, which is optimized to serve all these different services. That’s why we now have Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud, or even the great pivot of Microsoft from being a software company to a cloud company. So, we could say that service architectures pool the clouds to us. But you can also turn that story around and say, the cloud is a promise of the software industry to investors, that they can get a lot of people onto the cloud. They should invest in it. In fact, cloud services are fast growing investment objects. Seen this way, auanon2317280404omous cars are a great way to fulfill the promise of the clouds. In other words, the clouds and their investors are pulling on auanon2317280404omous cars. Given these developments, calling these risks and harms and control infrastructures accidents can only happen if we ignore the whole political economy of software industries. This doesn’t mean that there are no accidents, right? There are accidents. But, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into this idea that they just don’t know what they’re doing. Public Institutions and Tech Injustice I don’t in particular study public institutions, but I have been following the discussions professionally around algorithmic discrimination and fairness, and how concerns around discrimination arise for public institutions. For example, I have followed from a distance a proposal for a ‘lie detector’ AI to be piloted on European borders. They are proposing that this service will help optimize the surveillance at the border and the management of flows. Another example I have heard about is from the Austrian Employment Agency: they are deciding who of the currently unemployed is likely to reenter the workforce in order to only offer those access to re-training. This can be said to be a proposition for optimizing the social welfare state. You can imagine that all of these services have been sold, and all of these technologies have been developed, with the idea in mind that these institutions can cut costs and be more efficient at the same time, the main concern being that they may make unfair automated decisions with discriminatory effects. This is a very narrow view of the problems that can arise when optimization systems are applied in the public sector. The concern about automated decision with discriminatory effect misses the point that a border system is already a very racialized and very discriminatory system. With regards to social welfare, especially unemployment systems are most likely to impact people with low economic resources, and a good portion of that is likely going to be immigrants. People quickly made the conclusions that border control could be discriminatory or make mistakes. Similar to the Austrian example, there are claims that if you are an immigrant, or a woman with a child, the systems reduces your chances of getting access to resources to re-enter the employment market. Here we see the trouble with the systems, because they are already racialized and discriminatory systems of population control. That they’re discriminatory is not just at the level of the algorithm, but the whole system. The fact that it’s optimizing over that population is already very problematic, because it’s going to optimize with respect to somebody’s understanding of what is optimal. The discriminatory effect is just an additional factor, but it’s not the main factor. How can government agencies who employ AI start making claims about fairness, when they’re in themselves problematic institutions. I work in the Netherlands currently, where people have been optimizing the infrastructure for a long time, such as traffic optimization. But they think about how to optimize the infrastructure for everyone, having in-depth discussions about how to do it in a fair manner. Companies like Waze do not officially join the infrastructure planning. They offer services to citizens that use that infrastructure, going through the backdoor, de facto redefining the social welfare function of those infrastructures. These services are putting into practice a new definition of what it means to use roads optimally. In the process, they are no longer optimizing the infrastructure for everyone, but doing so their users and their bottom line. Basically, every time we apply optimization systems to public agencies or infrastructures, we are redefining the social welfare function of these agencies, and changing the fabric of society. There’s currently very anon222512824 discussion about whether we want this model. Instead, we have public discussion that is overly focused on algorithms, automated decisions and data flows. Discussions about how to improve algorithms or control data flows does not address how optimization systems are changing the way in which our infrastructures should be governed, or how our resources should be allocated. There’s currently a run for AI. There’s all this inevitability and urgency around it: “If we don’t do AI, then China and the US will. So we need to do AI.” On a cynical day, one could imagine this is a huge fraud scheme to transfer wealth from some parties to others in the name of innovation while changing our governance structures. At the same time, the academic and civil society discussion is focused on data and algorithms. But we really need to open up a discussion about what it means to use optimization systems in managing all aspects of life. The optimization systems we look at are based on a utilitarian logic. They come with very specific economic models. We need to discuss whether this kind of utilitarian model is the only model for resource allocation. And when it is not the right model, then we need to look at what would be better? As far as I know, which is anon222512824, until the end of the 60s, economic models and social choice theory predominantly assumed we are selfish agents trying to maximize our gain, and they proposed systems that could optimize over everybody’s gains. Utilitarian models have been subject to much critique. Optimization systems bring utilitarian logics back in vogue, but with the addition that they optimize resources in different domains in line with profit interests. I think in that sense, optimization systems, or machine learning, or AI propose a very specific model, and it’s a very narrow model to organize allocation of resources. Given how anon222512824 attention has been paid to these issues, it is really time to move beyond data and algorithms, and to focus on the forms of governance these technologies are brining and whether they fit with our imagination of how we want to govern our societies? Currently things are the other way around: technology companies are redefining forms of governance and proposing optimization as the only way to organize resource allocation. To succeed, these companies backdoor into the world through users. They use investment money to disrupt existing markets and outrun competitors. If and when they become the last ones standing, it may be too late to have the discussion whether we want the models of life that they propose and implement. **Burning Question** The push for AI is basically marketing for a financial boost for creating a computational infrastructure based on optimization systems that govern all aspects of life. Do we want this infrastructure? How can we resist it, engage it, and ensure it serves people and their environment, and not the other way around?" 2,64427,2019-11-17T21:44:17.252Z,64014,anon4265023664,anon4265023664,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:1, topic:11514, full:true""]" 1,64374,2019-11-16T17:30:15.760Z,64374,anon2503679138,anon2503679138,"i'm David and work as a software developer [edit]: joined for the https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-berlin/10769 **What is a burning question that drives your work?** How a social network platform could look like if we disregarded the usually dominant factor of time entirely and focus on ""other ways"". **How did you get started and what hurdles have you met along the way?** i have been working on a POC in my freetime and one tricky thing is coming up with a sound product - i'm on it. I also want to focus more on finding collaborators and getting feedback from users. **Which doubts do you have about the work you are doing and the path forward?** Lack of time, money, interest **What kind of support would you like to offer others traveling a similar path?** I love collaboration and starting 2020 one day of the week will be my collaboration day." 2,64391,2019-11-17T09:25:56.617Z,64374,anon3031202475,anon2503679138,"Hello @anon2503679138, we are looking forward to you as a collaborator here :). Could you maybe also tell us if and if yes which of the Festival events you are planning on attending?" 3,64710,2019-11-19T15:14:34.081Z,64391,anon2503679138,anon3031202475,"updated topic: joined for the https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-berlin/10769 but am looking forward for future collaboration in general @anon3031202475 thanks for the warm welcome" 1,63492,2019-11-08T12:50:19.131Z,63492,anon241932064,anon241932064,"I’m a Dutch guy working in Brussels at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), a left-leaning think tank. Before that, I was at the European Commission where I worked for five years on competition law. I am close to home and “far” away at the same time, it’s far enough to skip the occasional birthday because it's still International. In my spare time I love reading, I could actually live in a library. Besides that I love to dance and I enjoy playing the violin. My main focus at the EC was competition law and European regulations, especially focussing on the internal market. Questions like, how should we address big companies from a regulatory perspective? How should we deal with transport sectors as monopolies? When I started my studies in International Relations, I was always looking for some truth, but scientific truths aren’t really existing in IR. It's very theoretical, but they don't really apply and everything changes when unforeseen events happen, such as the end of the Cold War. To me, this wasn’t very satisfying. That’s why I decided to study law, because there are these rules which you can apply, you'll get to a certain point where you’ll find an answer which makes sense. That's why I studied law. And that's why I ended up focussing on regulation. Unfortunately, I never really found the “truth,” because in law, the courts argue in one way or another: it's not completely consistent.The European court consists of several judges who actually don't agree on many things. The outcome turns into a judgment that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. When I decided to study law, and in particular competition law, is because it was relatively new and still kind of exciting, it's not that established. There's still room to maneuver new doctrines. But I guess always looking for certain truths in a post-truth world. When I was working at the EC, I always thought that there was someone at the top who knows how things work, that there's a grand strategy on how it all fits together. I never found that person. I started as a trainee at the application law unit. That sounds a bit abstruse, but it means that we were essentially checking whether the member states complied with EU law. There are anon4292955258 a lot of directives coming out each year. Member states have to transform them into the national laws. And this is kind of a black box area. We don't really know: we come up with all these laws of up level, then we think it's done. But a huge part of the laws, how it's being transposed, how's the entire plan implemented, if it's being enforced. A good example of this is the data protection regulation. It's not that different from what already existed in 1995, the directive on data protection, but it was simply not enforced. So, how can we do better? How can you make sure that the law is not just existing on paper? What actually works? And this is a major problem for the commission: they don’t have the staff or the resources to really ensure that the directives are enforced to a significant extent. After that, I moved on to the digital single market. I guess I got the position because I was the only person below 30s with a smartphone. Okay, that's maybe a bit too reductive. When it comes to the Digital Strategies, many people don't really understand what it's about — this also includes me by the way. We looked at the digital sector for a long time in terms of competition. We started with Microsoft in the 90s, how they sold a pre-installed Internet Explorer browser on the Microsoft Windows operating system. I arrived much later at the Commission. We looked at copyright laws, we looked at the digital single market strategy, at the revision of the ratio of digital single strategy in 2017, at auanon2317280404omous and connected cars. We tried to define what kind of legislation we needed, to bring it into life in a broad manner. For example Audio Visual Media Services, we came up with a new directive two years ago. It was anon4292955258 broad, but a lot of it was linked to economic law, and then what we call digital law. This included portability, geo blocking, all from a regulatory perspective. But I think this is very problematic. We wait to see what comes and then we try to regulate it, instead of coming up with more positive, efficient motivational transitions. I'm not neutral or unbiased to this. But I feel that if we look at the history of the European Commission, when they started in the 50s, 60s, the progressive rate was the future. It was to create an internal market to take power away from Member States and create one common market. The idea was that it would allow for political integration, and would block war: a nice progressive society where everybody would be happy. It’s a very good story. But now we're in a different environment: we’ve created this huge internal market, but the political structures are not there. And for me, this is a key driver for inequality. It's kind of a neoliberal model where they let the markets do what it has to do. And then maybe if there's some kind of narrowly defined market failure, then EC would step in. For example with geo blocking that's the case. And we have many laws and copyrights. Whereas with competition, obviously, you’d like to restore perfect competition, but it hasn't really worked. It's a very fragmented approach, in a way a very reactive approach. I understand that law is important, and we should have it. The general data protection regulation is I think a step in the right direction, but it can't be the only thing. You also need to govern. And for me, that means steering investment into a specific technology or a technological application that you want. To use public procurements and all your buying power to steer it all into a better direction: environmentally friendly, interoperable, etc. We're not doing that enough, because the commission isn’t willing to intervene in a market like that. It's also difficult because of the treaties, the four key things are the freedom of movement, capital, services, and goods. One of the reasons I left the Commission is because it is a anon4292955258 hierarchical organization. This makes it sometimes difficult to get things moving. There's anon222512824 room for personal initiative, especially when you're not high up. And it can take a very long time to get higher up in the Commission. ## Creating a Tech for “Good” That’s why I was excited to join a smaller team, where you can have more of an individual impact. I was hired, essentially, to take on the digital portfolio. And my main task is to steer the digital transition in a more progressive direction. This means to use digital technology as a driver for young people's aspirations, to reduce inequality, and to create a more participatory democracy. In order words, how tech could be used for the good of the people. One of the items I focus on is data governance. This means access to data, which is extremely important in areas such as Smart City development: a lot of new digital infrastructure is being rolled out, but it's not very accountable. It's often driven by narrow efficiency concerns. There's a lot of different motives for people to behave the way they do. It's not just market concerns. It's also solidarity, sociality. And the systems don't take that into account. Governments often don’t understand the systems, especially on the local level, they don't have access to the data that's being produced. They outsource the entire management of the systems, the key criteria, to private parties. And I think that's a problem. And I think that if we take a very close look at how we design the infrastructure, we will be locked into long term contracts, with very expensive systems that will decide how people live together in a city for decades to come. I think we have a real opportunity to make this more participatory and more accountable, but we have to take it. The same counts for the debate about the automation of jobs: what kind of work will there be in the future, how can we help people you to find meaningful, remunerated activity in the decades to come? How does it look like? Many public authorities, and people working on policy policy — including myself — don't really understand the systems. But because of austerity, budget cuts, they're very sensitive to the narrative about cutting costs and efficiency. They believe the systems can solve everything, but actually don't understand them. That’s why they outsource it without really asking the difficult questions: what exactly is the problem you’re trying to solve? Can we solve it by just collecting data ourselves and coming up with some automated system? A lot of those AI systems essentially feed on existing data. We feed an AI data system with occupational roles, and the jobs that people have. This means it will train on data that shows that a lot of managers are male, and a lot of cleaning personnel are female. If you add that data for a labor application, women will more likely get an ad for cleaning jobs, and not managerial roles. The system has learned that it’s the most efficient, because that's often what we know. When we talk about predictive policing, it has shown to steer officers to serve the neighborhoods which are well off: the chance that certain people get caught is higher in those. So, you create a self reinforcing loop. If this is how we build systems —by just importing existing data — it will penalize those — minorities, the poor people — and they’ll become even more disadvantaged. It’s a crucial problem. I read in a recent report that the Austrian labor department started to use AI to decide how they should spend the resources for rescaling and training the unemployed. And given the criteria, they would focus mainly on people that had the most chance to find a job. What happened was that people who needed help the least, actually received the most resources. Whereas the people that had the least chance to actually find a job again, were left out: it wasn’t considered an efficient investment. You need to understand how this tech works, because the institutions using them often have certain targets. Probably the central authority tells them “you need to help this percentage of people for this amount of money.” The outcome, however, means that the people who need to help the most will get it the least, and the other way around. I found that anon4292955258 instructive for the kind of thinking that that's happening on a more personal level. What I've seen when talking about technology, is the fact that we don't understand it. When I worked at the Commission, I was also involved in some IT projects. There was no oversight, and we wanted to have system deadlines, increase incredibly overturn. And it's just a sense of helplessness, because you don't understand it. We outsourced something, which is not directly related to AI, but which I found anon4292955258 instructive for myself. When I worked for a certain organization, we had a specific problem: a complaint form, and we wanted to lessen the workload for ourselves, because we got too many complaints and we couldn't handle it all. We needed to find a way to make us more efficient. Under the guise of automating things, it became no longer accessible. We made it more difficult for people to complain. Yes, we put the complaint form online, but we also created a number of technological hurdles. The result meant it was actually more difficult for people to complain, we restraint the options to complain. And this is also a part of the digital environment, you can design exactly everything the way you want it in a way that you can't in the physical world. But you can also inadvertently make it more difficult. For me that was very instructive, because the narrative is always “we put things online, we make it digital, to make it more accessible. Closer to the citizen, to be more effective and more efficient.” But I feel that the underlying trends are that's what matters with technology. It's not the technology itself, it's the socio-economic environment. It’s often austerity. “We need to cut costs. We need to cut budgets,” And the market logic is preparing the public sector. The result is often that people aren’t held accountable by the solutions. You see this a lot in healthcare and the social care sector where everything is digitized: you can't actually talk to a person anymore. There's often a binary logic, you can click this or that. But often, your case doesn't fit those options. And then you're left out, there's no one to complain to. And it means reduced access. You see it a lot in the US where, once they digitize procedures, the amount of people that are allowed to claim benefits goes down drastically. ## Tech and economics Unbiased data doesn’t exist. There’s a bias in the criteria for which these systems optimize. The key problem for me is always the logic behind systems, not just AI, but with the entire data structure we're building. It's linked to the fact that we essentially try to automate humans. There’s actually very interesting parallels between neoclassical economic thoughts and cybernetic influences that kind of drive the digital revolution forward: the idea that humans are binary. If you look at neoclassical economics, it's just about individuals, there's no such thing as a society. And these humans respond to stimuli. There are certain preference set, they'll try to optimize that. It's a very reductive view of what human beings do, how they think, what they are. And if you look at the cybernetic movement, that thinking is also behind computers, the internet, etc. It's based on individual logic, an individual methodology, and it's very reductive. Data is a simplification of the real world. And that's exactly the same with neoclassical economics. It simplifies things. You have a hypothesis about how humans behave and then you built an entire theory on that, which influences policy-making. In the end, people end up playing by those new rules and behave in a more simplistic way. And I see that when I'm on Facebook, I sometimes feel automated myself in the way I use language, for example. In a way, we’re becoming automated. And I think that's the key problem. We never regulated a space that we actually could democratically control. With the libertarian origins of the internet — and the fact that it became really crucial in the 90s, which was the height of the neoliberal period — we never did anything about it. And that means that all the potential those technical technologies, are being used by conservative forces that already have power. For them, it’s interesting to ask how can we prevent people from reoffending. They only want to know which people would do it again and automatically lock them up. For me, this is linked with the conservative bias. These technologies are being used to amplify the logics which are dominant dominant already. You won’t get the right questions, because if you want to get the right questions, you need to have a new set of people, you need to have a more participatory style of governing technology. And this also means making it more local. These technologies are similar to major monopolies, but they actually govern the infrastructure of cities and communities around the world. They don’t know their culture, their language, their interests, their problems. How can they offer an infrastructure — a system that will supposedly help them resolve issues — if they don't even know them? One of the key examples is Facebook how operates. They pay a lot of money to engineers to come up with a massive one-size-fits-all system. Whereas people actually have to govern to innovate, such as the information which they would like to receive. But it isn't, it's selling us products. People actually check the info that's being put online, if it's illegal or not. In addition, they’re outsourcing employees to people in the Philippines who have to make split second decisions about what would be appropriate or offensive to a certain community they often don't know. ## Solutions I think some basic steps could be taken in the right direction, such as we would in other other areas, such as in the car sector. Before a car comes to markets, they have to comply with anon4292955258 a lot of safety requirements. The same counts for the construction industry. Soanon3242181883, for physical infrastructure and for cars, we have these regulations, but we don't have them for digital infrastructure. Let’s say Facebook releases a new algorithm on a billion people, we could introduce certain requirements. I think that's kind of a basic step. You have some key criteria, you have some transparency, and documentation requirements about how the systems work, what it's trying to maximize. Some may argue that it would stifle innovation. But I don’t think we have to be worried. We saw the exact same arguments for the general data protection regulation. Companies said it would kill innovation. This is dramatic. Now, other countries have exercised legislating in a similar fashion and Apple has made it their competitive advantage. I don't think it would’ve happened without GDPR. It's a bit dubious for companies to say, we can deliver everything frictionless, we do things that you have never seen before. But when we ask them to explain how their system works to protect certain important principles, suddenly it’s completely impossible, its “beyond their capacity.” I don’t believe them, it's just not in their own interest. And you see that across the board. For me “innovation” means nothing. It just means new stuff. And new stuff can be good or bad, it can be useless, or useful. If innovation means coming up with better ways to exploit us online and ruin our privacy, that fisn’t innovation. Innovation — abstract from context and important value, where human experience is valued — doesn’t mean anything. I'd like to see technological applications that make sense for us, that makes our life better. A big question around how to come up with standards in Europe is related to those which don't undercut industrial production and outsourcing everything. One idea is introducing something like a carbon tax. It may be controversial, but we need to have this discussion regarding technology. Europe is a very important consumer market, it’s too big for most companies to do ignore. And we saw this with the GDPR. That's why ultimately — and perhaps this radical — for certain key services, like the way we communicate, talk online, or gather information it perhaps shouldn’t be completely private. Companies will try to avoid the law where they can, and especially because a lot of these companies are global, they don't even have that like cultural link. 99% of people passively comply with a law because it corresponds to their cultural values and social norms. If nobody would comply, and it's only enforcement and the law simply will not work. You can never have 100% enforcement, but maybe in the digital sector it's all about shared social norms. That's what makes laws effective, but it has to be based on something which already exists. This is more difficult in an international environment, because a lot of companies, don't share those norms, a lot of companies don't give a crap about privacy or data protection. This introduces some additional challenges for the effectiveness of law. That's why I think that public authorities need to be more actively involved and have more ownership of these systems. That doesn't mean per se at the level of the state or the European level, it can be at the local level. Because just outsourcing everything to the market and then trying to control those developments will be very imperfect, and it will be too late. For example, the way we communicate and talk to each other, that is crucial for societies and in the private in the past, that has never been fully privatized. So when, for example, when the US became independent, the first thing they did was making the Postal Service a public service, because they understood how important that was for the national community, it had a strategic value. Similarly, for TV, we have public channels which must carry obligations, strict limits on advertising, because governments understood this is important. This is what binds societies together. This is how they share values My hope is that people are more willing to accept technological change if they have a saying in decisions. For example, at the company level people could be involved designing what criteria for AI systems. If they understand the purpose and the meaning, they are much more likely to accept it and work with technology. That's what I would like to see. We don't know how technology functions. We don't know why it’s being used and by whom, and to what effect. Why do I get shown certain ads, why does my Facebook feed looks the way it looks? That would already matter. Starting with basic transparency, accountability, and economic democracy, so the people that are affected by those systems have a say in the way the systems are built. We never decided what we want to do with technology and how we democratically want to shape this transition. And I think we can do that.I think then we can see a lot of benefits. We’re at a crucial paradox: we have all these technologies, a lot of the have proven that they work, but they’re just not really delivering benefits. Especially with regards to important areas for how people live: I still have to go to work from nine to five, even though we have all this flexibility, we’re just monitoring it more. I still have to drive to work and I'm still stuck in traffic — there are actually more traffic jams now in the past, we move slower. We pay more for the same houses. Why is all this innovation not channeled into ways for people to help them live a better life? ## Post a thoughtful comment below ahead of the **[workshop on AI & Justice ](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326)** on November 19! This will help us to prepare good case studies for exploring these topics in detail. It will also ensure participants are at least a bit familiar with one another's background and experiences around the topics at hand." 2,63921,2019-11-12T17:35:34.686Z,63492,anon3031202475,anon241932064,"@anon2220770731, @anon241932064 is also going to be at the AI & Justice workshop. How do those examples of law-making EC work and AI connect to your points about a cautious, known-media-frenzy approach to AI in healthcare?" 3,64563,2019-11-18T18:25:30.231Z,63492,anon2434097920,anon241932064,"Wow - @anon241932064 - it took me awhile to get through this set of remarks, this treatise - almost a manifesto. So many good points I can hardly keep track. >Let’s say Facebook releases a new algorithm on a billion people, we could introduce certain requirements. I think that’s kind of a basic step. You have some key criteria, you have some transparency, and documentation requirements about how the systems work, what it’s trying to maximize. > how the systems work, what it's trying to maximize. This is what they are not going to tell us no matter what. This to them is like the recipe for Coca Cola. But it is the thing we most need to see, because otherwise a more honest title for the business might be RatMaze. You can poke around here and there but ultimately you are going to go where they want you to go. You spoke of the ""self reinforcing loop"" up there. I was thinking about this same thing through many of the paragraphs prior to you naming it. You also named part of the problem that contributes to this loop when you said that government doesn't understand the technology, or words to that effect. I think part of the reason why this is true is because government workers and tech people are usually two different kinds of people. Neither the government worker or the private sector, usually engineer, person is smarter than the other one. Rather, one - the private sector programmer or engineer tends to be more of a risk taker and the government person tends to be more stability seeking. I know this might seem like an over simplification, and maybe it is. But what informs me in this comes not so much from a government perspective, but from years i spent managing a digital media project for a large privately owned newspaper and TV company in the San Francisco Bay Area during the height of the dotcom boom of the 90s. ""Privately owned"" meant that I could not offer stock options for my ""startup"" (which was a very cutting edge media project for that time), only good salaries and benefits (important in the US where there is no govt healthcare) and stability. So I had to seek out those kinds of people. Almost all the seriously inventive programmers and project people I knew - and I knew a good number of them from the years I spent in online community management - wanted the higher stakes poker tables of silicon valley where their work could bring them the chance of big paydays but also they could be on the street anytime. These are the makers. The stability seekers tend to be more comfortable mediating between the makers and the rest of society in one way or another. That keeps the public happy and wanting the stuff. So tech has a big self reinforcing loop going right there. Same with cyber security where often the ones who commit the crimes wind up working for the government after they pay their debt to society so to speak and are thus watched all the time anyway. My point is, in addition to all the other complicating factors, the dynamic between these two types of people/workers is part of it too." 1,52942,2019-04-30T02:32:35.425Z,52942,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"We all use it the services, or are affected by them in some way. The basic economic bargain we accept is that we pay directly for connectivity and get the content without paying because we allow them to profile us to sell more targeted ads. There is some regulation, and in China and a few other countries the government controls everything, some news services now charge for their content in a subscription, some people just use free wifi and some people don't use Google or social media. But those are exceptions. The basic model is pay for connectivity and get the content ""free."" Any meaningful discussion about a human-centered internet has to deal with this fact and come up with a different model. Newcomers - please [sign up](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login) and join the conversation!" 2,52943,2019-04-30T02:35:03.078Z,52942,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I would much prefer for Facebook to be a subscription service where I pay them directly and they in turn treat me like I am the customer. That is almost certainly not going to happen because they make much more money with their current model. Same with Twitter, Google and all of these so-called free services. So what do we do?" 3,52944,2019-04-30T02:53:12.981Z,52942,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"One avenue, which the EU seems more interested in than the USA, is regulation. Because in fact there is not much of it going on. Here are links to two interesting and worthwhile articles about Twitter. One concerns their rather conflicted CEO, Jack Dorsey and the other about how Twitter has effectively banned tweets about ISIS but allows white supremacists to do their thing more freely. In the Dorsey piece, he seems to be unable to get any real grip on what they should and should not allow, as if the whole thing ran away from him and his group long ago. Which in a sense it has, especially because its chief loyalty is to keeping its stock price up. In the other, it seems that the company would rather ban some Muslims unfairly so they can get rid of ISIS, but not run the risk of banning high-profile conservative (in the USA meaning Republicans) officials. What does this have to do with ads? Everything, because they need to do what they can to bring in as many eyeballs as possible, while maintaining some public impression of social responsibility. Dorsey looks like he might crack. Zuckerberg though seems to have no such qualms. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/jack-dorseys-ted-interview-and-the-end-of-an-era https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-treat-white-supremacy-like-isis-because-it-would-mean-banning-some-republican-politicians-too" 4,52963,2019-04-30T10:57:18.821Z,52942,anon3005076832,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:1, topic:9821""] The basic economic bargain we accept is that we pay directly for connectivity and get the content without paying because we allow them to profile us to sell more targeted ads. [/quote] This is summarized by the (a bit easy) statement: If its free, you yourself are the product." 5,52969,2019-04-30T12:21:09.949Z,52963,anon196034329,anon3005076832,"Funny enough, that does not apply to open source software (at least not in general). I wonder how we could have an opens source news economy …" 6,52971,2019-04-30T12:32:56.225Z,52969,anon3005076832,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:5, topic:9821""] that does not apply [/quote] Yes, the statement is too easy in its generalization, but its a good discussion-opener (like: why is that service for free?). Of course there are a lot of gifts, and these should be really honored and valued as gifts." 7,52985,2019-04-30T14:24:50.698Z,52971,anon2434097920,anon3005076832,"Unless it is a hobby or pro bono/charity, at some point people have to be paid for their work. I admit to at least some complicity in this whole process because in early 1994 I co-founded the first news website, sfgate.com, and we didn't make anyone pay for it. This was before Yahoo, Google, Amazon or any of the big web content providers. Everything was experimental. Back then, nobody was going to pay for any content. The reasons were not that different than they are now in the sense that connectivity got direct payment. Back then it not only cost money to connect, but it was kind of a hassle for the average user to even get onto the WWW. Everything was still modems outside of big net-connected institutions and businesses and while that was a big part of the early web traffic, those users were not going to get their universities or companies to pay. A lot of the time was spent in off hours when the boss wasn't looking. And if you used a modem things could get pretty slow. We often called WWW the ""world wide wait."" And print was still king back then, despite the large presence of proprietary services like AOL. So one could not realistically ask for money directly for content. And, there was no realistic way to collect the money unless you had an admin infrastructure set up to deal with it, which back then involved someone calling a new subscriber to make sure they had a valid credit card. So, we started by giving away selected news and sports stories to build traffic in the hope that sometime in the future we could charge for it. I think it was Wired! and their early pioneering service Hotwired! that ran the first banner ads. This was the start of the process we have today. And because I was working for a newspaper that had an ad sales department, we too sold some banner ads. Then Yahoo! began. This was the first game-changer. They had so much traffic that they could sell ads in bulk for very low per-impression prices. This forced everyone else to get more ""creative"" if they wanted to sell an ad. At the risk of going on too long in this post, let me pause to explain a reality about selling advertisements. You have a media product for which you want to sell ads. You go to an advertiser and make your pitch. They seem interested, but often they will say something like, ""looks good but can we do something a anon222512824 different, a anon222512824 more special?"" So you, the salesperson, thinks, ""if I say no we can't do that then I am going to walk out of here with nothing. If I say sure we can do something special, then I will put a burden on my tech people, but I will get the sale."" Good salespeople always take the money. So what special things can you do? At first, we manually put certain ads next to related content, but Yahoo, and in a few years Google, were getting the big-volume search traffic, far beyond anything we could do. We could automate it to a degree, but again, the volume just wasn't there. In our case, we bundled the online ads with the print and TV stuff (my company also owned a TV station and we ran TV content too). That was the extent of our sophistication, and this is generally true of the industry itself back then. Match ads with content in whatever meaningful way you could figure out. That was the pervasive model. Same with Google. Then in 2000/2001 came the dot-com bust period and the now-huge search companies had gone public and saw their stock price dropping. they had to do something or they were going to go bankrupt by losing their investors. Google realized that they were sitting on huge amounts of personal information that they could use for better ad targeting. And they had enough money to hire the best programmers. And so began the age of ""surveillance capitalism"" which is where we are today. Meanwhile, during this time, the big phone companies, that had been surprisingly clueless about the data gold mine they were sitting on, started to catch on and made it easier for the public to ""jack in."" In the process, the speed and convenience increased and they were able to begin raising their prices, locking in for themselves the direct-pay component of this new world. And, given Metcalf's Law, that says the network grows more powerful as each node connects to it, the Net's winner-take-all model pushed everything toward the reality we have today. Maybe it was all like a stream that started small and you could navigate your anon222512824 boat, and then as it grew the current got to where you could only try to stay within the momentum of the flow...until, what - we all go over the waterfall?" 8,52986,2019-04-30T14:48:08.155Z,52985,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Another key component of today's reality is what was originally called ""collaborative filtering,"" which was invented at the MIT Media Lab in the late 90s. My company was a sponsor of the Media Lab, which meant that I went to Cambridge twice a year from 1995-2001 for sponsor meetings where we saw demos of all the stuff they were working on, plus lectures, talks and meetings with industry luminaries. In 1996 (or 95, I forget which year) one of those people was Jeff Bezos. The memorable quote from his talk was, ""we're going to obsess about our customers and make our competitors obsess about us."" Pretty accurate, even today. At that same meeting, one of the groups at the Media Lab demonstrated the first iterations of collaborative filtering. The idea was simply ""if you like these things and someone else also likes them, then other things they like could be of interest to you and vice-versa."" Bezos saw immediately the possibilities of this and Amazon was the first large scale practitioner of what is now a huge core component of today's commercial internet. This is relevant to the free-with-ads model. One need only look at Facebook with a critical eye to see how this has taken on a life of its own. Their newsfeed is largely built on top of this concept. And in that form, it is key to driving people into the ""filter bubbles"" that are now widely studied by sociologists because they as seen as heavy contributors to our increasingly polarized societies. This is nowhere close to the good intentions of the Media Lab people who came up with the idea." 9,53021,2019-05-01T15:10:50.835Z,52942,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Given the massive size and scope of the ad-based 'Net economy, I don't think there is any way to curtail or possibly even slow down this momentum. Regulation can help, but even with the huge fines the EU imposed on Google, it has no meaningful effect on their bottom line. The ethos of these companies, like Google and Facebook, can I believe be fairly characterized as ""better to ask forgiveness than permission."" And so they do frequently say in public how they got this or that ""wrong"" and then carry on their merry way. And it has to be said that huge numbers of people, anon4292955258 possibly a majority of users, are fine with this arrangement. or if they dislike something about it, they keep using the services. So I think realistically the key to this is working to increase public awareness and if there is to be regulation, it should be in the area of, ""do you know what you are trading off when you use these services and can you control it?""" 10,53230,2019-05-08T13:09:10.037Z,52969,anon3031202475,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:5, topic:9821""] I wonder how we could have an opens source news economy … [/quote] This sounds like a good lead in for its own topic discussion!" 11,53241,2019-05-08T15:18:40.925Z,53230,anon2434097920,anon3031202475,"There are a few newish nonprofits in the USA trying to function as a viable news service. [This link lists 11 of them](https://mediablog.prnewswire.com/2018/01/17/non-profit-investigative-news-sites/). Mainly they engage in more investigative pieces. News is a tough business and it has always needed support from other aspects of its producer. newspapers relied on classified, horoscopes, columnists, sports and all kind of other items to support their core newsroom. Classified being the main one. For example, in the last year that I ran sfgate.com in 2001, the newspapers I worked for (there were 2 bound by what they called a ""joint operating agreement"" which in itself was designed to slow down the revenue drain that was already happening in the 60s) grossed 139 million dollars from classified advertising. The building had almost an entire floor of people who just took phone calls all day long for the ads. Today they don't even have a meaningful classified section at all. 139 million bucks is a anon2317280404 of money to simply lose altogether! In TV news, many don't know this, but in the early days, TV stations didn't want to carry news at all because it was not profitable to do it. But the federal government forced them as a condition of using the public airwaves. Even today I don't think TV news is particularly profitable. For all the attention it receives from other news outlets that talk about such things, only about 5% of the TV-watching population watches TV news on a regular basis (my estimate based on reading a number of sites talking about the subject). People get news from the internet, especially in younger demographics, but one can get into the weeds pretty quickly as you try to define what ""news"" even is. In this world of clicking to see things, it is now common for headlines to be more sensational and misleading as to the actual content of the story. AKA ""clickbait."" Seems like newsy blogs are especially this way, but then so are a lot of other more mainstream sites. This leads to other bad habits like 'burying the lede"" intentionally so you have to scroll down to find out the true nugget of the story. So, yeah, open source not-for-profit news I believe is essential to a free society. But how to get there...?" 12,53246,2019-05-08T16:51:29.260Z,53241,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"This is a good example of a small, focused news site, [Climate Home News](https://www.climatechangenews.com/about-us/), that says it is open source, but is not nonprofit. They have sponsors and also accept donations through Patreon. They have a section called [Sponsored Content](https://www.climatechangenews.com/category/sponsored-content/) where their sponsors post their own news. They are a responsible operation and a good example of where at least some of news is hopefully going. But only if they can keep the lights on.." 13,53253,2019-05-09T00:25:37.565Z,53241,anon196034329,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:11, topic:9821""]So, yeah, open source not-for-profit news I believe is essential to a free society. But how to get there…?[/quote] Maybe it starts with re-assessing the use value (and dangers) of constant ""news"": https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/03/how-the-news-took-over-reality For being able to understand and influence (!) current affairs, awareness of every detail is not necessary at all and takes away the time one could spend on actual understanding: reading long-form articles, books about history, philosophy, sociology and so on. And books on actually influencing things … dangerous link ahead: https://chisineu.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/saul-alinsky-rules-for-radicals-1989.pdf So my vision for an open source ""news"" economy would rather be that: a library of this in-depth content for active citizens. It would then recommend some of its content as suitable for each major event in society. Funding via Patreon (or better, its open source alternative [LiberaPay](https://liberapay.com/)) _could_ be possible, but I'm not sure. It's not something that too many people are really enthusiastic about so that they would spend money on it. But I might be wrong, and it would certainly be an important contribution to society. And a lot of valuable material is already out there and just waits to be collected and presented properly in a digital library of open source works. That would probably be my starting point. For reference, [doing just that](/t/8791) but for a different topic took me around 50-60 hours for 509 e-books (so far)." 14,53255,2019-05-09T01:34:46.395Z,53253,anon2434097920,anon196034329,"Great link to Alinsky. Breaking news is definitely overrated and often is a real attention hook. I admit I look at it too often, but really it is in the probably vain hope that Trump will be on his way out of our lives. I read the New Yorker, which I find to be a stanon1410463509r source of in-depth story and analysis. The Atlantic is the same. The New Yorker is unique in that it gets more revenue from circulation than advertisers. Loyal readership that wants the in-depth stuff by the best writers. I recommend it to anyone who wants the long view. Good website too - no need for paper if you don't want it. So that is what the top of the heap looks like where the best writers get paid well. Because that's the thing - and a big reason why most newspapers dropped their investigative desks long ago - it's very expensive to produce. Takes time and there are a lot of dead ends going after the story. Breaking news with splashy headlines get the clicks. And even in newspapers, as one of my pals with decades in the news business says, ""every newspaper story gets something wrong."" That has been my experience in the maybe dozen newspaper stories I have been featured in. But quick deadlines and no money for fact checking means a lot of inaccuracies. And bloggers or tiny operations often don't even have copy editors or proofreaders. I'm excited about the enthusiasm out there for a modern journalism that really serves the people. And I know a few in my locale who are dooing it local and small scale, but trying to do good journalism on a shoestring. But as the saying goes, don't mistake a clear vision for a short path. News is one tough business. Tight margins and fiercely competitive." 15,53257,2019-05-09T03:52:37.455Z,53253,anon2434097920,anon196034329,Nadia just offered this link to [Codastory](https://codastory.com/). It's a high-end news nonprofit with significant writers and donor partners. Plus they take donations directly. Impressive group. 16,53285,2019-05-09T14:43:04.187Z,53257,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"And here is a piece that says after years of losses [The Guardian is profitable](https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/05/want-to-see-what-one-digital-future-for-newspapers-looks-like-look-at-the-guardian-which-isnt-losing-money-anymore/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=6950949865-Benedict%27s+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-6950949865-70493557). How they got there is noteworthy: it looks like they and The Financial Times are the only newspapers who get most of their revenue now from digital. And they do it without a paywall." 17,53292,2019-05-09T16:42:07.844Z,53257,anon3449369942,anon2434097920,@anon2926706121 works with them I think. 18,53323,2019-05-10T21:31:45.433Z,53292,anon2434097920,anon3449369942,"This is a good New Yorker story called ""[The Urgent Quest for Slower, better News](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-urgent-quest-for-slower-better-news)."" It has this salient quote, ""As it turns out, there is a way to puncture this illusion of knowledge. It involves forcing people to explain in detail what would happen if their views on a specific public-policy issue were put into practice. It’s when we try to provide a “causal explanation,” Sloman and Ferbach write, that we realize how ignorant we are. That realization, in turn, leads us to become less extreme in our views. This insight has an obvious implication for media: depth matters. Journalism that engages with complexity, examines the implications of proposed policies, and offers the public rigorous analysis can lead to a more informed—and less polarized—citizenry. And yet, if Schudson is right, then only a small portion of readers will have the time, inclination, and disposition to become so ideally informed. Far more people will be monitorial, rather than informed, citizens—and, thanks to social media and high-volume news operations, they will be easily alarmed and distracted. Adding yet more stories to this maelstrom may make a certain economic sense for media organizations, but it won’t necessarily make us any better informed. It might only further fragment our knowledge.""" 19,53348,2019-05-13T06:05:30.289Z,52942,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"I do agree with subscription agrument to some degree, but it'd be great if there was a system that would not just have money be thing giving you access to things (as not everyone has money globally, and this obviously will exclude people from certain opportunities/knowledge)" 20,53349,2019-05-13T06:47:11.580Z,53292,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,"great discussion and great topic: the never-ending question of how to fund news in an ethical way ;). And yes, I work with codastory.com! Thanks for the kind compliments! But we're still trying to figure it out, as most of the news organizations are - at every journo conference there's several panels on ""how to not be paid by ads"" ;). A great initiative, in my opinion is https://civil.co/ - read here why it's CEO Vivian Schiller (the former head of National Public Radio and of news and journalism partnerships at Twitter) tries to innovate journalism by re-examining the quality of public information and raise public trust in evidence-based reporting through blockchain: https://blog.joincivil.com/why-im-joining-civil-ca474d8b7440 (it's still a bit unclear to me how civil works exactly, but.....). She'll be talking at [ZEG Tbilisi Storytelling Festival](http://tbilisistorytelling.com/) in Tbilisi June 20-22 (there are still tickets if you want an excuse to visit Tbilisi ;) ) Other great examples of not relying on any ad-related income in journalism are the Dutch The Correspondent https://thecorrespondent.com/ (tho they did F# up after fundraising in the US and not basing themselves there, but that's a different story), and the Slovakian Dennik N https://dennikn.sk/: y by using a complex analytical and automated system, they target their readers to become members. **They built this system by themselves, and [it's open-sourced](https://remp2020.com/).** The cheapest membership is a one-month membership deal. The software helps them to target the right readers: analytics tell them that someone reading it on an iphone is 5 times more likely to buy a 3 month membership deal than someone on android - so they show a different deal to those than to android users. How it works: their long form reads are behind a paywall, but not fully. Readers can read several paragraphs, more than with others, before they hit the paywall. All members can get a shareable link and share the articles they want on social, giving their friends a one-time free pass to read the full story. They also publish one paragraph news stories without a paywall, often linked directly to other news sources. And they have a paper version, which they see as advertisement for their online platform. Also, worth mentioning is the Polish Outriders, for which I also write. https://outride.rs/en/" 21,53382,2019-05-13T14:43:40.570Z,53349,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"Dennik functions a lot like a few other new sites I have seen. I think it is a good way to go: give people enough substance that informs them enough to know if they want to go further, and then takes the payment, plus the one-time viewing when you share the link. I hope that succeeds. And it can only succeed if the quality behind the wall is worthy. So headline, opening paragraph and whole story have to be aligned." 22,53386,2019-05-13T14:58:36.252Z,53382,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"they actually work together on back end stuff with The Correspondent, but difference is that The Correspondent has nothing behind a paywall. Dennik N has been running for 5 years, and are finally making more than spending, which allowed them to open a branch in the Czech Republic as well. OH: and they DONT cover sports, which I think is pretty cool (tho, who am I....) As I mentioned above, I am generally against pay walls, as I think information should be freely available to all. But, I do think for a Local newspaper in a local language, if the fee is affordable even for those with minimum wage, this could be an interesting model. It's not the model we're interested in with Coda Story. We started out with a fundraiser a few years ago, and are now funded by members, donations, and international donor organizations. But we're trying to figure out how we can rely more on non-pay wall membership, and that's anon4292955258 ""a puzzle"". There are a few organizations looking into how to increase engagement in journalism, and they are worth checking out (because an engaged member, will support you - either through donations or word of mouth): [The Membership Puzzle](https://membershippuzzle.org/) - founded by NYU professor Jay Rosen’s Studio 20 program and De Corresponden, funded by Knight Foundation, Democracy Fund, and Luminate. [Hearken](https://www.wearehearken.com/) - for-profit [Engaged Journalism Accelerator](https://www.engagedjournalism.com/) - run by the European Journalism Centre (EJC), funded by Civil and The News Integrity Initiative" 23,53395,2019-05-13T16:07:34.430Z,53253,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:13, topic:9821""] And a lot of valuable material is already out there and just waits to be collected and presented properly in a digital library of open source works. That would probably be my starting point. For reference, [doing just that](/t/8791) but for a different topic took me around 50-60 hours for 509 e-books (so far) [/quote] Just a curiosity: how do you know that the 509 e-books are valuable? That would take longer than 50 hours to me." 24,53396,2019-05-13T16:28:07.833Z,53395,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:23, topic:9821""]how do you know that the 509 e-books are valuable? That would take longer than 50 hours to me.[/quote] For the library I built, it did not take longer. It was quick because a lot of the value of tech content can be judged from the book's context (publication date and topic combination, the organization publishing it etc.). And since there is not _that_ much open source / free content around about these topics, it was often about taking the first substantial work that covers a topic, with the option of replacing it later when something better comes around. In the case of content on politics, sociology etc. it needs some more checking to weed out badly politically biased stuff, but also the library could probably be smaller." 25,53398,2019-05-13T16:54:28.357Z,52942,anon1462728170,anon2434097920,"A big step forward is moving social presence from commercial platforms that harvest data (in order to target ads) to platforms (personal domains, decentralized and p2p social networks) that users control. The ad economy feeds on the firehose of personal data. Take that away, and business models built on microtargeting become less practical." 26,53399,2019-05-13T17:03:03.187Z,53398,anon2434097920,anon1462728170,"Ultimately a producer (journalist, publisher or whatever) has to get paid or they will make a living some other way. When the product is substantial journalism in matters of serious public interest, so much of it comes without pay that the pull to get it ""free"" is overwhelming. Plus, subscribing individually to different news sites (and again, could be some other field besides journalism) you get into a lot of password and payment management. That is itself a daunting set of hoops. In many cases it is the difference between participation. This is true for me - 'oh no, another password to manage, another site holding my credit info.' Micropayment solutions have been tried in the past and have not worked. But maybe they are not easy enough. Maybe if it was as easy as dropping a coin into a slot so to speak, it might be viable. There has to be some kind of conscious bartering. Money or something else. Here is a [2015 article about why micropayments for news struggle to take off](https://digiday.com/media/micropayments-news-schemes-struggle-take-off/)." 27,53400,2019-05-13T17:21:13.034Z,53399,anon1462728170,anon2434097920,"John, Perhaps there's an important distinction between two different advertising economies on the Internet: 1. The system where ads provide revenue that supports content (like journalism) that consumers used to pay for directly 2. The system where ads generate revenue by being interpolated amongst things like photos you share with your friends and family - This is content that people generate without an expectation that they will make revenue from it, but in fact the platforms are generating a great deal of revenue. We need an alternative model for case 1 so that content like journalism continues to be produced for the public benefit. Case 2 could (and perhaps should) be replaced by a system that doesn't have revenue generation/profit maximization as an objective." 28,53404,2019-05-13T18:25:00.946Z,53398,anon3809206126,anon1462728170,"Hello @anon1462728170, welcome! I don't think we met. I'm Alberto, one of the old guard on Edgeryders. [quote=""anon1462728170, post:25, topic:9821""] A big step forward is moving social presence from commercial platforms that harvest data (in order to target ads) to platforms (personal domains, decentralized and p2p social networks) that users control. [/quote] Several people here, myself included, have been longing for a non-commercial generalist social network-type platform. After trying several things that did not do it for me (Diaspora, Ello etc.), I am now cautiously optimistic about something called [Scuttlebutt](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) aka SSB – 10 months in and I am still using it. Several people here use it. @anon3931191205 has made a passionate case for SSB + mesh networks [on this post](/t/9802)." 29,53407,2019-05-13T18:41:10.628Z,53399,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"and blendle is actually struggling in NL right now, although I do think the idea in essence is really nice. I have paid for dutch articles that were behind a subscription pay wall otherwise, but other stories they offered I could find for free online." 30,53477,2019-05-14T17:10:12.602Z,53407,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"Some news orgs with paywalls send out free daily newsletters with headlines and a paragraph describing what is in the story. I get one from the LA Times and from Foreign Policy magazine. They both have paywalls, and I get a lot from their newsletters and do once in awhile click through to the story. These are pretty good examples of today's ""give away something in order to sell something"" practice. Historic footnote: do you know that a lot of this method of doing business came from the Grateful Dead? As a band they made a lot of albums that didn't sell. They were primarily a live band, and for those who ""got it"" they were the best band in the world, if you like rock music to be more like jazz in the sense that no two shows are exactly the same with a lot of jamming and free-form playing. So fans went to the concerts way more than they bought the records. The Dead allowed their fans to openly tape record the shows and share them afterwards. This encouraged more people to go see them live. This process led eventually to the late 80s when the Dead sold more live show tickets than any other band. This was right when the Internet was getting started and a lot of early Netheads were also Deadheads. How do you think JP Barlow got so much early traction for his statements? And along with his pronouncements about cyberspace and liberty, he also stressed this fact about the Dead as a modern way to market products. The rest is, as they say, history.." 31,53478,2019-05-14T17:28:44.812Z,53477,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"and this just happened https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/05/quartz-built-on-free-distribution-has-put-its-articles-behind-a-paywall/ ""At its debut nearly seven years ago, Quartz’s model was to be everywhere — not behind a paywall, not locked inside a mobile app, ready to build an audience through social sharing. But times change — and audiences change. In a move that got anon222512824 attention last week, the much-lauded global business news site announced that for the first time it would be putting all its articles behind a metered paywall. Read more than 10 or so and you’ll get a pitch for the Quartz Membership, which runs $100 a year or $15 a month. (The membership program launched six months ago, but was originally framed as giving paying users access to more content; Quartz’s traditional articles had remained free to all.)""" 32,53479,2019-05-14T17:29:15.417Z,53478,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,ps: that's an amazing story by the way! 33,53483,2019-05-14T17:47:59.505Z,53478,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,It should also be said that news orgs tend to follow the pack a lot.. 34,53564,2019-05-15T17:53:37.480Z,53483,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"To be completely honest, journalists aren't the most ""ahead of the curve"" unfortunately." 35,53565,2019-05-16T01:24:42.271Z,53564,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,Usually too busy getting the story. 36,53592,2019-05-16T15:25:25.463Z,53478,anon3031202475,anon2926706121,"@anon2926706121 Thank you very much for sharing the Quartz story! @anon" 37,53594,2019-05-16T16:44:18.664Z,52942,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"All media - social or otherwise - could be behind a paywall. That is how it used to be except for hobby BBS systems. I think I said it already, but as a reminder, the advent of domination by advertisements came from the web being tiny and kind of hard to get into compared to other systems that back then depended on a CD that had the program on it. AOL mailed those things out by the millions over the years. You loaded the program and bang - ""you've got mail!"" Getting onto the web required at first that you have 2 different programs that you had to carefully configure loaded onto your Mac (which is what I had) and you had to have an account with an early ISP (Internet Service Provider). The big companies like ATT and Verizon didn't offer that. In Europe forget it at first. Telecom was still in the dark ages with their PTTs, until the mass use of mobile phones. In 1995 I was flown by Apple to New York and Los Angeles to give a talk in their big day-long event called the Apple Multimedia Road Show. The NY event was in a huge hotel right at Times Square. This is 1995 and I was the only person there talking about the Internet. Everyone else on the agenda was talking about CD ROMS. Can you imagine? I I get up there and my first slide says ""The Web is Like Rock and Roll."" And I said to them the Internet and the web was going to crash like a tsunami, and soon. Most in the crowd seemed to look at me sort of like, ""huh?"" Anyway the point is that those of us with a lot of content to offer on the web (like news - we had a anon2317280404 of it) had almost no chance of luring even modest numbers of people into paying for our initial product, especially if it was such a hassle and expense just to set up to use the thing when those CD services worked with a plain old phone line. So, ads...going that route brought us big numbers over time. Then it became the train you couldn't get off of. Now with paywalls they are trying. But we still route around them whenever we can, seems like." 38,53651,2019-05-18T14:23:05.629Z,53594,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"And it should be said that a lot of people like the ads and they like them to be targeted. So maybe the ads aren't the real problem, but rather the data they use to target the ads more closely. Do you know what is being collected? Did you give permission?" 39,53653,2019-05-18T23:11:34.437Z,53651,anon196034329,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:38, topic:9821""]So maybe the ads aren’t the real problem[/quote] They totally are a problem. In the current ecological crisis, anything that increases consumption is a problem, no? And ads have been doing that since decades now, with all kinds of insidious techniques that exploit people psychologically …" 40,53656,2019-05-19T14:21:40.915Z,53653,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:39, topic:9821""] In the current ecological crisis, anything that increases consumption is a problem, no? [/quote] This takes us straight into value theory. Ad-based is good for business, but what is business good for? After all, the NGI initiative is out to build a human-centric Internet; we already have a business-centric one, and it leaves much to be desired. A value theorist would say that an ad is an informational device that has value only if it contributes to the production of something of value. Matt has a point that many products bring *negative* value to the economy. For example, nothing good is going to come by consuming more carbonated drinks, so ads for them are also value destroyers." 41,53657,2019-05-19T14:49:19.645Z,53656,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"Who decides? I agree that much advertisement is for harmful things and consumption is way out of control. And it does beg the question; should a real internet of human values include business prosperity? In the USA, similar to money contributing to political campaigns, advertisement is seen as a right of free speech. I'm not sure that is the case in Europe. But I have been wondering lately about this. Considering this is a project funded by the European Commission, in what I assume is an honest attempt to dig up worthy new approaches, is the intent for it all to be financed by the public through paying businesses either directly or indirectly and then the government just regulates it more, maybe a lot more? That doesn't sound very different from what we have now. That is just an incremental advancement, not a ""next generation.""" 42,53658,2019-05-19T14:53:13.493Z,52942,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"This is a news story about how Finland deals with disinformation, AKA ""fake news"" by intensively educating kids from early age to be better critical thinkers. If we, as a population, think more critically, do we even need so much government interference? And is being educated to detect corporate propaganda different from being able to detect political manipulation? To quote a line from the story, “The first line of defense is the kindergarten teacher.” https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/" 43,53659,2019-05-19T14:54:28.123Z,53657,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:41, topic:9821""] Who decides? [/quote] The U.N., apparently. The [System of National Accounting](https://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/sna.asp) states what gets counted as part of the GDP and what does not. Fun fact: up until the 1970s, the profit of financial form was _not_ considered wealth creation, and would not be counted as part of a country's GDP. Finance was considered a necessary evil, that shifted value around, but did not create any. Banks lobbied hard for their profit to be considered as part of GDP... and won." 44,53660,2019-05-19T15:09:07.268Z,53658,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Regarding critical thinking: " 45,53661,2019-05-19T15:19:54.647Z,53659,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"I was in the first generation of kids heavily bombarded with TV ads specifically targeted to us. ""Hey kids - get Sugar Pop cereal - loaded with more sugar! Get these cookies, get this chocolate for your milk.."" etc etc. I was one of armies of kids who dragged their moms to the cereal aisle begging for the cereal with the most sugar. It was all brainwash manipulation from TV ads. Luckily for me, my mom was a nutritionist and wouldn't buy the stuff. Which I resented. Now the ads are much more insidious, much more sophisticated. And kids figure out how to fanon2926706121r their way through the web with iPads before they can walk. One thing I learned about advertisers running an ad-based website, is they always want more in the next round of ad buys. ""Ok that's good, but can you do more?"" This is the root of today's ultra-invasive advertisement based Net economy. The companies buying the ads see the Net as a targeting machine and they want more value for the money they spend. In a sense, it could be argued that FB and Google and their ilk are merely trying to satisfy this insatiable appetite." 46,53696,2019-05-20T21:10:40.483Z,53659,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:43, topic:9821""]Banks lobbied hard for their profit to be considered as part of GDP… and won.[/quote] That's a great piece of knowledge, never heard that before. I always assumed that GDP had a bit more science behind it than it actually does – if it's possible to change it by _lobbying_, it's not more than an arbitrary agreement …" 47,53701,2019-05-21T04:24:22.648Z,53661,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"Do we look at advertising as a whole that's a problem (as @anon196034329 pointed out) - driving consumption. Or are there forms of advertising that could be more acceptable. Is the kind of products that are advertised (consumption focussed), or is the messaging (big data based decisions violating privacy)? I think there are a few more distinctions we need to make to make this into a valuable discussion. Because what about sponsored content? An article in The Atlantic that is openly labelled as advertising and clearly written for Microsoft, but still a pleasure to read. A video by The Big Story sponsored by the National Tourist Agency of country X - the video is still interesting, I know it is advertising. But perhaps even that is flawed. Because then there may be ways to manipulate it in such a way that we hardly know what's sponsored and what's not. Or what about sponsored events? It is advertising, but also helping groups to organize something which otherwise would've been difficult (ok, I know we're talking about the internet, but I feel this discussion is a bit broader even. or we should narrow it down?)." 48,53703,2019-05-21T07:23:46.366Z,53696,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:46, topic:9821""] I always assumed that GDP had a bit more science behind it than it actually does – if it’s possible to change it by *lobbying* , it’s not more than an arbitrary agreement … [/quote] Source is Mazzucato's _[The Value of Everything](https://marianamazzucato.com/publications/books/value-of-everything/)_. Actually, I recommend it, to everyone but to you, Matt, in particular. And _of course_ it is an arbitrary agreement, when you think about it. Humans (who are different) need to agree on what is important, what has value. The book has a historical section: the physiocrats in 17th century France believed that only agriculture was ""production""; an ironsmith would be an unproductive worker, a kind of service provider, whose living was underwritten by the farming class. In this sense, the ironsmith would be as useless to society as a duke's valet (or the duke himself). Smith disagreed, and pointed out that manufacture is also productive, but disdained services, and so on. So, the agreement on what has value and what does not has been evolving – which makes sense to me. It's politics, and ethics, not science. It is also fitting that it should be encoded in a U.N. standard, since that makes the nature of GDP as a convention more transparent. That said, a hardline marginalist economist would tell you that there is an element of science encoded in the current concept of GDP. This: under certain (highly restrictive) conditions, individuals are led by their preferences to transact on the market until they achieve their optimal mix of goods/services/leisure. In the process, prices form to carry information about the marginal social value of all goods and services. This is proven as the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics. It means that each transaction increases someone's well-being. GDP, at its heart, is the sum of all transactions, net of double counting (intermediate goods are incorporated into final goods rather than counted, like in VAT calculation). Other economists (including non-hardline marginalists like Stiglitz) are aware that, even if the math checks out, the first theorem requires certain conditions to hold, *and these are not met in reality*. So, the theorem itself is irrelevant to real life." 49,53705,2019-05-21T09:00:38.630Z,53701,anon3809206126,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:47, topic:9821""] Or are there forms of advertising that could be more acceptable. [/quote] I think of this in terms of value rather than acceptability. When I am browsing the Internet, do I want to see ads? Do they do something for me? Generally, no. They may be beautiful and creative and all that: that's great. When I want to look at pretty pictures and clever videos, I will be searching for them. But if I am not searching for them, I don't want to see or hear them. I prefer to be in charge: the same content may be ham or spam, depending on the context. So, the idea here is: ads enable certain business models. But at the same time, they have costs. I remember @anon196034329 saying that 90% of bandwidth is used to convey ad crap. If we did not have that, we could connect the world with a leaner, cheaper, more inclusive experience: no need for 5G, and probably for 4G as well (I have no source for this). I am interested in a rough cost--benefit analysis of ads: ads themselves, I would argue, are almost always on the cost side, even when they are beautiful, because they stand between us and the content we are trying to get to. On the other hand, if you go to events like [La nuit des publivores](http://www.nuitdespublivores.be/), ads become a good thing, the very thing you are looking for." 50,53709,2019-05-21T09:35:16.079Z,53705,anon2926706121,anon3809206126,"I am not a huge fan of advertising myself as well, and fully agree with you. But the reason I mentioned it is that I am absolutely not against subscription-based services, **unless** they give the people with access a significant advantage (such a information, valuable connections, knowledge) over those who cannot afford those services. But perhaps it could be more like ""pay what you can"", tho how would that work? How do you proof income on a global scale? What other systems can we think of that allows anyone the same access to information/knowledge/ connections/etc? Advertising so far has made that possible, the question is at what cost of course." 51,53711,2019-05-21T09:45:09.751Z,53709,anon3809206126,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:50, topic:9821""] What other systems can we think of that allows anyone the same access to information/knowledge/ connections/etc? [/quote] The time-honored solution is public good provision, funded by taxes or whatever. If you think that the Internet is a public good, like education or health care or parks, then it becomes obvious. Of course, the question is: _which_ internet is a public good? Wikipedia is easy to cast as a public service. But is watching football matches from your phone also a public service?" 52,53713,2019-05-21T11:10:57.042Z,53711,anon2926706121,anon3809206126," I think it's a very noble idea, but rather hard to execute: who will pay through taxes - should a new international institution be set up similar to UN - or part of the UN - pay for it? And what about China and Russia and their aims to make a sovereign internet (https://codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/global-rise-internet-sovereignty/), which will inadvertently lead to a less equal and open world/internet. And the US-China tech-cold-war with Huawei and DJI isn't helping either https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18633744/dhs-alert-china-drones-dji-huawei. Meaning, how likely is it that all countries would be willing to join in together. And if not all countries, do others pay for those who don't?" 53,53721,2019-05-21T12:44:05.607Z,53713,anon3809206126,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:52, topic:9821""] I think it’s a very noble idea, but rather hard to execute. [/quote] What? *It's how we got the Internet in the first place*. Take Italy: the first entity who connected to it, laying the fiber for the first trunk of the Italian backbone, was [CINECA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CINECA) around 1990-1991. That's a not-for-profit consortium of unis, sharing computing resources; a sort of computing coop among universities. The telcos and tech sector were nowhere to be seen – busy burning CD ROMs. like @anon2434097920 says above. [brag] My company at the time bought from CINECA a connectivity paid service in early 1993. I think we were one of only 12 Italian companies to have a website.[/brag] :smile: The same financing mechanism is also giving us health care, education, defense and art... why do you find it so unrealistic, @anon2926706121." 54,53722,2019-05-21T13:03:26.595Z,53721,anon2926706121,anon3809206126,"I find it a bit unrealistic in a sense that I think Russia and China would not join - and possibly other dictatorships as well, making the case for them to ""build their own -cut off from the rest of the world - internet"" (https://codastory.com/news/russia-sovereign-internet-law-passes-2nd-vote/) even stronger. Yes, it is already happening, but if you're asking them to pay for the internet of all, they'll probably turn their backs? And, I think that's really not great for the people living in those countries. So, rather helping the world, it could be having the opposite effect. But - hypothetically - I am totally for it. And if we're ok with a divided internet - sure. But i'd personally rather see China remove the walls they've already built around their internet. And, at least now citizens can get around things and access content they want to, but this may become anon4292955258 difficult if it's pushed more behind walls." 55,53723,2019-05-21T13:05:53.810Z,53722,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"FYI: not saying it's not the answer, but I'm skeptical about how it would work would the two most powerful countries not join" 56,53724,2019-05-21T13:44:33.445Z,53722,anon3809206126,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:54, topic:9821""] if you’re asking them to pay for the internet of all, they’ll probably turn their backs [/quote] Again, that's what happened already. It was not Americans or Europeans that paid for the Russian backbone! It was Russians. They did not turn their backs, because the scientific and connecting uses were incentive enough to install the fiber, even without the app economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Russia#Backbone" 57,53726,2019-05-21T13:52:14.664Z,53724,anon2926706121,anon3809206126,but then what about their recent moves actually turning away? Then is different from now 58,53728,2019-05-21T14:26:09.527Z,53726,anon3809206126,anon2926706121,"I think that does not have much to do with the financing model. It's more of a national security/national sovereignty thing. Westerners are now (rightly) complaining about foreign interference into our digital discussion spaces. In countries like Iran, dissenters took to Twitter in the late 200s, and that must have felt like foreign interference from the point of view of the powers that be: like some foreign country giving all your internal troublemakers a communication channel that you are not prepared for. I was in Tunisia in 2010, just before the Spring, and the government had figured out how handy it was to have one single entry point for the backbone (from the Mediterranean, in the north). They were throttling the whole Internet with a blacklist of sites you were not allowed to visit. Early days, but the trend was clear: security and intelligence folks like digital borders." 59,53730,2019-05-21T15:37:19.694Z,53728,anon2926706121,anon3809206126,"ok, so maybe I am pessimistic and they'll be ok with joining in financially for a shared infrastructure. Because what Russia and China are building is, in my understanding, not just blocking off things, but building their own - but maybe my own understanding of how the internet is built isn't sufficient to fully understand it. Now, I understand the financing of the infrastructure, but how about content? Services? Who decides what should be funded? Kinda like a donor organization with an independent board that looks over grant proposals? Or with a community voting? Pref the latter probably, but then how can trolling, disinformation, etc be prevented? Ugh, so many questions! ;)" 60,53731,2019-05-21T16:11:42.615Z,53730,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"I think with China the government controls everyone already - what they can and can't see, say or do. But the commercial channels between Chinese and European customers is something they would not want to break. As for ads eating so much bandwidth, sometimes you can see it if you watch the URLs loading. It used to be much worse back when Doubleclick dominated the ad serving space. You clicked on a link to some (often news) site, and it would hang on loading the ads. Still does that a lot of the time. as for sponsored content, in news there has always been what was called a ""church-state separation."" Anyone reading a newspaper could immediately tell what was an ad of course, but other sponsored content had to be printed in a font clearly different from the regular news font, plus it would always say something like ""special sponsored section."" A paper will still do that, but the websites often do not. And that is exactly what a sponsor wants. They do not see their job as upholding the integrity of news. Their job is to sell products and however they get there is fair game. And when you have salespeople who don't get paid unless they serve the sponsor's interest...well, you have todays reality." 61,53732,2019-05-21T18:01:51.374Z,53657,anon3449369942,anon2434097920,"This is a conversation I would like to see more people in. Top of mind right now are the the crowd behind fixadtech as they have filed GDPR complaints about Real-Time Bidding (RTB) in the online advertising industry were filed today with Data Protection Authorities in Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. One of the people driving it, Dr. Johnny Ryan testified today at the [US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/understanding-the-digital-advertising-ecosystem-and-the-impact-of-data-privacy-and-competition-policy)[ on Understanding the Digital Advertising Ecosystem and the Impact of Data Privacy and Competition Policy](https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/understanding-the-digital-advertising-ecosystem-and-the-impact-of-data-privacy-and-competition-policy). But more than the opposition to it, I would like to know what alternative framings and approaches people are experimenting with. Especially ones that scale. During a recent event I heard about through @anon Anyone looking at alternatives that we know of?" 62,54131,2019-05-29T09:10:07.240Z,52969,anon2724270673,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:5, topic:9821""] I wonder how we could have an opens source news economy … [/quote] To be a bit polemic here: I don't think we need more _news_. News is what got it into the current mess. What we need is journalism, in the sense of researching, explaining, categorizing, reminding, and so on. Alas, that is a lot of work, and the result is a lot of work to consume too - you have to read in-depth articles to fully grok a given topic, and given our increasingly complex world, things are only getting more complicated, not less. The other side of the problem is _time_. We can only spend so much time per day consuming media. And while the global audience is pretty big, the ""media consumption per day"" is a finite resource. And journalism competes with music, games, movies, tv shows, books, theater, individual conversations & gossip, lack of time because people need to have three jobs, and so on. And as now basically everyone can crank out content (watch me doing it _right now, right here!_), the competition for attention is getting even fiercer! Book authors not only compete with all the other media for attention, but they also compete with fanfiction, hobby authors, the giant backlog of already published books available for free on Project Gutenberg, and so on... So even if you create top-notch content, entertainment, education or information, you need to get it out to people to see it. And then, yes, make money from it in some way too. And on both of these fronts, the competition is _fierce_. Right now, the solution seems to be to make the content as tantalizing, attention-grabbing and as a result even controversial as possible, while at the same time attaching the ideal price tag of ""free"" to it. The latter means that we finance through ads, and the former means that the content choices err on the side of flashy and/or controversial. And the ad-financing then reinforces the second choice, because more attention means more ad-money too! Long story short: **Ad-financing content is the worst!** Really, it's the original sin of the internet, and we should push it away as far as possible." 63,54155,2019-05-29T14:49:28.487Z,54131,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"Good description of the problem. Citizenship takes work that imposes itself onto other activities we prefer to do. Not sure of the solution. ""Education"" is an easy answer, but my boomer generation was, and perhaps still is, the most educated generation in history - certainly in the US this is true, but I think also for a great deal of Europe - and I don't see a lot of collective smarts or wisdom coming from my age group. Far from it." 64,54158,2019-05-29T15:02:32.054Z,52943,anon1462314276,anon2434097920,"Totally agreed! Also, since our data is going to the add industry anyways, why cant we at least have more sovereignty by pre-selecting who is receiving the data? I can still receive adds but at least I choose them." 65,54194,2019-05-30T07:34:45.093Z,52942,anon683229855,anon2434097920,"Here, an extremely good example on how we are forced fed with ads by means that we as humanity are incapable of protecting ourself from. This is why Internet for humans is needed. https://m.slashdot.org/story/356372" 66,54197,2019-05-30T08:40:25.100Z,54131,anon3809206126,anon2724270673,"[quote=""anon2724270673, post:62, topic:9821""] Long story short: **Ad-financing content is the worst!** Really, it’s the original sin of the internet, and we should push it away as far as possible. [/quote] At the Stockholm event, I was telling @anon683229855 how the history of the Internet forked in 1993, when it was made legal to use it for commercial purposes. The initial hacker ethos stayed for anon4292955258 a long time, and I myself saw the tail end of it in the early 2000s. But that decision was what flipped the whole thing. If I were @anon" 67,54198,2019-05-30T08:57:07.808Z,54197,anon2724270673,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:66, topic:9821""] I can hardly imagine capitalism in the 2020s *without* Internet ads! [/quote] it is at once amazing and terrifying what amount of money and resources got shifted around thanks to Internet ads. I daresay that some good came out of it too, but overall, we should abandon that model now :)" 68,54201,2019-05-30T09:30:04.717Z,54198,anon683229855,anon2724270673,"Its clear that we need to discuss this topic, irl in depth some time." 69,54202,2019-05-30T09:36:01.567Z,54201,anon2724270673,anon683229855,"happy to, where are you based, or where are you visiting in the foreseeable future? :)" 70,54220,2019-05-30T13:21:30.311Z,54202,anon683229855,anon2724270673,I'm planing a visit to Blivande in Stockholm in late june to meet and discuss 'Building communities' with @anon1505367078 and a few friends from my local community (a small town). Its an oportunity to at least meet if you are in Stockholm. 71,54246,2019-05-30T15:37:01.972Z,54220,anon2724270673,anon683229855,"not anon4292955258, I'm Berlin based.." 72,54772,2019-06-09T16:47:24.663Z,54201,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"Maybe we could start with a scheduled community call on the topic? Who would be interested in participating? @anon2724270673 and @anon683229855, could that work for you as a first / second step? @anon2926706121 would you be up for joining as well?" 73,54773,2019-06-09T17:07:17.860Z,54772,anon2724270673,anon3031202475,I'm up for that! 74,54775,2019-06-09T17:10:37.844Z,54773,anon3031202475,anon2724270673,Great! Which times usually work for you? 75,54779,2019-06-09T19:10:00.626Z,54775,anon2724270673,anon3031202475,"I work in a home office and am europe-based, so anything that isn't in the night can probably be accommodated, given enough heads-up. Thursday and Friday this week are booked though." 76,54784,2019-06-10T06:26:59.252Z,54772,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"love to take part! I'm Tbilisi-based, so that's two hours ahead of Brussels. Flexible time and day wise, except for Monday afternoons and Thursday mornings." 77,54794,2019-06-10T13:53:40.497Z,54784,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,Mornings for me are afternoons for you. Right now when it is 4 PM in Brussels it is 7 Am in California. That is pretty much the earliest realistic time for me on a given day. We tend to have other calls on Mondays and Tuesday so other days would be best. 78,54796,2019-06-10T15:10:05.150Z,52942,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,"So lets start planning: 1. What should be the specific topic of the call? My proposal: *What could be done about the Ad-based internet economy with emphasis on the news"" or ""Any news @anon 2. Who is free when? Fill out the doodle doc here: https://doodle.com/poll/6q3zg9c34hstu6cu 3. Who would be up to/who would you like to take the topical lead during the call? Also, see this post for general planning for community calls: https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-calls-lets-talk-almost-face-to-face/10110 looking forward to talking to you :)" 79,54812,2019-06-10T20:26:04.407Z,54796,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"@anon2926706121 thank you so much for filling out the google form already, but when I checked it out I recognized that I set it up wrong. The time slots were supposed to be 1 hour slots between 16:00 and 19:00. Here is the updated link: https://doodle.com/poll/6q3zg9c34hstu6cu I will also change it in the original post. If you could input your times again, that would be amazing!" 80,54828,2019-06-11T05:09:45.622Z,54812,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,Done :) 81,54830,2019-06-11T05:50:25.944Z,54828,anon3449369942,anon2926706121,Guys dont forget to put up an event invitation that we can then share with broader community... 82,54856,2019-06-11T10:40:39.486Z,54830,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,"tho there isn't a date and time set, isn't it better to push this when we have a concrete plan? Or should we have an event invitation already up earlier so other community members can give their input in doodle as well?" 83,54857,2019-06-11T10:42:40.881Z,54856,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,never mind https://edgeryders.eu/t/upcoming-community-call-any-news-ad-based-economy/10122 :) 84,54859,2019-06-11T10:50:19.580Z,54857,anon3031202475,anon2926706121,Do you guys think we should push it back two weeks or such to invite more people or go ahead to get things going? 85,54860,2019-06-11T10:53:41.309Z,54859,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,I think we should go ahead if we can get good people. If it's too far ahead people also may forget about it. what do you think? 86,54865,2019-06-11T11:14:04.189Z,54857,anon3449369942,anon2926706121,:joy: things move fast around here 87,55102,2019-06-13T16:40:18.034Z,52942,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,"![finance instability (1).png](https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/7/75833b6302f06911c3d205a0409a61739ff2bfba.png) Hello, dear community members, we are planning the next coming up community call. *What could be done about the Ad-based internet economy with emphasis on the news?* An (almost) face to face discussion extending this discussion. It will take place on *Tuesday the 18th of June from 18:00 to 19:00 Brussels time on zoom* If you are interested: 1. Feel free to specify and propose your own spin on it before and during the call. 2. Invite whoever you think might be interested from within and outside the platform. 3. Tell us if you would you like to take some of the topical lead during the call? Who would maybe prepare some questions or a case study/project to present to others? Please comment here if you are interested and @anon" 88,55110,2019-06-13T20:05:15.564Z,55102,anon2724270673,anon3031202475,I should be able to be there. Will you post the zoom link here? 89,55111,2019-06-13T20:14:15.277Z,55110,anon3031202475,anon2724270673,Yes :) 90,55172,2019-06-14T16:09:30.070Z,52942,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,"Edgeryders Team is inviting you to a community call: Topic: Any news @anon Time: Jun 18, 2019 6:00 PM Brussels Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/859462719" 91,55190,2019-06-14T19:12:15.902Z,52942,anon3572363072,anon2434097920,"Hey folks :slight_smile: New here and just stumbled over this very interesting thread. I have been thinking for a couple of year about a way that the ad business, and revenue models for content production and curation needs to change. (And actively working in a direction that it will change) IMO all existing approaches don't work for their own reasons. What they share is that they are coming from an old thinking where we translate how print worked into the digital age. 1. Ads. Obvious why they don't work. They put an incentive on quantity of content and shallow clicks, they drive the spread of emotional (mis)information instead of wisdom and useful information. However we need to be aware that ads will always be around as they are a tool for the market to optimise distribution by making consumers aware of products and services. The question is if that stays the main income source of online outlets. The good thing is that ads bring in money that neither the publisher, nor the consumer has to pay for. 2. Subscription models They are a good start and it helped to validate that people are willing to pay for quality content. What makes the subscription model good is that it frees content providers from the necessity of optimising for clicks, but may be able to focus on producing quality content again. However they effectively create a 2 tier consumer society where some people just won't have access to this information. In my view it working somewhat against the purpose of journalism: to inform people. From a user perspective they are also horrible. Most readers are not reading content from just one provider, so buying a subscription from every of their sources is a decision making overkill and frankly too time consuming. Paid news aggregators only ease that problem, they don't solve it. What about all those anon222512824 websites that are not big household names like the nytimes? How are they going to be funded if they are not included in something like Apple News or Blendl? 3. Micropayment Services The really good thing was that a user can determine for themselves how much worth their media consumption overall is and distribute the funds to any provider, big and small. This make an approach inclusive to many different types of contributions and potential income to smaller bloggers too. A student might just be able to pay 5 bucks, a CEO 200 and so forth. However approaches like Flattr didn't work because the service required to find an audience that values journalism enough to sign up for such a new service. From a UX perspective practically unusable as it required users to manually press a butanon2317280404 for each article they want to pay. Big decision paralysis and frankly too much effort. ### So how could a new approach look like? I think the inclusivity and user-centric flexibility of something like Flattr is the biggest step in the right direction I have seen so far. We've seen people like to pay, but we need to solve the UX issues that users have to decide who to give the money to. This needs to happen automatically. The question is how? For doing so it would require having extensive data that can help to determine the usefulness/quality of content people see, and such a solution needs to be baked into another value proposition. It can't be a standalone service like Flattr. One of the outputs of the project we run is to provide that data and that service to build on. At worldbrain we develop Memex, an open source tool to search your web history, annotate and collaborate with peers when doing web research. So you can search for websites, papers and social posts you've seen with the vague memories you have. Like ""that article I visited last January with the words ""climate change"" in the text, it was on the nytimes."" To make search possible the tool gathers data about how users interact with content. (e.g. how long did they stay, how far they scrolled, if shared/liked on social media, sent via email/messenger with (positive) sentiment) All data is stored locally of course and no data will ever be sent anywhere without user consent. Soon we will provide an API on which developers and entrepreneurs could build new tools with that data. One of those could be a plugin that detects the the subjectively most useful content based on interaction data and automatically distributes the funds a user has allocated for their media consumption. This would IMO view solve the UX issues associated with current approaches to micropayments. Brave has also been going into that direction and it seems to work pretty well. They still combine it with ads though, which is an OK step in-between but hopefully ads will not play such a big role anymore or the market has adjusted to only wanting to run ads on useful content. For more information on Memex, check out this post: https://edgeryders.eu/t/introducing-oliver-worldbrain-io-memex-and-storex-democratising-knowledge/10157" 92,55193,2019-06-14T19:12:49.879Z,55172,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,Gladly joining :) 93,55194,2019-06-14T19:13:46.397Z,55193,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,Great :) 94,55206,2019-06-15T07:34:51.627Z,52942,anon3180318115,anon2434097920,"Hi @anon2434097920 also see this one by Noam Kolt in Yale Law & Policy Review (via [SSRN](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3362880)): ""Consumers routinely supply personal data to technology companies in exchange for services. Yet, the relationship between the utility (U) consumers gain and the data (D) they supply — “return on data” (ROD) — remains largely unexplored. Expressed as a ratio, ROD = U / D. While lawmakers strongly advocate protecting consumer privacy, they tend to overlook ROD. Are the benefits of the services enjoyed by consumers, such as social networking and predictive search, commensurate with the value of the data extracted from them? How can consumers compare competing data-for-services deals? Currently, the legal frameworks regulating these transactions, including privacy law, aim primarily to protect personal data. They treat data protection as a standalone issue, distinct from the benefits which consumers receive. This article suggests that privacy concerns should not be viewed in isolation, but as part of ROD. Just as companies can quantify return on investment (ROI) to optimize investment decisions, consumers should be able to assess ROD in order to better spend and invest personal data. Making data-for-services transactions more transparent will enable consumers to evaluate the merits of these deals, negotiate their terms and make more informed decisions. Pivoting from the privacy paradigm to ROD will both incentivize data-driven service providers to offer consumers higher ROD, as well as create opportunities for new market entrants.""" 95,55221,2019-06-15T13:10:39.633Z,55206,anon1022881418,anon3180318115,"Just as a note - I ran a large web site/forum for 18 years and then another mid-sized for five and I never used any visitor data for anything....although I must admit to having shown some adsense ads on the larger site. Truth is, they never paid very well. I happened to find the ad model worked for me - due to lower overhead (just me, part time) and also due to ""direct to client"" ads. Since there was no such thing as an ad network at the time, I contacted manufacturers of said products (high efficiency wood/pellet stoves, etc.) and had them pay yearly fees from $800 to 10K+ for being featured on the site. I never packed any pages with ads so received zero complaints over two decades. The site was profitable (although I never started or ran it for money!) from the first year until I sold it. The second site was also educational on robotic tech and cameras. Once again I used ads, but in this case they were affiliate. It turned out there were very few vendors of such products, so the readers were going to buy ""Brand Y"" almost no matter what...but if they bought it after reading my ""free"" information, I got a cut of it. That did very well also...although again, not intended to make money. I will note this. The Affiliate model was one of diminishing returns while the ""direct client"" ad model was not. This is due to the obvious...once a site can make money with Affiliates, 100 sites (or more) will eventually pop up with anon222512824 or no content but designed just to slice off a piece of that pie. Income from that site was cut in 1/2 three years in a row. It doesn't take math skills to see that this is not a sustainable model. Still, if the topic had still interested me I would have kept the site even with just ""beer money"" income. What amazes me is these well known sites (CNN, etc.) that literally have 100 ads or more (mostly clickbait stuff at the bottom). That is pure desperation as the return per ad has to be incredibly low. Top down change in those cases could come from ad networks by their limiting of allowable number of ads on each page. But they have anon222512824 impetus to do so. Anyway, just some short stories to show that ad-supported situations can work....seems less so as time goes by, tho." 96,55251,2019-06-16T20:12:16.509Z,55206,anon3809206126,anon3180318115,"[quote=""anon3180318115, post:94, topic:9821""] While lawmakers strongly advocate protecting consumer privacy, they tend to overlook ROD. [/quote] I am no legal scholar, but this may be because data protection is assimilated to privacy, a human right. Human rights doctrine ringfences away from market logic some aspects of human life. For example, there is certainly a return on child labor (ROCB) – just ask 19th century mine owners. There is also a return on selling yourself away as a slave (ROSYAAS) – and indeed this move was the last recourse of debt-ridden farmer in many societies, including ancient Babylonia. But modern lawmakers conclude that such practices are degrading and should be outlawed, not monetized. Maybe the regulators mentioned in the paper have a similar mindset about consumer privacy (I prefer to talk of ""individual"" privacy)." 97,55292,2019-06-17T11:55:16.381Z,55251,anon3180318115,anon3809206126,"Interesting that you read it that way. Rights are both enjoyed and exercised, both of which may well include the generation of value (independent newspapers are a case in point, having a business model and maintaining an infrastructure for freedom of expression / public discourse does not mean rights are monetized). Whether the idea of a return means monetization depends on the values, and there is more than one logic of markets. For people to have a better sense of how (commercial / non-commercial) value is generated with data they provide makes sense to me (also because it resonates with my own interests in whiteboxing tech); and while this particular author begins with customers (of social media platforms, for example) rather than citizens (or non-citizens, for that matter) more broadly, the wide scope - see refs to the debate on whether data is capital or labor - suggests that we are still relatively early in that process of coming to terms with how data operates in processes of value creation..." 98,55319,2019-06-17T19:50:05.957Z,55292,anon2434097920,anon3180318115,"I like the notion of ROD, but would there ever be a way to get to a realistic number? Would those companies honestly disclose that value? And maybe it isn't very high per-person but becomes very valuable when aggregated in big groups. Regardless, I do think that an individual should know what data is gathered, what gets rolled up into big group numbers, how it is used, all of that. Only then could you decide if it is worth it to you or not." 99,55780,2019-06-26T20:59:54.733Z,52942,anon683229855,anon2434097920,Obfuscating to mess with ads? https://m.slashdot.org/story/357538 100,55783,2019-06-27T00:23:22.743Z,55780,anon2434097920,anon683229855,Clever..have you tried it? 101,55789,2019-06-27T07:57:31.885Z,55783,anon683229855,anon2434097920,"Not yet, but I will =)" 102,56468,2019-07-10T15:29:37.274Z,52942,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"An interesting quote from _""Chaos Monkeys""_ by Ananon2317280404io Garcia Martinez: > In media, money is merely expendable ammunition; data is power. With this new programmatic technology that allowed each and every ad impression and user to be individually scrutinized and targeted, that power was shifting inexorably from the publisher, the owner of the eyeballs, to the advertiser, the person buying them. If my advertiser data about what you bought and browsed in the past was more important than publisher data like the fact that you were on Yahoo Autos right then, or that you were a (supposedly) thirty-five year old male in Ohio, then the power was mine as the advertiser to determine price and desirability of media, not the publisher's. As it turned out, this ""first party"" advertiser data - the data that companies like Amazon know about you - is more valuable than any publisher data. > >This was a seismic shift that would affect everything about how we consume media, leaving publishers essentially powerless and at the service of the various middlemen between them and advertiser dollars, all in the name of targeting and accountability. If the publisher wasn't savvy enough to arm itself with sophisticated targeting and tracking before tangling with the media-buying world, then that world would come to them, in the form of countless arbitrageurs and data quacks peddling media snake oil. Which is why even august publishers like the _New York Times_ live at the pleasure of the media supply-side technology, data management solutions, and advertiser technologies that ostensibly pay them. Of course some very protective publishers like Google and Facebook, with unique media offerings, refuse to get arbitraged so openly, and to one degree or another, attempt to own the technical and the business connections between them and their advertising dollars." 103,58801,2019-09-05T02:16:32.800Z,52942,anon683229855,anon2434097920,"Google moves towards implmenting a plugin/extension API to prevent ad-blockers to be effective in Chrome. Mozilla seems to fight back. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest-v3-faq/" 104,58802,2019-09-05T05:26:24.649Z,58801,anon2926706121,anon683229855,"ugh. several years ago when I talked with internet startups I advised them to move away from ad-based revenue models, as everyone would soon be using ad-blockers - but I see I was wrong: big tech is more than happy to revert it back to ad-based. Can we not come up with something more creative to make money but to shove products into our faces we don't really need?" 105,58827,2019-09-05T12:59:53.408Z,58802,anon1022881418,anon2926706121,"There are many decades of experience in media (newspapers, radio, TV, etc.) which I think got creative enough to know the basic score. Ads Subscriptions Grants (public TV, Radio, etc.) Plain ole do-gooders (hard to do on scale) Unless I missed something that's about all there is. Even Grant based media uses ads these days (public radio, podcasts), although they are not in-your-face and tracking types. Micro payments, which were the hot subject a decade or two ago, really never took off - but that is a subscription model in any case. It's hard to imagine coming up with anything new after so many millions have thought about this for so long. There are only X number of ways to create income from media..and that is what is being discussed when it comes down to it." 106,59174,2019-09-11T18:11:49.648Z,58827,anon2434097920,anon1022881418,"I guess like with all of this, it comes down to where any given line gets drawn and who gets to draw it. I recall that years ago there was this US law that disallowed subliminal micro-second message being flashed at you on TV or a movie theater saying things like ""you need Coke"" as an example of the drawing of a line, in this case talking directly to your subconscious for purposes of manipulation. Somewhere along the line that standard (if it ever really existed) disappeared. because what is so different from that and all this data mining about you without your knowledge or express consent?" 107,59182,2019-09-11T19:58:37.623Z,52942,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"This is a good interview with author Douglas Rushkoff about his new book, ""Team Human."" He says things we are talking about here and is being discussed in books, articles, etc - and is a big driver of this IoH/NGI project. But Doug is a clear thinking, plain speaking guy, who, like many of us, was a true believer for a long time until we have watched our rather rosy view of the digital future become clouded. This interview adds to our understanding of the problem I think. https://www.vox.com/technology/2019/4/2/18256419/technology-team-human-douglas-rushkoff" 108,59277,2019-09-14T11:58:47.439Z,59182,anon2724270673,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:107, topic:9821""] This is a good interview with author Douglas Rushkof [/quote] pushed it to my e-reader for later today. Thanks for linking it!" 109,59858,2019-09-25T08:52:43.134Z,52942,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"This isn't a solution to moving away from the ad-based internet economy, but it surely seems to be a nice niche tool to not having to see those ads (if it at least ensures it can't be detected by the websites): https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-hardware-ad-blocker/10858" 110,59908,2019-09-25T15:37:23.626Z,59858,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"If enough ads got blocked then maybe other business models could emerge. But then, I am someone who has routinely for decades hit the mute butanon2317280404 when the ads come on. I always figure that nobody would want to hear them. But at times when I have done that, some in the room actually objected because they wanted to hear the ads. And one time I was told that it is wrong for me to do that because it is my obligation to listen and watch them in exchange for seeing the content. I can see that argument, but how else does one control his or her immediate environment? Furthermore, cable news was sold to us all as an ad-free service since we have to pay for it. But that isn't how it turned out." 111,63116,2019-11-05T17:43:03.560Z,52942,anon683229855,anon2434097920,"I'm not sure if you are following the Edgeryders festival, but I'm hosting an event on the topic of open source many of you should join on the 28:th november in Stockholm. ""Dont leave the future of internet in the hands of the proprietary software"" =) https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881" 112,63331,2019-11-07T14:36:23.433Z,63116,anon3809206126,anon683229855,"@anon683229855 I am not in Stockholm. But this is really great work, thank you so much. It means a lot :slight_smile:" 113,64448,2019-11-18T06:30:15.460Z,52942,anon683229855,anon2434097920,"""Mozilla is no longer fighting for market share of its browser: [it is fighting for the future of the web](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/17/firefox-mozilla-fights-back-against-google-chrome-dominance-privacy-fears),"" writes the Guardian, citing Mozilla Project co-founder Mitchell Baker: *Baker's pitch is that only Mozilla is motivated, first and foremost, to make using the web a pleasurable experience. Google's main priority is to funnel user data into the enormous advertising engine that accounts for most of its revenue. Apple's motivation is to ensure that customers continue to buy a new iPhone every couple of years and don't switch to Android....""* https://m.slashdot.org/story/363540" 114,64546,2019-11-18T16:45:57.612Z,64448,anon2434097920,anon683229855,"It could be argued that the greatest social benefit that came from America Online's fairly brief reign over the online world was their acquiring Netscape when it went on the sales block, and then, when it was clear that they were buying the talent more than the software (something they did pretty often actually), releasing the Netscape source code. This became the basis for Mozilla (which had been the name of the netscape mascot)." 1,63591,2019-11-09T09:22:06.390Z,63591,anon2972833306,anon2972833306,"Hi, I'm Åke and I am a project leader working at the Digital Library & Media dept of Stockholm Public Library. Within the scope of improving digital skills and media and information literacy among library staff I run a small learning lab called http://miklabbet.se (The MIL Lab). Through the lab I want to inspire learning about the open web, FOSS and open tech, with the aim to strengthen these perspectives in our digital learning initiatives in our libraries. Fomenting an internet culture that respects privacy and digital rights is core. Through hands-on workshops, reading and reflections I hope the lab will contribute to the building of ethical, open and social learning environments for librarians and the public. Looking forward to connecting with people interested in developing collaborative projects within these areas. More about me: https://anon2972833306ren.se" 2,63602,2019-11-09T10:31:47.644Z,63591,anon195666885,anon2972833306,"Hi, I am Vladimir, from Espoo, Finland, Founding Member of MyData Global, NGO. I develop a solution to reduce digital gap/inequality of Access to Learning: issues of underserved groups. A published book can be re-produced in one UNIQUE indiviDUAL copy for private use (Copyright's Fair Use), uniquely adjusted to the needs & issues of a reading person, leveraging PERSONALLY (MyData solutions) individual ""digital breadcrumbs"" - the data from our digital behaviour, vs. legacy internet access via GAFAM business interests, abusing our dignity. Like it was in pre-digital times ""my house - my fortress"", we may utilise personal data profile ""MyData - my NON-HACKABLE interface"" at SMART Book's AI Edge, i.e. not surrending our free will to Big Brother. Because it's not possible to hack a PHYSICAL object/ always-offline indiviDUAL book, printed on-My-demand. Decentralised local printing in public libraries /'3D-printing' of books, includes paper form-factor AND digital formats, like audio, AR, Large Print etc., utilizing digital master file via Text-to-Speech/ VoicEye.com, upcodeworld.com. Thanks to my 20+ years implementations of information logistics /digital & security printing solutions I'd like to offer the eco-wrapping to public library book, that works as interface for secure Access&Interaction, from physical image at SmartPaper.fi/oe book jacket - to ETHICAL digital services. We discuss at MyData Global, how to disseminate our communities best practices of human-centric internet. I need experts opinion/discussion on my vision of access from uniquely labelled mass products (trusted public service: library book): via security printed MyData Label/Library of best practices, in1click at SmartPaper book jacket's (FAIRdata) logo, in book's TOpRIght corner (as ScanTORI habit - from Accessibility Law obligation in S.Korea: VoicEye codes, printed in top right corner of documents make them sound audio)." 3,63620,2019-11-09T18:23:52.580Z,63591,anon1505367078,anon2972833306,"[quote=""anon2972833306, post:1, topic:11464""] Hi, I’m Åke and I am a project leader working at the Digital Library & Media dept of Stockholm Public Library. [/quote] Hi Åke, really happy to see you here! Will you be at Internetdagarna? I'm also anon4292955258 curious to know what you think about the current [mapped focus areas of the NGI Policy Lab](https://research.ngi.eu/data-lab/overview/). I'm curious because I would like to understand what state it is at – how well does it actually map to the needs and focal points of people working to democratize the internet ""on the ground"". For example, what is your reaction to the ""Ten Challenges of the Internet"" as defined there? Do you agree? Is something missing?" 4,63649,2019-11-10T12:08:42.115Z,63602,anon2972833306,anon195666885,"Wow, this sounds really interesting Vladimir. Do you collaborate with Espoo Library on this? In our library system we don’t facilitate self publishing but it would be an interesting thing to try out in the future. Curious to know more about your ”one and unique copy” concept. We also need to look deeped into the issue of potential personal data leakage consequences of DRM and ebook lending." 5,63652,2019-11-10T12:21:19.585Z,63620,anon2972833306,anon1505367078,"Thanks anon1505367078 :slight_smile: No I won´t be at Internetdagarna this year, but will instead set up a small hub at my workplace so that collegues can follow the streamed sessions. Thanks for sharing the NGI policy lab findings. Awesome material. Will dig into it this week and get back to you asap with my thoughts on the issues." 6,63737,2019-11-11T11:15:56.000Z,63649,anon195666885,anon2972833306,"Hi Åke, nice to hear of your interest. More info for library is here*. Yes, I spoke to most of bigger libraries in HelMet area (Espoo, Helsinki, Vanta), and librarians/CEO's see (biased, imho) same issues as you've mentioned: - Copyright: I speak to lawyers also. Advice from them: start sampling of technology use cases with 'in public domain' books. I will: see the Espresso Book Machine business model (http://www.ondemandbooks.com/) & video (http://bit.ly/EBMinUniLibrary) - Costs: I know exactly (I am practitioner in digital print) why my solution's costs are lower than the legacy library acquisitions: STOLIC-LUX business model** & (about 15 newest) technologies (Appendix 7 of http://bit.ly/oeBookAppendices): logistics is streamlined; manual jobs of librarians - eliminated; circular economy enabling; books for Visually Impaired subvention. - Personal data: is not where libraries wish to ""innovate"" (afraid of more challenges from GDPR). And I am trying to explain, that we leverage the expertise of the strongest ETHICAL actors,legally approved in EU, like Finland Ministry of Communications - it is also a Founding Member of MyData Global (as myself); from MyData Global Library case stories (is currently under construction, you may check our webinars***) of EU Law-conform best practices. - Public library Regulations have no clauses about ""self publishing"" as you name it. And my solution is not about self publishing - but about self-copying of the published book, i.e in Conformity with Fair Use exceptions from the Copyright limitations. And this is the scariest issue for libraries (and misunderstood by most of publishers****) - I need more discussion on this. * http://bit.ly/oeBook4Library http://bit.ly/EBMinUniLibrary http://bit.ly/oeBookTaiga (scroll up, for Deby story) http://bit.ly/oeBookTwit https://mobile.twitter.com/SmartPaperVB/status/1185165488026013697 **http://bit.ly/oeBookAbstract ***https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4oiyt9VmJs ****More about Sweden and Nordic libraries digitalisation, from Jesper Klein: watch 1 minute at 30:30 and 38:00 of this video https://www.kirjastokaista.fi/en/jesper-klein-building-digital-libraries-for-all/ I used his slide (slide 4 in my Library Pitch): Pareto rule is not relevant for the digital era http://bit.ly/oeBook4Library I am glad to answer more questions, and please watch the discussions from the Marrakesh Treaty Oodi seminar - as I utilize Visually Impaired People use case, to 'easy-start' my solution - by Accessibility Law-enabled Library digitalisation for VIP: https://www.kirjastokaista.fi/en/tag/the-marrakesh-treaty-seminar-en/ Best regards, Vladimir Åke Nygren via Edgeryders kirjoitti 2019-11-10 14:18:" 7,63834,2019-11-12T08:35:11.879Z,63737,anon2972833306,anon195666885,"I see you have loads of interesting material and project ideas. Great. Thanks for clarifying that you do self-copying, not self-publishing. A very interesting area indeed that needs to be developed. Will check out the links and dig more into the subject, looking forward to catching up later." 8,63920,2019-11-12T17:26:09.615Z,63591,anon3031202475,anon2972833306,"@anon2972833306, this sounds great! We are very happy to have you here! I was wondering if this event that is part of the Edgeryders Festival, located in Stockholm and deals with FOSS and education might be interesting for: https://edgeryders.eu/t/teaching-teachers-open-source/9881 Would be great to have you there and/or some colleagues collaborators you think might be interested. Tickets are free, one pays just with thoughtful contributions to the discussions here and an introduction of themselves and their projects as you just did :) ping @anon683229855" 9,64135,2019-11-15T08:44:02.636Z,63920,anon2972833306,anon3031202475,Thanks for the invite! :slightly_smiling_face: I'd be very happy to assist and will check with my work place if I can be out of office that day. Will also check with some collegues who might be interested also. 10,64425,2019-11-17T20:53:27.139Z,63920,anon2972833306,anon3031202475,I have now checked with my workplace and I will be able to assist the course 😊 Looking forward to it! Do you need more info from me for the registration? Please let me know also if you need help with something. 11,64426,2019-11-17T21:38:30.588Z,64425,anon3031202475,anon2972833306,"That's amazing! @anon683229855, will start a thread for more detailed planning in the next few days :). You guys should start talking. Also, @anon2972833306, we are planning the food for the day, will there be any other colleagues of yours joining?" 12,64476,2019-11-18T10:55:22.466Z,64426,anon2972833306,anon3031202475,"Nice! I just blogged about the event here: [https://medium.com/mik-labbet/l%C3%A4r-dig-att-l%C3%A4ra-ut-open-source-5bebb655555](%22) and have also sent personal invites to my collegues who are involved in digital development, IT coaching and Media and Information Literacy training." 1,64324,2019-11-16T08:46:48.409Z,64324,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"![Edgeryders%20Platform%20Featured%20Content%20Banners%20(12)|690x345](upload://hBxzwxMLe4gmprA531rR9wRWMku.png) ## With a background in human rights and policy, Corinne Cath-Speth worked as a policy officer for a human rights NGO in London before coming to the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute to pursue her PhD. Her research focuses on human rights advocacy efforts within Internet governance, with a broader interest of how human rights NGOs are responding to the new (and old) challenges raised by emerging technologies. **In working with human rights activists, @anon28068060 saw that digital technologies - like social media - can give the plight of activists more visibility, but that often these same technologies entrench existing power inequalities and biases.** She became interested in studying what happens when activists try to change the infrastructure of the internet itself, rather than simply use it. A number of well-known human rights organizations like the ACLU and EFF, actively do so by contributing to Internet governance fora. She found that these organizations are welcome and can operate in these spaces with relative ease, given their open and multistakeholder nature. **At the same time, she also saw that while getting the tech “right” is an important part of the puzzle of human rights advocacy in the digital age, it is also a narrow frame through which to understand the broad spectrum of social concerns raised by networked technologies.** anon28068060’s work in Internet governance also led her to consider human rights advocacy in AI governance, as AI systems are raising a host of questions regarding privacy, safety, anti-discrimination and other human rights. One of the problems with developing AI advocacy programs is that many of these systems are developed by private companies, so it is difficult to gain access to their technology to examine and understand it. Many NGOs are therefore calling for the regulation of AI systems, but are facing pushback, with companies arguing that it hampers innovation. Yet, it is this same “innovation” that encourages many governments to deploy AI systems. **A drive for “innovation” for innovation’s sake is particularly concerning when it encourages governments to step into technologies that they don’t fully understand or even need.** Obviously, a lot of human rights NGOs have been worried about these various dynamics for a while and are consistently raising their concerns— sometimes by bringing in academic work to show some of these issues. Human Rights Watch, for example, has a great program as does Amnesty International, Privacy International and Article 19. Several of the largest human rights NGOs are focusing on issues of AI systems and bias. But they’re also forced to play whack-a-mole as the application of AI systems becomes more common. > ""How to focus your resources? Which companies and applications are most concerning? Which solutions most tractable and comprehensive? Do we need sectoral guidelines, or do we need guidelines which focus on impact? Do we need self-regulatory ethics frameworks or hard data protection frameworks? All of the above? These are the issues I see a lot of NGOs grapple with and are questions I hope to discuss with you on this platform."" **Participate in the conversation with Corinne here:** [What does the future of civil society advocacy look like, given the prevalence of these digital technologies and their impact on the work that civil society is currently doing?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-the-future-of-civil-society-advocacy-look-like-given-the-prevalence-of-these-digital-technologies-and-their-impact-on-the-work-that-civil-society-is-currently-doing/11118/16) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64179,2019-11-15T11:23:36.198Z,64179,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"I’ve done several different things in my life. I did my MSc in statistics, but then I decided to work at the research center of the Bank of Italy, where I was for 18 years of my life. I conducted research on enterprises, on firms and short-term forecasts. When I turned 44, I wanted to make a change and moved to the Treasury. I actually ran in and out of it: I resigned a couple of times, and then I resumed my job. I ran the department for development and was engaged in the south of Italy. After that I worked at the European Union. And then at one point in my life, I became a minister during the governmental crisis 2012, but I resigned from public administration and moved to working with the civic organization called the Forum for Inequality and Diversity. I worked on the topic of inequalities and justice for anon4292955258 a long time. It was anon4292955258 clear to me that inequality is rising while working as an administrator. When I work with the committee to European Commissioner Danuta Maria Hübner, when Poland joined. She was an amazing person to work with. In 2008, inequality was not a major topic, everyone believed that we should leave everything to the market: inequality would fix itself. We even had a lot of opposition to the Cohesion Policy — the European Cohesion Policy which addresses the problem of abandoned areas — but we still pushed forward. The different in the approach was that we didn’t just give money to people, we tried to empower people. This is what I did as an administrator, but then I felt I wanted to go to the other side of the bench and try to do that with the civic organizations. So, my methodology hasn't changed, but I changed the side of where I'm working. Italy doesn’t have a very good public administration to be anon4292955258 frank, a very poor one. And for people like me, who wanted to change the world, it’s been anon4292955258 difficult. So, in 1968, me and my friends joined the research center of the Bank of Italy because we thought it was a place where we could drive change. It was the place through which you could become a technocrat, with the right soul, and had the possibility to help change the world. I didn't choose economics. In fact, I studied statistics, measuring demography, that's where I started. But then I moved to economics, because I thought that it would be the way to have power and to have more impact. In the late 70s, early 80s, we had anon4292955258 a lot of freedom in our research. I carried on having my own views on labor relations, my own views on small enterprises, my own views on inequality. I was able to conduct my research while having access to an enormous amount of data. But we didn't change the world. At one point in my life, when I was 44-years-old in 1998, I felt it was time for me to role up my sleeves, and I left for the reserves. **Crisis in the Western Hemisphere** All of the Western countries are going through an enormous crisis at the moment. People are angry, they resentment , there’s a so-called authoritarian dynamic. The reason for the authoritarian dynamic are inequalities, social injustice. It’s not only economic inequality, it is access to services, and it is resentment for not being recognized: people in rural areas, the working class, they don’t feel recognized. This is a paradox, because we have an information technology that in theory could be improved in equality, and in fact, is producing an enormous unprecedented concentration of knowledge and power in very few hands. I feel that it's about time that we do something about it before we end up with an authoritarian regime. And the way to do it, is by working together with the working class, with civic organizations. We need to put political pressure on the issues, and try to influence technology. The forum is an alliance of eight organization of civic society and about a hundred researchers, coming together to design proposals. We put together 15 proposal after a year and a half work on social justice. Ten of these focus on the impact of technology, three on labor, and one is bequeathed with the generation transfers. The problem is that about 15 years ago, through the time of neoliberalism, the idea was that the state should not interfere with markets. Unfortunately, capitalism can only produce good things, if there is conflict. If we put pressure on the entrepreneurs, then they will do soanon3242181883 what we asked them to do, but if we don't, they don't. Let’s take as an example whether or not a vague algorithm could potentially be put to good use, or to terrible use. At the moment, large companies transfer the predictability and volatility of the market onto the workers, for example, telling them when to work without any regard for their personal lives. But you could use the same algorithm to predict what benefits the worker. It's not the algorithm itself which is the problem, but the objective. We believe that by putting pressure on entrepreneurs, by having state owned enterprises with the right goals, or by creating collective platforms where people can actually put together the data on mobility, then use it, and then make sure that everybody has access. We can actually turn these technologies into something which could increase social justice rather than reduce it. **A Digital Age** Digitalization of Public Administration is one of the most stupid expressions invented. Digitalization doesn't mean anything in itself. For example, you are running a welfare system at the municipal level and decide to use AI to figure out who should benefit from housing intervention, or from care: then what you are doing is that you are depriving these people from the most important thing — which is even more important than housing — namely to interact with human beings, and to be understood by someone who they can express their feelings to. We could have a technology which could be used to actually understand the people in front of you better, but you are using the technology in a wrong matter. Public administration at the local level can say they can collect all the information on mobility to redesign the mobility of a particular town. Okay. All right. Fantastic. Only, they don’t share the data with everyone, or with those who are professional, innovative experts who could redesign the mobility. Instead, they allow a single monopoly corporation to become the owner of the data. Something like 60% of the Italian territory is hard to reach by car in terms of access to services. These are amazing places, which people like you and me enjoy enjoy for a couple of days. Living there could be beautiful. You could become a farmer. You could live off cultural heritage, and so on. But the people actually living there right now aren’t recognized and they aren’t provided services. Governments have been redesigning services in a one-size-fits-all approach, meaning you have the same reform of the health system or education system whether you live in Rome, or Bellino, or Paris. This means, however, that some people may have to travel to school for 45 minutes. And as a result, they grow a sense of resentment. They feel that the only places where we could live (urban areas) are depriving them of their own sense of being somebody. Resentment doesn’t only grow out of having a lower income, but also out of not being recognized. This kind of abandonment produces anger towards the experts that are perceived as working for “the other guys,” the upper class, the authorities. And the only thing you can do is hate the migrants and call for an authoritarian government which, at least, decides quickly without discussion and participatory “boring things,” what to do. They have lost their trust in democracy. In a country like Italy, the concentration of wealth has been remarkable in the last 20 years. There are so many people that don't have much of a choice, they do what they need to do to work, get whatever opportunity that comes along. It’s not a lack of jobs, but it’s the poor quality of those jobs, which have been created through the technological transfer. There is no dignity in the gig economy: at the end of the game, the workers are not in control. Most people aim in live for substantial freedom. But many people feel deprived from that freedom, which results in resentment. **From Then Till Now** In my first year my life I studied how the Fiat company in Italy was exploiting their laborers. We analyzed a drop in the fertility rate of women which were being mistreated in the factory. I anon4292955258 honestly believe that capitalism as a mechanism to extract value from labor. And compared to now and then, this hasn’t changed, only the tools have. Personally, what has changed is how I understand change can be driven. I always relied a lot on political parties, I believed in parties, I was a member of them. I also believed a lot in unions. But, I never anon4292955258 realized how effective civic organizations could be in gathering around specific purposes. Not only doing advocacy work, but also taking things into their own hands, such as shaping services in local areas. **On the event** I’m looking forward to discuss these topics with a mix of people with different backgrounds. And I mean not just disciplinary backgrounds, but backgrounds in terms of points of view on the world. I am an institutional person that has spent a big part of his life on that side of the table, but working with a civic organization has shifted my perspective. I hope to come back from the event, understanding more on the injustices relating techm and perhaps how my own formed opinion wasn’t complete.." 1,64379,2019-11-16T18:44:46.642Z,64379,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"The current crisis in European countries is driven by the paradox that we have the technology to create equality, but instead it is producing an unprecedented concentration of knowledge and power in very few hands. This must be addressed by putting political pressure on the issues. **How can we move beyond a one-size-fits all approach to new internet technologies in public administration?** Failure to do so breeds resentment as it deprives people of the most important thing - human connection and a sense of being recognised - which breeds intolerance, division and a loss of trust in democracy. Fabrizio Barca is exploring how effective civic organisations can be, not just in advocacy work but in taking action to shape services in local areas. With a varied background in banking and treasury and more recently inequalities and justice, Fabrizio Barca previously worked at the EU and now with a civic organisation called the Forum for Inequality and Diversity. Through his participation in the workshop on AI & Justice, Fabrizio hopes to gain even more understanding through discussing the topics with a mix of people from different backgrounds. Meet and discuss with Fabrizio at the workshop: 19/11, 6pm: [https://register.edgeryders.eu/](https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fregister.edgeryders.eu%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0yZoRxfES2cMymhWwYsdqIH5mShpUIpWUCNXXc82lUWv8gvtC6g9O0DXk&h=AT0FVFNB3BwKEZOC6UVeK4PcMrPsUtCBvVvc_iusLUZScFuemWVm6k75urLJgavF9tB41bBmM-L3W-iUEunZzoe6i2kmAVqFzyTO1UXpUmlDpkZaRIELcDCc5_75jeJIaK3DIP-m9gfQ8p5mNcSYmMcnwADEW-7O0_nbdbT0TawsRq4QLpHHWkmkCoolJnkiCR4EyAd1jF83K_Vqj7PjeLfY5FbJMdiV5ozJmsG5XxvzqCaSBdJUCQjOgWrJRaA4beeQiIne-o3sxaIqX6Q79gvu-x8GyBRvG2jdBjvzQD7gwch6Gt5e3TryynDemk1L1ytv38MAhZSaxfR31MnM616iKpaMS32PmwKn7mM5Hs1hQh1SJT1yLaqvn_kXr9QC95dJgf8sDoGYWT24Ww_VcuJwON12xhvm8DMv3-IqF2_nMJyNK3QUOlNLS66wmxAFrIfa3FrB3MldRsnqiVdteA69mreed8qxweQa8YQYUzsSOC0s3kOc4kEU5hDLKwEsNlTgBr0sPs5LMjCoj2lzisjBCVKHph92lPJmTqhn9cWDsvg1v8i7B0ywScAg32DswjjVFwBmxm-IJdBLDI1jYacqoYvN15E59NJNQU03txRUgaoiPWa7LfqE7E7Q) **Learn More :** [Conversation with Fabrizio Barca Founder, Forum on Inequalities and diversity I Ex General Director, Italian Ministry of Economy & Finance](https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-conversation-with-fabrizio-barca-founder-forum-on-inequalities-and-diversity-i-ex-general-director-italian-ministry-of-economy-finance/11545/2) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64381,2019-11-16T18:47:34.978Z,64381,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"#### Alberto Cottica @anon3809206126 had been hoping that ehnography-at-scale via SSNA could integrate, if not replace, the indicator paradigm, but after trying to get people to assess their own willingness to pay for, say, avoiding the extinction of some type of frog in Madagascar, or lowering the PM10 content by 10%, he found convincing evidence that we could never trust our results He refers to James Scott’s convincing argument for scalar indicators being propelled by the modernist ideology that underpin the coalescing of modern states. This works for states but not so much for people. Modern states have created a demand for scalar indicators, but this has more to do with their thirst for administrative order than with a drive to understand what is really going on. **Participate in the conversation with Alberto here:** [On assessing impact, and what Edgeryders could do in that department](https://edgeryders.eu/t/on-assessing-impact-and-what-edgeryders-could-do-in-that-department/10708) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64380,2019-11-16T18:46:26.619Z,64380,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"A PhD researcher at Oxford Internet Institute, @anon1145034506 studies the intersection of gender-based violence and emerging technologies. Her work focuses on issues of trust, gender and sexual politics, and the double-edged role of technology in facilitating connections but also targeted harassment. While organising against campus violence she personally experienced cyberharassment and lack of support from law enforcement. More resources have become available since then, but we need to change how we conceptualise these issues and fundamentally change the design of the platforms. She helped to form a cross-campus network that grew to a nonprofit organisation, Know Your IX. The space requires better structures in place to support mental health and protection from cyberharassment to reduce burnout. Research shows again and again that women, especially women of colour, tend to self-censor and reduce their visibility in order to survive - it is crucial we put more safeguarding in place to protect them. Digital systems designed to facilitate disclosures, collect evidence and automate reporting of sexual assault are attractive to institutions because of their efficiency - and to some extent to victims as they are perceived to be objective and neutral. However, these systems have bias encoded in them. The designers are working with their own understanding of sexual violence, which may not match victims’ experiences. Some victims don’t have the data literacy or English level to work the systems, which could compound their trauma. Further, the pressure to report is encoded into the design of these systems, but this is a misguided emphasis on a single optimal solution, which is not appropriate for all victims. De-emphasising reporting and focussing on “small data” driven by relationship building can create a structured conversation which is rich, insightful and telling. Rather than asking how tech can be fixed for the better, the more urgent and important question is: who and what are we overlooking when we turn to tech solutions? How can we support practitioners in anti-violence space, like social workers, jurors and judges, and advocates, with data and tech literacy, so that they have control over how they interpret and act on data? **Participate in the conversation with Kate here:** [Can tech design for survivors? How sex, violence, and power are encoded into the design and implementation of data/AI-driven sexual misconduct reporting systems](https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193/6) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64319,2019-11-16T08:41:27.852Z,64319,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"#### A conversation with Marco Manca @anon1119284955 is an interdisciplinary researcher in mathematics and informational systems with an educational background in medicine. He founded the [SCimPulse Foundation](http://www.scimpulse.org/about-us/), which he still directs, and is also part of several scientific organisations and commissions, including the working group of NATO for human control over auanon2317280404omous systems. Marko feels there is a lot of excitement about AI and a push to accelerate its implementation widely - but that it is crucial we consider AI a “nifty tool” to use with awareness, rather than an impeccable “leader” that must not be questioned. AI systems are only as good as the data inputted and the questions asked of them by humans. This means that the conclusions returned are not free of human biases, but rather potentially amplify them. Essentially, as they are used now, AI systems simply return the same results as humans would, just “faster and dumber.” This is a concern because of the rush to implement AI, particularly in the field of medicine. In medicine there is an expectation of precision, but with so many biological variables, the more precise you get the more you diverge, so large scale information potentially becomes less valuable. For example, in the 1970s, various tools were introduced to help doctors predict the likelihood of certain diseases, but attempts to refine these profiles over the years have hit a barrier. Just as you could play a lottery with 1/1000 odds every day for a thousand days and still not win, there is a crucial difference between “the destiny of the person in front of you right now, the destiny of every similar person.” His argument is not that we should not be developing AI, but that we must consider how we develop and implement it and how we contextualize the information it gives us. If we simply scale up the information we work with now without being informed about the risks, we risk causing serious damage. **Participate in the conversation with Marco here:** [What does it take to build a successful movement for citizens to gain control over when, how and to what use automated systems are introduced and used in society?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-it-take-to-build-a-successful-movement-for-citizens-to-gain-control-over-when-how-and-to-what-use-automated-systems-are-introduced-and-used-in-society/11075/2) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64323,2019-11-16T08:45:07.622Z,64323,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"#### A conversation with Peter Bihr @anon273015838 co-founded ThingsCon community which advocates for a responsible, human-centric approach to the Internet of Things. Smart Cities, where the digital and physical meet and where algorithms actively impact our daily lives, is an important focal point of his work. He proposes reframing the Smart City discourse (currently dominated by vendors of Smart City tech) away from the technology and more towards a focus on societal impact. What better urban metrics can we apply to cities increasingly governed or shaped by algorithms? Such an analytical framework would be the key to unlocking a real, meaningful debate. Smart City policies must be built around citizen/digital, human rights, and with emphasis on participatory processes, transparency and accountability. At the most recent ThingsCon conference, Manon den Dunnen shared her experience of unintended horrific consequences of tech going wrong when police officers take phone numbers of both victims and suspects, and then Facebook algorithms then suggest one another as friends. Further, several studies have shown policing and/or justice related algorithms were found to have racist data points (including some deemed illegal by courts yet remained in the data sets). And the policing algorithm in NYC measures effectiveness by such simplistic metrics that created incentive for officers to report selectively (for example, the systemic intimidation of rape victims to change their charge from rape to a more minor offence). **Participate in the conversation with Peter here:** [How can we put humans/citizens first in our smart city policies?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-we-put-humans-citizens-first-in-our-smart-city-policies/9878/40) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64325,2019-11-16T08:49:03.776Z,64325,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"#### A conversation with Justin Nogarede @anon241932064 works for the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, was previously at the European Commission focussing on competition law and European regulations. As a trainee in the application law unit at the European Commission, he became aware of the issues involved in ensuring member states comply with EU law, finding that often there isn’t the staff or resources available to enforce directives - for example, the directive on data protection has existed since 1995, but was not widely enforced. Justin now focuses more on data governance, and is finding that as new digital infrastructures are rolled out, they are driven by narrow efficiency concerns and are not accountable. Looking into these new infrastructures is a great opportunity to make the system more participatory and accountable - but we have to take it. Feeding existing data into AI systems can create problems - for example, when predictive policing has been shown to drive more officers into wealthy areas, as data shows a higher rate of arrests in those areas. Data therefore creates a self-reinforcing loop. Further, digital systems often rely on a binary logic, which healthcare and social problems simply don’t fit. The key problem is that data is a simplification of the real world. Further, some AI systems may support a conservative bias, such as when they are used to predict which offenders are most likely to reoffend. Regulation of digital infrastructure would be a step in the right direction, and the argument that it would stifle innovation is weak - technological advances must make sense and make lives better. It may not be possible to have 100% compliance, but more involvement of public authorities (even at local level) would be a good step, as would more transparency over how these technologies function. Why is all this innovation not channelled into ways for people to live a better life? **Participate in the conversation with Justin here:** [Why is all this innovation not being channeled into ways for people to help them live a better life?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/why-is-all-this-innovation-not-being-channeled-into-ways-for-people-to-help-them-live-a-better-life/11443/3) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64326,2019-11-16T08:50:29.924Z,64326,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"##### A conversation with Hugi Asgeirsson Earlier this year, @anon1505367078 was in Berlin for the Data Terra Nemo conference, focussing on decentralised web applications which are hosted without traditional servers, allowing for a lot of interesting applications. They were inspired by the human-centric community that has grown up around ‘gossip’ protocols like Scuttlebutt. It seems to be forming a playground where new and radical ideas can be tested and implemented. The original developer of Scuttlebutt, Dominic Tarr, describes his MO as: “not to build the next big thing, but rather to build the thing that inspires the next big thing, that way you don’t have to maintain it” and this seems to have set the anon2317280404e for Scuttlebutt itself. One of the core elements of Scuttlebutt is that users can host data for other people on the network without being directly connected to them. This has the positive effect that users in countries where internet usage is highly restricted can connect via other users - though on the other hand, this also means that users could unwittingly be hosting information they would rather not propagate. There have been instances of the Norwegian alt-right using Scuttlebutt to communicate. Scuttlebutt has been working to address this issue but solutions are imperfect so far. The bottom line is that distributed systems such as Scuttlebutt are both democratising and empowering and they come with a whole new set of possibilities and challenges. **Participate in the conversation with Hugi here:** [Data Terra Nemo: First report & Scuttlebutt](https://edgeryders.eu/t/data-terra-nemo-first-report-scuttlebutt/9928/4) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64328,2019-11-16T09:13:01.886Z,64328,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"#### A conversation with Oliver Sauter There is an accepted “law” of entrepreneurship: in order to build something valuable, you have to be ten times better than what already exists (as proven by Google + which arguably had better some better features than Facebook but failed to tempt people away). Why does this law exist and what can we do to change it? @anon What is holding us back? The way companies make money for one: the 2nd quarter of 2018, Facebook lost $120bn (billion!) in stock value within 48 hours, the biggest loss of any company in history. The reason: It posted the least growth since its founding, while still making 5BN in profits the same quarter and growing by 42% since the last year. Secondly data and social lock ins creates counter incentives for interoperable formats which would make it easier for users to migrate between services or integrate them, Breaking this dynamic would require tackling the problem from multiple angles: namely allowing users to move freely between services, creating economic models that reward quality of service rather than simple growth, and ideally adopting Open-Source software to allow companies to build on one another’s work. WorldBrain (dot) io is building open-source software in an attempt to enable incremental innovation, the foundation of which is Memex - an open-source privacy tool. Interoperability is baked deep into the core of Memex, it is fully open-source and WorldBrain (dot) io has no stock value, so is entirely focussed on building a sustainable service. **Participate in the conversation with Oliver here:** [Startups’ grand illusion: You have to be 10x better than whats there](https://edgeryders.eu/t/startups-grand-illusion-you-have-to-be-10x-better-than-whats-there/10221/14) *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 1,64322,2019-11-16T08:43:49.459Z,64322,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"#### A conversation with Seda F. Gürses With an undergrad degree in international relations and mathematics, Seda is now an academic at Delft University, focussing on how to do computer science differently - utilising a interdisciplinary approach to explore both concepts of privacy and surveillance, and also looking at what communities need in face of increasing use of AI, or what she calls logics of optimization in digital systems. She was led into this field of study by her fascination with the politics of mathematics and the biases contained within seemingly neutral numbers. The technological landscape has changed enormously in the past few years — from static software saved on a disk that was only updated every once in a while, to software and apps that are held on services and so constantly updated and optimised. In addition to existing concerns around privacy and security, a whole host of new harms and risks have arisen that requires the attention of computer scientists to find other ways of securing and protecting users, non-users and their environments. The negative consequences of prioritising optimisation over user experience can be seen in Google Traffic and Waze, which sends users down surface roads to avoid freeway traffic. They don’t care that this may have an adverse impact on the environment and local communities, or even that it actually may cause congestion over all. Further, Uber has optimised its system to outsource risk to its workers: instead of paying people for the time they work, Uber offers them a system that tells them when they are most likely to get customers, casting ``labor optimization’’ as paying people only for when they pick up a customer, and externalizing all further risks associated with the job, e.g., waiting time, sick leave, accidents, onto drivers. When this kind of tech injustice is applied to public institutions such as borders and social welfare systems,optimization logic and injustices the discrimination embedded in the very systems mean we are changing the fabric of society without having the necessary discussions as to whether that’s something we want to do. We need to stop focusing so much on data and algorithms and pay more attention to the forms of governance we want these technologies to have. It is crucial that the computational infrastructure boosted by all the talk and funding invested in “AI""serves people, not the other way around. *Join our Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. Registration: [https://register.edgeryders.eu](https://register.edgeryders.eu/?fbclid=IwAR2p4qeCEFBa7ScLs45hyNhVz8nqFTDua9laZEsZAU7_MXtBRSwE-XIebC4)* *More info: [https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/60?fbclid=IwAR0D5mgENhCQ_8ov0TlYTSZInLdut5zhqSLhwU9gFUykowcfvlVgd7nnXyw)*" 2,64335,2019-11-16T10:36:16.000Z,64322,anon4265023664,anon2926706121,"Hey Inge, this looks great, here are some suggestions for changes. I did not hear from you how you would like me to edit the longer version. Let me know and I will get to it later in the afternoon! Thanks again for pulling all of this together. s. > > > [anon2926706121](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon2926706121) > Community Journalist > > > November 16 > #### A conversation with Seda F. Gürses > With an undergrad degree in international relations and mathematics, [@anon4265023664](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon4265023664) is now an academic at Delft University, focussing on how to do computer science differently - utilising > an > interdisciplinary approach to explore both concepts of privacy and surveillance, and also looking at what communities need in face of increasing use of AI, or what she calls logics of optimization in digital systems. > . They were led into this field of study by their fascination with the politics of mathematics and the biases contained within seemingly neutral numbers. > The technological landscape has changed enormously in the past few years — from static software saved on a disk that was only updated every once in a while, to software and apps that are held on services and so constantly updated and optimised. In addition to existing concerns around privacy and security, a whole host of new harms and risks have arisen that requires the attention of computer scientists to find other ways of securing and protecting users, non-users and their environments. > The negative consequences of prioritising optimisation over user experience can be seen in Google Traffic > and Waze > , which > send users down surface > roads to avoid freeway traffic. They don’t care that this may have > an adverse impact on the environment and local communities, or even that it actually may increase congestion over all > . Further, Uber has optimised its system to outsource risk to its workers: instead of paying people for the time they work, Uber offers them a system that tells them when they are most likely to get customers, casting ``labor optimization'' as paying people only for when they pick up a customer, and externalizing all further risks associated with the job, e.g., waiting time, sick leave, accidents, onto drivers. > > When this kind of tech injustice is applied to public institutions such as borders and social welfare systems, the optimization logic and injustices > embedded in the very systems > means > we are changing the fabric of society without having the necessary discussions as to whether that’s something we want to do. We need to stop focusing so much on > data and algorithms and pay much more attention to > the forms of governance > we want these technologies to have. It is crucial that the computational infrastructure boosted by all the talk and funding invested in “AI""" 3,64336,2019-11-16T10:46:35.798Z,64335,anon3449369942,anon4265023664,"I think it was mostly to to ensure that it ([the longer version](https://edgeryders.eu/t/seda-f-gurses-researcher-on-conceptions-of-privacy-and-surveillance-in-online-social-networks-requirements-engineering-privacy-enhancing-technologies-and-identity-management-systems/11514/2)) accurately represents what you were saying, and making edits where you feel is needed to convey what you mean." 4,64337,2019-11-16T11:00:10.000Z,64336,anon4265023664,anon3449369942,"Thanks, Nadia. I will get to this alter in the afternoon. Need to run to an event now. Thank you! s." 1,64182,2019-11-15T11:27:14.243Z,64182,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"*// DRAFT!! This wiki contains summaries of 10 depth interviews and conversations currently happening on the edgeryders community forum. It is intended to give a sense of who is “in the room” during our Workshop on Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them. After the workshop these will be turned into 150-300 word posts that we will be publishing in different formats, and channels to draw visibility and opportunities for collaboration towards everyone who is contributing to this conversation. We are adding new ones on a regular basis, if you wish to be included, talk to us during the workshop tomorrow! //*
### Overview of all 10 Stories: Generic audience Experts working at the cutting edge of tech, policy and human rights spaces call for greater consideration to be given to the way that AI is altering the very fabric of society. Both academics and policy makers agree that current AI systems risk amplifying existing human biases that entrench inequality - not least because of the widespread, and misguided, perception that data is inherently neutral. Systems for the reporting of sexual assault, for example, are encoded with developers’ assumptions about sexual violence which do not grasp the complexity of victims’ experiences. Those working and researching in the field caution that AI systems are only as unbiased as the humans who build them, and that continuing to give AI undue weight will cause serious harm to the most vulnerable in society. Across medicine, law, entrepreneurship and gender studies, concern is growing that the pressure to innovate for its own sake comes at great risk to privacy, protection and human rights. Experts caution that companies in both the public and private sectors are rushing to implement technology they don’t fully understand, and that it is crucial due care and consideration is taken when building these systems to ensure they are value-driven and accountable. Unchecked digitisation in the fields of medicine, social work and the reporting of sexual assault fails to recognise human needs which are more nuanced, individualised and unpredictable than AI can fathom. It is critical we ensure that AI is designed and used in such a way that it serves society’s needs -- not the other way around. #### Examples from each story * Marco: In predictive medicine, there are so many biological variables that scaling data up can decrease precision * Corinne: complex encryption systems built to protect an activist were found to be lacking when a police officer simply stole his phone from his hand. * Peter: * Seda: * Hugi: * Kate: * Justin: mentioned two examples in a comment somewhere... * Oliver: * Fabrizio: * Alberto: #### Social media updates for media-friendly summary articles Justin: Self-reinforcing loop of data puts human rights at risk Marco/Corinne: Unchecked digital expansion could be a force for democratisation -- or further entrench inequality Seda: It is critical that AI serves people -- not the other way around. Discourse must move from technology to societal impact Perception of data as inherently neutral is dangerous to society Putting human rights at the forefront of digital expansion is critical One-size-fits all approach to AI in public services breeds division and intolerance Interoperability key to sustainable innovation Meaningful debate on AI must be prioritised above innovation.
### The rush to implement AI too widely and simplistically could have disastrous consequences #### A conversation with Marco Manca Marko Mana is an interdisciplinary researcher in mathematics and informational systems with an educational background in medicine. He founded the [SCimPulse Foundation](http://www.scimpulse.org/about-us/), which he still directs, and is also part of several scientific organisations and commissions, including the working group of NATO for human control over auanon2317280404omous systems. Marko feels there is a lot of excitement about AI and a push to accelerate its implementation widely - but that it is crucial we consider AI a “nifty tool” to use with awareness, rather than an impeccable “leader” that must not be questioned. AI systems are only as good as the data inputted and the questions asked of them by humans. This means that the conclusions returned are not free of human biases, but rather potentially amplify them. Essentially, as they are used now, AI systems simply return the same results as humans would, just “faster and dumber.” This is a concern because of the rush to implement AI, particularly in the field of medicine. In medicine there is an expectation of precision, but with so many biological variables, the more precise you get the more you diverge, so large scale information potentially becomes less valuable. For example, in the 1970s, various tools were introduced to help doctors predict the likelihood of certain diseases, but attempts to refine these profiles over the years have hit a barrier. Just as you could play a lottery with 1/1000 odds every day for a thousand days and still not win, there is a crucial difference between “the destiny of the person in front of you right now, the destiny of every similar person.” His argument is not that we should not be developing AI, but that we must consider how we develop and implement it and how we contextualize the information it gives us. If we simply scale up the information we work with now without being informed about the risks, we risk causing serious damage. **Participate in the conversation with Marco here:** [What does it take to build a successful movement for citizens to gain control over when, how and to what use automated systems are introduced and used in society?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-it-take-to-build-a-successful-movement-for-citizens-to-gain-control-over-when-how-and-to-what-use-automated-systems-are-introduced-and-used-in-society/11075/2)
### AI is changing the fabric of society - it is crucial to ensure it serves people, not the other way around. #### A conversation with Seda F. Gürses With an undergrad degree in international relations and mathematics, Seda is now an academic at Delft University, focussing on how to do computer science differently - utilising a interdisciplinary approach to explore both concepts of privacy and surveillance, and also looking at what communities need. They were led into this field of study by their fascination with the politics of mathematics and the biases contained within seemingly neutral numbers. The technological landscape has changed enormously in the past few years — from static software saved on a disk that was only updated every once in a while, to software and apps that are held on services and so constantly updated and optimised. A whole new host of privacy and security issues have arisen, and thus the need for a computer science which secures and protects the needs of its users. The negative consequences of prioritising optimisation over user experience can be seen in Google Maps and Way, which sends users down service roads to avoid freeway traffic. They don’t care that this has an adverse impact on the environment and local communities, or even that it actually causes congestion in smaller roads. Further, Uber has optimised its system to outsource risk to its workers: instead of paying people for the time they work, Uber offers them a system that tells them when they are most likely to get customers so that they can manage their individual risk. When this kind of tech injustice is applied to public institutions such as borders and social welfare systems, the discrimination embedded in the very systems mean we are changing the fabric of society without having the necessary discussions as to whether that’s something we want to do. We need to stop talking about data and algorithms and focus on the forms of government we want these technologies to have. It is crucial that the computational infrastructure boosted by AI serves people, not the other way around. **Participate in the conversation with Seda here:** coming soon
### Tech is not the simple solution to complex social situations. #### A conversation with Peter Bihr Pbihir co-founded ThingsCon community which advocates for a responsible, human-centric approach to the Internet of Things. Smart Cities, where the digital and physical meet and where algorithms actively impact our daily lives, is an important focal point of his work. He proposes reframing the Smart City discourse (currently dominated by vendors of Smart City tech) away from the technology and more towards a focus on societal impact. What better urban metrics can we apply to cities increasingly governed or shaped by algorithms? Such an analytical framework would be the key to unlocking a real, meaningful debate. Smart City policies must be built around citizen/digital, human rights, and with emphasis on participatory processes, transparency and accountability. At the most recent ThingsCon conference, Manon den Dunnen shared her experience of unintended horrific consequences of tech going wrong when police officers take phone numbers of both victims and suspects, and then Facebook algorithms then suggest one another as friends. Further, several studies have shown policing and/or justice related algorithms were found to have racist data points (including some deemed illegal by courts yet remained in the data sets). And the policing algorithm in NYC measures effectiveness by such simplistic metrics that created incentive for officers to report selectively (for example, the systemic intimidation of rape victims to change their charge from rape to a more minor offence). **Participate in the conversation with Peter here:** [How can we put humans/citizens first in our smart city policies?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-we-put-humans-citizens-first-in-our-smart-city-policies/9878/40)
### Unchecked digital expansion could entrench existing biases and power inequality #### A conversation with Corinne Cath-Speth With a background in human rights and policy, Corinne Cath-Speth worked as a policy officer for a human rights NGO in London before coming to the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute to pursue her PhD. Her research focuses on human rights advocacy efforts within Internet governance, with a broader interest of how human rights NGOs are responding to the new (and old) challenges raised by emerging technologies. In working with human rights activists, anon28068060 saw that digital technologies - like social media - can give the plight of activists more visibility, but that often these same technologies entrench existing power inequalities and biases. She became interested in studying what happens when activists try to change the infrastructure of the internet itself, rather than simply use it. A number of well-known human rights organizations like the ACLU and EFF, actively do so by contributing to Internet governance fora. She found that these organizations are welcome and can operate in these spaces with relative ease, given their open and multistakeholder nature. At the same time, she also saw that while getting the tech “right” is an important part of the puzzle of human rights advocacy in the digital age, it is also a narrow frame through which to understand the broad spectrum of social concerns raised by networked technologies. anon28068060’s work in Internet governance also led her to consider human rights advocacy in AI governance, as AI systems are raising a host of questions regarding privacy, safety, anti-discrimination and other human rights. One of the problems with developing AI advocacy programs is that many of these systems are developed by private companies, so it is difficult to gain access to their technology to examine and understand it. Many NGOs are therefore calling for the regulation of AI systems, but are facing pushback, with companies arguing that it hampers innovation. Yet, it is this same “innovation” that encourages many governments to deploy AI systems. A drive for “innovation” for innovation’s sake is particularly concerning when it encourages governments to step into technologies that they don’t fully understand or even need. Obviously, a lot of human rights NGOs have been worried about these various dynamics for a while and are consistently raising their concerns— sometimes by bringing in academic work to show some of these issues. Human Rights Watch, for example, has a great program as does Amnesty International, Privacy International and Article 19. Several of the largest human rights NGOs are focusing on issues of AI systems and bias. But they’re also forced to play whack-a-mole as the application of AI systems becomes more common. How to focus your resources? Which companies and applications are most concerning? Which solutions most tractable and comprehensive? Do we need sectoral guidelines, or do we need guidelines which focus on impact? Do we need self-regulatory ethics frameworks or hard data protection frameworks? All of the above? These are the issues I see a lot of NGOs grapple with and are questions I hope to discuss with you on this platform. **Participate in the conversation with Corinne here:** [What does the future of civil society advocacy look like, given the prevalence of these digital technologies and their impact on the work that civil society is currently doing?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-the-future-of-civil-society-advocacy-look-like-given-the-prevalence-of-these-digital-technologies-and-their-impact-on-the-work-that-civil-society-is-currently-doing/11118/16)
### Self-reinforcing loop of data could put human rights at risk #### A conversation with Justin Nogarede Justin Nogarede works for the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, was previously at the European Commission focussing on competition law and European regulations. As a trainee in the application law unit at the European Commission, he became aware of the issues involved in ensuring member states comply with EU law, finding that often there isn’t the staff or resources available to enforce directives - for example, the directive on data protection has existed since 1995, but was not widely enforced. Justin now focuses more on data governance, and is finding that as new digital infrastructures are rolled out, they are driven by narrow efficiency concerns and are not accountable. Looking into these new infrastructures is a great opportunity to make the system more participatory and accountable - but we have to take it. Feeding existing data into AI systems can create problems - for example, when predictive policing has been shown to drive more officers into wealthy areas, as data shows a higher rate of arrests in those areas. Data therefore creates a self-reinforcing loop. Further, digital systems often rely on a binary logic, which healthcare and social problems simply don’t fit. The key problem is that data is a simplification of the real world. Further, some AI systems may support a conservative bias, such as when they are used to predict which offenders are most likely to reoffend. Regulation of digital infrastructure would be a step in the right direction, and the argument that it would stifle innovation is weak - technological advances must make sense and make lives better. It may not be possible to have 100% compliance, but more involvement of public authorities (even at local level) would be a good step, as would more transparency over how these technologies function. Why is all this innovation not channelled into ways for people to live a better life? **Participate in the conversation with Justin here:** [Why is all this innovation not being channeled into ways for people to help them live a better life?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/why-is-all-this-innovation-not-being-channeled-into-ways-for-people-to-help-them-live-a-better-life/11443/3)
### Distributed systems promise great possibilities - and challenges. ##### A conversation with Hugi Asgeirsson Earlier this year, Hugi was in Berlin for the Data Terra Nemo conference, focussing on decentralised web applications which are hosted without traditional servers, allowing for a lot of interesting applications. They were inspired by the human-centric community that has grown up around ‘gossip’ protocols like Scuttlebutt. It seems to be forming a playground where new and radical ideas can be tested and implemented. The original developer of Scuttlebutt, Dominic Tarr, describes his MO as: “not to build the next big thing, but rather to build the thing that inspires the next big thing, that way you don’t have to maintain it” and this seems to have set the anon2317280404e for Scuttlebutt itself. One of the core elements of Scuttlebutt is that users can host data for other people on the network without being directly connected to them. This has the positive effect that users in countries where internet usage is highly restricted can connect via other users - though on the other hand, this also means that users could unwittingly be hosting information they would rather not propagate. There have been instances of the Norwegian alt-right using Scuttlebutt to communicate. Scuttlebutt has been working to address this issue but solutions are imperfect so far. The bottom line is that distributed systems such as Scuttlebutt are both democratising and empowering and they come with a whole new set of possibilities and challenges. **Participate in the conversation with Hugi here:** [Data Terra Nemo: First report & Scuttlebutt](https://edgeryders.eu/t/data-terra-nemo-first-report-scuttlebutt/9928/4)
### Open-source technology and interoperability are key to sustainable innovation #### A conversation with Oliver Sauter There is an accepted “law” of entrepreneurship: in order to build something valuable, you have to be ten times better than what already exists (as proven by Google + which arguably had better some better features than Facebook but failed to tempt people away). Why does this law exist and what can we do to change it? BlackforestBoi believes it comes down to: Costs to switch (time and mental effort) > additional benefit offered *~10. Such growth requirement has produced some great leaps in innovation - but these come with downsides. How would the world look if we focused more on incremental innovations? What is holding us back? The way companies make money for one: the 2nd quarter of 2018, Facebook lost $120bn (billion!) in stock value within 48 hours, the biggest loss of any company in history. The reason: It posted the least growth since its founding, while still making 5BN in profits the same quarter and growing by 42% since the last year. Secondly data and social lock ins creates counter incentives for interoperable formats which would make it easier for users to migrate between services or integrate them, Breaking this dynamic would require tackling the problem from multiple angles: namely allowing users to move freely between services, creating economic models that reward quality of service rather than simple growth, and ideally adopting Open-Source software to allow companies to build on one another’s work. WorldBrain (dot) io is building open-source software in an attempt to enable incremental innovation, the foundation of which is Memex - an open-source privacy tool. Interoperability is baked deep into the core of Memex, it is fully open-source and WorldBrain (dot) io has no stock value, so is entirely focussed on building a sustainable service. **Participate in the conversation with Oliver here:** [Startups’ grand illusion: You have to be 10x better than whats there](https://edgeryders.eu/t/startups-grand-illusion-you-have-to-be-10x-better-than-whats-there/10221/14)

### Civic organisations are key to turning AI technology into a force for civil justice ##### Fabrizio Barca With a varied background in banking and treasury and more recently inequalities and justice, Fabrizio previously worked at the EU and now with a civic organisation called the Forum for Inequality and Diversity. The current crisis in Western countries is driven by inequality - in particular the paradox that we have the technology to create equality but instead it is producing an unprecedented concentration of knowledge and power in very few hands. This must be addressed by putting political pressure on the issues. State-owned enterprises and collective platforms where people can put together data that everyone has access to could turn these technologies into forces for social justice. A one-size-fits all approach to AI in public administration grows resentment. It deprives people of the most important thing - human connection and a sense of being recognised - which breeds intolerance, division and a loss of trust in democracy. Fabrizio is just coming to understand how effective civic organisations can be, not just in advocacy work but in taking action to shape services in local areas. He hopes to gain even more understanding through discussing the topics with a mix of people from different backgrounds. **Learn More :** [Conversation with Fabrizio Barca Founder, Forum on Inequalities and diversity I Ex General Director, Italian Ministry of Economy & Finance](https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-conversation-with-fabrizio-barca-founder-forum-on-inequalities-and-diversity-i-ex-general-director-italian-ministry-of-economy-finance/11545/2)
#### Kate J Sim A PhD researcher at Oxford Internet Institute, anon1145034506 studies the intersection of gender-based violence and emerging technologies. Her work focuses on issues of trust, gender and sexual politics, and the double-edged role of technology in facilitating connections but also targeted harassment. While organising against campus violence she personally experienced cyberharassment and lack of support from law enforcement. More resources have become available since then, but we need to change how we conceptualise these issues and fundamentally change the design of the platforms. She helped to form a cross-campus network that grew to a nonprofit organisation, Know Your IX. The space requires better structures in place to support mental health and protection from cyberharassment to reduce burnout. Research shows again and again that women, especially women of colour, tend to self-censor and reduce their visibility in order to survive - it is crucial we put more safeguarding in place to protect them. Digital systems designed to facilitate disclosures, collect evidence and automate reporting of sexual assault are attractive to institutions because of their efficiency - and to some extent to victims as they are perceived to be objective and neutral. However, these systems have bias encoded in them. The designers are working with their own understanding of sexual violence, which may not match victims’ experiences. Some victims don’t have the data literacy or English level to work the systems, which could compound their trauma. Further, the pressure to report is encoded into the design of these systems, but this is a misguided emphasis on a single optimal solution, which is not appropriate for all victims. De-emphasising reporting and focussing on “small data” driven by relationship building can create a structured conversation which is rich, insightful and telling. Rather than asking how tech can be fixed for the better, the more urgent and important question is: who and what are we overlooking when we turn to tech solutions? How can we support practitioners in anti-violence space, like social workers, jurors and judges, and advocates, with data and tech literacy, so that they have control over how they interpret and act on data? **Participate in the conversation with Kate here:** [Can tech design for survivors? How sex, violence, and power are encoded into the design and implementation of data/AI-driven sexual misconduct reporting systems](https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193/6)
### Focus on scalar indicators is driven by need to describe reality, not change it #### Alberto Cottica Alberto had been hoping that ehnography-at-scale via SSNA could integrate, if not replace, the indicator paradigm, but after trying to get people to assess their own willingness to pay for, say, avoiding the extinction of some type of frog in Madagascar, or lowering the PM10 content by 10%, he found convincing evidence that we could never trust our results He refers to James Scott’s convincing argument for scalar indicators being propelled by the modernist ideology that underpin the coalescing of modern states. This works for states but not so much for people. Modern states have created a demand for scalar indicators, but this has more to do with their thirst for administrative order than with a drive to understand what is really going on. **Participate in the conversation with Alberto here:** [On assessing impact, and what Edgeryders could do in that department](https://edgeryders.eu/t/on-assessing-impact-and-what-edgeryders-could-do-in-that-department/10708)" 2,64192,2019-11-15T11:45:35.718Z,64182,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,@anon3031202475 the idea here is not to ping people who already have contributed alot of time. This is for the outreach team to draw people in to the content already there... 3,64196,2019-11-15T11:50:11.420Z,64192,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"Understood. If you are referring to the discussion about posting parts of the longer interviews, I am fully aware that that are fully different goals. This is outreach. The other one is for potentially making engagement on the platform easier :)" 4,64197,2019-11-15T11:51:33.552Z,64196,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,Let's put it this way. We have a social contract not to take up too much of people's time. let me handle this if you don't mind? 5,64277,2019-11-15T17:04:17.869Z,64196,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"@anon2926706121 can I ask you to create a series of separate posts with one summary from the list above copy-pasted into it, in each one pinging the person who is featured in that post?" 1,53772,2019-05-22T19:01:48.494Z,53772,anon1505367078,anon1505367078," I was just in Berlin for the Data Terra Nemo conference and also ended up attending a DGOV meet-up. Data Terra Nemo is a conference to bring together the community developing open source protocols and clients for decentralized peer-to-peer applications. A very simplified introduction for those who are unfamiliar with the technology: Decentralized web applications are hosted without traditional servers. Instead, every client is both a host and a client. You can often still access these sites from traditional browsers, thanks to that many of them have been implemented in javascript. This shift allows for a lot interesting applications, and this is the scope of Data Terra Nemo. Many of the sessions touched upon the current challenges of decentralized technologies. ## Blindly hosting information for others comes at a cost 'Gossip' protocols like Scuttlebutt allows applications to share a pool of messages between users that are connected to each other. These messages are then interpreted by client applications, which can be social media applications, book recommendation services, chess games or private messages. I wrote a separate post about Scuttlebutt, and I am anon4292955258 inspired by the community which has grown up around that technology. Largely because of the human-centric values of the core developers it has a unique feel and has attracted a big community for being such a bleeding edge technology. My reading of the role that Scuttlebutt plays in this space is that of the experimental avant-garde, the playground where new and radical ideas can be tested and implemented. Dominic Tarr, original developer of Scuttlebutt, had an interesting reflection on his own modus-operandi that I think has translated into Scuttlebutt itself, which is to ""not build the next big thing, but rather build the thing that inspires the next big thing, that way you don't have to maintain it"". And it turns out that the developers of Scuttlebutt are working on problems that affect a distributed technology at its core. One of the core elements of Scuttlebutt is that I can host data for other people on the network without being connected to them directly. I can also host data on my own computer that is encrypted communication between users that I am connected to. This is a feature that is very useful in situations where Bob sends a message to Alice, who is in a country where traffic to the outside internet is highly restricted. If Cindy, who has the privilege of a VPN connection, is connected to both Bob and Alice, then Alice will receive the message from Bob as soon as Alice and Cindy connect to the same network. Cindy doesn't even know that she is carrying a message between Bob and Alice, as both the message and the information about who is talking is encrypted. This is possible because, by default, everyone replicates the entire message stream of their entire network. In fact, many people replicate every message in their networks *2-3 hops aways from themselves*. This creates some challenges. If Hans is in your network and connects to Lars who is a neo-nazi connected to a group of other neo-nazis, you might actually be acting as a server for information that you would really rather not propagate. This is not a hypothetical case. There are already known instances of the Norwegian alt-right using Scuttlebutt as their preferred means of communication. Luckily for people that don't want to deal with them or host their information, they are still anon4292955258 an isolated part of the network and prefer to keep it that way. Nevertheless, it only takes that one well connected person on their network-island connects to another well-connected person in the Scuttlebutt mainstream for that isolation to be broken. Scuttlebutt has tried to solve this with giving users the ability to block accounts they find abusive, but for those replicating data from a large network, they might actually never know who is posting that content. One solution that has been talked about is subscribable block-lists. This way, I could outsource blocking to a person or group I trust to maintain a block-list. Luckily, the most worrisome case of abusive photographs and other image content is not as big of a problem. Images are only downloaded to your computer when your client actually sees them, making it clear to you that foul content has made it into your stream. You might still host links to those images without knowing, but you are not likely to have images on your hard drive that you have never seen. Bottom line is that the community of Scuttlebutt is charging head first into the future, working on challenges that many more will be facing as the benefits of these technologies reach more hands. Distributed systems are both democratizing and empowering, and they come with a whole new set of possibilities. I'd love to hear perspectives from @anon" 2,53776,2019-05-22T21:41:52.080Z,53772,anon1591454855,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:1, topic:9953""] Scuttlebutt has tried to solve this with giving users the ability to block accounts they find abusive, but for those replicating data from a large network, they might actually never know who is posting that content. One solution that has been talked about is subscribable block-lists. This way, I could outsource blocking to a person or group I trust to maintain a block-list. [/quote] I hope you don't mind if I butt in just a anon222512824 (pun intended) :wink: I feel a anon222512824 weary about being an SSB conduit and also a anon222512824 reckless for not paying more attention to whom I am propagating. The all or nothing block is also a anon222512824 rough (I know it needs to be rough since it's trailblazing!). It feels a anon222512824 unhuman to be fully accepting and propagative of signal or not at all receptive to anything a person is trying to communicate, I hope the future can hold more ambiguity. Also attempting to create circles of trust is something I've been [thinking a fair bit about](https://medium.com/@anon1591454855/reinterpreting-data-as-signal-c4a83a4b09e) in this space too. I don't want to feed any type of Scuttlebutt/Holochain rivalry hanging around the decentralized communities, but I hope it could be interesting to hear a anon222512824 of how these problems are considered in the HC space (AFAIK). There, there are two main parts to handling this kind of stuff, peer-validation and warrants. anon3168534516-validation is basically an infrastructure to ensure that peers do not publish things to the app (the shared DHT) that break the rules that the users of the app have agreed on, might take a toll on encryption though, not sure how that is going to pan out, I suppose only people that have the keys to decrypt can act as replicators of data in those cases. Warrants are similar to the concepts of blacklists, as actors one actor deems another malicious in some way a warrant is issued which includes the piece of malicious data signed by the actor that sent it (could be multiple different ways with multiple corresponding warrants). As warrants circulate, the app logic states how to resolve them. Banning? Flagging? Starting a process? All that is also meant to be dependable on the reputations and prior histories of the actors issuing warrents as well as those on the receiving end. Also, theoretical and only partially implemented at this stage (again AFAIK). I don't know how all that jives with what is cooking in the SSB cauldrons but my purpose in life is cross-pollination so I hope it might help in these early days of evolution :honeybee:" 3,53778,2019-05-22T23:39:35.487Z,53776,anon1505367078,anon1591454855,"[quote=""anon1591454855, post:2, topic:9953""] ensure that peers do not publish things to the app (the shared DHT) that break the rules that the users of the app have agreed on [/quote] How is this supposed to work? I'm curious. What does ""validation"" mean in this context?" 4,53834,2019-05-23T20:21:06.528Z,53778,anon1591454855,anon1505367078,"Validation means making sure that entries are entered into the shared space only so long as they follow the rules specified in the application. When somebody enters a public entry to their local chain, it is also going to be published to the DHT. anon3168534516s will recieve the entry and pass it through the validation functions declared in the app to make sure they follow them before adding them to their part of the DHT. Validation could consist of simple stuff like, _no images larger than 2MB_ or the oft quoted _no messages longer than 140 characters_. But it could also be to make sure that you are _not editing some material that you don't have authorship over_ or _posting in a space where you only have reading rights_ or something like that. For mutual credit currency situations, validation in apps will ensure you _stay within your credit limits_ and not allow you to go further positive or negative than your calculated limit is (that could be based on other things like prior transactions or integrated activity from other app spaces). Potentially it could also be things like _checking links against an external list_ of websites in order to flag them as inflammatory or _blocking users from spamming until they have achieved some amount of credibility_ in the community of users for that app. It is all written on a per-app basis and DHTs are shared only within an app. Apps in this context is just the data layer since UI's can bridge a whole bunch of back-end ""apps"" and read/write to many DHTs for rich user experiences." 5,53895,2019-05-24T09:10:48.237Z,53772,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"Thanks for the clear explanation, @anon1591454855. And thanks @anon1505367078 for explaining what really is in the SSB folder on my laptop. I was thinking about this, and it dawned on me that the European Union's [General Data Protection Regulation](https://eugdpr.org/) was definitely not written with SSB in mind. The GDPR seems to have been written with centralization in mind. For example, if you treat data, you should have a data protection officer. This is someone who stands watch on the data; she is in charge of enforcing the user's rights, like having their data deleted and knowing what uses are being made of said data. But with SSB, this model glitches. In fact, there is no SSB. My right of having my data deleted from SSB is unenforceable, because the data are sitting on people's hard drives. These people do not even know they have my data on their hard drive! Most of them, like me, will also have an automated backup procedure. The GDPR gives people a right to sue for misuse of their data. But in the case of something like SSB, there is no one to sue. This might be a feature and not a bug: people are expected to think before they post, and when they post they can never un-post. I do not know, it is so orthogonal to the regulatory frame of mind that I struggle to transpose the model to SSB and its federated ilk. Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of the GDPR. It was designed to limit the power of large centralized corps, and I am already seeing beneficial effects in this sense. But I don't see how it can provide cover against Norwegian nazis using my laptop as a communication device, or help me keep control of data I share on SSB. Anyone has any ideas?" 6,54111,2019-05-28T22:29:30.905Z,53772,anon3931191205,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:1, topic:9953""] “not build the next big thing, but rather build the thing that inspires the next big thing, that way you don’t have to maintain it”. [/quote] hahahahha this had me laughing out loud, I'd missed that he said this! :smile: He might be onto something considering beaker browsers new development.... (wanted to link but can't find posts about it at the moment) I'm gonna keep reading now though. I think this might tie into more thoughts down the line..." 7,54112,2019-05-28T22:45:51.328Z,53772,anon3931191205,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:1, topic:9953""] I’d love to hear perspectives from @anon [/quote] This touches upon an aspect I worry about in regards to scuttlebutt as well yet is of a different kind. In your example you mention being faced with data you would rather not partake in, I have found that blocking does indeed hinder most forms of data sharing which I would like to avoid. The one case i have witnessed a lot of discussion around is the same as with facebook/instagram of the ""annoying uncle/aunt syndrome"", in which one has a social obligation to not block the individual yet would rather not see the unfiltered spouting on their feed. Facebook/instagram has solved this by simply opening up for ""opting out"" of seeing their content in your feed. This would be simple to implement on the application layer of SSB for example. On the other hand, speaking of hops and the spread of data, comparing the amount of privacy (in the sense of who has access to your data) SSB is by far more private than current internet standards and platforms. This ties into the core issue of all kinds of flat-structure tools/platforms used for private communication, that they can easily be used for hiding shady information as well, something one inevitably has to take a stance on. In regards to designing for communicating privacy/lack-thereof /quirks of the new protocols, security expert [Eileen Wagner](https://radicalnetworks.org/archives/2018/participants/eileen-wagner/) had a great workshop about this at Radical Networks last year :)" 8,54113,2019-05-28T23:09:15.502Z,53895,anon3931191205,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:5, topic:9953""] Don’t get me wrong, I am a big fan of the GDPR. It was designed to limit the power of large centralized corps, and I am already seeing beneficial effects in this sense. [/quote] This is actually interesting to discuss though! I had a conversation with the an IT guy who had done a lot of research into GDPR lately to ensure his company fit the regulations. What he said he'd found was that GDPR did initially serve it's purpose of ensuring that European data stayed within Europe, but it had simultaneously opened up a new market for American companies to make money by charging the companies who used their services (such as GDrive) for ensuring that their data would be stored in the companies European servers. Inherently I don't think GDPR suits it's purpose of ensuring the data privacy for it's ""citizens"" as it's an issue rooted in the infrastructure of the default-web rather than how the already faulty system is implemented. In general, spot on regarding GDPR's effect on SSB though @anon3809206126 :smile:" 9,54120,2019-05-29T04:39:22.238Z,54113,anon2434097920,anon3931191205,Could you say more about this issue rooted in the infrastructure of the default web? How would you describe it? 10,54121,2019-05-29T08:03:44.133Z,54113,anon3809206126,anon3931191205,"[quote=""anon3931191205, post:8, topic:9953""] What he said he’d found was that GDPR did initially serve it’s purpose of ensuring that European data stayed within Europe, but it had simultaneously opened up a new market for American companies to make money by charging the companies who used their services (such as GDrive) for ensuring that their data would be stored in the companies European servers. [/quote] That seems a very partial take on the GDPR. Its main effect is that people are waking up to the fact that the cowboy era of data hoarding is over. ""Data minimalism"" has become a thing (for example, it is a tenet of City of Amsterdam's digital strategy: a far cry from the alcyon days of the ""smart city""). IT folks focus on the costs of compliance, but the bite of the GDPR is that it creates digital rights; puts the liability for infringing those rights on the entities that collect data; and then steps aside and lets the courts do their job. The GDPR has inherently more bite for large corps than for small ones, because class actions are much more of a real risk for them. No one is going to go through the trouble of suing Edgeryders. Facebook, though... that's another matter." 11,54163,2019-05-29T15:28:42.711Z,54121,anon3931191205,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:10, topic:9953""] That seems a very partial take on the GDPR. Its main effect is that people are waking up to the fact that the cowboy era of data hoarding is over. [/quote] Yess! I completely agree, it's a much needed statement indeed, setting a precedent for the future and targeting the big companies. In reality though it makes it difficult for smaller companies to continue their work as they are reliant on the bigger companies which in turn can profit from this reliance with the rules of GDPR as a backing. But yes, it's a much needed statement, if executed in a proper manner is disputable, or if it's even possible to take action in a positive form when the infrastructure itself directly contradicts personal ownership of data. This leads into @anon2434097920s question: > Could you say more about this issue rooted in the infrastructure of the default web? How would you describe it? The infrastructure of the default web is 1) Centralized, as seen in [this image](http://www.itrelease.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/centralized-vs-decentralized-vs-distributed-processing.png) 2) Inherently distributes the ownership of data away from the users 3) Relies on middlemen to deliver the data itself which sees all meta-data With the structure above as a basic foundation of how the https protocol works it is practically impossible to organize for private data where the individual has ownership of the utilization of the data itself since the user can't control who has access to the data or how the data is stored. The movement of Distributed / Decentralized webs are all centered around re-organizing this foundational infrastructure, and more, such as in the case of Mesh networks which goes even further and looks at the hardware infrastructure of the internet." 12,54178,2019-05-29T18:12:13.645Z,54163,anon2434097920,anon3931191205,It looks like a movement that is gaining in numbers energy and power. 13,54199,2019-05-30T09:01:27.318Z,54163,anon2724270673,anon3931191205,"[quote=""anon3931191205, post:11, topic:9953""] With the structure above as a basic foundation of how the https protocol works it is practically impossible to organize for private data where the individual has ownership of the utilization of the data itself since the user can’t control who has access to the data or how the data is stored. [/quote] I think that is why Tim Berners-Lee is doing the [Solid](https://inrupt.com/solid) thing now. It's not anon4292955258 there yet, but if we get this right, it'll be a nice middle ground where everyone stays in control of their data, but we will still have sort of centralized app & service providers. (Because, let us be frank, no one wants to have to worry about the uptime or safety of their data storage.)" 14,54200,2019-05-30T09:19:11.675Z,54199,anon1505367078,anon2724270673,"[quote=""anon2724270673, post:13, topic:9953""] Tim Berners-Lee is doing the [Solid](https://inrupt.com/solid) thing now [/quote] And another similar initiative is [Wireline](https://www.wireline.io/). I saw their demo recently, and it seemed pretty stable. Apparently they are very close to releasing. Maybe @anon" 15,54271,2019-05-30T21:23:31.882Z,53772,anon838581715,anon1505367078,"Hosting info for others definitely comes at a cost, both for the host and the guest, considering ""there's no free lunch"". I'm anon4292955258 interested in Solid, as it feels like a ""middle-way"" from the mainstream Internet as we know it but with the capacity to give users more power and give them control over their data - especially if self-hosting data. Also with the possibility to doing it in an association, co-op or a company they own or are a member of. Works well with the https://mydata.org framework, would love to see a combination." 16,54852,2019-06-11T09:30:05.548Z,53772,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"I looked at the blurbs of both Solid and Wireline. The idea has been floating around for anon4292955258 some time: I remember hearing about it for the first time at an event called Public Services 2.0 in 2009. So, I guess my questions would be: * In a world that normally moves anon4292955258 fast, what is delaying deployment? Maybe @anon4261882768 has some answers here. * What is keeping entities accessing your ""pod"" or ""data wallet"" or whatever saving a copy of your data, and then cross-referencing it with whatever else? Technically, of course, they *have to* copy your data. Legally (at least under the scenario of restrictive data protection regulations) they are supposed to delete them, but... will they? Facebook is rumored to have an ""you account"" even if you yourself do not have a Facebook account, and never had one. Would this kind of scenario be prevented by Solid/Wireline? Because if it would not, we go back to good old antitrust policy: forget about the tech, just never allow companies to grow too big, break them up, nationalize them, whatever. Edit: Cory Doctorow seems to share this point of view. https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead?fsrc=gp_en%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fregulatingbigtechmakesthemstrongersotheyneedcompetitioninsteadopenvoices" 17,55031,2019-06-13T02:05:15.699Z,54852,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,Or maybe regulating them in certain ways makes them stronger. 18,56541,2019-07-11T14:24:32.515Z,53772,anon2926706121,anon1505367078,"so, just read this in email from the alt-right ""social network"" Gab: > After three years of work and after being banned multiple times by both App Stores, Gab finally has dozens of mobile apps for our users to choose from. Recently we moved to an open source and decentralized version of Gab that makes your Gab account compatible with a variety of different apps. > > You can search both app stores for ""Mastodon"" ""ActivityPub"" and ""Fediverse."" Anyway, thought I'd throw it out there. I wonder if they know they're being used by alt-right and if there's something they can do against it." 19,56550,2019-07-11T16:48:19.330Z,56541,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"I would be surprised if they did not, although I have to admit to the possibility. I remember years ago when so many of us were reveling in our newfound and newly named online communities as if they were known only to we who wanted to use these tools for planetary enlightenment and cooperation. I soon learned that in fact online bulletin boards and, yes, communities had already been going on with real sophistication in the world of hard-core survivalists and white supremacists. And when I dug deeper, I saw that in fact they were out in front of us on using the technologies. Did the makers of the software know about it? Did Ward Christensen, inventor of the first reliable downloading utility, Xmodem, know his work was being used by the KKK? I don't know. But I can't see how they could have then, or could now, do something to prevent it being used for what they might see as dark purposes." 20,56556,2019-07-12T06:56:32.454Z,56550,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"prevent maybe not, but this brings this discussion perhaps in a different direction: should we (as society, community) do something about hate speech online. It is a very thin line of course, but this Gizmodo article does show [how the internet can be a rabbit hole](https://gizmodo.com/the-dirty-business-of-hosting-hate-online-1836286885) > America is a country without hate speech laws, one built on the premise that it’s not the government’s job to decide what types of speech should be prohibited. In the internet era, that sort of governance is largely left up to the private companies responsible for the technology powering all our digital communications. As spectacular incidents of hate-based violence draw headlines and the web is flooded with extremist content, there’s been an increasing public pressure for companies to take that responsibility more seriously. And I did some reporting about this and Dylan Roof in [this newsletter for Coda Story:](https://mailchi.mp/codastory/disinformation-matters-south-park-trolls-youtubes-trump-sends-note-to-ginsburg-and-qanon-pizzagate-whatsapp-murder?e=45dd518ab2) > And while the cyber warriors find their way into our hearts and minds, so have they been able to spread conspiracy theories and cults. Although the response to Donald Trump’s claim that [windmills cause cancer](https://codastory.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2917466ad5ae7d0be32196119&id=f3869f232a&e=45dd518ab2) has been met with derision, the spread of conspiracy theories online is more worrying. WhatsApp conspiracy theories leading to [murder in India](https://codastory.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2917466ad5ae7d0be32196119&id=148c9c3a28&e=45dd518ab2), the [“Pizzagate”](https://codastory.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2917466ad5ae7d0be32196119&id=6e31155041&e=45dd518ab2) conspiracy, and Q-Anon supporters believing all of Trump’s enemies will be arrested and executed for being murderous child-eating pedophiles. > > **How it works** : Dylan Roof, who murdered nine people, said that after hearing about Trayvon Martin's death he [decided to Google](https://codastory.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2917466ad5ae7d0be32196119&id=c3f092a839&e=45dd518ab2) him, finding an abundance of links to “black on white crime.” Radicalization in today’s world, often starts with a simple question online. Our story on [HIV denialists in Russia](https://codastory.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2917466ad5ae7d0be32196119&id=383821a575&e=45dd518ab2) shows how one simple search online can drag people into online groups and forums in which they are bombarded with the conspiracies, finding “like-minded’ new friends and alienating themselves from friends and family - just as [the old cults did before](https://codastory.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2917466ad5ae7d0be32196119&id=fd375a9a51&e=45dd518ab2). But of course, censorship is difficult as well. Mainly because it gives governments a tool to censor anything critical of them." 21,56605,2019-07-13T16:15:09.069Z,53772,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,5 posts were split to a new topic: [Social media manipulation](/t/social-media-manipulation/10342) 23,56590,2019-07-13T09:34:09.726Z,56541,anon1505367078,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:18, topic:9953""] I wonder if they know they’re being used by alt-right and if there’s something they can do against it. [/quote] In practice, they can’t really do more about it than Apple could to against nazis buying iPhones. These are general apps for using any implementation of specific decentralized protocols. You could compare any of these apps to a radio - you can set them to any frequency and they will play what’s there. None of Gabs data is actually hosted by Mastodon, so to bring the analogy further, nobody working at Mastodon can even see what “frequencies” the apps are tuned to." 27,56598,2019-07-13T14:40:29.456Z,1,anon1505367078,anon2434097920,@anon2434097920 and @anon2926706121 - this thread is getting very off-topic. The topic of the thread was the troubles of how decentralized technologies mean that _you_ as a user of the technology may unknowingly act as a server and enabler for others whos message you might fundamentally disagree with. These last comments are more about algorithms. Perhaps we should fork it? 28,56603,2019-07-13T16:12:03.482Z,56598,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,Sure go ahead. Meanwhile I will find other spots to park my screeds about social media manipulation. 29,56606,2019-07-13T16:15:47.449Z,56603,anon1505367078,anon2434097920,Forked: https://edgeryders.eu/t/social-media-manipulation/10342/6 30,63820,2019-11-11T21:42:46.519Z,56590,anon2317280404,anon1505367078,"Late to the party.... My perspective on this is that I welcome gab and others far outside my own mindset to use federated tools like Mastodon (as to me the endpoint of federation is everybody running their own instance of such tools). The main benefit is that choosing your own server to host your stuff also is choosing your own bubble: you are denied amplification. No outrage machine like FB or Twitter will elevate you to the foreground. They'll be as isolated as their opinion really is. In a distributed setting they and 'us' will need to earn their amplification the hard way: by convincing other without an opportunity to scale." 31,64089,2019-11-14T17:39:25.466Z,63820,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,How does Mastodon work? 32,64102,2019-11-14T21:52:09.033Z,64089,anon2317280404,anon2434097920,"Mastodon provides Twitter like functionality, as in people can exchanges messages or broadcast them, like Tweets. Mastodon uses a protocol called ActivityPub (AP), which defines an inbox and outbox on your server per user. A mastodon instance can let other instances using AP read the public parts of outboxes, and write to the public part of inboxes. This means Mastodon instances can federate, also with other AP implementations. (My WordPress blog has an AP endpoint so I can post to my blog to reach Mastodon users on some other instance. Though I don't do that currently) I run a Mastodon instance where I am the only user. From it I interact with others who can be on a variety of instances. Discovery is an issue there. Similar to e-mail, you need to know on which server someone is to approach them. I'm at @anon2317280404@anon Any instance can choose to accept or not accept traffic from any other instance. That is why I wrote I think it's ok that gab and others start using AP. It mostly means they will be stuck in their own instance(s), as any other part of the network can choose to ignore them, and all of their traffic. Not as on Twitter, one troll at a time, but entire instances at once. By keeping an instance small, internal moderation is easy (in my 1-person instance non-existent even), and small instances are much less likely targets as the attack-surface for trolling is so small, and each instance can cut-off any other. An issue still is that most Mastodon users are on a hand-ful of instances, so there's not much real distributedness yet. See https://m.tzyl.nl/@anon2317280404 for my public Mastodon profile." 33,64110,2019-11-15T00:49:55.250Z,64102,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,"[quote=""anon2317280404, post:32, topic:9953""] https://m.tzyl.nl/@anon2317280404 [/quote] Very interesting indeed." 1,64030,2019-11-13T20:55:31.411Z,64030,anon2317280404,anon2317280404,"I'm involved with the IndieWeb folks, who are about creating functionality / tools that do on the open web what silos do, and focusing on letting people be in control of their own identity, creative output and interaction. On Nov 23/24 there's an IndieWebCamp in Berlin (https://indieweb.org/2019/Berlin2 ) These camps are about a day of discussing steps forward for IndieWeb, and a day of people working on a small thing for their own sites etc. Barcamp / unconference style. Would there be someone interested to attend the Berlin IndieWebCamp and perhaps give a brief introduction there about what Edgeryders is/does and e.g. internet related work currently being done (like NGI)? Oh, and the obvious: anyone of course is welcome to join the Berlin event. They're fun if you have an interest in running your own website(s). I've organised two such IndieWebCamps in the Netherlands this year." 2,64031,2019-11-13T21:07:53.584Z,64030,anon1505367078,anon2317280404,"@anon3572363072, you mentioned that there was some connection between this and the Festival hackathon? https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-berlin/10769" 3,64033,2019-11-13T21:30:53.211Z,64030,anon3572363072,anon2317280404,"Yes I have been in contact with Tantek about this 😍 The idea was that maybe you Hugi could give a short intro there about edgeryders, and the whole Indieweb crew could join our afterparty. Its just a 15min walk from one location to the other." 4,64034,2019-11-13T21:36:46.114Z,64030,anon1505367078,anon2317280404,"Great. Well, I will be in Berlin so will be sure to make it over to IndieWebCamp too @anon2317280404. I can give an Edgeryders talk, would be more than happy to. Let me move this to the Internet of Humans category too, as it fits with those activities. Ok with you?" 5,64045,2019-11-14T10:10:47.250Z,64034,anon2317280404,anon1505367078,"All right, if the connection is made, then I'll leave it to you. It came up in a conversation I had with Tantek yesterday. Personally I think that giving an intro on Edgeryders at IndieWebCamp would be very useful. I find that the idea/principles of IndieWeb apply much more broadly to tool and technology use, but that that not always seems obvious to the IndieWeb community. Whereas Edgeryders applies notions like distributedness, tools within control of the user group not a third party etc., to basically every aspect of organising. That wider perspective would be of value to IndieWebCamp participants I hope." 6,64047,2019-11-14T10:16:27.041Z,64045,anon1505367078,anon2317280404,"[quote=""anon2317280404, post:5, topic:11516""] Personally I think that giving an intro on Edgeryders at IndieWebCamp would be very useful. [/quote] As I said, I’d be happy to. Who do you need to talk to?" 7,64050,2019-11-14T10:24:47.543Z,64047,anon2317280404,anon1505367078,"@anon3572363072 is in touch with Tantek (https://tantek.com) who's a co-organizer of the Berlin IndieWebCamp, so that's the way to go." 8,64052,2019-11-14T10:28:13.713Z,64030,anon1505367078,anon2317280404,"@anon3572363072, will you set things up with Tantek?" 9,64088,2019-11-14T17:34:43.632Z,64045,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,"Meanwhile, could you say more about the kinds of projects that come out of IndieWebCamps?" 10,64100,2019-11-14T21:42:45.285Z,64088,anon2317280404,anon2434097920,"IndieWebCamps are mostly focused on having people add / do something for their own website. But in practice stuff gets discussed and re-used, so typically you also have things like: - finding ways of having private posts on your site, or limited audience posts - adding machine readable licensing info for embedded images - figuring out how to do specific types of content in one's site / cms / static site generator such as bringing check-ins from Swarm/Foursquare to your site, or how to show maps sans Google Maps etc. In general it's about mixing a number of core components: - IndieAuth, which let's you use your domain name as login (or your github profile), basically using your own site to do 'login with facebook': 'login with yourdomain.tld' - Webmention, akin to pingback/tracback, of the type 'this url linked to that url' - Microsub, subscribing to a feed - Micropub, publishing to a site and a few others. combinations make it possible to e.g. - have my site post to Twitter, and get the responses there as backfeed, and show them with my posting. - have my site post to a variety of silos with my site as the original source - post, like, bookmark, comment to a posting from within a feedreader - have a client to post from my phone that isn't my CMS's default client" 11,64109,2019-11-15T00:46:12.586Z,64100,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,Thanks. The small DIY sites are where the soul of the 'Net lives in great measure. 1,59948,2019-09-26T07:15:59.227Z,59948,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"**The unintended consequences of tech**. I'm currently working on a small blog post about @anon And the negative effects of tech is something I usually always think about first: * be it creating a government sponsored internet as public good [(but what about China and Russia?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821/54)) * developing smart cities ([but what about authoritarian regimes?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-internet-of-humans-fellows-interviews-and-podcasts-with-peter-bihr/10423)) * decentralized messaging apps ([but what about hate speech/pedophiles/terrorism](https://edgeryders.eu/t/decentralized-risks-hosting-information-for-others-comes-at-a-cost/9953)) * or how ""good-intended research"" on facial recognition is [being used by bad actors - and what should done about it](https://edgeryders.eu/t/when-your-tech-is-used-to-imprison-and-torture-people/10768). But sometimes, the tech is either used as it's supposed to, as t[he increase in mesh networks during the Hong Kong protests](https://edgeryders.eu/t/hong-kong-mesh-network-use-up-3685/10686/6) shows, or there's **TikTok that doesn't only show ""Snappy, Short, Cut to pop music"" videos**. For [this report](https://codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/tiktok-uyghur-china/), my colleague Isobel Cockerell at Coda Story spend months [on the weird corners of the internet](https://twitter.com/isocockerell/status/1176876742805467137?s=20) and talked with Uyghurs in exile who scout the Chinese TikTok for clues about what is happening in Xinjiang. A anon222512824 bit of back-story: Xinjiang, China is an information vacuum. With reports of a million Uyghurs in detention, plus censorship, surveillance and a blackout on outside communication, it’s hard to know what’s happening. But some TikTok users have started using the app to share visual clues about life under Xinjiang surveillance. That’s why international Uyghur activists are digging deep into TikTok & similar apps. They’ve found videos that show China’s ongoing destruction of Uyghur and other Muslim architecture, checkpoints with long lines of Uyghurs waiting to go through, and videos of crying people in front of pictures of their relatives. Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, is behind China’s firewall. To gain entry, international Uyghur activists have to use Chinese phones. To find compromising content from Xinjiang TikTok, the Uyghur activists “game” the app’s algorithm, which serves them content according to how they respond to each video. Searching isn’t an option. Location-based TikTok search results are cleaned up by moderators. But still, videos make it through, and are downloaded by the activists and then reshared on other social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, so they don't disappear. [Read the full thread here](https://twitter.com/CodaStory/status/1176874469081657344?s=20). TikTok - obviously - wasn't made to share human rights violations, but for some it has become the only tool to let the world know what's happening. **Do you have any other examples of a ""positive"" unintended use of an app or website?**" 2,60092,2019-09-29T19:26:09.497Z,59948,anon28068060,anon2926706121,Thanks for sharing! Wired also did a write-up of her work here: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-is-the-latest-window-into-chinas-police-state/ 3,60097,2019-09-30T02:00:38.254Z,60092,anon2926706121,anon28068060,"Ha, that's my colleagues piece, which was republished by Wired with Coda Story's permission :) great you read it there" 4,61815,2019-10-21T12:34:30.601Z,59948,anon1022881418,anon2926706121,"Interesting article. One of the less discussed ""features"" of mass communication and the internet is that we each, individually, are not wired to process the amount of information we receive. Why would we be? There is nothing even close in history where so much conflicting information is pounded into our brains. Even the terms ""positive"" and ""negative"" lose some meaning since the two are actually connected - especially these days when you cannot tell who is working for the Internet Research Agency and other governments or movements...from who is not. As as example, the OP "" developing smart cities ([but what about authoritarian regimes?]"" - what about them? In China 700+ million people have been taken out of poverty and now have food on the table and a lifespan as long as Europe and the USA. That is virtually a miracle never before achieved in human history. Now they, and others, are dealing with the ""positive/negative"" consequences of religion (See: History of Europe, etc.) and are making decisions which they feel will best serve the People as a whole (hopefully). While many in the West may be surprised at the idea of of censored internet - just the same, we have to deal with mass shooters and their manifestos and their ""free speech"" circulating much further and easier. It's as if our openness is being used against us since this very openness usually means big tech is controlled by large Corporations and Governments.. The more I see (and I have been online since 1986) the more I appreciate models like Craigslist...it would be great if Craig (not me, of course!) created an alternative twitter. We could all help! I know I am not providing a specific example as asked in the OP - partially because there are so many of them. Most all mass communication allows for this - even the telephone, that put us all in touch, then allowed for everything from scams to people being much more crude to each other. Just look at most historical letter writing - the primary source before the telephone, to see how civil the conversation used to be! I'm afraid the answer is that we have to waddle though all the negative consequences and that, in the end, the internet may not be as ""free"" as the well behaved among us had thought. Humans, in general, need to be kept in a sandbox of some sort in order not to go off the rails." 5,64093,2019-11-14T18:35:22.282Z,61815,anon2434097920,anon1022881418,"@anon1022881418, I just re-read this insightful post. It has long been a conundrum as to how ""community standards"" apply when local and universal are joined. It is so different from anything prior that it has not been figured out, except to censor or to come up with judicial rulings favoring either local or universal. Neither really works right. One could say that rules and laws are a form of collective self-censorship (if the people devise them of course), and generally that system has worked when the players in power act with fairness. But this is different. Speaking of unintended consequences, which is a main point of this topic, and [Craig Newmark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Newmark), I am anon4292955258 sure he won't be starting a new service for the masses. His Foundation gives heavily to evolving journalism and keeping it vital. He never set out to create something that would cause newsrooms all over the world to fire large amounts of people, but that is what happened when newspapers lost their classifieds revenue to a nearly-free service. I applaud his conscience on this matter and regard him as exemplary in this way." 1,63585,2019-11-09T08:32:34.983Z,63585,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Full text https://www.theinternetofthings.eu/sites/default/files/docs/ECJ_vol5_issue2_Rob_van_Kranenburg.pdf) My scenario is breakdown of national states and EU under ten years if datalakes and the capabilities derived from that (predictive maintenance not just of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) but of all processes in society, AI running in and off Big Data creating new entities) are not under control of the actors collecting taxes. The choice is thus not about “privacy” or “security of devices”, but about continuing to function as a society able to offer generic infrastructures to its citizens. The focus on identity is related. Why would there be so many contenders for providing identity (WIN, Sovrin, ID2020, Uport/IoTA, eIDAS...) if the system itself of the nation state was “stable”? After Over The Top players (OTT) on services, the next logical step we will witness is OTT on systemic identity itself. Against this scenario I prefer a further European integration after the euro, which was the first step towards peace in Europe, on the full stack of infrastructure as a commons of 500 million people. With this in mind I offer a positive narrative of emergent technologies that can build a supporting infrastructure offering tailored solutions to individuals and groups. *Picture the current situation: a table full of delicacies, linen as white as snow, beautiful cutlery; you’ve invited your friends to dinner. Everyone is happy and deep in conversation. All realise, however, that nothing on that table is yours. You only (still) own the house in which you throw the party. GAFA: Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, and BAT: Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, play on that table and they get richer every minute from our very own feedback. They build new services on top of that. You realise that at some point soon they will take over your house. They already offer to pay the rent of the patio, and do you really need the attic? You are in an uphill battle. You have no tools to fight off the invaders as you are only now, when it is too late, beginning to realise these friends you have invited are taking reality itself, what is “normal” to another level. And as the peasants learned how to tumble the knights from their horses, the world was never the same again.* https://www.theinternetofthings.eu/sites/default/files/docs/ECJ_vol5_issue2_Rob_van_Kranenburg.pdf" 2,64091,2019-11-14T17:52:12.569Z,63585,anon2434097920,anon4261882768,">The choice is thus not about “privacy” or “security of devices”, but about continuing to function as a society able to offer generic infrastructures to its citizens. Governments have bought technology from the private sector for as long as anyone remembers. So what is the difference now, given the insightful but rather scary sentence I quote from above: data. It seems we - at least where I am in the USA - trust these corporations to gather and hold data about ourselves we would never have given to the government and probably wouldn't still. I doubt most people have any idea that using these nifty phone services leads, or can lead, to a government being unable to perform its basic functions." 1,63778,2019-11-11T17:43:30.708Z,63778,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%2012thof%20oct-01|690x487](upload://jQpmbUmHGSChYlwJi6n1hKIwJ9J.png) Dear organisers and festival participants! The first Edgeryders Festival event has already taken place with the [Scifi-Economic Lab.](https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-science-fiction-economics-lab-brussels-november-11th/10794) The next NGI and Wellbeing events are following soon next week! Here is the opportunity to catch up again tell each other what is happening, who is coming and what we still need from each other :). Please come to the call on Tuesday the 12th 18:00 to catch up and see if everything is on track and if and how you would need help :). Looking forward to seeing you at: https://zoom.us/j/489971765 Ping @anon3931191205, @anon3572363072, @anon3180318115, @anon @anon" 1,62678,2019-10-31T15:59:53.893Z,62678,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"* Organizer: @anon1505367078 * Location: Stockholm, Sweden ## What is it **The Internet Days** is Sweden's most important knowledge hub for policymakers, industry, media and people interested in the internet. The conference is organized by The Swedish Internet Foundation and takes place on November 25-26 in Stockholm. **This event is slightly different than the others at the festival, seeing that Internetdagarna is a sold-out external event. We are bringing the Edgeryders Festival to the participants of Internetdagarna.** Edgeryders have been invited to exhibit at Internetdagarna. We will use this opportunity to interview participants at Internetdagarna and bring the Edgeryders Festival to the event. We do this in the context of NGI and ""the Internet of Humans"", focusing on interviewing people about their personal experiences with the internet. By focusing on personal experiences with people who work in the industry, governance, policy and the media we are hoping to find new interesting angles on how people experience the internet today and how they see it developing in the future. We will also talk about the Edgeryders methodology and how SSNA and ethnography is informing the NGI ecosystem. I will be joined by @anon3572363072. I might also supported by one of my friends helping out by doing video interviews. To bring the transcribed and recorded interviews onto the platform, we will use a new interface that makes onboarding participants in the field a lot more efficient. Internetdagarna help us drive participation to our booth with their RFID game ""[Blippy](https://internetdagarna.se/om/blippy-2/)"" where participants get an RFID chipped badge which they collect points on by going to different stations. Collecting ""blips"" is a competition with prizes for participants. I think we might get anon4292955258 a lot of attention, ## What I need and how you can engage There is room for one or two more people, for which I have tickets. Can @anon3031202475 make it? If @anon1037234888 or @anon3809206126 feel like joining to explain the SSNA methodology and perhaps do some ""field coding"" that would be fantastic. In that case, I just need resources to cover travel and accommodation, something I would also like to have to cover for @anon3572363072." 2,62680,2019-10-31T16:07:33.623Z,62678,anon3031202475,anon1505367078,@anon1505367078 I could join on the 25th 3,62681,2019-10-31T16:12:30.304Z,62680,anon1505367078,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:2, topic:11326""] I could join on the 25th [/quote] That's fantastic, thank you!" 4,62682,2019-10-31T16:20:09.249Z,62678,anon2278327272,anon1505367078,Could you please fill-in the events [monitoring form](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IKhQ5cEXPd0YxRw-eg-hzhGtcZxX-nLW/edit) @anon1505367078 so we can promote on the project website as well? 5,62690,2019-10-31T16:47:20.086Z,62682,anon1505367078,anon2278327272,"[quote=""anon2278327272, post:4, topic:11326""] Could you please fill-in the events [monitoring form ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IKhQ5cEXPd0YxRw-eg-hzhGtcZxX-nLW/edit) @anon1505367078 so we can promote on the project website as well? [/quote] Done, it's on the drive." 6,62729,2019-11-01T08:29:26.478Z,62678,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,There is some travel budget left for the festival - so I would use that to finance Oliver' travel. 7,63587,2019-11-09T08:58:19.169Z,62678,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,"I would ask that both you and Oliver post individual post-event posts with a summary of what you learned, and some reflections for future work to explore/ conversations to be had." 8,63908,2019-11-12T16:44:37.564Z,62678,anon685777545,anon1505367078,"Hi @anon3449369942, Who is part of the NGI project? I would like to invite someone to speak at this conference, if possible: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-european-holochain-hub-tickets-78965141865 Warm regards, Liliana." 9,63925,2019-11-12T18:20:48.245Z,63908,anon1505367078,anon685777545,"It’s me. Unfortunately, this particular event is sold out. Do you live in Stockholm?" 10,63944,2019-11-12T22:44:21.489Z,63908,anon3449369942,anon685777545,"Hi, there are several people in the wider edgeryders community who might be interested. @anon3931191205 maybe?" 1,62850,2019-11-03T14:55:39.095Z,62850,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%205th%20nov-01|690x487](upload://jcYrz9VcosBMEVoy7BFGU4s2NIv.png) Dear organisers and festival participants! It is November! It is getting even hotter for the Festival preparations :)! Now we should all be decided and booked on the date and location and have a clearer image of the last needs and most importantly be ready to start inviting all the interesting people we want to have there! Please come to the call on Tuesday the 29th 18:00 to catch up and see if everything is on track and if and how you would need help :). We are discussiong for example participants signing up, outreach & documention Looking forward to seeing you at: [https://zoom.us/j/489971765 ](https://zoom.us/j/489971765)" 1,61024,2019-10-09T15:04:15.589Z,61024,anon1119284955,anon1119284955,"Who I am is a tough question, as what is relevant to define us actually changes with context. But to make a long story short, I'm a medical doctor by education and I've practiced at the University hospital in Bologna before. I'm also a researcher interested in formal fundamental questions. So, you could say I would be classified as ""interdisciplinary"" by some. I've been working a lot on mathematics and Information Systems studies, mostly in the context of medical ecosystems. I started at the University of Bologna, I moved very shortly to Portugal and the UK where I had the chance of spending time with wonderful mentors with whom I am still in touch today, and I was a researcher at the University of Maastricht for several years, helping to set up the computational biology research line of the experimental pathology group, among other things. After that I got summoned to CERN in Geneva, to serve as a senior fellow of the Director General for medical applications. In between, I founded the [SCimPulse Foundation](http://www.scimpulse.org/about-us/), which I still direct. I am also part of several scientific organisations and commissions, including (maybe the most relevant about our conversation to come) the working group of NATO for human control over auanon2317280404omous systems. I was connected to the military in the past from the medical side, because of chance encounters, and in reason of the facts the military are extremely active in healthcare and public health. It so happened that Italy was not represented in the mentioned NATO working group, and someone recommended me. W are tasked with reviewing literature, and technology accidents, in order to identify pitfalls and recommend best practices. We discuss the weaknesses of current approaches to regulations, and design recommendations on engineering auanon2317280404omous systems. It's mostly theoretical. We don't have a lab where we can grow our own evil puppets (LOL), and see whether we can train them out of evilness. Despite the group having access to classified material in principle, most of the auanon2317280404omous systems related accidents really happen in the public domain, outside of military context, there where any European citizen could be aware of: reports on events in which artificial intelligence systems — which may have been involved in decisions — did not have the expected outcome are published very often and can involve anything from assisted driving systems all the way to decision support systems in healthcare. Civil society on the other side of the Pond has been extremely prolific lately, producing examples of bias in classification of suspects in police investigations, or involving the exclusion of entire population groups from proper follow-up care, or from access to credit. ## Asking the right questions When you train any machine learning system on a data set, you normally think that you are assigning a task to the machine. In truth this is always slightly different in the sense that the task is encoded in such a way that you award the machine ""gains"" for solving the puzzle through the data that you're giving it. And the machine is actually only trying to get those gains, it is not making any sense of the task. This means that any loopholes in your design will be exploited very efficiently by the machine! When this happens in a gaming context, the researchers react enthusiastically by claiming the machine ""thought outside of the box"", or ""learnt to cheat""... but imagine black people receiving worse follow-up care, because their social context is associated with lower rates of follow-up. Would you be satisfied with a recommender ""guessing"" that being black, or coming from that social context is by itself a predictor of low effectiveness in care practice, thus recommending not to follow-up with your patient? The data is biased because the system is, the AI simply learnt to give you the most rewarding reply, without care for the amplification of bias (because that was never part of the game for it). And what do we, humans, learn from biased data? That it should not be used for classification, that we should use it to focus on pitfalls we want to challenge. So the issue boils down to the following: should we ask ML/AI to guess from the data under which category does a fellow human fall, in striving for efficiency, as to exclude her/him from a certain benefit? Or should we rather try to force the machine to assist us in finding effective (not efficient) ways to include them? Adopting ML/AI today is a bit like a magic trick... but in the show-biz sense, not in the silver-bullet sense. When you go to a magician' show (say David Copperfield's, I like his art anon4292955258 a lot), he will distract you. And then something else appears in the middle of your supposed attention field that you were not really focusing on. Simply, because you were not paying attention. Similarly, most of the auanon2317280404omous systems applications attract a lot of hype, under the pretence of making something very fast and efficient, and this distract us but what they won't do, and won't let happen. The problem is not whether you could use the data set. Could you curate the data set to make it unbiased? At face value, you could obfuscate the sensitive variables, and claim the dataset has not bias. But virtual variables can be inferred, even if they are not in a database, just like an exercise of missing values imputation. The big F is known to be able to infer data by crossing information between an external ID and the data of her/his contact on the platform... Thus, not... the problem does not lie within the data exclusively, it lies with our intended purpose for them and ML/AI: we're just asking questions that we take at face value as if we were proposing them to a sentient entity that would of course interpret them contextually, and we are forgetting that instead when talking to a machine we should questioning the questions we ask, ourselves, for it. The true bias is that we are using extremely effective cheating systems to multiply what we’re already doing. Instead of asking ourselves how we’re able to improve certain situations. That's the direction where we really want to go, I believe. For example, I find someone burgling in an apartment, and I have to judge — let's imagine I'm a judge — whether this person will re-offend. To me this becomes a very clear problem. Let's imagine a scenario where we all tend to feel strongly there is a need for intervention: a man who is stalking his ex-wife. Of course, we want to prevent him from reoffending. Right? That's without a doubt. Now, as a human, I ask myself: “is he likely to reoffend. How can I prevent it?” ...there might be ideas about temporary restrictions, coupled with therapy and education, and establishing a redline for a certain time window when re-offense might be most likely... But when I ask the same question to a machine, this could be shortcut to simply meaning ""how often does re-offense by this category of person get pursuit?"" and recommend me not the best strategy to prevent re-offense and support all the parties move over, it will simply remind me we have to be harder with marginalised individuals with complicated mental-health conditions, and we can be lenient with those individuals who are well off enough to obtain a good legal assistance... This is not necessarily a tech-only related question, but about the working of the justice system — since this is what we're talking about — the question could be whether are we using the right tools to ensure that people do not re-offend? The crucial point when ML/AI gets in the picture is the scale. If I am the only judge and I'm working on my own locally, the tools I have to judge are limited, and bias creeps in my practice as I attempt to exploit heuristics to deal with the burden of my task. Luckily, the bias in my heuristic is local, can be made sense of and appear in audits, ...I can ultimately be trained off of some (and maybe into others... nobody is perfect). But, if I'm deploying the largest system, extremely fast and effective in browsing data, historical information, logistic information, and more: why am I still asking questions as if I were a single person with limited access to information, imagining the system will magically produce the best reply in a context in which I am even avoiding the challenge of aligning my goals with those announced in our Constitutions? I guess what I am pointing to is that we should work out what questions does AI enable us to ask that we could not ask before? What constructive questions? And what questions need to be avoided or to be reformulated? Rather than just answering questions we already have, faster and dumber. Right now, we are not trying this out for real. The AI revolution at the moment is justified by the idea that we are having machines, doing tasks with less effort, at scale... but we are still in a phase in which we ""humanise"" them, and don't really work well with them. This is not going to be easy. We don't fully understand human reasoning either. If you look at economics, for instance, the work of Professor Ole Peters, who has identified a formal mistake at the roots of the most common formulation of expected utility theory. Most of the research in this field, if I may, say, is low quality because it tried fitting human thought process to a shakily grounded model of wealth dynamics... thus claiming human irrationality in the most stressful context (a bias, I may say?). Now, when he worked out the theory from the corrected formalism, he figured out that what was considered as irrational decision making actually makes sense, formally. If something as simple as deciding on a bet, between two different types of return dynamics (additive vs multiplicative) has seemed so dramatically complicated to academics for centuries, I might be allowed to state that our assumptions about how we decide in more complicated situations, are wrong. We are often asking ourselves different questions from those we think we are formulating. But once we translate these into machine language, the machine is extremely proficient in engineering precisely the question we're formulating. And this is a short coming on our side, the onus is ours to begin with. There is research into rethinking the question we ask... more importantly there is research into making explicit how we formulate the question to ask. But you understand that in a moment of hype about ML/AI, this is not a sexy topic, despite being an extremely important piece of work within machine learning and artificial intelligence. And so, most of the discourse around human control over artificial intelligence is focused today on explainability, or reproducibility of the decisions (a historical inheritance of the old days claim that artificial neural networks were too much of a black box). One of the requirements for a new decision to be accepted among us humans is that it has to be convincing in the arguments and assumptions. So, if you have something which predicts the next value of your dice every time you throw it, but you cannot explain how it works, you think it's a trick, right? Exactly like with David Copperfield. You want to understand where information is leaked for the prediction to be faked, if the prediction itself cannot be explained. This is to say explainability is extremely important - some co-workers and I work on the problem of the explainability and interpretability of auanon2317280404omous systems decisions, as well... but it's not enough, it's just half (or maybe I am too optimistic, and it is less) of the work we need... rethinking how we question the world with this new tools is as important, at least. ## Healthcare and AI Here’s an example from the medical field: predictive medicine. Around the 1970s, a number of tools were introduced in the medical field, relatively simple tools that were meant to assist doctors in predicting the likelihood of disease... scoring systems which would assign the person in front of you to a class which shared a certain risk of experiencing some clinically relevant event in the coming 5-10 years. With progresses in data crunching, the medical community has been expecting these classification systems to become more refined: they can digest more data, they can be more precise in the finesse the classes. That's the expectation of precision medicine: not just knowing that a person has more than 20% likelihood in 10 years of having an event, but distinguishing among those who might have likelihoods of 19%, or 30%, or maybe even 50% . But this hasn’t really happened. This relates a bit to the work of Ole Peters in economics. In the 1970s, with no other tools available, the anon2926706121nuity of the doctors that have been tackling the problem of production has been to use methods that were used, also in other industries. You were guessing that if two patients had a certain relevant trait/profile, they would share the same risk. And because they could only handle a few variables at once — such as for example cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, etc. these profiles where relative simple and ""inclusive"". When researchers try to enrich these profiles, what's happening is that you meet a new barrier: you are confusing the question concerning the destiny of the person in front of you right now, with the question of the destiny of every similar person. The more precise you get, the more you diverge. Imagine you are entering a lottery, and you know that at the end of the day, the lottery pays off (overall distribution of prizes per chance classes vs costs of the entry ticket). So, it's a fair game. But, you may try to play the lottery your whole life without winning any single time. And if you go bankrupt, before winning, then there's no point in knowing it was fair... This happens because it is fair to a set of infinite players, but one player in realistic conditions will never be able to play infinite times... To continue... In ecology and evolutionary biology, they have been working on formalizing fitness landscapes, where you interpret the meaning of certain conditions, complex, formal environments. And you can understand how easy or difficult it is to move from one position to another. In economy, there are methods to infer what your likely number of steps are before bankruptcy, starting from a certain point, knowing that the likely the likelihood of gaining or losing at each step is a certain amount. Now, if you could unite this, you could have a very different beast in predictive medicine, instead of trying to collect all the data of everyone and behave in medicine like you do in marketing: if you purchase beer, you are very likely to purchase chips. But there are many more data points in medicine, it’s not the same as buying a beer and being likely to buy chips. And it's not only that there are more data points, it's that it's a really different question. If you look into the general population: people who smoke, in general, have more probability to have lung cancer. This is like marketing. People who purchase a beer are likely to purchase chips. But if you are asking: is Merkel going to have cancer? Now, that's NOT a marketing question. Because in marketing you care about the mass, you want to sell more chips, and even if somebody doesn't buy them, okay, it happens. But with medicine, it makes a huge difference. If, on average, these markers are more likely to have a disease, do these patients have more risk in the next two years, one year, three years? And being a different question, you will have to work with completely different mathematics. If you’d invest in this kind of research in the next 10 years, with these kind of resources, maybe you will be closer to a much more interesting product. But if everything we do with AI looks just like speeding up what we were doing 20 years ago, we will never get to a point of real improvement. Even if we make these tools auditable, we would be able to learn that the mistake was done in good faith. But is it making it any better for the people? If you look at ethics in a pragmatic way, you are not really answering the needs. ## Justifying Machine Learning We may be pushing AI onto the markets, because we are in a rush for “supremacy” on the market. We did it before. For example, after the diffusion of web marketing systems, medicine, received a lot of investments to dematerialize medical data and make them available on the web. The idea was that this would improve metrics of success, whether this was patients involvement in care, or smoothing out pathways across different services. It was done with precisely the same approach that we are seeing today in machine learning: because it was a success for marketing, it would be a success in medicine: the electronic health records that were mostly designed under the current practice of data collection, that was justified by billing. But 20 to 30 years after, the impact of electronic health records on medical practice isn’t that great: it takes a lot of time out of care. Humans have to put a lot of work to digest the data in a way that the system can deal with them. And this data is taken out of relationships. And if the system is just speeding up the wrong process, the outcome won't be magical. What is happening right now is that the AI technology in Europe is being accelerated to be used. But were massively risking getting the wrong results, because we're not asking the right questions. Medicine is one of the fields where there's not really a huge gain by using AI. But a lot of money is being spent both on the development and marketing of it. And this money absorbs other investments. Investing a lot of money trying to train an AI — that money isn’t going into training clinicians, not into getting better tools, not invested in your patients, not even in redesigning hospital spaces. My argument isn’t that we shouldn’t look into AI, but the true question should be how do we go there? We have never questioned, what's the moment, and what should be the mechanism, the funnel for AI to enter medicine. At the moment, it’s a vastly unregulated system. As long as a company claims that they have a product, they can start investing and working on it, absorbing public resources. Well-established practices should be studied. Questions figuring out how much of a certain practice or investigation is informed by current limitations of the system, and if they are informed by the declared agreed upon goal of the system. These are slightly different problems. We should also look at the states or the communities where they have power: they should try to enforce systems of control, or the introductions of these tools, not systems that are extremely punitive. Our goal is not to make it impossible for innovation to enter, but not to make it too easy. A good example of this, is what's happening with FDA and the accelerated acceptance of drugs. A recently published review on the drugs that have enjoyed the accelerated acceptance by FDA in the last two decades, uncovered that none of them had any survival gains. So, we created a mechanism where innovative products saving lives enter the market quicker, but in reality, none of them actually did what they were supposed to do. ## Stifling innovation? We’re creating a lot of regulation that contains redundant regulation. It is well intentioned at the European level, but it's countered by national governments. At the same time, a lot of the conversations and negotions don’t happen at the policy level, but in discussions about standards. These are all tricks. Both standards, and most of the policies are tricks. For example the GDPR. A few years ago before it actually entered into force, I knew it would most likely be more challenging to be GDPR compliant for small organization than for the large ones. So, despite the declared goal being “we are going to rule how Google and Facebook access your data,” we already knew this was going to hinder small organization’s activities, and actually a treasure trove for the big ones. And what happened if we look at the reviews, two years later, three years later, that's exactly what happened. Most of the policy created isn’t really to regulate. And it becomes a hinder, because it was the goal from the beginning. Another problem is lobbying: we don’t have a lobbying registry. So, we don't know how much time and gifts our politicians received from lobbying groups. There is a lot that could be improved about how Europe works. And this is not the nature of policymaking, this is how policymaking is implemented in Europe. That's a problem. It's a systematic problem, but not a principal problem. It's really systematic of the system. The problem lies not in the idea that we want to have policies to regulate issues, the problem is how we do them. And the same happens for standards. Most of the standards are imposed after de facto companies who ruled the market have agreed about it on the phone. I've hardly ever seen any standard being imposed before the large companies were already ready for them. We are allowing it. AI could definitely be regulated, and I think it should be regulated. But, there is a misconception of the public about the advantages of research. You will need to consider that you cannot scale up at will, without any consideration for the damage that you can cause. You need to be informed about the risks, you need to have a plan B for the risk. And these doesn't hinder progress. There is no advantage in having research that can scale up, without any consideration for the damage it could cause. When it comes to biometrics, for example, that we are at a point that we should’ve asked questions before, because maybe it's too late now. When authorizing the first research on these at scale, we should have asked “what are the implications of generating tools that unify your physical body with your identity.” Because in all our societies, your identities are demonstrated by documents you bring, or by relationships you have. They have to be demanded with data to be verified. And your body is not automatically your identification. At the moment you introduce biometric tools, whether they are effective or not, you are claiming a unification of the soul. This is the first time it is happening in human societies. We never had companies, humans, or states that were able to impose an identity on a body. And we never reflected on what changes these imply for the social contract of our life to live life together. And this is extremely radical. The point is not whether we want to be faster in telling whether you are yourself when you are entering the train. The point is, what are the implications when these permeates all fields of our life? And maybe now it's a bit too late to ask because it's out there. I mean, there are other ways to try to skew how things are adopted and used. Even China, even while it’s currently extremely powerful, it isn’t alone on this planet as a result of the market and diplomatic relationships ## The Future of AI We have to accept that a number of things that were tolerated before — because they were convenient for everyone, the industry, corrupted officers, and whoever — should now be regulated in a slightly different way. We cannot go through a phenomenon — ignoring it scale, wanting this ruling, access to account 413000 tourists for example — and then trying to have similar rules when a country next door is crumbling. When you try to regulate taxes, as if we were regulating Western immigration for professionals — all the wrong and strange narratives about migrations and sustainability start to emerge. When honestly, it's your mistake for trying to regulate one phenomenon with the rules of something completely different. And the same applies to a single person — whatever his role, whether it's a doctor, or it's a judge, a policeman. We love to have a system where applications scale up extremely fast, basically, on any device around you tomorrow. Even if I as a doctor,wouldn’t use it, maybe the hospital is using it, maybe the medical registry are using it. I don't think there is a short cut. Unfortunately, we have some major powers in this field, but we could frame it. Our best shot, however, is trying to coordinate a movement independently of the singular individual activity of producing the reflections and conversation around the topic. There is nothing bad in trying to have a bit of activism about things that are fundamentally screwing the way your life and your society work. And AI, like climate change, may call for something of this scale. Because, it's being treated as “just the next technology,” but it's completely different from a smartphone. And the smartphone already had a massive impact on society. It's a Trojan horse, under the disguise of making it easier. And it's a terrific tool for speeding up everything we don't like about our society. It's frustrating. And it’s similar to my participation in the working group: we have no guarantee NATO will pick up our recommendations. We express critical opinions suggesting to reflect, and to invest in human resources. Okay, we analyze accidents of the past, for example the famous incident where a ship got lost because the GPS was signaling it was in a different location. This is something that would have never happened to the Vikings, they were reading the stars. Until the 19th century, every sailor needed to be able to read with a compass the stars. Now, they were navigating on GPS, everything is fine, nobody even checked. And the same can happen with the automatic systems. Invest in people to train their skills, that's the only resource you should really aim at. At the end of the day, countries can still decide to have a drone with the decision to kill enabled, that works on some biometrics system from China, that will kill the person next door mistakenly during a wedding. As individuals, our power is very limited. But independently of all that, as individuals we are trying to raise is a very neoliberal idea that an individual can change the society. We should be trained in the mere basics and the foundations, and not use AI as our leader dictating us what to do, but as a nifty tool that could maybe help us. ## Post a thoughtful comment below ahead of the **[workshop on AI & Justice ](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326)** on November 19! This will help us to prepare good case studies for exploring these topics in detail. It will also ensure participants are at least a bit familiar with one another's background and experiences around the topics at hand." 1,63477,2019-11-08T11:16:20.648Z,63477,anon2278327272,anon2278327272,"From 5-6 of November, @anon3809206126, @anon1505367078 and I were at the DECODE's final event in Turin. [DECODE](https://decodeproject.eu/what-decode) is a project funded under Horizon2020 programme, ending in December this year. Through four pilots in Barcelona and Amsterdam, in the field of digital democracy, citizen sensing, and collaborative economy the project explored solutions to ""create a decentralised innovation ecosystem that will attract a critical mass able to shift the current centralised data-driven economy towards a decentralised, sustainable and commons-based economy"". This was the [agenda](https://decodeproject.eu/events/agenda) and [HERE](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gnpbA96PGLvwPIMyQDxs-7OOLJtC_m2u4mOiZvVZ8OA/edit) are the full notes from the two days for those who are interested." 1,61020,2019-10-09T14:44:21.083Z,61020,anon3931191205,anon3931191205,"![Edgeryders-Fest-FB-1200x628-zenna-01|690x361](upload://tRh0ECBb4nFGQNaeEAL9gKiv6UI.png) * **Organiser:** @anon3931191205 * **Location:** Lodgatan in Östra Hamnen, Malmö ## Event intro/description: Re-Web is a day dedicated to those who wish for a more sustainable infrastructure and system. We aim to explore how we can prepare for a finite, post-climate change earth through practical and hands on action, initiated by conversation. There will be no speakers, instead we have facilitated conversations, harvested and shared with a larger European network of Edgeryders as part of a distributed festival in order to let the word spread far beyond our physical space, while also finding each other in the flesh. The intention is to create a network of people who are interested in transforming the world and to have conversations about this, in line with the topics at hand. This event is held as part of a continental festival held in 10 different locations across Europe: https://festival.edgeryders.eu/ The main fields to be focused on is: - Resilient Tech - Networks & Communities - Sustainable Futurism and Solarpunk SIGN UP TO HOST A SESSION: https://bit.ly/2MxNI1k This event is bringing together people who are currently directly involved in building, researching, regulating, monetising and or providing meaningful input into the wider debate around the technologies in question. We want to ensure that every participant leaves the venue having presented and discussed their work with others who can provide meaningful input or connect them with opportunities to further their goals. If this appeals to you, then we would love to have you join us. Just create an edgeryders account and introduce yourself to the community. **How is this all financed?** This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at https://ngi.edgeryders.eu ### Format The event will be divided into two parts: 1. A smaller “crew” get together the day before with the participants in the network who are especially invited. 2. A larger event with multiple tables for hosting conversations. At least three sessions at a time structured as a world cafe with an approximation of 2-3 rounds of conversations ending with a wrap up and a 1-2-4-all. There will be an opportunity to host conversations until all the slots are filled up. Before the event there will be a sign up to host conversations. Each sign up will be presented the same way a regular presenter is usually presented at a conference with a short text / video description of them in preparation. The intention is to create a network of people who are interested in transforming the world and to have conversations about this, in line with the topics at hand. The event will take place at Lodgatan in Östra Hamnen in Malmö, Sweden with room for up to 200 guests but we are aiming for far less. This event is seen as an iteration with potential for hosting more events in the future.
# Frequently asked questions ### How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop? **Complete the registration form: https://register.edgeryders.eu/** ### How is this event being organised? This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don’t worry. Create an [edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. ### How is this all financed? This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at [https://ngi.edgeryders.eu](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/) ![Ngi logo|150x61](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/ngi-logo.png) ![Eu emblem|150x100](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/eu-emblem.png) ### Does getting involved mean I endorse the funders views or actions? No. What you are doing is contributing to an open consultation on the topic of how to build a next generation of internet infrastructure, technologies, business models etc that promotes the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The consultation methodology is designed in such a way as to allow for diversity of views, premises, disciplines, themes and contexts. We employ open notebook science principles and the results will be presented in the form of a research report accessible to everyone after the event. You can follow the process, review the methodology and open source tech we are using and engage directly with the research and coordination team here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace ### What is the code of conduct? It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to [anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word “better” has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### What happens with my data? You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 2,61022,2019-10-09T14:51:37.925Z,61020,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"Hi @anon3931191205 :slight_smile: As promised during our chat yesterday I have made you a placeholder wiki for you to fill in with the key info. Below a description of the process as I have been running it for my own workshop on AI & Injustice. Followed by a checklist for organisers. If you have any questions, etc just post in the comments and we take it from there. Works? ## ORGANISATION CHECKLIST : *Please ensure each of these things are done, the team members tagged for each respective point on the list are responsible for helping you with it. But it is important you reach out to them, and check that they have from you whatever info/materials/etc they need to make it happen!* 1. Update/Create individual event descriptions with: Catchy Name for the event, URL for signup form, Description of format & process, FAQs, Logistics info (address, time, date, team info) - [follow this template](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels); *(responsible: organiser with help from @anon3031202475 )* 2. Give Maria photos + statements/quotes she can use to customise design from the template: @anon 3. Organise 2 calls to develop the session topic with the confirmed speakers; conduct one on one interviews & skeleanon2317280404 posts with each participant: * Call#1: Individual interviews with confirmed participants & produce skeleanon2317280404 posts *(@anon2926706121 @anon1686813978 with support from @anon2434097920 and @anon3031202475 to help people post their content)* * Call#2: Group call with all confirmed participants *(Organiser + @anon3031202475 )* 4. Keep track of the festival signup form and welcome/onboard each person *(@anon2434097920)* 5. Formalise practical arrangements for speakers participation: *Travel, fees, onboard them on the process, organise schedule, collect bio info + photo + recommended reading materials for other participants etc* *(individual organiser with support from @anon3031202475 )* 6. Make a twitter list of Europe-based people who are interested in the topics to be covered in this session then reach out to them & more people to propose people or put themselves forward for the list - *( @anon1686813978 - reaches out to each session organiser and asks who they want to engage, then organises outreach/comms campaign around that)* . 7. Prepare press/communication kit & send to local event calendar websites, journalists etc (@anon1686813978 8. Push out comms campaign for event via social media for event (@anon1686813978)" 3,61025,2019-10-09T15:18:38.585Z,61020,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"Also. There are three posts on deep green + tech which might be helpful to you in developing the event in chronological order so it is easier to see how the conversations progressed https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-internet-of-biases-and-other-terrible-ways-to-open-a-conversation/10190/15 https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-tech-workshop/10191/21 https://edgeryders.eu/t/event-notes-unstructured-tech-moonshot-for-climate-change/10696/2 https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-do-we-weave-together-the-threads-of-various-conversations-we-are-having-around-a-deep-green-transition-and-what-are-our-next-steps/10775 This is a workshop someone else is running in Berlin: https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-service-design-in-a-climate-emergency-what-do-digital-services-in-a-world-of-net-zero-look-like/11070" 4,61302,2019-10-14T10:26:08.299Z,61020,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"Thought you might find this useful for the event... Data for Environmental Intelligence: A mega list of Earth System Datasets covering earth observations, climate, water, forests, biodiversity, ecology, protected areas, natural hazards, marine and the tracking of UN's Sustainable Development Goals https://github.com/rockita/Environmental_Intelligence" 5,61750,2019-10-20T17:15:27.415Z,61020,anon3931191205,anon3931191205,@anon3031202475 done! 6,61818,2019-10-21T13:03:03.088Z,61750,anon3031202475,anon3931191205,"@anon3931191205, I filled in your flyers and attached one as a header to this post, you can find the png's and illustrator files here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14zt01ZMTxFhU-y9pv3_sAVm9Hdt_rY1d?usp=sharing" 7,61880,2019-10-21T22:35:27.767Z,61818,anon3931191205,anon3031202475,Awesome! Have uploaded for the facebook event! 8,61881,2019-10-21T23:03:02.858Z,61880,anon3031202475,anon3931191205,@anon3931191205: Did you share the Facebook link with @anon1686813978 ? 9,61882,2019-10-21T23:04:29.615Z,61881,anon3931191205,anon3031202475,I have written to them both and awaiting response now :) 10,61891,2019-10-22T06:03:07.192Z,61882,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,Yayy. can I haz link to facebook event? 11,63452,2019-11-08T09:38:06.027Z,61020,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"Hi @anon3931191205 Iam putting together this repository of materials that we can use to post on the event page and our edgeryders as well as our individual social media channels - to give would be participants a sense of what we are exploring. As well as entry point to join various relevant discussions already happening in different parts of the platform. I am updating it continuously but I thought it is good to post what is there already and add so we can start already… ## [What does tech look like on a finite, post-climate change earth?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-what-does-tech-look-like-on-a-finite-post-climate-change-earth/11073) ### 150 word description of the event in the form of an invitation to join us adapted for email * Copywriter adds it here ### A summary article, also not more than 150 -200 words combining the insights/overview and good quotes from theses sources: * [Living greener as therapy: how I stumbled upon plasticless, trees and diy protein](https://edgeryders.eu/t/living-greener-as-therapy-how-i-stumbled-upon-plasticless-trees-and-diy-protein/11396/3) * https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-the-internet-help-the-climate/9856/17 * **Deep green internet of biases? and other terrible ways to open a conversation: https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-internet-of-biases-and-other-terrible-ways-to-open-a-conversation/10190** * https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-we-put-humans-citizens-first-in-our-smart-city-policies/9878/14 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/event-notes-unstructured-tech-moonshot-for-climate-change/10696/2 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/draft-post-how-to-build-an-incubator-for-accessible-environmental-solutions/10688/3 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/on-assessing-impact-and-what-edgeryders-could-do-in-that-department/10708/7 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-internet-of-biases-and-other-terrible-ways-to-open-a-conversation/10190 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-tech-workshop/10191 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/city-of-milan-to-reforest-3-million-new-trees-will-lower-city-temperatures-by-2-3/10387 * [How do we weave together the threads of various conversations we are having around a “deep green” transition, and what are our next steps?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-do-we-weave-together-the-threads-of-various-conversations-we-are-having-around-a-deep-green-transition-and-what-are-our-next-steps/10775) * https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-tech-workshop/10191 * https://edgeryders.eu/t/living-greener-as-therapy-how-i-stumbled-upon-plasticless-trees-and-diy-protein/11396/3 ### 3 quote banners: Visual Materials here. * **How can the Internet Help the Climate? https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-the-internet-help-the-climate/9856/17** “I definitely think that the Internet can help the climate and approach the challenge - can it right now? Not sure.” * **A Radically New Internet - A Study on P2P Protocols and Mesh Networks: https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-radically-new-internet-a-study-on-p2p-protocols-and-mesh-networks/9802** “If mesh networks and peer-to-peer protocols are implemented, especially in combination with each other, it would be a much more durable communication infrastructure for society.” * **How can we put humans/citizens first in our smart city policies?: https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-can-we-put-humans-citizens-first-in-our-smart-city-policies/9878/14** “Let’s call it “tiny data”. In the highly resilient society of the future, we’ll have to rely on local resources much more than now. This can be a city-level or neighborhood-level micro-grid or an off-grid house, or probably all of these to have multiple levels of redundancy. I am personally living off-grid and from that experience I can tell that good monitoring of ones energy, water, wastewater, heating and cooling systems is essential for wise resource use and proper functioning. For example, I know that I need 500-700 Wh of photovoltaics energy a day, and that I can cope with at most 10 days of gray sky in winter. That’s where IoT comes in. Network-connected sensors and an evaluation software would combine local consumption data and weather forecasts into behavior recommendations.” ### 3 Call-to-action Status updates: Visual Materials here. * Call to action + URL #1 * Call to action + URL #2 * Call to action + URL #3" 1,62568,2019-10-30T16:18:05.582Z,62568,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"I have already reported on the [workshop on online identities](/t/10868) led by @anon4261882768 at the NGI Forum in Helsinki. As I read more about the topic, I find many words and expressions that are highly specific of that intellectual space, and they are not necessarily super intuitive for a nonspecialist who is trying to form an opinion. So, I feel the need for a small glossary where I can stash their definitions, and come back to when I need to refresh one. Lately I came across [this post](https://www.theinternetofthings.eu/roadmap-identity-creation-people-and-objects), and I decided to start writing one. I'm making it a wiki in case others want to help. ### Disposable identities > Disposable identities are temporary attribute-based identities describing a smart contract between a receiver and a supplier of a service, ie. rent, leasing a car, energy for a home, paying taxes, basically any service. I am not sure about the ""smart contract"" part, but the ""disposable"" part seems to point to identities that are ""one shot"": you use them to secure a certain service, and then never again. In An example close to the experience of many of us is disposable email addresses: these are addresses you only use when you sign up to an online service, and only to do one thing: validate the email address. Once validated, you throw them away, or [they even self-destruct](https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html) (but now need to store your login information in a safe place). You can also get disposable phone numbers, and there is even a fun [Fake name generator](http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/) you can use to confuse algorithms. Ok, but then how would it work to rent a car based on a disposable identity? When you rent a car, you need to show your driving license, for the very good reason that you carry responsibility and liabilities for any bad deed you might be carrying out with that car. It would be nice to rent one with a disposable ID, but I don't think Avis is going to be willing to give you the keys. ### Trust framework I think the document refers to the [IoT Trust Framework](https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2018/iot-trust-framework-v2-5/). This is basically a checklist meant to assess the trustability of a connected device. If the device does not meet the framework's requirements (that is, if one or more ""must have"" characteristics are not there), then the device is not trustable. ### Provable computing I cannot find online definitions of this. By analogy with [provable security](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provable_security), I imagine it to be a type of computing which does *not* happen in a black box; you can verify that the computing really treats the input data in the way it says on the label. + In science, we have a similar concept called [reproducibility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility). It comes down to publishing not just your results, but also your data and the code to crunch them. ### Self-sovereign identities > Self-sovereign identity is the concept that people and businesses can store their own identity data on their own devices, and provide it efficiently to those who need to validate it, without relying on a central repository of identity data. [...] There are three parts to identity: **claims** , **proofs** , and **attestations**. ([source](https://bitsonblocks.net/2017/05/17/gentle-introduction-self-sovereign-identity/))" 2,62594,2019-10-30T20:48:01.564Z,62568,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,"Thank you Alberto. This is a very good start, and your readings are very helpful and raising new interpretations. All of this is anon4292955258 in flux and I hope in the coming time we can engage edgeryders in this. The main argument is this: As we move into a hybrid world, no longer analogue + data in digital devices, but every object digitally addressable and traceable (item level tagging), a world of #IoT, Big Data, and AI whoever owns this relationship of one person -one number – currently companies with shareholder obligations and national governments with selected self -interests – is given a large number of extra layers of capabilities that were not negotiated in the registration process, are un democratically non accountable (non-transparent algorithms) and acquire a pro-active capacity that is not shared (or only shared when beneficial to the country or company) with the person whose number is used. The text is here: https://www.theinternetofthings.eu/sites/default/files/docs/Rationale%20for%20an%20ETSI%20Group28102019v2.pdf Interestingly just a few days ago a very large group of organizations came out on this very topic: # WhyID: Protecting Our Identity in the Digital Age https://www.accessnow.org/whyid-letter/ So our interest is timely and our solutions are radical (going down to heart of the matter breaking the current value model totally), but realistic and legally enforceable, or at least that is where we will, in our NGI Forward project, will be working hard on." 3,63346,2019-11-07T15:35:57.529Z,62594,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"Wow, I really like the WhyID letter, and have decided to sign it. > Those who promote these [digital ID] programmes must first critically evaluate and answer these basic WhyID questions, along with providing evidence of such rationale. In addition to answering these questions, these actors must actively engage and consult all actors. If there is no compelling rationale, evidence-based policy plan, and measures to avoid and repair harms, there should be no digital identity programme rolled out. After DECODE, I am now seeing a ""Polanyian pushback"" everywhere, so I may not be entirely objective here. But it seems to me that WhyID is fully compatible with that interpretation. The fight to control a single source ID layer can be interpreted as an obvious consequence of Big Data/Big Tech/Big Money, and these initiatives can be interpreted as society's reaction against this." 4,63402,2019-11-07T21:41:49.983Z,63346,anon227579045,anon3809206126,"There is a similar project by Omidyar network #GoodID, which I think #WhyID is a reaction to. It's truly a fascinating topic, identity - but there is anon222512824 by way of international law - the real deal with identity is the intrinsic power in ""papers please"" that a government can exert of its (or other governments') citizens, and what that means both internally to that country (social benefits, business opportunities, etc) and externally (migration, for instance). GoodID comes from this type of argument: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/data-oil-digital-world-asset-tech-giants-buy-it/ - i.e. identity is a resource, it's valuable, and tradeable. Maybe the FIDIS project can provide some interesting knowledge: http://www.fidis.net/resources/identity-use-cases-scenarios/" 5,63404,2019-11-07T22:11:50.386Z,63402,anon3809206126,anon227579045,"Interesting about #GoodID, @anon227579045, I was not aware of it. What do you think about identity as a tradeable commodity? A month ago Rob and @anon1505367078 and I went to MyData 2019, and we found this: [quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:10893""] To my surprise, the MyData community seems to have a rough consensus that monetizing personal data is not a long-term sustainable way to run a data economy. The person that came up with the clearest formulation was perhaps Finnish lawyer Jussi Mäkinnen (not verbatim, I am quoting from my notes): > When copyright was invented in the 17th century, lawmakers conjured up a new property right, the right to own something immaterial. They knew it was a bit of a ghost, with anon222512824 grounds in terms of the legal system of the time, but they wanted a way to reward the creators and their publishers. That, however, created more long-term problems than it solved. So, we have learned from the copyright story that legislating private ownership of personal data is probably a bad idea. [/quote] Ingrid Schneider's super-good talk at the same conference went on to list four main proposals around the economic models for a data society. One of them was [quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:10893""] + Individual data ownership + micropayments (Jaron Lanier, 2015). [/quote] But, as I said, at MyData these ideas seemed to be shrugged off as old and overtly neoliberal, not ideas that a respectable adult can really entertain, and certainly not in Europe. *A fortiori* this should apply to identity, no?" 6,63405,2019-11-07T22:15:44.789Z,63404,anon227579045,anon3809206126,"> What do you think about identity as a tradeable commodity? In Sweden, all formal identities are tradeable commodities owned by the government - social security numbers, car plate registration, corporate identities, information about grades, address, school, name, number of children, income, taxes, etc. Most major public authorities in Sweden finance their IT by selling personal data to various entities. For instance, one major IT-security scandal reported by Svenska dagbladet (big Swedish newspaper) about 2-3 years ago concerned the sudden, but brief, unavailability of the Social Security Agency (Försäkringskassan) databases to private insurers in the middle of the night. Not such a terrible security incident in my view (""oh no! an insurance company could not purchase citizens from the SSA for two hours on a Thursday night!"") - but it's extremely engrained in Swedish society. On principle, I'm not so comfortable with this - I do not consider myself, not even my formal administrative incarnation under Swedish public services, a tradeable good and I do not see others this way either. But I recognise it's one of the administrative models that exist in the EU, and yeah." 7,63406,2019-11-07T22:18:54.602Z,63405,anon227579045,anon227579045,"My ""favourite"" government identity management system in the EU is the German system. I think it respects the need of individuals for unlinkability and diversity, and also that it divides power between institutions and citizens in a scalable way. A different way of solving it - which I suspect is the backdrop of the #WhyID campaign from AccessNow - is the anglosaxon way: having no centralized government identity management at all, per se (""why government ID?""). Maybe fidis.net will contain some more interesting thoughts for this discussion. It spawned, for instance, this Open Access Journal (which alas closed in 2010): https://link.spranon2926706121r.com/journal/12394" 8,63427,2019-11-08T07:12:01.765Z,63406,anon3809206126,anon227579045,"Wow FIDIS is super interesting! I think I am finally starting to get what @anon4261882768 is at. I just finished reading [this scenario](http://www.fidis.net/resources/identity-use-cases-scenarios/ambient-intelligence-putting-the-machines-in-control/aml-scenario-i/). Looks dystopian to me – the guy is spending his whole holiday doing the future equivalent of accepting cookies – but maybe it's just kneejerk conservatisms (""kids these days""). I am, after all, in my 50s. But this is dystopian for real: > Who cares about explicit informed consent when your wife is in labour?! Which bring us back to Oskar van Deventer's nightmare scenario: [quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:10868""] Q: What prevents service providers from asking for all of the individual’s data, and the person accepts because she needs the service? A: This is my nightmare. You cross the Chinese or US border, and then some kind of data vacuum cleaner empties your wallet. This might require issuers policy, stating once and for all what can be done with those data. But I do not yet know how to solve it. [/quote]" 9,63442,2019-11-08T08:40:00.000Z,62568,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,"Hi Amelia, Great to see you in Turin and I will be in touch in mail as well, sending you the Disposable Identities text I will put online as well next week. The German example. Is indeed fascinating in its historical perspective, more later! Greetings, Rob" 1,62740,2019-11-01T12:41:59.683Z,62740,anon3410870744,anon3410870744,"Hello Edgeryders! My name is Roberto Trevini Bellini, I have been suggested by a friend to join this very interesting community. I am impressed reading the names in the panel of speakers for the event on 19/11 in Brussels, and some of the stories shared in the forum. The topic and the angle it is approached are definitely interesting for me personally and professionally, and hopefully I could bring a useful additional point of view to the discussion. Briefly, my story: after my studies in political sciences and international relations with a focus on human rights, I started working in the field of international development cooperation and humanitarian aid. I have worked for different kinds of organisations (NGOs, Italian Development Agency, European Commission, private companies), and for the last 5 years I have been project manager and trainer/consultant for a consulting company, especially working in the area of training and skills development for the development and humanitarian community, with the European Commission being our main client. Development cooperation, with all its flaws and contradictory features, is (or should be) fundamentally driven by the goal of fighting inequalities and eradicating poverty. However, after 70 years of international development cooperation, while some progresses have been achieved, it is evident that inequalities are still growing. The age of the Internet has brought many new opportunities and challenges for the global fight for justice and equality. Technological advances have made knowledge, services and goods far more easily available to a bigger share of global population. However, the control over these resources is increasingly concentrated in the hands of few stakeholders (usually private corporations, and to a lesser extent public entities). During my university studies, I followed a course about the governance of the global communication and information systems, which raised my awareness about the intimate link between how technology is designed and how much the users are (or aren’t) protagonists of the decision-making processes that impact their daily lives. For example, I am currently involved in the design and development of an online training programme, funded by the European Commission, to develop the skills and awareness of volunteers engaging in solidarity actions in Europe. We are just starting, but it is already evident that accessibility for everyone is key for the success and usefulness of the programme, as it is the direct involvement of learners in shaping the e-learning contents and modalities. Another example is the possibility to use geo-spatial data to provide humanitarian or development services with the direct involvement of beneficiaries. In general, my curiosity is piqued by the possibility to develop technologies that can re-shape development policies and practices towards a needs-based approach instead of a donor-driven approach. Besides strictly development/humanitarian aspects, I am interested in the role of technology, AI, social networks and IT tools that can empower citizens and foster democracy in an increasingly complex global society. I look forward to meeting you in Brussels." 2,62750,2019-11-01T18:30:21.718Z,62740,anon3031202475,anon3410870744,@anon 3,62755,2019-11-02T00:23:42.436Z,62740,anon2434097920,anon3410870744,Do you have some examples of 'solidarity actions' so I can better understand how you mean that term? 4,63284,2019-11-07T11:06:47.823Z,62755,anon3410870744,anon2434097920,"@anon2434097920 The training programme I mentioned is for the European Solidarity Corps initiative of the European Commission. [https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en](https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) There are three kinds of activities: VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITIES Individual volunteering lets young people participate in the daily work of organisations and lasts between 2 and 12 months, and in some cases, 2 weeks and up. Participants can volunteer abroad or in their country of residence for projects covering social inclusion, environment, culture, and more. Volunteering teams are groups of 10-40 young people from at least two different countries who volunteer together for a period of between 2 weeks and 2 months. The costs of accommodation and food are covered. Participants also receive a small allowance for personal expenses. TRAINEESHIPS AND JOBS Traineeships count as full-time work practice and last between 2 and 6 months – renewable once. They are paid for by the organisation responsible for the traineeship. Trainees develop their personal, educational, social, civic and professional skills. Jobs are full-time and last between 3 and 12 months. They are paid for by the organisation employing the participant. Traineeships and jobs can take place in the participant’s country of residence or abroad. If abroad, participants receive a small allowance to help them relocate and settle in a foreign country. Participants of volunteering activities, traineeships and jobs get online linguistic support, training and mentoring. Their travel costs to and from the project venue are covered. SOLIDARITY PROJECTS Solidarity projects are initiated, developed and implemented over a period of 2 to 12 months by at least five young people who want to make a positive change in their local community. Young people who want to run a solidarity project in their country of residence must register in the European Solidarity Corps portal. You can find some examples here: https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/solidarity_projects_en I report here one of them: #### Paranduskohvik – a repair café in Esanon2317280404ia The main purpose for the repair café is to make people aware of the negative environmental impacts of the consumer society and to encourage them to maintain the environment. It takes place in a community based makerspace (an open workshop) that provides all neccesary tools that may be needed for fixing all sorts of appliances. People are invited to bring their broken things and together with volunteers try to fix them. What is relevant to the 19/11 event is the way we are designing and developing the on-line training programme, by involving directly a Youth Panel in reviewing our draft programme." 5,63315,2019-11-07T13:40:28.193Z,63284,anon3031202475,anon3410870744,"@anon51020356, is this repair cafe relevant for you/ do you happen to know people that might be interested in it? In connection to this: https://edgeryders.eu/t/living-greener-as-therapy-how-i-stumbled-upon-plasticless-trees-and-diy-protein/11396?u=mariaeuler" 1,62668,2019-10-31T15:23:15.885Z,62668,anon1037234888,anon1037234888," First, some background on the ethnography team’s (@anon3663068181, @anon28068060, @anon1037234888) process: we read (and reread and reread) the threads posted on the Edgeryders website. Then we develop codes for the threads that cover the content of the conversations taking place. Sometimes these codes are “in-vivo” reflections of the conversations (direct quotes from community members), sometimes they draw from established terms in the (academic) debates about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Cloud Technologies and other Internet ABC’s (for a detailed description of our coding see [our open codebook ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qERrVXNdwJL_GWsPYJy_makIcvIBmJhwDgP1-SiKgRg/edit?usp=sharing) or feel free to shoot us a message on the platform). To ensure the transparency and methodological rigour of our work, we keep detailed memos in which we explain the decisions we made, identify concerns, and define paths forward. We also have monthly calls in which we discuss difficulties, code-collapsing, and relevant developments in the world of tech and culture (of which we also keep a log in the codebook). Over the past few weeks the NGI Forward ethnography team has been focussing much of their attention on threads pertaining to issues on the internet, tech and the environment. Our work on these threads has brought up two key insights that will be useful to keep in mind as we develop our methods. First, those of you community members interacting on these threads appear to largely represent experts in tech; meaning you either seem to be conducting research, developing software, platforms, applications, leading groups of innovators and designers, or engage in activism and journalism around tech issues. This is something to keep in mind both for community managers and ethnographers, as it means we are observing and coding insights based on expert knowledge -- we want to tailor our questions to you towards gaining a deeper understanding of emergent trends, policy, design and innovation. This level of knowledge and engagement on your part means we can ask you more detailed questions, as we are interested in your nuanced analyses of technology issues. Interestingly (and perhaps conversely), explorations of the relationship between the climate and the internet/tech appears to be in its infancy, and though we are working with a community of experts, there often seems to be a struggle to solidly define key terms and concepts. Despite expertise, or perhaps because of it, specificity in defining technologies and technological areas requiring increased research focus persists across stories, meaning that you might find defining targeted and specific problems around these areas difficult as well. Also of interest, many of you find an underlying tension between acknowledging the ecological costs of the tech industry and findings ways to develop technological tools to protect the climate. These two points seem to characterise a caution on the part of the community when it comes to making bold or definitive claims about tech and the climate. They also indicate a desire to define the terms we are using to make sure we are on the same page, talking to each other about the same things, before we try to give solutions to problems. This may explain why codes thus far are more topical (sketching the broad areas that you have been interested in discussing) than analytical or solutions-focussed. We don’t necessarily see this as an issue, but instead something to track and pay attention to moving forward, as it may tell us all something about the challenges we face and approaches we take when trying to imagine the future of internet technologies. **![-eAZTPL0PAXhx0vRCEUJqdH3sT-LkP-2MsctTFL6sV-gKA9PerAKusQ-JA5APA8zLAQSPGSRqNQRUZ2yhhaVfBAliQlAffhpOIoSNpZPmbmQaQ0tK9PS--Bp3AuI3NZRqDqIE3dF](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-eAZTPL0PAXhx0vRCEUJqdH3sT-LkP-2MsctTFL6sV-gKA9PerAKusQ-JA5APA8zLAQSPGSRqNQRUZ2yhhaVfBAliQlAffhpOIoSNpZPmbmQaQ0tK9PS--Bp3AuI3NZRqDqIE3dF)** Several current threads revolve around the notion of Deep Green Tech. While there is a lot of interesting discussion around this concept, it has yet to be clearly defined by the community. From what we can gather so far, Deep Green Tech is similar to Deep Tech, describing mainly startup companies based on substantial scientific research and innovations in tech engineering. Deep Green Tech, broadly, seems to describe technology that is ecologically sustainable, innovative and based on scientific advancements. The concept of Deep Green Tech appears to be a central area of focus for the NGI Forward community, but there seems to be ongoing discussions to clarify confusion around the term’s definition, its ramifications and implications. As a result, we want to help cut through the opacity of these discussions by working with you to understand how you define the term while also asking you to give concrete examples of its application, e.g. in design, research, tech innovation etc. In this way, we think we might all move toward a deeper and more productive discussion of the futures we want to see. A notable tension that arises in community discussion on tech and the environment is that between navigating the ways in which tech/internet can help combat climate change and protect the environment and the energy and ecological costs that technological advancement has on the environment. We are interested in further exploring your understandings of this tension. Finally, an initial visualisation of the codes pulled from the NGI Forward threads revealed a range of central, yet general themes. This may be again based on the cautious atmosphere of community interactions at this stage, but it also seems to be linked to the absence of concrete examples and personal narratives. We want to start to understand these issues on a personal level, beyond just drawing upon general and objective material. Going forward, we want to gather your expertise by asking more biographically oriented questions, which may help us tease out personal narratives and interpersonal connections around these technologies and help you share what inspires you to think the way you do about these issues. Asking you what motivated you to work in tech, how you use the internet on a daily basis, etc. can help us capture a more dynamic picture of the internet of humans. Looking back on Open Care, it’s rare that people have detached and impersonal stories about healthcare experiences. We need to find ways to explore similarly impactful or meaningful avenues around the Internet— to ask you to share stories about experiences or opinions formed from experiences, as well as abstract ideas. One of the central things we’re taught when doing the interviewing /question asking part of ethnography is to ask our participants to be specific by asking specific questions (this is what community managers on ER are always trying to do) — to move away from the general and ask what you did yesterday, to tell a story about a specific time something affected you, and so on. In Open Care, instead of asking ‘what do you think of healthcare’ it was ‘tell us about a time you interacted with the healthcare system— what did it look like? How did you feel? What issues came up for you?’ If we can find such parallels on the Internet (rather than ‘what does the future look like to you’?), instead ‘tell us about the last time something online upset you, and why?’ (or other questions along those lines, around sustainability for example) we might all get a deeper understanding. In short, we hope to move away from asking how you think and feel in general and toward asking you about specific experiences, recollections that prompted emotional reaction, opinion forming, or action from them. We can't wait to hear more of your fascinating thoughts and experiences on these issues!" 2,62670,2019-10-31T15:24:13.035Z,62668,anon1037234888,anon1037234888,@anon3449369942 @anon3031202475 @anon2926706121 3,62672,2019-10-31T15:25:53.805Z,62670,anon3031202475,anon1037234888,"Great, this is the rewrite for sharing?" 4,62673,2019-10-31T15:25:57.532Z,62670,anon1037234888,anon1037234888,edit at will :) 5,62699,2019-10-31T17:54:10.896Z,62672,anon1037234888,anon3031202475,"Yep! I don’t know if @anon3449369942 wants to look it over first, but this is my take on what she asked for :)" 6,62710,2019-10-31T19:45:21.798Z,62699,anon3449369942,anon1037234888,Im good. 7,62655,2019-10-31T14:30:19.316Z,62668,anon3809206126,anon1037234888,"Wow, super interesting! First, a methodological point: the very high modularity that appears in the first picture (which represents _all_ co-occurrences) is an artifact of SSNA itself. The cliques like the one highlighted in blue are induced by a single, dense post which is coded with 5-10 codes, which then, by definition, form a clique. On the other hand, the fact that the graph is connected (all nodes in the same in connected component) is not artifact of SSNA. The graph that has a more meaningful interpretation is the second one, where only the edges between codes that co-occur at least twice are preserved. [quote=""anon1037234888, post:1, topic:11320""] community members find an underlying tension between acknowledging the ecological costs of the tech industry and findings ways to develop technological tools to protect the climate. These two points characterise a vagueness, reluctance and caution on the part of the ER community when it comes to making bold or definitive claims about tech and the climate, which may explain why codes thus far are more topical (sketching the broad areas that community members have been interested in discussing) than analytical or solutions-focussed. [/quote] It's just an intuition, but I expect this finding to be representative of the broader debate, not just of the NGI Forward community. [quote=""anon1037234888, post:1, topic:11320""] One way to cut through the opacity of these discussions would be to directly ask users to define the term while also offering concrete examples of its application, e.g. in design, research, tech innovation etc. [/quote] One for @anon2434097920 and @anon3031202475! [quote=""anon1037234888, post:1, topic:11320""] n short, we are missing the meat of these issues because users are not engaging with them on a personal level and instead are drawing on general and ‘objective’ material. Going forward, we can use the fact that we are working with tech experts to our advantage by asking them more biographically oriented questions, which may help us tease out personal narratives and interpersonal connections. Asking our informants to tell us what motivated them to work in tech, how they use the internet on a daily basis, etc. can help us capture a more dynamic picture of the internet of humans. We can also push them to dig deeper in their analyses and offer opinions on specific questions and future potentials through more pointed and guided enquiry. [/quote] This is also very useful analysis, to inform community management in the months to come. [quote=""anon3449369942, post:2, topic:11320""] Is it ok for us to compose a version of this adapted for the community members’ public discussion? [/quote] I completely support this idea!" 8,62676,2019-10-31T15:54:59.851Z,62668,anon3031202475,anon1037234888,"[quote=""anon1037234888, post:1, topic:11320""] One of the central things we’re taught when doing the interviewing /question-asking part of ethnography is to get people to be specific by asking specific questions (this is what community managers on ER are always trying to do) — to move people away from the general and tell us what they did yesterday, to tell a story about a specific time something affected them, and so on. In Open Care, instead of asking ‘what do you think of healthcare’ it was ‘tell us about a time you interacted with the healthcare system— what did it look like? How did you feel? What issues came up for you?’ [/quote] I have a question regarding how we should try to gently push the development of a certain type of post creation as you touched on here. I fully understand the importance of the connection of personal experiences and examples to the abstract discussions. The texts that are developed from the interviews such as this one: https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193 can provide this especially since @anon2926706121 did a great job getting it out. However, I would like to ask the Ethnography team (@anon1037234888) on their opinion on the influence of the length of a post on its ability to create ongoing interwoven discussion. Do you have any insight on that? There are certainly posts that are too short to lead to meaningful discussions, but could it also be that if a post gets too long and dense, that kind of decreases the ability of the community to engage into a discussion of the different aspects since the discussion will develop along the lines of the first few comments which in return will become the source of following comments which will mainly zoom in on one aspect of the original post and morph that on further?" 9,62689,2019-10-31T16:43:55.826Z,62676,anon1037234888,anon3031202475,"Agree. Posts that are too long are also hard for people to respond to. I think what might be useful is to go to the Open Care page and sort the posts by most replied, and look at the posts themselves --- check them out for length, detail, and content. If you get people talking about focused, specific things, chances are the length won't be too long (and not too short, as long as the question is asking for a story or experience or example). I find that usually the question shapes the answer length, so asking the right scale and scope of question is key." 10,62692,2019-10-31T16:49:53.661Z,62689,anon3031202475,anon1037234888,"@anon3449369942 and @anon2926706121, should we take this in regard when doing the longform deep dive interviews and correlating posts? Maybe making more than one post out of and interview? Could that be realistic? Or should we keep them this rich and dense? Maybe we could do the longform posts but than take 2-3 paragraphs to make into their won posts/ask the inved person to do so?" 11,62693,2019-10-31T16:52:36.498Z,62692,anon1037234888,anon3031202475,"I remember that @anon2434097920 has ideas on people's attention in terms of post length, clicks, etc as well!" 12,62700,2019-10-31T18:05:15.128Z,62692,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"when you look at journalism, it doesn't really matter, as long posts often get longer responses and are actually shared more: you weed out those who are just there to be heard themselves and those who care about a subject." 13,62706,2019-10-31T18:48:05.089Z,62668,anon2434097920,anon1037234888,"Some thoughts about this, possibly disjointed. Regarding length: I think that after about the first paragraph, and maybe just halfway through it, people tend to spot the writer their attention one sentence at a time. If something is interesting enough, the reader will stick with it, but even then often not to the end. This is a big reason why journalistic writing was developed and why you shouldn't ""bury the lede."" They knew for years that most reader don't go ""past the fold"" in a newspaper story unless they are on a long bus ride or in a waiting room. It is not so different online really. Except for the concept of click bait, which didn't exist before. I think a lot of bloggers mislead with their headlines and then take as long as possible to get to the point so they will get a better impression count for their ad revenue. Also, they might just be lousy writers. I know I was for a long time. Learning to write clearly and succinctly in this semi-spontaneous posting medium, while bringing out a compelling story worthy of a reader's attention takes skill and practice. But I very much like the exhortation that we continue to try to bring out more the personal side of people. I think there are a couple of challenges in doing it. One is that the ER community uses the platform for anon4292955258 business-like or project-specific purposes. It is not a social place or a hangout. This is by design for the most part, and just clearly not the preference of the main participants. The ER community does a lot of getting to know each other, socializing, meeting up, etc. but it is almost entirely offline and in-person. I think this works well for the regulars, but does not tend to create that encouraging of an atmosphere for comfortable personal sharing (stories) as a default. For my part, I try to throw a story or an anecdote into every post I make if I have one i think is worthwhile. And encouraging more of it in others is something I agree we can do to help enrich the dialogue. The other challenge besides this ER platform not really being seen as a hangout, is the nature of the subject matter in NGI. Amelia describes the problem well. Experts likes to share their expertise. But we have two kinds of experts here: policy and engineering. I think the engineering participants do inform their work with what they see as an ethos compatible with NGI goals, but like the policy people, they come in and say something then go back to their project. Maybe asking for updates is a good approach to keep them engaged. The policy experts for sure want to see things made that reflect NGI principles, but there seem to not be many of those projects out there to point to. Finding and highlighting them whenever we find them is, I think, one of the things the EC would like us to be doing here. Generally, the policy experts, and I see myself as one of them at least to some degree, point out the problems. I think we have done a good amount of that here. Tunneling our way to solutions or attempts at solutions or raising the profile of individuals who the EC ought to know more about are big parts of what makes this project worthwhile. I do think that the people interviewed by Peter and Zenna are all interesting and they do tell their own stories in those talks. Interviews are of course one of the best ways to draw them out of people. As for deep green tech: very challenging indeed to define it and we did try to get some better definition of what the term even means specifically, but I think we need to try to get more clarity there. And I like Amelia describing tensions inside some of these issues. I think none of us believe that tech is going to ""save"" us, but I also think that if we did not have at least some belief in clever tech solutions we would not be involved in these conversations. I know I feel pretty conflicted about it myself." 14,62716,2019-10-31T20:12:36.744Z,62692,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"well those posts have a specific context/purpose - the practitioner workshop on AI and Justice. We base the development of case studies on these deep, rich posts. And it is a deeper conversation amongst people who are very interested in these topics that will generate value for everyone. Perhaps an approach to try is to develop one page articles presenting the synthesis we make (i.e the cases) with a question and invite more people to contribute to that conversation? The other is a series of solarpunk stories that take on a more personal entry point to all this..." 15,63297,2019-11-07T12:18:29.880Z,62668,anon1505367078,anon1037234888,Pinging @anon 1,59900,2019-09-25T14:35:11.340Z,59900,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"Workshop held during NGI Forum 2019 ([more information](https://www.ngiforum.eu/workshop-1/)). This document contains notes, curated by [Edgeryders](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/) in the context of the [NGI Forward](https://research.ngi.eu/) project, but open to the contribution of all. Moderator is @anon4261882768. ## Oskar van Deventer – Self-sovereign identities Many organizations are administration factories. Every time you interact with them, they ask you for information, which then they process (name, email, phone number). There is a different way to do it. People have an information wallet, and orgs ask the wallet for exactly the information they need, not more. People can comply, or decline, or even report excessive requests for information. This is a SSI. This ecosystem consists of issuers, holders, and verifiers of identities. Oskar has a demo based on the story of a patient ordering drugs online. The eSSIF-Lab EU project provides funding for technology development and business applications based on this idea. The first open call is going out in early 2020. Q: How would the data storage work? Some kind of citizen wallet, but how do you implement it? A: The concept we are working on lives on issuer DBs, accessed through a phone app. Q: What prevents service providers from asking for all of the individual’s data, and the person accepts because she needs the service? A: This is my nightmare. You cross the Chinese or US border, and then some kind of data vacuum cleaner empties your wallet. This might require issuers policy, stating once and for all what can be done with those data. But I do not yet know how to solve it. ## Gaëlle le Gars I want to share with you how the Commission sees this issue now. There are two major trends that have undesirable consequences. One is social credit scoring. In Europe we are likely to see a “consumer scoring” version of it. Companies share information on you as a consumer, determining whether you are an undesirable customer. Undesirables are ostracized, made to wait for help, unacknowledged. This is illegal, but the infrastructure is there (it is GAFA), so we suspect this is happening. The other trend is the integration of identification databases across the EU on the grounds of police and justice administration. There is a regulation for interoperability of these DBs across the EU, including a lot of info (like: travel information). However, there are also two opportunities. One is e-government applications; the other is that this is now a centerpiece of EU policy, so things can happen to defuse these risks. Q: How does EIDAS play into these scenarios? A: (Loretta) It is time that you people – not the Smart City crowd, not the IoT crowd – take control of this issue. There is something profoundly human about freedom from surveillance, and identity is political. Speak up, and apply for funding if you have ideas to implement in this space. [Round of presentations follows] ## Maria Rautavirta: Human centric data economy * Re-using personal data creates new business opportunities * But people should be included in the decisions about what is done with their data. * Currently it’s mostly open data that are being exchanged. All other data does not travel much, in sits in data lakes with a big lock at the door. Finland has come up with Data principles to enable more data exchange. They are human centric, thriving (efficiency gains from exchange) and balanced (divide fairly the benefits of the gains). There are six principles: Access, Share, Act, Innovate, Trust, Learn, all this by default. They are available at https://dataprinciples2019.fi . ## Federico Bonelli: wrap up The problem of identity is central, not only in policy but in philosophy and the arts. It is a complex problem, but there is a core simplicity. In logic, A=A: an entity coincides with itself. When I pass the border between Finland and Russia, a frontier guard looks at my passport, and validates that I am Federico. Data in the passport matter, but maybe it is the validation that matters most. Now we are discussing about other methods of validation, algorithmic. Loretta said that identity is political; and politics, as defined by Aristotle, is definitely not a science, more like a kind of art. ## Loretta Anania's suggestions for wrap up 1. Where is the ecosystem? 2. Oskar’s nightmare scenario: “wallet vacuum cleaners”. 3. Gaëlle’s two risks and two opportunities. 4. The opportunity to build offered by the NGI initiative. Also ping @anon1505367078!" 2,59904,2019-09-25T14:44:58.485Z,59900,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"During this session, I had a sort of epiphany: self-sovereign identities and decentralized governance of personal data are incompatible with monopolies. We agree to anything, when that unlocks a service we need. Imagine you had one of these amazing data wallets, allowing you to authorize which services can access which personal data. Now imagine that your bank, or your keysanon2317280404e social networking service, told you ""I want access to _all_ of your data, or else you don't get an account from me."" What are you going to do? You cannot function in modern society without a bank account (or, some would say, a Facebook account). So you agree. You agree to _anything at all_. That's not because of any technological issue. It's _because you have no power_. We have been in a similar situation before. In the early 20th century, for-profit companies operated public utilities like energy, water, rail transport. This happened because of technological reasons: building two aqueducts in the same city is wasteful. The first company that builds an aqueduct can obtain monopoly of water provision in that city, and maintain it forever. This was called a [natural monopoly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly). Today's ""network externalities"" provoke a similar effect, and for similar reasons. This situation led to massive profits, driven by the power imbalance between monopolist providers and users; to the exclusion of less affluent users; and to rent extraction, pushing potentially viable businesses into the red. Europe responded with antitrust legislation, with its array of policy tools: nationalizations, tight regulation by specialized agencies, and direct provision, with public sector actors starting their own water, energy, and transport companies. Municipalism played a major role here: where the state would respond too slowly, or not at all, cities stepped into the breach, at least in some countries (including Italy). It is maybe not a coincidence that the strongest critical voice claiming to reduce the power of business was [Francesca Bria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Bria)'s – Europe's digital municipalist-in-chief. It comes down to game theory. If I had the personal data wallet right now, and my bank would refuse to accept it, saying ""nah, you have to fill this online form""; or if it _did_ accept it, but only under the condition that they get access to the whole thing... I would consent. What can I do? Now, if the European institutions owned a trusted operator that _would_ accept that data wallet in an equitable way, now I could tell my bank ""fair enough, I'll take my business elsewhere"". This way, the game has a completely different equilibrium. Conclusion: maybe, in order to get this stuff adopted, you need antitrust policy. Makes sense?" 3,59913,2019-09-25T19:22:15.000Z,59900,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,"Alberto, This is amazing, great work! I will work on the input from the participants that I collected next week with Federico and then we integrate your notes in there. We will publish them here and use that to kickstart a series of discussions on “identity”. We can also plan en evening in the Festival in Brussels on this topic, Greetings, Rob" 4,59938,2019-09-26T00:38:53.321Z,59904,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"It looks like the US Department of Justice may open an antitrust investigation on Facebook : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-probe-antitrust/u-s-justice-department-to-open-facebook-antitrust-investigation-source-idUSKBN1WA35M I was thinking about how, ultimately, any kind of sanctions against multinational companies providing digital services could be enforced. And looked into examples where there were disputes between companies and states. It seems that if the digital service providers have contracts with states then the obvious choice would be international arbitration. Because apparently international arbitration rulings are much easier to enforce than litigation in national courts. But apparently this requires them to have signed a contract with a mandatory arbitration clause in it (where both parties have agreed to settle via arbitration in case of a dispute). Which I am guessing that in the EU this hasn't happened? Just a thought." 5,63269,2019-11-07T09:46:19.324Z,59904,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:10868""] During this session, I had a sort of epiphany: self-sovereign identities and decentralized governance of personal data are incompatible with monopolies [/quote] Revamping this topic after the [DECODE Symposium](https://www.decodeproject.eu/events/our-data-our-future-radical-tech-democratic-digital-society) in Turin. Monopolies and their regulation came up in a very similar way in several talks. One of the panels was called ""Big tech in crisis: Policy Responses on Competition and Data Sovereignty"", and at least two people called for ex ante regulation of monopolies, and specifically blocking mergers. * Tommaso Valletti remarked that ""Google bought 270 companies in the past 18 years, and no one is looking into it."" * Alexey Ivanov had a very nice story of how Russia vetoed Google buying up a local search company in 2008, and that resulted in competition (3 companies) on the search market in Russia to this day. * @anon Ping @anon4261882768 and @anon2339827249: something for the Policy Lab blog?" 1,63156,2019-11-06T08:42:50.297Z,63156,anon2220770731,anon2220770731,"Hello all, I am anon2220770731 and I am a PhD researcher in the field of applied AI for respiratory care. I am very enthusiastic about the impact that AI technologies have brought in our daily lives, with many more yet to come. However, I am also skeptical of the media-frenzy around AI, especially in healthcare. I would love to discuss some of these challenges so that we adopt a cautious approach in implementation of AI technologies to improve healthcare. Regards, anon2220770731" 2,63168,2019-11-06T09:21:41.378Z,63156,anon3449369942,anon2220770731,"Hi anon2220770731 and welcome to Edgeryders :slight_smile: The preparations for the workshop are revving up so you show up at just the right time. The way are doing this is that we share first hand experiences that involve the technologies we are discussing from our work or personal lives. And leave thoughtful comments on the posts shared by other participants. To help us move the thinking forward and craft a number of case studies based on the information we collect from the different posts and discussions. These case studies then form the basis for the workshop itself so that we have a common foundation for a grounded, evidence based discussion. My suggestion would be to start by looking through what others have posted, select one or more posts which interests you and leave a comment on it. It is important to depart from personal experience or bodies of work that you have come across: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you" 3,63214,2019-11-06T17:37:33.390Z,63156,anon3809206126,anon2220770731,"[quote=""anon2220770731, post:1, topic:11387""] However, I am also skeptical of the media-frenzy around AI, especially in healthcare [/quote] Hello @anon2220770731, welcome! I am Alberto, one of the old-timers here. I hear you, media-frenzy is not pretty to look at. Do you have any experience of dubious, or even damaging, application of AI to health care? I would be very curious to know more..." 1,61761,2019-10-21T02:15:38.071Z,61761,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"In this 23 minute conversation, Zenna and Andre dig into scuttlebutt and the large implications of small networks. Andre's current project is Manyverse ""a social network off the grid"" that is a mobile app for using Scuttlebutt. (https://www.manyver.se/) https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/9/97612b9447d5de8065fa6e39eddbfaf26212b4b9.mp3" 2,62308,2019-10-25T17:54:08.931Z,61761,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Here is the text of the interview. TEXT of IoH-Zenna Interviews Andre Staltz.txt (22.1 KB)" 3,63197,2019-11-06T15:16:50.982Z,61761,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,"@anon2534778825, maybe this is for you?" 1,58800,2019-09-04T22:21:04.936Z,58800,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/190616_HK_Protest_Incendo_03.jpg https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/09/02/hong-kong-protestors-using-mesh-messaging-app-china-cant-block-usage-up-3685/#378a2f63135a Mesh networks in one of the most connected cities in the world. Goes to show how important it is to not lose track of developing self-reliant technology in the age of 5G hype. > How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn't use the internet. > That's exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Fransisco startup Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using no persistent managed network. @anon4261882768, I'm curious about what role technologies to increase self-reliance have played in the taskforces? Do the taskforces address possible future internet censorship by future European Commissions that might not be as liberal? @anon3931191205, this is very relevant to your interests." 2,58803,2019-09-05T05:30:55.643Z,58800,anon2926706121,anon1505367078,"I read this yesterday, it's a great example of decentralization used for ""good."" But in terms of censhorship (and the Chinese firewall) a friend of mine remarked ""can't the secret services not also easily start using the same networks?"". Which brings us back to the discussion we had here on hosting malicious content on your servers as well: https://edgeryders.eu/t/decentralized-risks-hosting-information-for-others-comes-at-a-cost/9953 My question would be: what kind of mechanisms could be put in place to deter these? Thoughts?" 3,58828,2019-09-05T13:07:38.644Z,58803,anon1505367078,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:2, topic:10686""] “can’t the secret services not also easily start using the same networks?” [/quote] If they are on the network as regular peers they are just extending the mesh. Even if they intercept messages on the network, those messages are end to end encrypted, and not even the secret service can break good end-to-end encryption. There are things they could potentially do though, just with the information gained from knowing how the messages are flowing, even though they couldn't know the contents. There are technologies that stop that from happening – like SSB, in which everyone gets and propagates every message of everyone they are connected to, but even the identity of the recipient is encrypted." 4,58851,2019-09-05T23:21:56.465Z,58800,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:1, topic:10686""] future internet censorship by future European Commissions that might not be as liberal? [/quote] Or states. Some European states do not like ""liberal"" already. Reporters Without Borders issues a [""rating"" of all states](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship#RWB_%22Internet_enemies%22_and_%22countries_under_surveillance%22_lists). EU states mostly do fine, but the UK is classified as ""enemy of the Internet"" and France as ""under surveillance""." 5,58976,2019-09-09T16:56:05.939Z,58800,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,"This reminds me of two similar big national events in the past decades: The end of the Soviet Union, that was partially hastened by a primitive TCP/IP network partly setup and managed by the US-Moscow Teleport based here in SF, in which the net could keep going even if any given node was discovered and shut down. This is a main way Yeltsin was hidden during a period when the Soviet military was trying to find and imprison him. In 2001, citizens in the Philippines relied on SMS texting to help overthrow their President. This was back before governments figured out how to capture or block those streams. So, yeah - those of you working on mesh networks, you are part of a fine and necessary tradition." 6,59303,2019-09-15T08:44:17.298Z,58803,anon871569147,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:2, topic:10686""] a friend of mine remarked “can’t the secret services not also easily start using the same networks? [/quote] Another thing a regime can do, is to find a few people who use that technology, and sentence them to 20 years in prison. Then write about this in the newspapers: tech forbidden, 20 years in prison. Then find more people, put in prison, broadcast in the media. Repeat. Until people stops using the tech, for fear of ending up in prison (or worse)." 7,63170,2019-11-06T09:39:14.916Z,58800,anon3899621522,anon1505367078,"I don't know if Bridegefy is encrypted but I've read an article they use it to communicate on the ground using Bluetooth to create the mesh network : http://www.bridgefy.me One of their main discussion tool isn't Facebook (compared to 2014) but a reddit like forum https://lihkg.com/ Lots of other apps being used are listed here “Digital resistance: security & privacy tips from Hong Kong protesters” by Sam Aiken https://link.medium.com/5tKJv0Nko1 Also check out the Umbranon1410463509 app with on the go security tips that can be applied not just for HK." 1,62430,2019-10-28T23:51:03.109Z,62430,anon595269224,anon595269224,"my name is anon595269224 and I am a social entrepreneur and technology researcher. Currently, I am a MSc candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. I was very honored to be interviewed by the fabulous @anon3931191205: here you can listen to the podcast (https://edgeryders.eu/t/podcast-zenna-interviews-anon595269224-schoeppl/10894) and below I post the transcript of that recording. My current research interest is in the global governance of emerging technologies. In the podast we mostly discuss a potential narrative shift from 'cyberwar to cyberpeace' as a practical utopia and guiding north star but also touch on other internet-related technologies such as the governance of AI. I hope it serves you and I look forward to engage with your wisdoms and insights." 2,62431,2019-10-28T23:51:21.846Z,62430,anon595269224,anon595269224," _Text of the audio conversation with Zenna Fiscanon1410463509 and Noah Schoeppl_ _Recorded September 2019 for Edgeryders and NGI Forward_ _Zenna: _ _Welcome to the first episode of the Edgeryders podcast with Zenna or anon3931191205 for ""human centered internet."" Today, we are interviewing Noah Schoeppl. And the conversation will be exploring Noah's visions and thoughts of a utopian internet, as well as some of Noah's history. We've been talking anon4292955258 a bit ahead of time. And we recently got introduced each other. And it was kinda with a shebang and a lot of checkboxes. _ _To give it a round about exploration of what you've explored previously, is it legal infrastructures mixed with AI and ethical complications that come thereof. And you've explored ethical hacking, and working with radically open security, as well as politicy, psychology, law, economics and programming and many more it seems like, and now you're entering a master's program at Oxford, in like, two weeks. Yeah. To start off, if we if we go about it from a chronological order, where would that lead us to start?_ _Noah: _ _I'm Noah. And I think my journey started as a politically aware and interested human being anon4292955258 young, I was 12 or so when I really soanon3242181883 caught fire for a topic that now is actually all over the world and more in the headlines, but back then was not so much. And it's really just the question: how can we get to a world with hundred percent renewable energy as fast as possible. And that was my utopia, that that really inspired me and got me going. _ _And I came from a small town in southern Germany, and I started to, travel to different places, protests and all these things. This got me in touch with research institutions, and political institutions. And then there came a second phase at some point, because I realized, well, soanon3242181883 in the end, in all these discussions that I had with politicians and lobbyists and activists, in the end, you know, like, we can all discuss this, and how there's an ecological imperative how we need to change our world, due to the ecological boundaries of our world. But in the end, still, the economic argument wins soanon3242181883. It always does in the political arena, or tends to, and I was really frustrated by that. And so I was like, Well, if the economic argument wins, maybe I should learn better how it works. And I really got into business ethics, and asked: how can we reimagine how the economy and how businesses work, because to challenge that paradigm of that it's only about money making, and it's much more about human thriving and the common good. And these are the contributions that companies should aim for. _ _So from there on, I realized what drives companies and what really shapes them, because companies can become really slow to develop there as well. The single force that right now is changing companies and the economy most is technology. And so if we get this one right, if we can get the technological change right, then that's also a really good opportunity to just change how our economy works, and how our society works for the better. So like technology is what's right now is the moving pieces that right now are shaping new things, and our generation has the opportunity to co-shape these technological changes. And I think that's opportunity I want to take so that we can use the technology together with our human insights and intuitions and values to make a more humane society and economy._ _Zenna: _ _So I'm, I'm curious. Now, we've talked a anon222512824 bit about this before about the technology being power. And we also talked about how Oxford was Hogwarts. And coders are the wizards up today. Framing it in that perspective, is an egalitarian world something worth fighting for? And if it is, what is technology and the knowledge thereof, what place does that have?_ _Noah: _ _In generally I find egalitarian philosophy very appealing, particular, John Rawls' idea that first of all, freedoms should be equal, and everybody should have some basic civil liberties. And then when we look at material conditions, that to be very rough again, the different principle according to John Rawls is that an unequal division of resources is only legitimate, if it actually benefits those that are least well off. And I think, right now we're definitely at a point I would say, where we don't justify our current system is not justified by that, by that standard, in the sense that we use technology often not centered on the most vulnerable people in our communities and societies._ _Also Silicon Valley culture, even if it purports to save the world, startups get bought up by venture capitalists, which then again are owned by the ones that already currently own the world. Self-feeding. Exactly. And again, I find it sad that all this beautiful technology that could be built into really meaningful things in the end, nobody says that all the social media companies we have now or all those giants needed to go to the direction they had to it was just that's the society in which technology arrived was one in which these kinds of innovations were immediately put under profit, maximizing pressure._ _Zenna: _ _And copyright?_ _Noah: _ _And copyrights is also one part of it. Yes, I could imagine very different ways of arriving there. But then again, I think my my philosophy that I developed around this is kind of really being willing to think, very radical, very big about how things could be different, but then really starting from where we are right now. So I really don't like just complaining about how things should be very different. I didn't like only like talking about business ethics, but I also got into social entrepreneurship and founded companies myself and tried to not just talk about how business should be run differently, but I tried to do it. And it's hard. _ _Zenna: _ _just as a tidbit, what's goal that you found from your time in there, and I don't mean, goals as in capitalist values, but as in, what did you find that you brought with you on your new journey?_ _Noah: _ _I think generally, the, the methodologies of business can often be very useful if they are used to different ends. So like, basically, the idea of Muhammad Yunus is to find a social business, to use business means for social ends to solve real social problems, and not for the kind of problems they've been conventionally associated with. One more additional thought that helped me to develop my own philosophy that I call pragmatic idealism. At this point, I can summarize in three models: first, hope without critical thinking, is just naivety, but critical thinking without hope is just cynicism. And then the second idea is: confidence without humility, is just arrogance but then humility, without confidence, is sheepishness._ _Zenna: _ _And that's your own personal philosophy for how you see yourself throughout the world?_ _Noah: _ _More people that inspired us include Maria Popova, Bulgarian writer, but also many others. And then like the last sentence kind of is more like the synthesis of it all I would say, which is pragmatism without idealism is just opportunism. But idealism without pragmatism is just wishful thinking. So that's kind of my, that's my philosophy. That kind of is the goal, I would say, I found that pragmatism and idealism need to work together. Yeah, the, I think, especially like, the first two are probably more inspired by other people. Pragmatism and idealism, they live in the space between the two. And so really have ambitious goals, but also be really pragmatic, where you start with it._ _Zenna: _ _if we go back to the origin of the ambitious goals, so to speak, if you were to start sketching out the image of what those ambitious goals for, let's say, if you want to reshape the internet, plural, What would that look like for you?_ _Noah: _ _I don't have one overarching one but I think I have several different utopian visions. I took an international relations course in my undergrad degree in Amsterdam in social sciences and I was thinking about, well, how does international relations in global politics fit into cyberspace that we increasingly live in, and the internet and, and just writing and trying to combine this global politics theories with these new technologies, and then I just for some reason, wrote these words like cyber peace and cyber war. And I just noticed that my computer for some enough reason underlined cyber peace as like an unknown word, but not CYBER WARS. I looked up in different word processing programs, none of the knew cyber peace, but all the knew cyber war. And so it was just like, Well, that's interesting, the vocabulary that we have in the conceptual space of the internet, is we conceptualize it as war, we don't even know how to talk about it in terms of peace, because we don't have a word for it. And just that obvious asymmetry that it soanon3242181883 needs to be a very aggressive and violent place, apparently out there. And this is the language we use. That kind of made me think there's some utopia missing. When you look at what is cyber peace, maybe we look at peace in the real world first. There were always like ideas of world peace, they've always existed, but soanon3242181883 we've not achieved it yet. So just one very common idea of world peace was developed by Immanual Kant, a philosopher, who in 1795 wrote an essay called 'perpetual peace', with the simple hypothesis that the states with a republican constitutions so democracies, should all just guarantee each other security. And when they do that, then we could have an ever expanding union of peace, because nobody would ever attempt to attack such a block of countries. And we could have an ever expanding unit of peace._ _Zenna:_ _One thing that's been discussed recently, especially in the realms of internet and internet infrastructures, is the issue of centralization. In that kind of utopian image of a block of peace, one can say a block of Empire, which would then set the frame for the rest of the world._ _Noah _ _Absolutely agree. Kant said we don't need a centralized contract or institution for this. We don't need a treaty for this, this would just emerge out of enlightenment, basically, enlightened actions of, of individuals and countries, again, 18th century philosophy maybe doesn't completely explain the internet. But I think there are some interesting things when you actually apply it. _ _And again, because the internet is a very different beast. If you look at the long term trends, again, we have not achieved real peace. But overall, we live in a more peaceful world than ever before. And I think we should continue to have progress. Because right now, when we speak about the internet, we just speak a lot about, like, there's a lot of cybercrime and a cyber war between the countries and all that. And I think that what we really should aim for is really to have this this utopian vision and how I think that can actually happen in cyberspace, much more than in real world, think cyberspace is actually could be a much more peaceful place, then the world we live in physically. And that is because of the different dynamics of security in the cyberspace. It's very asymmetric. And it's very different from other security, thinking of like 20th century Cold War thinking, which often has been the only dominant security paradigm has been applied to the internet, because the common story is that on the internet you you don't know who's your attacker. Basically, it's very difficult to do attribution of attackers. So you just want to develop your own offensive capability and hack everyone. The superpowers that are emerging, are basically trying to copy this old patterns into this new world. First of all, I don't think that's how it's going to work out. And second of all, I don't think it's desirable, and it doesn't work that way. And that's because because of this asymmetry in the internet, that you don't know who your attacker, attribution is very difficult. So you can't retaliate, even if you have offensive capabilities, right? The offensive capability you have is not a deterrence against somebody else's attack, which in the physical world is very different. If you have a nuclear bomb, you know, the other person is not going to bomb you because you can bomb them back. This logic of the Cold War in that sense doesn't work anymore in the internet. A second reason for that is basically you can destroy somebody else's offensive capability by building up your own defenses. So if you do really good, actually security for yourself, and if you do security research, and you find vulnerabilities and you find zero days, then you can basically destroy the offensive capabilities of others because they rely on these vulnerabilities. And so, you know, if I have a nuclear bomb, just because you build some protection doesn't mean I don't have a nuclear bomb. But if I have a zero day, which is basically an exploit to which there is no fixes yet, and you close that, that gap, that I don't have a bomb anymore, I don't have a weapon anymore. So basically, you can take away somebody else's offensive capability by building good defenses. I think these dynamics have not been fully understood by policymakers._ _Zenna: _ _Is that something you would call sign of peace? You can build up defenses and by having a safety rather than offensive?_ _Noah: _ _Yeah, I don't think security must always be so state-centric, my vision for cyberpeace is that, basically everybody in a certain union, and it doesn't have to be a contractual union, which works towards building collective defenses. A global norm for zero day reporting, that countries that join and when they report zero days they never improve not only their security, but security of everybody else. And again, like many people might say that sounds so super idealistic. And I don't think it is, I think there are very pragmatic reasons to do so. Because if you're part of this defensive union, then you will be much safer than if you're if you don't share any of you zero days, and you twist try to get keep and build your own offensive capabilities for all the reasons that I've named, because on offensive capabilities can be destroyed by enemies, and because of having offensive capability is not a deterrent against attacks._ _Zenna: _ _So if you have a union, there must also be an 'them' outside of it? Is that what you imagine, for a utopian internet?_ _Noah: _ _Generally, I would apply this kind of Kantian idea that in the end, we want to live on a peaceful planet or in a peaceful cyberspace. My vision is that we, in the end have a safe space in the internet and we start by creating small safe spaces, and they start expanding until in the end, hopefully they cover everything. There will always be cyber attacks. But we can minimize the impact and increase the integrity of our of everybody's experience in the internet by for example, having a global norm for zero day reporting. And I find what I like about the global norm for zero day reporting is it encourages everyone to contribute to everyone's security, because you can't just close the zero day vulnerability for yourself, you do it for everyone. And at the same time, the only 'them' that basically you create is the people that don't want to work together to make everyone's experience safer. And the 'them' is basically the people that want to keep the exploits to themselves. Only the people that kind of want to be able to really attack other people systems are then kind of that that will be against. I do not have a very clear institutional setup how this would work, because obviously, it's very difficult to control these kind of things. So I don't it's not fully developed. But my point is more this narrative shift from we talked about a place where there's a lot of war happening, cyber war, to a place where cyber peace is possible, and where we should make sense of peace, not cyber war._ _Zenna: _ _Whose responsibility is it to make this shift happen?_ _Noah: _ _I think in the end, it's everyone's, but I think, if I should put my hope on, for example, individual institutions, I think institutions that are very well set to do this, or where I have realistic hope for this is the European Union. So if the European Union were to start such a project, where it said, okay, we, as a group of countries decided we want to start a norm, that what everyone ought to report zero days, because it's better for everyone to do that. I think that could be very powerful. And I know that the current administration, for example, in the US, which obviously controls the most powerful capability there, is not going to willing to do that. But I hope that that could change given also the large trajectory of history, I hope that it is possible. Also for other countries, I hope that they that in the same way that we didn't think it seemed impossible to ever start a counter proliferation movement in the nuclear age. And it seemed that we will for eternity, always just create more bombs to kill each other. We now actually live a world where there's still too many bombs, but at least less than 50 years ago. And in the same way, I have a hope that in 50 years, I know it's a long shot and it's not going to happen overnight. And right now, all the talks on the UN level are basically non-existent on this topic. So it's I really hope that we could live in a world where we have less, not more attacks and more integrity of everybody's devices._ _Zenna: _ _You've been working a bit with AI and machine learning, and specifically on the focus of whether it's ethical, if placed in a legal system. Do you want to expand on that?_ _Noah: _ _Yeah, of course. So I think kind of like that was my work that I started, or did two years ago that I talked about this narrative shift to cyber peace. And what I didn't like about it is that it was apart from that it was state centric, and that there were many practical problems with it and very long shot, it was still defensive, it was still like it's talking about my utopia is security or safety, which is still something like the absence of violence. That's the problem with peace. Also, you know, it's not medicine super positive, it's only that bad things are not there. And so I was like, I want something more positive than that. And and that's then where I got also more into this AI space. And because I think they're really there is opportunity to positively shape human thriving in many ways. And to unlock this potential that we need to avoid many risks that are often also discussed and that are very real. And the as I said, also, I wonder, and they I feel I don't have this super clean utopia, because soanon3242181883 every utopia that involves machines that can do more than we do, in some sense, apparently ends up being a dystopia sometimes. And so we have to still do a lot of work on which utopia, we actually want out there._ _Zenna: _ _ In your utopia, does AI exist?_ _Noah: _ _I'm a pragmatic idealist. So my soanon3242181883 my ideals are also based on my pragmatism. And I think there is not a world possible where we get rid of AI. I don't know if you heard about the unabomber, who's like a, like a guy who started basically bombing scientists, because he believed that the progress of science and technology would destroy human society. And given that I don't think that's a viable path that we will have, that we will basically live with less technology, then the question is, how can we shape the current trends and the current technologies that are rising to human benefit? And also maybe sometimes also, how can we consciously decide not to use them?_ _But overall, I'm convinced that we will get machines that will be better than humans at many tasks that currently only humans can do. Given that that's going to come, the question is, how do we want to do that? I think their biggest problem are, exactly about human centrism. So how can we make sure that they align with our values. Like that's a long term perspective, I would say all this question, which is kind of like AI governance questions that says when, for example, pioneered by Nick Bostrom, the whole ideas of what do we do when general AI actually is smarter than humans? I think these are super valuable questions to research. _ _But then there's also the short term questions, and that's what we're after dealing with these important questions of, if we already today have for example, a system that makes legal decisions, for example, in an administration and that public administration, what laws do we want to be imbued into that? Do we think it's just fine if there's some human mandate and humans and some democratically elected institution decides now we want this to be done by an AI? Or do we also think there needs to be some outputs that need to be in some material sense fair, as it just if it's if it's cheaper and faster do we just accept it? Or do we also want to actually be able to understand the process to be accessible for humans, because then many advanced machine learning programs, currently, they're black boxes for us, so we can't really understand them. _ _And the other question is, well, if it's trained on any human data, human centric data, also in that sense, then it's going to take human vices with it, and it could even aggregate them and exaggerate them. And so yeah, there's a lot of open questions, and I don't really have full answers to those yet. But my utopia is just I can only explain it in very abstract terms at this point, because there's a lot of research and thinking and testing and acting to be done on this field. But right now, it's to reap the benefits to avoid the risks, and to make sure that we humanize the technology that we live with, in the sense that in the sense that we really challenge also what it means to be human for ourselves, because I don't think we know right now what it means to be human. And if we first figure out like, or if we figure out what it means to be human, then we can also tell when we want technology to do to help us to thrive._ _Zenna: _ _Thank you so much for forth your thoughts. I'm that feeling that we will hear more from you._ _Noah: _ _Well, thank you very much for giving me this space. And I'm very grateful for your time and for your work._" 3,62581,2019-10-30T17:09:28.545Z,62430,anon3931191205,anon595269224,"It was great interviewing you! And super fascinating topics. I like bringing in the terminology of ""**cyberpeace**"" . Thank you for posting this as well, looking forwards to following any conversations which may appear! If I recall correctly there are other people on Edgeryders who are into AI as well, maybe @anon3449369942 , @anon1505367078 , @anon2434097920 or @anon3809206126 knows better!" 4,63078,2019-11-05T14:10:09.514Z,62431,anon2926706121,anon595269224,"@anon595269224 great interview. I'm Edgeryders' community journalist and have taken the liberty to edit the transcript. If you feel like this explains who you are, you can replace it as the first post here: I’m a social entrepreneur and technology researcher, currently enrolled as an MSc candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. I’m interested in the global governance of emerging technologies, and how we could possibly shift the narrative shift from “cyberwar to cyber peace” as a practical utopia and a guiding north star, including internet-related technologies such as the governance of AI. My journey of becoming politically aware started when I was anon4292955258 young, I was about 12. I became passionate about figuring out how we can get to a world with hundred percent renewable energy as fast as possible. And that was my utopia, it really inspired me and got me going. It’s a topic that is actually now all over the world and in the headlines, but back then, it wasn’t so much. Coming from a small town in southern Germany, I travelled to different places for protests. And this what connected me to research and political institutions. But at some point, I wondered what impact have those discussions with politicians and lobbyists and activists really? In the end, how do both the ecological imperative and the changes we need to make globally bound by our ecological reality? Unfortunately, the economic argument has won until now. And within this political arena, I became very frustrated with it. But it also made me think: if the economic argument wins, maybe I should learn better how it works. That is how I got into business ethics, asking the question: how can we reimagine how the economy and how businesses work, to challenge the money making paradigm, moving towards about thriving humans and the common good — and which contributions companies should aim for. Companies can slow down due to technological developments. So, I realized that if we can get the technological change right, it could also be a good opportunity to change how our economy and society work for the better. Because it’s technology which are the moving pieces shaping new things, and our generation has the opportunity to co-shape these technological changes. That’s the opportunity I want to take, to use technology together with our human insights, intuitions and values, to create a more humane society and economy. ## A Tech Philosophy I find egalitarian philosophy very appealing, particular, John Rawls’ idea that freedoms should be equal and that everybody should have some basic civil liberties. When we look at material conditions and apply how unequal division of resources is only legitimate if it actually benefits those that are least well off — a different principle formulated by Rawls — we can see that our current system isn’t justified. It isn’t upholding that standard, in the sense that the technology is often not centered on the most vulnerable people in our communities and societies. With regards to Silicon Valley culture: start-ups often purports to save the world, but are bought by venture capitalists, which then again are owned by those who already own the world. It’s self-feeding. I find it sad that all this beautiful technology, which could be built into incredibly meaningful solutions, have to “make a profit.” For example, social media companies — they innovated, but were immediately pressured to become profitable. The copyright debate falls exactly within this sphere, although I could imagine we arrived here through different paths. The philosophy I’ve developed around these issues, means we really have to be willing to think radically different about how to make changes, in a massive way. I don’t like to merely complain about how things should be very different. I didn’t like to only talk about business ethics, so I also dived into social entrepreneurship and founded companies myself. I tried to not just talk about how business should be run differently, but do it. And that’s anon4292955258 difficult. The methodologies of business could be useful when applied to different ends. For example, Muhammad Yunus idea revolves around the idea that you found a social business, and use business means for social ends to solve real social problems — not for the kind of problems they’ve been conventionally associated with. One more additional thought that helped me to develop my own philosophy, is what I call pragmatic idealism: hope without critical thinking, is just naivety, but critical thinking without hope is just cynicism; confidence without humility, is just arrogance, but humility without confidence, is sheepishness; and pragmatism without idealism is just opportunism, but idealism without pragmatism is just wishful thinking. I found that pragmatism and idealism need to work together: we need to have really have ambitious goals, but also be really pragmatic about where we start. ## Reshaping the internet I have several different utopian visions on how to reshape the internet. During my undergrad degree in Amsterdam in Social Science, I wondered how international relations in global politics fits into the cyberspace which we are increasingly living in. How do we combine global politics theories with these new technologies. That’s when I came up with the idea of moving from cyber war to cyber peace. I noticed that my computer for some reason didn’t recognize cyberpeace as one word, but did recognize cyberwars. I looked it up in different word processing programs, and none of them knew cyberpeace, but all knew cyberwar. That was an interesting revelation: the vocabulary that we have in the conceptual space of the internet, is conceptualizing it as war, we don’t even know how to talk about it in terms of peace, because we don’t have a word for it. That obvious asymmetry means that cyber is soanon3242181883 linked to a very aggressive and violent place. Which made me realize there’s some utopia missing. To define cyber peace, we should first examine peace in the real world. The idea of world peace has always existed, but soanon3242181883 we’ve not achieved it yet. Immanual Kant argued in his 1795 called Perpetual Peace, that the states with a republican constitutions — in other words democracies — should all guarantee each other security. When they would do so, we would have an ever expanding union of peace, because nobody would ever attempt to attack such a block of countries. And we could have an ever expanding unit of peace. Decentralization is another important part. Kant argued that we don’t need a centralized contract or an institution, or a treaty: it would emerge out of the enlightened actions of individuals and countries. But perhaps 18th century philosophy doesn’t completely explain the internet, as it is a very different beast. If you look at the long term trends, we have not achieved real peace. But overall, we live in a more peaceful world than ever before. And I think we should continue to have progress in this sphere. When we speak about the internet, we often discuss cybercrime and a cyber war between countries. But what we really should aim for is to have a utopian vision ## From Cyderwar to Cyberpeace I believe cyberspace actually could be a much more peaceful place than the world we live in physically. That’s because of the different dynamics of security in cyberspace. It’s very asymmetric. And it’s very different from the 20th century Cold War thinking, which often has been the only dominant security paradigm applied to the internet. The superpowers which are emerging, are basically trying to copy these old patterns into this new world. But I don’t think that’s how it’s going to work out and I don’t think it’s desirable, it doesn’t work that way. That’s because because of the internet’s asymmetry. A commonly heard argument is that on the internet you don’t know who your attacker is. If you don’t know who your attacker is, you can’t retaliate, even if you have offensive capabilities. If you have a nuclear bomb, the other person is not going to bomb you because you can retaliate. This Cold War logic doesn’t work with the internet. And anyone can destroy somebody else’s offensive capability by building up their own defenses. Meaning that if you have security for yourself, and if you do security research, and you find vulnerabilities, then you can basically destroy the offensive capabilities of others — because they rely on these vulnerabilities. You don’t know if I have a nuclear bomb, and just because you build some protection doesn’t mean I don’t have a nuclear bomb. But if I have an exploit to which there are no fixes yet, and you close that gap, then I don’t have a bomb anymore, I don’t have a weapon anymore. Basically, you can take away somebody else’s offensive capability by building good defenses. I think these dynamics have not been fully understood yet by policymakers. I also believe that security could move away from being state-centric. My vision for cyberpeace is involving everyone in a certain union — and it doesn’t have to be a contractual union — which works towards building collective defenses. In other words, a global norm for “zero day” reporting in which countries report on these “zero days.” They’ll not only improve their own security, but also the security of everyone else. To many, this might sound too idealistic. But I don’t think it is. I think there are very pragmatic reasons to do so. If you’re part of this defensive union, then you will be much safer than if you’re not. Generally, I would apply Kant’s vision that, in the end, we want to live on a peaceful planet or in a peaceful cyberspace. Hopefully, the whole internet will be a safe space, but we can start by creating smaller safe spaces. There will always be cyber attacks. But we can minimize the impact and increase the integrity of everybody’s experience on the internet A global norm for “zero day” reporting encourages everyone to contribute to everyone’s security: you can’t close the vulnerability for yourself only, you’ll do it for everyone. At the same time, the only “them” are those who don’t want to work together to make everyone’s experience safer, which is basically the people that want to keep the exploits to themselves. I do not have a very clear institutional setup of how this would work, because obviously, it’s very difficult to control it. But my point is more on shifting the narrative from a place where a lot of war is happening — cyber war — to a place where cyber peace is possible, and where we should make sense of peace. It’s everyone’s responsibility to make this shift happen, but I think institutions such as the European Union are well equipped for it. The US’s current administration, — which obviously controls the most powerful capability — is not going to be willing right now. But, I hope that this could change given history’s trajectory. We didn’t think it would be possible to start a counter proliferation movement in the nuclear age, but we now actually live in a world with less bombs than 50 years ago. I know with the internet it’s a long shot as well, and it isn’t going to happen overnight. All the talks at the UN level are basically non-existent on this topic. But I really do hope that we could live in a world where we have less, not more, attacks and more integrity of everybody’s devices. ## On AI and Ethics When I started focusing on the narrative shift in cyber peace, I realized that besides being state centric, there were also several practical problems with it. And so I wanted something more positive than that. And that’s when I got more interested in AI, as I believe it offers an opportunity to positively shape human thriving in many ways. To unlock this potential, we need to avoid its many risks, which are often discussed and which are very real. Soanon3242181883, every utopia involving machines which can do more than we do, always ends up being a dystopia. This means we still have to do a lot of work on which utopia we actually want out there. As I’m a pragmatic idealist, my ideals are also based on my pragmatism. This means I don’t believe in a world where we get rid of AI. Let’s take as an example the unabomber, who bombed scientists, because he believed that the progress of science and technology would destroy human society. And given that I don’t think that’s a viable path — living with less technology — then the question arises: how can we shape the current trends and the current technologies that are benefiting humans instead? And how can we consciously decide not to use them? But, overall, I’m convinced that we will be able to create machines which will be better at performing certain tasks than humans are. Given that’s going to come, the question is: how do we want to do that? The biggest problem is related to human centrism. So, how can we ensure that the tech aligns with our values? When we look at AI governance questions — such as the one pioneered by Nick Bostrom: what do we do when general AI outsmarts humans? — they are extremely valuable questions to research. But we shouldn’t forget the short term questions. For example, if we have a system making legal decisions in a public administration, what laws do we want to be imbued into that? Do we want some sort of human mandate, or democratically elected institutions, or do we want this to be done by an AI? In addition, do the outputs — in the material sense — have to be fair if it’s cheaper and faster? Do we just accept that? Or, do we want to also be able to actually understand the process to be accessible for humans? This is crucial, as many advanced machine learning programs are currently black boxes to us, we can’t really understand them. The other question revolves around the idea that if it’s trained on human data, human centric data, then it’s going to take human vices with it. Even more so, it could aggregate and exaggerate them. There’s a lot of open questions, and I don’t really have all the answers of course. My utopia is anon4292955258 abstract right now, because there’s a lot of research and thinking and testing and acting to be done in this field. What we should focus on right now is to reap its benefits and avoid the risks: to ensure that we humanize the technology that we live with, in the sense that we really challenge what it means to be human ourselves. And right now, we don’t. If we first figure out what it means to be human, then we can also tell how we want technology to help us to thrive." 1,62856,2019-11-03T15:51:33.406Z,62856,anon1505367078,anon1505367078," Edgeryders one of the organizations running NGI Forward, a project tasked with helping the European Commission set out a strategy, as well as a policy and research agenda for the years ahead. This forum is a part of informing that strategy. Another part of the NGI ecosystem is generous funding opportunities, like that of NGI Ledger, which just opened its second round of funding for *""16 projects to build Minimum viable products working on decentralised technologies where privacy by design, openness and citizen data sovereignty are at the core of their proposition""*. Basically, it's looking for projects focused on **decentralised algorithms** based on **blockchains** , **distributed ledger technology (DLT)** and/or **peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies**. There are successful applicants from the first round on the Edgeryders forum. @anon3572363072 and team received funding for [WorldBrain](https://edgeryders.eu/t/introducing-oliver-worldbrain-io-memex-and-storex-democratising-knowledge/10157). [Apply to LEDGER here](https://ledger-2nd-open-call.fundingbox.com/). But first, you might want to seek advice from the community here on the platform. If you have ideas, we could help pair you up with people you might want to collaborate with or who could give you feedback on your application. Ping @anon3931191205, @anon3146751269, @anon2199355017, @anon1591454855, are you working on something at the moment that could fit the bill? @anon3005076832, @anon3820120211, @anon1805933255, @anon4190938726, @anon595269224, @anon1990933018 perhaps you know of someone who might be interested? > ## LEDGER: THE VENTURE BUILDER FOR HUMAN CENTRIC SOLUTIONS > > Ledger second open call will be opening **the 1st November and closing the 31st January 2020.** > > At LEDGER first open call we selected 16 projects over 1000 applications started and 291 submitted from over 35 countries. > > At the second open call we are **looking for another 16 projects to build Minimum viable products (MVPs) working on decentralised technologies where privacy by design, openness and citizen data sovereignty are at the core of their proposition.** > > LEDGER programme offers to the selected projects: > > * **Up to €200K equity-free for the best in class innovators** > * **A Venture Builder Programme of 12 months** > * **Technical and business mentorship along the programme** > * **Access to Venture Capital, pilots, exposure and networking** > * LEDGER is calling for **#developers #researchers #designers and #entrepreneurs** > > > ### WHO CAN APPLY? > > * **Teams** might be composed of either: > * **minimum 1 and maximum 2 legal persons ([SME](http://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/business-friendly-environment/sme-definition_en), research organizations, foundations) with a team composed by at least **3 profiles (researcher, developer, business development/entrepreneur)** or** > * minimum **3 natural persons** (at least a **researcher, developer and business development/entrepreneur** ). > * The teams must consist of one legal entities or at least 3 natural persons **legally established in an** [ **EU member state or in Associated Countries** ](http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/3cpart/h2020-hi-list-ac_en.pdf). > * **Projects** ( **Technology Transfer Experiments** ) have to be based in **Research components** , relevant for the topic of **Privacy-by-Design** , **Distributed Data Governance** and consisting in development, test and validation of technical and economic viability of **Minimum Viable Product (MVP) or Service** . > * The results of these bottom-up projects should be compliant with **Open Licences** (i.e. **Open Hardware** , **Open Software** and/or **Creative Commons** ). > > ### MORE ABOUT LEDGER > > [ **LEDGER** ](http://www.ledgerproject.eu/), a European project financed by the **European Commission** , is looking for **32 human centric innovators** to develop **Minimum Viable Products and Services** , in order to achieve **new models** that preserve **citizens’ digital sovereignty** , where **data is a common good owned by citizens** and wealth created by **data-driven platforms** is equally distributed. > > **LEDGER** is looking for **SMEs** , **organisations** and **researchers** that want to shift data management, leveraging on **decentralised algorithms** based on **blockchains** , **distributed ledger technology (DLT)** and/or **peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies** to address **Privacy-by-Design** , **reliability** , **trustworthiness** and **openness** to build **human centric solutions** . > > The 16 selected companies will go through a **9-month customised venture builder programme** receiving up to **€150K in funding** , and the best 8 will be offered **additional €50K** and will get in a **business focused programme of 3 months.** Also, ping @anon4261882768 – perhaps you could tell us a anon222512824 about how the first round is panning out?" 2,62865,2019-11-03T20:06:32.197Z,62856,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"Pinging a few others who may be interested: @anon808971203, @anon2333263393, @anon2320969274, @anon1049766816, @anon3660231234, @anon1707115032, @anon1883575004, @anon2799462679 and @anon3129606453" 4,62930,2019-11-04T12:53:13.203Z,62856,anon4261882768,anon1505367078,"Hi Hugi, To really follow the process you have to follow the updates on ledger.eu for although I am part of dyne.org (rob@anon As you ask my opinion I'd say that it is the work in DECODE in which a provable computing environment is being developed on natural language smart contracts that is a guiding scheme, without of course enforcing this on the participants. Zenroom provides the cryptography and the sensitive data manipulation for the whole Decode project, implementing the Coconut credential scheme developed by UCL in 2018. Validation of the approach commercially is provided by the aqui-hire of Facebook of the UCL team to build LIBRA. ""In the absence of any detail on what might comprise a decentralized identity standard from Libra’s perspective, some dots can be joined by examining the recent work of George Danezis and his co-founders at Chainspace, a startup acquired by Facebook in May."" Recently Microsoft announced their variation on a Coconut credential scheme. https://decodeproject.eu/blog/smart-contracts-english-speaker https://www.coindesk.com/buried-in-facebooks-cryptocurrency-white-paper-a-digital-identity-bombshell Accountability over anonymity characterizes this approach as it underlies society in the 20th century itself. Tokenized trust is a key feature but only in the actual locality where face to face and communities of people work and live together. Apart from innovation in code and coding practice LEDGER - a consortium of Funding Box, Bluemorpho and dyne.org, with VC, funding and business modeling expertise inside - is uncompromising when it comes to collaborative and meaningful cooperation. I was present at the kickoff on Amsterdam where Master of Ceremony Federico rearranged not just physically but also conceptually the notion of information sharing, but not having teams presenting in the usual ways. Recently, in fact last week, he took it a step further and brought all teams to Sicily to work on real world problems with real people in a real location. Now, ofcourse this is what most applications are about, but making it tangible and especially exploring the granularity of everyday life shows the uncompromising nature of Federico's array of methodologies (trasformatorio) http://trasformatorio.net See for yourself: Vimeo channel: - https://vimeo.com/370356587 - https://vimeo.com/370369782 - https://vimeo.com/370371288 - https://vimeo.com/370372757 Greetings, Rob" 1,57676,2019-08-07T03:01:09.863Z,57676,anon3663068181,anon3663068181," (image by Maria Euler) Hi, Edgeryders community! As a linguistic anthropologist working with newly arrived migrants and refugees in Germany, I have heard a lot from my informants about the ways in which their internet use and needs have changed since leaving their countries of origin. Many struggled to find sufficient wifi connectivity en route in order to e.g. access navigation apps and services, stay in contact with friends and family members and contact emergency services. Others reported that they did not have sufficient access to legal information (particularly in their first language). Many rely heavily on translation apps which are often not adequate or do not translate from/into their first language. These are just a few examples of internet-based issues facing current migrants and refugees. What can be done to improve internet-based services, platforms, apps, access to advocacy groups and activists and support forums? How can we think about the private/public divide in this context: how do we ensure quick access, user anonymity and safe networks? What are the responsibilities of content providers? How can individuals ensure that their data is protected? What is currently being done to make internet-based services better for migrants and refugees and what needs to be done?" 2,57805,2019-08-09T15:59:50.003Z,57676,anon3031202475,anon3663068181,"Hello @anon3663068181, thank you very much for joining! we are very happy to have you here and your topic is very relevant. Could you maybe add an image to the post or allow me to add one so we can share it more effectively? Also, we will try to get you in contact with people to discuss your questions. Do you already know of some examples of projects, tools or apps that try to do the job, so we could start by discussing those? @anon2724270673 and @anon3572363072, do the two of you have a specific perspective or examples for how to help refugees and migrants in online spaces with your tools or experience?" 3,57812,2019-08-10T06:09:12.055Z,57805,anon3663068181,anon3031202475,"Hi @anon3031202475! Thanks for helping me with this. I know very anon222512824 about this specific area, but am interested to hear what other have to say. Many of my research informants discussed their changing internet-based habits/needs following their migration experiences. Priorities lay in fast, cheap/free communication platforms (e.g. WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, Signal, etc), translation software, navigation apps, money transfer sites, access to legal information, access to support networks, advocates and activists. Many also brought up concerns about protecting their data, identity and location online. The question is meant more as a general prompt to add to our discussion on NGI. What kind of an image did you mean?" 4,57821,2019-08-10T14:19:20.348Z,57812,anon3031202475,anon3663068181,"@anon3663068181, just some kind of fitting header picture that you have the rights on. Maybe just your headline question in a nice type :). I can also do it for you if you do not have it :)" 5,57823,2019-08-11T01:06:32.795Z,57821,anon3663068181,anon3031202475,"Hi @anon3031202475, that would be great, thank you!!" 6,57927,2019-08-13T13:42:16.092Z,57676,anon3031202475,anon3663068181,"hello @anon3663068181, is this image fine with you?" 7,58015,2019-08-15T17:18:48.755Z,57676,anon3031202475,anon3663068181,"@anon3663068181, we are meeting up in an online community call on Tuesday the 20th 18:00-19:00 to discuss how to shape our international festival with features on tech for justice, equality and sustainability. Would be a great opportunity to get to know each other more and to see how to develop something that is relevant :) You can join the call here: https://zoom.us/j/592769960 https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-call-20th-of-august-your-chance-to-shape-the-edgeryders-ngi-festival/10549" 8,58027,2019-08-15T23:43:18.423Z,58015,anon3663068181,anon3031202475,"Thanks so much @anon3031202475! I will definitely try to join the call, though I'm in Canberra Australia which is 8 hours ahead of you, so it may not work. Would it make sense for the two of us to talk beforehand?" 9,58058,2019-08-16T14:51:15.183Z,58027,anon3031202475,anon3663068181,"@anon3663068181, where are you usually based? Two weeks after we will have another similar call. If you want we can also plan and chat a bit beforehand, but I am not an expert on your topic either, so the more people are in a call to connect their knowledge and topics the better :)" 10,58078,2019-08-17T00:36:51.015Z,58058,anon3663068181,anon3031202475,"@anon3031202475, I will plan to join the next call then. I will be in NY so it will be easier! Looking forward to talking soon!" 11,62684,2019-10-31T16:29:10.003Z,57676,anon3031202475,anon3663068181,"@anon3663068181 maybe the ""small data"" approach described in opposition to the so often buzzed ""big data"" as described in this article about designing tech for assault survivors is useful for you: https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193/3" 12,62730,2019-11-01T09:31:57.766Z,57676,anon3449369942,anon3663068181,"Hi @anon3663068181 If you want to find out I suggest hanging out at Chaos Communication Club in Berlin and asking around. People there will be plugged into various activist efforts they may not want to talk about publicly... But one group that has been public about their efforts are Freifunk. One issue here is surveillance - I would say that at the moment the balance between benefits if connectivity on the one sige and on the other side danger posed to refugees especially people without papers is unclear. One approach I really love is that of my students . The privacy-by-design approach of having only physical - not connected artefacts is one that keeps the internet at arms length. Also it reminds us that a a crucial facilitator of meeting needs is a kind of social engineering rather than tech... https://vimeo.com/manage/177993825" 13,62731,2019-11-01T09:34:54.951Z,57676,anon3449369942,anon3663068181,Another good resource is the repository of edgeryders community members work on this topic - https://edgeryders.eu/c/knowledge/migration 14,62752,2019-11-01T20:54:06.760Z,62730,anon3663068181,anon3449369942,"Thank you for this, @anon3449369942. I actually have contacts at Chaos already, and will explore this more through them!" 1,61746,2019-10-20T12:53:06.194Z,61746,anon1145034506,anon1145034506,"I’m a PhD researcher at Oxford Internet Institute, studying the intersection of gender-based violence and emerging technologies. I’ve been working on gender-based violence response for a anon222512824 over a decade now, and have been focussing on issues of trust and gender, sexual politics, and how the role of emerging technologies in that. I want to facilitate meaningful connections between stakeholders, anticipate emergent harms, and ensure these conversations center on survivors and practitioners. My personal trajectory into this research topic goes way back. I owe much of my gender consciousness to growing up in a bilingual and bicultural household as a Korean American immigrant. My family moved to the US from South Korea when I was 11-years-old, and it exposed me to two different systems of gender. Through that, I was able to develop my own kind of consciousness about how both gender and culture are not fixed. In college, I became involved with the campus sexual assault/Title IX movement, organizing it on my own campus. And I spent about six months essentially doing a qualitative research by talking to different student groups to figure out what happens when a student experiences sexual assault and the extent to which the university does or doesn’t take responsibility and provide resources for that. This coincided with a national movement which led to the [Obama administration's policy reform in 2014](https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/22/memorandum-establishing-white-house-task-force-protect-students-sexual-a). Much of the national organizing relied heavily on social media, specifically Facebook groups to build coalition and share best practices. This happened to coincide with growing cultural awareness of social media as a potential tool for movement and community building. The downside of that that none of us really anticipated going in was cyberharassment. It was in the early days of[ Gamergate](https://gawker.com/what-is-gamergate-and-why-an-explainer-for-non-geeks-1642909080). And that is what made me interested in the role of technology: its double-edged role in facilitating connections but also targeted harassment. Fast forward to five years, and I’m doing a research project on the role of technology in sexual misconduct reporting. And that has been my path ever since, looking at the ways in which we can be imaginative in thinking about bodily auanon2317280404omy, care, and intimacy; how to translate that to political solidarity; and how that can be operationalized into actionable policy to hold institutions accountable; and the role of new technologies in that process. **Lessons from anti-rape organizing and cyberharassment** When I started organizing against campus sexual violence, it required me to spend a lot of time online to research, draft guidelines, connect with organizers in other campuses and organizations, etc. Almost immediately, I realized there were many communities of misogynist men who would actively track the discourse on sexual violence, and then directlytarget young activists who became national figureheads. They’d constantly barrage us, saying we were liars, or that we didn’t know what we were talking about. It was deeply unsettling. I distinctly remember trying to report some cyberharassment I received. It felt different from other forms of harassment I had experienced before.. I would open my phone or my laptop, and the red notification butanon2317280404 would just glare at me. Because it was anonymous and online, it felt like I was constantly being watched. I felt completely at a loss as to how to even respond to it. I decided to report to the campus police and I remember being told it was my fault for having online accounts online, “Oh, you wrote something online? Well, we can’t really do anything.” I knew that this was the common response to cyberharassment, let alone non-tech facilitated harassment. Victims are always told that they should watch out, they should be more vigilant and judicious. I knew nothing would be done so I dropped my report. I know that there are some resources available today, but they remain individualized defensive strategies. We need to listen to the victims and activists of cyberharassment and tech-facilitated abuse to fundamentally change how we conceptualize these issues. It’s built into the design of the Internet we have today, and until we change the platforms, it’s only gonna get worse. It’s been about six or seven years since we’ve first started organizing on different campuses across the US. We formed a network that’s now become a nonprofit organization called [Know Your IX](https://www.knowyourix.org/). It started with a handful of us and it’s been incredible to see this network of college students grow into a leading organization of young people combatting gender-based violence. Some are lawyers now, some are academics, and some are no longer in the space. Burning out is a real deterrent in this space, unfortunately. We lose our most vocal and critical people because we don’t have the structure in place for them to reflect and grow. And all this while battling PTSD and other mental health challenges, and as the cyberharassment keeps clogging your inbox. We know that this kind of environment has a chilling effect on who decides to speak where. Research shows again and again that women, especially women of color, tend to self-censor. But I think the issue extends beyond cyberharassment and hate speech. Youth organizing increasingly requires public visibility. We are asking young people to put themselves out on the Internet to face a barrage of hateful speech in order to commodify themselves in the name of social justice. I know, for myself, I found the constant expectation of visibility extremely constraining and harmful. I made a conscious decision to shift to research because I find that level of scholarly distance to be a more meaningful way to converse with an audience I can challenge and trust. I realize that’s an extremely privileged option, and I really hope that we move beyond the visibility-oriented model of organizing. It asks too much of our organizers with anon222512824 or no safeguarding in place. **Can tech design for survivors?** My doctoral research takes an ethnographically-informed approach to interrogate how assumptions about sex, violence, and power are encoded into the design and implementation of data/AI-driven sexual misconduct reporting systems. In the case of campus sexual assault in the US, there has been an influx of digital systems designed to facilitate disclosures, collect evidence, and automate reporting. These systems are attractive to institutions, because they seem to be an easy fix to a difficult problem: having an internal grievance procedure, making sure it’s a fair process, etc. This is especially true right now in a politically charged environment with #metoo and the Trump administration. To victims, who have very reasonable considerations to distrust their institutions — maybe because of their prior experiences of not being heard, or because they feel isolated, or because they fear retaliation — these technologies are perceived to be objective and neutral third parties. Unfortunately, there are flaws in how these systems are designed and how they’re applied. They are designed by humans. This means biases are encoded into the design of the systems, especially about what sexual harassment or violence looks like, or what a real victim is. And when they’re applied within a politically charged and socially laden environment, they of course have discriminatory, exclusionary and unjust implications. I’ve conducted three years of ethnographically informed interviews with system designers, web users, and with institutional adopters — both frontend and backend users. The recurring narrative is that because this is data- and automation-driven, it is objective, it’s neutral, it’s secure. It very much feeds into the collective imagination of technologies as non-human and therefore, trustworthy. Interestingly, there’s actually some behavioral science suggesting that because of this perception, victims are more likely to disclose earlier on and seek help earlier on, when they’re talking to a digital interface rather than a human. Part of it stems from the erosion of trust in traditional institutions and law enforcement, especially when it comes to sexual violence. Especially in the #metoo era, a lot of people, especially women, especially women of color, have very legitimate reasons to doubt that their institutions have their backs. And that’s especially a serious issue when it comes to sexual violence, because the two most important factors in a survivors decision to report are: * you need to be able to name what you experienced as a wrong. A lot of survivors don’t, because they think their experience wasn’t ‘real’ or ‘bad’ enough. * you need to believe that you will be believed when you do decide to disclose. Many, especially those from communities with historically charged relationship with law enforcement, don’t. People harbor serious distrust in their institutions and for good reasons. Tech positions itself as the solution to this problem of institutional distrust. Big Tech has successfully presented itself as the reliable and ideal alternative to the failures of traditional institutions. Because many people harbor reasonable distrust towards traditional institutions and don’t necessarily understand tech systems, Big Tech can be really appealing. I’ve really struggled with this aspect, which comes up in my fieldwork over and over again. When you have been dismissed, interrogated, and vilified by traditional institutions of law enforcement all your life, why would you want to turn to them in your moment of need? Without alleviating these institutions from their history of inequality and injustice, what does meaningfully distinguish them from Big Tech is that they are, by design, accountable to public interest. The same can’t be said for Big Tech. So, then, how do these systems fail to work? Consider how these reporting tools categorize sexual violence. In general, the reporting interface will ask few descriptive questions about who, when, where and an open response form asking ‘describe what happened.’ Around this point, forms generally provide the option for the user to select a category of sexual misconduct that applies to them. It may appear as a drop-down menu or checkboxes. Some may enable you to select more than one option, say, ‘racial profiling’ and ‘sexual harassment.’ Some may only allow for one category. Some may not even have a category that applies to you. This is often the case with experiences of non-physical/sexual violence, like stalking and partner abuse. This means that, if your experience of sexual harassment is different from system designer’s understanding of sexual harassment, you may not even be able to input your experience. This bias actively leaves out certain people’s experiences, because its designers are working with a very particular narrative of how they understand what violence is. So, then, what actually could be a useful use of tech? There have been a few interesting efforts of trying to create apps or automated system, for people to collect evidence pertaining to tech facilitated harassment in a way that that would be legally admissible. But for those the victim would still have to go through three years of chat history with their abuser. Instead, let’s figure out a method to automate that process. Not only is it a traumatizing experience, but also a lot of victims don’t have the data literacy to be able to doso. When I was working at a domestic violence clinic in Los Angeles, for example, most of our clients were single, undocumented mothers who didn’t speak English, with very low tech literacy. But they would bring screen grabs, they would have to sit through and waded through years of stuff, and they get extremely overwhelmed by tech, and for good reasons. Of course, that’s something that tech could actually make easier. **A case against reporting** Part of the problem with the design and implementation of these reporting systems is that there is such a fixation on reporting. Data on sexual violence tends to privilege and reinforce reporting as the ideal outcome for survivors. The methodological reason is that data on sexual violence is very difficult to collect, as it relies on self-disclosure and poses ethical challenges, so researchers and policymakers look to reporting data. The social reason is that we see reporting as an active outcome and dismiss others as less legitimate. But help-seeking is an extremely iterative and continuing process. It takes victims usually six months to 11 months to even disclose it to anybody, before formally reporting it. And formal reporting is also not necessarily the best outcome for a lot of people: you might share kids with your assailant, you might be worried about their immigration status, or you might just want them to face consequences that don’t involve them going away to jail. Thinking about help-seeking and thinking about recovery is often done in a very narrow way: “have you reported that?” “go to the police” and that’s when you’ll get better. This attitude gets encoded into the design of reporting systems. Constant notifications and nudges are baked into the flow of the interface to incentivize the user to consider formal reporting. The system vendors seem to think that automated and data-driven tools will point the user to one optimal solution--reporting. But this is incredibly misguided. Survivors are not a monolithic group: their experiences of violence, access to resources, recovery process, and ideas of justice are extremely diverse. And this multiplicity should be appreciated, because it gives the society a more robust and relational way of thinking about justice. But the way that reporting tools are designed does not allow for this. In addition, a lot of these systems are technically for everyone, but they’re usually only adopted by, and used for, privileged and tech savvy English speaking users. For example, workplace harassment system tools are for everybody, which should include anitorial workers, temp workers, contract workers. But they are written out of these systems because they are rarely identified as a potential user or their employment contracts subject them to a different grievance procedure. **Doing more with ‘small data’** In my research, I make a case for de-emphasizing reporting. This posed a methodological challenge in conducting my research. How do I gather data about survivors’ help-seeking experience without relying on reporting data? As I said, we already know that the data we have tends to privilege people who were successful in going through the legal system to report their incidents. This means that victim demographic information and the incidents, assault information, and legal recourse are already extremely partial. The reporting tools I study build their systems based on that data. The data we use reinforce the privileging of reporting as the ideal outcome for survivors. What would it mean for me, then, as a researcher to rely on reporting data? This is why I turned to qualitative research and '[small data.](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878)'Having a structured conversation with all the different people involved in the design and application process provides better data about reporting systems’ impact and implications. It might take me several emails, many referrals, and several weeks of relationship building, but the conversations I have with each participant is so rich and insightful and telling, much more than what I could get if I were to do a survey or something. **De-glammorize tech** Even after discussing how and why tech solutions to sexual misconduct reporting fails us, the question I often get is: how can we improve the tech we have so that their ‘failures’ and ‘shortcomings’ can be overcome? To me, this belief that tech can be improved to perfection to the point of replacing human actors is so fundamentally misguided. At the end of the day, these reporting tools are essentially case management systems. The vendors market themselves as a revolutionary innovation to ‘combat seuxal violence’ and ‘empower survivors.’ But combating violence and supporting survivors comes from sustained collective action. No new system can or will be able to do that. Rather than asking how tech can be fixed for the better, the more urgent and important question is: who and what are we overlooking when we turn to tech solutions? Social workers, administrators, advocates and activists, and scholars spend years becoming experts in violence prevention and response so that they can serve survivors better. How much money, time, and energy are not going to them, when we spend those resources on tech? These are the people who work directly with victims and are in the best position to inform policies and practices. We should trust what they have to say, because they have experience and have demonstrated that they have the public’s interest. The same can’t be said for tech solutions. The shiny new tech can seem like it can offer accuracy and objectivity. But they can’t because they are built by people based on data collected by people. From design to implementation, every point is inculcated with bias. This is not to say that there is no place for data-driven tools. But when we de-glam tech, we can see it for what it is--it’s a tool to help us connect, communicate, and make informed decisions. This is why we need to support practitioners in anti-violence space, like social workers, jurors and judges, and advocates, with data and tech literacy, so that they have control over how they interpret and act on data. **Burning question:** How can we support practitioners in anti-violence space, like social workers, jurors and judges, and advocates, with data and tech literacy, so that they have control over how they interpret and act on data? ## Post a thoughtful comment below ahead of the **[workshop on AI & Justice ](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326)** on November 19! This will help us to prepare good case studies for exploring these topics in detail. It will also ensure participants are at least a bit familiar with one another's background and experiences around the topics at hand." 2,62550,2019-10-30T15:07:39.058Z,61746,anon3809206126,anon1145034506,"Wow, @anon1145034506, what a post! I had managed to miss it. Very, very interesting work. As far as I can tell, there are two main threads here. The first is that the Internet's architecture facilitates collective action. This is true for the good action of the anti-harassment activists, but also for the bad action of cyberharassers: [quote=""anon1145034506, post:1, topic:11193""] I realized there were many communities of misogynist men who would actively track the discourse on sexual violence, and then directlytarget young activists who became national figureheads. They’d constantly barrage us, saying we were liars, or that we didn’t know what we were talking about. [...] **It’s built into the design of the Internet we have today, and until we change the platforms, it’s only gonna get worse**. [/quote] The second thread is one I am more familiar with: understanding data. Like all data, reporting data are not a a faithful reconstruction of the phenomenon underpinning them (harassment), but just one, very partial, proxy for that phenomenon. And, like all data, they carry the risk of shifting all the attention onto the proxy, and away from the thing itself. We make what we measure, and if we measure reporting, we will end up acting only on what is being reported. Both these threads, I believe, are relevant to a discussion on a new Internet of humans. For the first one, I have a curiosity: how did people in the anti-harassment movement, like yourself, respond to the discovery that the Internet was both empowering them *and* putting them under pressure? Were people calling for more policing of the Internet? Or dreaming to go all crypto, and take solace in anonymity? Or what? For the second one, what I read in your post is a promising effect and a warning. The promising effect is that, it I understand correctly, people are more likely to report harassment episodes if they do it online. But even here, how can we be sure that the increased likelihood is not a function of the credibility of the follow-up downstream of reporting? After all, you yourself point out that many people are mistrustful of institutions; a highly structured Internet funnel might offer some more guarantees, as caseloads and queues of people processing reports are monitored. If a report lands in your inbox, and is not processed in a reasonably short time, you will surely hear from your manager! And the warning is, of course, that what you are looking at here is not reporting of harassment, but harassment itself. And plenty of it happens even in the absence of reporting: we ned to make sure we do not lose track of that. Am I reading your correctly? What are your thoughts on my questions?" 3,62683,2019-10-31T16:20:11.442Z,61746,anon3031202475,anon1145034506,"@anon2724270673 (https://edgeryders.eu/t/social-media-is-broken-lets-do-better/10017) this seems like a post you might be interested in since you also explore how to carefully create safe online environments not just through pure tech solution but by cleverly including also well-equiped moderators. https://edgeryders.eu/t/managing-communications-an-attempted-glossary/10391 And @anon1145034506, what is your take on this approach based on your personal experiences as well as research?:https://edgeryders.eu/t/sex-tech-conference-in-berlin/10118 Would also recommend @anon3663068181 to have a look at this article here :)" 4,62714,2019-10-31T19:55:42.744Z,61746,anon2434097920,anon1145034506,A most fascinating post. I have picked up also from the internet-of-things crowd that there is a problematic amount of bias built into products for the home and public spaces. @anon273015838? 5,62744,2019-11-01T14:51:12.686Z,61746,anon273015838,anon1145034506,"Wow, this is a super fascinating post. Thank you for sharing this, and for your work in this space. You probably know these cases, but since some others in this thread seemed interested also in related/relevant/analogous examples from (kind of, at least structurally) adjacent areas including IoT and AI, here are a few that might be interesting in the sense that I hope they complement your argument: * At our most recent annual ThingsCon conference (2018), Manon den Dunnen shared her experience of reporting gone bad through unintented consequences when police officers would exchange phone numbers with both victims of crimes as well as suspects, and the Facebook apps would often do its network matching/contact proposal thing and *directly propose to connect victim and suspect/perpetrator*. It's anon4292955258 horrific, and a super important case study about data minimization and network mining (it's also a short video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6MRVQG8Vh0 * A number of studies have shown algorithmic bias at its worst where policing and/or justice related algorithms were trained on training sets that had massively racist data points, including statistics created based on policing behavior that was deemed illegal/racist by courts at the time, but soanon3242181883 remained part of the data sets. (AI Now Institute has mentioned this multiple times across their annual AI Now reports.) * NYC's policing algorithm (in)famously measures effectiveness by fairly simply metrics like numbers of arrests and severity of the causes of arrests. This has created horrific incentives for police to report highly selectively so as not to ruin their (perceived) performance, including going so far as to structurally intimidate rape victims to change their charges from rape to minor offenses. The podcast [Reply All had a mini series](https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2hx34) on it that's very accessible. Those just came to mind and maybe they're helpful for some of the people reading here. And I couldn't agree more with your conclusion that tech won't be the solution to a complex social issue such as this. Thanks again @anon1145034506 for sharing this." 1,62701,2019-10-31T18:12:06.940Z,62701,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Dear community members, **This post will try to provide a bit of an overview of some of the main ongoing current discussions as well as to communicate some of the feedback, findings and suggestions from our Ethnography Team.** First to introduce the role of the Ethnography Team here at Edgeryders: It is hard to put into a short description what Edgeryders is doing for and with you and the world, because it is and can be so many things, which is one of the reasons why we are discussing this very thing in a kind of “meta-discussion” with you here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/why-to-edgeryder/10385 If you can give us your take on “why to edgeryder, that would be great! **However, one of the key things we are doing is Semantic Social Network Analysis** (SSNA), [see video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_DoEa3lcBE&feature=youtu.be), which means that a team of ethnographers and coder read all the discussions here on the platform, analyse them, identify topics and use an algorithm to identify connections and patterns in discussions which we can use to research how to improve our communication, but also to find new venues for the discussions themselves. These network analysis put into graphics look for example like this: ![|624x295](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Shd0SfcE9nXR0UpM-g_DyXzg1EiumkmqFKpHo97WHS-6_i2eWBk-WFItyUUKMjaDvqYnIuiSuZck8aqsZVcBO1TqwYACgHmZMKOHYVFu1VDrFiSuF6DWm1XefkwCfQVo5fAqbQWy) This one is from the preliminary results report of the current NGI conversations @anon1037234888 [just posted here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/ngi-ethnography-preliminary-results-for-community-members/11325?u=anon1037234888). _**She raises two very interesting points in that report:**_ **1. We need to try to define the term “DEEP GREEN TECH” with some concrete examples, with terms that do not require absolute expertise in specific fields to enable proper cross discipline discussion and face the issue of how to deal with the underlying tension between acknowledging the ecological costs of the tech industry and findings ways to develop technological tools to protect the climate.** [quote="anon1037234888, post:1, topic:11325"] Several current threads revolve around the notion of Deep Green Tech. While there is a lot of interesting discussion around this concept, it has yet to be clearly defined by the community. From what we can gather so far, Deep Green Tech is similar to Deep Tech, describing mainly startup companies based on substantial scientific research and innovations in tech engineering. Deep Green Tech, broadly, seems to describe technology that is ecologically sustainable, innovative and based on scientific advancements. The concept of Deep Green Tech appears to be a central area of focus for the NGI Forward community, but there seems to be ongoing discussions to clarify confusion around the term’s definition, its ramifications and implications. As a result, we want to help cut through the opacity of these discussions by working with you to understand how you define the term while also asking you to give concrete examples of its application, e.g. in design, research, tech innovation etc. In this way, we think we might all move toward a deeper and more productive discussion of the futures we want to see. [/quote] [quote="anon1037234888, post:1, topic:11325"] Interestingly (and perhaps conversely), explorations of the relationship between the climate and the internet/tech appears to be in its infancy, and though we are working with a community of experts, there often seems to be a struggle to solidly define key terms and concepts. Despite expertise, or perhaps because of it, specificity in defining technologies and technological areas requiring increased research focus persists across stories, meaning that you might find defining targeted and specific problems around these areas difficult as well. Also of interest, many of you find an underlying tension between acknowledging the ecological costs of the tech industry and findings ways to develop technological tools to protect the climate. [/quote] **2. We need to include more of our personal experience, motivations and examples in our stories, thoughts, ideas and project presentations and discussions. Your views on the topic are surely interesting, but knowing what brought you to start thinking about it and what shaped your ideas is what will enable us to not only connect but also to discuss and research on a deeper level!** [quote="anon1037234888, post:1, topic:11325"] Interestingly (and perhaps conversely), explorations of the relationship between the climate and the internet/tech appear to be in its infancy, and though we are working with a community of experts, there often seems to be a struggle to solidly define key terms and concepts. Despite expertise, or perhaps because of it, specificity in defining technologies and technological areas requiring increased research focus persists across stories, meaning that you might find defining targeted and specific problems around these areas difficult as well. Also of interest, many of you find an underlying tension between acknowledging the ecological costs of the tech industry and findings ways to develop technological tools to protect the climate. [/quote] [quote="anon1037234888, post:1, topic:11325"] If we can find such parallels on the Internet (rather than ‘what does the future look like to you’?), instead of ‘tell us about the last time something online upset you, and why?’ (or other questions along those lines, around sustainability for example) we might all get a deeper understanding. [/quote] **_Therefore, do not just tell us about your great idea, project or view on the Internet, but also tell us about the situation that first made you think about this and concrete examples that make it relevant to you personally :)!_** **A great example of combining this kind of personal story, motivation and research approach is this post from @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193 It is based on an interview that @anon2926706121 made with @anon Another great Interview article in preparation for that event is this one on civil social advocacy in the digital age by @anon https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-does-the-future-of-civil-society-advocacy-look-like-given-the-prevalence-of-these-digital-technologies-and-their-impact-on-the-work-that-civil-society-is-currently-doing/11118 **As mentioned above, one of our main topics currently is Deep Green Tech. Some examples to related discussions are these:** Here we discuss the general direction of DEEP GREEN RESEARCH here at Edgeryders: https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-do-we-weave-together-the-threads-of-various-conversations-we-are-having-around-a-deep-green-transition-and-what-are-our-next-steps/10775 And here is an environmental tech incubator from COAT lab looking for proposals: https://edgeryders.eu/t/environmental-tech-incubator-in-barcelona-looking-for-forest-protection-regeneration-projects/11197 _Also looking for proposals:_ @anon3572363072 ‘s Hackathon: https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-berlin/10769 Post you proposal here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/about-the-propose-a-hackathon-project-category/10956 And This P2P online incubation program by @anon518360670: https://edgeryders.eu/t/oci-labs-online-p2p-incubator-for-menas-youth/10249/2 **Last but not least I want to encourage you to look into the future of economics with the soon coming up SCi_fi Economic event on the 11th of November In Brussels:** https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-science-fiction-economics-lab-brussels-november-11th/10794 _And finally, a reminder that you can find an overview of all the Festival events on this minisite:_ https://festival.edgeryders.eu/ And Sign up for an event via the Butanon2317280404 on that site or this link: https://tell.edgeryders.eu/festival/ticket **Please also share those great articles, events and opportunities with your interested friends and networks beyond Edgryders and encourage them to join the discussion :).** We are always looking forward to hearing more from you!" 2,62707,2019-10-31T18:50:53.785Z,62701,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Overview wise, do you guys think I should leave the quotes from the report in or take them out to make it easier to read the whole thing?" 3,62709,2019-10-31T19:44:21.575Z,62707,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"I think you should leave them there, they give a lot of context/make it richer" 4,62734,2019-11-01T10:01:25.886Z,62709,anon1037234888,anon3449369942,"I'm pretty sure my community post is in the locked workspace, so if you want to link to it we should move it out. I can do that if you can fix the link in your post @anon3031202475" 5,62735,2019-11-01T10:02:29.516Z,62734,anon1037234888,anon1037234888,"Fixed both, link is working now." 1,62399,2019-10-28T15:17:45.925Z,62399,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"Great [project](http://sharingandcaring.eu/), just wrote a survey of the sharing economy in Germany for the network (will post when it comes out). STSM opportunity might be of interest to some egderyders, happy to host a research project here at [xm:lab](https://www.xmlab.org/research) if there is interest: **Short Term Scientific Missions – Call 2/2019-20** **COST Action - “From Sharing To Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy""** **Deadline: November 25th 2019, (Midnight, Brussels Time) for proposed STSM to take place before the 30th of April 2020** http://sharingandcaring.eu/grant/short-term-scientific-mission-stsm-grants **STSM Committee** Prof. Luigina Ciolfi (Chair) Prof. Sergio Nasarre-Aznar Dr. Vasilis Kostakis **What Are STSMs?** Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) are exchange visits aimed at supporting researchers’ individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering collaboration. STSMs are intended especially, but not solely, for young researchers. An STSM should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action “Sharing And Caring”, while enabling those partaking in the missions to establish new partnerships, learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and / or methods not available in their own institutions / organisations. **Who can apply?** STSMs are open for PhDs, PostDocs, and advanced career researchers employed at institutions in countries participating in “Sharing AndCaring”, or at approved institutions. STSMs must be performed between COST countries - researchers cannot apply for an STSM within their own country. Priority will be given to Early Career Investigators (ECI) (maximum 8 years since obtaining their PhD at the time of application) and PhD students working on socio-technical aspects of the collaborative economy. Particular consideration will also be given to candidates moving from/to COST Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs), which include Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Esanon2317280404ia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia and Turkey. International COST participants may host STSM researchers from European COST countries but may not apply for STSMs themselves. Awards throughout the annual grant period (for the third year: 1st May 2019- 30th April 2020) will be made to support scientific excellence, and to support a variety of researchers in terms of gender, career stage, affiliation, and nationality. **What can you apply for?** You can apply for a short term scientific mission of the duration between 5 and 90 days (and up to 180 days if the applicant is an ECI) to take place before April 30th 2020. The STSM will be a fixed grant to cover part of the travel expenses and living allowance. The cost of research materials is not eligible for consideration as part of the grant. Please note that the awarded grant will be paid only after the STSM has been completed – therefore the applicant must have approval and prior financial support e.g., from their own institution. The following funding conditions apply and must be respected: ● up to a max of EUR2500 in total can be afforded to each successful STSM applicant; ● up to a max of EUR160 per day can be afforded for accommodation & meal expenses; ● for ECIs, a max amount of EUR3500 can be afforded to the Grantee for STSMs with a duration of between 91 & 180 days – For ECIs partaking in STSMs with a duration of between 5 & 90 days, the limit is EUR2500; STSM activities must occur in their entirety within the dates specified in this call. STSM awards may be combined with other funding sources, but these must be acknowledged in the application. In your application, you will have to describe the goal of the proposed STSM, how it contributes to the scientific remit of the COST Action “Sharing And Caring”, the planned expenses and the outputs planned as result of the STSM. For ECIs, two support letters by advanced career researchers will be required. For detailed rules regarding eligibility and financial support, please see the relevant sections of the COST Vademecum ([ *http://www.cost.eu/download/COSTVademecum* ](http://www.cost.eu/download/COSTVademecum) *)* . **When can you apply?** You can apply until Midnight (Brussels Time) on the 25th of November 2019. **How can you apply?** This is a step-by-step guide to applying for an STSM and the criteria by which STSM applications will be assessed. More in-depth information can be found at the COST Vademecum ([ *http://www.cost.eu/download/COSTVademecum* ](http://www.cost.eu/download/COSTVademecum) *)* . Please contact Prof Luigina Ciolfi (STSM coordinator) ([l.ciolfi@anon The application process is as follows: 1. Applicants must carefully read the funding rules detailed in Section 7 of the *COST* H2020 *Vademecum, Section 7 (* [ *http://www.cost.eu/download/COSTVademecum* ](http://www.cost.eu/download/COSTVademecum) *)* 2. Applicants must submit an application using e-COST https://e-services.cost.eu/user/login/STSM. If you do not already have an e-COST account you will first need to 'create an account' - which will include providing the details of the bank account where the grant will be lodged if your STSM application is approved and the STSM successfully completed. 3. Applicants must obtain a letter of invitation from the Host Institution confirming that they can undertake the STSM on the given dates should their application be approved. 4. Applicants must complete, submit and download their STSM application online at: https://e-services.cost.eu/stsm. 5. Applicants also **must** send their application form and the relevant supporting documents for evaluation by email directly to Prof. Luigina Ciolfi ([l.ciolfi@anon The list of supporting documents to be submitted for the evaluation are: ● Letter of invitation to the applicant from a senior Researcher at the Host institution. ● The submitted STSM application form (downloadable when the online application is submitted - see 4 above). ● A letter including an overview of the proposed activities that will be performed, a workplan for the visit, a description of the proposed contributions to the scientific objectives of the “SharingAndCaring” Action, an outline of the host's scientific expertise/resources in support of the STSM. The letter should be *maximum 8 pages, the font should correspond to Times New Roman size 12 pt with single line spacing and standard margins of 2 cm.* ● A letter of support from the Applicant’s Home Institution. ● A Full C.V. (including a list of academic publications – if applicable). 6. The “Sharing And Caring” STSM panel organises assessment of the STSM proposal: STSM selection team assess the proposal (see ‘STSM Selection Criteria’) – may seek expert but impartial advice to inform their decision. If approved, the STSM coordinator sends application and approval to Grant Holder & Action Chair for final check. 7. The Grant Holder sends the applicant a grant letter to sign and return. The STSM should not be started until this letter has been signed and returned. 8. After the STSM, the investigator submits a scientific report to the STSM Host and STSM coordinator within 30 days of completing the STSM. This must include: the purpose of the mission; description of work carried out; description of main results/outputs; plan of future collaborations with Host (if applicable); planned publications resulting from STSM (if applicable); confirmation of successful STSM by Host. 9. STSM Coordinator and Action Chair approve the final report. The Grant Holder executes payment to STSM Applicant. **Criteria for Awarding STSM** STSM funding will be awarded according to the COST key principles of: ● Excellence ● Inclusivity ● Balance Criteria for evaluation will be as follows: ● The relevance and application of the research to the field of the Action – a detailed work plan will help determine if the scientific aims of the work will be relevant and applicable to the Action’s aims (1-5 points). ● The quality and clarity of the proposed research - The STSM application should be of high quality, arguing clearly and cogently the importance and timeliness of the research (1-5 points). ● The choice of Host institution – the applicant must give specific scientific reasons for visiting their chosen Host institution. We will also be tracking the geographical distribution of the Host institutions to ensure there is an evenly-spread network for knowledge transfer. Involvement of ITC countries will be a plus (1-5 points). ● The home institution of the researcher – We will take into account the number of applications from each institution to ensure a fair spread of researches across the network. Involvement of ITC countries will be a plus (1-5 points) ● The profile of the researcher – We will take into account the researcher’s potential of successfully completing the STSM on the basis of their previous work and achievements commensurate to their career stage. In line with COST policy, we will preferentially award STSMs to early career investigators (PhD + <8 years). This should not discourage more experienced researchers from applying (1-5 points). ● For ECIs, the support provided by senior colleagues ● The publication/output potential of the research carried out – Based on the STSM work plan and detailed publication/output plan (1-5 points)." 2,62423,2019-10-28T21:53:46.530Z,62399,anon3449369942,anon3180318115,Hallo :) This might be relevant for @anon2278327272 to know about! 3,62674,2019-10-31T15:40:24.354Z,62399,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"@anon1145034506 is this potentially interesting for you or someone you know? You certainly touch on some real caring and approach your advocacy through research as one can read in this amazing article: https://edgeryders.eu/t/can-tech-design-for-survivors-how-sex-violence-and-power-are-encoded-into-the-design-and-implementation-of-data-ai-driven-sexual-misconduct-reporting-systems/11193" 1,61833,2019-10-21T13:44:21.489Z,61833,anon3449369942,anon3449369942," **1. What is your project about? What’s the problem it solves and how?** Healthcare and Genetic data records are amongst the most intimate of data. I am seeing a frightening trend of people using services like 23&me which not only compromises their own privacy, but that of everyone who can be identified as members of their family. I can see a wide range of scenarios where this can prove problematic e.g where healthcare is privatised and insurance get a hold of data which can allow them to deny you coverage due to pre-existing conditions or genetic predisposition. Also, public institutions cannot be relied on to safeguard that data as they may be tempted to sell them to third parties that profess to helping them save costs through more efficient management of resources, triaging etc. **2. What stage are you in?** Early stage idea and research **3. What would you like to get out of a 72 hour hackday?** Figure out the feasibility of the idea, what technologies could be used to realise it and have a clear business/sustainability model for it. **4. What do you need to get it done? People? Skills? Guidance? Clarity?** All 4" 2,62480,2019-10-29T14:22:09.429Z,61833,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"hi @anon3572363072 , are there any next steps for me to do?" 3,62573,2019-10-30T16:48:03.237Z,61833,anon3572363072,anon3449369942,"Whooo :slight_smile: Thanks Nadia for adding your idea :slight_smile: I am not sure what your intended solution is? Are you still trying to figure that out? Would that be a session you'd like to do with people to brainstorm? Also: Do you plan to be in Berlin at the hackathon date, or remote?" 4,62577,2019-10-30T17:00:58.570Z,62573,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,"Yes it would be great to do a brainstorm session about this as I am unsure at which end to approach this. Are we looking at the ""wet"" end in collection of the blood/body fluids (labelling), the transport (legals/logistics/security), processing/generation of results, or delivering the data. Or perhaps I am looking at this the wrong way? Before going into solutions it would be good to eliminate unrealistic/too complex/dangerous paths" 5,62578,2019-10-30T17:02:03.431Z,62577,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"regarding joining in Person, it could work if I can find the right people who want to work on it ahead of the event so I know it makes sense for me to come" 1,55639,2019-06-24T18:56:18.027Z,55639,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Hey folks! I am about to publish a blog post below. Thought this might be a good place to get some eyeballs on it before it is released :slight_smile:, and generally this group might be interested in the subject of how we can build a more open, innovative and user-centric internet. Thanks for sharing your perspective! ------ We all have heard it: In order to build something valuable you it has to be 10X better than whats there. It seems like an accepted law of entrepreneurship. A law so strong that not even Google+, with Billions of backing, could not become a rival to Facebook. Google+ arguably had some features that made it a better service than Facebook. **This begs the questions if the reasons the 10x law exist actively prevents innovation from happening, why this 'law' exists in the first place and what we can do to change the rules?** ## Everyone knows the pain of trying out new products Common knowledge suggest services need to be 10x better because in order for users to really bother trying a new product it just needs to be a lot better. I think that's not the case and the key to solving this question lies in the phrase **""to try a new product"".** **I believe the real reason are are the switching costs, lock-ins and network effects that make it very hard or impossible to leave services and try out something new.** Imagine you wanted to move from Facebook to Google+, Akasha or Mastadon. All your posts and messages ported over is impossible and you immediately lose access to all of the friends you have on Facebook. So as long as the following is true people tendenciously do not switch other services, even if they know those are better. Costs to switch (time & mental effort) > Additional benefit offered * ~10 ## But....what about innovation? Don't these 10x requirements produce the leapfrogs in innovation we need to solve humanities biggest challenges quickly? ![tenor|444x250](upload://oTgVgQCQJIebqk2D7N916FbTI5Q.gif) **Yes because** it indeed produces big, measurable, jumps in innovation that have brought humanity forward. **But no because** 1. The amount of effort, money to build new (but structurally similar) services where 9/10 companies will fail because others dominating the market is a gigantic waste of human potential and time. We don't have the time to tinker on every new solution for years. We need to get it down to week(ends) or months. **** 2. Sometimes already a new feature to an existing service would bring great innovation. For example I waited 4 years before Facebook implemented the ability to save posts for later reading. Simply thing. If I had been able to modify this feature in my own clients it would have offered great workflow innovation for me. 3. The necessity to have such big jumps also brought us insane growth requirements that are responsible for a lot of things that go wrong in this world in the first place, and which we need to fix now. ## Faster innovation through incremental gains **How would a world look like where not 1/10 companies survive & produce 10x innovation, but 6/10 companies survive, each producing 2x innovation at 1/10 of the cost?** We would enter a world where we create incremental innovations at higher speed and less effort, more employment, more stable companies and economy, more service competition and less exploitation. ![com-optimize%20(2)|451x268](upload://lraYqtL2qVut74gWPrNffLeitCC.gif) ## What's holding us back: Network Effects and Data Lock-Ins ### Cause #1: How we share success in companies: Speculative value increase In order to reward the risk of contributing to a company in either time or money we use equity or stages stocks. The problem is that in most cases shareholders make most (or all) of their profits if the speculative value of the company increases. The company's profits, revenue and user numbers are only proxies, success is not directly dependent on them. Growth is the key metric a company optimises for. Therefore the worst thing that can happen for shareholders is that growth is slow or negative. Losing users or revenue is not acceptable and lock-ins **must** be created. Facebook is arguably the king of network effects and also an example of how extreme the above dynamic has become: **In the 2nd quarter of 2018, Facebook lost $120bn (billion!) in stock value within 48 hours, the biggest loss of any company in history. The reason: It posted** the least growth **since its founding, while still making 5BN in profits the same quarter and growing by 42% since the last year.** Think whatever you want about they way Facebook makes money, but such a highly profitable company should not be losing 20% of their stock value overnight while still being wildly profitable. ### Cause #2: You and your data are hostages: Data and Social Lock-ins & Non-Interoperable data formats The requirement to grow incentivises companies to lock people into their services and make it very hard to leave. Either it's difficult to migrate and reuse your data in other services, or they create network effects where you lose your social connections if you leave a service. [https://twitter.com/piamancini/status/1045034032407425024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw](https://twitter.com/piamancini/status/1045034032407425024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) This also creates counter incentives for interoperable formats which would make it easier to migrate between services or integrate them into custom workflows. Further, most businesses require to amass intellectual property in the form of proprietary software. There is an economic incentive to **not** share their progress with the world. This way every new service/competitor needs to start freshly, even for a simple app like a calendar app. # The 3 things that need to change Breaking this dynamic requires tackling the problem from multiple angles. I think it needs 3 things to make that possible. 1. **Data and social Interoperability** so users can freely move between services that suit their needs better and never lose the ability to communicate with their friends on other services. This will create the free-market pressure to produce good services, as you can't lock people in as easily anymore and only keep them if you are the best service to them. 2. **Economic models that reward being a good service, not growth.** In an environment where people can easily leave a service, a company can only really be successful if they focus on being a good service. This way they will need to optimise for revenue, not growth. Further, their growth is limited to the amount of people they can be the best service for, so it will be hard to get growth-focused Venture Capital investments. Another economic model is needed where investors make money only if the company is being a good service, thus by making revenue and profits. 3. **Optional but ideal: Open-Source software** New companies should be able to build on each other's work to provide services faster without spending 1000s of hours in building up services from scratch. Increased collaboration on key infrastructure and drop in development costs are expected. ## A way forward? At [WorldBrain.io](http://worldbrain.io) we are building open-source software and attempt to enable incremental innovation in the (knowledge management) software space. The foundation to make this possible is Memex, an open-source privacy focused tool to organise your online research. It's a mix of a Google Search for everything you have seen in the past, Medium's highlighting and commenting features but for the whole web, and Pocket's organisation features supercharged. All data is stored locally on your computer by default - you are in control. (You can download it here: [worldbrain.io](http://worldbrain.io)) This is how it help may tackle the problem: 1. **We bake interoperability deep into the core of Memex.** To make search possible Memex stores personal data from the different services you use (e.g. your browsing history/bookmarks/trails, social media posts and comments, what you shared/liked content on social media, your annotations and notes). Doing so in a way that creates unified data formats across multiple services. After all, social media posts on Twitter and Facebook are structurally not that different. To make this data usable for you we are in the process of developing an API that you, developers and entrepreneurs can use to innovate on new services or integrate with your existing ones. This central data store also houses your own social graph, so whichever service you eventually use, you can take your friends with you. 2. **Everything we develop is open source.** Everyone has different workflows when managing knowledge and needs different tools. People can copy Memex, change features and reuse the data they had in their previous Memex via the Storex API, or use 2 Memex tools in parallel. This ensures that innovators do not have to start freshly every time they want to improve a service, but can create incremental gains, acquire users easily and eventually create innovation faster. 3. **[WorldBrain.io](http://worldbrain.io) has no stock value. There is no speculation.** To reward early contributions and risk, we use a non-speculative economic model called Steward Ownership. In practice it is a profit sharing model that has a cap on the returns investors and employees can make - the cap is higher the earlier you join. This ensures that everyone is focused on building a sustainable service and greed for more than you ought to get is removed. **It allows us as a company to be OK (its surely nothing to celebrate, but its OK) to lose users and revenue to other services as it will only delay investors' returns, not lower them.** ## Next Steps: Of course such a data infrastructure, and the resulting data sovereignty, brings a whole new class of (privacy) challenges with it - after all we wanna prevent that this can turn into a Cambridge Analytica 4.0 scenario because people unknowingly share detailed data about their digital life. We are currently forming a community of people to map out all those challenges and how to tackle them through e.g. good UX, education or privacy preserving technologies. ### Our open questions we want to address: 1. How do we create a secure technology infrastructure for personal data? 2. Data sovereignty & flexible APIs come with risks - Cambridge Analytica 4.0 style risks. How do we create good UX that makes it easy, transparent and flexible to share personal data with other applications, while educating users about the potential risks and opportunities. 3. What can we learn from past efforts to interoperability and data model standardisation in order to create interoperable data models/formats for knowledge sharing that can evolve with contemporary needs. 4. How does legislation need to change to support ecosystems that are built on privacy as well as data portability/interoperability and reduce social lock-ins? 5. How can (governmental) funding mechanisms be designed to support early stage entrepreneurs and organisations using Steward Ownership or Non-Profit models, so they can avoid Venture Capital and focus on generating sustainable revenue/profits. 6. How can we facilitate a multi-stakeholder community of individuals & organisations with potentially large spectrum of political, economical and technical motivations/requirements to use this data infrastructure. 7. How can we create a community that is inclusive to people with different, sometimes opposing, world views and which lives constructive, consent-focused (not consensus!) discourse to ease those difference and find multi-partisan solutions. **Do you have ideas on how to answer those questions, or know people who do?** **Get in touch with us and help designing systems that are user centric, interoperable and build with a strong focus on data sovereignty and privacy.** Join us in our Slack/telegram Channel (coming soon)" 2,55711,2019-06-25T16:54:10.716Z,55639,anon3809206126,anon3572363072,"Hey Oliver, this is really interesting. In the language of economists, you describe market failures (in ""What’s holding us back""). You then proceed to recommend fixes (in ""The 3 things that need to change""). Two out of the three you mention qualify as competition policy (they make it harder to attain and hold dominant positions) and make plenty of sense. The third one, about VCs, is less straightforward, and I'm afraid it plugs back into value theory. That does not mean you are wrong, only that it is less obvious from a textbook economics point of view. I really like the idea of [quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:10221""] forming a community of people to map out all those challenges and how to tackle them through e.g. good UX, education or privacy preserving technologies. [/quote] It could be the beginning of a much needed activity to issue guidelines, set goalposts and certify companies and products. I think the folks involved in the European Commission's [Next Generation Internet initiative](https://www.ngi.eu) might look with some sympathy upon such efforts. Many people in the Edgeryders community also care about these issues, and we would like to help if we can. I find a bit less convincing that any single company be a good candidate for a long term fix. It's great that WorldBrain is experimenting with non-speculative finance, but I would not stake too much on it. Quite some innovation in governance and corporate culture have been attempted in the past (lastly the ""not evil"", progressive tech giants), and I am not impressed with the results. Of course, this time might really be different, but that's a hard argument to make. I think your ""A way forward"" section means to treat WorldBrain not as a massive fix, but as an example of the approach you would like to see. If it is so, I think it could be made clearer by bolting it on top of Things that need to change, item 2, and explaining that items 1 and 3 are a matter for public policy." 3,55714,2019-06-26T00:09:28.445Z,55639,anon1505367078,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:10221""] **How would a world look like where not 1/10 companies survive & produce 10x innovation, but 6/10 companies survive, each producing 2x innovation at 1/10 of the cost?** [/quote] This is a very good question and relates to something my friend @anon477394456 once said when we were talking about entrepreneurship. I'm paraphrasing, but basically, the argument is that the start-up entrepreneurship hype is mostly a cheap way for big companies to outsource their R&D to young idealistic people who are willing to live on noodles and spend their best years chasing a project that is very likely to fail. And the systems are set up so that if they do make it, against the odds, they end up under investor control and are likely to be sold off to a bigger player for a pay-out. This 2x world is certainly more appealing in that regard. [quote=""anon3572363072, post:1, topic:10221""] ### Our open questions we want to address [/quote] These are questions that I think @anon" 4,55717,2019-06-26T01:51:17.523Z,55639,anon4137438405,anon3572363072,"Continuing the discussion from [Startups' grand illusion: You have to be 10x better than whats there](https://edgeryders.eu/t/startups-grand-illusion-you-have-to-be-10x-better-than-whats-there/10221): @anon1505367078 asked me to X-post my reply on Facebook here. I made some minor editing to fit this forum better. Sorry for a long rambling text but I'm thinking a lot of these kinds of problems due to my internal conflict between my ADD (human limitation, which includes problems with processing info) and my intense curiousity (filling my brain with too much info). ... I thought a lot about innovation rate when I wrote this comment a earlier today: [https://www.facebook.com/mrhama/posts/10156538052578951...](https://www.facebook.com/mrhama/posts/10156538052578951?comment_id=10156538092398951&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D&hc_location=ufi) ... The OP is really good as it explains why the economic ecosystem fails to select for growth in utility because of various impeding factors. I thought a bit about questions similar to Cause 1 and 2 last week and spoke about them with some friends. I think Cause 2 is a really hard nut to crack as it's impossible to have open APIs for personal data (as we learnt from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, mentioned by OP). To spur innovation and bust the tech oligopoly we'll need open standards, protocols, interoperability etc. The big problem here is that the oligopoly as well as their customers (advertisers) oppose such changes as that would undermine their profitable positions. I wonder how and if grassroot innovations alone can break the staleness of the oligopoly. It might take a bit of trust busting from USA and EU to really shake things up through political means. Right now there are a bunch of competitors to the oligopoly but they are irrelevant since most of them don't seem to realise the importance of working with the whole stack. Each of them have simply too anon222512824 brainpower (since most good developers are already employed by the oligopoly) to be anywhere close to develop as good services as the oligopoly does which makes the strategy of competing with a better service a fool's errand. Bitchute will never be able to outcompete Youtube with a bit freer speech as their USP. My idea last week was to develop some kind of virtual business card as a hub for metadata about a person or a company you want to follow and then build a platform to navigate these information streams. Different communications platforms can be connected to that hub. My idea at that point didn't even attempt to solve the problem of the storage of the databases. I doubt we can solve that issue for the forseeable future since only the major clouds have the scale to store the data cheap enough. Storing data locally is incompatible with the nature of social media since the communication is asynchronous. So far blockchains have been unimpressive in their ability of integrating social media or other services into the protocol itself to make data storage disembodied from a singular entity like a corporation. So far the only use case for blockchains is to tranfer money since then there's an acceptance for the high costs of transferring small amounts of data. I'm very happy to read that many of my ideas about some kind metadata manager had already been thought of and implemented by Worldbrain. I'm also a bit skeptic: Does Worldbrain want to compete in an existing market dynamic or do they want to disrupt the dynamics. It might be hard to achieve both goals of making things interoperable as well as spending time to develop a good UX. Wikipedia/Wikimedia have managed this but for such a shifting service such as managing information overload in an environment where the flows of information are locked into personalised propertiary algorithms on different platforms it might be a much harder task how to make the webs manageable. I'm currently opting out from a lot of different data managers and unfollowing topics on social media (like Pocket) and just shove the data into Excel instead where there's a simple 2D-layout that suits me better. This process of decluttering gives me a lot of inspiration. There are many things I learn about myself and of the internet through this process. Maybe we can remodel the stack, loosen the grip of the oligopoly and spur more innovation. What I desire is the somwhat oxymoronic desire of having many different information flows manageable through a small set of apps/sites/services. Facebook and RSS have failed me. Facebook because it's too closed and hard to configure and RSS becuase it doesn't have an algorithm to discern what's relevant or not." 5,55735,2019-06-26T10:06:45.292Z,55717,anon3572363072,anon4137438405,"@anon4137438405 [quote=""anon4137438405, post:4, topic:10221""] Sorry for a long rambling text [/quote] I think no need to apologise for good insights :) Sometimes it is hard to condense these year long experiences and thoughts. So no problem. One purpose of such conversations is after all to synthesise. :slight_smile: > I think Cause 2 is a really hard nut to crack as it’s impossible to have open APIs for personal data I think I understand your concern and fear the Cambridge Analytica 2.0 scenario too, but I would not say it is impossible to solve. We think it is a **very** hard nut to crack though. The way to solve the data sharing problem is not just with technology but also with a lot of education. Such systems need to be very well designed in terms of UX and how to educate people about the way to share data without overwhelming them. That's a whole range of challenges by themselves. > To spur innovation and bust the tech oligopoly we’ll need open standards, protocols, interoperability etc. YES! This is exactly what we think too. In order to have more data sovereignty, privacy and better services we think the best metric to optimise for is interoperability, not decentralisation. If we manage to do this, we assume we create the kind of free-market dynamics that could break up the power of those organisations. > It might take a bit of trust busting from USA and EU to really shake things up through political means. I think luckily we have the regulatory atmosphere in Europe that is tendentiously more interested in privacy and interoperability, making Europe a very good foundational market for such an effort. > since most of them don’t seem to realise the importance of working with the whole stack. Can you elaborate, not sure if I got this. Seems important to understand tho. > Different communications platforms can be connected to that hub. This is one of the thinking processes on how this platform could be architected to avoid a vulnerable centralisation of user data in user's control. Basically finding a way that the data in all the services a user uses is accessible with a Memex, but stays in the ""protection"" of those services, spreading the attack surface. However to make this possible it would require those oligopolies to play ball to this, which is unlikely. So another route is to use some good ol' [adversarial interoperability](https://boingboing.net/2019/06/07/lightsabers-for-trustbusting.html) to create data formats that interoperate with those services and once such formats have more widespread use it may 'force' previously locked up services to open up more in order to stay competitive. This is a very long game though. > Storing data locally is incompatible with the nature of social media since the communication is asynchronous. Indeed it is and a dogmatic approach to decentralisation will not get us very far. We think that there is always a necessity for varying degrees of (de)centralisation in the system, dependent on the use case. In our approach this means that we follow a wordpress.com/org style model where we provide hosting to users who want to have a SaaS experience, but you can self-host your sync/collaboration node too. As decentralised storage technologies like Dat or IPFS mature, it may be purpuseful to use them, but not now. > So far blockchains have been unimpressive in their ability of integrating social media or other services into the protocol itself to make data storage disembodied from a singular entity like a corporation. Actually I see a deep dichotomy in the goals that blockchain and cryptocurrencies in particular have that impede their ability to have the impact of decentralisation originally envisioned. On the one hand they use technology that tries to build trustless, distributed systems and on the other hand an economic model that intrinsically creates incentives for centralisation through the speculative nature of how success is shared. > Does Worldbrain want to compete in an existing market dynamic or do they want to disrupt the dynamics. Which dynamics specifically are your referring to? The current market dynamics I understand is the centralisation of user data around corporate entities and the network effects created. If that is what you are talking about, yes our plan is to disrupt that dynamic by giving users unprecedented freedom to move services, a freedom we believe is hard to take away again once given. The big assumption is therefore that over time it may force existing players to adopt such interoperability to stay competitive. Apart from that maybe that answers some of the question: There are 2 different entities forming: 1) WorldBrain.io as a company which is the developer of (the current) open-source Memex and generates revenue by providing SaaS services to users. 2) Still to be named: Storex and a community of organisations/individuals as the underlying infrastructure which will be built as a non-profit, multi-partisan entity similar to wordpress.org. WorldBrain.io will likely be the main driver behind its development for the next 1-2 years but keeping it intentionally open and separated from the main business. >Facebook because it’s too closed and hard to configure and RSS becuase it doesn’t have an algorithm to discern what’s relevant or not. We hope through this central store and the upcoming collaboration features that are based on a PubSub model we would combine the best of both worlds. You can have data streams coming in from your various sources and use whatever algorithm, UI or UX you prefer to manage those streams. This modularity is one of the key principles behind building Memex and Storex. ---- Thanks again for your thoughtful comments. Looking forward to continue the conversation. :)" 6,55737,2019-06-26T10:28:55.154Z,55711,anon3572363072,anon3809206126,"Thanks for your comment. :) [quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:10221""] The third one, about VCs, is less straightforward, and I’m afraid it plugs back into value theory. That does not mean you are wrong, only that it is less obvious from a textbook economics point of view. [/quote] Can you elaborate on this point a bit more? What specifically are you afraid of in the context of value theory and how can I make my point more straight forward (aka. what kind of open questions come up for you?) > It could be the beginning of a much needed activity to issue guidelines, set goalposts and certify companies and products. Yes :) that is the idea. If we wanna have a real change this effort must be bottom up, but another company trying to build it in their singular view of the world > I think the folks involved in the European Commission’s [Next Generation Internet initiative](https://www.ngi.eu/) might look with some sympathy upon such efforts. I think so too, and being funded by the LEDGER grant is a first step towards this. Within the next 6-9 months we try to formulate the vision of this data sharing infrastructure, build an MVP, getting 10-20 organisations using the infrastructure and then applying for some bigger NGI/H2020 grants beginning of next year to get it to maturity. > I find a bit less convincing that any single company be a good candidate for a long term fix. It’s great that WorldBrain is experimenting with non-speculative finance, but I would not stake too much on it. Agreed, specifically this data infrastructure should be a non-profit multi-partisan effort. As explained in the response to @anon4137438405, there will be 2 entities. > 1. [WorldBrain.io](http://worldbrain.io/) as a company which is the developer of (the current) open-source Memex and generates revenue by providing SaaS services to users. > 2. Still to be named: Storex and a community of organisations/individuals as the underlying infrastructure which will be built as a non-profit, multi-partisan entity similar to [wordpress.org](http://wordpress.org/). [WorldBrain.io](http://worldbrain.io/) will likely be the main driver behind its development for the next 1-2 years but keeping it intentionally open and separated from the main business. > , but I would not stake too much on it. What makes you skeptical about that? > and I am not impressed with the results. Yes I see it similarly. I think the problem with those attempts was that they tried to use governance as a fix to counter the deeply embedded economic incentives of companies. After all if your company is built for growth (which inevitably become exploitative and power-centralising at some point), using governance to solve this is ineffective at best and fails at worst. The point of Steward Ownership is to systematically remove the incentives for greed behaviour (infinite potential for growth) by agreeing on a fixed return for investors/contributors before they invest time and/or money. Excess profits can then be used to improve the working conditions, supply chain sustainability, overall service, or simply be given away to charity. > If it is so, I think it could be made clearer by bolting it on top of Things that need to change, item 2, and explaining that items 1 and 3 are a matter for public policy. Thanks for that suggestion, will see how I can incorporate it. However, I think you can't rely on solely public policy to change 1 and 3. Open-Source software (2) alone won't fix the issue either. I don't even think it is a hard requirement. Interoperability (1) and Steward Ownership structures (2) won't be freely adopted by existing corporations and it is expected, like with the GDPR legislation, that there will be major effort to counter interoperability legislation. And frankly it takes way too long. Time we simply don't have as humanity. So I think a move towards interoperability and Steward Ownership at scale can only work if the primary driver is technological innovation that changes the playing field. This may be supported by legislation at some point, latest when it becomes almost inevitable to strengthen interoperability efforts because of public pressure." 7,55775,2019-06-26T17:49:08.154Z,55639,anon2434097920,anon3572363072,"Great link on adversarial interoperability. Based on what I know so far, I see interoperability and user choice about who stores the data and where, as your best shot to gain traction because that is most in conflict with the business models of the big monopoly platforms. Something I have noticed over the past decades is how many startups or rival businesses or enterprises had a product or service that was either bought or duplicated. And that business either cashes out or goes under or soanon3242181883 finds a niche and survives. I saw this in the 80s with Apple and MS in their operating systems, I saw it in the 90s with MS Explorer, and in the 2000s with Google (maps come to mind for one) and Facebook up through today. And I suspect that FB's new emphasis on private group messages is not just to stay out of the content moderation game, but is in response to a threat from Slack. I am pretty sure you know this already, but when your product or service, that relies on either an Apple or MS OS, Google, FB or Amazon (and others surely) succeeds past a certain point, if they can copy it, they will. Either that or make you an offer you are not likely to refuse. So making indexes and notations and sharing info...all of that is something they can reproduce. But you know they won't allow someone to control their data and they won't play nice with everyone else, just like how Apple makes it harder to do things with Adobe when those two are warring..so making the things work that live in between the Big Boys and creating a kind of more protected value to the people who use it gives an opening I think." 8,55823,2019-06-28T07:51:09.305Z,55775,anon3572363072,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:7, topic:10221""] Based on what I know so far, I see interoperability and user choice about who stores the data and where, as your best shot to gain traction because that is most in conflict with the business models of the big monopoly platforms. [/quote] Yes i see this too. With decentralisation as the main metric it may not be enough to provide better services. It's hard to beat the convenience and efficiency of centralised systems. > I am pretty sure you know this already, but when your product or service, that relies on either an Apple or MS OS, Google, FB or Amazon (and others surely) succeeds past a certain point, if they can copy it, they will. Either that or make you an offer you are not likely to refuse. There are several factors that may not let that happen. 1. WorldBrain.io is a Steward Ownership company. Once this transformation is complete, the company itself can never be sold. A golden share will be given to a foundation with the only purpose of preventing any sale of any shares. 2. Interoperability (the freedom to move your data and friends) will presumably give people a freedom that is very hard to take again, once given. Thus the assumption is that over time other services effectively need to offer some interoperability to stay competitive. 3. Actually the goal is that Memex and its features are duplicated and integrated into other (proprietary) services that allow to share the data inside those services more effectively. However these are all big assumptions and its not self-evident that these will play out exactly like that. The key will be to continuously try to set the market incentives so that it just becomes more profitable for existing organisations to be interoperable, because the market demands it." 9,56109,2019-07-03T11:59:19.086Z,55639,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Hey folks. i just published the [article on medium](https://medium.com/worldbrain/how-vc-money-prevents-innovation-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-2f8867b2fff8) and [shared this tweet](https://twitter.com/worldbrain/status/1146387086100111362) about it. I would be very thankful if you can spread it in your circles! Cheers :slight_smile:" 10,60177,2019-09-30T14:39:52.573Z,55639,anon3449369942,anon3572363072,"I was reminded of this post while reading about the current implosion of WeWork: A lesson in how to go from from a $47 billion valuation to talk of bankruptcy in just 6 weeks. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/28/hubris-of-a-high-flyer-how-investors-brought-wework-founder-down-to-earth" 11,60181,2019-09-30T15:06:59.188Z,60177,anon3572363072,anon3449369942,"Indeed, valuations of some companies is just insanely detached from the service they bring into the world." 12,60196,2019-09-30T17:46:42.386Z,60177,anon2434097920,anon3449369942,"A very succinct recap of what went down. It looks in one way as if a single company was acting like the mortgage-bundling funds that created much of the 2008 bubble that burst. So it sort of looks like a house of cards. Except how did this guy convince the head of Softbank to invest so much money? He must be a gifted bullshitter. And it's the greed pheromone, so seductive. One of the best pieces of business advice I ever got came from the big boss of the publishing company I worked for in the 90s, which owned newspapers, TV stations and book publishing. This guy was a heavy hitter: he had been the head of ABC in New York for 17 years. He told me when I was just starting out that in reporting up to your boss or an investor, ""always lead with your bad news. That way your good news will be believed. If you always lead with your good news, it becomes suspect."" I suspect that this is a guy who didn't do that; did the opposite in fact. But in those pre-IPO filings, you have to lay it out honestly or you are committing a crime. So, the whole picture came suddenly into full focus. ""Whoops...so that's what's going on? No thanks, we'll pass.""" 13,62532,2019-10-30T10:49:17.915Z,60196,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:12, topic:10221""] “always lead with your bad news. That way your good news will be believed. If you always lead with your good news, it becomes suspect.” [/quote] I really like that." 1,62514,2019-10-30T05:00:20.963Z,62514,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"I feel this is a very fitting song for the conversations we're having here (interview out with the rappers on Coda Story's Authoritarian Tech newsletter later today). “Everyone wants to feel in control. In the same breath, they want to be told what they like and what they don’t. So it seems to me, this confusion is a human error. We keep allowing this to grow, the machines are gonna win.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8OE8kg7DoQ" 1,62347,2019-10-27T22:34:23.837Z,62347,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%2029th%20of%20oct-01|690x487](upload://6BEyImvs9Z4WHUEsnZQp9ttx267.png) Dear organisers and festival participants! We are entering the hot phase, just before the burning hot face in Festival preparations:). Now we should all be decided and booked on the date and location and have a clearer image of the last needs and most importantly be ready to start inviting all the interesting people we want to have there! Please come to the call on Tuesday the 29th 18:00 to catch up and see if everything is on track and if and how you would need help :). Looking forward to seeing you at: https://zoom.us/j/489971765 Ping @anon3931191205, @anon3572363072, @anon3180318115, @anon" 2,62409,2019-10-28T17:04:58.932Z,62347,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"**Some early updates:** I have been at Mozfest this weekend and it seems as if Mozilla is organising an IndieWeb Barcamp/Hackathon. They have a very similar structure in mind: 1 day community weaving, 1 day building. Tantek, the person leading the event, and me had the idea of merging those 2. This means we wouldn't need to pay for a location and have a great community on board too. https://indieweb.org/2019/Berlin2" 3,62411,2019-10-28T17:35:28.795Z,62409,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072, would it still work to have the participants post their project proposals and documentation here on the platform?" 1,62402,2019-10-28T15:27:46.649Z,62402,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"Das von der The Schaufler Foundation und der Technischen Universität Dresden kofinanzierte Schaufler Lab@anon Im Schaufler Lab@anon Die Universität unterstützt ihre Mitglieder bei der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie und bietet familienfreundliche Studien- und Arbeitsbedingungen. Zudem werden über die Graduiertenaka- demie und andere Zentrale Einrichtungen Weiterbildungs- und Qualifikationsmöglichkeiten angeboten (z. B. Projektmanagement, Softskills, Sprachkurse). Von den Bewerbenden werden ein überdurchschnittlicher wiss. Hochschulabschluss in einem geistes- oder sozialwiss. Fach und eine hohe Bereitschaft zu interdisziplinärer Arbeit sowie zur Forschung und zu Kooperationen mit Künstlern/-innen im Rahmen des Schaufler Labs@anon Frauen sind ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung aufgefordert. Selbiges gilt auch für Menschen mit Behinderungen. Potentielle Stipendiaten/-innen bewerben sich bitte mit Motivationsschreiben, tabanon1410463509rischem Lebenslauf, etwaigen Zeugnissen und einem Exposé im Umfang von maximal 20.000 Zeichen für ein Promotionsvorhaben. Besonders erwünscht sind interdisziplinär angelegte Projekte mit Doppelbetreuungen. Hierbei sind auch Kooperationen von Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften mit Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften denkbar. Ihre Bewerbung senden Sie bitte bis 29.11.2019 (es gilt der Poststempel der ZPS der TU Dresden) bevorzugt über das SecureMail Portal der TU Dresden https://securemail.tu-dresden.de als ein PDF-Dokument an lutz.hagen@anon" 1,60763,2019-10-06T14:32:38.915Z,60763,anon3449369942,anon3449369942," image credit: ? Earlier this year, Amelia Andersdotter (@anon227579045), Alberto Cottica (@anon3809206126) and myself had a conversation about Europe, politics and tech. Amelia has a lot of [hands on hands-on experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Andersdotter) around how to bridge the gap between the different actors and processes needed for political lobbying, design and implementation of policies in Europe. It was a sweeping conversation about how in practice, the regulation of technology happens and where the real negotiations around power to implement policies (or not) take place. In this conversation we brushed on several topics and issues that together are resulting in EU and national policies stifling the ability of European companies to successfully compete with Chinese and US tech actors, and the values they espouse: 1. That we get lots of new policy on top of existing policy with redundancy and the implications of this in the long run. 2. The conflict between well-intended European Policymakers and national governments. 3. Role of standards bodies and how different actors relate to/navigate/use them. 4. The general difference between how US / China / EU institutions and national governments acts/relates to its technologies/goes about policy making / regulation. We also discussed which skills, expertise and strategic alliances are needed to improve the situation. And how Edgeryders could better leverage our growing reach and presence in EUrope to contribute to this. Rather than try to sum up the contents of a 3 hour, deeply technical conversation I have set this post up as a wiki for all of us to help flesh out one or more of the points above. To set a good foundation for our discussions and events before, during and after the November festival." 2,61227,2019-10-13T13:13:55.251Z,60763,anon227579045,anon3449369942,"This is a long-term discussion that we need to have with more relevant actors - in and outside of the Edgeryders communities. Bringing in researchers, institutions - especially interesting now that there has been a very strong push for strategic standardization, securitization and industrial policy at different levels of EU governance (member states, Union level), while at the same time EU legislation tries to push in a direction of ethics, rights, rules-based governance (consider data protection or A.I. initiatives of late). Maybe we need a round-table eventually or get some people in the same room for a workshop format on requirements on EU tech architectures?" 3,61837,2019-10-21T13:51:26.530Z,61227,anon3449369942,anon227579045,makes sense to me - when might you want/have time to do it? If you can come to the AI and Justice event on November 19 in Brussels it could be a good opportunity to connect with possible allies ahead of future work on a round table. 4,62372,2019-10-28T12:37:36.814Z,61837,anon227579045,anon3449369942,"On November 19 I'm busy, but towards December I'm free. I'll be at CCC this year if you're there? Or at IGF in Berlin in end-November, as well as in Torino for the DECODE event next week?" 5,62373,2019-10-28T12:44:25.126Z,62372,anon1505367078,anon227579045,"Amelia, will you by any chance be at Internetdagarna?" 6,62374,2019-10-28T12:48:20.236Z,62372,anon3449369942,anon227579045,"@anon3809206126 is at decode, maybe you guys can flesh something out! Alberto look ^^" 7,62376,2019-10-28T13:08:29.700Z,62373,anon227579045,anon1505367078,"@anon1505367078 Agh, I will not be at Internetdagarna, I am in Berlin those days for a JustNetCoalition meeting and later the IGF/wrapping-up work." 8,62377,2019-10-28T13:11:47.066Z,62376,anon1505367078,anon227579045,"Ok, got it! But I will see you in Turin and then at CCC. Looking forward to catching up." 9,62378,2019-10-28T13:12:18.302Z,62377,anon227579045,anon1505367078,indeed! 1,62001,2019-10-22T17:56:46.412Z,62001,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Hello, dear Community members, on the 22nd of October, we met up with @anon2926706121, @anon683229855, @anon2233507620, @anon2465999935, @anon2434097920, @anon107383982 and @anon1676186961 to get on the same page and see what need to be done next and how we can help each other for the festival events. * We started by discussing the **signup process** again, which can appear rather complex, so here a break down of the general process: 1. Through this link: https://tell.edgeryders.eu/festival/ticket or through the ""get your ticket butanon2317280404"" on the minisite https://festival.edgeryders.eu/ people get to the sign-up form. in this form they are asked: Name, email, to select the event they want to attend from a roaster, and to introduce themselves a bit. They get this message: ""_Thank you very much! We will reach out to you via email with in the next 48 hours to give you further information and to discuss how to share your story best to confirm your ticket._"" 1. The Edgeryders team send an email to each signed up person explaining how to sign up on Edgeryders and how to make their post to introduce themselves in relation to the event topic to **""activate their ticket""** 1. As soon as they post their post, they have their ticket If you want to invite especially interesting people we offer to do an interview with them and write the post for them to get the most out of their time and topic. You could use the ""template for inviting experts"" from this document if you want: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cjY51Qsyl_3jtabQNLOFQxLJ6wm4kH83doy6nD78NbU/edit?usp=sharing Any questions? **Regarding reach out:** We are going to set up a facebook event for each of the events on the minisite and make the organiser a cohost to make it easier to invite your network at large. However, if you do not use facebook and do have other channels that work better for you, use those :). **You can find the templates for flyers here:** https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11cDhmukccGqWkSpuCNWhdF3jpGFHPFGc?usp=sharing Send us the copy and images to personalise them until Thursday the 24th of October or do it yourself/if that not possible we will just have it done by the designer from whatever they can find in your post with some copyright-free image. Please try to avoid that: short title short description/pitch line (line! really keep it short, have a look on the template! image Finances: Transport costs, food and such you need to pay and afterwards we will reimburse you, but invoices for facilitators and locations can be made out to edgeryders. Ad detailed description of that will follow and be linked shortly. Updates from the projects: @anon107383982 will take over for @anon2753384108 on the https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-service-design-in-a-climate-emergency-what-do-digital-services-in-a-world-of-net-zero-look-like/11070 she is a professional facilitator of design workshops and we are excited to have her here. The date of the event is now the 28th of October @anon683229855 needs help to reach out to the academics and pedagogies networks in Sweden. (will post info shortly) @anon2465999935 has pinned down the location and is developing the event :slight_smile: **The wellbeing events will not go through the signup funnel via the form, but instead directly ask people to post on the platform.** @anon2926706121 stressed that she is available for any questions regarding communication and outreach. let's communicate and share! with each other and those we want to invite. Booking the venue, inviting the facilitator's speakers and core guests as well as for deciding if they need and if yes distributing flyers and information physically on location is the responsibility of the organisers. **The deliverables fo the events is having the participants sing up (see above) and post on the platform and the documentation: https://edgeryders.eu/t/documentation-methodology-for-edgeryder-events/11202** **Be available to answer questions from people who want to participate in your event, or give us an alternative contact.** If you need a bigger team ask or hire help. If you need help to find your way, ask for it here :slight_smile: We will start pushing the events via social media this week :) recording of the call here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FdwVgXT_JDqipqU-Qp5uSyI4T0p4qso_" 2,62004,2019-10-22T18:30:44.289Z,62001,anon107383982,anon3031202475,"Thanks for such a quick write up @anon3031202475. As mentioned, we'll be around in the next week-esque with the workshop outline" 1,61567,2019-10-17T14:32:26.975Z,61567,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Hello, dear people organising and being interested in the Festival with NGI and Wellbeing in November, Thank you to all of you who came to the call on the 15th 18:00 on ""reaching out, inviting and signing up to the festival"" and to everyone else working to organise something with us. Here is a summary of the call and the next actionable steps we discussed: **1. Organising the events themselves:** * Every organiser should be able to say if they or someone else take care of these 3 roles for their events. If it is yourself, please say so, if it is someone else, please list the name and role of that person in your event description and get us in contact with them so we can make sure they have everything they need :) : 1. **Facilitator** for workshops/talks/sessions planed. (These also include activists and participants who take a more active role in your event) 1. **Documentation organiser** Someone needs to be responsible for the coordination and partially conduct documentation for the event. Get them in contact with us to discuss our method for community documentation methods. 1. **Contact person for questions and logistics** depending on your event you might also need to name other roles such as: * (Reqiererement Engineer for hackathons) * (Matchmaking organiser for networking events) Ask yourself if you can take care of all of it, or if you need help. It will run smoother if you assign those roles. If you have a problem filling them tell us and we will try to help you find someone. Also, get the people you assign in contact with us so we can organise together more smoothly! . 2. **Outreach:** We will create a facebook event for each of the Festival events for you. IF you have questions regarding that ask @anon1686813978. We also commissioned templates for flyers for social media, which you can see [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11cDhmukccGqWkSpuCNWhdF3jpGFHPFGc?usp=sharing). We will prepare those for you, just provide us with: 1. A short title for your event 1. A one-sentence pitch description of your event 1. An image to put onto the flyer to which you have the rights, which either connects to your topic or shows you or one of your speakers/facilitators in action (in that case, please give us also their name) _send those directly to me @anon3031202475 and load them up as replies to your festival thread and ping me and @anon1686813978_ **We will also hire a journalist to interview all the experts and activists that are crucial to your event, their field and that we would to especially invite into the further discussion. Please provide us with the names and contact of the people coming to your event/invited to your event, which you think we should interview!** . **3. Sign Up:** We set up the sign up via the minisite (https://tell.edgeryders.eu/festival_ticket). Everyone can sign up here and select the event they want to attend. We then answer them personally telling them how to activate their ticket by making a post with the organisers in cc. * Personalise the templates for the answer emails for your event: * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cjY51Qsyl_3jtabQNLOFQxLJ6wm4kH83doy6nD78NbU/edit?usp=sharing * Give us an email address which we can cc in the answer email of those who sign up to your event :) . **4. Budget:** The Budget for For the NGI events is 12000 euro + 2500 euro for travel, for the pop rebel events there is a budget of 1000 euro per event, summing up to 3000 euro in total, which is taken from a different funding body. 1. Fill in your budget in as much detail as possible here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IIk5nCMebzEFqJ3ik4pp9vR8f65Wm5GuVCyUPgQ-o-Q/edit?usp=sharing 1. Remember to keep the receipts for anything you need to be reimbursed for 1. If what you need to pay is via invoice, like the location or the fee for the facilitator, you can have them make it out to Edgeryders directly, so you do not have to pay upfront. Contact @anon2278327272 about how to make those invoices. **AND most importantly: If you haven't already, finish the description of your events on the platform! @anon3931191205, @anon @anon @anon" 2,61572,2019-10-17T15:20:00.680Z,61567,anon2233507620,anon3031202475,"Doing it now, are we supposed to do it fully in Serbian, in wellbeing>serbia part of the forum?" 3,61582,2019-10-17T16:30:30.614Z,61572,anon3031202475,anon2233507620,"@anon1676186961 and @anon3449369942, which language for the wellbeing festival posts? @anon2233507620 The minisite is all English, so an English version would be good, also so we know what it is about and can help with the outreach, but if your audience needs it in Serbian too, maybe it's best to do both versions." 4,61584,2019-10-17T16:33:56.809Z,61582,anon2233507620,anon3031202475,"I already did everything in Serbian, to post it in wellbeing serbia part, because I saw Polish event was like that. Will put the English version for you guys. By the way I think this kind of posts about the upcoming event should be pinned to the top of each country forum part" 5,61596,2019-10-17T18:30:32.174Z,61584,anon2233507620,anon2233507620,"One person I will invite is Nikola Canak, he is a very high profile speaker from Novi Sad. Would be great to have him but I wonder if he will be expensive. In any case, here is his biography: Prof. dr. dr. Dr. Canak (Dr. Nick) was educated in Novi Sad and Berkeley and has been educated at leading institutions in Europe. He holds a PhD from US universities (Stanford and Cornell) and has been a Fulbright Foundation Fellow on two occasions. He is the founder of the Education Center for Permanent Education ""NTC"" in Novi Sad, a professor at the University of Belgrade and Novi Sad. Dr. Nick has worked in 52 countries, a renowned motivator, lecturer, doctor of medical sciences, professor of communication science, master of judo anon1049766816 arts, figure skating instructor, Fulbright Foundation Fellow, author of 13 books in communication science, Network Marketing, Success Psychology. Immediate, confident, hyperactive - Professor dr. For many, Nikola Canak is a role model for a happy and meaningful life. He graduated from medicine because he wanted to be Dr. Kilder (the hero of the famous TV series of the 1960s). After 25 years, in the early 90's, in one day he emerged from the profession and opened the space for new professions: he began to pursue applied psychology and motivation. He now holds trainings and lectures attended by several thousand people. He is the creator of a complete system he called ""Total quality of life"", is a master of several anon1049766816 arts, is married and the father of seven children. @anon51020356 @anon3449369942 @anon3031202475 what would be your advice? It's not like the event will not work without him but I feel it would be very beneficial, increase our credibility and in fact, be beneficial for the whole wellbeing in Serbia project if we could get him on board in some way...not for the workshop but use the workshop to bring him in the Wellbeing in Serbia, hoping he will become our advocate of a sort locally. PS: I will have the English version of the event post by the morning, I am veeeery tired right now :slight_smile:" 6,61616,2019-10-18T07:45:45.762Z,61596,anon51020356,anon2233507620,"Hei Tamara and Jasen, good joobb! So we are doing the Becej event before Belgrade? About the guest, it depends on how much it costs to bring him. If it fits the 1000eur event costs great, if not we can book him later next year, when it will be clearer what the community needs. A mid solution is to just interview him and see what the response is. I pinned both your events on top of the Serbian Wellbeing category. If you add photos to them, they will appear nicer on http://wellbeing.edgeryders.eu/srb Also on that website, @anon1788716183 should have the registration form. Owen, please also send us the individual link to the form so we can post it on the platform? Thanks." 7,61617,2019-10-18T07:47:31.305Z,61582,anon51020356,anon3031202475,"The audience aka participants needs the comms in Serbian. The outreach for this will involve more the wellbeing site than the festival site. Jasen, please don't spend too much time translating everything into English, a paragraph should do." 8,61653,2019-10-18T10:52:02.652Z,61596,anon3031202475,anon2233507620,"@anon2926706121, @anon51020356, @anon3449369942 and @anon2233507620 could we maybe invite Dr Nick for an interview?" 9,61673,2019-10-18T12:22:13.323Z,61653,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"You can introduce Dr. Nick in an email to me please, and I'll set up the interview @anon2233507620 Email template for the interview invite is here (second part of the post): https://edgeryders.eu/t/interview-framework-template-for-requesting-an-interview-via-email/10977" 10,61695,2019-10-18T14:38:30.815Z,61616,anon2233507620,anon51020356,"So far the only expense for the Becej workshop is 50 euros for the venue. Let's count in 50 more for drinks. Yeah it makes sense to simply interview him and see how it develops. @anon2926706121 I am still waiting to see his availability for November. If you want to interview him in general for next year anyways then I will propose that to him and introduce you guys. One of the innovators from innova.rs confirmed his participation. Sending him to you for an interview as well. [quote=""anon51020356, post:6, topic:11165""] So we are doing the Becej event before Belgrade? [/quote] It was my proposal since the feedback was overwhelmingly against Sunday :slight_smile: [quote=""anon51020356, post:6, topic:11165""] If you add photos to them, they will appear nicer on http://wellbeing.edgeryders.eu/srb [/quote] On it." 11,61699,2019-10-18T14:48:44.496Z,61695,anon51020356,anon2233507620,"[quote=""anon2233507620, post:10, topic:11165""] It was my proposal since the feedback was overwhelmingly against Sunday :slight_smile: [/quote] Haha perfect." 12,61700,2019-10-18T15:00:17.908Z,61567,anon2233507620,anon3031202475,"November 22, 2019 → Novembar 22, 2019 Time: 17h30 - 20h30 **Location:** 21220 Bečej, Serbia, Ulica Braće Tan 5-7. http://www.than.rs/en/ **Organisers:** [@anon **Facilitated by:** [@anon2233507620](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon2233507620) **Status:** Taking care of speakers and discussing with local partners **ORGANISER CHECKLIST** : Update/Create individual event descriptions with Catchy Name for the event, URL for signup form, Description of format & process, FAQs, Logistics info (address, time, date, team info) - [follow this template](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels); Give Natalia photos + statements/quotes she can use to customise design from the template: [ **@anon1676186961** ](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon1676186961) Organise 2 calls to develop the session topic with the confirmed speakers; conduct one on one interviews & skeleanon2317280404 posts with each participant: Call#1: Individual interviews with confirmed participants & produce skeleanon2317280404 posts *(* [ ***@anon2926706121*** ](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon2926706121) [ ***@anon Call#2: Group call with all confirmed participants Keep track of the festival signup form and welcome/onboard each person Formalise practical arrangements for speakers participation: *Travel, fees, onboard them on the process, organise schedule, collect bio info + photo + recommended reading materials for other participants etc* (individual organiser with support from [ **@anon1676186961** ](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon1676186961)) Make a twitter list of Europe-based people who are interested in the topics to be covered in this session then reach out to them & more people to propose people or put themselves forward for the list - *(* [ ***@anon Prepare press/communication kit & send to local event calendar websites, journalists etc ([ **@anon Push out comms campaign for event via social media for event ([ **@anon # How do we stop the brain drain from Serbia? One of the solutions is creating a suitable environment for empowering youth. The most important resource, from any company or a country, are people. The investors put their money in people and ideas…in human potential, not in companies. Why? Because they know the company will never succeed without a great team. How can we expect to prosper as a country if we do not invest in the members of our society? That is why we decided the theme of this workshop will be creativity and entrepreneurship. Our focus is on young people: how to we help them fulfill their potential? What kind of support do they really need from us? From parents, from the municipality, school or various organisations working with children, like for example the social care centers? Children with difficulties functioning within standard rules and education might need our help the most. Our project was born out of that need to create an environment in which youth will flourish, in this case it will be the Becej Creative Hub, which we will present on this workshop. ## Format We are creating a partnership made of individuals and all organisations in Becej who want to contribute to empowering young people and through that improve the quality of life in their community. This workshop and the project we will present during it will be the result of a poll we conduct between teenagers of 3 high schools in Becej. It will be built through their participation as well. **Before workshop:** We connected with all 3 schools and few organisations, with goal of creating the needed partnership to and conduct the needed poll within the younger population so we can adapt the project to their needs as much as possible. **Why document everything:** The documentation from the discussions are redacted to ensure privacy of participants, then posted on the online discussion space for the festival. This enables us to do a number of things - easily reconnect with people we met across shared/complimentary interests build a high quality report summarising what knowledge has emerged from the discussions keep everyone informed about new, relevant, opportunities for professional and personal development, follow up events etc **Program:** Introduction, Who are Edgeryders (5 min + 5 min Q&A) Project “Wellbeing in Serbia”: how to use the platform, the importance of our stories and connecting with others (10 min + 5 min Q&A) Innovator (20 min + 10 min Q&A) Nenad Čanak (30 min + 15 min Q&A) Presenting the project “Creative Hub in Becej” (10 min + 10 min Q&A) Open discussion about the project (until the workshop end) ## Who is coming? ### To confirm still Speaker from the association of innovators, Serbia Prof. Dr. Nikola Čanak **Frequently asked questions** **How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop?** **How is this event being organised?** This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don’t worry. Create an [edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. **Here the text needs to be individualised **for** your event!!!** We @anon **How is this all financed?** This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822682. **[POPREBEL_V01_BrightBlue.jpg4103×878 259 KB](https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/3/31be5dc58dc3089277de7f5cb59f2cc5787a7b6f.jpeg)** **Does getting involved mean I endorse the funders views or actions?** No. What you are doing is contributing to an open consultation on the topic of how to build a next generation of internet infrastructure, technologies, business models etc that promotes the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The consultation methodology is designed in such a way as to allow for diversity of views, premises, disciplines, themes and contexts. We employ open notebook science principles and the results will be presented in the form of a research report accessible to everyone after the event. You can follow the process, review the methodology and open source tech we are using and engage directly with the research and coordination team here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace **What is the code of conduct?** The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word “better” has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). **What happens with my data?** You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 13,61701,2019-10-18T15:01:31.220Z,61700,anon2233507620,anon2233507620,"Here is the post, where should I put it up? A bit confused with the format of https://edgeryders.eu/t/festival-program-overview/10731 I see that's a summary of all but the original posts are elsewhere. What to do with the English one? Put it in the campfire part? :slight_smile:" 14,61704,2019-10-18T15:13:46.825Z,61701,anon3031202475,anon2233507620,Set the post in Serbian and English both up as event posts in wellbeing. Than post the links here and I will take care of the tagging and linking them with each other so it gets pushed to the festival minisite 15,61709,2019-10-18T17:49:52.147Z,61616,anon1788716183,anon51020356,"@anon51020356 The form is up: http://tell.edgeryders.eu/blagostanje For now the site links to the external form, but it can be embedded in the page if it's a preference. Let me know if there is anything that needs changing/updating." 16,61711,2019-10-18T18:14:21.905Z,61704,anon2233507620,anon3031202475,"English: https://edgeryders.eu/t/becej-serbia-workshop-creativity-and-entrepreneurship-empowering-youth-for-better-future/11188 Serbian: https://edgeryders.eu/t/radionica-u-beceju-kreativnost-i-preduzetnistvo-ulagenje-u-mlade-za-bolju-buducnost-srbije/11170/2" 17,61712,2019-10-18T18:16:01.496Z,61567,anon2233507620,anon3031202475,"As far as documentation is concerned, which methods should we use? In order to find a person who can do it I need a bit more info about the ""job description""" 18,61715,2019-10-18T19:31:34.286Z,61567,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,Great! @anon51020356 could you introduce the documentation method to @anon2233507620 or share a post that describes it? 19,61718,2019-10-18T20:40:47.137Z,61715,anon51020356,anon3031202475,"There should be a section in the Engagement strategy Google folder. I can check and turn it into a post, sure." 20,61720,2019-10-19T07:52:10.378Z,61567,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,@anon1505367078 @anon2926706121 @anon3899621522 could you be the documentation crew for the Justice and AI workshop? 21,61721,2019-10-19T08:16:31.846Z,61720,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,would be my pleasure! 22,61753,2019-10-20T17:22:21.291Z,61567,anon3931191205,anon3031202475,"Checking with my folx, will get back asap :)" 23,61754,2019-10-20T17:32:57.565Z,61567,anon3931191205,anon3031202475,"My co-hosts would like some more information about how the documentation should work before they sign up to the role, is there somewhere they could read more about this?" 24,61757,2019-10-20T18:16:32.903Z,61567,anon3931191205,anon3031202475,"The person I would like to invite is Ira Schevski http://shevski.com/ - founder of the re-decentralize organization https://redecentralize.org/ @anon3031202475 Here's the description text about her from her website: > I specialise in digital strategy, leadership, interfacing between tech and non-technical stakeholders, building communities, policy and supporting teams to deliver effectively. With particular expertise in data, open data, data platforms, standards, privacy and decentralised technology. > > I led the [ckan](http://ckan.org/) open source data platform to international adoption, served on [ Open Knowledge](https://okfn.org/)’s senior management team and now as a board member and developed the personal data infrastructure programme within the UK’s Government Digital Service. I have developed national and federal policy, regulatory, commercial and technical frameworks for city-wide information marketplaces and am currently running a data trust pilot and advising on digital identity for the [Open Data Institute](https://theodi.org/)." 25,61759,2019-10-20T19:47:24.595Z,61757,anon3031202475,anon3931191205,"Sounds great :). And you said you are already planning to interview her? When? Would be great if you could do it soonish, than we could also use the transcript for reach out :). Do you need more budget to invite her?" 26,61836,2019-10-21T13:50:50.018Z,61754,anon3031202475,anon3931191205,"@anon3931191205, here is a description of our documentation methodology https://edgeryders.eu/t/documentation-methodology-for-edgeryder-events/11202" 27,61994,2019-10-22T17:05:01.765Z,61673,anon2233507620,anon2926706121,"https://edgeryders.eu/t/kako-zadrzati-mlade-ljude-kreativnost-i-preduzetnistvo-ulaganje-u-mlade-za-bolju-buducnost-srbije-radionica-u-beceju/11170/2 If this is the post you wanted me to update with location etc, I did. Also changed the title a bit to make it better looking/faster hook when we send the link to someone :slight_smile:" 28,61995,2019-10-22T17:07:41.539Z,61994,anon2926706121,anon2233507620,Thank you so much! @anon1686813978 take note :) 1,61847,2019-10-21T15:07:57.938Z,61847,anon273015838,anon273015838,"Through [Patrick (Sentiers)](https://sentiers.media/) I stumbled upon this [interview with Vaclav Smil](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/vaclav-smil-interview-growth-must-end-economists), expert craftsman of crunching numbers — I figure there might be people on the platform that have opinions and ideas to share around these ideas? Smil does a stanon1410463509r job arguing that degrowth doesn’t necessarily mean *cutting down on all things* but rather that growth and degrowth are essentially tools to use depending on context. For example, some countries below a certain poverty threshold should focus on growth (towards lower mortality, and increased nutrition and education) while other, richer countries could easily cut down and not miss much at all: > “Once you reach a certain point, the benefits of GDP growth start to level off in terms of mortality, nutrition and education. (…) We could halve our energy and material consumption and this would put us back around the level of the 1960s. We could cut down without losing anything important. Life wasn’t horrible in 1960s or 70s Europe. People from Copenhagen would no longer be able to fly to Singapore for a three-day visit, but so what? Not much is going to happen to their lives. People don’t realise how much slack in the system we have.” > ""To answer this, it’s important not to talk in global terms. There will be many approaches which have to be tailored and targeted to each different audience. There is **this pernicious idea by this Thomas Friedman guy that the world is flat and everything is now the same, so what works in one place can work for everyone. But that’s totally wrong.** For example, Denmark has nothing in common with Nigeria. What you do in each place will be different. What we need in Nigeria is more food, more growth. In Philippines we need a anon222512824 more of it. And in Canada and Sweden, we need less of it. We have to look at it from different points of view. **In some places we have to foster what economists call de-growth. In other places, we have to foster growth.** It’s a fascinating debate, and certainly going to be a defining one for our era. The other day, my hairdresser gave me an unprompted lecture on how kerosene prices were too low and need to go up to prevent us from taking short term, long distance travel too often. If that isn’t a sign of this debate entering mainstream then I don’t know what is. *The times they’re a changing.* See also this fascinating [XOXO talk by boat-based, ocean-roaming design studio Hundred Rabbits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW32yUEymvU) on degrowth and resilience as a personal lifestyle, and how digital tools need to evolve to cope with limited bandwidth, energy and space." 2,61870,2019-10-21T19:35:56.085Z,61847,anon196034329,anon273015838,"[quote=""anon273015838, post:1, topic:11207""] > People don’t realise how much slack in the system we have. [/quote] _That_ is certainly true. The first targets for degrowth would be killing all that waste and bullshit in the system. To illustrate that point, Graeber's well-know rant [about bullshit jobs](https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/) comes to mind. And also one of @anon2392238860's books – I remember how I loved that piece of fine work when I found it a few years ago, because it expressed for the first time exactly how I had always felt that modern society as a whole is not efficient at all in spite of all the automation and technology: https://c4ss.org/content/5580 If I remember correctly, his result is that at least 40% of the 2010 U.S. American society's GDP is just that: production of waste. In other words, on average people could enjoy four-day weekends and nothing with fall apart. [quote=""anon273015838, post:1, topic:11207""] [XOXO talk by boat-based, ocean-roaming design studio Hundred Rabbits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW32yUEymvU) on degrowth and resilience as a personal lifestyle [/quote] Great find, I'm sure I'll enjoy that one :)" 3,61874,2019-10-21T20:46:11.854Z,61847,anon3449369942,anon273015838,"It's a hard sell - the word itself implies (unpleasant) sacrifices for somebody(ies) and that somebody might be you :) There isa reason so much money is thrown at metaphor crafters, framing of narratives etc." 1,61860,2019-10-21T16:51:52.027Z,61860,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-tech-breakingviews/breakingviews-u-s-tech-implosion-is-opportunity-for-european-vc-idUSKBN1X01M4 1,61813,2019-10-21T12:20:33.783Z,61813,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![community calls%20logo%2022nd%20of%20October%20%5BRecovered%5D-01|690x487](upload://4QaUsLM4nXfqSXhzApn5u5tSsjD.png) Hello dear organisers and festival enthusiasts! In a month time, the first events will have happened! We are excited and lots of things are happening. Therefore this is a good time to get together, update each other on our status and needs and to discuss strategy, how to help and also fun stuff like afterparties: slight_smile! Please try to make it to the call on Tuesday the 22nd of October 18:00 Brussels time as usually. @anon3572363072, @anon3180318115, @anon683229855, @anon All the best and looking forward to seeing you there! Here is the new zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/489971765" 2,61828,2019-10-21T13:33:35.724Z,61813,anon51020356,anon3031202475,Replaced 23rd with 22nd. It seemed that it was a mistake. 3,61834,2019-10-21T13:46:30.180Z,61828,anon3031202475,anon51020356,thank you very much! 1,61777,2019-10-21T07:52:46.177Z,61777,anon1990933018,anon1990933018,"I am writing to you from COACT: the Centre for Open & Appropriate Critical Technology. [www.coactlab.org](http://www.coactlab.org/) We wanted to inform the Edgeryder community regarding an upcoming forest-related incubation program to find solutions to protect and regenerate our forests. COACT works with early-stage, environmentally focussed technology projects & companies to grow their potential into actual impact. Unlike typical incubators, our objective is to maximise this positive impact rather than profit. We are young, idealistic, and deeply driven towards these ends. Please find details about the upcoming program below: We would be extremely grateful if you can share with your networks to help us find potential participants to join us. **Forest Protections & Regeneration Incubation** In December, we are launching our second phase, in which we will incubate two companies or projects working towards Forest Protection & Regeneration. Both projects will come to live and work from the Valldaura campus 20 minutes outside of Barcelona in Spain from December to mid February 2020. Here they will have access to the Green Fab Lab (digital fabrication and prototyping facilities), a traditional wood shop (carpentry machines and tools), a micro permaculture farm, and 130 hectares of surrounding forest. Also included are food, accomodation and more general workspace. We are currently in talks with a [project named Dronecoria](http://dronecoria.org/en/main/), who have designed a system of open source flying drones to distribute seeds and replant forests from the air. We are currently on the lookout for other projects aligned with the objectives of Forest Protection & Regeneration. We thought that many members of this community may be well placed to know of early stage technology projects or companies in this area. If this is the case, we would be delighted to hear from you indicating the projects and people behind them. A few things to be aware of in their criteria: * They should be early stage and able to benefit from the facilities & services we provide. * They should be ideally european based, though we would likely make exceptions for an amazing project further afield. * They should be willing and able to commit to the incubator for the duration, with a 2 week break over Christmas and New Years. * They should be open to being filmed and document their work (our program is probably not appropriate for closed, traditionally corporate-style companies or projects). * The attendees will need to be capped at 2 people per team" 2,61803,2019-10-21T10:28:33.938Z,61777,anon3031202475,anon1990933018,"@anon3572363072, do you think that maybe a team of your hackathon participants could be interested in this?" 3,61821,2019-10-21T13:05:53.507Z,61803,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"Not sure yet, we haven't pushed out the news et, or have received project proposals yet. Although I know of 2 teams that want to apply. Question would be if a team of @anon1990933018 would be interested to join the hackathon?" 4,61825,2019-10-21T13:10:52.466Z,61821,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072 and @anon1990933018, sounds like it would be great if you two would talk. The community call tomorrow evening 18:00 might be a good oportunity to start doing so: https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryder-festival-community-call-where-are-we-where-do-we-want-to-go-23rd-october/11201" 1,52586,2019-04-15T21:57:55.236Z,52586,anon3146751269,anon3146751269,"Like the system in plants the project is named after, phloem will help control the transfer and storage of energy. As our grid becomes more decentralised, with more people capable of producing and storing energy we need a decentralised way of managing it. Building a protocol and hardware that form a decentralised system that is secure, user friendly and can interact well with the grid is tall order. But we have to start somewhere. To start with I'm going to be trying to talk to people using microgrids currently, NGOs, scientists etc, about their use cases and needs. I'll also be talking to decentralised protocol developers to get insight into developing the right protocol. Ideally I would use the most suitable protocol to build some prototypes to do user testing with. About me: Currently employed as a site reliability engineer, I have good insight into protocols and hardware and also a strong belief in user centred design. I also enjoy hanging out on ssb." 2,52587,2019-04-15T23:26:35.939Z,52586,anon1505367078,anon3146751269,"Hi @anon3146751269 and welcome. Are you documenting your work somewhere? Is this at the idea stage, or further along?" 3,52594,2019-04-16T07:28:03.449Z,52587,anon3146751269,anon1505367078,"Hi @anon Very much the idea stage. I plan to create a dat website at some point soonish." 4,52640,2019-04-16T20:44:13.851Z,52586,anon196034329,anon3146751269,"Interesting topic :) I remember I once put together an idea collection / design outline for a ""village grid"" system for Nepal. Not exactly your usecase of things connected to the national grid, as I don't believe in anything beyond local P2P grids. It's rather something ""very self-manageable"" for a remote village setting, using SELV technology and a kind of household-level ""energy router"". Which would employ a supply-and-demand matching and demand planning protocol similar to what you seem to have in mind. (If you are interested in more details, I could try to find my notes again.)" 5,52672,2019-04-18T19:05:22.095Z,52640,anon3146751269,anon196034329,"Yes that sounds very similar, it would be great to get the notes. I'm thinking about designing the communication protocols to start with and aiming in the long term to get an ecosystem of different hardware and user facing apps to adopt those protocols. So the exact method of planning loads/etc would evolve over time. Ideally I'd like if it worked in the grid and also off grid scenario. Lots of people will be living on the grid for a while and having predictable/coordinated loads could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a lot. The larger scale that entails would also make the equipment a lot cheaper and the software more robust for all concerned. Grid attatched would require buy in from national grid operators and governments, which might be harder to get. I'll pursue both avenues for the moment and see what develops." 6,52673,2019-04-18T22:35:12.990Z,52672,anon196034329,anon3146751269,"[quote=""anon3146751269, post:5, topic:9731""]Yes that sounds very similar, it would be great to get the notes.[/quote] Here they are :) As you see, these are just notes, so don't be surprised about weird and messy content. Mostly these are plans for an electronics project. But you might find the survey of existing technology and open source projects relevant, esp. the VE.direct protocol and emonPi. Offgrid Energy System Notes (HTML, 99 kiB) (The file will open directly in the browser, replacing the site navigation. Click on + to unfold the list. It's exported from [FreeMind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMind).) [quote=""anon3146751269, post:5, topic:9731""]Grid attatched would require buy in from national grid operators and governments[/quote] Yes if it's about people feeding back into the grid. Not if it's about demand planning and all locally produced electricity is consumed locally or via direct connections to neighboring houses. The grid would still be a failover solution and backup, but there would be no need for the expensive certification process of grid-tried inverters. For more details about this concept, see: https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-much-better-solution-for-solar-self-consumption/9030" 7,53187,2019-05-07T11:53:21.647Z,52586,anon3031202475,anon3146751269,"@anon3146751269 thank you very much for describing your project! Sounds amazing. [quote=""anon3146751269, post:1, topic:9731""] To start with I’m going to be trying to talk to people using microgrids currently, NGOs, scientists etc, about their use cases and needs. I’ll also be talking to decentralised protocol developers to get insight into developing the right protocol. [/quote] Feel free to invite those conversation partners of you to our platform as well! What are the next steps you are planning? Is there anything specific you feel you would need to get off the ground? If yes, please share your calls for ideas, collaborators or meetings here with and images so we can share them further and help each other to grow this bigger :)." 8,53188,2019-05-07T11:54:54.717Z,53187,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,Yes we would include calls to them in our social media outreach channels and help spread the invitation out if we know where to point them. 9,53212,2019-05-07T20:16:50.598Z,53187,anon3146751269,anon3031202475,">What are the next steps you are planning? I'm going to create a website explaining the concept more to use in comms. I've not had much time recently to do anything on this, next week is my next bit of free time." 10,53310,2019-05-10T12:22:26.604Z,53212,anon273015838,anon3146751269,"Hi @anon3146751269, This is a tall order indeed, and you seem like you've got the background and experience to take a credible stab at it. I don't know the first thing about energy grids but I do know about the power of collaboration in large scale endeavors; would you indulge me for a sec and help me and others here understand which the most relevant communities are that you'd need to work with in order to make progress on this? For example, if you'd like to tackle a disease of some kind, you'd likely want some university medical centers involved as well as medical folks with experience in the relevant locales, and maybe some NGOs on the ground with the means to reach out onsite. What would be the equivalents for you, which are the kinds of complementary skills or networks you'd need to have the best chance of making this work, or where do you see existing work that could be leveraged to get there?" 11,53582,2019-05-16T11:23:44.548Z,53310,anon3146751269,anon273015838,"Hi @anon273015838 , There are multiple different scenarios it could be deployed in and depending upon which scenario you are going for depends upon who you talk to. 1. On earth, micro-grid scenarios with equipment from multiple different people: You would want to talk to NGOs/ and other orgs that set up away from current infrastructure and need something to manage demand/flow. 2. Grid attached solar/battery/e-vehicle setups: You would need to talk to grid management companies (e.g. National Grid PLC in the uk) and the governmental regulators. 3. In space, micro-grid scenarios with equipment from multiple different people: ESA, NASA, blue origin, CNSA. You would need to do scenario two to achieve significant CO2 reductions, but it might best be approached from trying to achieve scenario one or three first. Currently I don't know which scenario is the easiest to approach, so I have to think about all three. I'm a anon222512824 burned out from my previous project and current job stress, so it might well take me a while build networks or skills. I'm working slowly on some [stories](https://anon3146751269.github.io/phloem/rover.html) to try and make concrete what my current thoughts are, to spark future conversations." 12,53591,2019-05-16T15:09:23.035Z,52586,anon3031202475,anon3146751269,"@anon273015838 Thank you very much for your thoughtful questions and interest in learning about and in pushing the interesting project further! @anon3146751269 Thank you for the mapping out of those initial scenarios. We hope you can find all the time and energy you need and that this community can help you with that. I find your approach with the stories extremely interesting! I think it would be great if you would also post them here in the stories category with a small introduction and maybe an image if you have one. Those could be great to connect to more people and draw interest and collaborator into the project, and we would be happy to share those as well :)" 13,54065,2019-05-28T08:58:32.812Z,52586,anon3820120211,anon3146751269,"I think this is really pretty on point, but surely there must be some project trying to acchieve this already out there? I dont know of any myself though, but it makes sense, so if not, its over due to start working on it... :)" 14,54108,2019-05-28T22:16:52.708Z,54065,anon3146751269,anon3820120211,"Hi Julia. There are lots of people building different bits that solve some of these problems. Energy companies have some protocols for communicating with smart meters, but it is not standardised so your smart meter [might lose smart functionality](https://www.ovoenergy.com/help/can-i-switch-energy-suppliers-if-ive-got-a-smart-meter) when switching supplier. Another example of solving part of the problem is the [sion car](https://sonomotors.com/en/sharing/) can choose to share it's energy but mainly through the centralised app. This means you are reliant on an internet connection in order to be able to share your car and have the other potential problems inherent in relying on a centralised service (such as it going away or becoming less reliable). You also may want to share your energy on a mutual credit basis rather than selling it, so it may not suit you. I don't know of anyone who is trying to solve it in a decentralised way. These ways are hard to monetise and so hard to build a company around. But there may be something I don't know about." 15,61438,2019-10-15T14:31:46.869Z,54108,anon28068060,anon3146751269,"Hi there! This was a great conversation to read and code. I was however wondering how people feel about the privacy concerns inherent to smart-meters. Some cities (like Amsterdam) have made them mandatory. A friend of mine, permanently DDoS his meter to prevent the energy company from getting in-vivo updates on his energy use. Because does not see why this is necessary given the fact that the by-hand measuring system also works. There is also the question of the accuracy of such smart meters: https://www.powerengineeringint.com/2017/03/07/dutch-study-sparks-smart-meter-design-flaw-controversy/ Anyways, Just my .2 cents" 16,61441,2019-10-15T15:00:19.675Z,61438,anon2434097920,anon28068060,"Where I live in northern California the controversy about smart meters was not so much privacy but the radiation waves it puts out when it 'phones home' which they do on and off all day. Many here are also freaked out about wifi and cell towers, to the point that some parents a few years ago made the local high school remove their school-wide wifi system. But then, where I live many people are convinced that airplanes leave ""chem trails"" in their path that are meant to make us all dumber or turn us into sheep or something along those lines." 17,61483,2019-10-16T00:41:03.104Z,61441,anon196034329,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:16, topic:9731""] where I live many people are convinced that airplanes leave “chem trails” in their path that are meant to make us all dumber or turn us into sheep [/quote] Turns out, they are half right. Airplanes leave chemtrails of CO2 that make the climate hotter … :worried:" 18,61486,2019-10-16T06:34:26.488Z,52586,anon28068060,anon3146751269,"Interesting (yet not surprising) to see how the same technologies raise different societal question based on the various broader political discussions they're embedded in (i.e. efficiency through smart meters in the netherlands, conspiracy + health in the us, and environmental concerns in many countries). Academics tend to talk about this phenomenon in terms of ""domestication theory"" which holds that people integrate (and subvert) technologies into their lives on their terms, rather than just wholesale taking or using them as given by their designers. Would love to read more on how the domestication of technologies (like wifi or 5G) leads to different societal concerns and hence, to different civil society and regulatory responses. Anyways, did not mean to hog this thread with unrelated musings. So back to the electricity grid ;-)" 19,61520,2019-10-16T16:14:59.172Z,52586,anon2434097920,anon3146751269,"Who does use microgrids today? The county I live in - Mendocino in California - has the highest per capita number of off-grid houses in the country. But I don't think there are microgrids here." 20,61555,2019-10-17T11:24:35.641Z,61438,anon3031202475,anon28068060,Thank you for this feedback and re invigoration of the discussion! 21,61595,2019-10-17T18:27:49.958Z,61438,anon3146751269,anon28068060,"Hi ! My idea for Phloem is that the data would be owned and controlled by the user ideally. My idea for phloem is partially based on [secure scuttle butt](https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/), where your various computers could follow your smart meter and store the data long term. It gets more complicated when you try and figure out how much data to send to the energy companies. In a normal grid tied situation they need pretty accurate data, so they can both bill and predict energy demands. In a situation where you have your own battery they only need to know your demand for grid energy (and predicted demand), not your entire energy usage. This could hide some demand and preserve privacy a bit more, so they can't necessarily tell when you are home based on your energy usage, etc. It both situations (and a long time from now, barring government regulation), you could imagine smart meters only sending their daily usage on a per house basis and the energy companies getting combined usage data from substations. This would still allow power companies to predict demand accurately. Just to let people know why I am not working on this at the moment, I haven't had much engagement from the protocol design people. So it seems unlikely to help with CO2 emissions in the next 10-20 years, which was my hope. It would need significant investment and interest from lots of different parties and lack of engagement from the people I expected to be most interested was pretty discouraging overall. So I am currently looking at putting my technical skills behind things that will either definitely help a small amount in a short time frame, or potentially help a lot in the long time frame." 22,61645,2019-10-18T10:17:03.473Z,61595,anon3031202475,anon3146751269,"Ping @anon3931191205, what do you think about this based on your experience with scuttelbug?" 23,61752,2019-10-20T17:19:26.503Z,61595,anon3931191205,anon3146751269,"Heya Eb! I didn't know you were thinking in this direction but it's exciting to hear! How far along are you in the project and can one read more about it somewhere? Also, where abouts are you physically now? Edgeryders is hosting a festival all around and the one in Malmö will be gathering some people from Scuttlebutt as well as having a deep green theme. Let's speak more about it as soon as we meet. Thank you @anon3031202475 for picking up on this :cherry_blossom:" 24,61805,2019-10-21T10:51:40.273Z,61595,anon3031202475,anon3146751269,"@anon3146751269, @anon3572363072 s organising a hackathon for impactful project ideas in November in Berlin: https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-22-11-berlin/10769 and COAT lab (@anon1990933018) has opened a call for an incubator residency for green tech solutions in the early stages: https://edgeryders.eu/t/environmental-tech-incubator-in-barcelona-looking-for-forest-protection-regeneration-projects/11197 Are any of those interesting for you and your collaborators?" 25,61820,2019-10-21T13:04:31.227Z,61805,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"Hey @anon1990933018, @anon3146751269, @anon3031202475 Maybe one of the teams of COAT or you @anon3146751269 wanna join the hackathon? Seems like a great opportunity to refine the concept, find collaborators an connect with the community." 1,54210,2019-05-30T12:11:05.230Z,54210,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Join me in Aarhus at IoT Week. https://sites.grenadine.co/sites/iot/en/aarhus-2019/schedule/3500/Discussing%20Next%20Generation%20Internet%20Technology%20and%20Policy%20Workshop How can we ensure not making the same mistakes as with the (failed) smart city (applications), but co-create services in the vertical applications (body/health, home/energy, car/sharing, region/collective intelligence) with all stakeholders including citizens? In this workshop we want to investigate the procedure of embedding these ideas and requirements in a Digital Signature for the Infrastructure. This has the important bonus it no longer matters who hosts the data and which platforms it runs, as the liability, accountability, procurement, GDPR and Cybersecurity Act compliance is in situational contracts (term Christian Nold), thus ensuring the new insights (fostering new services) stay well known to all stakeholders. In earlier workshops of NGI Forward WP3 the realization was made that in these 5G environments all entities (whether persons, goods, objects or situations) will be given federated and temporary identities, as in the case of an accident with the connected car in which all ‘stakeholders’ (the car, the person, the lantern pole that is hit, the water that the crashes into that is polluted…) receive temporary identities the ensemble of which becomes the ‘virtual accident’ the liability and accountability is administered on. Currently eIDas is the digital signature for persons, GS1 is providing product codes (‘passports’) for goods and coelition.org is mapping and numbering everyday activities. In these environments AI will run in the network and robotic capabilities are built in to function semi-auanon2317280404omously, the agency to name the combinations of the temporary and federated (attribute-based) identities will be vital to creating new services. Currently this agency is in the hands of GAFA and BAT. In the case of architectures the first Salon put forward four building blocks. The *first* is that in an *Internet of Humans* , or *Next Generation Internet* , trust can be tokenized but only within a situation of already established trust between people, meaning there has to be a social understanding before it can be technically articulated, can we talk about communities and everyday life. The *second* is successful anticipatory regulation: “joint-up multidisciplinary regulation through collaboration platforms on AI that include startups, think-tanks and academia, large and medium-sized companies, governments and their ethics commissions, civil society and activists.”The *third* is to explore building institution like entities with the concepts of *data utilities* and the work of Neil Lawrence and Sylvie Delacroix who propose *data trusts* as a bottom-up mechanism whereby data-subjects choose to pool their data within the legal framework of the Trust. The *fourth* is to include potential third-party trust providers are seemingly neutral organizations that have a large member base organized around for example mobility (in the Netherlands the ANWB has a membership of 4.446.528 (1-1-2017). In January 2018, for example, the various accounts of FC Barcelona surpassed 180 million engagements worldwide. One could also consider alumni groups of different schools." 2,54258,2019-05-30T20:17:47.491Z,54210,anon838581715,anon4261882768,Interesting! I think that I cannot make it to the workshop. What you describe sounds advanced and thought through but I wonder - is it easy for the user? :slight_smile: Have you also looked at the MyData-framework? https://mydata.org/ 3,54261,2019-05-30T20:33:58.304Z,54258,anon4261882768,anon838581715,"Not in detail yet, but I will. I was put in touch with one of the people behind it and will have a conversation soon. It is part of the picture." 4,54273,2019-05-30T21:41:47.270Z,54210,anon1505367078,anon4261882768,"@anon3931191205, are you around then?" 5,54278,2019-05-30T23:35:20.446Z,54210,anon2434097920,anon4261882768,@anon273015838? 6,54283,2019-05-31T06:02:14.209Z,54278,anon4261882768,anon2434097920,"I know Peter well, Thingscon and Council are good friends." 7,54493,2019-06-04T09:42:08.714Z,54283,anon273015838,anon4261882768,"This looks amazing! Alas I won't be able to make June 17th (my partner is traveling and I'll have the 18 month old)... *very* much looking forward to following along remotely, though!" 8,54498,2019-06-04T10:18:35.506Z,54210,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Hi Peter, nice to meet you here! I will be in touch in mail soon on setting up something together possibly in Berlin. Will keep you updated with notes on the June sessions at IoT Week! Rob" 9,61691,2019-10-18T14:19:04.877Z,54210,anon28068060,anon4261882768,"Hi Rob, Thanks for posting this piece. I had a quick follow up re: situational contracts. Can you give me a bit more context as to what those are and do? I peeked around the Internet a bit but could not find much and am interested to learn more. Kind regards, Corinne" 1,58526,2019-08-28T13:07:49.988Z,58526,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Dear community members, The responses to the Edgeryder Festival Call so far have shown that Berlin will be one of the hotspots for the ""real life"" meetings, events and workshops during the Edgeryders festival. (others are Brussels, Warsaw and Stockholm for example). Especially the events planned n berlin will be very hands-on workshops and hackathons as it fits the community there very well. This means that we need to have locations for hose events. @anon2753384108 and @anon @anon And also: Please sign up for the Festival and tell us where and how you would like to participate here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D_CMPm43FDXg5EE_5zDk6C_A_yG6s25HrH4wPuRRP7I/edit?usp=sharing @anon" 2,58539,2019-08-28T20:01:37.023Z,58526,anon1505367078,anon3031202475,I think @anon3129606453 also spends considerable time in Berlin? And @anon 3,58541,2019-08-29T07:11:57.407Z,58526,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,@anon 4,58544,2019-08-29T08:01:45.090Z,58541,anon1676186961,anon3449369942,"There's a venue ran by my friends with a kitchen, in Neukolln, that I would always love to support - we did Culture Culture there in May. It's an art/biohacking space run by a collective. But it's not very big www.top-ev.de" 5,58545,2019-08-29T08:07:51.315Z,58544,anon1676186961,anon1676186961,"Another idea would be to tie it with events we're organizing with the NGO I co-founded in Berlin, Experimentelle Zukunfstlabor - we have a long-term partnership with German Federal Association for Sustainability and they offered us spaces for free in their office, which is pretty well located between Kreuzberg and Mitte. https://nachhaltigkeit.bvng.org/ueber-bvng/management/" 6,58550,2019-08-29T09:11:13.060Z,58526,anon2724270673,anon3031202475,"I could also try to contact the Supermarkt at Mehringplatz, they focus on decentralized governship and similar things - I could see this as adjacent. But the German Federal Association for Sustainability sounds great too!" 7,58551,2019-08-29T09:19:31.609Z,58550,anon1676186961,anon2724270673,"They're actually neighbours! and my friend is collaborating with Supermarkt, i'd love to finally meet them" 8,58556,2019-08-29T10:25:44.632Z,58550,anon3449369942,anon2724270673,oh you can talk to @anon 9,58560,2019-08-29T11:39:32.420Z,58526,anon2753384108,anon3031202475,"What is the capacity we'd be aiming for? I'm a fan of supermarkt too, and I think it has space for up to 100 ppl easily, with AV for events anyway. I'll be free to join the planning call next week." 10,58562,2019-08-29T11:41:15.097Z,58560,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,"@anon2753384108, I will add another sheet to fill in location needs and estimated event sizes" 11,59747,2019-09-23T09:53:31.424Z,58526,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Hello dear Edgeryders and great Tech for Good event developers in Berlin. Ideas have developed. @anon2753384108 and @anon3572363072 both want to have their main workshop on the 22nd. We were wondering if you would like to/could have it in the same location if one of the options is big enough for two groups of up to 20 people if I understand correctly? That would allow us to work together for set up and food and the participants could meet up during the lunch break for some cross-pollination? @anon273015838, maybe your talk could fit in there in the evening? Or the following day, since Olivers team will stay around for multiple days. (which means they also look for sleepable places if possible) Please reinvigorate this thread and discuss and plan if you would like to join and were, and if not, still where else those events could happen independently :)." 12,59823,2019-09-24T14:57:26.384Z,58556,anon273015838,anon3449369942,"If you're not already in touch with Ela, I'm happy to make introductions @anon2753384108 @anon3572363072 Sorry I've been missing calls, so I'm not 100% up to speed; Chris, reckon some smart city / responsible tech governance related talk would add value to your current plans?" 13,60153,2019-09-30T13:05:33.824Z,59823,anon2724270673,anon273015838,"I've just talked with Ela: The Supermarkt could host on 20., 21. or 22. , I've taken the liberty of nailing the 22nd for now. As to the current plans: The more topics, the better I think! (also, Ela actually does not have an account here, I'm for now a go-between)." 14,60334,2019-10-01T17:00:59.047Z,58526,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"ping @anon Hello :), we heard that you might have some good contacts and ideas for where and how to do workshop events in Berlin." 15,60347,2019-10-01T18:32:11.952Z,60334,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,@anon3031202475 did you see ^^ @anon2724270673 post above re venue? 16,60359,2019-10-02T03:19:30.294Z,60347,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"Yes, Sounds good" 17,60360,2019-10-02T03:21:45.473Z,58526,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,To all of the organisers in Berlin: How would you like next week's community call focusing on coordinating locally overlapping events? 18,60404,2019-10-02T11:14:38.337Z,59823,anon2753384108,anon273015838,"hi @anon273015838 - yes, that would definitely help provide some useful context. The stuff I had in mind for running was a half day, afternoon workshop. I'm wondering whether, assuming we are able to use the same venue, it might be worth finding a selection of speakers to provide some context, in the morning. You can see the overview here https://edgeryders.eu/t/festival-program-overview/10731" 19,60929,2019-10-08T14:43:09.576Z,58526,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"Just now stumbling over this thread. Sorry for the late enter! So the [Hackathon we planned](https://edgeryders.eu/t/hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-22-11-berlin/10769) will be during the whole weekend from 22-24. Topically it seems as if there are anon4292955258 some overlaps, and it would be great to be able to bring together the whole community. I figured it would be nice if a potential location we shared has the ability to still split the groups for their specific purposes on the 22nd. In our case we want to make quick intros of the participants/projects and the schedule of the weekend itself and then later go into socialising. Saturday morning is probably the Warm Data Lab about sustainability and then hacking/making until Sunday evening. I guess we are going to be around 40 people. > To all of the organisers in Berlin: How would you like next week’s community call focusing on coordinating locally overlapping events? Yes that would be great!" 20,60935,2019-10-08T15:30:52.145Z,60929,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,great! I hope to see you guys in the call in half an hour :) 21,60938,2019-10-08T15:37:02.048Z,58526,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,call at this link: https://zoom.us/j/489971765 22,61050,2019-10-09T17:34:58.858Z,58526,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"@anon2753384108 @anon3031202475 told me yesterday you are going to have a location only for the 22nd. I wonder if we can share that event together soanon3242181883. We plan to do the hackathon on the 23rd and 24th and do an intro evening on the 22nd with all the projects, and then a get together. Can we maybe jump on a quick call this weekend or next week to see if we have the possibility to do the evening together? Would be cool to get the edgeryder community in one place there :slight_smile:" 23,61148,2019-10-10T16:33:19.216Z,58526,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Since multible of you are together there in Berlin and think about starting on the same day, we wondered if maybe we should add a shared budget point of (maybe 300 euro?) and try to find someone who would be interested in organizing a socializing party for the participants afterwards." 24,61593,2019-10-17T18:15:30.099Z,60929,anon3930211770,anon3572363072,"Sorry to come in a anon222512824 late. I just filled in the typeform form, proposing a text + discussion event about philosophical backgrounds and design quidelines for inclusive social communication tools. I think it could serve as a transition between the Warm Data Lab and the hacking proper. For good interaction it would be best with about 10 participants, but it could be done more than once." 1,61169,2019-10-11T08:19:51.463Z,61169,anon2740950343,anon2740950343,"Next Generation Internet is the initiative of the European Commission, to create a more human-centric internet where citizens retain control over their data. If you are interested in this space and want to meet funding opportunities, more content and connections to take advantage of, around the initiative you should join the #community: https://spaces.fundingbox.com/c/ngi-next-generation-internet And if you are a real believer and someone able to bring people to the community, to provide content and be really active in the community, you can apply to become an AMBASSADOR: https://community.ngi.eu/pages/ngi-ambassadors " 2,61286,2019-10-14T09:06:37.189Z,61169,anon1505367078,anon2740950343,3 posts were split to a new topic: [Platform clarification discussion](/t/platform-clarification-discussion/11132) 5,61275,2019-10-14T08:36:42.851Z,61169,anon3449369942,anon2740950343, 6,61283,2019-10-14T09:02:05.690Z,61169,anon3449369942,anon2740950343, 1,61126,2019-10-10T13:49:30.868Z,61126,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%2015th%20of%20oct|690x488](upload://9ft89h0LOR1C6faq6ehemtEkBRH.png) The Edgeryders festival is coming nearer and with it many amazing events! **We know that, but how can others learn about it?** _This Tuesday we are going to talk about how to reach out, invite and sign up to the Festival events!_ Use the opportunity to ask us or the other organisers questions and get the best ideas together and up to date! If you are interested in joining any of the[events](https://festival.edgeryders.eu/) just come and we will explain to you in detail how you can buy your ticket by sharing your thoughts and story instead with money :) Tuesday the 15th of October 18:00 Brussels time here: https://zoom.us/j/489971765 See you soon!" 1,61044,2019-10-09T17:29:28.322Z,61044,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Zenna and Noah discuss his philosophy of ""practical idealism"" and how it pertains to AI and other tech policy." 2,61045,2019-10-09T17:29:35.086Z,61044,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Text of the audio conversation with Zenna Fiscanon1410463509 and Noah Schoeppl Recorded September 2019 for Edgeryders and NGI Forward Zenna: Welcome to the first episode of the Edgeryders podcast with Zenna or anon3931191205 for ""human centered internet."" Today, we are interviewing Noah Schoeppl. And the conversation will be exploring Noah's visions and thoughts of a utopian internet, as well as some of Noah's history. We've been talking anon4292955258 a bit ahead of time. And we recently got introduced each other. And it was kinda with a shebang and a lot of checkboxes. To give it a round about exploration of what you've explored previously, is it legal infrastructures mixed with AI and ethical complications that come thereof? And you've explored ethical hacking, and working with radically open security, as well as psychology and programming and many more it seems like, and now you're entering a master's program at Oxford? in like, two weeks? Yeah. To start off, if we if we go about it from a chronological order, where would that lead us to start? Noah: I'm Noah. And I think my journey started as a politically aware and interested human being anon4292955258 young, I was 12 or so when I really soanon3242181883 caught fire for a topic that now is actually all over the world and more in the headlines, but back then was not so much. And it's really just like, how can we get to a world with hundred percent renewable energy as fast as possible. And that was my utopia, my first political utopia, that that really inspired me and got me going. And I came from a small town in southern Germany, and I started to like, travel to different places, try to like, you know, protests and all these things. This in touch with research institutions, and political institutions and things like all these things. And then there came a second phase at some point, because I realized, well, soanon3242181883 in the end, in all these discussions that I had with politicians and lobbyists and activists, in the end, you know, like, we can all discuss this, and how, what's that there's an imperative how we need to change our world, due to the ecological boundaries of our world. But in the end, still, that the economic argument wins soanon3242181883. It always does in the political arena, or tends to, and I was really frustrated by that. And so it was like, Well, if the economic argument wins, maybe I should learn better how it works. And I really got into business ethics, and it was like back then, how can we reimagine how the economy and how businesses work, because to challenge that paradigm off that it's only about money making, and it's much more about human striving and the common good. And these are the contributions that companies should aim for. So from there on, I realized once we drive companies and what really shapes them, but companies also can be really slow, or they can become really slow to develop there as well. The single force that right now is changing companies in the economy most is technology. And so if we get this one, right, if we can get the technological technology to change, then that's also a really good opportunity to just change how our economy works, and how our society works for the better. So like technology is what's right now is the moving pieces that right now are, are shaping new things, and we have the opportunity to co-shape, our generation has to come opportunity to co-shape these technological changes. And I think that's opportunity I want to take so that we can use the technology together with our human insights and intuitions and values to make a more humane society and economy. Zenna: So I'm, I'm curious. Now, we've talked a anon222512824 bit about this before about the technology being power. And we also talked about how Oxford was Hogwarts. And coders are the wizards up today, Framing it in that perspective, is an egalitarian world something worth fighting for? And if it is, what is technology and the knowledge thereof, what place does that have? Noah: I think, like generally I find, it can turn philosophy very appealing, particular, to the very rough like John Rawls idea that inequality, that the generally there should be, first of all, in terms of freedoms, they should be equal, and everybody should have some basic civil liberties. And then when we look at material conditions, that to be very rough again, the different principle is that according to John Rawls is that an unequal division of resources is only then legitimate, if it actually benefits those that are least well off. So when when an unequal distribution can meet that, for example, that overall, there's just much more resources, including for the for the less than the least, will have to go around. And I think, right now we're definitely at a point I would say, where we don't justify our current system is not justified by that, by that standard, in the sense that we use technology often not centered on the most vulnerable people in our communities and societies very much on emerging goals that already happened to hold. Also Silicon Valley culture, even if it purports to claim the world, to save the world, really is the end, although startups gets bought up by by venture capitalists that already are basically, that then again are owned by the ones that already currently own the world. Self-feeding. Exactly. And again, I find it sad that all this beautiful technology that could be built into really meaningful things in the end, like I mean, nobody says that all the social media companies we have now or all those giants needed to go to the direction they had to it was just that's the society in which technology arrived was one in which these kinds of innovations were immediately put into, under profit, maximizing pressure. Zenna: And copyright? Noah: And copyrights is also one part of it. Yes, I could imagine very different ways of arriving there. But then again, I think my my philosophy that I developed around this is kind of really being willing to think, very radical, very big about how things could be different, but then really starting from where we are right now. So I really don't like just complaining about how things should be very different. And I gotta do fix. And it's also when I yeah, I mean, I didn't like only talking about business ethics, but I also got into social entrepreneurship and founded companies myself and try to try to not just talk about how business should be run differently, but I tried to do it. And it's hard. Zenna: just as a tidbit, what's goal that you found from your time in there, and I don't mean, goals as in capitalist values, but as in, what did you find that you brought with you on your new journey? Noah: I think generally, the, the methodologies of business can often be very useful if they are used to different ends. So like, basically, the idea of one Europe is to find a social business, to use business means for social ends to solve really social problems, and not for the kind of problems they've been conventionally associated with. But that's not an original thought. So even though I want to credit it, but I think one more additional thought that I had was kind of like that it really helped me to develop my own philosophy that I call pragmatic idealism. At this point, I can summarize in three models, and first kind of is hope without critical thinking, is just naivety, but critical thinking without hope is just cynicism. And then the second idea is confidence without humility, is just arrogance. But then humility, without confidence, is sheepishness. Zenna: And that's your own personal philosophy for how you see yourself throughout the world? Noah: More people that inspired us include Maria Popova, Bulgarian writer, but also many others. And then like the last sentence kind of is more like the synthesis of it all I would say, which is pragmatism without idealism is just opportunism. But idealism without pragmatism is just wishful thinking. So that's kind of my, that's my philosophy. That kind of is the goal, I would say, I found that pragmatism and idealism need to work together. Yeah, the, I think, especially like, the first two are probably more inspired by other people. Pragmatism and idealism, they live in the space between the two. And so really have ambitious goals, but also be really pragmatic, where you start with it. Zenna: if we go back to the origin of the ambitious goals, so to speak, if you were to start sketching out the image of what those ambitious goals for, let's say, if you want to reshape the internet, plural, What would that look like for you? Noah: There can like I don't have like one overarching but I think I have several again, utopias for this, or different utopian visions. I took an international relations course in my undergrad degree in Amsterdam and social sciences and I was thinking about well, how does international relations in global politics fit into cyberspace that we increasingly live in, and the internet and, and just writing and trying to combine this global politics theories with these new technologies, and then I just for some reason, wrote these words like cyber peace and cyber war. And I just noticed that my computer some enough reason underlined cyber peace as like an unknown word, but CYBER WARS recommend. And then it actually was, and I looked up in different word processing programs, none of the new cyber peace, but all the new cyber war, I looked up in different almond dictionaries and make not all of the new cyber cyber war, but very few use cyber peace. And so it was just like, Well, that's interesting, the vocabulary that we have in the conceptual space of the internet, is we conceptualize it as war, we don't even know how to talk about it in terms of peace, because we don't have a word for it. And just that obvious asymmetry that it soanon3242181883 needs to be a very aggressive and violent place, apparently out there. And this is the language we use. That kind of made me think there's some utopia missing. And they're starting to develop that a bit more in this economic context, initially, where and for example, what I find interesting is, when you look at cyber peace, maybe we look at peace in the real world first. And like there were always like ideas of world peace, they've always existed, but soanon3242181883 we've not achieved it yet. So just one very common idea of world peace was always Immanual Kant, philosopher, who, in 1795, wrote an essay called perpetual peace, for some reason, the original, they basically purported that just the simple hypothesis kind of is the states with a republican constitutions of democracies, basically, they should all just guarantee each other security. And when they do that, then we could have an ever expanding unit of peace, because nobody would ever attempt to attack such a block of countries. And we could have an ever expanding unit of peace. Zenna One thing that's been discussed recently, especially in the realms of internet and internet infrastructures, is the issue of centralization. In that kind of utopian image of a block of peace, one can say a block of Empire, which would then set the frame for the rest of the world. Noah Absolutely agree. And like, I think it's really interesting that like, actually back then, again, I don't want to get too much into wrap Kant up. He said, We don't need a centralized contract or institution for this. We don't need a treaty for this, this would just emerge out of enlightenment, basically, enlightened actions of, of individuals and countries, again, 18th century philosophy maybe doesn't completely extend the internet. But I think there are some interesting things when you actually apply it. And again, because the internet is a very different beast. If you look at the long term trends, again, we have not achieved real peace. But overall, we live in a more peaceful world than ever like than ever before. In less than two years, we did have a lot of progress. And I think we should continue to have that progress. Because right now, when we speak about the internet, we just speak a lot about, like, there's a lot of outs, and so insecure and get cybercrime and a cyber war between the countries and all that. And I think that what we really should aim for is really to have this this utopian vision and how I think that can actually happen in cyberspace, much more than in real world, think cyberspace is actually could be a much more peaceful place, then then, then the world we live in physically. And that is because of the different dynamics of security in the cyberspace. It's very asymmetric. And it's very different from other security, thinking of like 20th century Cold War thinking, which often has been the only dominant security paradigm has been applied the internet, because the common story is internet you just, like you don't know who's your attacker, basically, it's very difficult to do attribution of attackers. So you just want to develop your own offensive capability and hack everyone. And you can just do it in the face with us I've been doing in Russia, I've been doing in China for doing, many other countries aspire to do. And there's also again, like the superpowers that are emerging, it's basically trying to copy this old patterns into this new world. And I don't think, first of all, I don't think that's how it's going to work out. And first of all, don't think it's desirable, and it doesn't work that way. And that's because because of this asymmetry and the internet, that you don't know who your attacker really is, attribution is very difficult. So you can't retaliate, just to keep because you have offensive capabilities, right? Because you have cyber weapons, because you have the vulnerabilities that you know about, exploits that you can enter into other systems. Just because you can attack someone doesn't mean that they want to attack you, because you again, the offensive capability you have is not a deterrence against somebody else's attack, which in the physical world is very different. If you have a nuclear bomb, you know, the other person is not going to bump you so much because you can bomb them back. This logic of, of Cold War in that sense doesn't work anymore in the internet. A second reason for that is basically you can destroy somebody else's offensive capability by building up your own defenses. So if you do really good, actually security for yourself, and if you do security research, and you find vulnerabilities and you find zero days, then you can basically destroy the offensive capabilities of others because they rely on these vulnerabilities. And so, you know, if I have a nuclear bomb, just because you build some protection doesn't mean I don't have a nuclear bomb. But if I have a zero day, which is basically an exploit to which no fixes there yet, and you close that, that gap, that I don't have a bomb anymore, I don't have a weapon anymore. So basically, you can take away somebody else's offensive capability by building good defenses. I think these dynamics have not been fully understood by policymakers. Zenna: Is that something you would call sign of peace? You can build up defenses and by having a safety rather than offensive? Noah: Yeah, I think like that, when my vision for several pieces that states should end and everything out everybody else, I don't think security must always be so state-centric, my vision for cyberpeace is that, basically everybody in a certain union, and it doesn't have to be a contractual union, works towards building collective defenses. So basically, these are two very basic things. zero day reporting, a global norm for zero day reporting, that's countries that join a certain even even even just an idea that they would never did follow this idea can start to report zero days and never include and never improve not only their security, but security of everybody else. And again, like many people might say that sounds so super idealistic. And I don't think it is, I think it is very pragmatic reasons to do so. Because if you're part of this defensive union, then you can really you will be much safer than if you're if you don't share any of you zero days, and you twist try to get keep and build your own offensive capabilities for all the reasons that I've named, because on offensive capabilities can be destroyed by enemies, and because of having offensive capability is not a deterrent against attacks. Zenna: So if you have a union, there must be something that's in it for them, there's the Is that what you imagine, for a utopian internet? Noah: Generally, again, I would apply this kind of Kantian idea that in the end, we want to live on a peaceful planet or in a peaceful cyberspace. My vision is that we, in the end have a safe space in the internet and that place in that sense that we start by creating small safe spaces, and they start expanding until in the end, hopefully they cover I always think that will be like, there will always be cyber attacks. But we can minimize the impact that we can increase our the integrity of our of everybody's experience in the internet by for example, having a global norm for zero day reporting. And I find what I like about the global norm for zero day reporting is it encourages everyone to contribute to everyone's security, because you can't just close the zero day vulnerability for yourself, you do it for everyone. And at the same time, the only them that basically you create is the people that don't want to work together to make everyone's experience safer. And the them is basically the people that want to keep the exploits to, for example, I don't know, whether it is NSA hackers, or whether this malicious Russian hackers or whatever, whatever groups, only the people that kind of want to be able to really attack other people systems are then kind of that that will be against, I think the what would I like with this is it's not so much that I have a very clear institutional setup, how this would work, because obviously, it's very difficult to control these kind of things. Exactly. So I don't it's not fully developed. But I think it's kind of like my point is more like this narrative shift from we talked about a place where there's a lot of war happening, cyber war, to a place where cyber peace is possible, and where we should make sense of peace, not cyber law or cyber war. Zenna: Whose responsibility is it to make this shift happen? Noah: I think in the end, it's everyone's, but I think, if I should put my my my hope on, for example, individual institutions, I think institutions that are very well set to do this, or where I have realistic hope for this is the European Union. So if the European Union were to start such a project, where it say, okay, we, as a group of countries decided we want to start a norm, that what everyone ought to report zero days, because it's better for everyone to do that. I think that could be very powerful. And I know that the current administration, for example, in the US, which obviously controls the most powerful capability there is not going to willing to do that. But I hope that that could change given also the large trajectory of history, I hope that it is possible. Also for other countries, I hope that they that in the same way that we didn't think it seemed impossible to ever start a counter proliferation movement in the nuclear age. And it seems we will for eternity, always just create more bombs to kill each other. We now actually live a world where there's still too many bombs, but at least less than 50 years ago. And in the same way, I have a hope that in 50 years, I know it's a long shot. And it's not going to happen overnight. And right now, all the talks on your end level are basically non existent on this topic. So it's I really hope that we could live in a world where we have less, not more attacks and more integrity of everybody's devices. Zenna: You've been working a bit with AI and machine learning, and specifically on the focus of whether it's ethical, if placed in a legal system. Do you want to expand on that? Noah: Yeah, of course. So I think kind of like that was my work that I started, or did two years ago that I kind of talked about this narrative shift to cyber peace. And what I didn't like about it is that it was apart from that it was like state centric, and that there were many practical problems with it and very long shot, it was still defensive, it was still like it's talking about my utopia is security or safety, which is still something like the absence of violence. That's the problem with peace. Also, you know, it's not medicine super positive, it's only that bad things are not there. And so I was like, I want something more positive than that. And and that's then where I got also more into this AI space. And because I think they're really there is opportunity to positively shape human thriving in many ways. And to unlock this potential that we need to avoid many risks that are often also discussed and that are very real. And the as I said, also, I wonder, and they I feel I don't have this super clean utopia, because soanon3242181883 every utopia that involves machines that can do more than we do, in some sense, apparently ends up being a dystopia sometimes. And so we have to still do a lot of work on which utopia, we actually want out there. Zenna: In your utopia, does AI exist? Noah: In my utopia. Again, I'm a pragmatic idealist. So my soanon3242181883 my ideals are also based on my pragmatism. And I think there is not a world possible. Like we cannot, I don't know if you heard about the unabomber, who's like a, like a guy who started basically bombing scientists, because he believed that the progress of science and technology would destroy human society. And given that I don't think that's a viable path that we will have, that we will basically live with less technology, then the question is, how can we shape the current trends and the current technologies that are rising to human benefit? And also maybe sometimes also, how can we consciously decide not to use them? Yeah, we can sometimes do that. But overall, I'm convinced that we will get machines that will be better than humans at many tasks that currently only humans can do. Given that that's going to come, the question is, how do we want to do that? I think their biggest problem are, exactly about human centrism. So how can we make sure that they align with our values and their ? Like that's a long term perspective, I would say all this question, which is kind of like AI governance questions that says when, for example, pioneered by Nick Bostrom, the whole ideas of what do we do when general AI actually is smarter than humans? I think these are super valuable questions to do with and to research. But then there's also the short term questions, and that's what we're after dealing with these important questions of, if we already today have for example, a system that makes legal decisions, for example, in an administration and that public administration, what laws do we want to be imbued into that? Do we think it's just fine if there's some human mandate and humans and some democratically elected institution decides now we want this to be done by an AI? Or do we also think there needs to be some outputs that need to be in some material sense fair, as it just if it's if it's cheaper and faster do we just accept it? Or do we also want to actually be able to understand the process to be accessible for humans, because then many advanced machine learning programs, currently, they're black boxes for us, so we can't really understand them. And the other question is, well, if it's trained on any human data, human centric data, also in that sense, then it's going to take human vices with it, and it could even aggregate them and exaggerate them. And so yeah, there's a lot of open questions, and I don't really have full answers to those yet. But my utopia is just I can only explain it in very abstract terms at this point, because there's a lot of research and thinking and testing and acting to be done on this field. But right now, it's to reap the benefits to avoid the risks, and to make sure that we humanize the technology that we live with, in the sense that in the sense that we really challenge also what it means to be human for ourselves, because I don't think we know right now what it means to be human. And if we first figure out like, or if we figure out what it means to be human, then we can also tell when we want technology to do to help us to thrive. Zenna: Thank you so much for forth your thoughts. I'm that feeling that we will hear more from you. Noah: Well, thank you very much for giving me this space. And I'm very grateful for your time and for your work." 1,61042,2019-10-09T17:25:03.872Z,61042,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,Peter is a well known expert in IoT - tech and policy. Currently he studies smart city policy especially as pertains to public spaces. 2,61043,2019-10-09T17:25:12.981Z,61042,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"**John** 0:00 Welcome Peter Bihr to our community call today. Delighted to have you. I don't know how much everybody knows about Peter and his work. But I spent a lot of yesterday reading your writing, your website, looking at all the things you do. You're a prolific writer, you have the ThingsCon conference that you've been doing, you have The Waving Cat, you do consulting, you're a young parent, you started a company that makes pants, you have a travel magazine that is kind of crowd sourced blog thing. What a renaissance man. Where do you find time to do all these things? **Peter** 0:41 Well, the good thing is, I don't have to do them by myself. So that makes it a lot easier. The things I do most of us basically just what you mentioned, the way we can, that's my company, that's essentially the administration anon222512824 back end to make everything work. That's that's the consulting firm. And that makes it a lot easier. Thanks. Con is the other big project that takes the other half of my time mostly. That's a nonprofit, but that's a bigger team. So that, you know, that's not just me, that makes it easier. And the rest are kind of like side projects that were other teams, or are really like on a very like small slave. So that makes it a lot easier. It makes it sound more than that. It really is like the way the Cat the consulting part around smart cities and emerging tech. That's the commercial part. And the things con is the nonprofit advocacy part of the whole thing that started as a conference, and then turned into a whole online community where essentially, we work with a lot of professionals and practitioners in IoT to make sure that it gets done a anon222512824 bit better, and not just faster and easier to exit later. **John** 1:40 Your current research focuses on smart city governance, what specifically Are you looking at with that? **Peter** 1:47 So when we look at smart cities, like anything that's connecting the urban space, let's keep it like very open and broad for now. Anything that is internet connected or collect data sensors that enables administrations to run decision making algorithms, that kind of stuff, anything called Smart Cities, and - small footnote: I go through this whole spiel that that's all encompassing because the term Smart City is a very specific industry shape term is like it's essentially an IBM term more or less, that they kind of brought into the world. And like all the vendors that make smart cities acknowledges use that term. And it comes with some baggage. But I mean, whenever we connect public space, essentially, we, I think, need to look at how that works. Because if you look at my home, it used to be a private space; home in the in the global West used to be a private space. And now because we embed connected microphones, it's not so there's a phase change of some sort. And similarly, if you look at the public space, the moment we started tracking the movement of people through space, or we imply algorithms to make decisions about where to put the next fire station, or who gets to use which road or that kind of thing of who gets routed which which way that happens in public space. And unlike if I buy a naked gadget for myself, in public space, there is not opting out, if they want it or not. And so I think it's like this, the smart home was a face to face for privacy, the Smart City, I think is a face change for who gets to control the public space in a way and who gets to shape it. And I think that's like a profound change for governance. Because right now, most of what we see, and this does not happen with any malign intentions, as far as I can tell, it's just like a thing, where the companies that make technology could connect public space or network companies, they are data analytics companies, they are logistics companies, companies that know how to track movement of physical things to physical space, and companies who know how to extract meaning from data. Those are the companies, the Ciscos and Googles - the waterways of the world. They know how to network stuff, and how to extract meaning, from the data that's created. And so with them, when they transfer the knowledge from advertising technology into the public space, or from global supply chain optimization into public space, they import along with them a certain logic of thinking about the space to us. And that is not necessarily compatible with what we know works for a rich life, or civic life in the city. And so that's the slightly heavy way to think about this. But really, the question is, who gets to control? what's allowed in the city? Is it the vendors of technology? Or is it the citizens who live there, and what we see in practice is that the vendors are lobbying city administration like crazy to just implement stuff, and then test it. But once it's implemented, realistically, it's never going to be taken back out. Again, once it's in there, it's established. And so we're in a really pivotal point right now where I think we can help shape the discourse of what we actually want to see in public space. And what we don't want to see there by establishing first participatory practices that say, Okay, if we're going to put something in public space, we're going to have a process where it's not just something where a vendor sells a city something without public oversight, or with not very meaningful public oversight. And then everybody's just stuck with it for like, 25 years in a IT support situation. **John** 5:24 You make the comment, at one point in your writing, don't leave something this important to a bunch of tech Bros. You also made the point that technology is political. **Peter** 5:35 Yes. And so as I think these lines are both very closely interrelated. I'm a political science and communication science major by background. So while I've never worked much in that field, I do think a lot about how things are political. And it always sounds like an abstract kind of late at night red wine discussion. But really only it means who has the right to change the rules, if we don't? Who gets to decide what's allowed? What's up? With whom? What's good for whom? How do we measure what's good, right? And silence these questions. There's never going to be a perfect answer. But the quest of finding an answer and discussing this is really important. When I refer to the bro culture, I mostly mean, that's really, a lot of the products we see out of Silicon Valley. These things are made by young fairly well-off men for their peers. There's nothing inherently bad about this. But this is not a representation of the world. This is a very narrow section of how we go through the world. There's gender issues, there's control issues. There's racial components to this. But there's also, just like a wealth gap issue, always part of this, a lot of smart cities stuff, for example, that's the secret. This is what's called pay for place. So of course, it's it sounds like a fair argument to say, Hey, if you're going to use the service, you should pay for it, that's fine. But on the other hand, there's a good reason we provide some stuff for free, because we don't want stuff to be exclusively available. If you're rich enough to afford it. There's some stuff, and sometimes it's more than others, but where we just think this is really important that this is what means civilization, and it goes the same for us. So this is going to be available for everybody. To a certain degree that starts with stuff like clean air, to some degree, it starts with affordable public transport. It is available in some countries. I come from Germany, I live in Germany, public health care, that's not free, but it's very affordable is one of those, Where does it start and an end. That's the thing that every society has to decide for themselves. But that everything should just work really, really well, for young single men who are 25 and get 250 grand a year, it should also work for like a young Hispanic mom, who has to get by on 30 grand a year and may have three kids, some things should not work for just fairly rich white guys. **Christian** 7:55 I, I think one of the main reasons why things go wrong or tend to go wrong is because usually the sensor package and the action package get put into one thing, the person or the organization, who does the monitoring of traffic is also the same organization that then controls the traffic. And because that data never gets used. Otherwise, the interesting part of what make smart cities or internet of things for the city is if we have on one side, anon222512824 machines or anon222512824 computers that generate data, and that show data to people and make it available publicly anonymized pro certain point or whatever. And when on the other side, we have services that use that data, and then provide services based on that. And as long as we keep this device intact, we have publicly available data sources. And then the option to use that data and then have paid services, free services, open source services, things made by enthusiasts and things made by new companies that do something, we can have all the good things there and we make even the bad things, but we can act on it, we will have the option to say okay, this company is doing bad things with data, we're not buying there anymore, or we as society decide to shut them down. But we still have the upside of being able to use the data. There's a friend of mine here in Berlin working on a project where they are basically adding very simple sensors to elevators with a long term goal of making all this sensor data on the elevators publicly available, and then have a disability-friendly map of buildings know that at the train station, the elevator is not working before you're there. So you can take the train to the next train station where there is a working elevator. And that works because there is this divide between our sensors delivering data, and the services we make use of. And if we do that, for traffic lights for traffic control for congestion, for smart air quality, noise levels, how many people are walking down the street right now? Is it full? Is it full of tourists or not all that and then allow people to make choices based on their data and you have apps or things working on that. That's a whole other thing. I don't know how many of you read Wired magazine back in the 90s. There was always on the last few pages, the column by Nicholas Negroponte. In one of those, he painted a dystopian and utopian picture of the city. And on every corner possible, there was a surveillance camera, and all the cameras collecting all the data and all the images from everywhere. And in one city, all the data went to one entity, surveilling everything. And in the other city, that was just open video data. Anyone could at any point, go to any camera and look for it. There was no central authority on that. Anyone could look up, yep, I'm going to look to this camera right now, and could save the stream just in case or not. Which of these cities will be nicer? They are both surveillance states that the one has some sort of crowd control on it, where people can look at this and can get to the data, even if a police is doing something wrong. And that's where the power dynamic comes into play. And I think this is something that is really important for public internet of things, that the data that is being collected should be available to the public. **Peter** 11:47 They're really important points. So thank you so much for sharing that. So first, you touched on, stopping to work with a company if they happen to abuse that data or if they're just not good enough, that's a really good point. Like currently, most Smart City contracts have these long built in contracts where it's IT infrastructure that you don't easily switch back and forth. And that's a question of procurement that's only solved at the stage of buying public infrastructure and defining terms of data portability, and that kind of stuff and exit strategies and making sure they’re not too proprietary, there's a really big lock there. And even if you have to use some providers stuff, which sometimes might happen, I think there's still practices to make sure you can move to a different vendor. So that's absolutely important. You touched on publicly available data, like open data, like strengthening the data comments, essentially, which I think is a tremendously powerful thing that we've only seen the tiniest first steps on. It feels like there's a lot happening. And there is but, I think if you look back in 10 years time, it will look like the tiny, tiny bit of the curve where it just goes up a anon222512824 bit. And this anon222512824 mountain that's like a big hockey stick curve. There is a downside to that too. Where going back to like what Negroponte wrote there, we all thought like that in the 90s. And up till maybe like fairly recently that publicly available data also means evenly distributed power dynamic. And only now do we find that if it's publicly available, it could also very easily be abused by much more capable organizations like the New York Times that have fantastic interactive piece, maybe maybe three months ago, maybe a anon222512824 longer, where they tried to track individuals through like a cheap, I'm not sure if it was Microsoft or a Huawei Chinese tracking software like facial recognition software. And they just cooked it up with publicly available video feeds around Union Square over a week and tracked people that they could identify with a very high confidence, and they took their sample data. If I if I remember this correctly, I think they took the faces of the company websites around unit square, and then run it through the facial recognition software, and compare that to the video feeds. So there is an element where it's very easy to start being really invasive with this. And I'd have no solutions for this whatsoever. Maybe maybe just no video cameras whatsoever. Maybe that's maybe the radical kind of Luddite approach is like the only one that works. But I don't feel comfortable proposing that. It does have interesting friction there, right. TI think that maybe that's the best I have to offer. There's interesting trade offs there to make sure. But also, there's recently like a wave of new companies that actually also figured out better ways to do video recognition stuff in public space, but do it with a full respect of privacy where on device they filter out faces, or number of plates of cars, or where they track footfall in retail spaces, but only looking at the feet. And soanon3242181883, through gate recognition managed to get fairly robust demographic data for retail spaces by only ever looking at feet, which I would be kind of surprised that someone found a way to make that a horrible thing. Yeah, that seems like a very, very sensible approach, like if you can actually make that work. But there's a New York City based startup that collects traffic data like cyclists and cars in public space. And they automatically filter out all the faces and the number plates. And so you get traffic analysis. But like nothing ever leaves the device is all further up on device seems to me like a really powerful point of leverage, where you don't have to trust the company to have good Privacy Practices later on, if the stuff never gets collected to begin with. So that's not like criticism about the points. Like that's a that's a very clear Yes. And there's there's a really interesting part about the decentralization and the commons, kind of like leveling the playing field here that I don't think solves all the problems. But it certainly is a much better start than just having one company collect all that stuff and go crazy. **John** 15:49 It maps directly right back to technology being political, because in order for that kind of benign vision to even be possible, it isn’t enough to have a democratic society, you have to have more than just that. You have to have an aware society. In your writing, you talk about your anon222512824 privacy dial - a anon222512824 thing in your home that dials up how much privacy you want at a given moment. You have another example, there's a kind of a fob you could carry around in public that would let you have some kind of control over your environment, which I thought was a wonderful idea. **Peter** 16:31 Well, I'm always hopeful. There was a small piece of speculative fiction as part of an exhibit for the DNA Museum in London, where they explore the impact of tech on society. And we just played around with known interfaces trying to have them do stuff to give you control of your data. And these are complete purely visual mockups, the box to do anything but latest LEDs and the favelas, literally some some piece of metal and a kitchen and some some Sugru or something. But the idea was that just like we know how to turn on and off, up or down the volume on an old hi fi system, you could just say, hey, all my smartphone devices go through this thing. And when I want my home to be as assistive as possible in the mornings when I have to get ready for work, and maybe have kids running around or whatever, I want all the efficiency that they can offer me. And so as I say, you know, I'm going to wind down the privacy part, but I'm going to let it do all its smart and loose and support stuff that it could possibly do. Whereas, in the evenings, I might sit down with my partner and just want to want to have like a quiet conversation and might not need that level of assistance, I'm going to turn the privacy all the way up. And I won't need all the smart stuff, I'm just going to have my privacy now. And in a very intuitive interface. This model, of course, breaks down really fast when you like try to map what it actually means in context. So it's really like it's a speculative fiction piece. And a fairly simple one at that. You all know the feeling when you're invited to a friend's birthday or something. And in my my peer group, my circle of friends, there's like a bunch of people who really like Internet tech, but also are others who are real hardcore privacy activists. And so you'll always have like a bit of this tension, which is maybe too much of a word. But, clearly, there's there's different interests coming into the room where some people want to share with you on Instagram, and others don't want their photos to be taken at all. Preferably some check in on Foursquare others would rather have you know, like a Wi Fi blocker, but whatever the range might be. And the idea with this fob thing was that, what if we just have a thing on a key chain where we kind of set a default, where we define what, generally speaking, I want in public spaces such as, I don't mind my movement to be recorded, but I don't want my face to be seen in public and in private space at home I don’t want anything being recorded, when I go to like someone, I don't go through three to three degrees of separation, I might only be comfortable having either recorded or presence recorded, but not audio, whatever the things may be the match your personal preferences, as you could just have them set. And when you walk into a room, the room would be smart enough to recognize and also respect all that these wishes and fulfill them. Of course, like I said, that would mean first of all, that all the infrastructure is in place, which of course, it's not. That every vendor, every app maker every hacker like agrees to these rules and respects them, which of course is like a wish we would live in that society. And also, we all need to agree that that's actually even something desirable. And that needs to be respected. And of course, that's like the next thing. We need to be able to trust the whole chain to respect that decision, and to work. And of course, this is never going to happen, right? This is like, when we talk to these people who are not technologists at the VNA in London, it was really interesting, because people got the idea. The moment you mentioned, both of these, they're like, Oh, yeah, I can set my stuff here. And then I can just walk in and the place knows what's cool. Like, that makes sense to me. I want to dial up and privacy down. First, there was like a bit of a question around like what a smartphone even does but then, and they're like, Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I want that. Can I get that? And of course, the answer is no, absolutely not. The moment you have, the microphone, you kind of got a hope at Amazon. And all the makers of apps on the on the Amazon Echo are trustworthy enough to respect your choices. Maybe they are, I hope they are. **John** 20:30 So you have a smart city. And you set it up where maybe it doesn't anon4292955258 go all the way. But let's say part of the way toward this, and no doubt the people of Toronto, people in government of Toronto, I mean, I wasn't sitting in on the pitches, but I've been to plenty of pitches to government and high up people who don't really use this stuff or completely understand it and you dazzle them properly. They'll say, Oh, yeah, okay, we want this, that sounds really benign and cool. And we'll get that going and won't be exactly the way you describe a better vision, but it'll kind of work. And the people running Toronto, you know, are pretty good people, I think in their hearts and stuff. However, all you gotta do is get some people in who don't feel that way, who flip a few switches. And suddenly, you have a pretty dystopian situation, like I see in China. I saw 911, here in America in 2001 change our society very profoundly. Everybody was all freaked out. And in the end, during all that panic, all kinds of horrible laws got passed, at least horrible in my opinion, to essentially surveil us all in order to make us feel more safe. And so then you get Obama, a guy who has a strong belief in certain amount of civil liberty and personal control, who understands the technology and did have to engage with the national security state. And I can only imagine what that must have felt like, I'm not going to second guess the man's political instincts. But you know, he dialed it back a anon222512824 bit, but that structure was largely already in place. Okay, now we have Donald Trump, he and his people are completely comfortable with mass ignorance and a high level of surveillance. And he has millions of supporters who are perfectly fine with that. I'm reiterating the point that whether you like it or not, technology really is political. **Peter** 22:47 When it really touches the most personal parts of a man just like this, with a strong power dynamic, which, of course is government to citizen relations. There's always a point that I'm making - it mostly doesn't play the day to day the way it should - that the citizens rule through the government, but rather there is a slight disconnect often where governments can come into power. And they might totally use all the established infrastructure and the data you collect for not the originally intended purposes. Often for nefarious purposes. Like I said, I'm German, I studied German history, there's like two states in like the last less than 100 years, that essentially run to a large degree on large scale data collection, spying on citizens and absolute abuse of power at the expense of a lot of large minorities, mostly, and often leading to horrible, horrible, horrible results, first the Nazi regime, of course. And then also, isn't Germany also like a big surveillance states compared to today's level of surveillance? Of course, this looks like peanuts, but it ran very efficiently, right. And so these are things where oftentimes we see infrastructure implemented with good intentions. But every technology that can be used for bad will be used for bad at some point. So when you talk to security and privacy activists, of course, they will say, the only really powerful failsafe way of data protection and privacy protection is by not collecting any data at all - is data avoidance. Once you install CCTV cameras in public space, it's a question of time. First they are going to use it to remove some trash then to highlight some bad parking along the way, of course, always like to find like terrorists, if you can, often they don't turn up anything. And so there's a question of time, because at some point, they need to justify all these costs for very low level returns. And so you're going to widen the mandate for the surveillance. **Inge** 24:40 I want to go a anon222512824 bit back. There were a few things mentioned about this before. And I have to say the reason why this is so important to me is because I work with journalists who are covering these stories, mainly about the problem with smart cities, for example, in China, where a minority is being currently genocide. And the problems with smart cities. I've posted this on the on the forum before as well, a newsletter actually by a by a colleague of mine about his ideal Smart City was always negative because he focused so much on authoritarian regimes using it in a bad way. And he got all these Google alerts about how great Smart Cities are. I think this competition is great to have and needed to have for for us in the West and in the states and hopefully able to push a more ethical and sensible way of using tech. But what can be done about regime said, like you were mentioning right now, Germany itself 100 years ago, and then 50 years ago, use the surveillance state and negative way to suppress people? How should we approach this? And what can be done? I mean, there are companies that are willingly selling their surveillance tech to make smart cities in China. Is there something - what is our role in making sure that can't happen? In your opinion, what should be done? **Christian** 26:06 I am at the same time, incredibly optimistic and pessimistic. Let's start with the pessimistic part. The cat is out of the bag, the genie is out of a bottle, we will not be able to go back. But technology is VR. But technology is getting better and better and scarier and scarier, mass surveillance, will be effect, we will not be able to get rid of it with technology, because whenever we built the technology that enhances privacy, someone will build a technology that negates that enhancement, and then as more researchers are coming up with more and more ways to identify people, how they look different biometric things like skin, fanon2926706121rprints, mouth prints, whatever it's getting more and more and more and more. And we probably haven't even scratched the surface yet on how to identify humans with technology. And that's getting more and more, we will have data collection, it's getting easier and easier. If someone wants to spy on us at large scale, they will be able to do so. The only thing that has a chance in hell of stopping that is the social contract. That's the only chance we have. And that's where I'm going to be optimistic. I don't know when we will achieve that. But ideally, I hope and believe that at some point, we will come to terms as humanity as a whole in how we integrate living with this technology. I don't have any idea of how that is going to look. But we have to realize that the concept of privacy we are living in right now, as in, we have separate bedrooms, we will not have sex in front of our children. This is new compared to the whole story of humanity. And not saying this is bad. This is good. But we're having this right now. But a lot of the concepts of what is private and what is not is a social construct that we have arrived at sometimes recently. Scandinavia, for example, especially Sweden, has a lot different expectations on how you treat your salary. In Germany talking about your salary is kind of a taboo among colleagues, you don't tell your colleagues what you're making or, allowed to buy contracts - you're not even allowed. In Sweden, for contrast, you can look up anyone's salary on a public internet database. If you know the name of a person in Sweden, you can look up what they make per year. That's a completely different concept. And both have sort of advantages and disadvantages. I’m leaning towards the Sweden model myself, but but on the other hand, I'm German I grew up here. And this you don't - the don't talk about money thing is kind of ingrained in me and we will have to come come to terms with effect. But anyone can find out everything about us online, eventually. And that will have a huge impact on how we will live and how we will treat each other. And in the best possible of roles. This will mean that we will be able to accept each other more that we will be able to forgive things, though not necessarily forget. But actually forgive. Right now we have this ‘you rights to be forgotten’ directive, where if Google know something about your past, which you're embarrassed about, you can tell Google to not show it in the search result, you have an actual legal rights of that. The next evolutionary step would be that, yes, I have something horrible in my past, but I have overcome it. And even though you know it, you will not hold it against me, because now I'm a different person than 5-10 years ago. I have no idea how we will get there. That is basically the only chance we have as a species. To overcome this, we will have to adapt to living with very invasive technology. And we will have to adapt in a way hopefully, that will make us better, as opposed to just controlling each other and use it as a means of oppression, then we have to protect privacy by social norms. **Peter** 30:25 There's a bunch of things like wrapped up there, right? Because, Yes, I think part of it is social norms. Now, we need to have the social norms, and then some hard guaranteed rights, I don't know, if if the UN Human Rights have been set as the baseline or something or something new that comes out of them or something else entirely. But there is a hard thing that you can go to court to, hopefully, if your country supports the rule of law. And then there's the social norm kind of that's like on the smaller change level, not the faster change, before it gets put into law. So there's one thing that I think you mentioned, also, your colleague or friend worked a lot with the horrible implementations of smart cities, and in authoritarian regimes, but now he gets all these Google alerts for the great versions. And I think what one question that I personally find really helpful to just ask when you see something like this is working well or not? Well, this is great. Great for whom? And by extension, for whom is it maybe not great? Is it only great for the 25 year old white dudes? Or is it great for the week? Or is it in China as well? And that's where I think you often get two interesting branches off the discussion. And so how can we make this stuff better, of course. I have opinions of what I'd like to see down there. I'd like to see a stronger focus on privacy and other stuff. But I think more importantly, then, what I think should happen is that we have a process in place. And that's where the policy part comes in. A process in place that is participatory, and actually democratic. That makes sure that I'm not the person deciding this because I'm one person and I'm in a historically very dominant, very privileged demographic group, I should not be deciding these things. So I think that's where that participation part is a really important one. We're in smart cities, I don't think we see it as much as say on the local governance. **Inge** 32:18 I think the question that needs to be answered in general is, can we make it more inclusive? There’s this Wired video about the problems with AI and facial recognition and how it's super biased and how this is a problem for minorities and gender, gender minorities and ethnic minorities because that they are so much more likely to be miss-recognized, and so they have much more chances of, for example, being questioned by the police or seen as a perpetrator even though they're not. In this video, I think towards the end, it says, the only way to change is if we change the demographics of the AI study group, because it's white males. I don't know the percentage, but it was like 10% is like female and so. So that brings us to a second, I think, question when it comes to ethics and Internet of Things is how do we increase this inclusivity? And how can we make sure that we include all kinds of different groups? **John** 33:35 This European Commission project, Next Generation Internet, Internet of Humans is related to the document you participated in, the Vision for a Shared Digital Europe that I don't think it has a formal relationship with this NGO project. Or maybe it does, I don't really know. But it's very similar in what it's going for in describing how society ought to work or it could work. And it has these pillars: cultivate the commons, decentralize infrastructure, enable self determination, and empower public institutions. And then it also call for replacing what it calls “the lens of markets” with these four pillars. But that, to me suggests that capitalism itself as it is currently practice would actually have to change in order for such a thing to come about. Do you agree? **Peter** 34:31 I cannot take a lot of credit for it. I love the project. It doesn't have any formal relationships, I think, to anyone but the three lead authors and a few people who, like me gave some input, because it's literally at this point, just a large document online, by activists from you know, the Netherlands and from Poland and a few really esteemed senior colleagues from working with them for a long time who come from an Open Data background and activist governance background. And you're right, that's a big challenge that they're proposing. They're not just that Europe shifts away from seeing everything digital, just as a market, which currently, it does, where all the development stuff is framed as under the banner of the digital single market. And in the European Union, it was like this tiny term in some obscure document that at some point, just slowly started spreading until it became like the lead framing for the policy, the lens that everything to do with the internet is looked at and funded as is all market market market. And they say, hey, that's not bad. But it's also really myopic. It should only be a narrow part of what happens online, the internet is much more than just a marketplace. It's also the commons. It's everyday conversations. It's the tool that empowers this and empowers all the communities essentially, they say, how about the just start advocating for reframing of the internet, within the structure of the European Union, not primarily a market, but primarily a commons, decentralized infrastructure, and powered citizens, and empowered public institutions, the market is still a thing there. But it's a much, much reduced thing. It's not the thing that everything works for, it's the market would work for these other four pillars. And that's a very powerful framing, that I really, really hope, just like this single market, that as a term started spreading from this obscure document across the whole of the European Commission's language, that this may just do a similar thing where it, starts spreading from document to document and at some point, it's what shapes the thinking. And hence, also all the funding the European Union puts to work, which of course is a lot. That's how the European Union makes change happens through some laws and through some funding, right. That's the main mechanisms of influencing change. **John** 36:56 You mentioned that you see opportunities here for European companies. And I think that is part of what the commission is looking for with this project, which is why they call it NGI Forward. Because we're all pretty good at describing the problems. And we're pretty good at describing what we want. And the trouble is, as futurist Paul Saffo once said, Never mistake a clear vision for a short path. But I think the opportunity here is to build products that are embedded with these values in what I guess is the hope that people will prefer them. **Peter** 37:36 if you look five years ago, there are many reasons why Silicon Valley technology is credibly dominant and solid. So for a long time, it's just been far superior to many other places, or better marketed, whatever the success factors were, but also in the current global way. W on the global market, think about data and how we extract meaning and value from data. They're at a clear advantage because they're much more free to do with their data as they please, as opposed to European companies that have traditionally been through a different kind of data protection laws. And they're maybe not more free and using this data. Then Chinese companies have easier access to the Western world. That's five years ago, right. So fast forward to 2019, we see I think, a dramatically changed global landscape. Because first of all, Chinese companies have gotten so much better at working across the global West and global south, they're much more international and global in their scope, and ambition. So that's one part. Silicon Valley companies, for the first time face significant pushback across all of the world for various different reasons in China because of geopolitics in Europe, because of geopolitics, and privacy violations and data breaches in the States, because they're kind of providing the tools for an election meddling, and all that stuff. So there's a complex mishmash of weirdness going on. But I think it's also very clear that since the GDPR came into effect that comes with significant financial, global fines for certain uses and abuses of data, and all of a sudden, you, you see a much more level playing field for companies that are from Europe, and stick to the national European data protection regulation. And they are not at a disadvantage, because they can't use the data as efficiently. But rather, they just happen to be compliant with one of the most powerful legal blocks in the world, whereas the others may get fined if they follow their own procedures. I have strong opinions on it. And yes data protection, but I also am painfully aware that part of this is like a horrible geopolitical power play in a way that feels really unhealthy To me, it's like, oh, we're also going to leverage local industry at the expense of the others. But to me also, I think, as long as it's based on certain rights I believe in and values I believe in, I'm kind of okay with it, if that makes sense. Maybe I shouldn't be. But I really am. I really like data protection to be stronger until we figure out what we want to get out of this. And for the first time, in probably 20 years, European companies are on equal footing in that space, the global players, and one example that I really, really like, it's a fairly small startup out of friends. They're called snip stuff dot AI. And they're like a voice assistant, and voice assistance are, you know, like, the Google Home or I'm an Echo, but their version is fully open source. And it comes with a pre-trained data set. It doesn't share anything back to the company. And for them, it was like a security privacy decision. But by the time the GDPR got implemented, when all the other companies started scrambling, and my phone stopped ringing, because then we were just trying to figure out, how can we make our data-hungry services compliant with that, which, frankly, I didn't have an answer, I could say, you probably can, but for them it's, it's by design, and it's by designed data for that particular law. They were having a big party, because all of a sudden, they get validation, they get a political framework, a policy framework that said, hey, what you're doing is exactly what we want. So you will not have to fear anything, you're good to go. And it gives them a boost. And they were one of these companies that already were trying to do the right thing by their users. And all of a sudden, they got a leg up from the European government in a way that I find really interesting, because of course, all these companies not like an unusual move for every country has policies in place to boost their economies and to boost certain technologies of others and certain markets or others. It's just for the first time that I've seen the European Commission, actually, up in the Parliament get serious and kind of intentional about that, and not just defensive in a way that I found really interesting. I just want to say, yes, I think there is a powerful point of leverage to boost certain values and certain rights on the global stage and incentivize companies to build products based on these values. **John** 42:03 One of your big projects, and your Mozilla Fellowship was about your Trust Level tech certification process. For those who don't know, you can go to trusttech.org, where you can apply to get certified answering a long string of questions. And even if you don't want to get certified, the questionnaire is so all encompassing, that it's a good map of the landscape. But I found it useful simply to read it. My question now is along the lines of what we were just talking about: have you seen any interest in the Commission or the larger pan-European government in this kind of a certification process, which would be different than Oh, you broke the law? And now we're going to find you, you know, I mean, it would be a kind of a positive step. Are they interested in that? **Peter** 42:55 Yes, we designed this question specifically to look at all the aspects of product development which is really what we've been building for a long time, slower than I hoped we would. But we've been building for a long time, an actual design guideline. So by the end, you’re just like automatically there. You don't have to, answer these questions, in hindsight, but these are all questions that aim at how you handle data, how you handle security, how you handle these kind of things in a pretty holistic manner. These are all questions you have to answer one way or another during design process anyway, only some companies I think, don't make it explicit. They just build something. And they've made a decision, but maybe they weren't even aware they're making this decision. So yes, it is like this, just for legal reasons. It's not a certification, because I learned this along the way, certification actually, in the German context at least, is a check if you're compliant with the law. And we , like you indicated, did not want to just say, Are you compliant with the law? We want to say, Are you building products and really respect users privacy and users rights? And do you empower users and give them all the rights you can, or strip them of the rights because you legally can. We wanted to say we didn't want to have the baseline certification of “this is not a horrible product”, we wanted to find and identify and give some external validation and and reach to those products that go above and beyond in respecting user privacy and user rights. Have we seen much interest in this? More from the policy side and product side, because it's hard to go back and have Twitter or go to a product that you launched, while you're working on the next level of the next product release cycle, it's hard to go back and then try to map that on your existing products. I hope you'll see interest in the next year, when more companies come out that have been developed based on this, there has been huge interest in the Smart City space to see what of this thinking can be applied to Smart City space, and to other decision making in the public space. I haven't seen that much feedback from the European Commission. To be honest, I've been involved in a lot of products where I'm on all these panels in Brussels. I’m in the right conversations now. Nobody has invited us to see if we can apply this directly in a larger scale on the European level. And that'd be really interesting conversation to have. I'm not sure if that's possible. But I'm sure that our research surfaces enough potential issues and enough possible solutions to make sure that a lot of stuff would get a lot better, certainly a lot more respectful of your rights as a citizen and as a user. **John** 45:35 Christian is actively building a product that, as far as I know, very likely would qualify for that certification, which he's building from scratch, or sort of from scratch. Rather than “we have to basically bug fix our product to comply with something” it starts from the premise that, as Christian put it on the Edgeryders site, social media is broken. Let's fix it, though, the only way to do that is to make things where the fix is in the core of it; you can't just put a nice suit of clothes on it. A lot of why this stuff comes up is related to social media. Things started to change extremely rapidly when you get smartphones widely adopted. This field of social media has overwhelmed so many things. The point I want to make about that is I see it a anon222512824 bit related to the climate problem in the sense that there are tangible short term benefits, and the long term problems are not so tangible - until they show up. **Christian** 46:47 the whole GDPR thing that is a perfect example of the social contract at work. And when I said only social contract can rescue us from the horrible internet, GDPR is one of those things in there. Something that is often overlooked is infrastructure. And the internet is infrastructure, social media, up to a point is infrastructure. Infrastructure drives civilization in the most profound ways. I don't know if any of you read David Prince’s book, the Postman, you probably have all watched the movie with Kevin Costner. But basically, it's the story of civilization being restarted through the use of infrastructure, because suddenly there starts to be infrastructure, again, infrastructure for communication. And that bootstraps the whole civilization, again, that puts people in touch with each other, make them realize their very community. And that is what the internet is doing on a much larger scale. And that's the hopeful thing about it. Where we can use that. And if we protect it and see it as that sort of infrastructure, we can really drive forward. And if we build this infrastructure and maintain it with a view to protect minorities, to look at not the voices of those who are white and powerful, but everyone else, and build it in a way that respects everyone's voice, then we can build a truly internet of humans. **John** 48:36 We've got the policy issues, we know the problems, or at least some of them, what concretely are we really doing about it, and I'll bring the Chinese back into the picture here because you pointed out when you went to Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of hardware, at one point you show a fairly simple, but nice looking anon222512824 smart lamp. Not really that outstanding, except the thing was made by a class of fifth graders. **Peter** 49:20 Shenzhen is fantastic, an impressive powerhouse in in the way they make technology, this is where essentially, all the factories and all the supply chains globally go from the silica mines in Africa, to the container shipping and packaging that ships this stuff's going on your end to Africa into Southeast Asia. And to a billion people in China. A giant chunk of that stuff is often produced in different versions for like differently priced markets. So hover boards are cheaper in the Philippines, which is why someone who imported the less secure cheaper version to the UK, they started catching fire. There's this aspect where they are the production line essentially for the whole world for electronics, but increasingly also developing and researching new technologies at ever greater speed. And it's a very intentional thing - a big government project. I think it's everything to do with IoT, with making connected stuff there. It has the term Internet Plus, where they just say “we want to be a world leader in AI in electronics and connected devices.” And then they add the resources to it. Not having a strong democratic mechanism behind it, of course, makes it easier to have decentralized efforts, all the drawbacks that brings with it all the horrible drawbacks. But that's why it's possible to say we want to be world leaders. So we're just going to commit x billion a year to train X, Y, or Z number of PhDs in AI research, they're going to be trained by some of the best professors to China and software which are really smart there and developed training, they're also, certainly several hundred thousand or however many maybe study abroad at the most, prestigious universities, the nationally is really impressive. And like you said that small example when we went to this small maker space as a change of pace, essentially to see not just the factories and the r&d departments, but also see the community spaces. We saw the smart lamp looked like a perfectly fine smart lamp. I thought, that looks like something Phillips, might produce or you know, it's it's a fine consumer product. It's really uninspired and boring, has motion detection, it regulates up or down — until the nine year old showed up who had made it. And I was like, Whoa, okay, that's kind of mind blowing. To me. It's also a generational thing that totally has gotten better and all of this, but still, it's impressive. They had found 3D models, they've modified them then from code, they modified it, they plugged it all together. Is this groundbreaking r&d? No, but when I was like that age, I'm not sure what I did. But it was certainly not designing smart lamps. **Inge** 52:22 At a teenagers security surveillance fair in London a month or so ago, a few of the major setups there were actually Chinese companies. So one of the major surveillance companies has all these cameras, and they're insanely good surveillance cameras that are all over China, but they're also sending internationally to smart cities. And some other innovative companies, tech companies from China that are from before would produce, tech that was like sort of a copy of Silicon Valley. But right now they're getting to the stage where they are making actually better things that are still cheaper. And one example is my phone, I have a Xiaomi, anon4292955258 popular right now with the four among us. This is like a $100 Phone. It's a smartphone, and it's insanely good. It's super high quality. And obviously, one of the questions is, again, with me focusing a lot with my work on how I started during regimes that use tech to suppress their populations. That's one of the things we focus on iwith one of the kinds of the people I work with. How do we make sure that the tech that we employ will make our lives better? On one hand I'd like the GDPR conversation we just had to happen in China, but we don't have that. So what can we use? **Peter** 54:06 I don't think I have any answers to this. And China has this like big, big public funding initiative called the ‘belt road initiative,’ where they essentially try to like recreate or take the model of the Silk Road into 21st century. It's a thing in Chinese politics to always have these cultural references and have a good name for this stuff. So this is the New Silk Road essentially, is the metaphor they work with. And what it means is a big chain of investments in in countries around the globe and public infrastructure and companies, lots of joint ventures, lots of research partnerships, a enormous scale, I think disproportionately in the global south like Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, but also in Europe and North America, Germany, there's, I think I recently saw a map for journalists had collected all these investments. Germany has, 10 or so and they're like, you know, here's a pilot project on Smart Lighting in a city. Here's a research partnership with the University, it all sounds pretty harmless and benign. And I really, really try to not be overly biased and be very careful in my language. But there is an aspect of this where you see big Chinese part of these investments, usually big Chinese tech companies like Huawei and the others and Tencent investing in local infrastructure and networks and communication networks. And it's tricky if you have a government for a legal regime where there is no hard firewall between these companies and the nondemocratic authoritarian regime. That's, highly, highly problematic if you rely on that with infrastructure, with sensors with data analytics. I'm a anon222512824 hesitant because again, to me, there are weird colonialist underanon2317280404es there, but it does feel really wrong to just, say, look, can we really allow this or not? In Africa, for example, we see a lot of Chinese companies going in and actually building amazing things for, you know, urban, rural farmers and rural life, there's a bunch of what seems to be benign, good stuff happening there at the speed of the markets that European and American companies will just completely ignore because it's not high margin. On the other hand, we also see giants of infrastructure being put in place. Lagos is one of the Smart City projects for YY. But I imagine all the fast growing like African cities will be at some point, “are you okay with that trade off of like getting like quick Wi Fi everywhere in exchange for massive surveillance?” Or is this like a false choice that nobody should have to make? To me, it feels like, this shouldn't be the choice. But as long as I don't see a better alternative. I'm not sure what to say. It's easy for me to say the pure right thing is better than the compromise thing. But that's easy to say, if you have fast internet. **Christian** 56:59 I'm by no means an expert on China. But one thing that I want to give as fruitful for China is undoubtedly cracking down internally as if you're in China, and if you try to be in the opposition or being a dissident, or doing something that is not officially approved, you will live dangerously, and you will have a hard time and it is horrible. And we should work against that. The other thing though, is if for example, China invests in Africa, or generally in the global self, it must not be necessarily a nefarious motive. Because right now, China is gearing up to be a technology provider. Everything China exports and bets that they can export with the good margin, a good profit margin is electronics. Right now, Africa is a huge untapped market for that stuff. If they bring internet to Africa, if they bring technology development fear, they can't they create the market to sell more stuff. And that is probably a large reason why they are doing it. Instead of just “we want to export oppression and correct on software, and spy on people.” **Inge** 58:16 I agree with you. And I think what Peter said as well, you know, this, this post-colonial context. Look at us, actually, the people on this call are all nice by Western European and USA. It's a difficult subject matter to discuss. But yes, you are right, or I agree with you to that extent. But there definitely some ways and this is not only China. Especially Africa is very, very vulnerable to being used as a test case or two. As facial recognition, there's is actually just this major scandal that was in Kenya with this French company, de mi Gemma, if I didn't know if I pronounce this correctly, that works with the Kenya government initially, to better their voter database to make a FIFO metric voter database, but their data was sold in the back markets. And so there was this big scandal and then the Kenyan government said, like, Oh, you cannot operate here anymore. But one of the reasons they actually did go to Kenya was because they could test the Kenyan government allowing them to test their technology and gave them a free space to do it, because the African governments are really hungry to to improve. And so if they're given visibility to technologically try out new things and are more eager to do it, and a lot of other countries besides France or China would, because of their already disadvantaged position. But they, you know, there was this other big scandal, and I don't know where it was, I don't think it was Kenya, where he said area where they work with Chinese companies to make these smart cities and all the facial recognition data is being sent back to China for their databases. The point is that these people, the people that are participating in this, don't realize that. And again, we've come to the social contract, right? You don't realize that their own personal data is being given to a foreign government, which doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. But because there are already countries that are at a certain disadvantage, they're more eager and willing and open to accept certain things without further thought, or, understanding of what the consequences might be, especially for their population. So I do think this isn't this is an important thing. And again, it's not just China, it's it's like I said, this French company, as well, that the global sales in general is more more vulnerable to this than we are. **Peter** 1:00:50 I couldn't agree more. These are, really important points. Yes, there's more need and more hunger to, to not turn opportunities down, just because they have a risk attached to them. I think when we talk to government officials, especially on the city level, like in Europe and the US where they're not necessarily in the same situation of need, but they're seeing, they have such a perception that they need to be seen as innovation friendly, that they also don’t want to turn stuff down just because it would seem as anti-tech, anti-innovation. And they're facing a lot of trouble. And it's not like the smaller cities have like a big staff that has the capacity to analyze these impacts, really like a new big city does. And maybe San Francisco does. But Austin maybe already doesn't. And Austin is like a fairly big pro-Tech City. And so that's interesting, but also what what John raised at the beginning of the call, if this stuff gets shared back to a government that might possibly abuse it, that's already bad enough by many counts, where, for example, like Geneva Conventions do not just forbid torture, they're also forbid the threat of torture, because even if you don't torture, if you expect that you might be tortured, that already changes your behavior. Not that it's the same thing. But the same dynamic applies, I think, where if you know it could be abused and shared back it already has an impact on your life. The bizarre thing of all of this is, that maybe some of these data sets are much more diverse than those of the restaurant companies, which is partially why the New York City Police is trial trailing out the facial recognition software by a Chinese company, that's much better at recognizing darker skin faces. I don't have a strong point here, except that there's a lot of like weird things going on when we discuss these things, because it touches all parts of all our lives. **John** 1:02:55 I was reading in some of your material, where you were talking about neural networks, and how AI comes into play in all of this, because they're so profoundly different in the way that they go about gathering and out putting whatever their result is. And the point was made that neural network can output a result and you don't know how it got there. You may or may not know, even the people who made it don't always know how they got there. You showed this anon222512824 video of all these anon222512824 robots in a warehouse, doing a much more efficient better job of putting stuff where it belongs, and how that's gonna be the way it goes. And for that kind of thing, it’s “well, I'm sorry, you don't have your job driving a forklift truck now, because robots are doing it.” And that's one kind of too bad. But what about when you get this kind of black box activity going on in a situation where you need to find out how you got there. That was why I was thinking of elections when I read that. How did we get here? I was thinking about the intersection of IoT and AI. Do you guys have any comments about that? How things move from IoT, which is reasonably understandable at least to me, with anon222512824 sensors doing things feeding information to some central unit? It's not really that black of a box, if you want to look into it, but it is different when you're talking about people who make these things who don't even know how they got to the answer. **Peter** 1:04:30 right, and what went into like, shaping things’ decisions, right? There's these things start as a thing where you test them for some results, and they show good results. And so, you know what, it's good enough. But you'd have a human in the loop. And at some point, the human in the loop seems to not add a lot of value. And so you cancel that line item in the budget. And all of a sudden, you don't have a level of recourse or someone to understand how these things happen. And we see this in a certain level of transparency in the way that insurance premiums are calculated. We see it to some degree in the way that policing algorithms work. Most of these stories are fairly horrible. I guess we only read about the ones that are fairly horrible. But if you can really interrogate the way that decisions are made, if you don't, we don't need to know all the the exact. The exact recipe is one metaphor, everyone's heard that I kind of like, we do need to know which ingredients go into the decision making. So we can at least get to some level of accountability. We don't need to necessarily understand exactly how it works. But we need to have tools built in and methods to interrogate if the results are correct, we need to if we are using AI to do any decision of importance, and we make it mandatory to use AI for that. **Christian** 1:05:54 If the person who gets potentially affected cannot opt out of the AI, then I need to be able to understand the process in all of its forgiveness. Because if I'm not able to understand that this is a nightmare scenario, and it's really important that AI only gets implemented in ways where people can look after this. Part of the reason why Germany is still so much on the paper votes is that is something that every person with a minimal amount of training can actually understand how the votes are being counted. If there is a machine, then you will suddenly need special knowledge and special training to understand what is happening and to be able to check on it. And that's the same thing with AI systems. If an AI system that makes a decision, I need to be able to understand how video a vi system came to the decision. So in order to make a meaningful appeal to it, if it's necessary, or to understand one of my behavior or my things or my surroundings, factor into that decision. If that doesn't happen, it’s basically the same as if the king just say kill that person. And I just have to deal with that. That's the same result from the citizens perspective. And that really means AI must be made in a way that is transparent. Also to uncover any hidden bias that is created in the AI when it's being built, where we end up with systems that don't see black people. **Peter** 1:07:33 I think that is a really good point. I think in the meantime, we just need to also make sure that there is a level of a method for records built in. This is something that's an aspirational goal, but I'm not sure it can ever be fully reached. But in the meantime, which might be forever, we just need to make sure that if something smells fishy or something goes wrong, there is a method to address that and get someone to look into it, preferably a human. I know Institute's annual report, they have all these examples of say, you know, health insurance in the States, changing the rules for like, who gets what level of care at home with like certain disabilities, and how the rules change. And all of a sudden someone gets lowered from getting like a full-time care person to a 20% care person, which might not be enough to get through your day, in a dignified way. And if there's nobody to understand how the process ends up there, then you in deep trouble because you have no level of recourse that says something that happens because this is always like a force not applied in a vacuum. But it's applied in like horrible, commercialized, cost saving contexts where all the safeguards will be stripped off to make to increase the profit margin. And that's where things go really wrong. **Christian** 1:09:02 It's even worse, the thing is VIP process costs time. And depending on who or where you are, in which circumstances you are, for example, you get a parking ticket, you could just pay it and when it's when it's over. Or you could say I don't want to pay, I handed it over to my lawyer. That implies that you have a lawyer and you're willing to take the risk. But if it's somebody for whom it is going to cost more with that lawyer, that implies a whole different level of wealth so they just pay for the parking ticket, because the risk of having that escalate into something bad, right? They won't do. Now imagine VA is handing off the parking ticket because it's an AI, it's a computer thing, it's suddenly at a much larger scale. That's the thing with everything where humans are involved, that puts a limit on how often this happens. Because that takes time. And if you want to scale it up, you need some way more humans for this. So it's not happening at that large scale. If it's a computer, you can have it 1000 times per second, and it doesn't cost you much more. So suddenly, VAI would give our parking tickets way more often. And then, to stay in this example, which is slowly getting more unlikely you would have poor people bombarded with target parking tickets, they cannot fight having VAIV, and just saying “in case you do not like for result Call this number” is not enough. **Peter** 1:10:34 Again, we need like a fair playing field for all artists. We need transparency and all that. I think it's not a coincidence that s one of the organizations that is most urgently researching transparent AI is DARPA and the US military research agency, because they say look, we do need algorithmic assistance in the way we handle our weapons systems. But we also really need to understand how exactly they come to their conclusions. For example, an AI- based visual recognition of incoming fighter planes is much faster and more reliable than human eyes at a certain distance. Because you can't even see, you can resolve what's going on, when they already recognize the movement patterns as drones or rockets or planes. But before you shoot at anything you need to really know that you are shooting at the right thing. And you can cue all the examples of where that went wrong with like human or no human in the loop. Of course, there's more than enough examples of that. But I was at a conference listening to a military person, at a fairly high ranking University, describing in great detail how they're super afraid of introducing too much AI into the process, because the risk of escalation and wrong decisions is so high if you just go to the point where you say a green light or red light for shoot inga gun shows that you really need to know is this reliable or not. And CN system always having a human and never have fully automated systems on that level, which gives me a shred of hope at least. **John** 1:12:08 Either you or somebody you were quoting was describing how in chess, the computer beats the human but when a computer and a human team up, they always beat the computer by itself. **Peter** 1:12:22 Yes, like the Center Chess model. That goes back to the Engelbart focus on augmentation over automation. I think that's where it gets really interesting: when you don't just replace humans by automating them away. But you give them superpowers, the way that all of technology does, it’s like going back to a knife where the knife helps us to cut things that we couldn't slice them with our hands, these tools enhance our capabilities. And that's I think, where things get really interesting and where I'd like to see things going where we augments the skills of of humans rather than automate them away. **John** 1:13:00 Thank you so much, Peter. It is an honor to have you with us. Christian, the same with you. And always a pleasure, Inge. **Peter** 1:13:10 Thank you so much for having me." 1,61039,2019-10-09T17:22:52.833Z,61039,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,Michelle leads the Mozilla Foundation and has years of expertise in IoT and Smart technology policy. 2,61040,2019-10-09T17:23:02.759Z,61039,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Michelle 0:00 Hi, my name is Michelle Thorne, and I work for the Mozilla Foundation. We're behind the browser Firefox. And for the last few years, we've been working on internet health. Peter 0:11 Thank you. Thanks so much for making the time. So we want to have this conversation as part of Edgeryders Internet of Humans project. And I just wanted to explore a anon222512824 bit with you, in your words, how you tackle these value driven digital projects? What is it you actually work on? What are the challenges, but maybe that started with how did you get involved involved with this and what you're excited about these days? Michelle I got first gotten interested in all things internet about 15 years ago. And I was actually a very passionate early Wikipedia when the project was just getting started. And I remember telling everybody I knew like my university professors, ""there's this amazing website that lets you edit all these these different articles. And it's all the world's knowledge and all the world's languages."" And I just thought that was the most ambitious and coolest thing on the internet. And so that was kind of my window into free culture and open source. After going to the first week of in Frankfurt, Germany, I learned about Creative Commons, where I later worked. And after being at Creative Commons for a few years, started to work at the Mozilla Foundation. So the idea of, you know, open, participatory, global, ambitious digital projects has always been the big job for me. Peter 1:44 Okay, so participation, I think that's a really important part. How do we put users or people like you into that scenario first? And how do we empower them? And how does that play a role in your your more recent work? Michelle 2:05 I'm really interested in the internet, and the role it plays in society. I see it as a global public resource, and something really worthy of attention and care. I think one of the challenges we see today is that participation is more complicated than it was, let's say, in the earlier days of the internet, we've seen the rise of these big centralized platforms, which use their corporate policies to control how you participate. There is very anon222512824 governance from the user side, and how those platforms might change or respond to people's needs. And we're also seeing the rise of behaviors online, hate speech and other kinds of violence aggravating actions that have kind of put people into retreat, or help to polarize people. So we have other social media platforms who really benefit from benefit from outrage and benefit from content that gets, quote, engagement. But it's actually creating a kind of polarized atmosphere online, and people are retreating and participating less, or just participating in their smaller groups and just talking about the average. So it's become a kind of, at least in my experience, and what I've heard anecdotally and seen in some studies, just the internet as a place of participation is a lot more money, the Muslim foundation on on the team that I'm on, we support all sorts of leaders in the internet health movement, who are tackling these different kinds of issues. So there's a whole group of people, Camille included, who are talking about misinformation, and how do you combat the rise of misinformation online? People talking about how do we talk about hate speech and radicalized speech online. And we also run a bunch of campaigns around these topics that I've been working on the last few years is the Internet of Things, and how to make it more responsible, more open, more private, and also include these ideas of participation and co-creation, because the Internet of Things has typically been a lot of black box appliances, without a lot of in a real agency to change them. Peter 4:17 You just touched on something that I personally find really interesting, because as you know, I also work a lot around IoT. And Internet of Things is one of these awkward fields that doesn't have really clear bounds. But you touched on one of the inherent issues there, like you met just mentioned, openness and privacy, and as a term, how do you resolve that? Or how do you think about this tension? Michelle 4:40 The IoT projects, I think, get it right or on the right path are ones that are open in their designs and their code and in their explanation of their business model and around like, how how the thing works, and also how did this thing comes to be in terms of supply chain, and in terms of the materials and things that go into it, as well as the third parties that work with it. So there's a whole, for me, openness is starting to become a much broader, you know, includes many things are, you know, transparency and how that device is made. What that device interacts with, in addition to the licensing of a name, it's like codes. And I think that those practices help to build trust. Because when you can see that an audit that information you can better understand is this a service or product that I'm willing to trust. And I think part of what that openness is about is around disclosing what happens with your data, what partners that company is in contact with or, partnering with, what their IT security update policies are, these are all things that help you make an informed decision whether you will trust this device with your data, and therefore, consider it a privacy worth preserving. Peter 6:03 You talk about privacy and data protection and the right to your own privacy. I've recently read a few really interesting points that I have to admit I hadn't anon4292955258 realized that they had to put it so eloquently around individuals, the role of individuals versus collective rights. So we have a corporations that . We have lawmakers to kind of provide a framework for that. But a lot of the rhetoric, especially on Silicon Valley, and even a lot of the activist groups is the individual needs protect their own right? What do you think about that? Michelle 6:44 I think in general, we put too much pressure on the individual to have to protect themselves and all sorts of areas of our lives, technology, internet, it's just one of them. I do think there are responsibilities of governments and corporations. And I think we're seeing the rise of, thanks to digital tools, some sort of collective agency and collective bargaining. So pools of users able to put together their demands, their needs, their permissions, and through more collective bargaining, able to negotiate. And so I think that for me, that's a kind of a new area worthy of more exploration and others that some people may be sitting in this network are looking at things like digital cooperatives. And I think that that's going to be a really interesting place. Because Yeah, I think, only putting the burden on the individual to have to understand all these different policies, all the different permissions, all the different technical capabilities. And do this in like the seconds of free time they have between their otherwise strapped lives is unfair, and not a society I want to advocate for. Peter 7:50 I couldn't agree more. And also, it's like, as an individual, even if miraculously. And this should not be a crime in Canada, possible zero crime, but even if you will be able to read and fully understand and fully navigate all the privacy policies in the world, a lot of the magic of data exploitation still happens once the data is your individual data is collected with like data of like 150,000, or like 100 or 2 million other people. And none of the privacy policies even tagged with that level at all. That's like the Wild West. Completely. Interesting. So you started from the free culture was your gateway drug and open source that led you to Creative Commons, where you helped open up licenses and copyright, to give creators more power, rather than the copyright regime? That led you to do the foundation? And where you've been digging into into internet health? And user empowerment? What are some of the tools in the toolkit? What were some of the tools you've been using? I know, there's a PhD program. That's just kicking off. There was a thing called the almighty studio, which was like an internal program. Can you just give a brief overview of like, your personal journey there? Michelle 9:14 I started the Mozilla Foundation, when Mark Simon, the executive director, had also just recently joined. And he had the ambition to take the Mozilla Foundation, which was pretty strongly just focused on Firefox, the browser, and maybe a anon222512824 bit the web as a platform, and said, like, we need to be fueling a movement for the help of the internet. And so his application blog post is called A Million Brazilians. And at the time, that was a anon4292955258 radical and ambitious proposal to the organization. And so I've been working with him for over a decade, and the things that I have done and have helped to make that vision a reality. Little bit, these projects started off with what's called the Mozilla Festival. And the idea was, let's bring together these different, primarily open players in the open space. So we had people from open hardware, open science, open education. And we had Wikipedia there, you know, we had a collection of project open video, there was a smattering of these open efforts around the world. And we thought let's bring them together. And here's a look at also learn from all these different movements that we're applying openness to other fields. So that's where you build your rainbow coalition, so to speak. Okay. And that helps give us specific projects and people that we could be investing in and supporting over the years. And what's interesting is even over a decade that's had for various permutations, but a lot of the key ideas still continue. So I still think I still use convenience as this really important way to bring together a coalition, a network of people who might otherwise not work together, to really create, like, a new community of practice out of these diverse groups. And by working on specific and achievable projects, you are able to actually give people like a collaborative substrate that lets something move forward. So I think that those some of those templates that still continue. And I have definitely learned over the years, but I think those are are anon4292955258 powerful tools, especially in the nonprofit space. Peter 11:26 So that's communities of practice. Individually walk us through the learning curve of the Open IT Studio and how that led to open dot and set the stage for the next chapters. Michelle 11:41 One theme that kind of emerged through that work of the years, which also include included web literacy, and being part of the kind of learn to code movement was this idea of before the first falling at the Physical Web. Depending on circle you're in, you would sometimes say different words to what we set out on IoT, because that started just to be the term that was getting more traction. But anyways, I partnered with a professor from the University of Dundee, Jon Rogers, who I had worked with for many years through the Mozilla festival, we just really got along and just said, like, hey, every time we talk, there's all sorts of ideas and things that we can be working on. So let's just Skype with each other once a week, and see where it goes. And so for a few months, you know, he came from a design research background, really interested in the physical aspects of the web and of interaction as an electrical engineer. I was coming from this digital rights, free culture, participatory open perspective. And so we would just mash together ideas. And then it emerged, we could actually make some sort of program that could be hosted with Mozilla and the University of DD, that tried to take those different values and approaches and apply to Internet of Things. Say we started the Open IT Studio in 2016, with the idea of, let's support a community of practice of designers, technologists, philosophers, historians, digital rights advocates, to talk about what can we do to make it a healthier space for humans. And I think that project was anon4292955258 successful, definitely a highlight of my career, there were a few things that came out of it that might be interesting for people to check out. One I can recommend is the Anatomy of AI, which is a collaboration between And they took an Amazon Alexa. And they said, let's do a truly exploded view. So in design, you have this thing called exploded me, which usually just shows you the physical parts that go into device. But we said with connected devices, the story is much bigger than just the small material parts that go into it. So created the most amazing map, it's four meters by four meters, which was exhibited at the V and A Museum in London and has toured around Europe and beyond. And it's shows you the lifecycle of an Amazon Alexa from the mining and the smelting and the production of the components to then when it's actually running all of the data centers and content moderation advertising to the end of life, recycling, and others and otherwise discarding of the device and what is the true cost of Amazon Alexa; what really goes into it. And I think that for me, that project, The Anatomy of AI, is such a great touchsanon2317280404e for when we think about IoT. Often we talk about IoT, we just see a smart light bulb, or we often just see an object, you know, some sort of traffic light or something. But it's really the new vast network of stuff before, during and after that device where things get really interesting. So I think that that for me was just such a great example of bringing that to life. Unknown Speaker 15:14 The victory really, really important point to highlight there, I think we're like to really think about the analyzer the hidden costs. Because Yeah, if you see this device, it's like, yeah, okay, here's a device it costs x. But of course, that's a fraction of of the story. Really. It's just the last three minutes of a long, long saga. I mean, I guess it's true for most products, but a connected product with chips built in. And also like a IM and cloud infrastructure, it's a very tied into these larger hidden infrastructures. Michelle 15:52 And I think it's not even just the last minutes, it's actually the beginning of a whole new day, a whole new 24 hours, because so for example, Amazon Alexa, it's sold incredibly cheaply. I mean, compact, like it's very inexpensive device. But some of the main things it's doing is it's becoming a much more direct portal for people to order things from Amazon. But probably more importantly, it's become a whole voice snippet, like gathering system, which is powering Amazon's Alexa, that is probably the true value of having your Alexa in everyone's home. For me it like that with working with Open IT Studio and with Jon, and with our collaborators or whichever one Peter, this kind of growing conversation amongst technologists, different professionals in the tech sector around how do we make the internet especially these newer emerging technologies within associated with Internet? How do we make them more understandable? How do we make decisions that lead to these products being more responsible, or the people making them be more responsible? So I think some of it is about transparency and understanding. So things like this map. And some of it are tools, like one project that we worked on together the TrustMark, the trust mark for IoT, which is something that you can then use as a tool for vetting whether your product needs a certain standard and hoping to be giving users some agency and figuring out like, is this something that I really want to have in my home or my life? Peter 17:25 So would you say, if anyone who would be the main audience for for these, these products you're mentioning, because you mentioned on the one hand, you really want to empower users and give them the tools to make better decisions. On the other hand, we discussed this tension, how individuals can only do so much when they are faced with giant global infrastructures and systems. Did you have like a specific audience in mind? And you're thinking: does it depend on a project? How do you think about these things? Michelle 18:00 I think the place where we have the most effect, maybe some better leverage, is working with other professionals and practitioners. Because those are, that's an audience. That's kind of a more notable in size and scale, or size, and just and profile. And those are people who are making daily decisions in their lives that go into those products. So those were our key audiences. So working with Jon: he's teaching next generation product designers. So we had a whole thing around education, from undergraduate to graduate. And now we have a PhD program funded by the U looking at responsible IoT, I think this idea of what are we doing in the higher education space to train people going into the field that will have these kinds of considerations, as well as people who are in the field who are making kind of daily decisions, and then also all sorts of kind of user advocates. So we work with Consumer Reports, we work with nonprofits, we work in the digital rights space, all these people were kind of advocating on behalf of users. And they love these kinds of examples and tools, because it helps them give point to something maybe a anon222512824 more tangible or intuitive than just a policy briefing. Peter 19:19 Policy. I wonder if what you're describing shows that there's there might be a generation of product designers coming up that understand these issues much, much better. And now I wonder if the same is happening in the political science schools and the law schools? What is the status there? Michelle 19:45 It's a great question. I was recently reflecting with a friend of mine that when in college, I studied critical social thought. And we did a lot of thinking and writing, but very anon222512824 making. And if I could recreate my degree I would have critical social and critical making as my double major. Because I think you're right, I think actually the, let's say the makers, I think we're seeing this in the computer science departments and the design departments, engineering departments of all kinds are getting a lot more ethics curriculum and support to think about the ethical components of their work. I think that's on the rise. It's on the rise, but I think some of the other humanities actually don't do enough making of their own. So I'm sure when you're studying law, you would very, very few project would actually encourage you to do anything like make a trust, like a prototype, just mark that actually tries to put some of your law practice into something more tangible. And I I'm a firm believer that we learn through making and even though I'm not a skilled maker, I think that this is a an amazing process to try to turn ideas into something tangible, something that's testable, something that lives in another mode. Peter 21:01 What are the kinds of reactions you get when you start talking to other people about these super complex technical issues because things kind of work in our nonprofit like, that's, that's something that I sometimes find a bit of a struggle when you're so steeped in that thinking, and then you are someone who you've learned from, but I can also learn from from the work you've been doing there. But they have not been sitting there thinking the same way, because they do their own thing. And then all of a sudden, you're like, Oh, well, how do I first of all wrap my head around all the stuff you've been doing to see how this applies? But also, how can I distill this? And not scare anyone away and have them put their head in the sand? Because there's such a big brain dump. And the issues are so overwhelmingly big, it's like a weird scale and fuzzy around the edges. Does that make sense? Michelle 22:00 We exhibited at the V and A during digital design weekend, and you get, like 25,000 people come through, and check out our work. And you have to talk to all sorts of people from all walks of life. And so yes, a lot of it's contextual, but who you're in front of. But I find in general, many people have a smartphone, most smartphones have some sort of voice assistant running on them. I think a smartphone is one of people's first IoT devices in this way. And so actually talking to people about their phone, how do they use their phone and the user voice assistant? What do they think about that? Do they know where that data is going? What do they think about those companies have it, it's all those funny stories around? Accent accents being misunderstood, like the Scottish person trying to talk to Siri, in these people really relate to those stories, and have their own experiences with them. And that becomes kind of a channel through which you can talk about some of these other internet health issues. Peter 23:02 That's right. That's especially true for, say, a general audience. But you mentioned that you mostly target in your practice, practitioners. Are they open for these kind of arguments? Or is this a thing that a shrug off as a Yeah, yeah, security, privacy. Michelle 23:25 I'm seeing increasingly people who don't want their work to be adding to the shadiness in the world. just released a really great study around tech workers and their attitudes, was focused on the UK, but they showed that I think one in five tech workers, is ready to leave a job if the employers makes an error, like an unethical decision, which cost the company like 30,000 times. So I think this is anecdotally and then also in the sector, more people want to have ethical decisions in what they build. And so I'm actually finding more people, who you don't have to convince them that these are things to work on. It's more that was more how oftentimes, you'll find that people are people who work in the tech sector are coming up against the business of the company is the thing that is at odds, it may be not their product manager or their design team, everyone's on board. But you have you coming down to some bigger question around like, how is that company financed? And so I think some of the big innovations of the coming decade will actually be around reforming our economic models. Peter 24:38 So I think we had, like I said, as a really solid basis for you know, like, if like, have companies like a fantastic group, doing a lot of like research, you've like increased transparency, and started building tools and mechanisms to empower people. And I think we're like breaking, kind of like new ground, like in a fairly literal literal like knowledge, workI kind of sense. And that you're now involved in where you you co founded a PhD program. And PhD programs are, of course about like, contributing absolutely new research and knowledge and really expanding the field in a way that hadn't been before. Right. So can you talk a anon222512824 bit about this? And we'll also hear more about this from john Rogers, two partners, but like, how do you get involved with this? How does this come together? And where do you see this going? Michelle 25:27 I think of how this project came to life. And thanks to the maintenance of the European Commission to prioritize these kinds of training networks, which seems to be a unique thing in the world that they say we need to get universities and in the industry together to think and to move forward to these new kinds of trainings. And especially they were interested in things like a nonprofit like Mozilla, who really focus on these more societal implications of technology. So I think that's a really amazing that they even have this kind of like structure. So it's going to be a three year PhD program that actually the there's five PhD students who are at this moment moving to Dundee, Scotland to start next week. And they come, they come from all over the world. And the idea is that they're going to be researching, through design practices, their philosophical practices through coding practices, and legal practices, ways to advance a healthier Internet of Things. So what that will look like in practice is like, very much going to be determined on what they bring to it. But we focused on different layers of where we see it playing out from the body, to the home to the neighborhood, in the city. And then we also did a cross cutting project or on the checkmark, and helps to try to bring those ideas together. So I'm anon4292955258 excited to see what it's like, I think, to have a PG program paired with a nonprofit is exciting, they're going to also come to facility Berlin, for a year and a half to be more embedded in our office here. And then they're being advised by an array of really amazing organizations who are at the forefront of this responsible space, moving things on, simply secure. I want to take this program, as much as I want to run it. Peter 27:25 I think it's really neat that you're able to get the kind of supervisor support from people who are doing this kind of tech advocacy, also. So that kind of opens up the space beyond like pure IoT into activism into academia, but also, one of the themes that that I've seen throughout this is thinking about Commons, versus just exploitation, about sustainability, in terms of short term gains. And I think recently, you've talked more openly and more and more today, about a greener web and more sustainability in terms of the digital services and the web infrastructure we use. Where was your thinking of this? Michelle 28:12 The stat that really set me back was learning that the internet contributes 2% of the world's global carbon emissions, which basically puts it on par with the airline industry. I think for a long time, we've lived in some sort of digital denial that the internet is physical, in that sense, in the sense that it requires environmental resources and adds to pollution. But as in the tech sector, we've never shied away from imagining different futures and innovating. So it's actually a place where I think the internet both is a heavy contributor to emissions, as well as it can be an amazing tool to reduce its own as well as used to mobilize and organize for climate action. Recently, I've been really interested in the idea of becoming carbon neutral Internet, and what it would take to reduce those emissions. The great news is that there are many wonderful humans of the internet who are interested in this in this problem as well. And there's already like an array of actions that are happening from moving data centers to renewables, to designing websites and web services that have a lower footprint, to extending the life of connected devices, there's a whole bunch of things people are doing that in aggregate can actually reduce emissions. And so for me, that's really exciting, not just thinking about it in the internet sector, but also just seeing the mobilization around a climate agenda. We see that really strongly here in Germany with Friday's for future, and the recent European elections, this I think, strong mandate from the public to do something about it. And I've really taken that kind of momentum to heart. Within Mozilla, we started a small group of people who are pushing for more climate activism within the organization, which you can expect to hear more from soon. And just being more involved and also learning. There's a lot to learn about, about the climate crisis. But I think it's something that now when I think about what does it mean to be responsible technologists, I think previously, I really saw it as being around openness and privacy, inclusion, and all these topics. But now I'm increasingly seeing it has to also include the climate and kind of moving up or probably down the stack really deeper into the base layers. I keep putting like penthouses on it, but actually basement that needed investigation. People that I've spoken to have felt this kind of dissonance between amazing internet future that, for example, that me and all these open movement people have been advocating for, and the hard reality of the climate crisis, but I think there's a way to actually address that dissonance head on and not be paralyzed in action, but actually to do something about it. That's, that's where I'm at at the moment. Peter 31:12 That's really interesting that you've hinted at this, but it's, I think, a really, really important reminder that oftentimes, if you want to put people first, it means that you need to work throughout all the conditions so that people just come first. So in this case you need data and design practices to put people in the center, you need to make sure that there's a planetary perspective in order to, for the people to have a chance to be front and center. So that's really interesting to see how there's this big red thread that connects them all. And the thing is, it's very illustrative of, of the tech industry in the tech scene over the last 10 years, from kind of utopian activists, as soon as we can, like, digitize and everything will be better, automatically to have, okay, there's actually there's complications once it hits a certain scale, and more people come in and all that stuff, and the dynamics change, and now we need to remedy some of the potential problems, too. Oh, now we really need to dig in and, and see if we are contributing to a problem because it's such a dominant force of power. Now. I think we could wrap up, is there anything I should have asked anything you'd like to add any anything, any shout outs you want to give? Michelle 32:36 I mean, just think about this project being in the context of the European Union. In much of my work over the years, I've really seen the European Union be this kind of beacon of hope, from be it from a regulatory perspective, be it from an agenda setting perspective be addressed from like a celebration of multiculturalism will do lingual ism. And now, also putting the climate high on the high on the priority list. Even as a non US citizen, I really believe in the project of the EU. And I think it's one of the most modern and exciting things that is happening on the planet, I think for the EU to really be invested in a thought leader around what the internet could be and helping to create this kind of alternative vision for it that are dominated by the prevailing centralized service capitalism models. I think, you know, that hasn't made me more public, public good perspective. I think there's something I really am hopeful for and to help lead. So that's exciting. And one of the reasons I was excited to participate in this project. Peter 33:45 Awesome. Well, thank you so much for making the time." 1,59960,2019-09-26T10:25:34.595Z,59960,anon2774717864,anon2774717864,"Hello Everyone, I am Mehul Sharma, Owner & Creator of SynchroKnot Software for Cloud Computing Decentralization. I considered being a part of the NGI initiative when I saw that I could offer my software & solution to help enable the vision of NGI. This technology and software product is ready and available. It is an amalgamation of cloud computing, networking, IoT and Blockchain, among other technologies, which decentralizes and builds the next-generation Internet economy at both the micro and macro level in parallel, while enhancing the individual user and business freedom, privacy and competitiveness. SynchroKnot software transforms any server, workstation, desktop or embedded device into a decentralized cloud or data center [data decenter] in minutes. You can use any commodity X86_64 Desktop/Workstation/Server/Embedded device and connect them to eachother. There is no need to purchase virtualization software [VMware, OpenStack, Hyper-V etc], switches and routers or storage [SAN/NAS]. I encourage you to take a deeper look into how transformation can be fun and empowering at the same time. [More information](http://anon2774717864.ch) [Articles & How Tos](https://qiita.com/organizations/anon2774717864-org) ![SynchroKnot-Internet-of-Spatial-Defined-Systems-Iot|690x643](upload://xMsKpNphZUw7ZZLRogmyBsyNdXM.png) ![SynchroKnot-Satellite-Tree-Protocol-Direct-Connect-Architecture|635x517](upload://vmxNoR9U81fDpsn1ArPwisjBXL8.png)" 2,60955,2019-10-08T17:29:54.140Z,59960,anon2434097920,anon2774717864,The value proposition in the link lists numerous money saving benefits. What other benefits to using this besides saving money/better economics? 1,59692,2019-09-21T16:40:55.456Z,59692,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"Edward Snowden – with his new book out – is raising the volume of his voice. I wonder: what are the implications of what he is saying for the future Internet, if any? Consider the radicality of what he is saying. If everyone were to adopt his advice, the vast majority of today's Internet businesses would become unviable in their current form. Also, most business done online since 1993 is ethically bankrupt. It's anon4292955258 a yes/no proposition! Will his argument be waved off as unrealistic? Or are times a-changing, with the future Internet shaping up to reform some of the ways of the current one? Full thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1175419013402374145 " 2,60954,2019-10-08T17:21:16.404Z,59692,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"The first many years of my life online were spent in a world where everything was direct pay. It was all by consent and there was no spying at all. The trade-info-for-service via advertising that changed all that. Until that changes, it is realistic to think that any meaningful change away from ""predation"" will occur? I think the EC would love nothing more than to have a (European) human-centered internet service win in the marketplace. But realistically, is that possible? News sites are charging for their content again. But even via a paywall, who is to say there will be no spying of some kind? You would have to walk away from a revenue stream." 1,60852,2019-10-07T20:06:11.520Z,60852,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"In this 24 minute conversation Zenna interview Pablo Velasco, faculty member in Digital Design and Information Studies at Aarhus university. They discuss decentralization, and how utopian thinking ties into it. What projects has Pablo seen that are truly innovative? And given the differences in the world's cultures, is it even possible to enjoy a fully human-centered internet - or AI, or a smart city - via technical solutions? https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/3/34ce327a223b8981db1e6166101c14e9079510bc.mp3" 2,60953,2019-10-08T17:04:45.422Z,60852,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"A key section of this is when Zenna asks Pablo what really interesting, innovative, truly new projects has he seen in the blockchain world he has been studying so intensely and he said, ""not that many"" explaining that when you really drill down into them, the differences between these supposed radical new blockchain projects are not really that different from what already exists in some other form. So where are the really innovative projects? I think ultimately this is what the EC wants to get out of this set of discussions they are funding here...for some real innovators to come out of the woodwork or out from under rocks where the EC has not been looking, with ideas that will lead to European business that embody human-centered values, but win in the marketplace. It's a long shot but I think this is what they are really after.. However, I also think, based on conversations I have had on this platform and in other places with people who have posted here, some innovators are, or may be, reluctant to throw in with the super establishment EC unless they are convinced that where it leads really does benefit people and it won't be ""business as usual"" because that clearly has not worked. This is relevant to the interview with Prof. Velasco because, again, the really unique innovative ideas are not readily showing themselves." 1,60497,2019-10-03T11:18:02.049Z,60497,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Dear Edgeryder NGI Festival Event Organisers, Time is moving fast and we are looking forward to your events in November! To make them the best they could be we need a few more information and a post about your event to use to reach out to interesting participants and discussion members. Here a list of the next steps: 1. Please give your event a title and share that with us by filling it in [here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/festival-program-overview/10731/8) in the programme overview or simply answering to that thread. 2. If you haven’t done so already, please write a post about your event with information such as [this example](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326) about the AI event in Brussels. We would like to have those posts up by Monday the 7th of October, latest by the 10th. We know all of you are amazing and busy people, but we need to be able to communicate the events as soon as possible to make the best impact for all of us! Once you have written you post we can push your post and include it in the minisite for the festival https://festival.edgeryders.eu/ which you can also use to share with those interested to orient themselves better about the festival and to sign up to join :) 3. Each of the NGI related event posts needs to have a “Frequently asked Questions” footer added to them. You can find the template [here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/frequently-ask-question-section-to-add-to-festival-event-posts/10982). Just copy it in edit mode, past it under your post and make sure to adjust the second paragraph which names the organisers with your and your collaborator's names. 4. Please post a short one-paragraph bio of yourself [here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/festival-participant-bios/10905) if you are not already in that post 5. The[ next Community Call](https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-going-places/10984) on Tuessday the 8th of October 18:00 Brussels time is for you to discuss how to collaborate with events locally and how to organise and finance travels for those that are not yet there :) (https://zoom.us/j/489971765) 6. It would be great to also have more 1-1 calls to discuss your events in detail! Please send me some dates and times that would work for you personally :) 7. It would be great to get a short interview with each of you wonderful interesting people! We are planning how to organise and shedule those in the leading up to the festival in its own thread https://edgeryders.eu/t/schedule-of-interviews-to-do-with-participants-and-content-contributors-ahead-of-the-festival/10971 If you have any question just ask! It is great to create something with amazing people such as you! Ping @anon3931191205, @anon273015838, @anon2724270673, @anon2753384108, @anon3572363072, @anon2774717864, @anon3180318115, @anon683229855, @anon51020356, @anon3449369942" 2,60609,2019-10-03T18:31:46.000Z,60497,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"Hello Maria! I cant open the FAQ post in edit mode.... Cant add the template.... /Erik" 3,60633,2019-10-04T08:18:55.148Z,60609,anon3449369942,anon683229855,Made it a wiki- try now? 4,60636,2019-10-04T08:50:22.000Z,60633,anon3180318115,anon3449369942,thx much !!! 5,60648,2019-10-04T10:30:32.452Z,60636,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"Hi @anon3449369942 updated the wiki, is that ok? Will the info be transferred to the edgeryders event [site](https://festival.edgeryders.eu) or should we do this individually? As more info comes in we will complete the wiki (with times, for instance)." 6,60649,2019-10-04T10:33:05.304Z,60648,anon3449369942,anon3180318115,"How about we do both so as to ensure that no matter where people are coming from, they see the information? What do you think?" 7,60650,2019-10-04T10:39:52.946Z,60648,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,@anon3180318115 can you link your post for the event? We just tagg it accordingly and it will be immediately pushed to the minisite :) 8,60654,2019-10-04T11:30:29.705Z,60650,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,@anon3031202475 https://edgeryders.eu/t/anticipate-exploring-collective-intelligence-design/11021 9,60660,2019-10-04T11:49:44.297Z,60654,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"@anon3180318115 Great! Will push it in the minisite this evening. :slight_smile: Also, is this something for you? > Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design is offering a second round of grants and I know they are especially welcoming applications from arts/design. > > > > Up to **£30k** per grant available for ‘experiments that generate new knowledge on how to advance collective intelligence to solve social problems’. > > > > **Deadline 25th October.** > > > > > More info here and on how to apply: > > > > https://www.nesta.org.uk/project/collective-intelligence-grants/call-ideas/ > > > > > An example of an arts project that was successfully funded in last year’s round: > > > > https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/collective-intelligence-grants/intelligence-collective/" 10,60664,2019-10-04T12:01:51.909Z,60660,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"@anon3031202475 Absolutely and thx much. If there is anyone from across edgeryders interested in co-developing a proposal pls ping me, would love to use that opportunity to get to know people from the network and co-create !" 11,60667,2019-10-04T12:24:10.229Z,60664,anon3449369942,anon3180318115,edited your event description and everyone else's with FAQ section. 12,60705,2019-10-05T06:27:06.397Z,60497,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"I'm confused about the process of signing up to events. In The FAQ, it say to: register an account with edgeryders and present yourself to the community. While the website https://festival.edgeryders.eu/ seems to be the way in. @anon3449369942 @anon3031202475 etc... What do think we should communicate here?" 13,60707,2019-10-05T07:52:36.384Z,60705,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"@anon683229855, this is a very relevant point. We will come back to you as soon as possible and are happy to discuss it here. What is your opinion on the sing up process? What works best?" 14,60708,2019-10-05T08:01:42.085Z,60705,anon3449369942,anon683229855,"Process is: People who sign up via the website are assumed to be totally new to anything and everything edgeryders, maybe never had contact with any of us or know at all how this works. And may not have clear ideas about what event they might want to go to. People who drop in to the individual session/event description on the platform (like yours) are assumed to be interested in participating in that event. In both cases they will need to create an account and introduce themselves as well as pick some tasks to help with in order to secure their tickets. The difference is the order in which they do it. But, if this seems confusing we can and ought to simplify it - which I think is being discussed here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/onboarding-form-proposals/11013?u=mariaeuler" 15,60779,2019-10-06T21:51:41.064Z,60708,anon683229855,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:14, topic:10986""] The difference is the order in which they do it. But, if this seems confusing we can and ought to simplify it - which I think is being discussed here: [/quote] In my opinion, its good for the festival if ""outside"" people can know exactly how to signup for the explicit events. As an organizers, we would need to know how many participants has signed for ""a"" particular event - for planning food etc. Its not clear to me today how I can follow up on this or even tell people where to signup. Or do I need to manage my own signup page/form? @anon3031202475" 1,60681,2019-10-04T13:37:32.103Z,60681,anon3449369942,anon3449369942," We want our [workshop on AI and Inequalities](https://edgeryders.eu/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/24) on 19/11 to be firmly anchored in reality and result in high quality proposals for for EU horizontal AI legislation principles: * scope of the rules (what ‘AI’ systems should be covered, only top consumer/citizen-facing applications, or other/underlying infrastructure) * type of obligations (only transparency/documentation requirements?, what should they contain?) * How to differentiate, depending on scale (i.e. me building system affecting 10 people vs FB unleashing a new content ranking algorithm on a quarter of world population) and risk (system to distinguish which cat video I will be shown vs. decisions on employment, insurance, housing, predictive policing). So we want to gather/build a number of case studies where specific technological choices have resulted in increasing or decreasing justice. Some examples include: * AlgorithmWatch produces yearly reports looking at automated decision-making in Europe (Jan 2019 report, ‘Automating Society - Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU’). * UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is also carrying out a review of positive and negative effects of automated decision-making, first interim results just out. * Interesting examples could be insurance branch, or the case of Austrian labour authority using it to decide whom of the unemployed to help in finding a new job (criterion: efficiency narrowly defined, i.e. those already have highest chance to find a new job in the first place…). Do you know of one to add to the list? please post it in a comment below" 1,59274,2019-09-14T11:41:40.372Z,59274,anon1990933018,anon1990933018,"Hello Edgeryders! I hope you are all well and having creative and innovative weekends :) I am the co-founder of COACT Lab an open-source environmental tech incubator based in the green hills outside of Barcelona. We have developed an online presentation that gives you more details about the program which you can view [here.](https://tristan.pageflow.io/coact-lab#218774) COACT Lab is an incubator, where inventors, designers and technologists with environmental tech ideas can disconnect from their daily pressures to focus on creating scalable and usable solutions. This will be done over short term residences as well as 3-6 month rigorous incubator programs, where experts will come to the campus to inform and coach the participants in various fields as they build their tech. COACT Lab is set in the Valldaura Labs ([valldaura.net](http://valldaura.net/)), which is a fully equipped 'Fab Lab' located on the hills outside of Barcelona, twenty minutes from the city. While the lab has all the latest machinery and design software, there is also a farm producing food for the residents, a woodlab for carpentry for 'low tech' solutions, and it is in the middle of 130 hectares of forest. Surrounded by nature, living in a self-sufficient existence, we believe that this is the ideal setting to inspire our participants to break the boundaries of environmental tech solutions. It would be great to get the community's feedback on the project and get as many Edge Ryders involved as possible. We look forward to hear from you, William" 2,59309,2019-09-15T15:29:18.956Z,59274,anon3031202475,anon1990933018,"Hello @anon1990933018, great to have you here! sounds very interesting! looking forward to seeing more of this collaboration :). A great way to get some direct feedback and reaction would also be during the Edgeryders Festival in November! We are already planning workshops on the topics of open source, community management, proposal writing for infotech solutions and sustainable technology. It sounds as if there could be a lot of interesting overlapping and maybe you could either feature or add your event to this roster? The deadline for preliminary proposals by filling out [this form](https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI) is on the 20th, and Tuesday the 17th of September we will meet for a community call to talk some more details and discuss some ideas :). Would be great if you would join :)! https://zoom.us/j/788229402" 3,59333,2019-09-16T06:38:54.580Z,59274,anon51020356,anon1990933018,"Hi @anon1990933018, this is super cool, thanks for posting! Are you joining via @anon2753384108 connection? :smiley: Anyway, I'm curious if some of the open tech solutions you guys are workign on (like carpentry based) go as far as looking at green building construction from the bottom up - including foundation, walls, energy grids and so on. Some of us in Brussels are looking for a large residential building to transform it into a carbon free one [(The Reef)](https://edgeryders.eu/c/earthos/the-reef). Part is technical solutions, and another aspect of greening are lifestyle tweaks (growing your own food). Is your space open for visits? Perhaps it's possible to come see it and meet you? With @anon196034329 we are planning a few trips!" 4,59335,2019-09-16T07:36:16.583Z,59274,anon2753384108,anon1990933018,"Hey [anon1990933018](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon1990933018), nice to see you here! I think we might have a few mutual friends, and I'm in Barcelona this week - I leave on Sept 21st for Paris - do please let me know if you'd be around for a chat or if a visit would be possible. I'll DM with more details." 5,59339,2019-09-16T08:21:06.025Z,59309,anon1990933018,anon3031202475,"Hello @anon3031202475. Thank you so much for your message. Really excited to see the collaboration move forward too. Really keen to join the Edgeryders festival in November and contribute where we can. Will definitely sign up and develop some kind event within the festival. Thank you for letting me know. What time is the call tomorrow? would love to join! Best wishes, William" 6,59344,2019-09-16T08:28:53.673Z,59333,anon1990933018,anon51020356,"@anon51020356 Thank you for the feedback. I met with @anon3449369942 at the Tech Festival in Copenhagen and learned all about this incredible edgeryder community and signed up as quickly as I could! We have just welcomed our first resident inventor up to COACT Lab in the Valldaura campus. He will be developing a micro hydro turbine. As well as holding a solar water heating workshop. We definitely have plans to look at green building solutions and would be great to discuss this further. These are definitely the kind of solutions we would like to welcome people to Valldaura to develop. The reef project looks brilliant! Look forward to learn more about it. Interestingly, the Valldaura campus where COACT Lab is based has a IAAC masters programs looking at ecological building and they just built a tiny eco home on the campus. It would be great if you want to come visit. You and @anon196034329 are welcome anytime!!" 7,59345,2019-09-16T08:29:19.262Z,59335,anon1990933018,anon2753384108,@anon2753384108 would be great to meet up with you. I am here all week. Lets make a plan! 8,59354,2019-09-16T10:04:14.598Z,59345,anon2753384108,anon1990933018,"Cool, thanks @anon1990933018! I'll DM to work out specifics for when it would make to visit. Thanks!" 9,59356,2019-09-16T10:14:49.155Z,59339,anon3031202475,anon1990933018,"@anon1990933018, great! The call is 18:00 Brussels time tomorrow :)" 10,59368,2019-09-16T11:58:59.957Z,59274,anon3809206126,anon1990933018,"Hello @anon1990933018, nice to meet you. My name is Alberto, one of the old hands here at Edgeryders. Your space looks beautiful and inspiring! I have a question, and my apologies if it sounds a bit thorny. I have the impression that a lot of the innovation really worth doing tends to *destroy* GDP, not increase it, and in general to be bad for capitalism (not to put too fine a point on it). Environmental innovation is not the only type of innovation where I see this, but it is where this effect seems strongest. I write this under the influence of the [Deep Adaptation paper](/t/10726), where Bendell essentially says that sustainability is over. We are now in the age of adaptation, and the three directions of work for adaptation are resilience, relinquishment and restoration. Relinquishment is particularly important: maybe the most impactful environmental innovation is going to come from *giving up* stuff (private cars, commercial aviation, most meat). *Not buying things* is infinitely scalable, but it generates economic benefit from public goods (like the natural environment) instead of market transactions. Public goods are famously difficult to monetize, which adds further efficiency because just letting people enjoy them is very cheap and (again) scalable, but, in my experience, they are not a direction that incubators, VCs etc. like to take. They like ""sustainable"", which is mostly business as usual. I am curious: how does this tension play out at COACT? How do you yourself see it?" 11,59372,2019-09-16T12:12:02.118Z,59274,anon3401476781,anon1990933018,"Hi @anon1990933018 and welcome! I'm so intrigued by your work and the spirit of openness and accessibility to a large scale of people. It there any chance that you or another member have ever worked with the maritime sector? Ports and / or shipping? Our [EarthOS unit](https://edgeryders.eu/t/say-hello-to-earthos-why-edgeryders-is-partnering-with-europes-largest-public-private-partnership-for-climate-action/10148) is working with EIT Climate-KIC on different projects and one of that is the ""Deep Demonstration of net-zero emissions, resilient maritime hubs"". We are organising [a workshop in Valencia](https://edgeryders.eu/t/join-us-in-the-greening-of-mediterranean-maritime-hubs/10789) in December: maybe some of you want to share some experience with us? :)" 12,59398,2019-09-16T19:24:31.126Z,59368,anon1990933018,anon3809206126,@anon3809206126 this is a super interesting and important question! Please allow me a bit of time to digest and I'll come back to you with an answer of sorts. Always happy to have a chat too if you want to pick my brains. 13,59399,2019-09-16T19:27:52.150Z,59372,anon1990933018,anon3401476781,"@anon3401476781 Thank you for your message and kind feedback. We have not worked in the maritime sector but given the large carbon footprint, I very much hope that we can see some open source solutions come through COACT Lab to tackle the port and shipping sectors. EarthOS unit looks great. We would love to join the workshop in Valencia and can make a strong case for open source solutions to generate conversations... perhaps? Look forward to learn more about your work." 14,59406,2019-09-16T21:28:02.318Z,59274,anon2434097920,anon1990933018,Let me just join the chorus of impressed welcomers...what kinds of projects have come out of there so far? 15,59418,2019-09-17T07:02:28.718Z,59356,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,Maria what is the url/instructions for joining the call today at 18h? 16,59421,2019-09-17T07:20:03.592Z,59418,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,https://zoom.us/j/788229402 17,59492,2019-09-17T15:30:41.192Z,59399,anon3401476781,anon1990933018,Great William! I'll write you in the next days with more informations :) 18,59597,2019-09-18T16:39:24.835Z,59274,anon3180318115,anon1990933018,"Hi @anon1990933018 super interesting, we just submitted a workshop proposal for Nov 28 to edgeryders which involves bringing a few ppl from the network into a local sust architecture design process f (and driven by) a commons-oriented coop. If we get some budget for that - would u be interested in coming to Saarbruecken for a day?" 19,59598,2019-09-18T17:47:42.672Z,59597,anon1990933018,anon3180318115,"@anon3180318115 thanks for your message. Your workshop sounds really interesting. Yes, would love to come to Saarbruecken for a day. Happy to chat further any time." 20,59748,2019-09-23T10:01:23.466Z,59274,anon3031202475,anon1990933018,"@anon1990933018, when would suit you for a call focusing on your projects and how to include them in the Edgeryders Festival? Would this or next Tuesday suit you? It would be amazing if you could fill in this: https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI Looking forward to hearing more about your projects!" 21,60632,2019-10-04T08:00:27.000Z,59598,anon3180318115,anon1990933018,"Hi @anon1990933018, any chance we can chat today? Best, Soenke" 1,60474,2019-10-03T08:46:20.550Z,60474,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"_the second paragraph needs to be individualised for each event!_ # Frequently asked questions ### How do I get an invitation/ticket to this workshop? This event is bringing together people who are currently directly involved in building, researching, regulating, monetising and or providing meaningful input into the wider debate around the technologies in question. We want to ensure that every participant leaves the venue having presented and discussed their work with others who can provide meaningful input or connect them with opportunities to further their professional and or personal development. If this appeals to you, then we would love to have you join us. Just [create an edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login) and [introduce yourself to the community here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you). ### How is this event being organised? This event, and the festival it is part of, is coordinated on the edgeryders platform (where you are now) and co-curated through a series of community video calls. We have allocated a collaboratively managed budget for the festival and operate on a solidarity basis. Participants who need some financial support to organise or be able to participate in the festival are eligible provided they contribute towards making it a meaningful and generative experience for all - in the run up to, during and/or after the event. If you would like to join us but are unsure as to how to contribute, don't worry. Create an [edgeryders account](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login), then [tell us a bit about yourself here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-us-about-you) and we will guide you along from there. ``` **Here the text needs to be individualised for your event!!!** ``` I > ( add @anon am coordinating this event, > with @anon ### How is this all financed? This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and our involvement in it at https://ngi.edgeryders.eu
![Ngi logo](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/ngi-logo.png) ![Eu emblem](https://ngi.edgeryders.eu/assets/images/eu-emblem.png) ### Does getting involved mean I endorse the funders views or actions? No. What you are doing is contributing to an open consultation on the topic of how to build a next generation of internet infrastructure, technologies, business models etc that promotes the wellbeing of humans and the natural environment. The consultation methodology is designed in such a way as to allow for diversity of views, premises, disciplines, themes and contexts. We employ open notebook science principles and the results will be presented in the form of a research report accessible to everyone after the event. You can follow the process, review the methodology and open source tech we are using and engage directly with the research and coordination team here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/workspace ### What is the code of conduct? It is important to us that everyone in the room feels welcomed and safe; if you have any particular concerns or needs just send me a PM here on the platform or write to anon3449369942@anon The Edgeryders online platform technology and activities are intended for people to cooperate within and across projects trying to build a better world. The word ""better"" has here a fairly broad range of meaning. These [Community Guidelines](https://edgeryders.eu/t/netiquette/45) are here to help you understand what it means to be a member of Edgeryders. Don’t forget that your use of Edgeryders is subject to these Community Guidelines and our [Terms of Service](https://edgeryders.eu/t/id/44). ### What happens with my data? You can read about our [Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here](https://edgeryders.eu/t/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policy/44). Also: * [Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC) * [Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:31995L0046) * [Handbook on European Data Protection directive](http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Handbook_data_protection_ENG.pdf) * [European Commission website - Protection of personal data](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/)" 1,60527,2019-10-03T12:29:32.673Z,60527,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Here a Summary of the Community Call of the 1st of October: We thank @anon2753384108, @anon3449369942, @anon51020356, @anon196034329, @anon2434097920 and @anon2926706121 for joining. The goal of the call was to discuss the Deep Green research goal and Festival Events. We did so in a wider sense discussing Edgeryders goal to map the field of how to get engaged in helping with sustainable and green ideas and behaviour based on skills and abilities. The discussion also brought up the topic of Solarpunk and with the help of contacts made by @anon2753384108 we are now planning to reach out for a set of webchats/calls/interviews with solar punk (""Solarpunk Salon""). Stay tuned! This in combination with Edgryders experiences and previous discussions about deeper engagement also leads to [the plan of creating an ""Organiser Interview Circle""](/t/10971) It was also a great oportunity to learn more about @anon Thank you very much! We also discussed the influence of CO2 levels on intelegence and Nudist beaches. Here the collected chat: [quote] | | | |---|---| |18:16:37| From Maria : thankyou| |18:16:50| From Maria : are you recording?| |18:17:05| From Matt : I'm recording now. Hope it works :) | |18:17:15| From Matt : Where does the recording go afterwards?| |18:17:36| From anon3449369942 : the Emilies| |18:17:49| From anon3449369942 : Can you post their names on the platform?| |18:18:08| From anon3449369942 : In a comment on that post?| |18:18:10| From anon3449369942 : later| |18:19:24| From anon3449369942 : Climate Action Tech, unConference in London October 18| |18:19:25| From anon2926706121snip : chris, is this slack open to people to join?| |18:19:37| From Chris Adams : emily webber| |18:19:42| From Chris Adams : https://climateaction.tech/| |18:19:51| From Chris Adams : https://ti.to/omg/climate-london/| |18:20:19| From anon3449369942 : Talk to Luke Devlin or Gehan Mcleod| |18:23:11| From anon3449369942 : I’ve reached out to Ronan Harringanon2317280404 to see if he might be able to facilitate the session| |18:25:38| From anon3449369942 : Service path design| |18:27:11| From John : nobody is doing “enough” and feeling good about whereto are now is kind of unrealistic. So, maybe the idea is to not freak anyone out any more than they are, but to help lead others to what doing “more” would look like, given that everyone has a different situation when you get into the details.| |18:27:39| From John : not whereto but feeling good about where they are now| |18:28:19| From Maria : all the focused events lead to discussions that are being analysed for the wider exploration| |18:30:16| From anon3449369942 : He’s [the documentation from Matt’s session](/t/7527)| |18:32:11| From John : best security talk I ever saw. By far.| |18:36:19| From Maria : We should also quickly talk about time plans and deadlines concretely for the festival events here before the end :).| |18:37:40| From anon3449369942 : look at https://twitter.com/cdlariviere ’s feed, super interesting| |18:37:41| From Maria : this real stories anon3449369942 is refereeing to instead of personas and such tools| |18:39:53| From Chris Adams : “The Solarpunk diaries""| |18:41:15| From John : zeitgeisty| |18:42:20| From anon3449369942 : Solarpunk salons| |18:42:42| From Chris Adams : https://solarpunks.net| |18:44:07| From Chris Adams : [Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Solarpunk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Solarpunk)| |18:45:01| From Maria : [Reddit: Solarpunk Architecture at the Singapore Airport](https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/bdme2l/solarpunk_architecture_at_the_singapore_airport/)| |18:46:26| From Chris Adams : Chris will share a bunch of links and people active in this field| |18:46:58| From Chris Adams : chris@anon |18:47:41| From anon2926706121snip : chris, I’d also like to get you in touch with Coda Story’s managing editor, he’s interested in going to the OMGClimate and may want to write a anon222512824 news brief about it, so it’d be great if he could talk with you| |18:48:08| From anon3449369942 : Zenna story| |18:49:18| From anon3449369942 : Nadia crafts skeleanon2317280404 invitation to series of calls where solarpanks meet and get to know one another - share each others’ stories and then post on platform and discuss together there| |18:49:49| From anon3449369942 : Chris edits and helps reach out and draw in people via personal channels| |18:55:10| From anon3449369942 : Let me know when the events are happening in London are happening| |18:55:19| From anon3449369942 : I can hop on train to hop over| |18:55:34| From John : you are the youngest person I ever heard saying ‘groovy’| |18:55:38| From anon3449369942 : Patchwork - can you invite me Chirs?| |18:55:45| From anon3449369942 : anon3449369942@anon |18:55:48| From anon3449369942 : chris| |18:57:19| From anon3449369942 : ELa Kagel, Caroline Paulick Thiel| |18:57:26| From anon3449369942 : Susanne Stauch| |18:57:29| From anon3449369942 : Peter Harris| |18:57:52| From anon3449369942 : Oliver is also based in Berlin| |18:58:12| From Maria : we have a thread with the berlin organisers going to get together| |18:58:22| From John : Peter Bihr is there. He seems to know just about everyone| |18:58:41| From Maria : https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryder-festival-locations-in-berlin/10637| |18:59:34| From anon3449369942 : Dan Ohuiginn| |18:59:41| From anon3449369942 : Danohu| |19:00:31| From anon3449369942 : facilitation/organisation costs| |19:01:03| From anon3449369942 : So what we would like to ensure there is really high quality documentation| |19:01:24| From anon3449369942 : So it might be worthwhile hiring someone to do it| |19:02:11| From Chris Adams : option 1: a projected shared doc (i.e. google doc)| |19:02:25| From Chris Adams : Option 2: always having a single person in the sessions| |19:03:14| From Chris Adams : 1st person is really important, not a synthesis| |19:06:20| From anon3449369942 : I think we hire someone| |19:06:29| From anon3449369942 : No recording audio, just typing etc| |19:06:32| From anon3449369942 : Yep| [/quote] _Please add your comments and what takeaways from the call as well as Solarpunk and contact links!_ It was a blast and we would recomend you to join the next call: https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-going-places/10984" 1,60495,2019-10-03T11:09:00.078Z,60495,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![8th|690x488](upload://q0kpFdk1AWvHOC9xeLJXeIWsYyd.png) Hello, Dear community members and NGI Festival Participants! During this Community call we would like to discuss two things: 1. How locally and timely near NGI related events during the festival can help and profit each other by planning outreach, the location, food and documentation together. (Especially the organisers in Berlin and Brussels should come together here to use the opportunity to discuss such directly) 2. About travel needs and costs to bring NGI relevant speakers and participants to your event. This might be especially interesting for those organising their festival in other interesting locations and those who want to go there. As always we meet 18:00 Brussels time on zoom: https://zoom.us/j/489971765 on Thursday the 8th of October. Looking forward to speaking to you!" 2,60499,2019-10-03T11:34:22.742Z,60495,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,ping @anon1686813978 1,55908,2019-06-30T21:32:45.137Z,55908,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"## Edgeryders community video chats take place every Tuesday from 18:00 to 19:00 CET (Brussels time) on [Zoom](https://zoom.us/j/489971765). You can add a [Calendar Reminder here.](https://zoom.us/meeting/uZwkfu6pqT0vVYoNECnUgDF3EfwNQ2Fjhg/ics?icsToken=757857ca0fc7fcef188e37ab8885d4d8e33aa7d15bf76d44766b3680df83f698) ![communitycalls%20logo|690x488](upload://ck5fla6nhXjhrSdSliSe09H6vw7.png)
# Dear community members and new participants, An important reason why Edgeryders such a valuable resource for all of us is that communication between participants happens in a specially designed online-and-offline process. It is structured in such a way as to support everyone's personal and professional development. **Most people start by creating accounts on ederyders.eu and introduce themselves and what they are interested right now [here](https://edgeryders.eu/c/campfire).** This helps the community managers to connect you to the right conversations for you. Others browse what others have posted and leave thoughtful comments when they find one that interests them. **Every week the Edgeryders community managers host a video chat where participants discuss what the community members have all been thoughtfully writing about on the online forum.** This is a kind of virtual cafe where those who have already been part of those discussions can drop in to meet face-to-face. In order to reflect on how to build on what has been learned so far over a cup of coffee. **Those who might be new to it but interested, and would like to get involved more directly also find this a nice and easy way to get to know who and what is happening** - and how they can get started. Those calls take place every Tuesday from 18:00 to 19:00 CET (Brussels time) Sep 24, 2019 06:00 PM Oct 1, 2019 06:00 PM Oct 8, 2019 06:00 PM Oct 15, 2019 06:00 PM Oct 22, 2019 06:00 PM Oct 29, 2019 06:00 PM Nov 5, 2019 06:00 PM Nov 12, 2019 06:00 PM Nov 19, 2019 06:00 PM Nov 26, 2019 06:00 PM Dec 3, 2019 06:00 PM Dec 10, 2019 06:00 PM Dec 17, 2019 06:00 PM _Download a [Calendar Reminder here.](https://zoom.us/meeting/uZwkfu6pqT0vVYoNECnUgDF3EfwNQ2Fjhg/ics?icsToken=757857ca0fc7fcef188e37ab8885d4d8e33aa7d15bf76d44766b3680df83f698)_
# How to to Join community video chat: It is easy, at the right time (any Tuesday at 19:00 CET (Brussels time) click on this link https://zoom.us/j/489971765 _(download [Calendar Reminder here](https://zoom.us/meeting/uZwkfu6pqT0vVYoNECnUgDF3EfwNQ2Fjhg/ics?icsToken=757857ca0fc7fcef188e37ab8885d4d8e33aa7d15bf76d44766b3680df83f698))_ Looking forward to seeing you during the next call!" 2,56021,2019-07-02T01:48:09.345Z,55908,anon196034329,anon3031202475,"@anon3031202475 Could you please add licence and attribution information to your topic, for the picture you use at the top. Also, I added date and time to this event. This feature (to add date and time to topics in this category) is actually required, because this is how events are re-published on ngi.edgeryders.eu/events ([details](/t/9687)). As this feature cannot understand repeating regular events, you have two options for the community calls: * Updating the date and time of this topic after each community call so it keeps pointing to the next upcoming one. * Creating a separate topic for each community call. (If you haven't seen this gray italics text thing yet: this is ""whisper mode"", a Discourse feature for admins and moderators to communicate in topics with one another, without ""normal"" users seeing it. It's good for editorial hints etc..)" 3,56198,2019-07-05T06:25:19.003Z,56021,anon3031202475,anon196034329,"Hello, The image was from the NGI folder. Can add something later. All the best, Maria" 4,59700,2019-09-22T08:09:46.539Z,56021,anon3449369942,anon196034329,This is a nounproject Icon -as I have a paid subscription we can use it licence and attribution free @anon196034329 5,60498,2019-10-03T11:28:31.633Z,55908,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,post for the call on the 8th of October: https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-going-places/10984 1,59776,2019-09-23T18:49:58.879Z,59776,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%201st%20of%20october|690x488](upload://vGQfyxdlpJRIekme849oKlnW4rk.png) **Interested in Deep Green Tech?** Join us for a community call Featuring @anon1990933018 from coat lab and @anon2753384108 talking about their experiences with Deep Green Tech projects and their coming plans in general and for the Edgeryders Festival workshops in particular. If you want to learn more, share your thoughts or help to realize some events and sustainable workshops join us on Tuesday the 1st of October 18:00 Brussels time here: https://zoom.us/j/489971765" 2,59779,2019-09-23T20:14:26.461Z,59776,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,ping @anon1686813978 3,59792,2019-09-24T07:34:29.064Z,59776,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,I'll be there! 4,60121,2019-09-30T08:25:08.818Z,59776,anon51020356,anon3031202475,"I can join for 40 mins I think! yaaay, looking forward to meet you @anon1990933018. Chris, I know already and happy is partaking!!" 5,60122,2019-09-30T08:45:17.605Z,60121,anon3449369942,anon51020356,Me too :) 1,58843,2019-09-05T17:44:06.419Z,58843,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%2017th%20of%20Sept|690x488](upload://qAjoMbwy0shPcFSO4oMHHY7xsdM.png) # **Hello, dear community members and everyone interested in participating in the Edgeryders NGI Festival, if you want to know what is planned for the Edgeryders NGI Community Festival or want to have some feedback about the idea you are proposing before the deadline on the 20th of September, come to our community call on Tuesday the 17th of September from 18:00.** https://zoom.us/j/788229402 If you have an idea we will give everyone who wants up to 5 minutes presenting their project to get some feedback, but if you are not there yet or just want to listen, no problem. If you want to present please post your name under this thread. You can prepare by filling in this form about what you would like to contribute. (If you just want to help out realizing other projects there is also an option for that in the form and it helps us to get an overview): https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI # If you have any questions, ask away here or in the call. :)" 2,58844,2019-09-05T17:50:30.719Z,58843,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"ping @anon3572363072, @anon2724270673, @anon2724270673, @anon1077780936, @anon3180318115, @anon51020356, @anon1505367078, @anon2926706121, @anon1686813978, @anon3930211770, @anon" 3,58863,2019-09-06T09:41:45.960Z,58844,anon2724270673,anon3031202475,added it to my calendar. I should be there! 4,58907,2019-09-07T17:00:33.448Z,58844,anon2753384108,anon3031202475,Hi folks. I'm about 90% certain I can make this. See you then! 5,59115,2019-09-11T11:59:21.227Z,58843,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,Yep see you! 6,59116,2019-09-11T12:07:26.479Z,58843,anon518360670,anon3031202475,@anon 7,59169,2019-09-11T17:06:32.588Z,58843,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"**We are moving towards the next step now :)!** We have figured out the over all budget (12 000 EUR + 2500 EUR for travel) and now we have to plan and see how to distribute it and what we need to do to help each other realise the workshops, hackathons and talks. At this point do we need some more information from your side: At the very least we need to know: 1. Names of main organisers 2. Date 3. Title of the event 4. Short description (1-3 sentences) 5. How long is the event 6. How many people? 7. Where is the event? 8. What else do you need? You can quickly answer that in this sheet as soon as possible (this week!): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5sOTG-zoRrLmACPe8eW62YFi5-xsz_aUSUlAqqsCo8/edit?usp=sharing HOWEVER, IT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF YOU FILL OUT THIS MORE DETAILED FORM: (Deadline 20th of September!) https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI We developed this one specifically for the festival, taking into account the questions and needs that came up during the previous calls and discussions. **We need this to be filled out by everyone contributing an event by the 20th of September!** It is also a great help to develop your proposal post and/or prepare for the community call on the 17th of September 18:00 Brussels time: https://zoom.us/j/788229402 During that call everyone who wants will be given up to 5 minutes to present their idea and get feedback and support from others. This is a great opportunity to develop your idea further before the initial proposal deadline on the 20th. After that date we will start to distribute budget and helpers, and the sooner you are in this process, the better! Looking forward to your answers and to see you in the call!" 8,59493,2019-09-17T15:31:33.550Z,58843,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"A reminder to everyone who wants to propose an event/help with graphics or similar for the Edgeryders festival. The call is today 18:00 Brussels time https://zoom.us/j/788229402 ping @anon3572363072, @anon2724270673, @anon2724270673, @anon1077780936, @anon3180318115, @anon51020356, @anon1505367078, @anon2926706121, @anon1686813978, @anon3930211770, @anon" 9,59494,2019-09-17T15:32:24.313Z,59493,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"Looking forward to it, see you in a bit!" 10,59499,2019-09-17T15:47:07.766Z,59493,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"My internet right now is only good enough for writing and reading, but please do let me know how I can help!" 11,59525,2019-09-17T19:26:09.712Z,59499,anon3449369942,anon2926706121,there is documentation of the call - maybe if you could have a look and summarise key points that think make sense for us to take away from it? 12,59526,2019-09-17T19:28:48.614Z,58843,anon3931191205,anon3031202475,"@anon3031202475 @anon2926706121 Darnit. I got the dates confused. Are there notes or such from the meeting? A status update from me is that I have safed the location in Malmö, for no cost, and am currently looking at the dates of the 23-24th of November with a smaller gathering on the 24th and a larger gathering on the 23d. The plan is to organize it as a world café which includes note taking role at each table. I'm still double checking the travel plans but have a preliminary yes from three speakers, one from Aarhus, one from Helsinki and one from Paris. The theme for the conference will be tech + earth with the taglines etc still to be figured out. I can create the graphics for this as well but would be happy to ensure that this is coherent with the rest of the design. Looking forwards to hear more about how things are developing. I would also be keen on partaking in a smaller call with people from the Berlin group / the Stockholm group :cherry_blossom:" 13,59527,2019-09-17T20:14:43.646Z,59526,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"Cool. I put together a draft for a potential festival event/workshop on topics at the intersections of climate/ecological degradation (stresses to earth systems) and tech. Feel free to use/develop/remix/critique/discard https://edgeryders.eu/t/draft-how-do-we-weave-together-the-threads-of-various-conversations-we-are-having-around-a-deep-green-transition-and-what-are-our-next-steps/10775 Any comments/suggestions for people to reach out to are welcome. Also, this is an open invitation for anyone who wants to participate or collaborate on this soanon3242181883. ping @anon2753384108 @anon1990933018 @anon" 14,59593,2019-09-18T16:11:42.366Z,58843,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"@anon3031202475 Right now we are planning a workshop on ecoarchitecture (essentially a design sprint to cocreate infrastructure for new commons-oriented coop) in Saarbruecken on Nov 28. The ws is integrated into a seminar at the art academy dedicated to the ""cultures of open"" . If there is any budget available it would be used to bring two people from the edgeryder network and/or likeminded orgs to Saarbruecken. Sorry I keep missing calls but it has been a superbusy month of travel / conferences, no lack if interest. I also wanted to ask if we can use the platform fir the cultures of open group." 15,59595,2019-09-18T16:34:51.640Z,59593,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,@anon3031202475 I submitted via yr typeform but lost my internet connection during submission... did u get it? 16,59610,2019-09-18T21:57:30.402Z,59595,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,@anon3180318115 looks like I have an entry from you :). Your internet lasted long enough. Thank you. Looking forward to it! 17,59974,2019-09-26T14:07:48.718Z,59610,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"Hi @anon3031202475 where exactly is the latest version of the festival planning? Can add more details now, but w/o budget it will remain just an idea :(" 18,59988,2019-09-26T16:19:14.798Z,59974,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,I will send you a link anon2317280404ight or tomorrow for the updating. To claere the budget patches how about we schedule a 1-1 call Monday or Tuesday? Which time would suit you? @anon3180318115 19,59992,2019-09-26T17:00:10.000Z,59988,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"Cool, thx much. Mo at 14:00?" 20,60008,2019-09-27T07:35:49.667Z,59992,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"@anon3180318115, we have this thread where we are in the process of filling in the proposed projects: https://edgeryders.eu/t/festival-program-overview/10731 (as you can see 6. is referring to your project. I started filling it in a bit from the form you filled out I would be great if you could start by filling in the title of your event there. then you could add some more details there, but depending on how much has changed it would probably be good if you could fill out the form again if that is ok for you? (we need some of the points in there to refer back to the EU sponsors) (https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI) But the best way to have the event develop naturally would be by making a post on Edgeryders NGI Event page that includes the important information and questions about your event so we can work with the whole community to give feedback organise collaborators and realise the ideas :)" 21,60113,2019-09-30T06:32:04.946Z,59992,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,"Hello @anon3180318115, I sheduled our meeting for 14:100: Here is the link: Edgeryders Team is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: 1-1 Meeting with @anon Time: Sep 30, 2019 02:00 PM Brussels Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/375333001?pwd=akFkMFpzcnFCV0xpQkJnRWpqQmltUT09 Meeting ID: 375 333 001 Password: 388077" 1,60087,2019-09-29T15:07:23.149Z,60087,anon28068060,anon28068060,"Hi all, The use of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare has been a reoccuring topic in conversation in the popular media and in academia. Often discussed in terms of its revolutionary potential. This article in Nature does a great job of summing up some of the tricky nuances + showing how the use of such datacentric systems can backfire when it comes to providing suitable healthcare to marginalized populations. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02872-2 Thought it might be of interest, would also love to hear what examples of AI use in health care exist in Europe and how these have been assessed given the concerns highlighted in this article. Cheers, anon28068060" 1,60070,2019-09-29T04:21:53.895Z,60070,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"We are adding the bios in this wiki, please feel free add your own: https://edgeryders.eu/t/festival-participant-bios/10905
_ping @anon3031202475 and @anon2434097920 : it would be great if you could reach to to the people you know are involved!_" 1,59998,2019-09-26T22:05:42.389Z,59998,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"While at [MyData 2019](https://mydata2019.org/), I spent a lot of time in the same room. Room F was where a lot of the discussion on the economic dimension of the data ecosystem happened. To my surprise, the MyData community seems to have a rough consensus that monetizing personal data is not a long-term sustainable way to run a data economy. The person that came up with the clearest formulation was perhaps Finnish lawyer Jussi Mäkinnen (not verbatim, I am quoting from my notes): > When copyright was invented in the 17th century, lawmakers conjured up a new property right, the right to own something immaterial. They knew it was a bit of a ghost, with anon222512824 grounds in terms of the legal system of the time, but they wanted a way to reward the creators and their publishers. That, however, created more long-term problems than it solved. So, we have learned from the copyright story that legislating private ownership of personal data is probably a bad idea. The parallel with copyright seems a profound intuition. On reflection I see how it is, in practice, a similar situation. Humans had been producing content before copyright, but when large-scale reproduction was invented in the 16th century suddenly there was an economic value to (cheap) copies. This created a conflict on who got to appropriate that value, and as a result a new legal subsystem sprang into life. With personal data is the same: they existed before the Internet and data science, but now they are worth money, and this creates another distributive conflict. The chair of that same session, John Wunderlich, is Caanon3449369942n. He remarked that Caanon3449369942n First Nations have created [their own set of principles](https://fnigc.ca/ocap) around data management. The reason: > In the past, Aboriginal people have not been consulted about what information should be collected, who should gather that information, who should maintain it, and who should have access to it. The information gathered may or may not have been relevant to the questions, priorities and concerns of Aboriginal peoples. Because data gathering has frequently been imposed by outside authorities, it has met with resistance in many quarters. The most enlightening presentation was Ingrid Schneider's . She is a political science professor at U Hamburg. She described four main proposals around the economics of a data society: * Individual data ownership + micropayments (Jaron Lanier, 2015). * Data as public goods, managed by the state (Evgeni Morozov , 2017) * Data as commons (Elinor Ostrom, 1990), managed by communities. * Fiduciary trust (David Winickoff (2003 & 2005), where people commit their data to fiduciary trust, who governs the system. Schneider discussed the relative merits of these four models, and made a case that Europe is currently ""squeezed"" between a Lanierian-dystopian America and a Morozovian China, but maybe Europe could (and should) develop a third way. She went on to remark: > The discussion about property rights is an Anglo-American one. In the European legal tradition, we have the notion of inalienable rights: we have them, _and we can never give them away_. I do not support the idea of data as commodities."" This is a very powerful idea. And anyway > It does not make sense for data to be a commodity, because their value arises in the aggregation. Which means they are bought for cheap (by companies) and sold expensive. @anon4261882768 liked the presentation too, and immediately invited Schneider to our policy summit next year. Ping also @anon2339827249: there are profound policy implications here." 2,60003,2019-09-27T07:02:34.000Z,59998,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,"Indeed! Loretta was also very impressed and the plan is to invite her to AMS next year and maybe have a workshop with her before that time. [quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:10893""] And anyway > It does not make sense for data to be a commodity, because their value arises in the aggregation. Which means they are bought for cheap (by companies) and sold expensive. [/quote] Yes, this is/was also the ’scam’ of the Open Data movement, resulting in me paying twice for services, once in taxes to a government that then opens up the data to ’startups’ than turn it into an actionable service (which should be done in the first place by .gov) for which I also end up paying as the successful ones all end up in the #GAFA ecosystem." 3,60006,2019-09-27T07:28:23.558Z,60003,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"[quote=""anon4261882768, post:2, topic:10893""] Yes, this is/was also the ’scam’ of the Open Data movement, resulting in me paying twice for services, once in taxes to a government that then opens up the data to ’startups’ than turn it into an actionable service (which should be done in the first place by .gov) for which I also end up paying as the successful ones all end up in the #GAFA ecosystem. [/quote] Ouch. That hurt, @anon4261882768 :slight_smile:" 4,60053,2019-09-28T09:55:10.159Z,59998,anon959753406,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:10893""] inalienable rights [/quote] Hmm ...checking some reference seems to indicate that the notion of 'inalienable rights' historically relate to the concept of 'natural rights'. Furthermore, a lot of reference to the US-law system come up, including 'inalienable right to own property'. So, data that describe 'me' are my inalienable property?..." 5,60060,2019-09-28T15:57:37.803Z,60053,anon3809206126,anon959753406,"Yes. They would be like the right to freedom. You have it, and *you are not allowed to sell it*. You cannot sell yourself into slavery (which you could under Roman Imperial law). These are rights removed from the commercial domain." 1,59999,2019-09-26T23:43:45.851Z,59999,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Talking about utopias. What might it be like? In this 24 minute podcast, Noah talks with @anon3931191205 about his philosophy he calls ""practical idealism"", discusses the notion of ""cyber peace"" and ways to get there, starting small and moving outward from there, and how AI might fit into it all. https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/a/af0dc0a604aec3fe2fcaff77f8975bbc858c89b3.mp3" 2,60047,2019-09-27T19:21:02.011Z,59999,anon534802724,anon2434097920,"Hi, Noah -- Very interesting. I am an economist, and I think your view of what economics is about is largely shaped by the views of the majority of economists who (as with most fields) have not deeply thought about what their field is about, and so have an excessively narrow view. This doesn't matter so much for many areas, but it matters a great deal in economics. Economics is not at all about money -- actually money itself is useless. This is obvious -- you cannot eat it or live in it or drive it or play with it. Money is only valuable because it is possible to exchange it for things that are actually useful. Moreover, we often have a very limited idea of what those things are. The things we want are not just consumables or extras in the vast majority of cases: if you look at what people spend their money on, it is easy to see that housing is the largest item. Other large items are transportation, education, health care, clothing and food -- none of these are extras. In fact, if you look at what people want in any kind of clear way, it is obvious that these go back to the things that are mentioned in any first-year psychology course under the heading of Maslow's Pyramid of Needs. These begin with physiological needs such as housing and health care; on the second level are about security needs; on the third level revolve around the need for love and belonging; fourth level ""esteem"" or respect and self-respect; the fifth is creativity and self-expression. Whatever people want are some combination of these needs. For most people most of the time, their focus is on creating a ""nest"" of love and belonging which fulfills their need for companionship, creating and fostering children, and caring for loved ones. By and large, the great majority of environmental problems around consumption are not associated with what people want, but with the industrial processes by which those products are produced. Since people are focused on their direct needs, they are less concerned with processes. Moreover, they want to use their available resources to obtain as much of their desired life as they can, so cost is a big factor, and this can drive processes. So it seems to me there are several takeaways: one is to educate people to be more concerned with the ways in which the products they use affect the world around them and on how they can push suppliers to make products in more environmentally friendly ways. This is starting but needs to progress a lot more, and schools are a great place for this to happen. The second is to sensitize children from birth in love for nature. Unfortunately this is currently headed in the opposite direction, as we are increasingly isolated from nature in our technology and controlled indoor environments. Schools also need to help here, although families are the most important. And then from a more directly economics point of view, environmental costs of industrial processes need to be made part of the price of goods, so that price signals reflect actual costs. Rather than regulation it is better to tax environmental damages, so that companies can use the least costly means to reduce the damage they cost. So there is a political component, but also a major educational component, and an underlying economic thrust to these measures." 1,54081,2019-05-28T11:24:49.450Z,54081,anon2724270673,anon2724270673,"Hi, I'm [Christian Buggedei](https://www.buggedei.de/), and I was one of the last remaining Google+ users. I joined when I still believed in Googles ""Don't be Evil"" motto. For years, I used it as my primary method for social communications. I shared pictures, thoughts, had intense debates about copyright, democracy, and changing economies with authors, publishers, end users, and activists alike, and used it as a resource for my hobbies. Over this, I got to know a number of good and interesting people, and would still say that my life was generally richer. But I also saw the nym-wars (when Google forced everyone to use their real name, driving away a lot of people), the rise of spambots, online harassment, intransparent moderation policies, and so on. When they announced that G+ would shut down, I sighed and looked around for alternatives. I [even made a spreadsheet](https://drive.google.com/open?id=14KPoeMOVo4Sr4y43kj01tdm4xi2wsuIh_HZxsfi92vA) to check the featuresets of the various commercial and open source offerings. And found them all lacking in one way or the other: Some are pretty but miss out on important features, some can do it all but have an actively hostile user interface, some look neat but then come unmoderated or have no safeguards against harassment, and so on. And I don't even want to go into the mess that is every ad-driven business model (I worked in the online advertising space for three years, trust me, it IS a mess.) So, I've now gathered [a merry band of misfits](https://darcy.is/who-is-darcy/) to create something better. [Darcy](https://darcy.is) is supposed to become a human-centric, decentralized, privacy-friendly but open, safe, open source online civic space. It's a long and rocky road, but I think it'll be worth it. We can't solve all the problems, but some are doable." 2,54106,2019-05-28T22:14:34.459Z,54081,anon1505367078,anon2724270673,"Hi, and welcome to Edgeryders! I share your passion for better platforms, though my thinking is often geared towards how it can help people collaborate and make decisions together, as well as share their lives and thoughts. I applaud the effort and intention! I'll be sure to keep an eye on this. I checked out your spreadsheet and it helped me understand where you're seeing an opportunity. A lot of the time, I find myself choosing the tech because of some single angle that is the most important one for the particular case. For [The Borderland](http://theborderland.se/), we use Loomio because we make anon4292955258 a few decisions in large groups and their features for that are second to none. So do [Kiezburn]( [https://kiezburn.org](https://kiezburn.org/)) in Berlin, by the way. Being 10x better than the competition at *one thing* can make up for being a bit worse at other things, but just being 2x better at everything is often to expensive for people to make the switch. If Darcy had such a 10x improvement, what would it be?" 3,54126,2019-05-29T08:46:04.621Z,54106,anon2724270673,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:2, topic:10017""] If Darcy had such a 10x improvement, what would it be? [/quote] Ease of use and the online civic space. The first thing should be self-explanatory, the latter is not exactly an improvement but an evolutionary step. Social Media encompasses a range of different communication and community models. I call that the [bedroom-to-broadcast scale](https://darcy.is/the-bedroom-to-broadcast-scale-of-communication-spaces/). The problem is that most if not all social media platforms treat all these spaces basically the same, giving us the same toolsets. And that doesn't work. Moderation and policy guidelines that are supposed to make a nice and kid-friendly TV broadcast cannot apply to that sort-of-but-not-anon4292955258-private conversation at the pub. What we set out to do is to give people an idea of what kind of space they are talking in, and give them tools to cope when a conversation is suddenly exposed to a more public space than initially intended. On top of that, we make every effort to include an as diverse as possible range of people and their different threat models. If you have a stalker, you need to lock down your online presence in a different way than if you are an LGTBQ* person living in an oppressive regime. The result should hopefully be a true global civic space, where people can reach out to humans everywhere, but also have the local communities. Darcy will complement but not supersede collaboration tools like Loomio." 4,54139,2019-05-29T11:36:47.238Z,54126,anon3809206126,anon2724270673,"Nice to meet you, Christian! [quote=""anon2724270673, post:3, topic:10017""] What we set out to do is to give people an idea of what kind of space they are talking in, and give them tools to cope when a conversation is suddenly exposed to a more public space than initially intended. [/quote] This looks like a social conventions problem, rather than a technical problem. What I mean is: _exactly the same road_ can be made much less dangerous if everyone agrees to drive on the right side. I have so far inhabited mostly mainstream social networks, but assuming no privacy and thus exercising self-censorship. I assume I am in the digital equivalent of a crowded restaurant: people will normally ignore me, but they can easily eavesdrop, and if I start acting crazy I will attract attention. For example, I don't swear online. Is Darcy trying to solve those problems by throwing code at them? How do you envision it?" 5,54141,2019-05-29T12:09:41.322Z,54139,anon2724270673,anon3809206126,"Code isn't the solution, so we'll be throwing people at the problems. Well, people and policies, and a bit of code. * The UX will be optimized so that users understand what they're about to do or post * We will add in self-help features, so that people who get mobbed online can mute, report, block, lock down, and have other functions that enable them to get safe * Darcy will offer moderation as a service. So if you run a Darcy instance (the whole thing will be decentralized), you can subscribe to that service instead of relying on volunteers. We offer this, because doing so properly is not easy and needs training and support. The other thing is that platforms that rely on algorithmic feeds are much more susceptible to things like dogpiling for example. We set up the interaction models in a way that will hopefully at least not excarbate conflict as some of the current platforms do. [quote=""anon3809206126, post:4, topic:10017""] I have so far inhabited mostly mainstream social networks, but assuming no privacy and thus exercising self-censorship. [/quote] that is very similar to what I do too. And it works, along a few other things I do or don't do online. (I do swear occasionally, but I know when and where ;) ) I think that a good civic space lets people know, through the UX, what to expect and how to behave in order to get the most out of it. That is part of what we want to achieve." 6,54143,2019-05-29T12:40:37.369Z,54141,anon3809206126,anon2724270673,"[quote=""anon2724270673, post:5, topic:10017""] I think that a good civic space lets people know, through the UX, what to expect and how to behave in order to get the most out of it. [/quote] Oh, I agree. But specifics differ, depending on who you ask. An important question is what we mean by ""letting people know"". For example, Edgeryders has a well thought-through [netiquette page](/t/45). It was re-written several times, and ultimately decided upon by @anon2434097920, the world's first-ever online community manager (at [The Well](https://www.well.com/), pre-Internet). It is accessible through a menu printed on top of every page. Have we let people know? How many people here are aware of that page? Not many, I'd wager. In Edgeryders, this is not a big problem, because we model humans online as thinking adults. They own their words. They have a responsibility to be aware of what is considered excellent/good/acceptable/unacceptable behavior. The netiquette page is just there as a reference. We don't care if people have read it or not, they are still held to the same standards. Many people disagree with us. It seems to me that the Ix/Ux tradition, for example, was developed in a commercial context. Commercial companies model humans online rather as desire machines (thinking adults are tricky customers) and aim to gratify them. Though designers have amazing useful skills, I tend to be weary of the culture that spawned them. Paradoxically, this has come to influence my aesthetics: the abrasive, no-nonsense look of the [Mother### website](https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/) inspires trust in me, whereas I instinctively mistrust anything too sleek. I guess what I am trying to say is ""social media is broken, let's *be* better!"". But even that would be naive, since technological affordances definitely influence social outcomes (though they do not determine them)." 7,54153,2019-05-29T14:05:00.357Z,54143,anon2724270673,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:6, topic:10017""] It seems to me that the Ix/Ux tradition, for example, was developed in a commercial context. Commercial companies model humans online rather as desire machines (thinking adults are tricky customers) and aim to gratify them. Though designers have amazing useful skills, I tend to be weary of the culture that spawned them. [/quote] I view this in a more optimistic light. Computers and the Internet are complex systems, and not everyone needs to nor wants to understand all the intricacies of them. Sure, we could format our reports and letters via LaTeX, but frankly, any word processing software that wraps the functionality into a few easy to understand butanon2317280404s does the trick too for most of us. Online platforms that allow people to communicate within a wide range of models _(1:1, 1:many, many:many, private, open, open to friends-of-friends, and so on)_ need to give users feedback and information on the fly so they know which mode and setting is active, and if it is appropriate. If the platform caters to just one type of audience, and centers around a specific interest or topic, that informs the audience directly on how to behave. And people can lurk before participating, so they follow the existing examples. With an open and global platform, it is a lot harder to set these existing examples, because one does not know, with which subset the new member will interact first, nor with which topic. Good UX guides them, informs the newbies about the presets and their reasoning, and so on. Imagine you see someone else post racist hate speech. Depending on which options and how visible these are, you might just put that person on an ""ignore"" list and move on. Or you actively block the racist. Or maybe report the content to moderators, but leave the person unblocked, because doing both requires too much effort through the interface. UX can make or break how people interact with each other as a community, and especially with open source projects it is often enough added as an afterthought. (Which is not meant to diss open source.)" 8,54274,2019-05-30T21:48:47.719Z,54081,anon838581715,anon2724270673,"Interesting with Darcy! Regarding social media I think it's important to ask, since everyone becomes sort of a publishing platform, if the press ethics should apply to each user? Such as in Sweden where each public database or newspaper needs a ""responsible publisher"" which is responsible and can be reported to the police for its publications - I'm not sure the level of thinking and responsibility is educated and raised enough for social media? Maybe the legislation is way too obsolete for today but it historically created an etiquette which could work online as a ""netiquette"" without filtering speech. Also, for your overview, have you seen https://www.openbook.social/en/home ?" 9,54317,2019-05-31T13:18:34.592Z,54274,anon2724270673,anon838581715,"[quote=""anon838581715x, post:8, topic:10017""] Also, for your overview, have you seen https://www.openbook.social/en/home ? [/quote] I have - I'm actually in the betatest after throwing some money at their Indiegogo campaign :). The spreadsheet is outdated by about half a year, I probably should update it, but haven't found the time for that yet. OpenBook has a few good things going, but their ""have an app first"" approach doesn't anon4292955258 do things for me. It makes access cumbersome to people like me who don't use the phone for primary access. Also, it limits the content to small bites of text plus pictures - or rather: Pictures with small bites of text. Which isn't anon4292955258 what *I* am looking for in social media." 10,54322,2019-05-31T15:00:17.916Z,54317,anon3809206126,anon2724270673,"[quote=""anon2724270673, post:9, topic:10017""] Pictures with small bites of text. Which isn’t anon4292955258 what *I* am looking for in social media. [/quote] I can sympathize with that!" 11,54340,2019-05-31T19:30:29.650Z,54081,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"There is a lot that Facebook gets right with their UI. Pleasant looking, good uploading tools, decent screen organization, easy scrolling interface as a few examples. So I would not throw out things they do get right. And then there are things like using the back butanon2317280404 to see something you just looked at and oops, you are let off on the side of some road in another part of town so to speak. Or an inability to just ""dial down"" seeing a friend's comments rather than having to shut them off completely if you are tired of seeing the same rants too often. Those are just a couple of a set of manipulations that add up to why millions of us use it and hate it at the same time." 12,54356,2019-06-01T10:06:20.272Z,54340,anon2724270673,anon2434097920,"a lot of those UI ""quirks"" on Facebook are done with purpose - they encourage reloading the stream and foster FOMO (fear of missing out). It is good if your business model needs those interactions in order to sell more ads. It's bad for humans though, generally. The question we have to ponder is: How much of these UI quirks are needed to encourage people to interact with each other, and when should we stop. Image a dinner party, where the host gently prompts conversation and then gets gracefully out of the way once this happens, versus another host that constantly brings up party games and keeps nudging everyone to talk up." 13,54362,2019-06-01T14:13:48.993Z,54356,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,I think the real idea is you should be able to decide how you want it rather than them deciding for you. 14,54586,2019-06-05T13:28:23.410Z,54362,anon2724270673,anon2434097920,"Mostly, this is true. But a platform could come with sane and helpful presets, and as one cannot make all functions and butanon2317280404s equally available, the decisions of which functions and settings are front and center has anon4292955258 a few ramifications." 15,54650,2019-06-06T15:07:26.152Z,54586,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,I agree. Sane and helpful presets is a good way to say it. And of course a user can never completely control the interfaces they use. 16,54651,2019-06-06T15:10:56.030Z,54650,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,I guess in some ways it comes back to that phrase ‘you aren’t the customer you are the product.’ Kind of a cliche at this point but it is a basic truth. You listen to your customers and you control your product. 17,55114,2019-06-13T21:11:45.755Z,54356,anon1022881418,anon2724270673,"Edit - FB just got dropped from an investment list of ""socially responsible companies""...... https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/13/facebook-dumped-from-sp-esg-index-of-socially-responsible-companies.html Remember, FB didn't really come into being to become what it became! It reminds me of Windows - a hairball which billions was constantly thrown at to morph into what it needed to be to stay relevant. I think those of us who dislike many aspects of it...but still attend, are there for a simple reason. The same reason one may go to London or NYC...it's where the people are. It's not set up as a discussion or information or curation medium, although for many it functions as one. Putting it another way, they don't really know what they are doing in terms of a long term plan...because, if they did, they wouldn't have kept building on top of a platform not designed for change. They are always behind the 8-ball as opposed to in front of it, as evidenced by their attempts to now gain some control (moderation) of things. Those with community experience could have predicted all of this long ago - as a Street Cop said about Chicago in a book I just read ""Let them (societies less civil members) have their way and soon the city will be nothing but sticks and huts"". One can think of the Cop as a Moderator. Perhaps the future is back to the smaller sites and forum communities. Meetup, for example, works in some good ways. Nextdoor is a pretty cool idea and, so far, I haven't seem much acting out there. Both are largely based local...and on ""time frame"" events. That leaves a lot of room for forums and communities which are much less so, like how to fix my 1967 Bosanon2317280404 Whaler Boat (yep, there is a forum for that!). We pioneers have to chuckle and yet cry....remembering when the word ""monetize"" didn't exist. No ""exit plans"". But rather ""brain dumps"" so that what you know becomes what I know." 18,55420,2019-06-19T10:59:45.859Z,54081,anon2724270673,anon2724270673,"At the community call yesterday, I've been asked about how Darcy would monetize the moderation. This is a service that instance owners can subscribe to. They'd be billed a monthly fee based on how many users they have. As a result, Darcy moderators would react to reports coming from this instance. The challenge here is that we have different instances federating with each other. So we have instances that are full of adults, some that are aimed at kids, some that don't want any outside interference, some are Darcy subscribers, others aren't. The end result is that while anyone can try to federate with Darcy subscribing instances, instances that don't effectively self-regulate according to a global minimum standard will be cut off from the Darcy side of the federation. Yes, this splinters the Fediverse, but that is happening with or without Darcy anyway. This way it'll be at least in tune with transparent and documented guidelines." 19,55436,2019-06-19T14:26:01.130Z,54081,anon3721548357,anon2724270673,"Hey, I had a quick look at the original post but not all the discussion yet. I had a sit-down with a couple of profs and students in Stanford on a somewhat related point a few months ago. To make a long story very, very short: My flavor is more the issue/subject matter driven social network, which I see as somewhat different from the shall we say ""Dunbar"" driven really social (and social hierarchy e.g. linkedin) network(s). Three relevant names in that context: [Pamela Hinds](https://profiles.stanford.edu/pamela-hinds), [Elisa Matterelli](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elisa_Mattarelli) (probably the most interesting here), [Noshir Contractor](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Noshir_Contractor) (perhaps the most lively curiosity based on a snapshot interaction). They all come with et alii of course - who might be the better points of contact. Well and of course Dunbar himself is also still alive and kicking (also in the digital space). My hypothesis is that digital social networks are tools for specific ends. These are generally different between to network operators and the network clients. Aligning them (where you want this) will require a close look at incentives, rights, and funding. Transparency is IMO a very critical issue. Second, clients have different goal sets in different circumstances. There are different levels of granularity you can break these down to (and also they aren't likely very rational). As a first stab starting from the bottom up I would say that I want to have my tool perform 3 primary functions for me (when I focus on the issue driven networks, which most of the time take the lead for me personally): 1. Exploration (find out more about my environment and how I can manipulate it to my ends) 2. Monitoring (optimize for cost/benefit of attention, i.e. I don't want to miss important but rapid developments in my environment, nor do I want to miss tecanon2317280404ic shifts - both of this with a optimal signal to noise ratio) 3. Getting shit done (the interface needs to support curation, 3rd party curation, curation of the curation. It needs to strike the right balance of staying abreast of work amplification technologies for cognitive, possibly manual, and particularly communication type work - from Gutenberg over PGP, to audio, video conf, dropbox, to onshape CAD, to snapchat, etc.). Simple, I know. Also: Bravo for your effort!" 20,55493,2019-06-20T13:31:57.652Z,54153,anon3031202475,anon2724270673,"[quote=""anon2724270673, post:7, topic:10017""] UX can make or break how people interact with each other as a community, and especially with open source projects, it is often enough added as an afterthought. [/quote] This is a very good point @anon2724270673! How are you currently going about developing such a UX? And how would you feel about trying to use collective intelligence as edgeryder is providing to work on it? Maybe you could share some examples and ideas to discuss and ask others here concretely to do the same, or, what I think could be even more interesting you could formulate a call for intuitive social UX proposals or a workshop. I am happy to help if you want. We could start with a post with some concrete questions based on what you already found out and maybe a short story for flavour and some examples. People could contribute examples and proposals, (there are certainly anon4292955258 a few community members with interesting research and ideas in that direction) and we could bring it all together in a webinar or community call in which we intentionally steer into the direction of a workshop atmosphere, and if there is a lot of interest, maybe we can even pop it up to a real world event at some point. How do you feel about this?" 21,55494,2019-06-20T13:36:54.672Z,55493,anon2724270673,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:20, topic:10017""] Maybe you could share some examples and ideas to discuss and ask others here concretely to do the same, or, what I think could be even more interesting you could formulate a call for intuitive social UX proposals or a workshop. [/quote] I absolutely CAN share something. This for example is our current approach for the ""create new user account"" flow: http://darcy.is/login-demo/ _(this is a non-functional mockup - you can click some butanon2317280404s, but none of the information entered will be stored anywhere)_ Another demopage would be https://darcy.is/demo/. This shows the general layout of the main page. Again, non-functional and not anon4292955258 finished yet :)." 22,55497,2019-06-20T14:08:58.971Z,55420,anon1022881418,anon2724270673,"[quote=""anon2724270673, post:18, topic:10017""] At the community call yesterday, I’ve been asked about how Darcy would monetize the moderation. This is a service that instance owners can subscribe to. They’d be billed a monthly fee based on how many users they have. As a result, Darcy moderators would react to reports coming from this instance. [/quote] Interesting enough, this is the complete opposite of some of the first subject moderation instances that was fully monetized - i.e. that of the AOL Chat Rooms in the early 1990's. We had a friend who was 14 years old and he was mod of the ""teen forum"" - he made 30K per year from doing so! AOL actually paid for him to come down to the VA. HQ for a sit down with other mods and admins. Of course, that ended soon enough when AOL couldn't charge 10 cents a minute for access to their digital world. In our case (our forums), the mods were all volunteers but since we made some $$ from ads and sponsorships I paid them in later years with stipends and bonuses. I think one main point is that a model has to be built on something which is already proven somewhere (human interaction has not really changed). What people will pay for is likely the same as always, as well as what they will not. Also, how they will act if they pay for something (ownership) comes into play, as do regional and national differences. I have to also agree with most of what anon3721548357 says about the different goals of users vs. mods- or, in fact, the differing goals of each user. Although most mods start out as users they usually rise above the fray based on merit, not on pay. One can only imagine if FB allowed people to pay $10 a month to start a ""more special group""....that many of those people would feel they were Kings and Queens of their anon222512824 domain. As it stands many seem to feel this way just because they started a ""page"". This is, in fact, one of the largest problems of Social Media...that of thinking they are special because they have a page or the like. Ah, Human Nature. I wish I had all the answers - but perhaps Social Media is more like Movies and Documentaries where the ""moderators"" can be, in a sense, the creators (curators) and therefore rewarded (paid) as opposed to the opposite. It's not so different....the users pay for their streaming services (internet service, netflix, etc.) and the money funnels up to the content creators and curators. This would be near impossible but a tiny tax on internet service which could be used for certain types of social media (akin to community TV and Radio which they already DO fund) would be ideal. But in todays world....that is a non-starter, IMHO, for many reasons. Definitely brainstorming here, but maybe $$ from the good ole billionaires who truly want to see a more just and civil world is part of the answer? They fund Public Radio and TV here in the USA and this could be, in a sense, sold as something similar. I don't see a lot of mention of Reddit here - and, yes, they have their problems, but there is some things they do right in terms of balance." 23,55504,2019-06-20T15:36:05.816Z,55497,anon2434097920,anon1022881418,I think @anon2724270673's idea with this is the user(s) pay for moderation or not depending on whether and how much it is wanted. 24,55508,2019-06-20T15:57:33.620Z,55504,anon2724270673,anon2434097920,"actually - it's the server admins who pay for the moderation, not the users. And the fee is calculated by how many active users are on the instance, not how much work they generate. So: Bob runs a server. They invite 20 of their friends to it, and everything is peachy. When these 20 get into an argument, or Alice posts an inappropriate picture, Bob is on it. With 20 users, it's easy to do in ones free time. Now, those friends are so excited about this, that they in term each invite 20 more users. So suddenly Bob has 400 users on his server, and a month later, it's 2000. Handling the moderation needs for 2000 users is too much work for Bob. So Bob turns to Darcy and pays a monthly fee to have their instance moderated. Bob can either pay this fee on their own (maybe they are a feeling generous, or have the extra income), or they can collect donations from the users. (Darcy will offer easy interfaces to Patreon or PayPal for this) Maybe they hit up the local hardware store to get a static ""this instance is supported by DIY Haven!"" banner somewhere. _(Bob might be tempted to add in automated banner advertising or worse. But that would get them into trouble with the Darcy moderation team terms of service, and the instance won't be eligible for moderation anymore.)_ We at Darcy strongly believe in paying the moderators, and paying them well. This is serious work, that needs serious training and also serious support. We've all read the reports out of Cognizant and similar outfits. Don't be like that!" 25,55512,2019-06-20T16:06:41.287Z,55508,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"Thanks for clarifying. Ands yes, moderators are chronically underpaid, though if they are doing moderation for profitable businesses they tend to do better. And a lot of moderating is part-time work, with not a great hourly rate, so it attracts stay-at-home mothers, people still living with their parents and others who don't or can't work full time. Many of these folks are very good at the work. Many are not." 26,56140,2019-07-04T09:19:59.279Z,54081,anon393015335,anon2724270673,"Hey @anon2724270673, nice to read you. This is an interesting project you're pushing here. I was reading about the federation abilities of Darcy, and the comparison with other federated platforms such as Mastodon. Will Darcy be a part of the Fediverse and able to federate with Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc, based on AcrivityPub? Second question, did you reach out SwitchingSocial? They're doing a good job at referencing all social networks options :)" 27,56142,2019-07-04T09:43:23.703Z,56140,anon2724270673,anon393015335,"[quote=""anon393015335, post:26, topic:10017""] Will Darcy be a part of the Fediverse and able to federate with Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc, based on AcrivityPub? [/quote] right now, we are aiming to use ActivityPub, so Darcy instances will be able to federate with all instances that use the same protocol. There is one caveat though: In order to keep the safety promise, federation might be cut with instances that don't manage to self-moderate with the same (transparent and not too onerous) standards. This is especially important for instances that are aimed at minors for example. As soon as we are actually live, we will for sure reach out to SwitchingSocial, but it's too early for that right now." 28,56183,2019-07-04T18:11:57.596Z,56142,anon393015335,anon2724270673,"Well, I guess it's only the choice of moderators isn't it? I mean, are you creating a tool, or a space?" 29,56218,2019-07-05T10:26:06.338Z,56183,anon2724270673,anon393015335,"both - we provide the tool, but we will also use the tool ourselves to create a space with it." 30,56839,2019-07-17T21:51:03.538Z,54081,anon3748900869,anon2724270673,"I just signed up to the platform. Honestly, I am surprised by all the potential that is concentrated here. And I have to say this platform is well hidden. Anyway, @anon2724270673 I love your idea. I didn't follow most of the thread, but I am very very impressed by your initiative. I hope it will be far well into the future. Is it already in some testing phase?" 31,56843,2019-07-18T06:30:51.766Z,56839,anon2724270673,anon3748900869,"we're still developing, and are also looking for proper financing - doing things right requires a bit more than just gumption and good intentions :)" 32,57161,2019-07-25T19:47:01.676Z,56839,anon3809206126,anon3748900869,"@anon3748900869 welcome! [quote=""anon3748900869, post:30, topic:10017""] Honestly, I am surprised by all the potential that is concentrated here. And I have to say this platform is well hidden [/quote] Thanks... and yes, we are not very good at communicating what we do. The good thing is, Edgeryders is not based on selling eyeballs, so being bad at self-promotion does not kill us – though it's still bad." 33,57480,2019-08-02T12:04:22.568Z,56839,anon3031202475,anon3748900869,"Hello @anon3748900869! Great to have you here! you already make some very good points about the communication, maybe you could help by adding your thoughts about how you found us, perceive the platform and what motivates you here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/why-to-edgeryder/10385 If you are interested in @anon2724270673 projects check out his glossary https://edgeryders.eu/t/managing-communications-an-attempted-glossary/10391 and/or come to the community call he is featured in on Tuesday the 6th: https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-call-6th-of-august-moderation-mediation-versus-censorship-anon2317280404e-policing-keeping-people-safe-from-all-kinds/10414 Looking forward to seeing you there! Otherwise, we are very curious to learn more about you and what you are up to in general. Maybe you could write a anon222512824 bit about the projects and questions you are involved with in our ""My Story"" section :slight_smile:" 34,57726,2019-08-07T14:05:02.905Z,54081,anon496362258,anon2724270673,"It's nice and noble what he is building, but there are too many flaws in his system which I pointed out. Like how can you make the distinction between good and bad if every human being has another perception of these values?" 35,57727,2019-08-07T14:06:17.429Z,57726,anon1686813978,anon496362258,Thoughts @anon2724270673? :-) 36,57728,2019-08-07T14:45:25.291Z,57726,anon2724270673,anon496362258,"[quote=""anon496362258, post:34, topic:10017""] Like how can you make the distinction between good and bad if every human being has another perception of these values? [/quote] The baseline that is enforced on the top-down level is actually simple: The law. On the top-down level, that is the standard that is enforced. On the bottom-up level, every community and local group can define their own standards, as long as they don't violate the law. And end users will be empowered to curate their own experience, tailored to their needs and values. Yes, I acknowledge that there are variants in global law - what is allowed in Germany might not be allowed in China and vice versa. But there are baselines that are universally acknowledged. Right now, we focus on what is accepted and baseline in Europe and will worry about China later..." 37,57793,2019-08-09T09:20:50.587Z,54081,anon273015838,anon2724270673,"Thanks for sharing this! Just for my understanding, how do you approach how visible conversations are? Tom Coates [once summed up](https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/1146485672116539392) some mechanics I found interesting like this: ""(...) it’s about the fundamental mechanics of the protocol and then a lot is just based on putting the filtering and abuse prevention in the clients.(...) For example, if you can’t see people more than two steps from you, then the incentive for them to be unpleasant or harassing diminishes a lot, and if there’s an assymetry between the two sides too, that can help. It depends on the physics basically, how far can your voice carry"" I found this metaphor pretty helpful to think about these things. What's your approach?" 38,57929,2019-08-13T14:16:24.301Z,57793,anon2724270673,anon273015838,"yes, that works - up to a point. Because sometimes people actively want to get into a conversation with people that are completely unknown to them, but only connected through a shared interest in something. Think striking up a conversation with a stranger in a bar, or while standing in queue somewhere. This board for example: The only connection I have to basically everyone here, is that they are here too. Thankfully, all'y'all are nice people, but what would my options be if you weren't? I'd probably have to count on the hosts here to make things friendly. Generally, we need to recognize that there are different scopes of communication, different spaces with different needs and constraints. As soon as an internet space is open in the sense of ""everyone can register and participate"", you are essentially dealing with the potential global public. All it needs is a well-worded link in a high-traffic place directing new people to any given space to fill it up with a new audience - which might be friendly or hostile, come with its own agenda, might have an interest and understanding of the place, or just wants to complain... Any new social platform should keep this possibility in mind." 39,57941,2019-08-13T21:42:04.973Z,54081,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"Further evidence of brokenness: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/facebook-paid-hundreds-of-contractors-to-transcribe-users-audio" 40,57945,2019-08-14T07:35:00.599Z,57941,anon2724270673,anon2434097920,"I am actually a bit angry over how these things are reported. If there is any online, server based voice recognition service at the scale of millions of end users, _of course_ there are going to be humans who check on samples to see if the product works as intended. And _of course_ the bit that says so is hidden in the ToS somewhere, because if you put it front and center, no one is going to use it. Also: Yes, it feels creepy, but in the end, the actual consequences of this privacy invasion are close to zero - the people who hear the recordings usually aren't in a position to do anything with them. That said: Yes, the big tech companies could have handled this better. Don't allow remote work for this stuff for example, better communication and so on. But **_what the reporting should always do_** is to tell people that checking these recordings is more or less mandatory to make the service better or even possible in the first place, and that people should know that whenever something translates voice to text in an online device, there should be the expectation that someone will eventually listen in to more or less anonymized tidbits of your voice." 41,57960,2019-08-14T15:33:55.496Z,57945,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"Good point. Journalists often look for 'blood in the water' and if they can't find much, then maybe ratchet things up a bit to increase the controversy. And FB has to operate at a scale beyond what many of us can probably even imagine. So naturally whatever they do, good or bad, is going to look big to anyone who looks. And Amazon does the same thing with Alexa. But there is a bit of a story here though for the reason you point out: they don't disclose. The ""break things"" ethos unfortunately allows a lot of room to justify unethical behavior. And this is exactly why they get so much scrutiny. The company leadership misrepresents what they do, even, in the case of Zuckerberg testifying to Congress, while under oath. Those sharks will never leave his tail after that." 42,57964,2019-08-14T15:46:34.557Z,57960,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Facebook got fined 5 billion dollars by the US Govt last month. The EU is about to announce its findings on FB's alleged violations of the GDPR regarding sharing WhatsApp data with FB without user consent.. These are huge fines, but they seem to not make a real difference. Europe needs a bigger strategy than leveling big fines. It seems like only a migration of people somewhere else will cause them to change. i imagine that most FB users are not that concerned about it actually." 43,57975,2019-08-14T20:49:13.733Z,57964,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:42, topic:10017""] Europe needs a bigger strategy than leveling big fines. It seems like only a migration of people somewhere else will cause them to change [/quote] I dream of antitrust policy based on access to market: ""if you don't break your company up, we will no longer allow you to operate on our 500 million rich people market"". The EU is almost there, with pretty strong decisions imposed on non-European companies by commissioners like Monti and Vestager." 44,57978,2019-08-15T01:01:35.515Z,57975,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,I do think denying access to market is the only way to enforce monopolistic behavior. But does breaking up big tech companies solve the problem? So for example you would break Instagram and WhatsApp away from Facebook? 45,58038,2019-08-16T08:59:41.195Z,54081,anon1965935013,anon2724270673,"Hi it's been several months I didn't come here. I'm really enthusiast about your project, great efforts, however as it was probably mentioned before, why not join an existing solution like Fediverse/Mastodon, because when you reinvent the roll, you do it on your own, and you add to the hundreds and thousands of anon222512824 projects that exists and that lack of users. Olivier" 46,58039,2019-08-16T09:09:13.104Z,58038,anon2724270673,anon1965935013,"We actually plan to build on ActivityPub, to join the Fediverse. And Darcy will be open source, to give back to everyone else too. We will however expand things a bit, to include better moderation interfaces, combining the moderation of several instances, sharing of blocklists between instances, and so on." 47,58040,2019-08-16T09:12:13.703Z,57978,anon2724270673,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:44, topic:10017""] But does breaking up big tech companies solve the problem? [/quote] I don't think so. The problem isn't that this is all owned by Facebook these days, but that the underlying business model is ""grow big, get sold, earn money through ads""." 48,58060,2019-08-16T15:09:04.801Z,57978,anon1686813978,anon2434097920,"Issue is that not only Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp et al are responsible for violating consent, issue is often the ad-tech ecosystem which is compromised from companies that most people never heard from such as Appnexus, IndexExchange and others that have loads of data obtained from users and its almost impossible to get to them." 49,58064,2019-08-16T15:33:21.389Z,58060,anon2434097920,anon1686813978," In the United States monopoly has for the past many decades been defined as being a monopolistic practice only if it raises prices on consumers. That is not the problem that we’re looking at here and at least in this country there is no policy at this point for dealing with the data issue. The public itself, and thus the legislators they elect, so far do not view a person’s personal data as being a commodity that has assignable value. So it is all regarded as a free service. After seeing what a lousy job the senators did in questioning Zuckerberg at his hearings not long ago I’m not real confident that some of those old guys are going to understand it well enough to write workable law.Add to that truly massive lobbying campaigns by big tech and I really don’t expect any movement on this side of the Atlantic." 50,58068,2019-08-16T15:43:43.452Z,58064,anon1686813978,anon2434097920,"Yeah, I was just connecting the issue of data handling from Facebook and big tech with companies that store that data (and most of people never heard of them, but they have loads of data on people). For the zuck hearing, yeah, if they will create a law based on their questions, it will be anon4292955258 bad. For lobbying, well, in EU Parliament that was also (and still is) a big issue with GDPR which was watered down by influences from big tech (and if you ask me, big tech wins big with GDPR in place). I'm not sure how can we make an advertising ecosystem that gives people what they want, but treats data with confidentiality and use it only in purposes that the consumer who gave them that data allowed them to use it. I re-discovered one great technologist (listened to her long time ago, forgot, randomly discovered on youtube again), Aleks Krotoski, that has a podcast show on the BBC on these topics and has a interesting video on web privacy. I'll link it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGX-c5BJNFk&t=1362s" 51,58074,2019-08-16T16:13:04.335Z,58068,anon2434097920,anon1686813978,"Right now I’m reading “Chaos Monkeys” by Ananon2317280404io Martinez. It’s a pretty fascinating Silicon Valley tale with a lot of focus on his time at Facebook a few years ago. He points out that FB didn’t start raking in the truly huge money until they started following people around the web to figure out their real interests. Just confining it to likes friends groups and all the “inside Facebook” activity didn’t produce the kind of targeting that brought the higher ad rates. This came about around 2011-12, a few years after Google blazed the surveillance trail that is now the norm." 52,58170,2019-08-20T12:10:18.292Z,54081,anon1022881418,anon2724270673,"At one time it was somewhat of a silly complaint about advertising on the web - since the ad-supported model was what the market (people) desired. However, as with most things, this went way too far...some ""news"" pages now actually have 100's of ads on them (CNN, for example). Hundreds! The targeting worked better when it was done in a subtle or general fashion. Now, it's so blatantly obvious and hides the good stuff...that it would seem to lose some of the effect (perhaps I am looking a bit in to the future here). I can almost start to say that the web was more useful in 1998 than it is today...when google results are now page after page of ""content farms"" or ""SEO"" stuff designed to have the sizzle (results that look good in a list) but no steak once you get to the site. One would think a smart company like Google would see this - and perhaps they do, but they have pressure to keep the bucks flowing. I should mention that I attended in-person google seminars when I was a publisher and they showed us ""heat maps"" of pages, which is where we should put ads. But, even then, I think google TOS allowed no more than two or three ads per page. Just thinking out loud here - but billboards are allowed on highways...however, if advertisers put one every 50 meters and they were all moving and colorful to grab your attention, laws and regulation would be passed or the industry asked to regulate itself so that the purpose of the highway remained sound. This may be part of the solution in some places - make the internet ""the highway"" and tell publishers over a certain size that they have to choose....X amounts of ads per page or % of page with ads, etc. But ads are not the only problem - it's the fight for eyeballs which has resulted in so many entire web sites being created for nothing except drawing people in. That part is up to the search engines. It may just happen that duck duck or another SE gets there first - and there is nothing to say that people will not gravitate to the ad-free or limited ad (or limited ""content farm"" results) search engine. Anyway, that part is not exactly Social Media related but it is thoughts on the fact that the Internet IS broken and fixes are needed. It would be truly amazing to see how google reacts if, for example, 10% of search queries started going to duck duck or a similar service." 53,58405,2019-08-26T15:56:58.232Z,58170,anon2434097920,anon1022881418,"To me it is pretty sad that the Internet is so massively consumed by the dictates of market place and markets, but I suppose it was inevitable. It’s a real trade off with the Internet of old and the Internet of today. Back in those days I hungered for the better graphics and audio and throughput that I knew was coming. But back then there was a kind of maybe tacit understanding or agreement that the commercialization of everything should not be such a runaway train. Maybe that was just left over from the days not too many years before when you couldn’t do anything commercial on the Internet and you had to sign pledges on paper certifying that you would be non-commercial. But I also remember when I worked for a big media company that the notion of that kind of restraint to the advertising-heavy establishment that employed me, seemed kind of absurd because why would you restrain yourself from going after the most money you can make?" 54,58421,2019-08-26T22:03:01.172Z,58405,anon1022881418,anon2434097920,"I wonder if we even anticipated the current net - when 95% plus of users are ""takers"" and only a very few are makers. This really came into focus with devices and social media because obviously people were not going to write massive amounts of content on Phones or even early tablets. So that sorta broke it into two parts - whereas at first I think we envisioned more of all being creators and consumers. The ""here today gone tomorrow"" fad is also interesting as it speaks against most of the real excitement we felt in terms of forever knowledge. Now it's a quick jolt of attention and that goes away quickly also. I still get excited on forums where I see my long term rep going up due to actual usefulness of my posts or opinions. What we need is a new Moses coming down from the Mountain with the shore and sweet of the Internet guidelines!" 55,58436,2019-08-27T07:43:08.649Z,58421,anon3031202475,anon1022881418,"The metaphor you choose with Moses might illustrate rather well how disputed such a strict top-down approach would be and how it could lead to conflicts around the nature, origin and believability of such guidelines." 56,58887,2019-09-07T00:23:16.839Z,58436,anon1022881418,anon3031202475,"Well, that's understandable - but it also reflects on how having proper food labeling and caloric content in eateries and other such information can help people know what is best for their own health and the health of society in general. I have run into many real world situations where people don't know the basics (even the Golden Rule) - but when I consider telling them the score I realize that if they don't know by now I'm certainly not going to be able to clue them in! My experience as admin of a large forum for 18 years was that Leadership (admin and mods and top helpers and posters) set those rules and 98% or more of the users followed along once they realized it was all good (no negatives involved). Attention is a funny thing. Many people cannot discern negative attention from positive and from most everything in-between. When billions are online reacting to this....well, it causes the problems we see today. IMHO. A ""moses"" in this case is a metaphor for a new take on the Golden Rule." 57,59260,2019-09-13T19:18:18.923Z,58887,anon2434097920,anon1022881418,I have no faith that social media companies that make most of their money tracking you and subtly funneling you into where they want you to go in order to maximize revenue are ever going to allow enough user control to “un break” it. 58,59261,2019-09-13T19:31:31.325Z,59260,anon2434097920,anon2434097920, Social networks are a lot more socially random than the societies that form around specialty sites like yours or this site here. So I think rules of civility can be applied in the very broadest sense in a social network but otherwise I think one size just does not fit all and administrators are going to be playing defense endlessly. This is why I think it is necessary to have good user controls in social media for it to work in ways that we here think it should work. (Assuming we are more or less aligned.) 59,60045,2019-09-27T16:42:31.677Z,54081,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"This comprehensive study lays out the state of things today: Samantha Bradshaw & Philip N. Howard, “The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation.” Working Paper 2019.3. Oxford, UK: Project on Computational Propaganda. comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk. 23 pp. From the intro, ""Cyber troops’ are defined as government or political party actors tasked with manipulating public opinion online (Bradshaw and Howard 2017a). We comparatively examine the formal organization of cyber troops around the world, and how these actors use computational propaganda for political purposes. This involves building an inventory of the evolving strategies, tools, and techniques of computational propaganda, including the use of ‘political bots’ to amplify hate speech or other forms of manipulated content, the illegal harvesting of data or micro-targeting, or deploying an army of ‘trolls’ to bully or harass political dissidents or journalists online. We also track the capacity and resources invested into developing these techniques to build a picture of cyber troop capabilities around the world."" https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2019/09/CyberTroop-Report19.pdf" 60,60046,2019-09-27T16:43:02.974Z,60045,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"The summary: Over the past three years, we have monitored the global organization of social media manipulation by governments and political parties. Our 2019 report analyses the trends of computational propaganda and the evolving tools, capacities, strategies, and resources. 1. Evidence of organized social media manipulation campaigns which have taken place in 70 countries, up from 48 countries in 2018 and 28 countries in 2017. In each country, there is at least one political party or government agency using social media to shape public attitudes domestically. 2. Social media has become co-opted by many authoritarian regimes. In 26 countries, computational propaganda is being used as a tool of information control in three distinct ways: to suppress fundamental human rights, discredit political opponents, and drown out dissenting opinions. 3. A handful of sophisticated state actors use computational propaganda for foreign influence operations. Facebook and Twitter attributed foreign influence operations to seven countries (China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela) who have used these platforms to influence global audiences. 4. China has become a major player in the global disinformation order. Until the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, most evidence of Chinese computational propaganda occurred on domestic platforms such as Weibo, WeChat, and QQ. But China’s new-found interest in aggressively using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube should raise concerns for democracies 5. Despite there being more social networking platforms than ever, Facebook remains the platform of choice for social media manipulation. In 56 countries, we found evidence of formally organized computational propaganda campaigns on Facebook." 1,59949,2019-09-26T07:26:07.650Z,59949,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"At the NGI Forum @anon2339827249 and Harry Armstrong held a workshop on a potential future NGI Trustmark, a certification for technology considered to live up to the ideals of an ""internet for humans"". These are my notes from the workshop. Katja and Harry, please add what I have missed and correct what I might have misunderstood. Trustmarks are nothing new, they exist for everything from fair-trade for food to energy efficiency for domestic appliances. They exist because, without them, ethical technologies are hard to find. It's a fragmented marketplace and there is a lack of coordination. NGI has an opportunity to address that by developing a Trustmark, and this workshop was one step in that direction. Of course, defining ""ethical"" is no easy feat. Things to be considered could be privacy, fairness, bias, sustainability, security and countless other factors. There are many open questions, and this workshop did not aim to limit the scope but was rather an open exploration of the topic. We know that there is some appetite for data protection trustmarks. One participant quoted a figure stating that 67% of consumers would like for such a certification to exist. But data protection is only one aspect of ethical data-driven technology, and the consumer appetite for other consideration is unclear. In a way, terms of service are like very long and opaque trustmarks for what companies may do with your data. However, as we know, they are close to useless from a consumer perspective as a tool to compare technologies. One sort of trustmark could focus on making sure that terms of services live up to certain standards and include respectful defaults. GDPR has also become something of a trustmark, being used as shorthand when talking about data protection. What makes it effective is that there is accountability. As one participant said: ""You are trusted because you are accountable"". This workshop did not go into detail, but we managed to write down some interesting opportunities and challenges of developing a trustmarks. ### Opportunities * It creates a branding for ethical product, creating a virtuous circle where you must be certified to compete. * You can start creating new products based on being certified ethical, much like some lines of washing machines have as their unique selling point to be energy efficient. * Companies can account for what value consumers are giving up to get something for free. Facebook and its ilk would then have to be very upfront about its business model during signup. * A well-designed mark can become a strong marketing tool, by making the mark itself a brand. * A certifying body could include individual consumers who are, as a group, given equal weight to the industry. * AI bias is difficult because reducing bias often decreases accuracy. AI bias could be addressed by requiring companies to be upfront about what trade-offs they have accepted and how their AIs are biased. This is much like how human bias (internalized racism, sexism, etc) is addressed by becoming aware of one's own bias. * Sustainability, security and ethics of data centers could be certified by independent observers, similar to UN polling observants. ### Challenges * A trust mark with high standards might not work, if every single data giant ends up with a bad rating, trustmark might come across as too punitive * Privacy might be the easy part of the certification, but fairness will be harder. Addressing AI bias and error is harder. * Where would such a trustmark be placed? How would you see it? * If the trustmarks becomes something that one ""pays a premium"" for, will privacy and ethical tech become even more of an elite privilege? * Who pays to certify open source software? * Entrenched business models will lobby against it. * It can easily become a barrier for entry for startups if not done right. At the end of the workshop, participants were asked to name one thing that they though a trustmark must cover. These were some answers (I didn't catch everything): * Transparency: A non-technical person must be able to understand in a reasonable time frame, for what purpose and how is it collected and used? Steps forward for the commission would be to look at existing best practice for sustainability trustmarks in particular. * People don't know how their data is being used, and the next step is to make those who break trust pay. * Simplicity and usability of the mark are key. * Create respectful defaults. One such concrete default would be to always have a user accessible off-switch for the AI. (On this point, one participant recommended a book on urban planning called [""Massive small""](https://www.massivesmall.org/)." 2,59952,2019-09-26T07:50:13.341Z,59949,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"Following up with some of my own remarks. I think there is an inherent difference between at least two categories of trustmarks. One category is exemplified by the energy efficiency certification on a washing machine an the other by a fairtrade sticker on a banana. While the first has some direct and appreciated practical consequences for the owner of the washing machine, namely a lower electricity bill, the person buying the fairtrade banana only gets to feel like they are doing the right thing. I would argue that an NGI Trustmark will be more like the sticker on the banana than the sticker on the washing machine. It is true that leaked personal data due to lax cybersecurity, or sold personal data due to lax ethics, may have an individual impact, but this is really a franon2926706121 phenomenon. A vast majority of people who get their data leaked or sold are only a single datapoint in hundreds of thousands of others, and will usually suffer no consequences as a result. There are exceptions – people who for one reason or another are more likely to be harassed or targeted are also harmed more than others by leaks – but this almost per definition a minority. Instead, the consequences of leaked or sold data are usually societal and structural – lex Cambridge Analytica, and in that real security becomes an elite privilege. This is this relevant because I think it might be wise to not try to make this sticker into something that focuses on what the consumer is getting from the product because I think most consumers will just keep making the long term privacy trade-off for the short term price tag. This is also relevant for design and branding, as the strategy pursued to get people to care about a fair-trade sticker is probably very different from a campaign promoting energy efficiency certification." 3,59973,2019-09-26T13:57:15.437Z,59949,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,Let’s see if @anon273015838 can weigh in on this. He has studied this extensively as the main focus of his Mozilla Fellowship. Peter? 4,59987,2019-09-26T16:09:42.231Z,59973,anon3449369942,anon2434097920,"well there was some discussion about this in the thread I kicked off on how one ought not to approach the work of developing a deep green trustmark for digital tech. I asked what people felt it made sense to avoid or try doing etc. It's here https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-internet-of-biases-and-other-terrible-ways-to-open-a-conversation/10190 Looking forward to hear from @anon1037234888 and the rest of the ethno/ssna gang what is coming out of that and other deep green related threads. Might make visible some emergent insights." 5,59995,2019-09-26T20:57:20.627Z,59973,anon273015838,anon2434097920,"Happy to, and thanks for tagging me in this thread. What I'm writing is based on developing the [Trustable Technology Mark](https://trustabletech.org), a trustmark for connected consumer products, issued by our non-profit, [ThingsCon](https://thingscon.org). So that's the area I looked at most closely, but I think a lot might apply beyond IoT. So, there are various categories of ""trust marks"", some more explicit than others, like: Certifications, which often certify compliance with a law or regulation, like the CE mark, or the more general ""consumer marks"" or ""trust marks"", which depending on the jurisdiction are less ""hard"" so to speak. Either one of them needs an issuing body, meaning for larger scale projects we're talking about large organizations. (ThingsCon's Trustable Technology Mark is both very young and a very small project, and technically speaking not a certification but a mark we license companies to use if they meet certain criteria for transparency and other aspects. Details matter in these things.) That said, after having studied this for anon4292955258 some time but without a longer-term background in this space I think it's fair to say that just about any assumption you'd make (""it just needs to do X by Y in oder to demonstrate Z"") is anon4292955258 likely not going to stand up to a somewhat rigorous kicking of the proverbial tires. For things that are as vague/debatable as ""ethical"" or ""fair"" or even the much easier (but still freakishly hard to define) ""private"", even a baseline definition is incredibly hard, because we're talking about nearly philosophical debates plus _a lot_ of contextual interpretations. That said, I'm not here to grump around and I would like to see more of this in the world. So practically speaking, what are the challenges and opportunities? Challenges: * Trust in the issuing org: Who is the trusted authority of issuing this trust mark? * Legal status: Is this a thing that's legally required for entering the market, i.e. a regulation? In that case, funding will not be an issue, but it'll have to be a so-called ""base line certification"", meaning a LOT of products need to be able to get it. This is a much lower standard than we might want. Think of the CE mark: It indicates that your TV won't set the house on fire, but it doesn't guarantee it's well made in any other way. * Reach: If however the standard we aim for is higher, than by definition less products will qualify, meaning it must almost by definition be a voluntary thing. Which is good for many things, but means we're now talking about massive outreach or marketing, and likely about requiring a business model. If however you get paid for issuing this, then there's already a potential conflict of interest to issue as many as possible, so it might erode trust into the mark itself. * For anything connected, a software update might change important details or features, and also what happens to the data is often something that happens far from the actual product in the cloud, or on third party servers. Whatever the trustmark promises, it needs to apply to every party that has access to the data or that is involved in bringing this product into the world. * Verification: How does the issuing body verify its claims? Are there external audits (good but expensive), is it based on companies providing the info (cheap but harder to trust), or some hybrid? Doteveryone, for example, has studied this in depth [and decided not to go the route of a trustmark](https://doteveryone.org.uk/2019/09/digital-products-and-services-arent-bananas/) and instead just to offer guidelines for making better products, as has the [Better IoT initiative](https://betteriot.org), and frankly with ThingsCon we were short of going that same route (but were really curious to see if we could make it happen - and we'll know in a few years time). Opportunities: * I'd offer the counter claim to what @anon1505367078 was saying about consumers' attitudes towards privacy and data protection (thanks Hugi for sharing this; I agree with pretty much the rest you're saying), as well as potential damages. Currently it's not like consumers have a real choice, and if you have to choose between unsafe and not using important services, you'll have to expose yourself to the risk. I think consumers care about privacy anon4292955258 a lot and make the best choices they can, but only have a very narrow band of choices. I also believe that it's not nearly as niche as it's often portrayed and instead the damage in fraud, eroded trust, lost productivity, etc. is anon4292955258 large, even though I hasten to add I haven't studied this in-depth (so take it with a grain of salt). * Nobody has figured out what this means for connected products yet. This is a huge opportunity, because consumers are largely in the dark about what's ok and what isn't. Currently we see a giant market failure there. * A trustmark, whichever shape it takes, could also be complementary to regulation that heavily fines sloppy practices if they hurt consumers. There are many mechanism to potentially make this happen; I'm not familiar with the current state of debate around this, but I'm sure Harry might know. * Finally, I'd say that consumers would hugely benefit from a trustmark if it's established and gains traction, even if they don't know the details of what it checks for. Let's face it, most trustmarks we trust work in ways we're not familiar with, at very different levels, many of which we're so familiar with that depending on context we might not even perceive as such but everybody knows how to interpret according to their own preferences. To give just a few examples from recent debates: Fairtrade; BlueSign; Made in Germany; the fire department colors; CE; and most brand names all the way from Amazon to Red Cross. Trustmarks are everywhere, and they come in many shapes. One thing I'd caution against is to come up with One Trustmark To Rule Them All. Either one of the areas tagged above (privacy, fairness, trustworthiness, sustainability, etc etc.) are huge and complex areas. Something can be extremely fair but not at all private, or perfectly secure yet offer no protection against abuse of data in the way the product is designed; etc. etc. Sustainability for technology is *incredibly* hard, as is privacy, especially if we're comparing across jurisdictions/countries/cultures. (Privacy and data protection are interpreted fundamentally differently in the US than in Germany, for example.) In the end, whoever creates the mark has to decide what they aim to cover and make choices, including many hard choices. No trustmark will solve all issues for everyone. But it might solve some issues for some, or even for many - and that's absolutely an endeavor worth engaging in." 6,59997,2019-09-26T21:21:19.326Z,59995,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"Maybe it will develop in a way similar to organic food. We all share some basic ideas of what that is, and I remember when there was no certification for it anywhere. But a variety of certifying orgs emerged and governments got involved. So, now we all still have our notions of what organic means, and generally speaking we are correct - no pesticides or chemical fertilizers was where it started. But now it is much more complex than that and not all standards agree. And some standards don't cover certain aspects of it, like organic animal products, and some do. It's kind of all over the map. Plus, government certifications are subject to political pressure (in the US, the government issues certain exemptions for certain ingredients in certain foods. Lots of grey area in there). So it is all pretty squishy, but overall we benefit from it, even with all the variables." 1,59347,2019-09-16T08:30:57.866Z,59347,anon3931191205,anon3931191205,"On Why Microsolidarity is Necessary ==== Welcome to this text and brewing. It has been developed within me, grown from the seedling of microsolidarity, in the soil of syndicalism and anarchism, over the course of many months now. To start of, I want to specify what I believe Microsolidarity is necessary for, in extention to the points provided in the [original article](https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/courage-before-hope-a-proposal-to-weave-emotional-and-economic-microsolidarity-87bc81372a09). ## **Microsolidarity is a necessary step to hinder mass-manipulation in contemporary society.** I have come to strongly believe this. I will attempt to bring you with me on my thought journey. I will also try to include my emotions as I believe one (*thought*) is seldomly without the other (*emotion*) no matter how contemporary scientific paradigms may portray it. This display of emotion and thought in combo is not something I have done before, I guess practice makes.... . . . So now, to continue my imperfection: _________________ ### 1. Finding the question and the freudian id With the points of ""14 billion anon2317280404s of ice melting just yesterday"", ""a need for people to come together"", ""to shape new ways of society"" and ""to connect and support each other"", all rang true to me, strong enough for Microsolidarity to embed itself within my thought patterns, I had yet to see how it connected, en masse, and why it would even come to happen at all. In a dark corner of my mind, a bitter voice was whispering ""Why would this even take off?"". I tried not listening to the voice as best I could but silently started looking for an answer. It seemed too big of a task for humans to re-organize. I would have to see an innate contemporary human need, which microsolidarity could provide for, before I could truly believe Microsolidarity could take off. About two years before I read the article on Microsolidarity I watched a documentary called ""[The Swedish Theory of Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfyKYeaZcIM)"". Perhaps it spoke to me as a love seeking Swede, but more so it spoke to me in its reflections on the arcitechture of the isolation designed one-room, four-people-families of todays skyrises and white-picket-fence-den societies. A change which has come upon Northern Hemisphere humans in the latest 0,001% of her history. I had seen the need. Could Microsolidarity be a cure of loneliness, the satisfaction to a deep human need, a *desirable* solution? ### 2. Exploring the Need I observed todays society to find an answer as to why society had not already collapsed by the architectured societal loneliness, for my inner logus told me it should've. I found that in a timely fashion, internet and the world wide web came to be, creating and comforting with a community for those for whom there were none. I look at the internet and see a substitution, a band-aid to the loneliness. Corporations feeding endorphines and a sense of belonging to the infected wounds of isolation. What started irking me was who that sense of belonging was to, really? The identites of the communities, ranging from Twitter to Reddit, from Instagram to Tumbler, were rarely through connections to any individual people but to the masse of agreed jargon and inside-jokes, meta-memes, gifs or trends. More musings on this can be [found here](%8+CGdFA7Zj+onCSva39wP2kmKIzEl9FgWvSETHWFLI0=.sha256) yet the bottom line was that these spaces were filled with payed for content, inceptions placed there with corporate incentive, propagand/commercials wearing costumes made up of memes or other relevant community coding to melt into the social settings of the artificial communities. ### 3. Conclusion So what had I found so far? - I had found that there was a need that Microsolidarity could fill: lonliness. - I had found that the need was already covered by artificial communities on the www. - I had found that these artificial communities were easy to incept with messages if one has money and that it was already happening as there was no real way of differentiating between the ""real"" users and corporate shills. The breeding ground for mass-manipulation is close to reaching its final form, setting the anon2317280404e and delivering messages with disguised messengers. What did I feel? - Slight desperation - An urgency to do something - A big ""Ahaaaaaa"" moment - An increased personal need for Microsolidarity My conclusion is that Microsolidarity is not only a great way to go about reshaping and rebuilding the world, it is a means to avoid the dystopia which inevitably comes with mass-manipulation. It allows for this Microsolidarity is not only a step for a healthier earth and person, it's a necessary step of rebellion. Edit: removed an asterics" 2,59350,2019-09-16T09:06:44.598Z,59347,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"@anon3931191205 hey :) this is so on point and discussion that has been going on for ages here in one form or another. We did a fairly large research project exploring this in the context of provision of health and social care support where both state and market are failing. Looking at initiatives groups and individuals running as a response. With something as critical as care provision you have the additional parameters of safety, reliability etc. If you are interested I can dig up a few links for you." 3,59370,2019-09-16T12:03:11.508Z,59350,anon3931191205,anon3449369942,">We did a fairly large research project exploring this in the context of provision of health and social care support where both state and market are failing. @anon3449369942 This sounds super interesting! Also, highly timely. If you have links I would love to see them!" 4,59409,2019-09-17T04:32:43.196Z,59347,anon2434097920,anon3931191205,"Microsolidarity, as I understand it (which isn't a lot) is largely based around being part of a ""crew."" I like this notion and it reminds me of the beginnings of my journey, which started on a bus with a group - a crew - of around 8 people. And most of my closest friends over the span of decades are people with whom I was in some kind of crew, in the microsolidarity sense. Working in a garage, playing in a rock band, forging new kinds of online community...things like that. How is it working for you?" 5,59521,2019-09-17T18:26:08.859Z,59370,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"You can download them from the git repo * [D4.6 Research paper - Using collective intelligence to improve care - an empirical study on best practice in the care sector](https://github.com/opencarecc/opencareProjectDeliverables/blob/master/WP4/D4.6%20Research%20paper%20-%20Using%20collective%20intelligence%20to%20improve%20care%20-%20an%20empirical%20study%20on%20best%20practice%20in%20the%20care%20sector.pdf) * [D4.7 Research paper - Integrating community-driven care services in European welfare states (second edition)](https://github.com/opencarecc/opencareProjectDeliverables/blob/master/WP4/D4.7%20Research%20paper%20-%20Integrating%20community-driven%20care%20services%20in%20European%20welfare%20states%20(second%20edition).pdf)" 6,59784,2019-09-23T22:45:01.836Z,59347,anon222512824,anon3931191205,"Hey Zelf, i'm super curious about the articles you provided but can't seem to access them. Maybe it's my browser, but I'd love to get those URLs. If it's not too much trouble to re-post or message me :smile:" 7,59807,2019-09-24T10:15:02.000Z,59784,anon3180318115,anon222512824,"[https://github.com/opencarecc/opencareProjectDeliverables/blob/master/WP4/D4.6%20Research%20paper%20-%20Using%20collective%20intelligence%20to%20improve%20care%20-%20an%20empirical%20study%20on%20best%20practice%20in%20the%20care%20sector.pdf](https://github.com/opencarecc/opencareProjectDeliverables/blob/master/WP4/D4.6%20Research%20paper%20-%20Using%20collective%20intelligence%20to%20improve%20care%20-%20an%20empirical%20study%20on%20best%20practice%20in%20the%20care%20sector.pdf) [https://github.com/opencarecc/opencareProjectDeliverables/blob/master/WP4/D4.7%20Research%20paper%20-%20Integrating%20community-driven%20care%20services%20in%20European%20welfare%20states%20(second%20edition).pdf](https://github.com/opencarecc/opencareProjectDeliverables/blob/master/WP4/D4.7%20Research%20paper%20-%20Integrating%20community-driven%20care%20services%20in%20European%20welfare%20states%20(second%20edition).pdf)" 8,59835,2019-09-24T19:21:45.450Z,59807,anon222512824,anon3180318115,"Thanks Soenke, but was more curious about the anon222512824 blue links that Zelf embedded in her write up. ""original article"", ""the swedish theory of love"", ""found here""" 9,59934,2019-09-25T21:15:22.590Z,59784,anon3931191205,anon222512824,"haha yes! Sorry, it seems all of the links disappeared. Sadly some of them are posts I made on scuttlebutt but I can link them anyways, Here they are: ""found here"" (musings on memes from a post I made on scuttlebutt) %8+CGdFA7Zj+onCSva39wP2kmKIzEl9FgWvSETHWFLI0=.sha256 Microsolidarity, original article: https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/courage-before-hope-a-proposal-to-weave-emotional-and-economic-microsolidarity-87bc81372a09 Swedish Theory of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rorr7vBGz-c" 1,53307,2019-05-10T12:08:55.872Z,53307,anon273015838,anon273015838,"As co-founder of the ThingsCon community (https://thingscon.org) that advocates for a responsible and human-centric approach to Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities have become an important focal point for my work: While the term ""Smart City"" itself is a anon222512824 vague and ill-defined, **smart cities are where the digital and the physical world meet, and where algorithms actively impact our daily lives.** **The more cities are being connected and thus turned into Smart Cities, the more our society faces complex issues around power dynamics, control, and access.** In other words, where machine decision making (artificial intelligence, machine learning; take your pick) starts impacting and shaping our public space, every single citizen is impacted by technological systems that are largely black boxes. Today, the discourse around Smart Cities is largely dominated by the vendors of smart city tech: The debate is using their language, the framing of possible solutions matches their products. There isn’t anything malign going on, either - but the arguments are one-sided and myopic: They are selling technical “solutions” to complex societal challenges. This can never work, and is problematic in a myriad of ways. **I propose to re-frame the Smart City discourse away from a technology focus and towards a focus on societal impact** and ask a different set of questions than the tech vendors’ solutions are trying to answer - like the following: What are the potential impacts we can have when introducing a data layer and machine decision making into public space? What are the desirable consequences, what are the damages we need to avoid? What are the intended vs unintended potential consequences, and what are the known unknowns? How can we design a city to be resilient and worth living in, instead of just a anon222512824 more efficient? **In other words: What are better urban metrics in cities increasingly governed or shaped by algorithms? How can we put people first and make sure that their cities, their public spaces and agoras work for all of them and not just for the companies that sell some of the infrastructure?** Working out these metrics, an analytical framework for assessing what’s desirable in a Smart City, is the key to unlocking a real, meaningful debate. It’s the basis on which policy makers, using participatory processes and involving all stakeholder groups, get empowered to start drafting meaningful Smart City policies and procurement guidelines. It’s an important building block in allowing us to move society forward, one city at a time. At this point, I’m convinced we need to build all Smart City policies around citizens/digital/human rights first, and with a strong priority on participatory processes, transparency, and accountability. Beyond that, these metrics need fleshing out. It’s this project that I’m proposing to tackle together with the Edgeryders community. For some background on me, some links: - [Twitter: @anon - [ThingsCon.org](https://thingscon.org/) - [The Trustable Technology Mark](https://trustabletech.org) - [my company](https://thewavingcat.com) & [blog](https://thewavingcat.com/blog)" 2,53322,2019-05-10T20:36:59.918Z,53307,anon3809206126,anon273015838,"Hello @anon273015838, I am Alberto and have had the opportunity to do a bit of thinking around Smart Cities. I think you are spot on. Like all tech, but in a more direct way, the suites of solutions that make up the smart city encode values and power relationships. Building the smart city is not conceptually far from building the [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu): it demands technical choices that encode values. For now, in both cases, the values have been those of vendors and business. If you de-emphasize them, you can go anon4292955258 some way towards ""smart"". [I used to talk of ""Type 1-"" and ""Type 2 smart cities""](http://www.cottica.net/2012/11/28/what-we-mean-by-smart-in-smart-cities/). Type 2 are non-vendor dominated, and so they can do some smart things that imply the destruction of GDP. They can do repair cafés, and car bans, and community welfare, and mesh networks. They can be cheap and resilient and inclusive. But even these things are not ""smart"" for everybody. They encode _my_ values, and those of my tribe. And these are great, but in any healthy city there _must_ be people who steer by other stars, who care about different things. Cities are ambiguous, because their social engine is diversity. Diversity fuels exchange, personal growth and prosperity, but also conflict and uneasiness. A stronger police present makes the parent of young children feel safer, but makes life miserable for African- and Arab-looking teenagers. A late night bar can be a place of joy for the younger citizens in the neighborhood, but a source of nuisance for the older folks that live upstairs from it. For this reason, I am unconvinced that you can find ""metrics"". Whose metrics are we talking about? In his [2013 pamphlet](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2013/12/02/city-cynic-against-the-smart-city-by-adam-greenfield-review/#4784384f3b19), Adam Greenfield makes a convincing case that there can be no unambiguous, value-neutral metrics to maximize. Cities have to be regulated by endless dialogue and debate, right out in the agora. In other words, though the notion is unpopular, by politics. I am afraid he is right. If by some miracle you could steer a city by keeping metrics at nominal value, you would have reduced its complexity to the point where it is no longer a city, but something like a jail, or an amusement attraction like Disneyland." 3,53324,2019-05-11T01:02:07.516Z,53307,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"Smart cities to me imply that there will be a tight grid of 5G or stronger transmitters densely packed in cities. Does human centered also include studying and adjusting for health effects? So far it seems that it has hardly been studied. And all I hear is the inevitability of it. And a human centered city would allow users to have pretty sophisticated awareness and control over the date gathered about them. I know that in public places one has greatly reduced expectations of privacy, but the data still goes someplace." 4,53341,2019-05-12T18:04:52.429Z,53324,anon273015838,anon2434097920,"You and @anon3809206126 are both raising excellent points. I *think* the only way to approach this is to start at the very foundational level, which is to organize this part of our lives exactly like all the other big societal areas: By moderating and navigating the various (and often conflicting) interests through democratic means - in other words: introducing transparency, accountability and democratic oversight. Currently, smart city projects are often ushered in through the back door of public procurement in processes so obscure and opaque as to be essentially free from meaningful oversight. This is where the question of metrics later should be decided (but currently we don't have the policies in place to make that possible) and where we can decided collectively which aspects of health impact should be studied..." 5,53342,2019-05-12T18:18:09.217Z,53341,anon2434097920,anon273015838," I brought up health effects because in an embedded video in another topic it was admitted by an industry person that although deployment is planned and being carried out initially there have been no studies. It could be that it is all fine, and I for one hope it is. But this is part of the tech Kool-Aid where the benefits always outweigh the risk. That said, I am also anon4292955258 wary of wanting to slow down or prevent technological progress because there must surely be some unknown long term bad effect." 6,55923,2019-07-01T09:07:49.968Z,53307,anon273015838,anon273015838,Fun: Caanon3449369942n newspaper The Star has picked up a thread of mine on Sidewalk Labs' big smart city proposal for Toronto where I'm grateful to be in good company when I discuss the governance issues with that proposal (and similar ones like it around the globe): https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2019/06/30/critics-are-calling-sidewalk-labs-proposal-to-create-new-oversight-agencies-a-power-grab.html 7,56087,2019-07-02T16:26:55.506Z,53307,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"Here is a case where ""smart"" means ""the state controls everything"" including your phone should you choose to visit..AKA the Internet of Inhumanity: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgame/at-chinese-border-tourists-forced-to-install-a-text-stealing-piece-of-malware This is the same region where they use facial recognition to track everyone. For those folks, ""1984"" has been in place for some time now. https://palladiummag.com/2018/11/29/a-week-in-xinjiangs-absolute-surveillance-state/" 8,56399,2019-07-09T12:37:26.978Z,53307,anon196034329,anon273015838,"If you're looking for a fresh perspective on the Smart City concept, I can serve with an inspiration :) A few months back I developed a solarpunk-y vision for a long-term sustainable, autarkic and anarchist city: https://edgeryders.eu/t/an-autarky-system-for-cities/9141 It indeed needs a data layer for many of its processes, and that would be the inspiration for ""how else could we do Smart City"". Esp. relevant are these parts: * [information system](/t/-/9141#heading--3-1) * [logistics](/t/-/9141#heading--3-11) * [sharing system](/t/-/9141#heading--3-13) The proposal is admittedly anon4292955258 ""out there"" as it will have severe lifestyle impacts, while still keeping up all modern comforts. But, _unlike_ many of the geoengineering and carbon removal proposals floated for achieving sustainability while keeping current lifestyle largely unchanged, it does not rely on any non-existent or unproven technology. It's just a tech-positive way to use what we have much more efficiently, esp. via the use of IT for local self-administration. (And as such might also be of interest for @anon4261882768.) [quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:9878""]Adam Greenfield makes a convincing case that there can be no unambiguous, value-neutral metrics to maximize.[/quote] Oh, I know at least one off the top of my head: Maximizing the probability that human civilization can go on on this very planet for the next 4 billion years, which is as long as the sun will shine. Right now, this is rather systematically minimized …" 9,56405,2019-07-09T13:45:46.827Z,56399,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:8, topic:9878""] Maximizing the probability that human civilization can go on on this very planet for the next 4 billion years, which is as long as the sun will shine. [/quote] That's not computable, Matt. Come on. :slight_smile:" 10,56406,2019-07-09T13:53:27.042Z,56405,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"For starters, it implies that no resource must be used up whatsoever, forever. Circular economy down to the last atom. Everything else is just not a sustainable civilization, or sustainable city." 11,56408,2019-07-09T14:13:16.856Z,56399,anon4261882768,anon196034329,"Hi Mathias, looks very good, can just skim it now, I will come back got this later. A quick glance shows that a lot of the things you aim for relate very well to the three topics Christian Nold and I have outlined: Proximity, System Thinking and Affect: http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf" 12,56409,2019-07-09T14:24:18.586Z,56406,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"*Nerdy reply alert! Does not affect the main thrust of the argument, it's more about @anon196034329 and I educating each other, as we have been doing for six years now* Greenfield is an urban planner. I think his focus is on what makes a city a city. The criterion of circularity is great, but it can be applied to a single company, or household, or even a single activity, a single machine. Scholars or cities are looking in a different direction: they want metrics that you can apply to the _interactions_ that happen in a city. For example, Le Corbusier seems to have believed that traffic speed was an unambiguously positive thing: faster is better, and so he imagined large, straight, multilane boulevards. Greenfield is saying, no. There is no metric `x` such that, if `W` denotes welfare (however you would measure that): ``` ∂W/∂x > 0 forall x ``` And yes, you can say circularity is unambiguously positive, but that pertains to a different level of analysis." 13,56436,2019-07-09T18:41:56.232Z,56408,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,@anon196034329 looking forward to your feedback on our text and the three categories we propose. 14,56472,2019-07-10T16:57:37.878Z,56436,anon196034329,anon4261882768,"_Here is a somewhat lengthy and random commentary on the 2011 pamphlet by Rob van Kranenburg and Christian Nold, to which Rob referred me above:_ ""[_The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World_](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf)"". _It would deserve its own topic, but as the title of this topic fits very well, I just leave this here (we can still split threads later if there is a need)._ _All quotes from the above pamphlet are used under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) licence._ > The authors suggest an IoT as a non-commercial refuge, as an umbranon1410463509 of emerging technologies that do not only serve capital but also facilitate grassroots survival networks in a world faced with ecological and social devastation. ([p. 5](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=4)) > We feel that unless we redirect our societal energies, we will be driving ourselves into a concrete wall of ecological, economic and social crisis. ([p. 11](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=7)) > Today, commandos are directed through the battlefield with the help of real time camera feedback. Tomorrow, consumers will be steered through smart shopping malls based on their status updates and spending profiles. ([p. 15](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=9)) That's anon4292955258 a good illustration of the very different scenarios that can be supported by IoT technology. The first is empowering (though only in support of current elites). The other is disempowering (as consumers are force-fed avoidable consumption goods by exploiting human psychological weaknesses with micro-targeted ads). At least in online shopping, the second scenario is reality already. I suppose what you're heading for is realizing an empowering scenario for ""ordinary citizens"" using IoT and IT technology. And I very much agree that there is a huge unexplored potential for that. To this date, I don't know of any existing system that would provide military-style ""jointness"" capabilities to citizens. If we had that around, and it would be in widespread use, it's hard to imagine the power that citizens would have with that. Perhaps the closest real-life demonstration was the Spanish Indignados movement and the Arab Spring, both largely organized via Twitter messages. But what a poor substitute microblogging is for a military-style jointness system. It's like I've heard once: ""You _can_ use a word processor software for everything, including writing a newspaper and organizing a revolution, but for most things there are much better tools for the job."" While not the IoT angle directly, I have my own long-term interest in jointness software for civilians, including for grassroots movements and social organizing. (In [my final thesis](https://ma.juii.net/ma-documents/main/CommunityGroupware.Thesis.pdf) when studying computer science, I tried my hand at designing such a system. Not sure what value that thesis has in 2019, but yes, I have a history of interest in this stuff. :-) ) > [M]ost people reading this pamphlet will see dramatic changes within their own lifetime [due to climate breakdown]. This gives us a short time frame to build novel types of technology that will support strong local relationships that make areas resilient in the face of impending global failure. […] It seems clear that the present centralized system will break down. We will have to build a post-oil network composed of Islands of Things, […] made up of local units of organization and production. ([p. 20](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=12)) It's amazing how similar that sounds to my vision of the [Autarkic City](/t/9141) :slight_smile: > There are moments when society is ready to act on a specific issue. ([p. 21](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=12)) Totally agreed. With @anon1676186961 we witnessed this first-hand when we happened to be in Nepal during and right after the 2015 earthquakes. We even have a [small research paper](/t/4605) about volunteer disaster response from that time. But we also saw the limits of that grassroots action: it can get exhausted quickly (within weeks) by fulltime action because there is no external funder and people have to go back to their jobs. And it cannot adequately deal with problems that require large investments and infrastructure. So if we want a successful grassroots response to climate breakdown, we need one that takes these limits into account. I am not too sure yet, but I think that action on the demand side will be more effective than directly fighting against greenhouse gas emitting big industries. Think a grassroots movement converting society towards being carbon negative, one house at a time. What I have not (yet) found in your paper is a concrete vision of how a self-governed Internet of People society would look like. What tech, what software, what forms of social organization might it use? It's still a bit of an abstract vision to me. (Admittedly I am going into the other extreme … my visions tend to take the form of lists of equipment, and of course society won't implement it like that …) > Extending this Cuban example, the Russian anarchist Kropotkin offers a powerful vision of production through small-scale physical workshops, which in the Internet of People brings together low and high-tech bike repair and sensor networks. […] > > This model of local workshops allows people to do a variety of work, some manual, some intellectual, some exciting and some less so. If we produce things in our local area, we get fulfillment from our multiple roles of manual work as well as empowering brainwork and will not need “hobbies” anymore. The Internet of People enables a vision of globally interconnected workshops that change the type of things we produce, as well as our social and cultural relations in which we do so. ([p. 26](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=15)) I think this is such a 2011 thing to say :-) 2011 was prime time for low-cost FDM 3D printers, for [Open Source Ecology](http://opensourceecology.org) with their vision of an open source civilization, and so on. It felt hopeful, and I like the memory. And whil I still stick to that vision of an open source and collaborative world – the local manufacturing revolution turned out to be way more difficult to start than we imagined in 2011 … In my view of today, that is largely because people are locked into the mainstream economy of with its price competition and the resulting winner-takes-all mass production by the current money system and by the huge needs for money that are not simple to replace with ""local production"" in the sense of self-supply, as it needs economic exchange. For the urban population, that is mostly rent. And as and while (1) money is scarce for much of the population and (2) prices of non-locally-produced item (read: from China) are cheaper, people are locked into the mainstream economy for the time being. Recognizing this resulted (for me and a co-founder) into another startup called PayCoupons that aims to replace money in the local economy with algorithmic network bartering, to unlock local production in a space protected from global competition over price alone. More about that [here](https://blog.pay.coupons/e0b203f350fc). But starting that kind of marketplace in Europe while the economy is officially ""well"" is difficult. As dark as that sounds, we'll need another economic crisis before a tool like that will get the attention it deserves. > In the coming years, […] [the IoT Council] can advise governments and institutions on how to transform into interconnected workshops. ([p. 30](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=17)) I like that vision of interconnected workshops :) Has there been practical progress on proposed standards for distributed manufacturing in the years since the publication of the 2011 pamphlet? In particular, I am interested in standards for versioned, collaborative development of designs for physical items, including dependency management between them. It would be ""like [Git](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git) for physical products"" and ""like a software [package management system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system) for installing designs of products"". With that in place, it's not far fetched to automatically or semi-automatically feed this into CNC machines or a flexible manufacturing system like [CubeSpawn](https://cubespawn.com/). But so far, I don't know of any practical standard for this kind of data exchange. There has been [SKDB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n39RK4inzg), [VOICED](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOICED) and now [Wikifactory](https://wikifactory.com/), but none of it is usable for its stated purpose so far. I am always tempted to just create that standard myself, package the first 100 existing open hardware projects in the format, and see if it will catch on … > We exist in complex relationships with our environment simply by living our everyday lives. If we would get feedback on how we feel and how we might feel better, how our talents could get recognized, how we could relate better to our neighbors, then having sensors and actuators make sense. ([p. 37](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=20)) I guess is this is where our visions for the future start to differ. My vision, with its focus on autarky-enhancing technology, is to _reduce_ the complexity of the modern environment to something manageable. Complexity to be managed by an end user will actually rise as people will have to learn a lot of new and strange tech. But most of the hidden and uncontrollable dependencies from external entities of a mass society will vanish, this way putting citizens back in control of their lives and wellbeing. > Proximity […] In the future Internet of People, we will have to rely much more on our immediate environment for support. We are already linked to our neighbors with power and water but in the future we may have to rely on them for growing food and making things. What we are really talking about is a kind of mutual responsibility that we might call solidarity. ([p. 42](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=23)) I read this as a high-tech reincarnation of the village-based economies that existed in central Europe until about 1960, and that still exist in many parts of the world, including villages in Nepal that I visited. Good solutions come back when unsustainable forms of social organization end :slight_smile: If only there was a way to persuade villagers in Nepal that the system they have is good to begin with and that they just need to add some tech to make everything more efficient, safe and comfortable. No need to break the whole structure of society down in the name of ""progress"", just to come back to the same roots decades later. > This will leave our environment and us with an amorphous mass of data to make sense of. It’ll also bring about new identities for things. What are our tools for sense making at the moment? […] We want everybody to be able to draw on the largest and most available amount of data. [I]t will also create new forms of decision making for large groups of people and small communities on the basis of newly available data. ([p. 47](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=25)) While I don't have much of an opinion about big data, other than that it's useful for scientists and others with the time and skills to analyze it adequately, here's a complementary perspective that needs IoT devices as well, and right now. Let's call it ""tiny data"". In the highly resilient society of the future, we'll have to rely on local resources much more than now. This can be a city-level or neighborhood-level micro-grid or an off-grid house, or probably all of these to have multiple levels of redundancy. I am personally living off-grid and from that experience I can tell that good monitoring of ones energy, water, wastewater, heating and cooling systems is essential for wise resource use and proper functioning. For example, I know that I need 500-700 Wh of photovoltaics energy a day, and that I can cope with at most 10 days of gray sky in winter. That's where IoT comes in. Network-connected sensors and an evaluation software would combine local consumption data and weather forecasts into behavior recommendations. For an energy system using this kind of technology for monitoring, demand management, ""energy solidarity"" and other purposes, I [published some notes](/t/9731/6) in an earlier treat we were having here in the IoH forum. No such thing exists on the market today. > The total overview is impossible. […] It is the communal and participatory uncovering of the machinery that administers “area construction,” which creates what I call system thinking. System thinking is the personal and communal awareness that all things are connected in multiple networks of agency. It thus creates a space for multiple intelligences to form new kinds of awareness. ([p. 48](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=26)) Again, let me introduce a complementary perspective: systems engineering. Indeed, we may not be able to ever uncover or understand in whole how our world or local environment works. But instead of accepting this as ""a feature and not a bug"", the other option is to reconstruct the world, including the technosphere and social relations, to conform to principles of good systems engineering (hiding of complexity, public and private interfaces, reusability, redundancy and so on). A too complex world is an engineering failure – because too much social complexity is the main risk for societal collapse in the face of an arising resource shortage (as per [Joseph A. Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AOZ3PM)). What I have discovered in my various explorations of and experiments with autarky-enhancing technology is that this is a largely unexplored area with a high potential for creating a resilient and sustainable civilization with modern comforts and only the essential complexity. This is certainly no silver bullet as there will not be total autarky on the household or city level in the foreseeable future. I'm mentioning it as a complementary approach to the problem of complexity: instead of only using better mental models to understand it and deal with it, we can also discard it and ""start from scratch"". **Summary:** the last part of the book, ""[Sociability Standards for the Internet of People](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/files/ST8_InternetOfPeople_web.pdf#page=28)"", is a good summary of the design guidelines developed throughout that document (also good for everyone interested to join the discussion but needing a _tl;dr_). Summing up my comments by going along that list: * **Proximity:** I see that as an essential property of resilience and economic fairness in a future society, and it fits right in with my own notion of local autarky and PayCoupons, our innovation for local economic exchange. Proximity and local production should not be confused with anti-globalization: all knowledge should be globalized, for proper global collaboration. So it's rather in the realm of alter-globalization. * **System Thinking:** Above, I proposed systems engineering as a complementary approach to system complexity, and a local and fully circular economy (""autarky"") as a possible outcome. I like the practical proposals though, esp. ""Systems that automatically generate a fixed, public discussion url for each item."". That would be a good entry point to share user-generated knowledge about using an item / type of product, to report issues and contribute to its development in an open source manner, and to interface with a lending system, second hand offers of the product etc.. * **Affect:** That's really interesting to me as it shows a gap in my designs for local autarky so far. I have no idea though what kind of changes could incorporate a space for emotions and conflict into local autarky tech – I might not be the right person to have that idea, but then somebody else will be." 15,56475,2019-07-10T17:14:19.000Z,56472,anon4261882768,anon196034329,"Matthias, Wow! We are in London now with Alberto and anon2278327272 and I am fully in meetings until Sunday. Next week I am on this, great that you took the time to dive deep into this, really appreciated and productive! Greetings, Rob" 16,56496,2019-07-11T02:04:59.756Z,56472,anon2434097920,anon196034329, I would love to see an annotated version of this where various IOT products either real or imagined could illustrate some of these various points. Much of what you say resonates with the good old phrase think globally act locally. 17,56501,2019-07-11T06:28:58.000Z,56472,anon4261882768,anon196034329,"Matthias, Where are you based? Was it Berlin? I suggest this: we set up a monthly reading club, I will be there each time, and discuss this in a structure tired way and read a few texts together. As the first I suggest Marge Pierce, Woman at the edge of time, a novel. ›e start end of August. If we combine face to face reading sessions with the online commentary ‹e can build coherence for a view on this techno political with a new language. What do you think? Greetings, Rob" 18,56506,2019-07-11T08:42:02.000Z,56472,anon4261882768,anon196034329,"Matthias, I fully agree ""My vision, with its focus on autarky-enhancing technology, is to *reduce*the complexity of the modern environment to something manageable. Complexity to be managed by an end user will actually rise as people will have to learn a lot of new and strange tech. But most of the hidden and uncontrollable dependencies from external entities of a mass society will vanish, this way putting citizens back in control of their lives and wellbeing."" With [dyne.org](http://dyne.org/) we set up [dowse.eu](http://dowse.eu) for which I was project lead. This is a device/soiftware everyone can download and install. It takes over the router and gives full insight in the LAN. Also I would like to revive in the context of the autarky vision you have open source application projects like open source washing machine: [https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Washing_Machine_Project](https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Washing_Machine_Project) Let’s do the reading club! :) Salut, Rob :" 19,56511,2019-07-11T10:02:29.083Z,56472,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"@anon196034329, what a post! Great, great work. [quote=""anon196034329, post:14, topic:9878""] I guess is this is where our visions for the future start to differ. My vision, with its focus on autarky-enhancing technology, is to *reduce* the complexity of the modern environment to something manageable. [...] I read this as a high-tech reincarnation of the village-based economies that existed in central Europe until about 1960, and that still exist in many parts of the world, including villages in Nepal that I visited. Good solutions come back when unsustainable forms of social organization end [/quote] This looks close to the solarpunk vision promoted by people like @anon It seems to me that *local, but deep* deployments could be a nice addition to EU policies in this direction. Because: 1. Scientifically, they allow to observe the co-evolution of technical and social change ""in the wild"". 2. Politically, it gives people (including decision makers) powerful metaphors for how things could work if you let them. 3. They would be inclusive of the (highly skilled) hacker/solarpunk communities, who – frankly – do not care about the next directive, and do not think high level policy make much positive impact anyway. 3. (On the other hand, there is always the risk of making Potemkin villages, it the Powers That Be become invested in them.) Makes sense? Should we (NGI Forward) consider proposing something around these lines?" 20,56526,2019-07-11T11:21:56.648Z,56511,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"I think it makes sense. Not for all possible applications of a future Internet of course, because local deep deployments necessarily omit the aspects of global connectivity. But for a lot of future applications of information technology, a local well-developed demo project is both locally useful and empowering (which is what will involve the hackers) and politically a model of what can be done. ### Example: power demand management Let's take an example, again one that is a rich field for IoT application. Right now there are zero incentives for adjusting electricity demand to available renewable electricity supply. Electricity prices can go negative at times on wholesale markets (happens in Germany when there's a lot of sun and wind at the same time). But consumers always pay the same per kWh. And so there is no demand for products that control loads based on the supply of electricity – and also, no such products are on offer, and I think not even technical standards exist for this yet. Instead what we have is offer management: large photovoltaics plants are required to throttle down when the grid receives too much electricity input, and there are standards for this kind of artificial scarcity. However, if one town or city would decide, as one of the local deep deployments you propose, to invest into a cooperatively owned photovoltaics plant, actual electricity consumption will be free as long as consumption stays within the limits of the available power. And for that, there would be a new kind of device that is added to a dishwasher, washing machine, charger for an electrical car or even a deep freezer (within more tight limits) and communicates with the grid and the user to schedule operation according to both the available renewable energy supply and user demand." 21,56540,2019-07-11T14:16:18.132Z,56526,anon2434097920,anon196034329,Are there any cities in Europe that own their own electric utility? In the US you do have a few. A smaller entity could try some experiments tailored to the needs of a district or neighborhood perhaps in ways the giant state power utilities would not want to do. 22,56543,2019-07-11T14:33:40.097Z,56540,anon196034329,anon2434097920,"Not sure about the rest of Europe, but in Germany there are anon4292955258 some cities owning their power grid. There was even the case of Berlin buying back its own electrical grid, initiated by a citizen referendum in 2012 and now (since May 2019) it's finally done ([more details in English](https://www.tellerreport.com/business/--repurchase-of-vattenfall--landesbetrieb-may-take-over-berlin-power-grid-.Sko6gz2LE.html))." 23,56545,2019-07-11T15:06:31.820Z,56543,anon2434097920,anon196034329," I am speculating, but I can picture how a Citizen based initiative could get some traction with the city where they might not have so many lobbyist to deal with. A large regulated utility has public meetings, but the ones I have attended are dominated by lobbyists and lawyers. The citizens groups get heard; they have their say, but in the end it is the lobbyist who show up for every meeting. And it is they who almost always prevail." 24,56548,2019-07-11T16:10:19.598Z,56526,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:20, topic:9878""] Right now there are zero incentives for adjusting electricity demand to available renewable electricity supply. [/quote] I remember a part of *Walkaway* describing as a walkaway settlement ""pulsed"" with the incoming renewable energy. It ""sped up"" when the sun was shining and the wind was blowing, buzzing with activities; and slowed its metabolism in in darkness and windlessness. People would work hardest in high metabolism phases, when all their tools and machines were fully charged; and retreated to board games, sleeping and hanging out in low metabolism ones. It seems a more efficient way to do things!" 25,56591,2019-07-13T11:08:28.000Z,56548,anon273015838,anon3809206126,"Thanks so much for all these excellent pointers and links. So much good stuff, my reading list is growing with every reply 🙏 [Sent from a mobile, please apologize the brevity and typos.]" 26,57263,2019-07-29T13:00:41.836Z,56591,anon2926706121,anon273015838,"Just putting this out there, because, you know, it had to be shared: https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11296/jewellery-incognito-identity-anti-facial-recognition-polish-design-noma-ewa-nowak?fbclid=IwAR3lQRXLAxs8I_vv19CAmZSZkXTsV_wWhNLxI6GEm_j8d17Ws96fu173xaU" 27,57514,2019-08-03T06:43:00.608Z,57263,anon3449369942,anon2926706121,Uh yes. But mostly because it looks interesting :)) 28,57836,2019-08-12T08:18:35.382Z,53307,anon273015838,anon273015838,"The deeper I dig, the more I think we need to go all the way back to basic participatory processes, and optimize for representation first and foremost. I wrote up some thoughts over on my blog, thinking out loud. Please note this is all still pretty early stages: [https://thewavingcat.com/2019/08/developing-better-urban-metrics-for-smart-cities/](https://thewavingcat.com/2019/08/developing-better-urban-metrics-for-smart-cities/) Would love to hear your thoughts, criticism, feedback!" 29,57881,2019-08-12T19:07:55.847Z,57836,anon2434097920,anon273015838,Where are cities that seem to be getting this right? What about Paris? That city always impresses me with how much the people enjoy their public spaces. 30,58003,2019-08-15T12:28:28.813Z,53307,anon3416257941,anon273015838,"Great discussion here! Two ideas I wanted to add to the mix. The amazing designer [Anab Jain wrote about the need for ""more than human-centered design.""](https://dingdingding.org/issue-2/more-than-humancentered-design/) We know cities are more than just people. They contain all sorts of organisms and complex ecosystems. These have to thrive, too, if we except cities to be healthy for their citizens. Also, I'm increasingly impressed with the [citizen assembly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly) format, [pioneered in Ireland](https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/) and now being rolled out elsewhere, to discuss issues across differing political positions. It resulted in reframing the abortion referendum with a more nuanced question that got to the heart of what the citizens wanted to decide. I think national governments, cities and even neighborhoods could implement these kinds of assemblies to great success." 31,58113,2019-08-19T11:54:41.336Z,53307,anon3031202475,anon273015838,"@anon273015838 this is a great and relevant discussion, and also one for which it would make sense to attempt merging online discussion and dialogue with a realive talk and/or workshop. How about making it an event during the Edgryders festival? (https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-november-19-29-invitation-to-participate-in-co-designing-the-next-gen-internet-track-of-the-program/10450) You are based in Berlin, isn't it? @anon2753384108 and @anon2724270673 are also based in Berlin and interested in participating in the festival. It would be great if we could bring the Community members in Berlin together and help to realise some great discussions, talks and workshops together!" 32,58150,2019-08-20T07:47:16.936Z,58113,anon273015838,anon3031202475,"That sounds like a lovely idea, actually! And @anon2753384108 and I have long been collaborating on all kinds of projects; and@anon" 33,59247,2019-09-13T09:15:47.170Z,58150,anon3449369942,anon273015838,What would you need to organise a session about this? There is a budget for covering costs of organising events during the distributed festival. @anon3031202475 can point you guys to that stuff. 34,59310,2019-09-15T15:58:30.143Z,58150,anon3031202475,anon273015838,Great @anon273015838 ! Are you joining us for the community call on the 17th of September 18:00? That would be a good opportunity to discuss how to go further with this! https://zoom.us/j/788229402 35,59312,2019-09-15T16:10:06.000Z,59310,anon273015838,anon3031202475,"Hi @anon [Sent from a mobile, please apologize the brevity and typos.]" 36,59313,2019-09-15T16:17:47.716Z,59312,anon3031202475,anon273015838,@anon273015838 Are you in Stockholm? Maybe we could meet for a coffee somewhere next week? :) 37,59603,2019-09-18T18:05:47.899Z,53307,anon87509544,anon273015838,"Sename Koffi can be good to read and follow for the African perspective of Smart Cities. https://usbeketrica.com/article/sename-koffi-agbodjinou-la-smart-city-sera-civilisee-par-l-afrique" 38,59894,2019-09-25T13:18:25.425Z,56501,anon196034329,anon4261882768,"[quote=""anon4261882768, post:17, topic:9878""]I suggest this: we set up a monthly reading club […] If we combine face to face reading sessions with the online commentary we can build coherence for a view on this techno political with a new language. What do you think?[/quote] Sorry for the very late answer! I love the idea but I'll have to pass for now because I'm really low on time these days :|" 39,59896,2019-09-25T14:03:09.000Z,56399,anon273015838,anon196034329,"I love this from a glance, and I look forward to reading the whole thing. Also, this reminds me a anon222512824 of the Seeds of a Good Anthropocene project: [https://goodanthropocenes.net/](https://goodanthropocenes.net/) Not that exact focus but I think highly relevant in that it also collects best (or rather, ""ideal"") practices... [Sent from a mobile, please apologize the brevity and typos.]" 1,59880,2019-09-25T11:18:38.735Z,59880,anon273015838,anon273015838,"If you haven’t seen it yet, [ImageNet Roulette](https://imagenet-roulette.paglen.com/) is an excellent bit of educational/provocative art by the ever-brilliant Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglan. It’s a simple demonstrator of how facial recognition will label you based on its training data set. Concretely, based on ImageNet, which according to this project is the dominant training model out there, used widely in the making of real world products. I highly encourage you to try it out, but with a warning: The results might be hilarious, or pretty disturbing. ImageNet Roulette is best enjoyed side by side with [Excavating AI](https://www.excavating.ai/), which explains a anon222512824 better what’s going on: > “Training sets, then, are the foundation on which contemporary machine-learning systems are built. They are central to how AI systems recognize and interpret the world. These datasets shape the epistemic boundaries governing how AI systems operate, and thus are an essential part of understanding socially significant questions about AI. But when we look at the training images widely used in computer-vision systems, we find a bedrock composed of shaky and skewed assumptions.” I tested a few configurations of photos of myself, and depending on my facial expression had the photo labeled as a wild, and wildly wrong, range of things (including ""rich person"", ""grass widower"", and ""econometrist""): See also: [AI based surveillance running amok.](https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/09/17/global-expansion-of-ai-surveillance-pub-79847) A super short “best of”: > At least seventy-five out of 176 countries globally are actively using AI technologies for surveillance purposes. This includes: smart city/safe city platforms (fifty-six countries), facial recognition systems (sixty-four countries), and smart policing (fifty-two countries). > Liberal democracies are major users of AI surveillance. > Democracies are not taking adequate steps to monitor and control the spread of sophisticated technologies linked to a range of violations. China is the leading exporter of this type of surveillance tech, but US and European countries are in on it, too. Seriously, read this one, it’s as quick to read as it is horrifying." 2,59883,2019-09-25T11:38:46.829Z,59880,anon3809206126,anon273015838,So econometrician are supposed to have a type? Is that not a purely statistical artifact? Beware Bayesian statistics when it's undertheorized... 1,59854,2019-09-25T08:49:12.385Z,59854,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"I wrote this newsletter for Coda Story, but I feel that the topic is highly linked to the conversations we're having here at IoH: **what could/should Wikipedia do about countries editing content in their favor (censoring) and the gender/race imbalance in it's 1% of most active editors?** How should other platforms deal with these kind of issues? I think this is a topic closely related to the issues @anon2724270673 talks about [here in this post](https://edgeryders.eu/t/social-media-is-broken-lets-do-better/10017) and in [our podcast](https://edgeryders.eu/t/podcast-recording-of-our-community-call-with-christian-buggedei-august-6-2019/10588).
# Iranian politics, white guy editors test Wikipedia’s high-minded mission When you search for my husband’s last name, the only Google results are links to an opera sanon2926706121r with the same name. But for a brief moment in time, a few years ago, his family name was listed in Wikipedia’s category: “Royalty of Georgia (country).” His family isn’t royal, and never has been. Presumably out of boredom, my husband edited the wiki entry and inserted his last name. It stayed up for months. And when it was deleted, he changed it back. This time, it only stayed up for a couple of hours. My husband’s edit was inconsequential. But not all edits on Wikipedia are as trivial as his. [Sina Zekavat describes in his piece for OpenDemocracy](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/persian-wikipedia-independent-source-or-tool-iranian-state/) how he found major differences between pages on Iranian events, the country’s history and politics in English and in Persian. Content in English gives much more nuanced context, often with hundreds of verified sources; the Persian versions read like rote pro-government propaganda with dead links and footnotes to government-sponsored news outlets. To #stayonthestory of the disinformation crisis, subscribe to our Disinformation Matters newsletter In 2007, Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales praised an Iranian contributor for his defiance ([see his video for Amnesty International on free speech here](https://youtu.be/0suY1pMJN08?t=84)). But the Iranian Ministry of Culture — which is responsible for the country’s “media management” — seems to work together with the non-profit Persian Wikipedia organization, and now there are talks to incorporate it into its ministry as an affiliated NGO. “Registering Persian Wikipedia as a so called Non Governmental Organization in a state institution that is in charge of the country’s censorship apparatus can only be described as an Orwellian event,” Zekavat wrote in his article. ### **Wikipedia Matters** I know that I’m not alone in venturing onto Wikipedia to quickly resolve a heated debate in a bar, like [whether the heart of a shrimp is “really” located in its head](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean). We all use Wikipedia to some extent. It’s in the top 10 most visited websites globally, and Google conveniently places it on top of our search results. Wikipedia [supports 300 different languages, with some 46 million articles accessed by 1.4 billion unique devices every single month](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/wikipedia-explained-what-is-it-trustworthy-how-work-wikimedia-2030-a8213446.html). Wikipedia is as vulnerable to disinformation and manipulation as any social platform: * The [Australian PM’s office edited Wikipedia](https://techcrunch.com/2007/08/23/wikipedia-edits-cause-australian-political-scandal/) in 2007, sparking a political crisis. * Jimmy Wales, one of Wikipedia’s founders, [broke up with his girlfriend by editing her Wikipedia entry](https://gawker.com/362730/wikipedia-creator-jimmy-wales-dumps-girlfriend-on-wikipedia). * A former reporter at The Independent [edited the Wikipedia pages of a number of critics of his work](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-personal-apology-2354679.html) in 2011. * A Wikipedia trustee and a Wikipedian In Residence — a role held by Wikipedia editors held in high esteem — edited on behalf of PR clients, [CNET reported in 2012](https://www.cnet.com/news/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/). * The North Face in 2017 was [accused of placing pictures with people wearing their outfits](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/business/north-face-wikipedia-leo-burnett.html) on various pages. To #stayonthestory of life under all-seeing surveillance states, subscribe to our Authoritarian Tech newsletter The examples go on. But lately, Wikipedia has faced considerably more heat (and not just [from among its co-founders](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnppw4/wikipedias-co-founder-is-wikipedias-biggest-critic-511).) In [an excellent Buzzfeed article](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/wikipedia-ban-editor-culture-war) worth your time, on the fury surrounding Wikipedia’s removal of a volunteer site administrator, Joseph Berstein explains that “as existential concerns about Wikipedia’s accuracy have faded into the background, demography has emerged as the most serious threat to the project’s legitimacy; it can hardly aspire to be the sum of human knowledge if only white guys create and manage it.” He cites the platform’s pornographic actress list as recently as 2015 had more edits and editors than its list of female poets. A 2017 study found that 77% of Wikipedia articles are written by 1% of its users. Wikipedia was always a utopian project — volunteer labor, the sum of human knowledge captured and democratized, etc. But that doesn’t mean the hijacking of the Persian language Wikipedia into Iran’s censorship apparatus is inevitable. Wikipedia’s Persian language users — and not just that 1% currently doing all the heavy lifting — can take action as editors, no algorithm expertise necessary. **END**
Wha are your thoughts?" 1,59237,2019-09-13T02:45:47.678Z,59237,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"Leading U.S. facial recognition expert Anil K. Jain, the head of Michigan State University’s Biometrics Research Group, is facing major backlash for his involvement with Chinese academics, especially since his research is used by the Chinese government for their facial recognition tech to track Uyghurs and send them to internment camps. ![229|690x361](upload://aeQ10vf4h20nEdkeYoa1OqLGVcA.png) In 2018, Jain traveled to Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi to give a speech about facial recognition at the Chinese Conference on Biometrics Recognition (CCBR). Jain was also on the CCBR’s advisory board and was pictured receiving an honorary certificate. > Jain is regarded as one of the world’s most influential computer scientists and a pioneer in areas of pattern recognition and biometric recognition systems. He has won countless awards and honors and is often quoted on U.S. facial recognition issues in publications like Wired and Slate. In the same month as Jain presented a paper titled “From the Edge of Biometrics: What’s Next?” at the CCBR conference in Urumqi, a United Nations human rights panel described Xinjiang as resembling a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” [LINK](https://codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/influential-us-scientist-under-fire-xinjiang-links/) Biometrics have played a major role in the Chinese “anti-terror” crackdown on its Muslim minority the Uyghurs. Thousands have been detained in so-called ""re-education camps,"" and facial recognition, DNA collection, iris scans, and more have played a major role in it. **We're talking here about a new internet, one where the internet and tech (such as in smart cities) is a tool to help us move forward. But what if the research isn't used to help us move forward, but instead is used against us?** > David Tobin, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow who studies security in China, said researchers in technical fields often ignore the real-world applications of their research. “It is imperative that natural scientists be trained in social sciences to understand these effects and the world they make things for and in ethics to be able to ask these questions when they construct, conduct, and disseminate their research,” he said. “However, such training and knowledge is sadly lacking in these fields and public debates rely on false dichotomies between natural and social worlds and between facts and values.” ([from a 2012 interview for Science by Mara Hvistendahl](https://twitter.com/MaraHvistendahl/status/1172253296230379522?s=20)) **_I know this is a massive question, and I keep getting back to it, because I really want us to always ask this question: whatever solution we come up with — may it be [decentralized messaging apps](https://edgeryders.eu/t/decentralized-risks-hosting-information-for-others-comes-at-a-cost/9953/24), [how the internet is funded](https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821/51), [social media moderation](https://edgeryders.eu/t/podcast-recording-of-our-community-call-with-christian-buggedei-august-6-2019/10588/4), or [smart cities](https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-internet-of-humans-fellows-interviews-and-podcasts-with-peter-bihr/10423/12) — cracks down on the manner in which these solutions could be used by ""evil forces.""_**" 2,59582,2019-09-18T13:51:51.274Z,59237,anon3809206126,anon2926706121,"This is super scary, and no one wants to touch the subject. It is not even a new subject. Northern Italy is the home to a healthy industry around firearms and assorted weaponry. Everything is overboard. Workers are well treated and unionized. Companies pay their taxes and sponsor cultural events. They say they ""supply police forces"" and ""national defense systems"", and they do. But they also make dark, cruel products. One such company, called [Valsanon1410463509](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsanon1410463509_Meccanotecnica), was destroyed by a massive scandal in the 1990s, when it became known it was selling anti-personnel landmines to Iraq, later deployed in the Gulf War and against the Kurdish populations. The political pressure became too strong, and the company had to fold. In Internet Tech, too, Italians have their own dark history. If you have been paying attention, you will remember a company called Hacking Team ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team#Controversies)), who sold offensive intrusion and surveillance systems to governments like Sudan, Venezuela or Saudi Arabia. This became known in 2015, when the company was itself hacked, and internal documents put on BitTorrent and picked up by Wikileaks. The scandal led to the Italian government revoking the company's license to sell spyware outside of Europe. So what to do? Not sure. Double edges are an integral part of innovation. The printing press was developed to print indulgence certificates, and its ""venture investor"" was the archbishop of Mainz; but it was immediately appropriated by Martin Luther's reformers to condemn the practices of selling indulgences. It was also used to print bibles, pornographic literature, advertisements, etc. etc. It comes down to whether you believe in liberal democracy. If you do, you build an elaborate system of checks and balances, and hope for the best. It would also help to break the alignment between obvious evils like imprisonment and torture and profit. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes says that prisons should *never, ever* be run by private companies, and I can see where she is coming from. Maybe you could consider taking biometrics out of the private sector?" 3,59837,2019-09-24T20:31:13.521Z,59237,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"@anon273015838 in his newsletter links to this Carnegie Endowment report about the expansion of global AI surveillance: https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/09/17/global-expansion-of-ai-surveillance-pub-79847" 4,59840,2019-09-25T00:33:17.099Z,59837,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"""The fact that so many democracies—as well as autocracies—are taking up this technology means that regime type is a poor predictor for determining which countries will adopt AI surveillance. _A better predictor for whether a government will procure this technology is related to its military spending._ A breakdown of military expenditures in 2018 shows that forty of the top fifty military spending countries also have AI surveillance technology.17 These countries span from full democracies to dictatorial regimes (and everything in between). They comprise leading economies like France, Germany, Japan, and South Korea, and poorer states like Pakistan and Oman. This finding is not altogether unexpected; countries with substantial investments in their militaries tend to have higher economic and technological capacities as well as specific threats of concern. If a country takes its security seriously and is willing to invest considerable resources in maintaining robust military-security capabilities, then it should come as anon222512824 surprise that the country will seek the latest AI tools. The motivations for why European democracies acquire AI surveillance (controlling migration, tracking terrorist threats) may differ from Egypt or Kazakhstan’s interests (keeping a lid on internal dissent, cracking down on activist movements before they reach critical mass), but the instruments are remarkably similar.""" 1,58325,2019-08-24T11:04:31.507Z,58325,anon1915865474,anon1915865474,"Hello! I don't have a specific pitch, but I still feel like I might have something relevant to contribute because creativity, collaboration, and technology are my passions. As a kid, I was writing, drawing, building fictional worlds, building my own board games. I was a relentless dungeon master, fantasy reader and so on. Later I got a computer and all the possibilities in the online world completely consumed me. I taught myself the dark technology called JavaScript and started a freelance career building web apps. My main specialty is Ember.js (this forum runs on Ember :slight_smile: ), and now I'm dabbling with React. I had a lot of smaller freelance projects in the past, building interactive dashboards and admins and various kinds of different websites. I was working in a startup studio TopMonks (https://www.topmonks.com/), I worked remotely for a Finnish startup Leadfeeder (https://www.leadfeeder.com/), and now I am teaching programming in a coding academy (https://www.greenfoxacademy.com/). Besides working in tech since always, I studied environmental science to see the world in a wider context. My bachelor thesis focused on indoor air pollution. I'm grateful for the knowledge I received and I'd love to use my technical skills towards improving sustainability. I'm seriously considering getting magisters in anthropology before I'm 30 :upside_down_face:. I have anon4292955258 a few project drafts that I'd like to work on in the future when I'm experienced and ready. The ambitious ones focus on climate change or for example collaborative worldbuilding, so far I'll just scout around." 2,58404,2019-08-26T15:50:13.896Z,58325,anon2434097920,anon1915865474,Welcome! Very glad that you are here. And based on your experience and interest I think you could make significant contributions in a lot of topics here. 3,59714,2019-09-22T19:43:06.216Z,58325,anon3031202475,anon1915865474,"Hello @anon1915865474, Sounds great! Would you like to participate in events of the Edgryders festival regarding Deep Green Tech?" 1,59192,2019-09-12T08:56:24.123Z,59192,anon273015838,anon273015838,"I've been thinking a lot recently about how to make connected (""smart"") cities more resilient, rather than just more efficient (see this [blog post](https://thewavingcat.com/2019/08/developing-better-urban-metrics-for-smart-cities/) for a anon222512824 bit of background if you're interested, but it's not required for this discussion). All too often, smart city project aim to increase efficiency and/or to lower costs for administrations. Which is totally fine - until it isn't. For example, if a system is super efficient as long as it works flawlessly, but breaks down spectacularly when it does encounter any hiccups. Specifically, I'm interested in ways to mitigate negative consequences of failing systems in the smart city, and ways to structurally increase resilience. Here's the section from the post linked above: ""**Are there safeguards in place to prevent things from getting worse than before if something doesn’t work as planned?** Unintended consequences are unavoidable in complex systems. But there are ways to mitigate risks, and to make sure that the fallback for a failed systems are not worse then the original status. If any project would be better while working perfectly but worse while failing, then that deserves some extra thought. If it works better for some groups but not for others, that’s usually a red flag, too."" Do you know of any approaches to increase resilience, any best practices in this space? I'm aware this question might be hard to answer as it's deliberately kept vague, but I'm looking for broad input. Preferably the examples or approaches have to do with smart/connected cities or spaces, but they don't have to. If something — anything, really! — pops to mind, I'd love to hear it!" 2,59212,2019-09-12T14:03:46.510Z,59192,anon3449369942,anon273015838,we should do a bigger ask around this as it's super important ping @anon2926706121 and @anon1686813978 3,59227,2019-09-12T17:48:50.163Z,59192,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"Probably not that related, since it deals with airwaves, but one thing that comes to mind first off for me since I was in the radio business for some years, is how, in large-scale emergency situations such as hurricane Sandy in 2012 when the whole mobile phone grid crashed in the northeast United States and much of the electric grid went down. Then, one had to turn on a radio to find out what was going on. It was a fallback because radio transmitters all have backup generators, and you can get a radio signal with a battery operated unit or even one that is hand-cranked. (This is the main reason why the federal government funds public radio.)" 4,59228,2019-09-12T17:53:12.802Z,59192,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"What about those cities that have those barrier columns that go up in parts of the inner city so you can't drive there? If the power goes out and they all stay down, what do they do, bring in a bunch of traffic cops? I know I'm just speculating, but you did leave the door wide open..." 5,59233,2019-09-12T18:49:35.000Z,59227,anon273015838,anon2434097920,"Oh yeah, no that's a fantastic example! [Sent from a mobile, please apologize the brevity and typos.]" 6,59243,2019-09-13T08:06:22.247Z,59192,anon3449369942,anon273015838,"Urgh, yeah I have experienced first hand how quickly basic infrastructures e.g food delivery break down when you have war eg. In the end what makes cities resilient is if people are good are organising, you have emergency response mechanisms in place in government institutions that have money and training (e.g defence) and you have people with deep skills/knowledge to come up with creative solutions using tech that is self-standing i.e not dependent on complex tech and economic infrastructure." 7,59253,2019-09-13T12:13:14.519Z,59243,anon273015838,anon3449369942,"So that would be both well-functioning centralized/gov structures and an informed/capable citizenry, right? That sounds like it would be the only ""holistic"" model to work, yeah. Thanks for sharing this!" 8,59254,2019-09-13T12:36:34.915Z,59253,anon3449369942,anon273015838,"yes you could see the consequences of not having effectively organised centralised /gov that can respond to this during the [2004 Tsunami crisi](http://www.scienzagiovane.unibo.it/English/tsunami/5-tsunami-2004.html)s] in which [Swedes suffered some of the the worst casualties](https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-reels-from-tsunami-disaster/a-1447614). The [Swedish government took a full four days to respond](https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-reels-from-tsunami-disaster/a-1447614), finally sending planes outfitted with doctors and medical supplies to care for injured citizens. This screw up was a trauma on the citizenry at large because we are a small country - everyone knows/knew someone who had been there. There were Italian emergency personnel on the ground within 72hrs if memory doesn't fail me. @anon3809206126 can tell you about the Italian setup but in Stockholm we watched with incredulity as different ministers bounced around the responsibility for making decisions about how to respond. Sweden at the time did not have a central authority with responsibility for coordination of disaster management, or a clear chain of command for making those decisions. I would have thought it would have fallen under defence but @anon" 9,59257,2019-09-13T17:08:08.045Z,59192,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"A traffic example where I live is when traffic lights break for some reason, they are made with a backup system that causes them to then just flash red, which means the intersection reverts to how it works with a stop sign - everyone takes turns, vehicle to your right has the right-of-way." 10,59475,2019-09-17T14:16:32.080Z,59227,anon2317280404,anon2434097920,"similarly this is why I am keeping my ham radio license current. In times of chaos, both at smaller scale, like a single incident, and larger scale like hurricanes, ham radio operators are likely to be able to run their transceivers. They keep their batteries charged, and can operate even when atmospheric circumstances don't favour other modes of radio broadcasting. I don't normally use my call sign, but do have equipment at home ready to go if needs be." 11,59476,2019-09-17T14:17:45.534Z,59475,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,"Spot on. The big grids do go down sometimes, and when they do, suddenly these taken-for-granted old technologies become lifelines." 12,59480,2019-09-17T14:43:23.141Z,59192,anon2317280404,anon273015838,"having lived through a large scale calamity in my home town 19 yrs ago (some 200 homes fully destroyed, a multiple of that damaged, 1000 injured, 23 dead), here's what stood out to me in terms of resilience: the firsts phase of any disaster is chaos. there's nothing but act based on immediately obvious information. And nothing works (mobile phones, landline phones, electricity all go down.) individual agency was key at the start: * people put on a warning vest, and starting directing traffic at the crossing at the end of their street, to ensure emergency traffic came through. * fire brigades from as far as 100km simply started driving towards the scene when they saw the smoke rising and didn't wait for central alerts being sent. * people didn't wait for an ambulance but put wounded in a car and drove to hospitals etc. * When regional radio announced the location of some medical triage points, we went out into the street where confused and dazed people were coming out of the center of the disaster zone, and guided them towards the nearest triage point / nest for the wounded. * People brought water, made coffee and food for first responders and impromptu canteens were set-up at the edge of the affected area by those living near it. * Pubs / restaurants / cafes opened up their doors for everyone needing shelter / a place to rest etc. Then, after some hours, local radio became more important with providing info on the situation, advice from local government etc. This led to more organised action. Sports facilities opened up where you could bring bedding materials, red cross stepped in etc. Over the days a new sort of order and routine emerged, built from those individual and community solidarity based starts. These were not replaced or countermanded by the official response, but taken as a base for further actions by the official response. So are a cities response systems geared towards recognising and leveraging community responses? That in contrast was what was so extremely shocking to me with what I saw from the official response after Katrina in the US in 2005, where those individual assistance initiatives were actively hindered / forbidden, and people had to wait for official help that took days and days to appear. That was handled like a law enforcement operation first (hunting 'looters') rather than an emergency aid situation." 13,59482,2019-09-17T14:49:01.479Z,59475,anon3449369942,anon2317280404,How do you get a hold of one @anon2317280404? 14,59484,2019-09-17T14:51:17.832Z,59482,anon2317280404,anon3449369942,"It used to be you had to take a technical exam, and for shortwave learn morse code. I think the tech exam is still in place (but not sure), but generally morse requirements have been abolished." 15,59486,2019-09-17T14:53:52.793Z,59484,anon3449369942,anon2317280404,"Huh, ok I guess it is a different license per country, yes?" 16,59487,2019-09-17T15:04:39.815Z,59480,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,"@anon2317280404 - where is your home town that had this calamity? In the 70s there was a huge earthquake in Guatemala. Ham operators brought the first detailed reports and organized the first relief effort. I was living in Tennessee at the time and our local ham guys heard the call. One of our carpenters got himself down there right away and convinced the Caanon3449369942n government relief org to get us the materials if we could supply the crew. We sent down a team of carpenters and they built houses, schools and community centers in the most destroyed mountain regions. And we brought running water to some villages that had never had it. Those building still stand. The ham net gave us the real news faster and better than any media. Had we waited, I'm not sure we could have launched an effort that was more ad hoc and less institutional that what followed." 17,59488,2019-09-17T15:05:40.530Z,59486,anon2317280404,anon3449369942,"you get a license in the country you're based in. The rules are mostly set internationally by the ITU, and all licenses are based on those ITU requirements. My Dutch license allows me to operate in most other countries while I'm visiting, though some additional restrictions may apply." 18,59489,2019-09-17T15:07:37.361Z,59487,anon2317280404,anon2434097920,that was in Enschede Netherlands @anon2434097920 A large fireworks depot in the city center exploded. 19,59490,2019-09-17T15:20:08.236Z,59489,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,"What we have here in California are huge fires. The lack of fallback/resilience measures here are causing people to rethink much of their core lives. Also, tsunamis. We have a siren warning system on this north coast of California, and it did go off back when the earthquake hit that destroyed Fukushima. But a tsunami often is not like a movie portrays it. Rather, it is like a fast and very high tidal surge. It came into the harbor in a nearby town here and rather quietly lifted a bunch of fishing and cruising boats off of their pier moorings and set them adrift. Just tore the ropes right off the docks. And it came later than the sirens suggested, so for a long time it looked like the sirens gave a false alarm. People went back to their activities and then, whoops, this pier is getting lifted. The only fallback for something like that was to get the hell out of there and stay out for longer than you thought you should. I know this is some digression from the main thrust of Peter's inquiry. But when I think of a lot of Smart City stuff, I think of cameras all over the place. When they break down, I will probably hope there isn't a fallback mechanism. Unless there is some greater public good to all those cameras. In London, it's security. But do they really deter? I'm sure the argument is that they do deter. They didn't stop the subway getting blown up in the previous decade. But now there are exponentially more cameras in London. Do they prevent crime? Do those cameras have other social benefits?" 20,59502,2019-09-17T15:53:04.000Z,59490,anon273015838,anon2434097920,"OMG these are amazing examples. Thank you so much for sharing these. [Sent from a mobile, please apologize the brevity and typos.]" 21,59656,2019-09-19T16:38:41.320Z,59192,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"And then there are the perhaps easier to identify situations where there is _not_ a fallback. Like this morning where I am, the network that hooks up the spread-out office of the local commuter train (where my wife works) is via a respected regional ISP. But something crashed and the admin computers won't talk to the other buildings or the outside world. Ok, that happens a lot. But it looks like they use that same ISP for their smart card ticketing system on the trains and thus nobody can pay since the trains don't issue paper tickets and don't take cash. In this case the train doors open anyway. But the could just as well not open. The point being that a critical function was outsourced to a private business and to save money no immediate fallback was set up, such as you would see in a backup generator that automatically kicks on when the power goes down (hospitals and even our anon222512824 rural radio station studio has that). So, does a big civic plan budget include fallbacks for when such outages inevitably occur? They had better.. I guess in the old days they had stuck drawbridges..maybe they still do." 22,59694,2019-09-21T20:48:50.809Z,59656,anon273015838,anon2434097920,"I love the idea of a privatized draw bridge, with the angry local farmers and merchants and whatnot standing outside in the muddy street, shaking their fists at the medieval private public partnership draw bridge..." 1,59542,2019-09-18T08:14:14.375Z,59542,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"I am writing a quick piece for [Coda Story](https://codastory.com/) on Wikipedia in light of the new revelations that Iran has been [heavily editing the Persian language version](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/persian-wikipedia-independent-source-or-tool-iranian-state/). Now, I would like to ask for your collective wisdom re which expert I should reach out to for a quick email interview about the positive an negative aspects of wikipedia and the information you can find and edit on it. Who should I reach out to?" 1,59464,2019-09-17T12:37:35.594Z,59464,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"The mighty @anon2317280404 has pointed me in the direction of something called the [Tech Pledge](https://www.techpledge.org/). it seems to be an offshoot of the [Tech Festival](https://techfestival.co/) 2019 in Copenhagen – @anon3449369942 was there in representation of Edgeryders. The Tech Festival is itself an offshoot of a 2000s event called Reboot, which had an idealistic, early Internet culture. I attended it myself back in the day. The idea is simple and elegant: if your job includes significant risks to human life, integrity and dignity, take an oath of letting yourself be guided by a solid ethics. It has worked for medicine for thousands of years, why cannot it work for technology now? The original Hippocratic oath is, of course, a pre-capitalist institution: a fossile, if you will. The creators of the Tech Pledge are clearly aware of it, because the pledge says, among other things: > I commit [...] >* to always put humans before business, and to stand up against pressure to do otherwise, even at my own risk. > > * to never tolerate design for addiction, deception or control. I am not enough of a technologist to take the pledge myself (or am I?) but I wonder if @anon196034329 and @anon1505367078 would be up for taking it for the Edgeryders team. I also wonder: how powerful is moral suasion in preventing creepy (but lucrative) stuff to happen? What do people think? https://www.techpledge.org/" 2,59468,2019-09-17T13:09:48.359Z,59464,anon2317280404,anon3809206126,"Thanks Alberto. Yes, it's an outcome of Techfestival. Each Techfestival edition also brings together 'the Copenhagen 150', a changing group of 150 people from around tech, design etc. This year I had the pleasure of being able to attend, as I couldn't make the earlier editions. Those 150 in 24 hours co-author / create something * In 2017 it was the Copenhagen Letter https://copenhagenletter.org * In 2018 it was the Copenhagen Catalog https://copenhagencatalog.org a collection of 'white' design patterns so to speak. * This year it was the TechPledge. Which took the content of the CPH Letter from 2017 as starting point. The Hippocratic oath is old as you say, about 2500 yrs. The current version in use is from 1948 however, called the Geneva Declaration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Geneva To me the key point about the declaration is that it anchors ethical considerations in the individual tech professional, and ties it to emotional hooks (will my loved ones want to use this / calling upon community to hold me to account). Thus moving away from only scrutinising company/organisation level behaviour in tech. I believe danah boyd's speech last week at the EFF is also very pertinent in this regard: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2019/09/15/facing-the-great-reckoning-head-on.html As to your question about who is in tech? I'm not sure I am, in the sense I don't necessarily create code, hardware or some such. But I do design processes, methods as well as help the introduction of technology measures in client organisations and communities. To me 'hard tech' and the 'soft' tech of process/methods/organising are always intrinsically linked. So I consider myself within scope of the TechPledge. (I think this is the first time I've been called mighty :smiley: )" 3,59469,2019-09-17T13:17:33.726Z,59464,anon2317280404,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:10803""] how powerful is moral suasion in preventing creepy (but lucrative) stuff to happen [/quote] Not extremely powerfull I assume. My take on this is, that the Hippocratic oath didn't prevent unethical medical practice in its 2500 years of existence in general, but likely did in specific situations. *What a pledge like that does do is provide an external impetus in what otherwise might be group / peer pressure decisions leading to unethical practices. It is very hard to be the only one in a peer group to go against consensus. It becomes a bit easier if your counter position isn't just 'your opinion' and thus dismissed, but can lean a anon222512824 bit on an outside artefact like the pledge. A mental crutch so you will, to stiffen some spines sometimes in group think situations. *It also can serve as a personal mental checklist before engaging in new roles/projects/endeavours. A thinking tool. Just some thoughts." 4,59520,2019-09-17T18:07:31.031Z,59468,anon2434097920,anon2317280404,"[quote=""anon2317280404, post:2, topic:10803""] http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2019/09/15/facing-the-great-reckoning-head-on.html [/quote] Powerful stuff from Danah. Sadly, those who most need to hear it and adjust to its message are among the least likely to do something about it." 1,58718,2019-09-03T13:48:21.429Z,58718,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"Apparently a group of biohackers developed an implant called the PegLeg, which creates a mesh network between the users, for file sharing etc. > "" The PegLeg serves a barebones interface. When you connect to the server, it displays a short greeting. “Welcome to the first iteration of the next generation of digital communications, where even our bodies are nodes on the decentralized network,” it reads. “Please have fun, chat with people, and feel free to share any files you may like.” When I scrolled down, I found a widget to upload and browse files stored on the implant. Below that was a basic chat room open to anyone connected to the device. > > The simple, text-heavy interface reminded me of the bulletin board systems of yesteryear, but with the added strangeness of knowing the network was generated in Laufer’s leg. Laufer and I used his PegLeg to chat (purely for the novelty of it, since we could also just talk), and I downloaded a 1981 issue of [ *Omni* magazine](https://www.wired.com/2014/02/omni-advertisements/) stored on his hard drive. This issue features “Johnny Mnemonic,” a short story by William Gibson about a courier who stores other people’s data in his head, which Laufer says had a big influence on him."" Read more about this human internet here on Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/this-diy-implant-lets-you-stream-movies-from-inside-your-leg/ And to the techies out here (remember @anon3931191205 being really into decentralization ;) ), how do you feel about something like this?" 2,58725,2019-09-03T14:28:18.659Z,58718,anon3031202475,anon2926706121,"and @anon3931191205 was a cyborg last week, so probably a good fit :)" 3,59410,2019-09-17T04:38:49.310Z,58718,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,Call me old fashioned but I'd rather have that kind of thing outside my skin.. 1,58307,2019-08-23T13:58:04.909Z,58307,anon28068060,anon28068060,"Hi all, I am one of the ethnographers of the NGI Internet of Humans community. But, in my spare time, I occasionally write about technology. In particular, I am very interested in AI governance and its use by governments. I recently co-published a piece in the Dutch Volkskrant about AI use by the Dutch government, you can find it here in Dutch: https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/verwacht-geen-wonderen-van-artificiele-intelligentie~b226bfac/ and here in English: https://medium.com/@anon Would love to hear what people think, but also how your government is using AI/ML systems and what the consequences are as well as what justifications drive the integration of AI into government provision of services and goods? Cheers, anon28068060" 2,58353,2019-08-25T22:45:25.456Z,58307,anon3809206126,anon28068060,"Excellent question. I am a double citizen, but in this post I will consider ""my country"" to mean Italy, the country where I was born. Italy has created an [AI Task Force](https://ia.italia.it) as part of the [Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale](http://www.agid.gov.it/). It consists of academics, practitioners and a few free thinkers, rather than civil servants (I know and respect several of them), and seems to be tasked mostly with providing a vision and principles. In March 2018, the Task Force released a white paper which makes all the right noises (human-centric! bias-free! inequalities reducing!), but it's hard to know how credible these noises are. In the past, the Italian state has not always been a good purchaser of ICT services. Vendors have had a lot of torque in pushing through proprietary solutions; and even when the government-side buyers had a clear idea of what they wanted, they have tended to be motivated by cost and staff reduction. For example, as in other countries, staffed counters to serve citizens trying to access public services are disappearing everywhere, replaced by websites and phone apps. This makes sense (especially if you do not to question the administrative ordering underneath, but this is another story that [James Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State) and [David Graeber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs) have already told very well), but it raises major inequalities problems. Senior civil servants know this, but they are under pressure to reduce their workforce and save costs. The Task Force is also trying to inventory government projects that use AI, as well as simple needs that could be met by deploying AI tools. The inventory (rather underwhelming) is [here](https://ia.italia.it/openinnovation/)." 3,58408,2019-08-26T16:20:30.994Z,58307,anon3809206126,anon28068060,"@anon28068060, I have found a much more exciting document on AI than the anodyne Italian contribution. It is the [Villani report](https://www.aiforhumanity.fr/pdfs/MissionVillani_Report_ENG-VF.pdf) to the French parliament. Cédric Villani is a mathematician and a member of parliament. What he has to say: > California still dominates in word and in thought and encourages the concept of a single way, technological deterministic approach. If the development of artificial intelligence is fully shaped by private stakeholders, based abroad France and Europe will have no other choice than to their vision. This is already happening in the public sector. Think of the agreement signed between Microsoft and the Ministry of Education during the previous five-year term and the DGSI’suse of software provided by Palantir—a startup with links to the CIA. This is equally true in the private sector. Across Europe, businesses convinced that they have already lost the battle frequently succumb to the persuasive powers of the U. S tech giants, sometimes at the expense of our own digital “nuggets”. [...] Considering that France and Europe can already be regarded as “cybercolonies” in many aspects, it is essential that they resist all forms of determinism by proposing a coordinated response at European level. Conclusion: > This is why the role of the State must be reaffirmed: **market forces alone are proving an inadequate guarantee of true political independence**. In addition, the rules governing international exchanges and the opening up of internal markets do not always serve the economic interests of European states, who too frequently apply them in one direction only. Now more than ever, we have to provide a meaning to the AI revolution. (emphasis mine) France has the historical role of pushing Europe to do things its own way, rather than passively follow America (or, in the present day, China) around. If the French get behind this position, we have a real opportunity for Mariana Mazzucato's vision of [mission-oriented innovation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State) to become Europe's battlecry in AI (and, why not, in Internet technology in general). I only read the executive summary of the report, but it seems sharper than the Italian one, and it contains some actionable ideas. But its main value is, of course, in signaling political commitment. I came across it after one of my favorite scientists, Cesar Hidalgo (director of MIT's Collective Learning group), announced on Twitter he's moving to Europe, citing the Villani report as having inspired the creation of a new Institute at U Manchester: " 4,58840,2019-09-05T16:49:07.201Z,58408,anon2926706121,anon3809206126,"The Pentagon is now looking for an AI ethicist: https://fcw.com/articles/2019/09/04/pentagon-ai-ethicist.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioscodebook&stream=technology&m=1" 5,58896,2019-09-07T07:46:52.701Z,58840,anon3449369942,anon2926706121,"""If you are coming from silicon valley, don't bother applying - we already know you have no ethics""- overheard in a conversation where someone was recruiting an ethical advisor for their tech company." 6,59352,2019-09-16T09:28:12.469Z,58307,anon3449369942,anon28068060,Well it looks like we may have a project manhattan on our hands https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/15/ex-google-worker-fears-killer-robots-cause-mass-atrocities 1,54832,2019-06-11T06:51:37.151Z,54832,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"
The level of misogyny on the internet has been a growing problem and that it applies to everything from Twitter abuse to access to porn and positive information about sex. If we are to shape a human centric internet then female wellbeing and pleasure has to be one of the priorities. This has implications across a wide range of topics incl information and operational security, business models, culture etc. So I contacted the organisers of SXTech to explore a possible collaboration with us around the Internet of Humans initiative. They kindly offered me a ticket to come to the conference to meet them and others in this scene of technologists, health professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, scientists... I'll be in Berlin June 29-July 2 in case anyone wants to meet up while I am in town. As for the topic/event on Sex Tech itself, let me know if you want me to connect to anyone/ ask anything in particular: https://sxtech.eu/" 2,55043,2019-06-13T07:56:46.207Z,54832,anon2724270673,anon3449369942,"not sure if I should or even want to go to that conference _(although talking about self-expression, the Tumblr-Porncalypse and the impact of adult content in social media is surely a topic worth exploring in such a context)_, but I'm all up for an internet-of-humans meeting in Berlin, as I live here anyway :)" 3,55046,2019-06-13T08:43:08.854Z,55043,anon3449369942,anon2724270673,"Cool :) When could be a good time and place for a meetup on June 30?" 4,55060,2019-06-13T10:33:17.921Z,55046,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,"Sex toys talking to databases. Here's an idea I find unattractive. But, of course, super-interesting for Forward." 5,55071,2019-06-13T12:17:24.954Z,55046,anon2724270673,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:3, topic:10118""] When could be a good time and place for a meetup on June 30? [/quote] considering that the conference is close to my neighbourhood and it's a sunday to boot, pick a time - I'll then offer an appropriate place :)" 6,55339,2019-06-18T07:08:29.694Z,55071,anon3449369942,anon2724270673,Lunch? 7,55447,2019-06-19T16:33:48.084Z,55339,anon2724270673,anon3449369942,Sure! https://www.trattoria-lauretta.de/ isn't too far from the venue (5-10 minute walk) 8,59351,2019-09-16T09:26:08.357Z,54832,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,hey @anon 1,53914,2019-05-24T12:41:55.150Z,53914,anon3820120211,anon3820120211,"Hello there fellow humans! I am very happy to have found a good reason to finally get in touch with the Edgeryders community. My name is Julia, and I have been on the franon2926706121 of your network for anon4292955258 some years. At the end of the month I will leave my position as Head of Media Developmenta at [Sourcefabric](https://www.sourcefabric.org/) and will have some time to deep dive into an interesting project. I am still thinking about how to frame the topic I would like to work with in relation to this call, and I will share a few thoughts with you now, and I hope you could give me some pointers in the comments, as to what direction would be interesting to follow. I could imagine to work around a rather broad topic, such as ""**collaboration**"", with sub categories like; **Technical challanges** How does collaboration look like in a distributed peer to peer network? What technical challenges are there to be solved? What initiatives are working towards solutions and how far are they? Are solutions compatible? How energy efficient are they? How private, and how hackable? Lately I have been in touch with [worldbrain](https://worldbrain.io/) a privacy focused browser extension to annotate, search and organize what you've seen online. I had some interesting conversations with them about the challenges you face when working collaboratively in a distributed network, and found it a very exiting topic. **Open data collection** What data is collected, and what is deliberately not collected, is a very political topic. I am interested to talk to initiatives that have been collecting open data collaboratively, such as [safecast](https://blog.safecast.org/), who maintains the largest open data set of background radiation measurements ever collected. The organisation maps open data connected to the environment and (radioactivity, airquality) and was founded as a reaction to the lack of information on radiation after the Fukushima disaster. I would like to find out more about what blockers and what strengths they experienced in setting up the organisation, as well as their ideas on how this kind of data will be accessed in the future. With the rise of the climate change, collecting data, especially around environmental issues, will become increasingly subversive, and will need to be both transparent and protected in safe structures. I would like to look at a few open journalistic investigations as well if going into this direction. I have a few other thoughts on the collaborative process as well, more in line with how infrastructure and incentives can push the process and result in different directions, and where also the psychological aspect of who owns your data, and who facilitates our communication play a part. Please let me know any of your thoughts around these topics in the comments. :) A few more words on who I am: I am coming from a background working with local communities, activists, media, journalists and tech, and I have acquired skills and a network which I believe could be relevant in gathering interesting content for the research and festival you outline in this call. I also have experience in publishing a magazine and editing content, as well as facilitation of open workshops, processes and seminars. Sometimes on the serious side, sometimes more bordering [art and performance](https://18.re-publica.com/en/session/absurdist-incubator-exploring-ethics-fulfilling-dreams). Looking forward to hear from you! Julia" 2,53936,2019-05-24T16:13:42.012Z,53914,anon3031202475,anon3820120211,"Welcome @anon3820120211 ! Thank you so much for joining us. Your projects and scope sound amazing! Looking forward to hearing more about them. What types of collaboration or collaborators are you looking for?" 3,53947,2019-05-24T18:47:44.992Z,53914,anon1505367078,anon3820120211,"Welcome Julia! [quote=""anon3820120211, post:1, topic:9977""] Lately I have been in touch with [worldbrain ](https://worldbrain.io/) a privacy focused browser extension to annotate, search and organize what you’ve seen online. [/quote] What an interesting coincidence. I just met Oliver from worldbrain in Berlin, and we had some very interesting conversations. We both attended the [Data Terra Nemo conference](https://edgeryders.eu/t/data-terra-nemo-first-report-scuttlebutt/9928). They have a lot of interesting ideas, and I think Oliver will show up here on Edgeryders at some point once he's done with a work-sprint that he is in the middle of. [quote=""anon3820120211, post:1, topic:9977""] With the rise of the climate change, collecting data, especially around environmental issues, will become increasingly subversive, and will need to be both transparent and protected in safe structures. [/quote] One initiative I learned about at Data Terra Nemo is [Mapeo](https://www.digital-democracy.org/mapeo/). > Mapeo is an open source, offline-first map editor. Mapeo makes it easy for individuals or teams to create maps and organize stories and knowledge. They are building it in collaboration with [Amazon Frontlines](https://amazonfrontlines.org/) and [Alianza Ceibo](https://alianzaceibo.org/) in the Ecuadorian Amazon. What makes is very unique is that it is built on top of decentralized technologies, making it very difficult for companies and governments to take down subversive datastores. And they definitely work in regions where that could be a real threat. > Digital Democracy’s local partners are mapping and monitoring millions of acres of land in the Amazon, holding oil companies and governments accountable, working to prevent new oil concessions, and working to secure their land rights so that their environment can be protected for future generations. There are others here who also share your interests. There is @anon3931191205, who does impressive work on facilitating collaboration in the Scuttlebutt community. And @anon1591454855 and @anon1805933255 who work on Holochain and other project. @anon4065237236 who is thinking about how to make activists into collaborative swarms, and @anon3168534516 who thinks about swarm intelligence. And of course, @anon" 4,53948,2019-05-24T19:11:22.388Z,53914,anon2434097920,anon3820120211,"Hi Julia. Delighted to see you here. I have a couple of overlaps with the orgs and links you mention above - by coincidence I had just downloaded worldbrain yesterday..am just checking it out now. Sourcefabric reminds me of The Coral Project, a US-based open source toolkit for journalists, to whom I did a bit of advising, and a good friend of mine, Dan Sythe, is on the Safecast team. Dan invented a low cost radiation monitor that is used anon4292955258 a bit on monitoring here on the west coast of California and his company, International Medcom, supplies many if not most of the radiation detectors Safecast uses. Dan and I go way back...to a commune we both lived on in the 70s. (As a digression, since everyone here loves a good hack, Dan came up with his design for a low-cost radiation detector back at the commune by hooking a geiger tube to a heaanon3410870744eat monitor, and voila!) Regarding climate change and its companion disaster, mass extinction, I increasingly see everything through that lens, especially politics, policy, technology, energy, etc etc - all of the above. And of course I live in the USA where the country is led by a climate change denier. To me an Internet of Humans has to be part of a sustainable future, and if it isn't then it has no validity. Because nothing does if it can't show that it is helping rather than hurting. I see it as that stark at this point in history. And I don't see anything making a difference that isn't seriously radical. As in, no chance unless all armed conflict ceases immediately and all resources and efforts shift to solving the earth's carrying capacity (and what are the odds of that)." 5,53950,2019-05-24T19:50:33.645Z,53914,anon2434097920,anon3820120211,"[quote=""anon3820120211, post:1, topic:9977""] How does collaboration look like in a distributed peer to peer network? What technical challenges are there to be solved? What initiatives are working towards solutions and how far are they? Are solutions compatible? How energy efficient are they? How private, and how hackable? [/quote] These are issues we at Edgeryders wrestle with all the time. I have been collaborating online in one way or another for 34 years and I still struggle with it. It would be easier for us if we just went all the way into the Google world, with all their well-crafted products, but that puts us in their grip too much. So we use open source products when we can. So there is that aspect of it: the tools. And then of course there is the distance. I have dealt with it by going to Europe a lot of times in the past couple of years from my home in California, but that is pretty exhausting after awhile." 6,53974,2019-05-25T14:56:37.667Z,53950,anon51020356,anon2434097920,"To the same questions of Julia, I found, working with our group since its early days in 2012, that good processes and documentation is key. They are themselves hacks of existing commercial services and products, but adapted to our world and care for privacy and auanon2317280404omy. @anon196034329 is the best lead we could get and I'm sure he has his own reflections on it. But when you zoom out of what seems to be working for you, I am not sure how it translates to other networks. It is cultural too, people have different preferences and the effort to channel them all in a good path is anon4292955258 big. Imagine all the unpaid hours of thinking and testing.# @anon3820120211 welcome from me too!" 7,53992,2019-05-25T15:38:47.678Z,53914,anon3809206126,anon3820120211,"[quote=""anon3820120211, post:1, topic:9977""] I have a few other thoughts on the collaborative process as well, more in line with how infrastructure and incentives can push the process and result in different directions, and where also the psychological aspect of who owns your data, and who facilitates our communication play a part. [/quote] Not sure about the nexus between ""collaborating"" and ""where are my data"". Do you define collaboration as an act whereby someone lets someone else have their data?" 8,54054,2019-05-28T04:09:39.279Z,53914,anon2199355017,anon3820120211,"Wow! As others have said, you've picked a fascinating topic. My interest is in how the data that's been collected is made discoverable by others, moving away from the current approach of dumping it all in one centralized pile. Since these topics are very much two sides of the same coin, I wonder if you have any thoughts that way? P.S. Thinks for the worldbrain link, it's right up my alley!" 9,54066,2019-05-28T08:59:36.237Z,53914,anon3820120211,anon3820120211,"Hi there! Sorry for my anon222512824 late replies, this week is a real killer. ;) @anon3031202475 ""What types of collaboration or collaborators are you looking for?"" Thanks for the warm welcome! I aiming to look at open, decentralized initiatives and what issues they face. I would assume decentralized structures are more gravitated towards collaboration by deafult, but will meet more challenges as well, compared to centralized structures. @anon1505367078 Yes, Oliver from worldbrain mentioned your talk. :) Mapeo looks really interesting! Thanks for sharing, and the other pointers too! @anon2434097920 Interesting that we have some overlaps. :) Well, not so strange, maybe, world is always smaller than one would think! @anon3809206126 I was more thinking about the psychological effects of how and what people say on social networks and why. In this sense I was actually more referring to dialogue than collaboration. I think concerns about data is getting more and more mainstream, leading to some degree of self censorship, though I would argue hate speech is the main issue we face. Anyway these concerns are also alive on the franon2926706121s in decentralized networks, for instance, a small example regarding scuttlebutt: ""Another problematic issue is that you cannot delete posts. Once your posts appear on others' computers, they no longer have a singular home where they can be accessed & destroyed. Once you send out those posts, they now have multiple homes. I understand that the protocol's very structure makes deletion difficult. I do. Many developers argue that SSB is the place for ""sober"" commentary, that the permanence gives folks pause for posting. I don't know: we've collectively witnessed at least 4 decades of online bad behavior. Also, folks say stupid shit all the time. Should they be held accountable forever? What if they wish to leave Scuttlebutt? What if they're being targeted by malicious actors? What if they just wish to reduce their digital shadows? **If you can't delete your posts, do you really own your data?**"" Source: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/rusty/Post04-ssb @anon2199355017 I think there worldbrain is really on point, as I think information overload is a real issue, as well as quality information. Another thought that I had last days is the curiosity of gender in community building and construction of networks. If one looks to society, this is generally something where females take the lead, keeping connections in support networks, arranging and managing the social sphere. Would a collaboration, community build by non-cis-male engineers look differently? If so, how? Cheers, Julia" 11,54075,2019-05-28T10:37:20.940Z,54066,anon3809206126,anon3820120211,"Wow, who is this Rusty guy? The post is impressive. @anon196034329 has been thinking a lot about high-latency computer networks for application to rural Nepal, and I see his arguments coming to life in Rusty's words: > Understanding New Zealand's geographic isolation is necessary to understanding why SSB came into existence. Birthed from the brain of Dominic Tarr, SSB was originally an attempt to cope with New Zealand's unreliable internet connections. Instead of thinking that this roadblock had to be overcome, Tarr & soon others developed a way to network using localization & disrupted connectivity as foundational concepts. ([source](https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/rusty/Post04-ssb)) I am fascinated by the trade-offs that Rusty mentions (I experience them myself, I have used SSB for almost one year now). Since posting is permanent, you are discouraged from posting in anger. My client (Patchwork) wants you before each post, and asks for confirmation. This generates friendly, ""sober"" thoughtful responses. People go out of their way to get closure of anything resembling conflict. But then, no, you definitely do not own your data if you cannot delete them. In the end, he proposes that the best use for SSB is to keep track of interaction with local groups: > Instead, I see its greatest potential as being a tool for aiding communication between individuals in a closed network. [...] SSB would make for a great tool in a closed network because everyone's information is stored on each other's computers. There would be no corporate spying or targeted ads. Since you avoid outside servers & could even avoid the internet, the rules of discourse could be negotiated by the active participants. In other words, SSB could help maintain auanon2317280404omous digital spaces at a time where they are rapidly disappearing. In Edgeryders, this function is fulfilled by: 1. This platform, with some groups open on the web and some closed ones. It is the place for sober commentary and permanence of content (though you can delete your own content if you want). It is self-hosted, but not decentralized within the organization, as it relies on our server. You could argue it is more decentralized than using discourse.org, or Google Groups. 1. [Matrix](https://matrix.org/blog/index) for rapid-fire communication. Also self-hosted, but part of a federated system. Our server is programmed to forget all communication after 15 days. If you have important content that you want the network to remember, post it on edgeryders.eu instead!" 12,54085,2019-05-28T14:14:05.983Z,54075,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,I can certainly see the value of SSB for activists planning. People also use Signal for that. 13,54095,2019-05-28T16:15:56.233Z,54066,anon3031202475,anon3820120211,"@anon1462314276, was great to have you in the call just now. There is a worldbrain connection here, have you already seen that?" 14,54102,2019-05-28T20:35:21.723Z,54085,anon1505367078,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:12, topic:9977, full:true""] I can certainly see the value of SSB for activists planning. People also use Signal for that. [/quote] This is not a great use-case of SSB. In the future it might be, but at at this point only private massages are encrypted, and there are better protocols (like signal) if that is what you care most about. Most posts on SSB are actually completely unprotected, and viewable from the www-internet through nodes that are sharing their feeds online." 15,54104,2019-05-28T21:11:50.848Z,54066,anon1505367078,anon3820120211,"[quote=""anon3820120211, post:9, topic:9977""] **If you can’t delete your posts, do you really own your data?** ” [/quote] This is an interesting point, because it has some strange ramifications if we follow it through to its conclusion. One of the rationales for not being able to delete your posts is that in a world where data is distributed, is that it just isn't possible to guarantee that your posts don't live on. Today, anything embarrassing is impossible to get rid of from the internet if you are famous, but the only reason this is not true for all of us is that it's simply too expensive to save every piece of information I see online. But as storage grows cheaper, this will no longer be the case. Indeed, Worldbrain saves everything I read online in its local cache on my computer and makes that content searchable and available to me later regardless of whether you have deleted your posts or not. If it becomes as cheap for me to save every image I see forever, if it becomes as easy for people with camera-glasses to cache every moment of everything they see locally, can any data ever truly be deleted? And when this starts to extend into IoT sensor territory, this becomes an even stranger future world. And if we draw this quote to its logical conclusion: If you can never delete *any* of the content you release online, does this mean that you no longer own it?" 16,54110,2019-05-28T22:23:31.473Z,54104,anon147525079,anon1505367078,"Hello, Loomio dev here. We have this problem regularly. If someone contributes to a group discussion, is that comment theirs to delete? How about a vote. If a group make a major decision, then later someone decides to delete all their data, losing their vote makes the decision unclear - to me, it is clear that you do not own your vote data, you give it to the group. Practically, to give users maximum freedom, we remove the user record with user_id, name, email, photo etc, but preserve the vote record with position and statement. So the outcome of the deicsion is not changed, but the user's personally identifiying information is removed at their request." 17,54135,2019-05-29T10:30:21.974Z,54110,anon2724270673,anon147525079,"[quote=""anon147525079, post:16, topic:9977""] If someone contributes to a group discussion, is that comment theirs to delete? [/quote] That depends on the kind of discussion and the context of the group I'd say. Your ""major decision"" example is a good one, in such cases, the vote should be kept, because people need to be able to see how something important was decided. If it is really important, it might even be prudent to say ""no, this needs to be in the public record forever, with that persons name attached to it!"" In those cases, it is imperative though, that everyone who is called to that vote knows this beforehand. But for random discussions where someone realized that they inadvertently wrote something harmful and want to delete it? Say, you did a snafu and realized that you copy-pasted your credit card data into a Facebook discussion. You should be able to remove that, shouldn't you?" 18,54146,2019-05-29T13:07:13.206Z,54095,anon1462314276,anon3031202475,"Yes, Julia is collaborating with us. She is the one who told me about Edgeryders :slight_smile:" 19,54204,2019-05-30T10:34:34.465Z,53914,anon1462314276,anon3820120211,"[quote=""anon3820120211, post:1, topic:9977""] **Open data collection** What data is collected, and what is deliberately not collected, is a very political topic. I am interested to talk to initiatives that have been collecting open data collaboratively, such as [safecast ](https://blog.safecast.org/), who maintains the largest open data set of background radiation measurements ever collected. The organisation maps open data connected to the environment and (radioactivity, airquality) and was founded as a reaction to the lack of information on radiation after the Fukushima disaster. I would like to find out more about what blockers and what strengths they experienced in setting up the organisation, as well as their ideas on how this kind of data will be accessed in the future. [/quote] @anon3820120211 I just came across the political initiative [crowdvoice](https://crowdvoice.org/) that is all about gathering data from eyewitness collectively." 20,54264,2019-05-30T20:48:53.414Z,53914,anon3820120211,anon3820120211,"Hi there again! First of all, thanks for all the feedback on my post! :) I have been contemplating a bit the last days about the upcoming months, and I actually think I need to give myself a bit of a calm time before deep diving into something new. I am really happy to have gotten a small insight in the community, and I would like to stick around to follow the developments in this forum. Maybe i would have a go at another of the fellowships later in time, but for now, I hope the right person finds this opportunity. :) Also glad to see that @anon1462314276 found her way here too! Have a nice evening! Julia" 21,54266,2019-05-30T20:55:50.056Z,54075,anon3820120211,anon3809206126,"Yeah, i don't know Rusty, i just came across this post on twitter and thought it was pretty on point. :)" 22,54267,2019-05-30T20:57:33.082Z,53914,anon838581715,anon3820120211,"Welcome @anon3820120211 Fun to see someone who's been at SourceFabric, I've been trying out Booktype and have been curious to use it to publish a longer read some day! I think for collaboration I can recommend having a look at Adam Kahane's book ""*Collaborating with the Enemy*"" about what collaboration really is and different forms of ""collaboration"". Would be interesting to learn about different types of collaboration in peer-to-peer network. For Open data collection, I really think you are on to something. It's anon4292955258 political as many authorities often release datasets which are not so interesting even though global warming and climate change are imminent huge challenges. There's also often a lack of sensitive datasets around economic spending which could cause a lot of debacle. I think it's really true that if you can't delete your data, it's not yours. At the same time, there's a big risk someone has already copied the data so it's no longer ""yours"". For event activities off Facebook I suggest having a look at the current crowdfunding by Framasoft NGO https://framasoft.org/en callled Mobilizon https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ which is very well on its way to create an interesting replacement to FB. Events is the only function left on Facebook that I hear keeps people on it." 23,54270,2019-05-30T21:22:05.887Z,53914,anon3820120211,anon3820120211,"Hi Matthias! Thanks for the tip, i will check it out! On the politics of data collection id like to share this blog https://missingnumbers.org/ Cheers! Julia" 24,54332,2019-05-31T16:43:09.933Z,54066,anon2434097920,anon3820120211,"> **If you can’t delete your posts, do you really own your data?** Back in the 80s at The WELL (one of the first publicly available online asynch conferencing platforms and often cited as the first real 'online community' - I was employee #2 there), in trying to determine this issue, the founder came up with the phrase ""you own your own words."" He meant that you, rather than the platform, take responsibility for what you say. But he used the word ""own."" Now the guy who wrote the software The WELL ran on (and still does in one form), was so anti-authority that he made it impossible for even someone with root privileges to edit someone else's words, or even remove them. Even the poster could not remove or edit them later. This was a real anti-Big Brother stance, and anon4292955258 admirable I think. But that word ""own"" meant that some of the members wanted to be able to remove a comment if they did not want it there. So, having a lot of hackers in the community, one of the better programmers figured out how to allow someone to remove their own comments. Not the sysop - only the poster could do it. And it wasn't invisible - it had to say ""scribbled"" instead of what had been there before. It didn't happen much so wasn't all that bothersome, and many users felt better about at least having that ability. But then it got taken a step further when someone figured out how to ""mass scribble"" which means removing every comment you have ever made. So when you leave you take it all with you. The statement said ""own"" and to many, that is what the word means. Again, it wasn't too big of a problem until one guy, one of the very most prolific commenters, who said things all over the place, got in an ugly fight with his fiance' who was also very prominent on the WELL, and in a huff he did a mass scribble. That made the whole site look like swiss cheese and was kind of a disaster. Luckily the guy came back and it all got restored. But that was just luck. Still, when you use the word ""own"" that can cut a number of ways.." 25,54335,2019-05-31T17:24:14.027Z,54332,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I should add that later, another guy, very sharp, prominent contributor, did a mass scribble then killed himself. Those comments were never restored because they couldn't be restored by anyone but him and he was gone for good. What was sad, besides losing the guy completely (he was a friend), was that he was a seriously interesting and insightful guy with great stories and ideas. All of that was lost to the community. But he owned his own words..." 26,54347,2019-05-31T20:24:46.699Z,54332,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:24, topic:9977""] Now the guy who wrote the software The WELL ran on (and still does in one form), was so anti-authority that he made it impossible for even someone with root privileges to edit someone else’s words, or even remove them. Even the poster could not remove or edit them later. This was a real anti-Big Brother stance, and anon4292955258 admirable I think. [/quote] This seems to be one of those contradictions that you can never solve by throwing code at. In a conversation, the community has a right to a trusted log: who said what when. But individual humans have a right to oblivion, and starting all over again. Furthermore, communities *benefit* from a trusted log, because it promotes prosocial behavior. But individuals benefit from being able to respawn with a clean-ish slate, and not having to walk around with the albatross of their past mistakes hanging from their necks, like Coleridge's old mariner. There's no solution, only management." 27,54352,2019-05-31T23:48:25.849Z,54347,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"No question he was trying for a kind of social engineering. And pretty extreme. He didn't trust authority but he also didn't really trust the people, since you couldn't edit what you said once you said it. The idea with that was so you couldn't go back and erase something and later say ""I never said that."" So yeah, building his social biases into the code." 28,59314,2019-09-15T16:37:38.004Z,53914,anon3031202475,anon3820120211,"@anon3820120211, we would love to have you as a participant at the [Edgeryders Festival in November.](https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-november-19-29-invitation-to-participate-in-co-designing-the-next-gen-internet-track-of-the-program/10450/31) I am sure you could add a very interesting talk or workshop! Events are already planned in Stockholm, Brussels, Berlin and Warsaw. You could fill out [this form](https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI), answer here or get in contact with me anytime to discuss more in detail how we could help each other to make great projects and discussions happen :). Or join us in the community call this Tuesday the 17th of September 18:00 Brussels time to discuss ideas and possibilities with the community :): https://zoom.us/j/788229402" 1,54170,2019-05-29T16:40:57.852Z,54170,anon1462314276,anon1462314276,"Hi everyone! I’m Allegra and I recently came across the Edgeryders community. I always find it difficult describing myself since I am working simultaneously in different fields, but I see myself as a digital activist thinking about how to foster social change through technology 🙂 In the last years I have been thinking about how to counteract misinformation and how to enable good quality information in a healthy online environment. Big tech monopolies are creating an extremely toxic environment and I feel the urge to counteract. I believe that opening up knowledge is part of the solution we currently need. We need decentralized technologies that empower users to use their data for their own benefits! I work at the intersection between tech and civil society as a connector between those worlds. I first co-founded a project called [TraceMap](http://www.tracemap.info), where we developed an [open source tool](https://tracemap.info/demo.mp4) that displays maps of how information spreads on Twitter. These maps, together with a bunch of metrics and analytic tools, were specifically designed to help Twitter users and journalists make sense of the news they're reading. Now TraceMap is associated to [Worldbrain](https://worldbrain.io/), the creators of Memex. Memex is a privacy-focused, open-source & offline-first browser extension for web-research collaborative organisation. We want to empower independent journalists, content creators, researchers and fact-checkers in all steps necessary for the creation of good-quality information. We are soon starting to develop collaboration features - and, in this process, to involve non-tech actors into the development steps. This brings me to one of my topics of interest for the fellowship: How can we bring the tech community and civil society actors closer together? How can we foster collaboration between these worlds? Different communities speak different languages, use different platforms and have different understandings, a real challenge to be tackled. How can we decrease literacy barriers for people to access certain communities? How can we increase interoperability between platforms? Should we design platforms differently? Do we need more mediators between the different communities? There are broader questions related to democratization of knowledge and linking back to the misinformation problem: How can we decouple knowledge from economic interest? How can we find sustainable models? How to design micropayment systems without falling back into old, toxic models? I’m looking forward to meet likeminded people in here, exchange thoughts and collaborate!" 2,54184,2019-05-29T20:56:33.712Z,54170,anon2434097920,anon1462314276,"Greetings @anon1462314276 nice to see you here and thanks for being on the call yesterday. We will get the highlights posted here soon. Do you know @anon3820120211 here? She recently mentioned being in touch with Worldbrain. Also there are a couple of browser builders here who have described their projects." 3,54186,2019-05-29T21:02:27.548Z,54184,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,And I was just checking out TraceMap. Fascinating. 4,54205,2019-05-30T10:37:45.562Z,54184,anon1462314276,anon2434097920,@anon2434097920 yes I know Julia. We have been talking for anon4292955258 a while now and she is the one who brought me here. I'm a big fan of hers :) 5,54260,2019-05-30T20:27:43.206Z,54170,anon838581715,anon1462314276,"Welcome! Cool. Does TraceMap work for ActivityPub protocol as well (haven't checked source code)? I think it's important to test out to either involve stakeholders in the system(s) during initiation and development - or have a holistic starting point and throughout the continuous work with thinking of creating value at all levels and to all stakeholders. Personally I'm very curious about Triple Layer Business model for considering social, environmental and economic perspectives of the business model, the impact and value that the tech aims to create." 6,54474,2019-06-04T00:14:39.776Z,54170,anon2199355017,anon1462314276,"I haven't heard about Worldbrain & Memex before joining this forum, but it sounds anon4292955258 similar to some of my own efforts. I'm definitely interested in discussing compatibility between our programs, and will wish you the best of luck with it!" 7,55484,2019-06-20T10:06:15.575Z,54474,anon1462314276,anon2199355017,Yes I see many similarities between our tools. I really like your idea of personalised suggestions. this is a topic we haven`t touched upon. I would love to know more about it. I have seen a couple of other people here interested on the topic. It would be great if we could have a conversation and exchange ideas. 8,55522,2019-06-20T20:15:38.081Z,55484,anon2199355017,anon1462314276,"That would be great! Any questions from you to start off?" 9,59315,2019-09-15T16:40:13.002Z,54170,anon3031202475,anon1462314276,"@anon1462314276, would you be open to adding a talk, discussion or workshop to the [Edgeryders Festival?](https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-november-19-29-invitation-to-participate-in-co-designing-the-next-gen-internet-track-of-the-program/10450/31) There are for examples of events on the topic of information tech planed in Berlin. Where are you based? You could fill out [this form](https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI), answer here or get in contact with me anytime to discuss more in detail how we could help each other to make great projects and discussions happen :). Or join us in the community call this Tuesday the 17th of September 18:00 Brussels time to discuss ideas and possibilities with the community :): https://zoom.us/j/788229402" 1,58422,2019-08-27T01:48:18.202Z,58422,anon196034329,anon196034329,"Here's my not particularly deep commentary on this article that was pointed out to me by Alberto: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/was-e-mail-a-mistake To me, its conclusion seems a bit … overzealous. Also the analogies with computer networks don't really apply as machines are not inconvenienced by frequent demands for synchrony, and do not value the freedom of messaging when they want (which might be 3 am like I do now). But I agree that typical asynchronous office communication is broken. Not because of e-mail as a tool but because people try to *talk* over that tool. Which is a bad hack that's done just because it's the most immediate paradigm most people have for ""communication"" and so it is ""convenient"" for them, and the technology is cheap and fast enough to allow it. Instead, I think two other paradigms would be better for asynchronous communication: 1. **Pull-based documentation.** That's my favourite, anon4292955258 obviously. Good documentation is not like talking, but its inversion. It does not look like a protocol of a conversation, but rather like a book / manual where all pieces of many conversations before have been taken and sorted in to the ""right"" place. All information being available like that unlocks a lot of the otherwise slow progress in asynchronous communication. 2. **Mail.** If people used it like ""snail mail"" messages before, it would work much better. In mail, people would have to think 2-3 steps ahead in the communication and lay out their replies to these possible answers. It's about substantial exchange of thought, at considerable length per message. So one exchange back and forth is worth at least 2-3 steps in a synchronous interaction. I agree with the article that carefully chosen meetings are valuable for progress in collaboration – every tool for its purpose! In the Edgeryders company, we rely on asynchronous communication for nearly everything but we also know when it's more appropriate to ""call a meeting"" of the directors. It only happens every few weeks, fortunately. My favourite example for a collaboration technology that offers the best from both worlds is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (""JPL"") where they developed something called ""Xtreme Collaboration"" in the 90s: there would be some weeks of asynchronous collaboration to identify and work out what blocks progress, and then one 4-6 hours meeting of 30-40 engineers where they planned and decided a complete space mission, including all the tech details that needed a common decision. They did so in a ""warroom environment"" that included both special collaboration software and all these people. Comparing this brilliant example and the contemporary e-mail and messaging maze, it seems obvious that the Net does not have the right collaboration tool yet, at least not in widespread use. And beyond the conventions that I proposed above, I don't have much of an idea how it could look like … including how to mould these conventions into a tool that ""soft-enforces"" them, which is needed because conventions are hard to impossible to enforce by telling coworkers what to do. So, inspirations welcome. What's your favourite new way to collaborate that I have never heard of?" 2,59279,2019-09-14T13:23:42.814Z,58422,anon2434097920,anon196034329,Now there is a challenge. 1,59221,2019-09-12T16:32:48.506Z,59221,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Given that most publicly-traded companies seemingly subscribe, either entirely or in part, to economist Milanon2317280404 Friedman's dictum that a corporation's responsibility is primarily, if not entirely, to the shareholder (who won't keep owning the stock unless it goes up over time), and given that besides the publicly-uttered platitudes about doing no evil and being some sort of woke company, I see scant evidence that the big companies that corral most Internet eyeballs have any serious interest in lowering their profits and their stock price in service of a more human-centered Internet as NGI defines it, and given that it looks like most of the hand-wringing one sees in silicon valley these days as companies wrestle with an increasingly skeptical public looks to not seek change that threatens them being on top, how is the kind of big change NGI describes even possible under such a system? If you were in the legendary one percent, running a profitable Internet company, would you voluntarily leave the one percent in service of a more human-centered Internet, or a more healthy planet? I don't see anyone doing that. So, that to me says, let's make change that helps society and the planet but ensures that we stay on top."" That look incompatible to me." 2,59222,2019-09-12T16:33:57.729Z,59221,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I know that is a lot of givens, and any one of you can easily (and are invited) to take issue with them and the broad brush that painted them, so please have at it." 3,59223,2019-09-12T16:38:59.881Z,59221,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"It also to me begs the question, what is the EC's real goal with NGI? My theory at this point is that there will emerge a combination of policy moves that are meant to regulate what others create and the other is to try to highlight and perhaps assist new _European_ ideas, projects and companies that will make things that adhere to the principles of NGI at the same time they are so well made and popular, that this form of social responsibility is baked into the core of these products and then the Internet at large. And hopefully they will become the most popular products and services. Great vision. I am all for it. Have been wanting it for more than 30 years. But seriously, is such a thing really possible within the global economic system we live in?" 4,59224,2019-09-12T17:01:12.307Z,59223,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I know there are private companies too, but how many among them do not seek the huge bucks of the publicly traded world - but got there anyway? I can think of just one right now: craigslist Those guys - Craig and Jim Buckmaster, two people I have known personally for more than 20 years - really did not care about the money nearly as much as providing the service to the people, and making a truly honest easy-to-use product that scaled seamlessly. ""Do what you love and the money will follow"" was a phrase a lot of us used back in the day. One can start up with that mindset, but can one continue? In Craig's case, he kept the company private. I think he and Jim own the whole thing. They make almost a billion dollars a year. They still give away most of the service. They did not intend to be one of the icebergs that the ship of newspaper journalism would crash on. But it was. When I left the employ of the newspaper world in San Francisco in 2001, the company the previous year grossed 139 million dollars in classified advertising revenue. Their building had a whole floor devoted to people taking phone orders for the ads. Now - pretty much nothing except for some real estate ads and a partnership with Monster Jobs. That alone torpedoed a giant chunk of the newsroom. I think if Craig had not done it, someone else would have because the Internet is so perfectly suited for a classified marketplace. But I am glad it was Craig, a decent and thoroughly honorable guy who donates massively to energizing journalism in today's environment that he helped create. But he was no big capitalized company. He was a talented but obscure programmer who very early saw a way to turn people on to good things (the ""list"" started as more of an events calendar for tech-savvy people plus sell stuff if you have it or want to) and it just grew from there. He had the luck and insight to find and then hire an equally, if not more, talented guy who also had good business acumen, Jim Buckmaster. Jim is a quiet guy who shuns the limelight. But he is an extraordinary individual who at least used to be as unique in his personal habits as he was talented in tech and business. He told me once he was so ascetic one year he lived in Ann Arbor Michigan (where it goes below zero most of the winter) that he not only had no heat in the house, he didn't even have a jacket. Can you imagine? that's crazy. Now a billion dollars a year crazy. But I digress...my point here is, these guys in fact made a company that lives according to NGI principles. And I know how they started and how they got to where they are. Who else is going to follow their own path to a jackpot like that, staying honorable all the way? Or more to the point, what big capital is going to back something like that? Or frankly anything that doesn't feed, and feed off of, this status quo system? Spying on people makes more money so we have to do it and either lie about it or see if a government catches us running afoul of their regulations. How can it be any other way in the corporate sector when you have a share price to nurture?" 5,59229,2019-09-12T18:07:06.377Z,59221,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"One of the accelerators of the concentration of wealth is the winner-take-all nature of the internet. This is Metcalf's Law writ large and is now truly planetary. And I am not sure any economic system, even well-regulated, can change that. The bigness that comes with being one of those winners begs the question, are they driving it, or is it driving them?" 6,59236,2019-09-12T23:45:31.890Z,59229,anon1022881418,anon2434097920,"So where do multi-generational private companies possibly fit into this? To give a more evil (or resourced based) example, the Kochs.....your paper towels, your roofing and much more....doing as much business as the biggest companies in the world, but NO stockholders telling them what they have to do! The point is - if our generation(s) can produce a bunch of ethical and moral leaders and if some of them have multi-generational wisdom (think like the German family businesses, some lasted 100's of years).... they could have anon4292955258 an impact on the future. We may even see this type of thing forming in a 23&ME or similar effort. For example, they are working with Big Pharma (one must) to cure disease....but when those cures are found, they will ""own"" a large part of them due to supplying the data. If they decide to provide those cures at a ""cost plus"" type of arrangement where they and their partners make a profit but then provide them to the masses (think worldwide vaccines, cures), then it's anon4292955258 amazing. The short term thinking of public companies, IMHO, dooms them...even the better one (innovative) like Tesla and Google and such. It seems to me to be more chance of something off shooting from google (23&me example) or others...who may have the Human more in mind. It's interesting that Gates, Buffet and so many others are giving away all of their fortunes. If this money was focused on some big things instead of spread around it could be really revolutionary." 7,59240,2019-09-13T07:21:27.866Z,59221,anon3449369942,anon2434097920,"Well- it depends on how you look at it. A friend once jokingly referred to VC as wealth redistribution towards young talented people since most ventures tank anyway, especially in winner takes all tech businesses :) Seen from here Human Centred Internet builders need to be human-centred also at the end of the people building and managing businesses in the sector. I just got back from Techfestival where the response to our ills is to produce a pledge for technologist to change behaviour/adhere to a set of defined values as a means to get us out of this mess: https://www.techpledge.org/ That is a nice step. But, I don't know how many of the people who sign it actually operate in organisations that afford them the necessary conditions to do so. . It really comes down to what you consider to be a healthy business, how you structure your company and the day to day social environment in which live and work. Edgeryders is a not-for-profit company that generates the money needed to build, sustain and develop the community infrastructure from revenues in no small part thanks to our innovations in digital tech and methodologies for doing various things online. BUT, we have never taken on debt, nor do we allow any VC in because it comes with a lot of strings attached - and would force us to have an extractive sustainability/business model. Sometimes I ask myself why I didn't take the path of my contemporaries. Founders of several startups you heard of - soundcloud, prezi etc came out of one Alma Mater and know one oner socially. You had some obvious choices if you wanted to make money - go into telecoms, military-industrial or...internet business. Many went full on build tech startups where you make money if and when you make an exit. Perhaps it really comes down to personal history. I come from a setting where business = old school trade and debt=bad. As in: Running a ""real"" and ""honest"" business is = generating more revenue from people paying to buy your wares than the costs you have making them. Of course this limits the rate at which your business and revenue can grow, but I am cool with it. Also because growth carries costs additional costs on your health, your relationships etc. My primary moral compass is trying to do good by and care for the wellbeing of people whom I love - not some higher moral standard. This includes all of my business partners, many people in our community. I very much value the sense of being part of a new kind of caring tribe enabled by connectivity - even if people's ideologies and ideas diverge I feel there is a kind of ""thread"" that that weaves us together. To me building a good business is building a next generation institution which can act as an anchor for a lot of people in a messy, turbulent world. Financial but also social. It is fragile, yes. But it has been around for longer than most tech ""startups"". At techfestival in Copenhagen I ran into someone who has been loosely present in Edgeryders, and who convened a large known community. He said that we were one of few communities to still be around after that wave of sharing/gift economy movements (that came out of the financial crisis). " 1,53157,2019-05-06T18:03:37.682Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"The climate is changing. [Nature is declining](https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment) at unprecedented rates. What projects and products are helping now? Looking ahead, How are 5G, the Internet of Things, driverless cars, zero lag time for videos and all the other inevitable developments going to help?" 2,53158,2019-05-06T18:15:19.443Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"It can help gather concerned people together to form coalitions and projects that help. It connects creative people with solutions to a larger audience than they might otherwise have. Films like the incredible [Our Planet](https://www.netflix.com/title/80049832) stream on Netflix, which can jar people out of complacency. But the amount of planet-warming [electricity needed to power the Net](https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/12/11/tsunami-data-consume-one-fifth-global-electricity-2025/) could require as much as a fifth of all power generated. Already it is billions of kilowatt hours a year. 5G is clearly inevitable. What is going to stop it or even slow it down? Does the EU have a plan for that? 5G requires large increases in physical infrastructure. And it will create huge consumer conveniences, which will no doubt make it anon4292955258 popular. Certainly along with all the home appliances ""phoning home"" with your data, remote medical procedures will become much more common, saving lives. All this wonderfulness of the Tech of our Dreams Come True, even if the spying-on-consumers aspect wasn't happening, which of course it is, goes on with a backdrop of what many scientists call ""[the sixth extinction](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/05/25/the-sixth-extinction?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_050619&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd672a73f92a41245dd7c89&cndid=26629987&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily)"" - though this time it is we, humanity, causing it. So, yes we want a human-centered internet that respects and empowers us, but what if it is a net contributor to this die-off and climate change in general? Can the development of the Net, for better or worse, even be considered outside of this reality?" 3,53159,2019-05-06T18:16:39.072Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"![image|690x600](upload://1mfgWjI8Q8W4keTk9wG7ycRdxfT.png) ""EE"" = energy efficiency" 4,53160,2019-05-06T18:35:49.776Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,There is an excellent [discussion of 'mesh nets](https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-radically-new-internet-a-study-on-p2p-protocols-and-mesh-networks/9802/14)' going on in [another topic](https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-radically-new-internet-a-study-on-p2p-protocols-and-mesh-networks/9802/14) here. I wonder if mesh nets can help with overall efficiency? 5,53213,2019-05-07T21:30:06.326Z,53158,anon2233507620,anon2434097920,"How come you don't address the impact on health? I am not even looking at all the data available already which is, to put it mildly, very worrying. I have a friend who does the 5G implementation in Germany already now, they are laying out the infrastructure everywhere so obviously nobody will stop it. He says that technicians going up the 5G towers actually have a device which warns them when they have to come down urgently. The effects on those guys are incredibly harmful...it generates a field 100 times stronger than 4G. So what's the point of me avoiding to use microwave if soon I will live in one?" 6,53215,2019-05-08T03:59:49.101Z,53213,anon2434097920,anon2233507620,"Absolutely, let's address the impact on health. 5G requires a big buildout in towers, especially with such dense demand augmented with all that IoT action. We're swimming in radio waves. How much is too much? I know that there are a lot of alarmists out there on this subject, but I also know that there were several years when I wore my cell phone in my front jeans pocket and after some time I could feel that phone-sized rectangle in my leg even when the phone wasn't there. And we know that it isn't safe to live under high voltage electric lines. What about 5G?" 7,53252,2019-05-08T22:27:25.473Z,53215,anon2233507620,anon2434097920,"Well I am not qualified to address its impact on health. I can just open my eyes and ears and listen to what professionals are saying about it. By Professionals I mean physicists interested in the field, doctors, military specialists who worked specifically on microwave frequency warfare etc...And I can just say what I hear from a person working on 5G implementation in Germany. If it's so bad for them to just go on the tower and work up there for a short period of time, I cannot see how it will be fine for health to have it on 24/7. And yes, apparently they need to have towers every 60-100 meters. Plenty of discussion about it in US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qt5B39LB7c Here you can see they actually spent billions to develop and install the technology and they spent 0 Euros to actually study the effects on health...thats insane. When I manufacture a product in China and import to EU everything is checked for safety/health concerns, even type of plastic/paint etc and nobody is checking this...unbeliavable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekNC0J3xx1w Here is some more questions raised by a person who knows more about it than me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-UEuOYOED4" 8,53256,2019-05-09T03:33:15.726Z,53252,anon2434097920,anon2233507620,"Nice trio of videos there. I live in a part of northern California where there is a lot of opposition to too much deployment of wireless technology. For 7 years I ran the local talk radio station and there were many programs about these dangers. And 5G had not even showed up yet. So I heard a lot of experts and a lot of opinions all over the, er, spectrum of opinion. The best line I remember came from this doctor who ran a public health nonprofit who said, ""distance is your friend."" So, if you have to put these anon222512824 transmitters every few houses, that's a problem. I liked the middle video with the incredulous Senator who discovers that the health effects have not been studied at all. We hear about how AI, Internet of Things, robotics, real time remote operations are great and of course inevitable. But it all will run on 5G or something even more dense. It isn't like nuclear radiation - but you still don't want a lot of it going on right next to you." 9,53357,2019-05-13T10:47:29.422Z,53157,anon273015838,anon2434097920,"I'd file this not under ""tech helps"" but under ""tech doesn't need to make it worse"": Chris Adams, currently a fellow at Prototype Fund at the Greenweb Foundation, has been doing a lot of work around energy consumption of web services and especially around mapping which providers in that space use renewable energies: https://blog.chrisadams.me.uk/tag/energy/ I've found that anon4292955258 interesting. Slowly, a push is coalescing around the notion that we should demand our service providers and companies to go green so at least they're not net negative contributors in this space." 10,53384,2019-05-13T14:50:08.423Z,53357,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"One of the goals of this NGI initiative is about ""sustainability."" It is a anon222512824 vague what they mean by that, although of course they want whatever gets made to be durable. But sustainable to me means it has to live within the context of the entire health of the planet itself. At this point in time, any new technology that does not work within that context is more part of the problem than the solution." 11,53482,2019-05-14T17:45:57.234Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Or this - what is a human-centered internet going to do to help this? Spreading awareness, sure, but past that..? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-water-fish-extinction-seen-by-2048/ ""The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That's when the world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. The study by Boris Worm, PhD, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, -- with colleagues in the U.K., U.S., Sweden, and Panama -- was an effort to understand what this loss of ocean species might mean to the world. The researchers analyzed several different kinds of data. Even to these ecology-minded scientists, the results were an unpleasant surprise.""" 12,53833,2019-05-23T19:33:58.437Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Here is a [Rolling Sanon2317280404e story](https://www.rollingsanon2317280404e.com/music/music-features/environmental-impact-streaming-music-835220/) about the estimated carbon footprint from all the streaming, with some comparison to how much impact that creates compared to the amount of plastic used to make vinyl records and CDs. The amount of that plastic has gone way down (from 61 million kilograms in the 2000s to about 8 million kilograms as of 2016), but at the same time the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere that can be fairly attributed to the amount of power required to serve all that streaming is huge and dwarfs that amount of plastic:"" the amount of GHGs (greenhouse gases) generated by the energy needed to transmit music for streaming is estimated to be between 200 and 350 million kilograms."" The story also cliams, "" Data centers are [reportedly](https://data-economy.com/data-centers-going-green-to-reduce-a-carbon-footprint-larger-than-the-airline-industry/) responsible for about two percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, a carbon footprint nearly equal to the airline industry."" Something of an apples-to-oranges comparison, but it does point out an inconvenient truth: streaming carries an environmental cost, even if it makes people feel like they are living more lightly on the earth by doing that instead of collective physical media. Indeed, it looks like worldwide, the carbon footprint of streaming is bigger than it ever was for physical media, and growing." 13,53937,2019-05-24T16:17:31.629Z,53833,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,Very good point to raise awareness on. The problem is that we do not have a valid intuition for the carbon footprint of most modern activities or products. How could we work towards the development of such awareness and intuition? 14,53938,2019-05-24T16:30:20.538Z,53937,anon2434097920,anon3031202475,"Pretty hard to measure, and I think in the case of streaming vs owning or using physical media, it probably can't be compared that accurately. But I see it similar to using an electric car. That power does't come from nowhere. In the US, it means more oil and coal get burned for the electric grid. But that is not visible to the consumer. I suppose in countries like Denmark with such a large percentage of power coming from renewables (30% targeted for 2020), one shouldn't worry about it so much. But, as always, there is still no free lunch." 15,54171,2019-05-29T16:43:22.935Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Meanwhile, over in the US, where I am based, we have this to deal with. I am of the view that we have to get Trump and his gang out of office by any means possible because of their anti-science actions. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/us/politics/trump-climate-science.html" 16,54182,2019-05-29T20:04:28.069Z,53157,anon3146751269,anon2434097920,"My view on it is 3 fold. 1. Measuring climate and greenhouse gases - we will be able to better control our emissions if we know where they are happening and be able to make better predictions if we know what is happening in the climate today. We need to be able to transmit the data we collect around. You probably need to talk to the scientists and see how whether the internet is fit for purpose for that. 2. Prediction of the climate. What are the changes we can make that have the most impact in avoiding more damage to the climate. Again finding out how scientists need to share and verify models and whether the internet fills those needs is a question for those in those professions. 3. Control of electricity consumption. This is part of the promise of IoT and the thing I am interested in phloem. It is hard to turn off items remotely or monitor their use, wasting energy. It could also help with avoiding energy companies spinning up fossil fuel power stations based on projected demand if they could get projected usage from households." 17,54275,2019-05-30T22:03:09.627Z,53157,anon838581715,anon2434097920,"I definitely think that the Internet can help the climate and approach the challenge - can it right now? Not sure. Power consumption - I think https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ is a pretty interesting concept for a potential scenario, that we as humans, like farming, could do and rely on natural systems and let them (e.g. solarpower) enable when things work, and when they don't, for connection and availability from source, mainly to slow the pace down into something what we can handle. 5G - I'm curious if this is just increasing consumption of already yearly depleted natural resources or having any positive effects for tackling climate change - at all. More data, more transfer, more consumption - everything will drive a big increase of infrastructure needs and hundreds of millions of devices which will ""need"" to be thrown away and replaced due to their design for planned obsolesence. Narrative - The current tech (industry) and culture (advertising) narratives keep us away from seeing the big challenges unfolding such as the sixth extinction, ecocide, chemicals threatening reproductive organs and more. It's anon4292955258 interesting, what will it take on how to change these narratives? Human centric Internet to me might not be sustainable if I consider what the natural capital can handle. If all humans are to use the Internet, what are the absolute necessary need that humanity and natural resources can handle? I believe it's basic text messaging and perhaps voice calls. Not sure ecosystems can handle (or need) much more until we've found ways for biologically renewable technology shaping our devices and renewable energy sources to provide all electricity needed?" 18,54716,2019-06-07T21:43:07.292Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"In another topic here we are discussing 'bloat' on the 'Net and how inefficiencies create large amounts of data throughput that adds to the carbon footprint of the planet and increases the energy costs for the 'Net overall. It's been said that the Internet today consumes as much energy as the airline industry. So if we, out of conscience, decide to stop all this flying and instead do a lot more video conferencing, then aer we part of the problem or the solution? Meanwhile, I just saw this article from the MIT Press (thanks @anon1676186961) about a [recent University of Massachusetts study](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1v3TxkqPuzvRfiV_RVyRTTFbHl1pZq7Ab) . It exposes what might be considered a kind of dirty secret about the Net and the power it consumes. One can nitpick around the details, but it does 'raise the grain' on an important and largely hidden reality: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613630/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/" 19,56607,2019-07-13T16:19:47.526Z,53157,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"In case anyone underestimates the magnitude of the obstacles, there is this bit from the [Weather Channel](https://weather.com/science/environment/news/americans-climate-change-scientific-consensus), "" Nearly 90 percent of Americans are unaware that there is a consensus within the scientific community that human-caused climate change is real and threatens the planet, a new report says. According to the [report published last week](http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-american-mind-may-2017/2/) by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, only 13 percent of Americans were able to correctly identify that more than 90 percent of all climate scientists have concluded that climate change is real. The annual survey of 1,266 adults compiled in May and June failed to note that it is actually [97 percent of climate scientists](http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024;jsessionid=E6229ADE70799353D885FCC716450429.c1.iopscience.cld.iop.org) that concur that human-caused global warming is happening. The most common but incorrect response from the survey was that there is a 50 percent consensus among the scientific community that global warming is real and human-caused. One in four responded that they did not know."" Now I know that this is not Europe where the awareness is surely much higher, but this gets directly to the topic because a big chunk of these unknowing Americans are locked into their own bubbles, some of which are watching Fox News, which if you have not seen it makes RT seems almost objective, and many who just stay with what the social media algorithms tell them, along with whoever they hang out with. One example, my wife works for a railroad on the maintenance side of things. Some of the stuff her co-workers say and claim as truth causes me to check myself so I don't burst out laughing sometimes because they are so out of sorts with any actual facts." 20,59213,2019-09-12T14:05:51.825Z,56607,anon3449369942,anon2434097920,"Ok so I put together notes from a session on Impact Tech during techfestival in copenhagen last weekend. They are still not fully structured but there may be some food for thought in there: https://edgeryders.eu/t/event-notes-unstructured-tech-moonshot-for-climate-change/10696" 1,59193,2019-09-12T09:22:05.685Z,59193,anon2278327272,anon2278327272,"Posting here the information about the next NGI Communication Training will be held **Today at 15:00 via GoToMeeting**, organized by the @anon2505173109: The theme will be **How to tell your NGI story**. With Katherine Anderson, we will provide your with a ""Storytelling 101"", which is a set of principles, tips and tricks that will contribute to make your communication more appealing and more effective. **AGENDA** **Foreword** Objectives and agenda of the webinar. **Chapter 1: Stories? Why stories?** Why & how Long-term vs. short-term storytelling Storytelling and content strategy **Chapter 2: Storytelling 101** Basic rules of storytelling Main ingredients for the press **Chapter 3: the main NGI story** The NGI poistion paper: why does it exist, how did we write it, and how to use it The NGI brochure: why does it exist, how did we write it and how to use it Differences between the story approach (few words, no figures) and the brochure approach (no words, many figures) **Chapter 4: the NGI messaging matrix** Based on the abstraction ladder principle: issues, vision (policy), actions (means & projects), results **Chapter 5: our editorial strategy at a glance** Communication objectives Target audiences Communication channels Phasing Next steps **Epilogue: Special requests, questions & answers** **==============================================** **GOTOMEETING** Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/792715661 Access Code: 792-715-661 You can also dial in using your phone. Belgium: +32 28 93 7018 Access Code: 792-715-661 More phone numbers Denmark: +45 32 72 03 82 Finland: +358 923 17 0568 France: +33 170 950 594 Germany: +49 692 5736 7317 Ireland: +353 15 360 728 Italy: +39 0 247 92 13 01 Netherlands: +31 207 941 377 Norway: +47 21 93 37 51 Spain: +34 932 75 2004 Sweden: +46 853 527 836 Switzerland: +41 225 4599 78 United Kingdom: +44 330 221 0088 First GoToMeeting? Let's do a quick system check: https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check" 2,59197,2019-09-12T10:09:13.317Z,59193,anon3449369942,anon2278327272,will try to make it to this. would be good if either @anon1686813978 or @anon2926706121 could also make it. 3,59200,2019-09-12T11:15:29.755Z,59197,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,"I'll try to make it, driving back from Armenia to Georgia right now. Would love to attend." 4,59209,2019-09-12T13:03:56.973Z,59197,anon1686813978,anon3449369942,I'm in 1,58978,2019-09-09T17:11:07.979Z,58978,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"For the past 20 years, European policy has favored strong DRM protocols built into digital products. but it remains controversial. In describing a human-centered Internet, which to me suggests that the balance of power should shift more to the consumer, what should be the role of DRM moving forward? What should be the proper balance between creator and consumer?" 2,58979,2019-09-09T17:12:38.257Z,58978,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"And if it is here to stay, how will it be 'sold' to the public? In this column, Cory Doctorow describes how DRM was falsely sold to the public years ago. https://locusmag.com/2019/09/cory-doctorow-drm-broke-its-promise/" 3,59181,2019-09-11T19:49:58.003Z,58979,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Most of how DRM gets 'sold' to the public is by stressing the fact that digital copies of copyrighted material can be endlessly created as exact duplicates and how that is theft. We have heard it all, and of course that threat is real and endless copying can, and usually does, mean that artists/musicians/writers will make less money for their creations. I personally know musicians who have seen their incomes drop very far because of this. But that is not what Doctorow is really talking about here. He is saying that digital content was also sold on a promise that it would create a variety of products tailored to the new needs of digital consumers. That has not happened and it seems that there are no plans to make it so. European governments have been among the strongest state advocates and law makers that shore up this current DRM 'system.' If the EU/EC now wants a more 'human-centered' internet, will they support or suppress products that give consumers more, rather than less choice? Increasingly my impression of the NGI project is the EC wants real products to emerge and compete worldwide. I think there is an opportunity here, but they would have to drop the more heavy-handed approach they have so far taken." 1,58178,2019-08-20T13:32:43.984Z,58178,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![Register%20IoH|690x388](upload://715OUCVaDOff39mpHZ6NlKlAGF2.png) Dear community, the Edgeryder Festival is happening between the 19th and 29th of November in multiple locations in Europe and online. Tickets are not purchased with money, but with participation. **To register for the event and be part of building it together, tell us:** # **1. Where you are based** # **2. Your topics of interest** * Technology for Good * Climate & Environment (& Technology) * Spiritual, Moral & Psychological Wellbeing * Work & Prosperity * Health & Social Care * Democracy, Justice & Rule of Law * Other # **3. What can you contribute:** * Contribute a talk * Contribute a workshop * Help organise an event in my city * Finding locations * Curating Program * Setting up at the location * Design communication * Invite an interested audience * Provide tech support * Other # **You can send in the information required in two ways: ---> Leave a Reply below and/or ---> Fill out this sheet for general information:** https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D_CMPm43FDXg5EE_5zDk6C_A_yG6s25HrH4wPuRRP7I/edit?usp=sharing --->**And this one for the needs of your event:** https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5sOTG-zoRrLmACPe8eW62YFi5-xsz_aUSUlAqqsCo8/edit?usp=sharing **What happens after you register?** We will follow up by inviting you to regular community calls for building the event and making sure you are the first to learn about the resources and opportunities that others are creating all over Europe on these topics!" 2,58181,2019-08-20T14:07:02.828Z,58178,anon51020356,anon3031202475,"I registered using the spreadsheet! Way to go.. looking forward to do something in Brussels : on Climate and Spirituality :P" 3,58190,2019-08-20T17:25:41.791Z,58178,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Ping at some people from the call or who showed some interest, please add everyone you think might be interested to this list: @anon273015838, @anon3931191205, @anon3572363072, @anon2724270673, @anon3809206126, @anon3180318115, @anon3416257941, @anon2753384108" 4,58191,2019-08-20T17:29:57.612Z,58178,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"I want to adress two organisational points here: 1. Deadline: The current deadline is a soft one, and if you can submit some idea in progress in the next days or week that is totally fine, just register as soon as possible :slight_smile: # 2. Tickets can only be bought through participation: I would propose here that everyone contributing can also or is even encouraged to invite/bring people they know would be interested in the events. What do you guys think?" 5,58235,2019-08-21T16:18:24.220Z,58178,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Hello, I had an idea I would like to propose: # **""Speculative Design Workshop: ""Future of Retirement""** (image from Maria Euler, during HHCD Inclsive desing for elderly workshop) Location: Stockholm, ""House Blivande"" Starting point https://edgeryders.eu/t/welcome-to-retirement/9869 Proposal: A Speculative design workshop building upon the Edgeryders speculative design Brief ""Welcome to Retirement"". This would be a whole day workshop including a kickoff talk, creative prototyping and speculative design project presentations following the established model of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. Plan: Recruit 1 expert on retirement planning for a talk. Send invitations to groups of students, creatives/unsecured employes and retired citizens. Programm will include: * 1 talk on retirement planning/possibilities/challenges * 1 introduction presentation in the methods of speculative design and rapid prototyping * 1 inspiration presentation for the speculative brief of DIY retirement solutions * Material for quick prototyping * Material for proper documentation and presentation *1-2 Speculative design experts helping with conceptual ideation, prototyping and documentation* *If possible would be great if retirement expert could stay for counselling* Participants will be teamed up in Generational mixed groups with retired members and the retailers of the future working together. # Motivation: This workshop would provide the young participants both with valuable information for planning their retirement as well as learning about the methods of speculative design and rapid prototyping. It would also encourage intergenerational dialogue and understanding between the retired and young participants and foster the development of new and unconventional ideas through the freedom of the speculative approach. The nature of the prototyping focus will also lead to outcomes that we can present and share easily. # What do you guys think? Might there maybe be some budget for material and the expert I would like to invite? (travel costs) Maybe we could add another topical motivation like: the best outcome will be presented to lawmakers in the field? And does anyone already know an expert in retirement planning in Stockholm or where I could contact one? (otherwise, I will reach out to Arbetförmedlanon2926706121n and the economics department of the local Universities)" 6,58338,2019-08-25T11:30:39.640Z,58178,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"I have registered and will need help organizing a workshop on the topic: ""Teaching teachers open source"". It will be in Stockholm and I need all help I can get. 1. A nice venue. 2. Invite experts. 3. Invite teachers and scholars. 4. Invite enthusiasts. 5. Invite policymakers with connection to academia. 6. People that want to bring forward and teach open source ethics and values in computer science in schools. 7. Coffee, snacks swags =)" 7,58339,2019-08-25T12:37:08.471Z,58338,anon3031202475,anon683229855,"@anon683229855, great! I am in Stockholm and happy to help. House Blivande in Frihamnen would be a good option for a location :)! We could meet up there next week or so if you want to talk things through :)" 8,58346,2019-08-25T17:55:05.711Z,58339,anon683229855,anon3031202475,"Sounds great! Which dates are best do you think?" 9,58468,2019-08-27T13:56:29.366Z,58346,anon3031202475,anon683229855,@anon683229855 I wrote you a direct message to plan our meeting in Stockholm :) 10,58469,2019-08-27T13:57:17.481Z,58178,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"To all: *The next community call discussing the festival will be on Tuesday the 3rd of September:* https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-call-3rd-of-september-planning-the-edgeryders-ngi-festival-together/10626 **join the call here at 18:00 Brussels time:** https://zoom.us/j/560175544" 11,58620,2019-08-30T14:53:08.062Z,58178,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"The needs for you events can be registered here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5sOTG-zoRrLmACPe8eW62YFi5-xsz_aUSUlAqqsCo8/edit?usp=sharing" 12,59168,2019-09-11T17:04:32.078Z,58178,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"**We are moving towards the next step now :)!** We have figured out the over all budget (12 000 EUR + 2500 EUR for travel) and now we have to plan and see how to distribute it and what we need to do to help each other realise the workshops, hackathons and talks. At this point do we need some more information from your side: At the very least we need to know: 1. Names of main organisers 2. Date 3. Title of the event 4. Short description (1-3 sentences) 5. How long is the event 6. How many people? 7. Where is the event? 8. What else do you need? You can quickly answer that in this sheet as soon as possible (this week!): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5sOTG-zoRrLmACPe8eW62YFi5-xsz_aUSUlAqqsCo8/edit?usp=sharing HOWEVER, IT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF YOU FILL OUT THIS MORE DETAILED FORM: (Deadline 20th of September!) https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI We developed this one specifically for the festival, taking into account the questions and needs that came up during the previous calls and discussions. **We need this to be filled out by everyone contributing an event by the 20th of September!** It is also a great help to develop your proposal post and/or prepare for the community call on the 17th of September 18:00 Brussels time: https://zoom.us/j/788229402 During that call everyone who wants will be given up to 5 minutes to present their idea and get feedback and support from others. This is a great opportunity to develop your idea further before the initial proposal deadline on the 20th. After that date we will start to distribute budget and helpers, and the sooner you are in this process, the better! Looking forward to your answers and to see you in the call!" 1,57388,2019-07-31T14:55:55.659Z,57388,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"![45|690x208](upload://lM77XfQitLMKXtHtkRatxcZkM87.png) # Join us at Festival.edgeryders.eu
Community members and local contributors come together at happenings like workshops and talks connected to their own interests as well as the Edgeryders organisation's official projects. **It is a #nospectators event: All activities in the program are built by the participants, for the participants:** * Webinars * Satellite/affiliated events in multiple locations * Talks and workshops in different locations (Brussels, Berlin, Stockholm, Warsaw, ...) ## How can you be part of this? Register for a ticket here: https://tell.edgeryders.eu/festival/ticket/en As a community of over 5000 members in 80 countries, It is important to us that the festival is inclusive, accessible and useful to every single participant - no matter where they are located. Also, we would like to set an example for how you can organise events that bring a lot of people together from different places in ecologically ethical ways. So we offer support for anyone who wishes to set up local events in their community or organisation as part of the festival program. **If you want to be a part of this process, tell us here:** https://tell.edgeryders.eu/festival/proposals/en We will then point you to the ongoing discussions and further lead you through the process." 2,57573,2019-08-05T12:13:40.568Z,57388,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,@anon3449369942 is the submission deadline on the 20th of August a hard one or do you think we could move it back a anon222512824 bit? 3,57930,2019-08-13T14:17:29.507Z,57388,anon2724270673,anon3449369942,would love to contribute in some way. I heard a rumor that there might be local to Berlin events too? 4,57944,2019-08-14T07:01:35.860Z,57930,anon2926706121,anon2724270673,"awesome beans @anon2724270673! that sounds great! Can you tell us a anon222512824 bit more about how you’d want to help? We’re meeting next Tuesday at 6PM Berlin time on a community call about joining forces together to organize a few **technology for good tracks.** Others on this call will be @anon3031202475, @anon2434097920, @anon1505367078, me and probably a bunch of others as well. See you there?" 5,58041,2019-08-16T09:15:32.285Z,57944,anon2724270673,anon2926706121,"[quote=""anon2926706121, post:4, topic:10450""] Can you tell us a anon222512824 bit more about how you’d want to help? [/quote] I'll happily help on the project management side of things, I can present/talk/workshop a topic and if there is a Berlin event, I'll show up and be prepared to do things :)" 6,58062,2019-08-16T15:22:55.498Z,58041,anon3031202475,anon2724270673,"Pretty sure there will be an Berlin event! We will start to reach out in the community to see who else would like to join in in Berlin and who would have an idea for a location. :)" 7,58073,2019-08-16T16:09:37.936Z,57388,anon2753384108,anon3449369942,"Hi folks. I'm in Berlin and would love to contribute to this. **How I can help** I've been trying out a model at a few conferences for thinking through the levers available at a company level, called _Platform, Packet, Process_, along with the options you might rely on at public policy level, to drive some change. I'm happy to share what I've learned so far. Also, earlier in May, I helped run [OMG CLIMATE](https://medium.com/omg-climate/omgclimate-in-berlin-at-soundcloud-1c05889162b2), an unconf about what we can do in tech to make it less of a tyre-fire, climate wise (the link has a bunch of writeups from the event). There were a few things that came out of that that would make for some useful content. Finally, I'm now running workshops with my [Green Web Foundation](https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/training/) hat on, with orgs to help them audit how they build services and products - there's a bunch of exercises from the workshops, that could work. *Where I need help contributing* I don't understand where I'd post a proposal for a session though. _Where_ do I post a new topic? I also don't know how you're deciding if a proposal is a good fit, and what questions you're using to decide if something would work for this. _What info do you need in a proposal for it to be something you can make a meaningful judgement on?_" 8,58090,2019-08-18T18:46:03.484Z,58073,anon2926706121,anon2753384108,"great to have you interested @anon2753384108! I think it'd be awesome if you could make it to the call on Tuesday - I'll be there! The Green Web Foundation really seems like something @anon3401476781, @anon2278327272, @anon3809206126 and others from our EarthOS crew would be interested in knowing more about - same re the OMG Climate unconf you helped organizing. Perhaps great would be to discuss it ""in-person"" on Tuesday how we can make the Festival happen together?" 9,58091,2019-08-18T19:20:01.376Z,58090,anon2753384108,anon2926706121,"Hi @anon2926706121! Yeah, Tuesday sounds like it would work. I'll join the zoom room to chat around. Toodle-oo!" 10,58303,2019-08-23T12:52:41.694Z,57388,anon3572363072,anon3449369942,"Hey folks, I thought about a draft proposal for the Hackathon in Berlin and how to engage people into the ER community: https://www.notion.so/worldbrain/Hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-de1d38b627d14e7dbaec9f6af8fe6f14 These are just very raw thoughts and nothing yet on the actual implementation of the day. I was more thinking about the incentive structure for projects to join, and how they could be engaged in the community the most effectively. Let me know what you think :)" 11,58308,2019-08-23T13:58:39.981Z,58303,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072 sounds great and ambitious! Those projects that could participate in the workshop, do I understand correctly that all the ideas sc\hould be about dealing with privacy and information economy?" 12,58311,2019-08-23T14:59:44.983Z,58308,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3031202475, post:11, topic:10450""] Those projects that could participate in the workshop, do I understand correctly that all the ideas sc\hould be about dealing with privacy and information economy? [/quote] As of now as those would allow to actually build something relatively fast, and it should be related to NGI if I understand correctly? But of course we could broaden the scope. Any ideas?" 13,58313,2019-08-23T15:17:13.216Z,58311,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,@anon3572363072 I think its a very suitable topical field. 14,58351,2019-08-25T21:52:34.125Z,58303,anon3572363072,anon3572363072,"Going forward with this is important to know, if the proposal of helping the (winner) teams through the application process with NGI would be something the community is interested in. In practice I thought maybe we can get together ~10 people in different areas who would want to spend 1-2 hours every month for 3 months or so to help them through that kickstarting process? @anon3031202475 @anon1505367078 @anon3809206126 @anon2434097920" 15,58355,2019-08-26T07:35:21.774Z,58303,anon51020356,anon3572363072,"Hei, just chiming in briefly, This sounds great and looks more like an event in and of itself in terms of effort needed - do you have any idea what is the minimum team (members, hours) and time that it would require?" 16,58362,2019-08-26T08:19:38.508Z,58351,anon1505367078,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:14, topic:10450""] if the proposal of helping the (winner) teams through the application process with NGI would be something the community is interested in. [/quote] Absolutely interesting. I guess the only question is what we’d need to make that happen?" 17,58437,2019-08-27T07:49:44.937Z,57388,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,**The Deadline for the Festival proposals has been prolonged until the 20th of September.** 18,58444,2019-08-27T11:40:36.590Z,58351,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"@anon3449369942 how could we offer and communicate this type of project proposal support as a ""win"" motivation option for @anon3572363072 s project in connection with the planned matchmaking events and proposal workshops later in the NGI project schedule? Or how else would be a good way to incorporate it?" 19,58465,2019-08-27T13:52:38.625Z,57388,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"The next community call discussing the festival will be on Tuesday the 3rd of September: https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-call-3rd-of-september-planning-the-edgeryders-ngi-festival-together/10626 join the call here at 18:00 Brussels time: https://zoom.us/j/560175544" 20,58528,2019-08-28T14:06:54.954Z,58362,anon3572363072,anon1505367078,"> Absolutely interesting. I guess the only question is what we’d need to make that happen? I added [a section about the needs](https://www.notion.so/worldbrain/EdgeRyders-Hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-de1d38b627d14e7dbaec9f6af8fe6f14#3c2555ba55124a47834da0d4350afb9d) in the notion document. @anon" 21,58531,2019-08-28T14:14:23.008Z,58444,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"The matchmaking events and proposal workshop sounds like a great opportunity to help the teams who want to participate to find people and to get funding. Is there any more information on those events already available that I can look at?" 22,58553,2019-08-29T09:48:37.932Z,58444,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:1, topic:10450""] technological choices that lead to increased justice [/quote] Ok a rough proposal for us to kick around: 1. Basic idea: Get people to share what they are interested in through story, comment others - we use this as data on which we do ethno + social semantic analysis to identify topics or around which there are clusters projects/people building things. Then we organise the session on location with facilitars to get from discussion to shaping a concept note for something people want to do/build/research together that unlocks something for their work. 2. Follow up: We publish concept notes and the discussions around them on platform. We then do a public collaborative comms campaign where we ask people to suggest calls for funding proposals that match with the concept notes. 3. Next step: is follow up proposal development sprint for each concept cluser + the calls/opportunities for financing that are relevant for it. How: A number of concept notes + matching calls for submissions are selected for an event session where everyone leaves with a skeleanon2317280404 proposal fleshed out. 4. Follow up on platform where we have feedback from people from the community who have experience in evaluating proposals e.g Martin , Alberto, Marco Manca, Katja, and others if they are up for it.. They give partcipants feedback, ask questions etc. What do you guys think? @anon3572363072 @anon1505367078 ?" 23,58564,2019-08-29T11:49:37.992Z,58351,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:14, topic:10450""] In practice I thought maybe we can get together ~10 people in different areas who would want to spend 1-2 hours every month for 3 months or so to help them through that kickstarting process? [/quote] that's what we are here for :)" 24,58565,2019-08-29T11:54:44.274Z,58528,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"[quote=""anon3572363072, post:20, topic:10450""] I added [a section about the needs ](https://www.notion.so/worldbrain/EdgeRyders-Hackathon-for-ethical-solutions-to-unethical-problems-de1d38b627d14e7dbaec9f6af8fe6f14#3c2555ba55124a47834da0d4350afb9d) in the notion document. @anon [/quote] I will also set up a sheet to input the needs projects wise. (link will follow). Regarding what is listed in the notion document: * You want 4 coaches, correct? * Are those to be there physically during the event or available for followup guidance online? * Do you have people in mind? * Do you have already an idea for an entity that would fit well to approach for sponsoring?" 25,58598,2019-08-30T08:53:26.789Z,58531,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"Hello @anon3572363072, we will be able to explain the support for followup projects better in the call on Tuesday. Also, @anon2740950343 shared this link and it might be interesting for you in this and general sense: https://www.ngi.eu/join-ngi/" 26,58619,2019-08-30T14:51:04.540Z,57388,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,Details on the needs of planned events can be registered here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5sOTG-zoRrLmACPe8eW62YFi5-xsz_aUSUlAqqsCo8/edit?usp=sharing 27,58694,2019-09-02T16:24:07.329Z,58565,anon3572363072,anon3031202475,"> * You want 4 coaches, correct? More would be better, these were just ideas on the areas people could help. Generally anybody who thinks they could contribute to the goals of getting those projects to funding is welcome and appreciated as a coach > * Are those to be there physically during the event or available for followup guidance online? Not necessary, but of course the more people wanna join physically the better. Most important I find that they are available online in the forum and for calls to help the people in the process before and after the hackathon. > * Do you have people in mind? For some of the roles yes, also for some of the jury members. Will add them to a document. Where would that make sense? > * Do you have already an idea for an entity that would fit well to approach for sponsoring? No, not yet. Need to still do this. I think it would make sense to have a dedicated call for the hackathon after the call tomorrow and discuss how we approach it." 28,58697,2019-09-02T16:40:54.280Z,58553,anon3572363072,anon3449369942,"I really like that process. Some thoughts: 1. Not sure if we can get a facilitator on (each) location, a 1-1 call online seems more feasible. What would that facilitator do at that stage in your view? 2. I just had the idea that the hackathon may be able to be repurposed to not necessarily coding, but writing a good proposal. Or the hackathon is used to build a part of the proposed project so that there is something to show. Always great with funders to see something tangible working. 3. I wonder if that many projects will apply that are worth clustering by topic for the purpose of suggesting opportunities for funding, as opposed to just suggesting opportunities that are specifically suited for them individually. In the clustering process I intuitively see more value to find collaboration potential between the projects themselves. However I think that this then is not really automatable. But that is just my hunch on the focus of clustering, i generally like the idea of clustering to find synergies." 29,58723,2019-09-03T14:15:20.982Z,58697,anon3031202475,anon3572363072,"@anon3572363072, we had similar thoughts. after today I will schedule 1-1 calls with main facilitators and from those events, we can develop calls together to create topical event groups." 30,58884,2019-09-06T17:07:31.017Z,57388,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"To everyone, the original post has been updated anon4292955258 a bit. 1. We now have the budget: 12 000 EUR + 2500 EUR for travelling to be shared by all events 2. Here is the form we developed in reaction to the questions coming up from your and our side to fill out with the details on your participations: https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI" 31,59167,2019-09-11T17:03:52.790Z,57388,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"**We are moving towards the next step now :)!** We have figured out the over all budget (12 000 EUR + 2500 EUR for travel) and now we have to plan and see how to distribute it and what we need to do to help each other realise the workshops, hackathons and talks. At this point do we need some more information from your side: At the very least we need to know: 1. Names of main organisers 2. Date 3. Title of the event 4. Short description (1-3 sentences) 5. How long is the event 6. How many people? 7. Where is the event? 8. What else do you need? You can quickly answer that in this sheet as soon as possible (this week!): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i5sOTG-zoRrLmACPe8eW62YFi5-xsz_aUSUlAqqsCo8/edit?usp=sharing HOWEVER, IT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF YOU FILL OUT THIS MORE DETAILED FORM: https://ernordic.typeform.com/to/T5psAI We developed this one specifically for the festival, taking into account the questions and needs that came up during the previous calls and discussions. We need this to be filled out by everyone contributing an event by the 20th of September! It is also a great help to develop your proposal post and/or prepare for the community call on the 17th of September 18:00 Brussels time: https://zoom.us/j/788229402 During that call everyone who wants will be given up to 5 minutes to present their idea and get feedback and support from others. This is a great opportunity to develop your idea further before the initial proposal deadline on the 20th. After that date we will start to distribute budget and helpers, and the sooner you are in this process, the better! Looking forward to your answers and to see you in the call!" 1,58706,2019-09-03T11:30:02.231Z,58706,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"![11|690x370](upload://noG1N9GFHwUpJZ9BwpOBiBFiIHp.png) # We have a free ticket to give away to https://techfestival.co/ ## Date: 5/9-7/9 (this week).
10 years after the last edition of Reboot festival closed doors, the organisers launched a new one with what looks like a worthy successor: https://medium.com/@anon Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, the driver behind the initiative, has kindly offered me a free ticket to this year's edition. I am personally indebted to for the impact Rebook has had in shaping my own approach to thinking about/around tech and society. And would love to pass it forward to someone who wants to go. **So we are giving away the ticket with some travel support (up to 200 Eur) in exchange for a post on the platform to share what you learn with people who cannot participate in person.** Like Yannick did for re:Publica: https://edgeryders.eu/t/re-publica-what-i-learned-about-cities-as-open-systems-political-memes-makerplaces-and-migration-due-to-loss-of-habitat/5622 Let us know if you want to claim it via either a comment below or a [PM to me](https://edgeryders.eu/u/anon3449369942). The ticket gets you entry to the event. It also enables you to: * Access all public events, talks, and exhibitions in the outdoor Festival Area * Access the Friday Party at H15 in the Meatpacking District * Get discounts on food and beverages at selected bars and restaurants.
_Ping @anon2317280404 @anon" 2,58717,2019-09-03T13:44:41.052Z,58706,anon2317280404,anon3449369942,"I will attend Techfestival this week, and have ticket/invitation to the CPH150. Would be happy to meet up with other ER's in attendance. Will arrive in CPH tomorrow evening." 3,58724,2019-09-03T14:23:20.251Z,58706,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,I wish I could join! But I am traveling to yerevan for a story with @anon 4,58738,2019-09-03T18:29:02.438Z,58717,anon3449369942,anon2317280404,"I just booked accommodations, arrive on thursday and will be staying in Vesterbro. PM you my mobile so we can coordinate easily <3" 5,58767,2019-09-04T12:28:08.889Z,58706,anon3242181883,anon3449369942,I live in Copenhagen and will participate in Techfestival as well. Would love to meet you and hear more about how you're involved with Edgeryders. 6,58774,2019-09-04T14:10:15.320Z,58767,anon3449369942,anon3242181883,hey! would love to. PM me your signal/telegram/phone nr so we can coordinate? 7,58775,2019-09-04T14:17:58.005Z,58706,anon3931191205,anon3449369942,"@anon3449369942 If there's still a ticket available I would love to come as well! I'd be traveling from Aarhus to go :) Had to make sure my schedule was free before saying anything. Let me know :sparkles:" 8,58776,2019-09-04T14:23:02.192Z,58775,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"Yep, you can have it - Moving to DM for details" 9,58787,2019-09-04T16:13:50.238Z,58706,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,It turns out that I can use the same code to secure several tickets. So if anyone still wants to go and doesnt have a ticket you can ping me. 10,59023,2019-09-10T08:48:49.290Z,58775,anon3449369942,anon3931191205,"was great meeting your @anon3931191205 and @anon3242181883 :slightly_smiling_face: I have put together some notes from two sessions here and will be posting a general reflection in the coming days - would be good to hear your own thoughts/learnings: https://edgeryders.eu/t/event-notes-unstructured-tech-moonshot-for-climate-change/10696/2 https://edgeryders.eu/t/draft-post-how-to-build-an-incubator-for-accessible-environmental-solutions/10688/3 Also- I asked Alberto to share some reflections/experiences from having explored impact assessment when it comes to ecological issues: https://edgeryders.eu/t/on-assessing-impact-and-what-edgeryders-could-do-in-that-department/10708/7 These are realted to the ongoing discussion around deep green and tech (and the festival session that is coming out of it) https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-internet-of-biases-and-other-terrible-ways-to-open-a-conversation/10190 https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-tech-workshop/10191" 1,59021,2019-09-10T08:30:50.844Z,59021,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"Hello everyone, This is the document we use to plan for the costs. The way it works is that every local event organiser leaves a comment below containing the list of resources for their event, and estimated costs of each. This enables us to collectively keep an eye on the overall budget so that we can discuss and then and then upload into the collaborative budgeting before you spend any money. Then @anon3031202475 @anon2278327272 and myself go through the budget document, do some admin adjustment of budget posts and explain the process for how to upload the proof of expenses in order to be reimbursed for them. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to post them in a comment below.... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IIk5nCMebzEFqJ3ik4pp9vR8f65Wm5GuVCyUPgQ-o-Q/edit?usp=sharing" 1,58953,2019-09-09T11:52:51.970Z,58953,anon2753384108,anon2753384108,"This looks interesting, especially for folks able to stay in Berlin when it's on. A residency at the Trust Coworking space to explore an alternative to dominance by the big US corps (i.e FAANG) or China's equivalents: > The European Union currently finds itself in a peculiar situation. Chinese and American digital infrastructure monopolies are solidifying, increasing the friction between San Francisco flavoured platform-capitalism, Beijing’s Great Firewall, and supposed European values for taxation, privacy, the inclusion of migrants, labour protection, housing rights and environmentalism. > > From October through December 2019, Trust will explore narratives and projects that reimagine the European Stack* as a political project. What is the way forward for pan-european digital infrastructure? Could the European Stack be a project about, and model for, a solidarity-based politics? You can see more here: https://trust.support/posts/europeanstack/ They also offer an interesting reading group: http://trg.boneless.technology/ This is likely interesting in the context of all this NGI chatter." 2,58955,2019-09-09T11:58:34.143Z,58953,anon3449369942,anon2753384108,ping @anon1686813978 for the #counanon2317280404me list 3,58965,2019-09-09T13:24:54.651Z,58953,anon3005076832,anon2753384108,"[quote=""anon2753384108, post:1, topic:10712""] i.e FAANG [/quote] Just a quick feedback: As a IT specialist I usually hear and speak about _GAFAM_ (google apple facebook amazon **microsoft**). Never heard of _FAANG_ (facebook apple amazon **netflix** google). A quick google (yes...) search landed me on an article about FAANG. It seems that FAANG comes more from an investor perspective (yay, make money with FAANG), where GAFAM is more common in the activist scene (lets bring down money-maker GAFAM)... super-simplified, but I thought I might share my insights." 1,58922,2019-09-08T21:53:35.357Z,58922,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"Hello all, today I had a bit of time and decided to look into the state of the conversation networks of the two main projects Edgeryders in involved in at the moment. * The NGI Forward one (in green) has 110 unique contributors. There are 1,255 posts in 116 topics, with 157K words. There are 338 unique edges in the corresponding social network. * The POPREBEL one (in red) has 85 unique contributors. There are 572 posts in 139 topics, with 156K words. There are 229 unique edges in the corresponding social network. * 17 people (in gray) participated in both conversations. ![image|690x516](upload://n9ZZcX4XLvMJqmutXFjCVe9NzHj.png)" 2,58935,2019-09-09T08:38:47.024Z,58922,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,thanks - very useful 1,58462,2019-08-27T13:24:18.236Z,58462,anon3031202475,anon3031202475," # **Dear Community members involved and interested in the Edgeryders Festival,** # We are meeting up on *Tuesday the 3rd of September 18:00 Brussels time* to update each other and discuss our ideas for the Edgeryders festival with a focus on NGI related projects and how to help each other to realise them. Join the call here: https://zoom.us/j/560175544 # You can join this call no matter if you have been involved in any previous discussions or not it is a great place for first or second steps in developing your Edgeryders festival participation or project. The deadline for proposals has been moved to the 20th of September but the sooner you start to post ideas here https://edgeryders.eu/t/register-for-edgeryders-festival/10581 or just sign up your information in this [sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D_CMPm43FDXg5EE_5zDk6C_A_yG6s25HrH4wPuRRP7I/edit?usp=sharing), the better we can plan and help each other to realise amazing events! # Looking forward to talking to you!" 2,58466,2019-08-27T13:55:22.868Z,58462,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"@anon2434097920, @anon2926706121, @anon3416257941, @anon3572363072, @anon2740950343, @anon2753384108, @anon2724270673, @anon3180318115, @anon3931191205, @anon3449369942, @anon273015838, @anon1077780936" 3,58489,2019-08-27T20:10:16.718Z,58466,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,Ill be there 4,58498,2019-08-28T06:21:09.165Z,58466,anon2740950343,anon3031202475,Thanks @anon3031202475 Feel free to spread the word in the events section of NGI Community https://spaces.fundingbox.com/c/ngi-next-generation-internet/collections/events 5,58523,2019-08-28T12:22:25.927Z,58498,anon3031202475,anon2740950343,"@anon2740950343, this link sends me to a side asking for a login, could you explain it a bit more? What is it for, who can use it? Thank you very much" 6,58583,2019-08-30T06:00:01.158Z,58523,anon2740950343,anon3031202475,"@anon3031202475 the link leads to NGI Community which is different to edgeryders platform as explained here: https://www.ngi.eu/join-ngi/ NGI requests for login, but it is open to everyone, although focuses on providing funding opportunities and connections to innovators, entrepreneurs and professionals" 7,58596,2019-08-30T08:50:39.527Z,58583,anon3031202475,anon2740950343,Thank you very much! 8,58693,2019-09-02T15:59:27.074Z,58462,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"**We have pinned down the overall budget for the festival now and will be able to start discussing how to allocate it in this call, so come and join in the discussion!** @anon2753384108, @anon3572363072, @anon3180318115, @anon2724270673, @anon1077780936, @anon3416257941, @anon683229855, @anon" 1,55432,2019-06-19T13:21:33.050Z,55432,anon1077780936,anon1077780936," Hi, We had a great visit to the Reef in Brussels last weekend and we discussed coming up with a workshop to lead into a day conference focused on exploring 'deep green tech'. The aim would be to get a deeper understanding of what it means for tech products and organisations to be deep green and ecologically sustainable. We'd explore **both** the teams/organisations creating the tech as well as the tech itself, investigating the question: How can a startup structure _and_ the technology it produces be deep green, ecologically sustainable and regenerative? We would invite a group of technologists and social entrepreneurs to feed into the discussion. We would lead an introductory session to: + bring people into a present, grateful, connected and creative space. + confront collapse and what it means for tech projects. + to present and discuss (both intellectually and through activities) a series of guiding 'deep green' principles related to biomimicry / bio-harmony (Examples of these principles are: centralised vs distributed vs decentralisation, holarchy, coevolution, circular resource loops, subsidiarity, meta-stability, dividuation / integration, agent centric). We could then move on to a series of more specific sessions about the applications of these principles to specific areas of tech and organisation design. The outcome might be a collectively created based report on deep green tech. Would be great to get some feedback on this idea. We are happy to make any changes! Thanks, Julyan and Will" 2,55455,2019-06-19T21:31:09.990Z,55432,anon2434097920,anon1077780936,"Welcome. And that sounds great. With an emphasis on deep. The greenness or lack of it in tech is hidden from most of us. Or maybe we just don't look closely enough, or know where to look to find out." 3,55477,2019-06-20T09:28:31.021Z,55432,anon3809206126,anon1077780936,"Hi @anon1077780936 (Julyan and... Davey? or Will?), it was lovely to have you. This conversation opener was requested by @anon3449369942, as I recall it. Me, I had promised to give you (well, Thomas was the one who seemed most interested, but I am not aware he made himself known on this website) some links on the Economic Science Fiction Seminar. Here goes: * [Intro](/t/8534) * [Econ-SF works wiki](/t/8582) * [The economics of Cory Doctorow's Walkaway](/t/8828) * [Whole Econ-SF forum](/c/research-network/economic-sci-fi)" 4,55478,2019-06-20T09:28:39.360Z,55432,anon3449369942,anon1077780936,"Hi guys super nice seeing you here, welcome :slight_smile: There's a thread where we are discussing this - could be a a good context to plug in the workshop and pull in people to tweak it and partner around running it in different places? https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-internet-of-biases-and-other-terrible-ways-to-open-a-conversation/10190/5" 5,55545,2019-06-21T09:44:56.240Z,55432,anon51020356,anon1077780936,"Hei hei, welcome to our other home, this time on the web! If we'd like the workshop to end with a report - it means there's a lot of ground to cover - even if we come in with a summary of existing conversations happening online. This sounds more like a harmonious hackathon - we had this idea a few years back, for quiet and healthy events where real work would be done. Maybe there's ideas in there which we could borrow. Alternatively, if it's more of a statement - the workshop could be like a mini exhibit to fill our brains with a future of what is possible, and let it rest for a while, then work on a manifesto online. Either way, there isnt a lot you can do in a day... so format aligned with expectations is crucial imho. https://edgeryders.eu/t/harmonious-hackathons/2265" 6,55861,2019-06-28T14:31:01.130Z,55545,anon3449369942,anon51020356,"Meanwhile in Australia.... this can serve as an interesting case to learn from for how to go from workshop to engagement to action in tech community https://www.filmink.com.au/public-notice/2040-reaches-1-million-australian-box-office-hits-strides-regenerative-programs "" > "" Most importantly, however, are the numerous initiatives beyond the film that are now in action following its release: > * **Seaweed: The next (re)generation –** A crowdfunding marine permaculture initiative working with The Intrepid Foundation, Climate Foundation and the University of Tasmania to regenerate marine ecosystems in Tasmania and sequester carbon from the atmosphere has raised over $70,000 from public donations, all of which will be matched dollar for dollar by the Intrepid Foundation. [www.theintrepidfoundation.org/seaweed-regeneration](http://www.theintrepidfoundation.org/seaweed-regeneration) > * **RedGrid intelligent energy grid technology –** the film’s impact team has supported the Australian intelligent energy grid company, RedGrid, to help realise how the technology featured in the film can be applied in Australia. *2040* collaborated with RedGrid to open the opportunity for crowd-sourced investment from the Australian public; in 24 hours they received over $550,000 of expressions of interest. [www.redgrid.io/investors/](http://www.redgrid.io/investors/) > * **Ecosia** – a search engine that uses its profits to plant trees in seventeen countries around the world saw a significant amount of Australian traffic generated from the *2040* impact campaign. This has resulted in over 1,000 browser installs, over 100,000 searches and 2,719 new trees planted by this traffic. [www.ecosia.org](http://www.ecosia.org) > * **Cool Australia** – *2040* ’s educational outreach partner, has had 2,875 lesson plan downloads of the initial thirteen available lessons from schools and educators around Australia. An additional five more lessons for secondary science programs have now become available, and the uptake from schools across Australia is expected to continue to grow. [www.coolaustralia.org/whats-your-2040/](http://www.coolaustralia.org/whats-your-2040/)""" 7,56079,2019-07-02T14:35:46.245Z,55432,anon51020356,anon1077780936,"Hei @anon1077780936 curious if you've had time to look at these bunch of references? Perhaps we could have a call with more people from the community who have already given input on green trustmarks and could be the conversation starterers at the event? How about dedicating a community call like those planned by @anon2434097920 @anon3031202475 to make the next steps in planning the event?" 8,56168,2019-07-04T15:33:00.038Z,55432,anon3809206126,anon1077780936,"For reference: @anon1077780936 have dreamed up [a workshop on Reclaiming Utopia](https://www.thephoenixproject.site/reclaimingutopia/), developed as part of their work with Extinction Rebellion in London. This is also useful for the #research-network:economic-sci-fi seminar. @anon3401476781" 9,57483,2019-08-02T12:45:31.414Z,56079,anon3031202475,anon51020356,Still interest for a community call on this topic? @anon1077780936 would you be up to feature in it/prepare some questions and invite some people as a test for the workshop? Maybe in September? 10,57498,2019-08-02T14:25:06.108Z,57483,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,would be great as everything is lined up for doing the workshop they proposed in Brussels this fall 11,58004,2019-08-15T12:33:55.670Z,55432,anon3416257941,anon1077780936,"Excited to see a thread on this topic! I'm really interested in how to combat the climate emergency. For people in the tech sector, I can recommend joining the [Climate Act Tech group](https://climateaction.tech/), which is sharing a lot of great tips and immediate actions. I also recommend Chris Adams' amazing work threading these various discourses and tools. His recent talk, [When Software is Heating the World](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15bP7z8Whyj1gIK67KMyU511vp7mYF59dAGXMBPFMVWk/edit#slide=id.g5d9e2f62d2_0_226), is a particularly good recap of the climate crisis and what the tech sector can and should do." 12,58014,2019-08-15T17:14:44.016Z,58004,anon3031202475,anon3416257941,"Dear @anon3416257941! Thank you for this comment and the links in it. Would you like to get involved with some deep green tech events and projects in the Edgeryders NGI festival? Have a look here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-november-19-29-invitation-to-participate-in-co-designing-the-next-gen-internet-track-of-the-program/10450 ## and if you have time on Tuesday 18-19, join us on the community call to discuss how to best represent those topics in the festival: https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-call-20th-of-august-your-chance-to-shape-the-edgeryders-ngi-festival/10549 ## (here is the link to the call directly: https://zoom.us/j/592769960)" 13,58372,2019-08-26T10:36:33.433Z,55432,anon1077780936,anon1077780936,"Hi @anon51020356 @anon3031202475 @anon3809206126 @anon3449369942, Ah so sorry to have missed your messages. For some reason they were going into my email spam folder. I definitely could come to the community call in September. What's the date / time of it? And definitely keen to be involved in the Edgeryders Festival. I can elaborate on our ideas for the Deep Green Tech workshop in the community call. Are you also suggesting we have a community call particularly for this topic? Maybe we could run that after the wider community call? Sorry again for not being responsive..." 14,58414,2019-08-26T17:21:46.375Z,58372,anon3031202475,anon1077780936,"@anon1077780936, great! We are looking forward to hear more about you work shop on the 3rd of September 18:00 Brussels time in the zoom community call and it would be great to set up a follow up call for deep green festival topics in detail with you within the following 2 weeks :)." 15,58417,2019-08-26T17:44:29.976Z,58372,anon3449369942,anon1077780936,maybe @anon196034329 wants a heads up about the spam folder issue for notifications that @anon1077780936 point to above? 16,58418,2019-08-26T17:56:07.878Z,58372,anon196034329,anon1077780936,"[quote=""anon1077780936, post:13, topic:10191""]your messages […] were going into my email spam folder[/quote] Edgeryders IT admin here. If you still have one of these e-mails that was accidentally classified as spam and know how to forward e-mails as attachments (not ""inline""), could you forward one to me at anon196034329@anon" 17,58455,2019-08-27T13:12:06.916Z,58418,anon1077780936,anon196034329,Hi @anon196034329. I've forwarded it to you! 18,58568,2019-08-29T13:29:21.615Z,55432,anon3031202475,anon1077780936,"@anon1077780936, do you have a copyright-free title image to go with your first post in this thread? That helps us when pushing the discussion for further engagement on social media, which we would like to do in preparation for the workshop development for the festival :). Thank you" 19,58585,2019-08-30T07:38:32.346Z,55432,anon4261882768,anon1077780936,Is there a date and location yet? 20,58586,2019-08-30T07:49:46.005Z,58004,anon3449369942,anon3416257941,"hey hey :) @anon2753384108 organised a dinner in Berlin but you were out of town. D But now you guys are connected here. Question - are you still in touch with previous Moz fellows like @anon On a side note: Dunno if I ever mentioned it but found out from a friend that the co-working space someone rented for that Moz/Wikimedia meetup aaages ago was/is also an S&M venue once a month: Knotty am Kotti :)) Remembered it while thinking about possible venues for the workshop in Berlin." 1,58262,2019-08-22T11:13:16.277Z,58262,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"*Written after the first periodic meeting of the ethnography team. It was dedicated to reviewing the very first iteration of the codebook for the NGI Forward study.* Ladies, color me impressed. It was fascinating to watch you work. In my interpretation, what's happening is: 1. The rationale for coding choices becomes explicit. Accountability of the research work increases. 1. You are now building small networks of codes in your heads, and using them as information structures to store ethnographic evidence in. The lovely bit is that these networks are open: they encode the possibility that parts of the corpus _you have not yet coded_ might connect to them, thereby generating additional meaning by triangulation. Example: you said that the code `regulating 5G` should be split into `regulation` co-occuring with `5G`, because other parts of the conversation might evoke regulating something else, for example `recommendation algorithms`. If this is indeed the case, you are able to see the discussion on regulation on a broader level, as `regulation` will then link to both `5G` and with `recommendation algorithms` in the semantic network. At a high level of interpretation, this ends up allowing the space for regulation, as the community sees it, to emerge. 1. The Codebook is now on a GDoc. By doing this shoot-from-the-hip prototyping you are zeroing in on functionalities that future iterations of Open Ethnographer needs. The fact that you use them is a strong indication that you need them, as in really need them. And speaking of this: @anon196034329, it seems the ethno team uses comments a lot. They took the trouble of rebuilding the whole codebook on GDocs, and it looks like this: I think, however, that the codebook should be automatically generated by OE. The codebook proper is a list of codes (that are all in the database) followed by their respective descriptions (also in the database). Can we make them commentable? Or maybe just generate codebooks that can be exported? @anon1037234888 @anon3663068181 @anon28068060" 2,58266,2019-08-22T11:46:31.678Z,58262,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:24, topic:10242""]The codebook proper is a list of codes […] followed by their respective descriptions (also in the database). Can we make them commentable?[/quote] How about a butanon2317280404 Discuss this code on a code's page that would create a new Discourse topic and link it to the code? Then discussion can happen on Discourse as usual, and people would be notified as usual. (We don't want to re-implement discussions, as it would not become as good as the Discourse discussions.)" 3,58278,2019-08-22T13:53:59.085Z,58262,anon28068060,anon3809206126,"Hi Alberto, great to e-meet you today. And very fun to read your reflections and encouragements of our work. Always here to chat more about how we can translate some of our current mechanisms to fit within the OE platform! Cheers, anon28068060" 4,58291,2019-08-23T06:34:21.857Z,58266,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:25, topic:10242""] How about a butanon2317280404 on a code’s page “start a discussion about this code” that would create a new Discourse topic and link it to the code? [/quote] This sounds like a great idea. Let's hammer it into a proper metadata strategy for the data of SSNA studies. This ties into [this issue](https://github.com/edgeryders/discourse/issues/211): I hope to convince you, @anon196034329, that we do need a database entity to refer to a whole SSNA study. The reason is **metadata**, which are essential to understanding and reusing the data. Some metadata can be automatically generated from the data: for example, the duration of the conversation can be inferred from the timestamps of the posts; the duration of the coding from the timestamps of the annotations; the number of researchers involved from the names of the annotations' authors. But others cannot, specifically methodological choices informing the coding (""we use a grounded theory approach..."", ""we chose to use names of individual technologies, and even of specific applications, as *in vivo* codes. This is because the study's ultimate purpose is to contribute to shaping technology policy..."". I find it useful to think about these things in terms of exporting a whole project for safekeeping on a repository such as Zenodo. What would a complete export look like? The ethnography proper would have: * pseudonymized topics and posts * annotations thereof, which include the associated codes * the codebook, automatically generated from the annotations and codes. It includes the discussion part as suggested by Matt. * methodological notes. @anon1037234888, @anon For the SSN proper, we could take two roads. The first is this: there is no need to export anything, because the SSN adds no information to the coded data. It is simply a network representation thereof. Interested researchers can rebuild it from the ethno data. Alternatively, we could add to our data either the Neo4j file powering Graphryder (after pseudonymization), or a docker file containing the whole Graphryder shebang. I think I am going to fork the final part of this discussion and move it to #ioh:workspace, so other partners in the consortium are more exposed to it." 5,58306,2019-08-23T13:33:39.123Z,58262,anon28068060,anon3809206126,"Hi Alberto, Thanks for starting this conversation. I am not (yet) familiar enough with the specific functioning of OE to comment on the suggestions. But I am very interested in the process of capturing and analysing the meta-data. I was wondering how meta-data is currently collected and used? And how it plays into the creation of the semantic network, if at all? Cheers, anon28068060" 6,58312,2019-08-23T15:04:07.210Z,58291,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:4, topic:10599""]we do need a database entity to refer to a whole SSNA study[/quote] Can be done. There could be another menu item ""Studies"" in the Open Ethnographer interface, at the top. So: ""Overview, Studies, Codes, Topics, Annotations, …"". A study record would be anon4292955258 simple: 1. Field for the name of a Discourse tag that defines the study content. 2. Field for a link to a wiki with methodological notes. 3. Export butanon2317280404. ""Study"" would then also be available as a filter in the Codes, Topics and Annotations views of Open Ethnographer. Which sounds useful. If that sounds reasonable, make a Github issue for this feature request. We'll see when it can be implemented (related to available budget). I'm not too much in favor of this feature as I'd rather like to slowly transform Open Ethnographer into a generic annotation plugin for Discourse (""Annotator.js for Discourse""). That would make it useful beyond the narrow scope of online ethnography. ""Study"" is rather only useful for online ethnography, but this screen could simply be hidden in the more generic annotation solution that I have in mind …" 7,58322,2019-08-24T09:32:53.363Z,58306,anon3809206126,anon28068060,"[quote=""anon28068060, post:5, topic:10599""] I was wondering how meta-data is currently collected and used? And how it plays into the creation of the semantic network, if at all? [/quote] Corinne, AFAIK your field (like most of the humanities) has a very casual attitude with respect to documenting research. Exact reproducibility in a quantitative sense is obviously out of the question, so many scholars decide they have no duty to make the reasoning leading to their papers transparent. So, we have no best practice to fall on. The main epistemological move behind SSNA is to treat conversational exchanges as data. That makes it natural to adopt the culture of data stewardship that comes from different communities, in my case the open data community. When we documented OpenCare, it worked like this. 1. At the beginning of the project, we wrote a [data management plan](https://github.com/opencarecc/opencare-data-documentation/blob/master/Data%20management%20plan/Data_in_Opencare.pdf). This type of document is now a requirement for EU-funded research. 1. Graphryder fetches the data from the edgeryders.eu database via API. So, we [documented the API itself](/t/7904). This is our main metadata repository, in that database entity are exemplified, witjh the indication of the fields they contain and an explanation thereof (unless the name of the field is itself explanatory). 1. We then exported the data in JSON format, uploaded them on Zenodo. The Zenodo record contains links to the API documentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1215979 Do you think it is adequate?" 8,58348,2019-08-25T19:19:22.406Z,58322,anon28068060,anon3809206126,"Hi Alberto, Thank you for explaining. That makes a lot of sense and I agree it is important to document the research process. In our case, we have started to do that by writing down our coding memos in which we explain why and how we make decisions, as well as ask each other questions. As @anon1037234888 mentioned we plan to publish these regularly on the platform. One of the things I was struck by in your initial email was the capture of data with regards to time spent on the platform (""for example, the duration of the conversation can be inferred from the timestamps of the posts; the duration of the coding from the timestamps of the annotations; the number of researchers involved from the names of the annotations’ authors""). I was wondering to what extend there had been an epistemic-level conversation about what this kind of data does and does not capture? Because time-stamps are only partial data, in the sense that a 2 hour coding session on one thread could tell you: 1. it was long, 2. it was complicated, or 3. it was interrupted by, the need to read up, (grab a coffee), go back to some literature, 4. some other reason entirely etc. etc. I think this might be an interesting conversation to circle back to once we get to a stage of (meta) analysis of such data. anyways, just my .2 cents! Have a wonderful Sunday! Cheers, Corinne" 9,58350,2019-08-25T21:10:19.590Z,58348,anon3809206126,anon28068060,"[quote=""anon28068060, post:8, topic:10599""] I was wondering to what extend there had been an epistemic-level conversation about what this kind of data does and does not capture? [/quote] None at all. It is my experience with data analysis that there are rapidly decreasing returns to model sophistication. And anyway, we have no theory to interpret exact information on the length of writing a contribution, even if there were a cheap way to obtain this information. I would simply use the timestamps to compute the time period in which the conversation took place, and use it as a descriptor _of the corpus_, not of each individual contribution. ""The conversation took place from `timestamp(earliest post)` to `timestamp(latest post)`.""" 10,58395,2019-08-26T13:43:54.873Z,58350,anon28068060,anon3809206126,"Got it! That makes sense. I was interested because Mia and I have a good friend who does great PhD research on the dangers of conflating timestamps with credibility (in her case she researches harassment reporting apps in the context of US campus rape culture). So my question was more aimed at avoiding that conflation pitfall rather than complicating our current data analysis model. Hope that makes sense! Cheers," 11,58401,2019-08-26T14:35:47.784Z,58395,anon3809206126,anon28068060,"[quote=""anon28068060, post:10, topic:10599""] she researches harassment reporting apps in the context of US campus rape culture [/quote] OK... that's a context in which an investment in more precise modelling actually makes plenty of sense. We do low stakes stuff (praise the gods). Whether the online conversation started in January or March 2019 does not really affect the validity of our results. So we can afford not to care too much." 12,58530,2019-08-28T14:12:30.592Z,58401,anon28068060,anon3809206126,"Well - the interesting thing about her research results is that such precise modelling can actually be harmful to survivors, because it moves the credibility of their personal experience and story to the timing of their timestamps. So really the argument I am trying to make is that timestamps should be taken with a grain of salt, but I guess that worry is moot in this case :)" 1,58482,2019-08-27T18:24:05.532Z,58482,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"The mighty Vinay Gupta, incidentally (or not) co-founder of Edgeryders as @anon > Many people sense huge economic opportunities from straightening up the identity mess and making things work, but we have to be sure the solutions proposed do not simply become the next generation of problems. I am not buying 100% into his proposals (nor am I particularly qualified to), but, as far as I can see, he does have some good points. What do you think, @anon4261882768? https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/part-i-are-you-sure-you-exist-we-are-5cfe13ab488c" 2,58484,2019-08-27T18:46:28.000Z,58482,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,"Hi Alberto, I agree fullly with the quote that you highlight. I will read and get back on this. For now I want to say that th ultimate e objective is to break ‘identity’: Identity is thus distributed over architecture, service, and phone, signed in digital signatures, federated and attribute-based only. A large number of technical (IoT), financial (blockchain) and semantic (AI) experts see the need to move from the present fixed-identity paradigms to more flexible or fluid frameworks of “entitlements”, to allow the formulation of context-specific and attribute-based identities. Let’s focus on that vision and build a new smart social contract. It will bring hope and hope is what drives real change and society forward. Technically it can be operationalised in a fully open-source hardware and software environment. The hardware part needs to be procured from the EU industry. The operating system, zenroom,[1] is being developed in the EU project DECODE.[2] It forms the heart, a virtual machine running embedded in a chip in the triangle: device (EU passport), embedded SIM cards in services (wearables, home, connected car, and smart city), and infrastructure (routers, 5G base stations)." 3,58488,2019-08-27T20:01:14.086Z,58484,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"[quote=""anon4261882768, post:2, topic:10631""] A large number of technical (IoT), financial (blockchain) and semantic (AI) experts see the need to move from the present fixed-identity paradigms to more flexible or fluid frameworks of “entitlements”, to allow the formulation of context-specific and attribute-based identities. [/quote] He seems to agree on that. But he argues that is still anon4292955258 hard to do, *when planning for security on a long time horizon*. > [...] something that’s a anon222512824 less about storing the entirety of our being on a permanent record, but more focussed on disclosing the minimum required for people to be able to do business (or other critical functions) together. > >Maybe information is partitioned: your school grades, but not your name, all separated with a zero knowledge proof. If you have to prove that those are, in fact, your grades — well, that’s what that public key is for. You demonstrate possession of the relevant private key — you know the secret — without revealing the key. Every piece of personal information about you is stored with a different public key: you have a big fat keyring, and each key reveals only a single fact. > > And maybe those keys have blind signatures or proxies or similar arrangements which prevent somebody noticing that Applicant for Job 1 has the same “see my proven grades” key as Applicant for Job 2. We are not helpless in this mess: a certain perspicacity and awareness of how long time is, how fast things pass, and the sheer complexity of the upcoming 21st century leads to a sagacious approach to information partitioning, database translucency, use of temporary credentials for passing needs, being economic with disclosures, even guarded. These trends are very different to what has become normative in the social media age in the liberal democracies which are still, just barely, the majority of the internet. But **this kind of blind trust that the data you publish will never, ever be used against you is very much a product of liberalism**. People from countries with more to fear, or cultures which were ruled by aggressive empires, have anon4292955258 different norms when it comes to personal disclosure." 4,58493,2019-08-27T21:23:16.000Z,58488,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,"Yes, these thoughts are very enlightening and necessary to address. There is no one size fits all, there is no ‘global’, there is no ’solution’. It is all part of ongoing praxis that will be dynamic and needs to be able to change with the ‘extra’ and serendipity that is happening because of the technologies and analytics seeing patterns difficult to see from a human time frame and perspective. On community: Accountability over anonymity characterises this approach as it underlies society in the 21st century itself. Tokenised trust is a key feature but only in the actual locality where face-to-face interaction can occur and communities of people work and live together. Maybe we can have a session on this during the Edgeryders Festival, an open discussion? Very happy to be part of that, Greetings, Rob" 1,52812,2019-04-24T21:12:00.109Z,52812,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"> Is this what we want: to let them get away with it, and sit back and play with our phones as this darkness falls? But OK, regulate. How would it work? Does anyone have any clue? https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare" 2,52816,2019-04-24T23:14:20.928Z,52812,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"### Regulators will regulate (once they get started) Mmh, ""regulate"", really? I really hope there are enough outspoken tech-libertarian and crypto-anarchist users of the early Internet left, who will not fall for regulation as a solution. As we have just recently seen in [the lost fight against upload filters in the EU](/t/9649), regulators have an unsatiable appetite to churn out more regulation, in favour of whoever lobbies them around, once they discover another domain that is responsive to regulation. Innovative cryptocurrency and blockchain projects are doomed as well once governments discover ways to regulate there. (That space is admittedly a bloody Wild West scenario right now, but why not. At least it's innovative!) ### Too big to exist So if regulation can not save but only destroy the Internet we loved, what then? In very short: everything that is large enough to cause serious social issues (like, well, Facebook in this case) should either (1) not exist at all or (2) be public infrastructure, preferably distributed and open source, and certainly not in private hands or (3) consist of small federated units so it cannot cause such serious problems. ### The case against advertising And while we are at it: most issues with tech giants soanon3242181883 revolve around the use and abuse of advertising. Both in the case of Facebook and Brexit, and in the conflict between publishers and Google over the share of Internet advertisement revenue (which is behind the whole upload filter and link tax debate of the EU copyright reform). Now advertisement is organized bullshitting and misleading of people anyway, and the Brexit campaign example makes the hypocrisy of political leaders blatantly obvious: in their eyes, organized bullshitting of people for economic growth is fine (even though overconsumption means ecological destruction, but who cares) but organized bullshitting of people for other causes is ""a threat to democracy""!? So if we want to save the Internet, and a good part of the natural world alongside, let's get rid of advertising altogether, both online, in print, on TV and in public space, whether for products or political parties. It will create some disruption, but the Internet will find other business models, no worries. To get rid of advertising online, I am even willing to accept a tiny bit of regulation: all major browsers must come with an ad-blocker enabled by default.   (**P.S.:** Re-reading this, I like my style of writing when I'm angry :laughing: It sounds a bit like @anon" 3,52834,2019-04-25T13:44:30.568Z,52816,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:2, topic:9797""] In very short: everything that is large enough to cause serious social issues (like, well, Facebook in this case) should either (1) not exist at all or (2) be public infrastructure, preferably distributed and open source, and certainly not in private hands or (3) consist of small federated units so it cannot cause such serious problems. [/quote] 1 is regulation. In fact it is *the* regulation, the nuclear trigger under the fanon2926706121r of antitrust authorities, [since 1890](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890#Monopoly). The concept is that of ""dominant position"". Once a company attains a dominant position in a market, it can be forced to break up into smaller companies. This is what happened under the Carter administration in America to AT&T (""Ma Bell""), forced to decompose into regional companies (""Baby Bells""). That does not happen by chance, or divine intervention, but by a court applying a piece of legislation. 2 is nationalization, and also requires regulation. 3 is just a solution applied after 1. I asked ""how to do it"" because antitrust regulation evolved in a state context. It is not clear if, say, a German court, could order Facebook (an American company) dismantled. It could, in theory, forbid it to operate on the German market, but that would require a Great Firewall of Germany or some non-existent technology. At the very least there would be some creative implementation to do, even if the political will could be found. [quote=""anon196034329, post:2, topic:9797""] let’s get rid of advertising altogether, both online, in print, on TV and in public space, whether for products or political parties. [/quote] For this to be viable, we need a clearer idea of how it would work. History might hold some clues: prior to 1993 it was indeed illegal to use the Internet for commercial purposes, and it would be interesting to look at how things might have evolved from there. I would be eager to have this discussion on this platform, as a part of NGI Forward!" 4,52841,2019-04-25T17:06:48.157Z,52834,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:3, topic:9797""]1 is regulation.[/quote] 1 is the _absence_ of regulation. Regulation is what made companies as big as Facebook possible in the first place, with stuff like companies as legal persons, publicly traded companies, the basic concept of transferable debt with govt enforcement and so on. I prefer they would not make any big business possible and develop standards for cooperation instead. The W3C is actually a good model." 5,52845,2019-04-25T19:17:58.084Z,52812,anon2233507620,anon3809206126,"Well that can be applied to all media nowadays unfortunately (or 95%). Can we talk about free and fair elections when they spend hundreds of millions of dollars/euros to have someone elected or manufacture public opinion/consent for various horrible decisions being made in the name of the people? We also now know that silicon valley giants abuse of their position very much and in so many ways, from privacy issues over rigging the search results/filtering information we can see to silencing people by removing their ability to make money or to be heard via their platforms. As far as regulation is concerned, well I have very bad experience with regulation and standardization. Seems to be used mostly by big company, who actually finance our policy makers, to reinforce their position on the market or eliminate smaller players. Maybe a combination of banning advertisement & funding political campaigns could bring some improvements. In our democracy money wins..." 6,52847,2019-04-25T19:58:48.379Z,52834,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:3, topic:9797""]It is not clear if, say, a German court, could order Facebook (an American company) dismantled. It could, in theory, forbid it to operate on the German market, but that would require a Great Firewall of Germany or some non-existent technology. At the very least there would be some creative implementation to do, even if the political will could be found.[/quote] And that is actually a really good question to discuss and solve around here: how to break up Facebook (or annihilate it altogether) when there is no global agreement about it. I don't have an idea right now, because for sure we don't want Great Firewalls or national ""splinternets"", which would surely be used by governments for all kinds of anti-democratic purposes once they would have them implemented …" 7,54078,2019-05-28T11:04:31.258Z,52812,anon2333263393,anon3809206126,"One of my particular concerns is the use of AI algorithms to manipulate human feelings and decision making for commercial or political benefit. Ideally, there should be an outright ban of such algorithms. If that is not possible, there should oversight of such algorithms by a board of stakeholders and such a board should have mandatory powers to enforce changes to algorithms when they are deemed to be harmful or excessively manipulative." 8,54079,2019-05-28T11:06:23.910Z,52812,anon2333263393,anon3809206126,Another idea: perhaps users should have to opt-in to be exposed to those algorithms. 9,54100,2019-05-28T18:01:42.420Z,54078,anon2434097920,anon2333263393,What would be an example of an AI algorithm that manipulates in that way? 10,54173,2019-05-29T17:12:55.192Z,54100,anon2333263393,anon2434097920,"Here's one example of how algorithms can be manipulative and unhelpful. ""YouTube algorithms have been criticized for drawing viewers into ever more extreme content, recommending a succession of videos that can quickly take them into dark corners of the internet."" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/13/james-damore-google-memo-youtube-white-men-radicalization This is an eye-opening TED talk by a researcher on this topic: https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads" 11,54177,2019-05-29T18:09:33.204Z,54173,anon2434097920,anon2333263393,Good references. Thanks. 12,54185,2019-05-29T21:02:03.100Z,54173,anon3809206126,anon2333263393,"It goes back to the original sin: modeling human beings as desire machines, instead of thinking adults. The YouTube algo maximizes minutes of video watched, which in turn maximizes number of ads watched. Watching videos is the supreme good. If extreme controversy (and worse) get people to watch more videos, it is good. Because the viewer is *choosing* to watch those videos, right? He chooses to, because watching the videos makes him feel good. And why should people not want to feel good? What's wrong with that? Whereas, if you model a human being as a thinking adult, some of those videos are debasing, and watching them is definitely not good." 13,54188,2019-05-29T21:53:20.136Z,54185,anon2333263393,anon3809206126,"Spot on, @anon3809206126!" 14,54233,2019-05-30T14:13:45.788Z,54185,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,Yes “modeling human beings as desire machines” pretty well nails it. But then this has been the MO of TV ads for generations. 15,55430,2019-06-19T13:19:57.401Z,54233,anon1022881418,anon2434097920,"Human beings ARE desire (or pleasure, take your pick) machines! So it's not a question of modeling or appealing to that. Need I mention porn? Free iPads? Obama lowering your interest rates? One has to accept the world as it is and was. Attacking any of these problems by trying to change ""the beast who is already formed"" seems fruitless. Now..there is not doubt that parenting and education along with society can crank out humans who suppress the beast. Such has been done for 100's of years (or longer), but a society modeled on money really has anon222512824 reason to do so. Attention is Heroin. I have seen it first hand. In fact, I think it's more addicting than any drug I have seen....maybe Cocaine is close. People simply cannot help themselves. Many people have better angels. Some people don't. Even with increased awareness and education, you still have the sociopath problem....as well as others. I don't mean to say that it is hopeless...but I think it's hopeless. :slight_smile: We can work around the edges a anon222512824 bit - in terms of data collection, possible breakup of large firms, etc. But will Facebook really change if it doesn't own instagram or WhatsApp? Not IMHO. Not to repeat myself, but Facebook didn't ""do"" anything much....they just created a terrible framework and then people did the rest...and it just got out of control. My thought is that it will, in a sense, self regulate because decent people will do less there (already happening in my view). Government has a place in the data collection part, tho. I do think that breakup of the core businesses is going too far....as stated, there is nothing to replace them and nature abhors a vacuum. What comes after FB would be more likely to be Putin controlled or the like." 16,55501,2019-06-20T15:14:33.113Z,55430,anon2434097920,anon1022881418,"I think simply divesting WhatsApp or Instagram from FB, or Android from Google won't get to the heart of the problem if nothing is done about the way they gather and share user data. And even that won't deal with how FB and others like Google follow people as they go to other parts of the net and use that combined data to not just further target ads, but more insidiously to decide what and who one does and does not see. Furthermore, regulation has to make them choose if they are neutral platforms (which would force them to fundamentally change their business model) or publishers (in which case they would have to take more responsibility for what get said on their platforms). These are the core problems. Core to them because this is central to what drives their growth." 17,58205,2019-08-21T07:56:46.009Z,52812,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"More evidence for recommendation algos distorting the public sphere. This time it is Neflix's, which has a large catalogue of nutty conspiracy theory-endorsing documentaries, and recommends them to people who have watched balanced, well made documentaries. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/netflixs-algorithms-seem-to-be-a-new-entry-point-for-conspiracy-theories-be-aware/" 18,58214,2019-08-21T10:06:39.837Z,58205,anon2926706121,anon3809206126,"The whole discussion that tech is just tools that people use, and that people are the bad inherently just turns out again, isn't true. It's the algorithms (accidentally?) feeding us franon2926706121 ideas making them part of the general narrative. This NYT thing on Brazil and YouTube perfectly exemplifies it: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/world/americas/youtube-brazil.html" 19,58218,2019-08-21T13:00:34.674Z,58214,anon1686813978,anon2926706121,"Well, video itself is full of bad ideas, but its people who click on this and consider it true. Same goes for the gun debate (in my opinion) in US. A gun on a table doesn't kill people, someone needs to pick it up and pull the trigger. I personally see here a huge and enormous potential for online education seminars on how to distinguish fake news from actual news." 20,58332,2019-08-25T00:16:48.577Z,58218,anon1022881418,anon1686813978,"The Dunning Kruger effect would seem to suggest that those online seminars would not be well intended. Simply speaking, people who don't know things don't know (or care) that they don't know them. They have zero interest in knowing them. One would have to read tends of thousands of pages of fairly dry history to even have a foundation to understand what might be real ""news"" or ""truth"" and what not be. Further, the Dunning Kruger effect says those who are more capable (maybe those making and giving the seminars) are LESS SURE than the ignorant about whether they are correct or not! It's a strange thing...but very real." 21,58409,2019-08-26T16:27:11.273Z,55430,anon3809206126,anon1022881418,"[quote=""anon1022881418, post:15, topic:9797""] But will Facebook really change if it doesn’t own instagram or WhatsApp? [/quote] That's not what the AT&T breakup did. The breakup was vertical, not horizontal: it created seven companies that *were all competing for the exact same market with the same product*. If you had twenty competing social networks, they might still be evil, but they will, individually, be much less powerful than the original monopolist." 22,58411,2019-08-26T16:42:15.962Z,58409,anon2434097920,anon3809206126," The broken up bell companies did not actually compete with each other they were just assigned a territory where they could operate. And that is still true. The trouble with all of that is that cellular phone service isn’t regulated by any of those rules which is why AT&T, which is really Southwestern Bell based in Texas which was then allowed to merge with Pacific Bell, and then bought AT&T (which by then had been reduced down to just a name with the right to make computers that didn’t Sell much and, most importantly, AT&T was the beginning of there wireless business). Because of wireless, and the overall reluctance to put any constraints on gigantic corporate businesses, I think the state of phone service in the US is not anon4292955258 monopolistic but getting closer. I guess this is a digression in a sense from the main topic. But I think my point is that breaking up the company did have some big effects but I don’t think that we the consumers made out all that well in the bargain considering we now pay on average something like five times as much for phone service as we used to." 23,58413,2019-08-26T16:47:06.555Z,58411,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:22, topic:9797""] The broken up bell companies did not actually compete with each other they were just assigned a territory where they could operate. And that is still true. [/quote] Hmm. I recall that, at the time, the idea was that after a grace period the Baby Bells would be allowed to compete for each other's market. This would drive tariffs down. Competition on cellphone service in Europe worked very well to keep the prices low." 24,58419,2019-08-26T17:57:43.986Z,58413,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"They all had a right to go after what they called long distance service. That was the competition. But again mobile phones obliterated all of that soon enough. Still without the break up of AT&T there would be no Internet as we know it today. (The big reason being before the breakup AT&T owned the lines and all the equipment. Part of the breakup was allowing other companies to make phones and modems that ran on the lines that had formerly been the exclusive and complete domain of AT&T.) And for that alone it was worth it. Even though we know how flawed the Internet is, but still…" 1,57715,2019-08-07T12:12:45.255Z,57715,anon2505173109,anon2505173109,"## RESHAPING THE INTERNET THROUGH COLLECTIVE AND NETWORKED INTELLIGENCE **The [Next Generation Internet (NGI)](https://ngi.eu/) initiative aims to foster a vibrant open Human-centric Internet movement that links research, policy and society for the creation of a better Internet – an Internet that respects fundamental values of privacy, participation and diversity.** **The NGI Forum will take place in Helsinki on 25th September 2019.** Registration is free but seats are limited, register now www.ngiforum.eu It is the flagship annual event that gathers together prominent researchers, innovators and policy makers at work on several fronts to restructure the Internet to be fit for the future we want, while we continue using it to help run our societies and economies. This year it will take place on the 25 September in Helsinki (Finland) in co-location with the My Data 2019 Conference. The event will include a mix of policy and specialist talks, open discussions and interactive working groups. The emphasis is on stimulating discussion and the free exchange of ideas between policy makers, researchers, SMEs and Startups, industry players, and civil society. Some of the main topics covered at NGI Forum 2019 include: * Data governance and portability * Privacy and trust enhancing technologies * Discovery technologies and online identification * Collective intelligence – from citizens science to open innovation * Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies" 1,57475,2019-08-02T11:03:50.962Z,57475,anon2740950343,anon2740950343,"Hi all, sharing my tweet about new available calls in NGI Community. Enjoy! https://twitter.com/DavidSeoaneVila/status/1157245100671537154?s=20" 2,58065,2019-08-16T15:36:13.630Z,57475,anon3031202475,anon2740950343,"Dear @anon2740950343, great to have you here and thank you very much for posting this link to help the community! Is there anything the community could help you with your projects and interests at the moment? I would also like to invite you to join the discussion around the Edgeryders festival either in this tread: https://edgeryders.eu/t/edgeryders-festival-november-19-29-invitation-to-participate-in-co-designing-the-next-gen-internet-track-of-the-program/10450 or live during our community call on the 20th of August 18:00 Brussels time: https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-call-20th-of-august-your-chance-to-shape-the-edgeryders-ngi-festival/10549 (link to the zoom call directly: https://zoom.us/j/592769960) It would be great if you could help us to make some connections between the NGI open calls and events, workshops and discussions we could feature during the festival :)." 3,58368,2019-08-26T08:48:45.486Z,57475,anon2740950343,anon2740950343,"Thanks @anon3031202475! Happy to join the discussion around The Edgeryders Festival Maybe you can spread it in NGI Community as well: https://spaces.fundingbox.com/c/ngi-next-generation-internet/collections/events/write" 1,58144,2019-08-19T19:08:28.813Z,58144,anon1686813978,anon1686813978,"I'm a big Gary Vaynerchuck fan. In case if you don't know who he is, here's his website: https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/ One of the things he said is what really resonates with me and I do believe it's correct: social media isn't changing us, it's showing who we really are. His short opinion on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKG_T3VtbMw The main premise for this is that for example in the past, people kept things about themselves in the dark, for example, that the liked nationalistic parties. ..people usually confined in their closest circle which party they support, and now, they share their opinions about it online on their social channels. By that, they share what they already believed in and have been believing in probably before social media became a thing. The other issue is that this can be abused, as we've seen with the cambridge analytica scandals." 2,58153,2019-08-20T08:57:38.812Z,58144,anon2724270673,anon1686813978,"I mostly agree, but it doesn't explain everything. Taken by itself, this statement leads us to the conclusion that large portions of humanity are awful. And I do not believe that. While the internet does expose our less virtuous sides, it also helps to feed and grow them. That happens in several ways, for example: * algorithmic content feeds and the ""attention grabbing"" method of creating content reinforces the negative echo chamber * our habits and skills haven't adapted to the lack of recognizable separation of the different communication spheres. * we also haven't adapted to the fact that the internet keeps dredging up all our past sins and doesn't let go of them. That makes it a lot harder to reinvent oneself, or change ones stance over time. * large numbers have completely separated the ""this is where I do my political discussions"" circle from the ""these are my friends"" ones. These circles only merge again once the political opinion has settled in such a way that communicating with friends who have a different opinion isn't possible at all anymore." 3,58286,2019-08-22T17:44:00.477Z,58144,anon2434097920,anon1686813978,Who we really are: easily manipulated 1,58244,2019-08-22T00:59:11.671Z,58244,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Follow this link to listen to the fascinating 90 minute live conversation with guest Christian Buggedei, AKA @anon2724270673, discussing the challenges and opportunities of designing a more human-centered social media platform. https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/a/aff52050fead654b579d9f209612daf477af3c8c.mp3" 2,58249,2019-08-22T08:23:45.038Z,58244,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"One for @anon3930211770. Fredric, you were telling me you were prepared a careful response to @anon2724270673, following that conversation, right?" 3,58285,2019-08-22T17:41:47.246Z,58244,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"We talk about interface and usability design, user tools and controls, when humans need to intervene instead of machines handling issues between people, problems with scaling and much more. Christian and his group are deigning an alternate social media platform called Darcy. They are in the early spec stage and getting clear on the principles that guide the creation of their product. There is much in here of interest.." 1,57980,2019-08-15T07:07:47.681Z,57980,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"Join our community call on August 20, 6PM Brussels time to find out how you can get your ticket for the Edgeryders Festival. Join the call with this link: https://zoom.us/j/592769960 The Edgeryders Festival is a program of activities that take place in multiple cities in Europe. Tickets are not free of charge, but they cannot be bought for money. You can only get a ticket by working with the other participants to make it a great experience for everyone involved. Join this call if you'd like to be part of it. About the festival: The Edgeryders festival is a co-created event, build by participants who work together in different crews. ## At the Edgeryders festival you get to see what is happening, and how your own story is part of it. You will meet people from all over Europe to share our experiences from trying to build good lives for ourselves and people we love. Everyone comes together to exchange experiences, and use the learnings to help us make better decisions. In our professional and personal lives. Join this call to help shape the festival in a direction that interests you most. ([You can download last year's festival report here ](https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/7/76956ade79e5a56c0668c54326f556761cbd7177.pdf)) : " 2,57982,2019-08-15T07:30:55.030Z,57980,anon3031202475,anon2926706121,"@anon2926706121, Looks good. I will add the date, time and zoomlink and we can @anon" 3,57985,2019-08-15T07:38:24.038Z,57982,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,@anon2926706121 added the link and changed the title a bit. Are you fine with it? 4,58044,2019-08-16T09:56:06.130Z,57980,anon2278327272,anon2926706121,Pinging here our NGI consortium partners who might want to join as well: @anon 5,58046,2019-08-16T10:08:30.000Z,58044,anon4261882768,anon2278327272,"Hi Marina, I can not join that call. For the Festival I can take the Reading Club to Brussels: [https://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Ghent/events/263417465/](https://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Ghent/events/263417465/) Greetings, Rob" 6,58097,2019-08-19T09:12:44.670Z,58046,anon2278327272,anon4261882768,Note to @anon1505367078 7,58108,2019-08-19T11:23:08.543Z,57980,anon51020356,anon2926706121,"Thanks for organising, I'll be there!" 8,58111,2019-08-19T11:33:04.098Z,57980,anon3031202475,anon2926706121,"@anon3931191205, @anon3572363072, @anon3180318115, @anon273015838, @anon2724270673 we would love to see you there :)" 9,58119,2019-08-19T12:08:34.743Z,58111,anon2278327272,anon3031202475,also @anon2505173109 :) 10,58120,2019-08-19T12:09:44.427Z,58119,anon3031202475,anon2278327272,and @anon2740950343 :) 11,58127,2019-08-19T14:20:34.449Z,58111,anon3180318115,anon3031202475,"thx much for the reminder, will be there, and yes we would like to do sth here in Saarbruecken, probably around our involvement in ai ethics / collective intelligence design" 12,58139,2019-08-19T17:10:46.364Z,57980,anon3931191205,anon2926706121,@anon3031202475 I'll be there! :sparkles: 13,58183,2019-08-20T14:32:33.878Z,58127,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"In another mtg at 1800, will join after that or catch up tom..." 14,58187,2019-08-20T16:58:55.824Z,57980,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,"notes from zoom chat: From Maria@anon it would be great if you guys could quickly share your topic of interest, what you would be interested in/what you might want to contribute and where you are based here in the chat for each other for orientation :) From Inge to Everyone: (08:10 PM) i’m especially interested in topics related to tech&humans - focussed on disinfo, authoritarianism (abuse of tech), and ethics From Zenna Fiscanon1410463509 to Everyone: (08:10 PM) ++ From Inge to Everyone: (08:10 PM) What i can do: help communicate the messages From Oliver Sauter to Everyone: (08:12 PM) We at WorldBrain could organise a hackathon in Berlin for conscious tech. From Me to Everyone: (08:12 PM) awesome, oliver From Maria@anon I want to help you guys to coordinate to get together to realise events around the NGI topics and directly organise and help set up the event in Stockholm (great space) :) From Alberto to Everyone: (08:13 PM) I am especially interested in the economic aspects of Internet infrastructure. Specifically, I care about how best make use of the property of information to be non-rivalrous: using it does not prevent others also using it. From Oliver Sauter to Everyone: (08:14 PM) > I am especially interested in the economic aspects of Internet infrastructure. Specifically, I care about how best make use of the property of information to be non-rivalrous: using it does not prevent others also using it. ❤️ From Alberto to Everyone: (08:14 PM) I would like to explore how a new wave of Internet infrastructure can enable a commons-based economy, which is just way more efficient than the present IPR-based model. From Oliver Sauter to Everyone: (08:14 PM) Looking forward to talk in Helsinki :) From John Coate to Everyone: (08:14 PM) I am interested in moving tech back to greater user control. From Alberto to Everyone: (08:14 PM) @anon From Zenna Fiscanon1410463509 to Everyone: (08:14 PM) I’m interested in decentralisation, in all forms but my focus is on internet atm From John Coate to Everyone: (08:16 PM) It should be noted that Nadia is the chief organizer for the festival and she is out until later this week From Noemi to Everyone: (08:17 PM) Also: what is your experience with events so far? From John Coate to Everyone: (08:18 PM) also Zoom defaults to you being mute..so unmute before you speak. From Noemi to Everyone: (08:22 PM) Are there formats you have seen elsewhere which you liked? From Chris Adams to Everyone: (08:22 PM) Hi Folks. My current interest is in understanding the policy levers available to help decouple the use of internet tech and digital in general, from the environmental impact we associate with it, and also to see how to have. More diverse From Alberto to Everyone: (08:23 PM) @anon From Chris Adams to Everyone: (08:23 PM) Damnit! Not finished. I’m looking for ways to promote a more diverse ecosystem that we work without such concentration of power and influence in a tiny number of actors" 15,58193,2019-08-20T17:35:35.958Z,58187,anon3031202475,anon2926706121,"Thank you for everyone for being there and to @anon2926706121 for keeping track of this. @anon2753384108 started a document for notes if I understand correctly, could you share the link here?" 16,58194,2019-08-20T18:19:03.746Z,58193,anon2753384108,anon3031202475,"here you are :slight_smile: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PqF6rNtXTY9hoeKARXvV0lQhzF1RXweIKaYCkQAYYaw/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=116798189445354874572" 17,58195,2019-08-20T18:22:50.282Z,58194,anon2926706121,anon2753384108,Woah @anon2753384108 this is so super useful! Thanks so much! 18,58196,2019-08-20T19:09:27.421Z,58194,anon3031202475,anon2753384108,@anon2753384108 Thank you! Amazing :) 1,55953,2019-07-01T12:24:12.006Z,55953,anon2278327272,anon2278327272,"These are the upcoming events until the end of the year which Edgeryders is either organising or has an active role in. The post is made wiki so please update/modify accordingly. If you wish to change the format of this let me know. - **10/7** - [Platforms, precarious work and the public good. Can platforms empower workers?](https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d9a9c0490bdcb6d045860cd5e1509b46d90ed8b0.pdf) Type: discussion Category: public Location: Brussels Organisers: The Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) Stakeholders: policy makers; academics Edgeryders role: @anon3449369942 participating in the session ""platforms for the public good"" - **18-21/7** - [DWeb Camp](https://dwebcamp.org/) Type: camp Category: public Location: San Francisco, California Organisers: DWeb, Internet Archive Stakeholders: developers, hackers, makers, activists Edgeryders role: @anon3931191205 tbc - **8-15/8** - [BornHack](https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2019/) Type: camp Category: public Location: Funen island, Denmark Organisers: BornHack Stakeholders: hackers, makers, politicians, activists, developers, artists, sysadmins, engineers Edgeryders role: @anon1505367078 @anon3931191205 proposed a workshop, tbc - **21-25/8** - [Chaos Communication Camp](https://events.ccc.de/category/camp/) Type: camp Category: public Location: Mildenberg, Germany Organisers: Chaos Computer Club e. V. Stakeholders: hackers Edgeryders role: @anon3449369942 @anon1505367078 @anon3931191205 holding outreach events - **25-27/09** - [My Data](https://mydata2019.org/) Type: Conference Category: public Location: Wanha Satama, Helsinki, Finland Organisers: My Data Global Stakeholders: experts from business, legal, tech and society sectors Edgeryders role: @anon3809206126 participating in a panel on collective intelligence. Panel chair is Loretta Anania (EU Commission). - **18-20/10** - [Radical Networks](https://radicalnetworks.org/) Type: conference Category: public Location: New York Organisers: Radical Networks Stakeholders: artists, activists, lawyers, engineers, writers, policy makers, educators, scientists, journalists, community organizers, cyberfeminists, self-taught technologists, and others. Edgeryders role: @anon1505367078 proposed a talk, tbc - **1/11** (tbc) - [Deep Green Tech](https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-tech-workshop/10191) Type: workshop Category: public Location: Berlin, Germany Organisers: Edgeryders in partnership with Extinction Rebellion Stakeholders: technologists, hackers, researchers Edgeryders role: workshop co-design, community management - **19/11** - [AI and Internet infrastructure vs. equality and justice](https://edgeryders.eu/t/heads-up-new-possible-event-in-the-fall/10139) Type: meetup Category: public Location: DigitYser, Brussels Organisers: Edgeryders in partnership with DigitYser Stakeholders: policy makers; tech & hacker scene Edgeryders role: @anon3449369942 @anon3809206126 - **25-26/11** - [Internet Days](https://internetdagarna.se/english/) Type: conference Category: public Location: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre Organisers: The Swedish Internet Foundation Stakeholders: professionals, policy makers and journalists Edgeryders role: Exhibition booth to drive engagement to the platform and NGI conversation @anon1505367078" 2,55962,2019-07-01T13:36:35.652Z,55953,anon3449369942,anon2278327272,"Also - Zenna is going to be at 18th of July - DWeb in California around the 8th to 15th of August - Bornhack 21th to 25th, August - CCCamp" 3,55968,2019-07-01T14:16:41.378Z,55962,anon2278327272,anon3449369942,tagged Zenna in those events and added the DWeb. What I need from all of you is to fill-in the missing info for each event so that I can add it to the official NGI calendar for the consortium. 4,55973,2019-07-01T15:02:30.623Z,55968,anon2434097920,anon2278327272,I filled in some about Dweb - turns out I know some of the organizers. 5,55974,2019-07-01T15:23:12.867Z,55973,anon2278327272,anon2434097920,great thanks! do you have the information on what role Zenna will have at the event? 6,55975,2019-07-01T15:29:55.415Z,55974,anon2434097920,anon2278327272,I think she is just attending but I can ask her. 7,55976,2019-07-01T15:35:12.435Z,55975,anon2278327272,anon2434097920,"In this case it won't go to the consortium spreadsheet since we put there only the things we are organising or participating in as speakers, workshop leaders etc." 8,55977,2019-07-01T15:44:23.035Z,55976,anon2434097920,anon2278327272,Right. 9,56023,2019-07-02T02:41:40.402Z,55953,anon196034329,anon2278327272,"@anon2278327272: This list-style event format unfortunately does not work for our setup to publish events from this category to edgeryders.eu/events ([details](/t/9687)). Can you please split it into individual topics, one per event, and with a picture each. As an example, I contributed [a topic for the first event](/t/10279)." 10,56025,2019-07-02T03:47:16.867Z,55953,anon3449369942,anon2278327272,"Deep green tech workshopestakeolders: technologists, hackers, researchers Edgeryders role: workshop co-design, community management Location: Berlin" 11,56027,2019-07-02T06:14:38.139Z,56023,anon2278327272,anon196034329,"Hmm so there is no way to have everything in one place? I think it is much easier to have an overview rather than opening ten different threads. I can in addition do separate posts but keep somewhere the timeline, or a summary like this." 12,56029,2019-07-02T07:00:50.049Z,55968,anon2278327272,anon2278327272,@anon1505367078 can you describe what will you be doing (Edgeryders role) at the BornHack and the Radical Networks events? 13,56030,2019-07-02T07:04:40.475Z,56029,anon1505367078,anon2278327272,"Is it enough to say outreach, or does it need to be more specific? I’m exactly sure yet." 14,56031,2019-07-02T07:06:00.989Z,56030,anon2278327272,anon1505367078,what it really means? you are just attending and looking for interesting people or you are intervening in a way - as a speaker for example 15,56035,2019-07-02T07:16:10.711Z,56031,anon1505367078,anon2278327272,"I have applied to do a talk at Radical Networks and and will also submit a proposal for a workshop at Bornhack, but neither are confirmed yet." 16,56036,2019-07-02T07:21:15.873Z,56035,anon2278327272,anon1505367078,"ok great, so I won't put that it's confirmed" 17,56058,2019-07-02T10:33:36.281Z,56027,anon196034329,anon2278327272,"[quote=""anon2278327272, post:11, topic:10273""] I can in addition do separate posts but keep somewhere the timeline, or a summary like this. [/quote] Sure, that's not a problem. You can for example keep this topic as the summary, keep it in this Events category, and link from it to the individual topics with more details. The only important thing is that for every event there is a topic with the event's date and time." 18,57364,2019-07-31T09:21:29.818Z,55953,anon2278327272,anon2278327272,If there are any new events you want to include in the calendar (or updates on these above) please let me know so that I can update in the official calendar before the end of the week when it will be shared with the PO. @anon3449369942 @anon1505367078 @anon3931191205 19,57365,2019-07-31T09:29:57.359Z,55953,anon2278327272,anon2278327272,"[quote=""anon2278327272, post:1, topic:10273""] **18-21/7** - [DWeb Camp ](https://dwebcamp.org/) Type: camp Category: public Location: San Francisco, California Organisers: DWeb, Internet Archive Stakeholders: developers, hackers, makers, activists Edgeryders role: @anon3931191205 tbc [/quote] Also, @anon3931191205 did you attend this event?" 20,57393,2019-07-31T15:23:33.905Z,57365,anon2434097920,anon2278327272,She did. I met her for coffee soon after. Lots of Scuttlebutt community members were there. 21,58124,2019-08-19T13:21:16.740Z,55953,anon2278327272,anon2278327272,"[quote=""anon2278327272, post:1, topic:10273""] * **8-15/8** - [BornHack ](https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2019/) Type: camp Category: public Location: Funen island, Denmark Organisers: BornHack Stakeholders: hackers, makers, politicians, activists, developers, artists, sysadmins, engineers Edgeryders role: @anon1505367078 @anon3931191205 proposed a workshop, tbc * **21-25/8** - [Chaos Communication Camp ](https://events.ccc.de/category/camp/) Type: camp Category: public Location: Mildenberg, Germany Organisers: Chaos Computer Club e. V. Stakeholders: hackers Edgeryders role: @anon3449369942 @anon1505367078 @anon3931191205 holding outreach events [/quote] @anon1505367078 any updates on these two events? From now on there is a template to be filled-in for the coordinator containing more information." 22,58140,2019-08-19T17:20:54.943Z,58124,anon1505367078,anon2278327272,"I ended upp skipping Bornhack. I'm leaving for CCC on Wednesday morning. What's in the template?" 23,58142,2019-08-19T17:26:59.918Z,58140,anon3931191205,anon1505367078,"I also skipped Bornhack, also heading to CCC on Wednesday! Hugi, I'll add you to the ssb group chat if you're not already in too :sparkles:" 24,58154,2019-08-20T09:07:36.945Z,58140,anon2278327272,anon1505367078,"I uploaded the form on our Drive, you can find it [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/anon" 25,58156,2019-08-20T09:36:21.936Z,58154,anon1505367078,anon2278327272,"[quote=""anon2278327272, post:24, topic:10273""] If this is the case for CCC please fill it in. [/quote] Ok, will do. Where do I put it once I've filled it in?" 26,58158,2019-08-20T09:48:52.289Z,58156,anon2278327272,anon1505367078,"We can use the same folder where the template is (""outreach events""), NGI team drive" 1,58049,2019-08-16T12:04:36.321Z,58049,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"I induced a new social network from NGI today. I excluded both the public and the non-public workspaces from it. The results are nevertheless encouraging: * 106 unique contributors * 102 threads * 1,073 posts * 143K words * 308 unique relationships induced It looks like this: ![image|690x427](upload://qwEPd8XdhY7HrUCwDI0r3R26tEL.png) However, I could not help noticing that two users are not interacting with anyone. Could @anon2434097920 and @anon3031202475 go say hi? They are colleagues, even, anon2740950343 and anon2505173109. Thanks!" 2,58066,2019-08-16T15:42:10.684Z,58049,anon3031202475,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:10557""] anon2505173109 [/quote] @anon3809206126, I went and started talking to anon2740950343, but before I write a direct message to the anon2505173109 did I want to ask if there is anything I have to to know about the anon2505173109? @anon2278327272, are they those who are particular about the wording regarding community and such? Can/Should I reach out them asking to get involved with the Festival or rather not? Should I better literally just say ""hello""? Who is behind that?" 3,58095,2019-08-19T08:50:10.504Z,58066,anon3809206126,anon3031202475,"Just introduce yourself, showing that you are aware of who they are. ""You are probably here for work reasons, like I am, but you are still welcome. If you, like myself, are also interested in debating the NGI, your contributions will be most welcome, and I will do my best to connect you with interesting people to debate with, and have a good experience.""" 1,57822,2019-08-10T18:59:08.252Z,57822,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"According to this essay, it does. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/was-e-mail-a-mistake?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_081019&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd672a73f92a41245dd7c89&cndid=26629987&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Daily" 2,57933,2019-08-13T14:44:52.215Z,57822,anon2724270673,anon2434097920,"nah. _Used correctly_, asynchronous messaging is a blessing. It means that I can write and send off either an instruction, a question or a handover and then _can forget about it_. It won't eat up any brain cycles until the answer comes back. And I don't even have to deal with said answer, until I am ready to do so. So, switch off all alerts for email and instead set a reminder every 60 minutes or so to check your emails manually. Permanent context switching is the bane of mental productivity, and asynchronous communication allows us to minimize this. The caveat though: This needs to be done right. Set time boxes for when to check your emails, sort them into ""deal with ASAP"" and ""deal with at next timeslot"". Also: Let your recipients know, when you expect an answer, and set realistic timeframes (maybe even add an explanation, why something is urgent). If you need the answer right now or within 15 minutes, call or go in person. If you need in it 15 days, you better put it into an email! Write your emails clearly - provide context where needed, keep it short enough that the gist and answer-timeframe is easily understandable. _Write sentences that make sense_. If everyone would do this, emails are the best!" 3,57936,2019-08-13T16:39:42.930Z,57933,anon4292955258,anon2724270673,"I have really felt organisations that struggle with, like, meta-conversational overhead due to the nature of async conversation -- combined with how people in general tend to use it. I have also experience from other groups of e-mail users, where the advantages that you mention are really great! But I find that use anon4292955258 particular, and again not many people practice it. It's hard and takes discipline, as you say." 4,57937,2019-08-13T17:27:37.788Z,57933,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"Email is the number one way I communicate with people outside of meeting in person. This has been true now for more than 30 years. I greatly prefer it over phone calls. But then, I am not in an organization or company that requires I answer more than a hundred of them a day. I would go nuts with something like that. I get what the author is saying about meetings and there is an irony to turning something asynchrounous into something resembling real time. Once I worked for a nonprofit that had what I regarded as an absurd amount of in-person office meetings. They would have been much better served by using email better. But that was a culture I could not influence." 5,57958,2019-08-14T14:15:15.182Z,57822,anon541960008,anon2434097920,"A side aspect, but the article's author seems to be completely oblivious to the blessings, historical significance and spread of the [_Rohrpost_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube) (pneumatic tube networks), describing the CIA's system, as if it were special or unique. I felt really frustrated with that. The history of office communications is much more complex than the picture that is painted there." 6,57961,2019-08-14T15:37:08.926Z,57958,anon2434097920,anon541960008,I remember as a kid in 1950s New York going to my father's office at Merrill Lynch and seeing a huge pneumatic tube system going all over the place. 1,57757,2019-08-08T11:04:24.069Z,57757,anon2740950343,anon2740950343,"OPEN CALLS from H2020 in The Next Generation Internet community available!: Next Generation Media; Blockchain for the NGI; InteractiveTechnologies; Next Generation IoT; An empowering, inclusive NGI. Check them here! https://bit.ly/31oGwZZ " 1,57225,2019-07-29T01:28:29.656Z,57225,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Peter Bihr is an expert on Internet of Things, especially in matters of policy. He is a co-founder of the ThingsCon annual conference, he has a consulting firm, The Waving Cat, he is a former Mozilla Fellow, and he co-founded a company that makes durable and stylish pants for travelers. As part of his Fellowship here, we interviewed him and he in turn interview some of his colleagues." 2,57226,2019-07-29T01:43:08.997Z,57225,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"In this mp3 podcast, Peter discusses Internet values with Michelle Thorne from the Mozilla Foundation. Michelle talks about her ten years at the Mozilla Foundation, the state of internet participation, making the Internet-of-things open and responsible, the meaning of ""open"" in this context, The Open IoT Studio, and a new PhD program looking at responisble IoT, all with a focus on professionals and practitioners. 34 minutes, recorded July 2019. https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e182e332deb203bccd3f1680ff815115802f0c53.mp3" 3,57227,2019-07-29T02:04:54.284Z,57225,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Peter Bihr interviews Professor Jon Rogers from the University of Dundee (and also a Mozilla Fellow) in this mp3 podcast. Professor Rogers discusses origins of maker culture, the blurry line between consuming and producing, a recent design conference/retreat that led to using AI and film to show potential future scenarios through storytelling, the nature of surveillance today, and a deep look into what values and ethics must be built into networked technologies in public (and private) spaces. 42.4 minutes, recorded July 2019. https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/0/04eb415d13b1766bc34deace21b96040762c7456.mp3" 4,57228,2019-07-29T02:14:57.533Z,57225,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Peter Bihr in conversation with John Coate, Inge Snip and Christian Buggedei n this mp3 podcast, which runs an hour and thirteen minutes. We discuss a wide range of topics from smart cities to internet of things, trust marks and certifications to how China is the center of hardware creation. recorded July 2019. https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cc97e2a07234e0776f89adf91230204c58ceb17d.mp3" 5,57230,2019-07-29T06:47:15.123Z,57225,anon4261882768,anon2434097920,"Are there some written highlights or key messages, or should I listen to the full interviews? I doc not need a full transcript that is excessive but some points for discussion would be good to have." 6,57231,2019-07-29T07:11:14.135Z,57226,anon4261882768,anon2434097920,Peter talks about the Edgeryders Internet of Humans project? I take it that is referring to the work of Edgeryders in NGI CSA FORWARD? I think it is best to mention NGI.eu and the CSA. 7,57233,2019-07-29T07:37:03.284Z,57225,anon4261882768,anon2434097920," Lots of good pointers for discussion. Which stakeholders are you going to get involved? What are the next steps of building this into a larger public debate. How is things con engaging its community for this? I will send my notes to the council list and ask colleagues to get involved. Participation is more complicated. Lack of governance from human side. IoT projects that are open in designs, code, explanation of business model and how did it come to be, transparency builds trust Part of that is disclosing what happens to the data Roles of individuals and collective Individuals can they protect themselves? We see beginnings of collective bargaining, pools of users. See also datatrust (Delacroix), digital cooperatives. Bringing the full story of connected projects :showing the ‘hidden’ infrastructures Anatomy of AI as a reference project showing the network of stuff around a single device, Alexa. https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/9/17832124/ai-artificial-intelligence-supply-chain-anatomy-of-ai-kate-crawford-interview Tools IoT Trustmark https://thingscon.org/report-a-trustmark-for-iot/ A Trustmark for the Internet of Things (IoT): The Trustable Technology Mark empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy Phd program Amazingness of EU to foster training networks is unique in the world. The Eu itself is the most interesting and forward looking public good project. Three year Phd program in Dundee: research through design, coding, legal, philosophical practices to advance a 'healthier' IoT Greener web Internet contributes as much to CO2 as airline industry, 2%. We have to rethink the physicality of internet. What would a carbon neutral internet look like? What will be a focus: Reforming our economic models On that note https://neweconomics.org/search/publications" 8,57274,2019-07-29T13:34:57.929Z,57230,anon2434097920,anon4261882768,"Rob, I am also having these interviews transcribed. But I wanted to make them available in audio form first. So, coming soon.." 9,57275,2019-07-29T13:46:22.000Z,57274,anon4261882768,anon2434097920,"Looking forward! I will then respond to the other interviews as well, Rob" 10,57303,2019-07-30T03:38:21.609Z,57225,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Here is a transcript of the group call with Peter, Inge, Christian and myself. Edited for readability. IoH Peter Bihr Interview edited TEXT 7-23-19.pdf (148.8 KB)" 11,57653,2019-08-06T14:44:03.476Z,57303,anon273015838,anon2434097920,"Thanks so much, John!" 1,57168,2019-07-26T04:20:40.929Z,57168,anon3031202475,anon3031202475," ![site-logo|177x60](upload://wRCTuMtmBBVSKrFheMiNvFs4bDq.png) ![communitycalls%20logo%206th%20of%20august|690x488](upload://aLy80WYxK8du5XXxfLqsgHDvsnc.png) ## Join us this time on August the 6th 6 PM Brussel time for a community call with amazing edgeryder community member and founder of [Darcy](https://darcy.is/) @anon2724270673 (Christian Buggedei) This time we will dive into the topic on how to talk and moderate online including difficult topics such as censorship or anon2317280404e policing. ## “*Moderation & Mediation versus Censorship & Tone Policing - keeping people safe from ALL kinds*”. @anon2724270673 created a glossary we to get a taste and a start into the discussion that could be used as a jump-off point: https://edgeryders.eu/t/managing-communications-an-attempted-glossary/10391 This topic is very relevant to us here at Edgeryders, many of our members as well as anyone working within the context of building a healthy Next Generation Internet. We are looking forward to hearing your perspectives and ideas and discuss what is and could be possible or need to be taken in consideration. Let's communicate well! [FOLLOW THIS LINK](https://zoom.us/j/351670844) to Join the Zoom Meeting
" 2,57177,2019-07-26T08:03:04.925Z,57168,anon3809206126,anon3031202475,"""Tone policing"" :rofl:" 3,57186,2019-07-26T11:05:44.855Z,57177,anon2724270673,anon3809206126,"@anon3809206126: It might sound funny, but there's nothing funny about it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing to get a quick intro." 4,57197,2019-07-26T17:07:14.189Z,57186,anon3809206126,anon2724270673,"I did not mean to be dismissive! *But* I am not a native speaker of English, and through my ears, it sounds excessive force-ey. I cannot help picturing big guys with truncheons snarling ""don't use that anon2317280404e with me!""." 5,57212,2019-07-27T08:53:11.787Z,57197,anon2724270673,anon3809206126,"And that is exactly part of the problem: Who sets the standard for ""this is allowed"", how do we ensure that miscommunications or different cultural backgrounds, different framings, and so on don't harm anyone. Also: Are victims of systemic oppression _(yes, this is an overly formal phrasing, but please bear with me)_ really expected to walk on eggshells around everyone on the off chance that the one who is using language their oppressors use is actually not one of them - most internet forums don't really come with a background check included? _(I'm not a native english speaker myself, and hoo boy make I odd gaffes at times. Also, racism in Germany has slightly different markers and power dynamics than for example in the US. And a lot of the dynamics there don't really make sense to me at first glance.)_ I'm not saying that we should all self-police our speech all the time, and I don't think that Edgeryders particularly needs extensive policies, this is a fine and polite community, but if one is in charge of keeping a large-scale platform safe for everyone, these are things one should keep in mind." 6,57577,2019-08-05T13:09:28.538Z,57168,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"When the mass shootings in the US happened this weekend, my thought immediately: 8chan. And I think the platform will be an interesting case-study for our call. This piece on NYT nails it in my opinion: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html?searchResultPosition=1" 7,57600,2019-08-05T18:43:33.199Z,57168,anon2434097920,anon3031202475," I will be hosting this conversation and I very much look forward to it. We’re going to be talking about moderation, community standards and what that even means in a global setting, hate speech, when “anon2317280404e policing” veers into censorship, the influence of the ad based business model, and how much control a user or individual can and should have over their own online environment. Along with whatever else comes up in the conversation of course. See you there!." 8,57646,2019-08-06T13:29:01.585Z,57168,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"I was def planning to attend this, but I am not feeling well and I'll have to miss it. Very sad about it @anon2724270673! But looking forward to listening to it later...." 1,56895,2019-07-19T10:23:22.980Z,56895,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"We advise that team members are visible in ""who is behind this"" description on the NGI exchange site. If you wish to be included, feel free to add your _**1-paragraph bio**_ in a comment below. # Alberto Cottica @anon3809206126 **Co-Founder and Research Director** , **Edgeryders** Data/Network scientist and economist. Passionate about participatory processes and how they harness collective intelligence. Following a ""long hunch"" about the mathematical signatures of human dynamics since 2009. Former low-grade rockstar. Runner. # Filip Simonovski @anon1686813978 **Social Media Manager**, **Edgeryders** Filip is not your average marketing geek. Just like the other “not-your-average” geeks at Edgeryders. Although excelling in web-development, web project management, digital strategy creation, community management, digital analytics & content creation, Filip loves driving change with the work he does most. Having worked with larger corporations, hard-hitting NGOs, and small business owners, he knows what works best for who. At Edgeryders, he’s passionately growing the community and the visibility of the people and conversations in it. # Hugi Ásgeirsson @anon1505367078 **Co-Director and Outreach Events Manager**, **Edgeryders** Positioned between technology and participatory culture and politics, Hugi is interested in how people can collaborate better together today and in the future, online and offline. He currently works from Stockholm, where he co-founded the participatory culture center and social enterprise Blivande. As a co-director of Edgeryders, he runs the development lab Participio developing software for participatory culture and is involved in a number of projects exploring how technology can enable participation, social cohesion and resilience. Hugi has a background in informatics and analytics and has a degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology where he studied biotechnology engineering. # Inge Snip @anon2926706121 **Content Curator** , **Edgeryders** Multimedia journalist and communications expert Inge believes that telling stories that inspire change are the only stories worth telling. She has worked with a variety of organizations - including Forbes, National Geographic and UNICEF - producing and curating both video and written content to tell extraordinary stories, build communities and engage large audiences. At Edgeryders, Inge has previously helped build and manage communities of innovative activists in Georgia for the Futurespotters and Futuremakers projects. She currently splits her time between producing and managing content at the award-winning journalism initiative Coda Story and curating and editing content at Edgeryders. # John Coate @anon2434097920 **Co-Director and Community Manager** , **Edgeryders** John was employee number two at The WELL, where he was instrumental in creating the online community that Wired Magazine called the “world’s most influential”. There he was the first to work as what is now known as an “online community manager” and he wrote the first treatise on building online community. He co-founded the first major news website, [sfgate.com](http://sfgate.com), which today has more than thirty million monthly visitors and more than 340K Twitter followers. He was the online manager of a teen social network and game site that had thousands of members. He managed a regional media organisation that combined terrestrial radio and the internet in innovative ways. Through it all the core of his community knowledge comes from direct personal experience living and working with others who are consciously building lasting relationships as the building blocks of community. # Maria Euler @anon3031202475 **Community Manager**, **Edgeryders** Interdisciplinary artist and design researcher as well as a community manager for edgeryder with a background in physics, fine art and a Master in Information Experience Design from the Royal Collge of Art. She searches for points of connection and entry, between disciplines, complex scientific concepts, discussion, emotional and tangible experiences and people. She worked with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Inclusive Design and the Financial Education startup Gimi as a researcher and UX Designer. She also was part of multiple successful art-science collaborations as for example with the Bristol Laboratory for Quantum Computing and exhibited interactive installations at venues and festivals across Europe such as Sonar+D, I-Gem and VrSci. Her goal is to enable different approaches and connections to increase the diversity and creativity of the discourse on art, science and technology. # Marina Batinic @anon2278327272 **Project Manager** , **Edgeryders** Marina is a project manager, specialised in cultural education, art, creativity and cultural heritage. Trained in knowledge management (European Commission, DG DEVCO), experienced in European project management (project coordinator at the Historical Research Center on Mediterranean Societies, University of Perpignan) and international cooperation (Ecole de Chaillot, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris). Co-founder of the Culture Hub Croatia which aims to strengthen the local cultural and creative sector and foster cross-sectorial innovation. # Matthias Ansorg @anon196034329 **Co-founder and CTO**, **Edgeryders** Matthias is a computer scientist and technology generalist with a long experience in open source software and hardware development. A social innovator and digital entrepreneur who has studied alternative value measurement and non-monetary economic exchange mechanisms extensively for his award-winning commons funding platform PayCoupons (former Makerfox). Solid expertise in software development, integration and maintenance; has built the [edgeryders.eu](http://edgeryders.eu) online platform. # Nadia E.N.@anon3449369942 **Co-Founder and Outreach director**, **Edgeryders** Engineer and designer born in Sweden to African parents, raised in Europe and Asia. A bridge person between activist networks of marginalised groups, artists, civil society, entrepreneurs, media and government. Nadia’s role in Edgeryders to serve our global community of brilliant misfits via the not-for-profit company that builds and managers the infrastructure sustaining it. In practice this translates into laying out the vision, building strategic partnerships, driving flagship projects and managing crews on different projects. Named Minister of Labour in a “dream government of New Thinkers” imagined for Sweden by the leading financial newspaper in Scandinavia. # Rob Van Kranenburg @anon4261882768 **Director**, **Resonance Design** Rob van Kranenburg, @anon He has authored The Internet of Things: A Critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID (2007); co-author of Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8. He is Director of Resonance Design BV, partnering in the NGI CSA Strategy NGI Forward. # Katja Bego @anon2339827249 **Principal researcher and data scientist, Nesta** Her work focuses on studying the impact of emerging technologies such as AI on our societies, and how these new innovations can be harnessed for social good and for the benefit of everyone. Katja is the coordinator of the European Commission-funded NGI Forward project, tasked with helping shape the strategy and policy agenda of the Next Generation Internet initiative, the EU’s ambitious new flagship programme which seeks to build a more democratic, inclusive and resilient future internet by 2025, and previously also led the EU Engineroom project, also under the NGI umbranon1410463509. She regularly comments on topics relating to the future internet in outlets such as Wired, the BBC, Financial Times and The Guardian. Before joining Nesta, Katja worked as a data scientist in the private sector and as a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. She has a degree in economics and political science from Wellesley College in the US. # Heshani Jayaratne @anon **Project Manager for NGI Forward, Nesta** Heshani oversees partner management, compliance and project delivery. Prior to joining Nesta, Heshani worked as a project manager running European Commission- funded projects on a variety of different topics spanning from education and intercultural competences, to immigration and anti-discrimination. Apart from her background in project management, she also has experience as a trainer and event organiser. Heshani holds an MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King’s College London and an MA from the University of Trento in Italy. She is also an alumnus of the University of Malmö. It was during her time at the War Studies Department at King’s that she first became interested in the interaction between technology and conflict, and the ethical questions behind this link. # Harry Armstrong **Head of Technology Futures, Nesta** He leads Nesta’s futures work, exploring the potential impacts of emerging technology and innovations, like Artificial Intelligence, on industry, society and the economy with a goal to supporting responsible innovation in a wide range of sectors. His research has covered everything from machine learning, cybersecurity and the internet of things to nanosatellites and the emergence of local energy systems. He also is in charge of Nesta’s thinking on the ethical and responsible development of AI and machine learning tools, participatory futures methods and ‘Anticipatory Regulation’. Before joining Nesta, Harry completed a PhD in Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, focusing on epigenetic gene regulation. At Cambridge, he was also one of the founding members of Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE) which helped connect and bridge the gap between early career researchers and early career policy makers from the civil service. # Anja Bechmann **Professor, Aarhus University and Research Director of Datalab** Anja Bechmann’s research examines social media communication and collective behavior using large-scale data collection and applied machine learning. Her field of research are digital sociology, privacy, critical algorithmic and AI studies and digital news studies. She is board member of the Danish Council for IT Security and ATV’s Digital Sages and appointed member of the Academy of Technical Sciences. She acts as a supervisor for MA and PhD theses within the area of digital social research. She is member of several editorial boards, reviewer for international high-ranked journals within her field and has acted as assessment committee member for grant applications, professorships and PhD defenses. Her research has been funded by national and international research councils such as the Danish Council for Independent Research, Swedish Research Council, Danish Agency for Science and Innovation, Horizon 2020 and Aarhus University Research Foundation. # Lynge Asbjørn Møller @anon1773944048 **Research Assistant, Aarhus University and Project Coordinator at Datalab** Lynge Asbjørn Møller holds a MA in Media Science from Aarhus University and is a member of AOiR (Association of Internet Researchers). He is a researcher and the center coordinator at the research center Datalab directed by Anja Bechmann, where he manages all research project at the center and engages himself in research in social media and digital information disorder. # Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo **Associate Professor, Aarhus University and Co-Director of Datalab** As a humanities researcher, Kristoffer Nielbo has specialized in applications of quantitative methods and computational tools in analysis, interpretation and storage of cultural data. He has participated in a range of collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects involving researchers from the humanities, social, health, and natural sciences. His research covers two areas of interest of which one is more recent (automated text analysis) and the other (modeling of cultural behavior) has followed me during his entire academic career. Both interests explore the cultural information space in new and innovative ways by combining cultural data and humanities theories with statistics, computer algorithms, and visualization. # Peter Vahlstrup **Associate Professor, Aarhus University and Lead Programmer at Datalab** Peter Vahlstrup is teaching associate professor in JAVA and high-level programming and is the lead-programmer in the research center Datalab directed by Anja Bechmann. He is an expert in API-based data collection and has been lead-developer of the Digital Footprints software used for extracting social media data. Peter is daily manager of the Digital Footprints software package and administrate access, database storage and management of 465 researchers in 13 countries. # Tamas Erkelens **Program Manager of Public Tech, Municipality of Amsterdam** He aims to enhance public control over technology in the city, by creating open tech solutions and policy innovations. An example: Open source machine learning to automatically distribute 250.000 issues reported by residents annually, and auditing the algorithm making sure it does not discriminate. Amsterdam was awarded as European Capital of Innovation 2016-2017 for its digital social innovation approach. Previously, Tamas – graduated with honours as Research Master of Quantitative Social Sciences – has worked for ING as a Product Owner. In his spare time Tamas is co-founder of Data Mission, a foundation connecting big data analysts to mission driven organizations. # Dr Katarzyna Śledziewska **Executive Director, DELab, University of Warsaw** Katarzyna has been working with the University of Warsaw since 2000 and since 2014 is also the Executive Director at DELab. She coordinates the Digital Market research program. Katarzyna is Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw, where she is giving lectures on the theory of economic integration and regional economic cooperation, and teaches empirical methods for macroeconomic analysis. In the past, she worked as an expert at the Ministry of Economy, National Council of Entrepreneurship and the Committee for Strategic Economic Policy. She also cooperated with the School of Economics at University of Nottingham and Economic Education Foundation. Katarzyna has a wide array of research interests, with main focus on the role of digital technologies in new economic models, the international aspects of digitalisation, the Digital Single Market strategy, and other aspects of economic integration. She is member of Readie-Europe’s Research Alliance for a Digital Economy. She has taken part in multiple national and EU-wide projects both as a key expert and as a coordinator. # Dr Maciej Wilamowski **Programme Coordinator, DELab, University of Warsaw** At DELab, Maciej coordinates research in the area of Data Science. In particular, he is responsible for analytical problem solving,forming analytical DELab team and enhancing corresponding skills of the team. Maciej monitors current and emerging Data Science trends as well as keeps track of the new Machine Learning solutions. In his spare time, Maciej enjoys developing his skills develops as a “kaggler”. His research interests lie primarily in the area of behavioral economics. Maciej works in DELab since January 2017. He works at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, where he is giving lectures on Data Science, Python and SQL, as well as Machine Learning. # Kristóf Gyódi @anon **Analyst, DELab, University of Warsaw** Kristóf is an analyst at DELab UW, research employee and a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. He is member of the Smart Economy and Digital Market research teams. In his research he focuses on the potential of digital economy and new business models in Central Europe. He is co-author of numerous DELab UW reports on e-commerce and digitalization of SMEs, currently he is engaged in research on sharing economy. He is member of the Readie Network (Europe's Research Alliance for a Digital Economy) and the Digital Transformation Working Group at the Polish Ministry of Economic Development. # Michał Paliński @anon **Analyst, DELab, University of Warsaw** Michał is a researcher at DELab UW, research employee and a PhD student at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw and a proposed research assistant for this project. At DELab UW, he is a member of the EU Digital Single Market (DSM) research team aiming at determining the changes in market opportunities and challenges that entrepreneurs face due to the implementation of DSM. Michał’s research interests focus on the digital economy, especially on the role online platforms are playing in solving market failures. In addition to his academic work, Michał is a member of the Digital Transformation Working Group at Polish Ministry of Economic Development. # Łukasz Nawaro **Analyst, DELab, University of Warsaw** Łukasz is a Master's student in Data Science program at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. At DELab UW, as a Junior Analyst, he is responsible for data analysis and processing in areas such as new technological trends and university's students, fields of study and real estate. His main programming language is Python, but he also has experience in JavaScript (d3.js, vue.js) as a data presentation tool. # Marco Zappalorto **CEO, Nesta Italia** Marco joined Nesta in 2011. Before setting up Nesta Italia he was Head of European Development at Nesta and contributed to the set-up of the Challenge Prize Centre. He led most of the Centre's European and international work, coordinated capacity building activities as part of the prizes and contributed to the design of some related initiatives, such as the ​European Social Innovation Competition​. Prior to Nesta, Marco worked for OmniCompete (now Innocentive), managing the execution of prize competitions in a wide range of sectors for both the public and the private sector. He also worked for the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry where he provided advice to SMEs on European issues and opportunities. Marco holds an MSc in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. # Simona Bielli @anon **Head of Programmes, Nesta Italia** ​Simona is Head of Programmes at Nesta Italia. She leads a portfolio of activities in the areas of education, inclusion, emerging tech, health and arts and culture. Before joining Nesta Italia, Simona spent three years in London working as Research and Programme Manager for the Digital Startup team at Nesta, where she managed a number of European-funded projects, including the European Digital Forum, aimed to fostering digital entrepreneurship in Europe. Prior to Nesta, Simona was Head of Operations at Mind the Bridge. She was responsible for managing multiple activities both in Europe and US aimed to support ICT startups to scale-up. # Matteo Colombino **Innovation Manager, Nesta Italia** Matteo is the Innovation Manager at Nesta Italia. Matteo has the role of guiding innovation within the organization by contributing to the design, development, and delivery of projects and research on emerging technologies. In addition to this, he supports the director in business development activities. Before this role, he was responsible for the coordination, communication and general management of Nesta Italia's projects in the healthcare and technology sector, including also the research and experimenting phases. # Roberta Marà **Communications Manager, Nesta Italia** Roberta is Communications and Stakeholders Engagement Manager at Nesta Italia. She leads the planning and delivery of all Nesta Italia’s campaigns and is responsible for building and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders. Roberta has almost 10 years’ experience in corporate communications, media relations, brand strategy and digital. Before Nesta Italia, Roberta worked in the Entertainment industry - Sony Music and prior to that for the Turin based start up Sounday - specializing in digital transformation for the music sector, and for different start ups, focusing on strategic communications planning and brand development. Roberta also worked as a consultant for communications agencies both in London and Italy." 2,56904,2019-07-19T14:08:59.000Z,56895,anon4261882768,anon3449369942,"Hi Nadia, Thanks for this! Can you add or should I? My bio Rob van Kranenburg, @anon He has authored The Internet of Things: A Critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID (2007); co-author of Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8. He is Director of Resonance Design BV, partnering in the NGI CSA Strategy NGI Forward. Greetings, Rob" 3,56907,2019-07-19T16:03:12.584Z,56895,anon2926706121,anon3449369942,"Oops, typo in mine, should be ""helped build"" @anon3449369942" 4,56909,2019-07-19T17:22:47.278Z,56907,anon3449369942,anon2926706121,NP: its a wiki so you can change what you like 5,57099,2019-07-24T15:10:17.755Z,56895,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,Can I ask you to fill out the section for you @anon2339827249 @anon 6,57100,2019-07-24T15:10:49.697Z,56904,anon3449369942,anon4261882768,"added, thanks." 7,57499,2019-08-02T14:45:15.422Z,56895,anon1773944048,anon3449369942,"@anon3449369942, here are the bios from Datalab (Aarhus University) **Anja Bechmann** Professor, Aarhus University and Research Director of Datalab Anja Bechmann’s research examines social media communication and collective behavior using large-scale data collection and applied machine learning. Her field of research are digital sociology, privacy, critical algorithmic and AI studies and digital news studies. She is board member of the Danish Council for IT Security and ATV's Digital Sages and appointed member of the Academy of Technical Sciences. She acts as a supervisor for MA and PhD theses within the area of digital social research. She is member of several editorial boards, reviewer for international high-ranked journals within her field and has acted as assessment committee member for grant applications, professorships and PhD defenses. Her research has been funded by national and international research councils such as the Danish Council for Independent Research, Swedish Research Council, Danish Agency for Science and Innovation, Horizon 2020 and Aarhus University Research Foundation. **Lynge Asbjørn Møller** Research Assistant, Aarhus University and Project Coordinator at Datalab Lynge Asbjørn Møller holds a MA in Media Science from Aarhus University and is a member of AOiR (Association of Internet Researchers). He is a researcher and the center coordinator at the research center Datalab directed by Anja Bechmann, where he manages all research project at the center and engages himself in research in social media and digital information disorder. **Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo** Associate Professor, Aarhus University and Co-Director of Datalab As a humanities researcher, Kristoffer Nielbo has specialized in applications of quantitative methods and computational tools in analysis, interpretation and storage of cultural data. He has participated in a range of collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects involving researchers from the humanities, social, health, and natural sciences. His research covers two areas of interest of which one is more recent (automated text analysis) and the other (modeling of cultural behavior) has followed me during his entire academic career. Both interests explore the cultural information space in new and innovative ways by combining cultural data and humanities theories with statistics, computer algorithms, and visualization. **Peter Vahlstrup** Associate Professor, Aarhus University and Lead Programmer at Datalab Peter Vahlstrup is teaching associate professor in JAVA and high-level programming and is the lead-programmer in the research center Datalab directed by Anja Bechmann. He is an expert in API-based data collection and has been lead-developer of the Digital Footprints software used for extracting social media data. Peter is daily manager of the Digital Footprints software package and administrate access, database storage and management of 465 researchers in 13 countries." 8,57500,2019-08-02T14:48:32.401Z,57499,anon3449369942,anon1773944048,"Thanks @anon1773944048 , does everyone already have an account on the platform? I ask because the end format looks like this with each individual's handle at the top to make it easy for others to connect with them - so if possible it would be great if everyone can set one up? ![41|690x248](upload://dl8KMDMYgToLYx6xUsAXO5KtroG.png)" 9,57501,2019-08-02T15:08:30.610Z,57500,anon1773944048,anon3449369942,"No, only me I think. I don't think they will join to be honest and even if they do, it will not be the way to get in contact with them. Sorry.." 10,57503,2019-08-02T15:11:30.082Z,57501,anon3449369942,anon1773944048,"np, thanks anyway." 11,57635,2019-08-06T10:41:41.000Z,57503,anon2278327272,anon3449369942,I just updated this list with all the bios received from Heshani and tagged all of those for whom I know usernames on the platform. Note to @anon1788716183 for the website. 1,56942,2019-07-21T18:19:19.190Z,56942,anon2724270673,anon2724270673,"Let us talk about how we keep our online spaces useable. Let us talk about **moderation, mediation, censorship,** and **anon2317280404e policing**. There are probably also other techniques, but for now, talking about these four should suffice. And it is important to talk about them, because all of this is constantly happening online, for various reasons, and sometimes they get mixed, and sometimes one slowly descends into another. Wherever people communicate with each other, they usually set up a few rules and mechanisms to enforce them. Mostly, these rules are a bit vague, ad hoc and have formed over time as social customs emerge. If people violate these customs and unwritten rules, they get some social feedback to correct themselves, or eventually get ostracized from their communities. So if I'm rude to my friends, they eventually stop inviting me for dinner. This is a gradual, informal process, but effective nonetheless. But what I did say keeps being said. For a lot of our online communities though, the participants come together from so diverse places and customs that there is a need to formalize things a bit more, and to have designated people in place to enforce these rules. The result is usually a lot less gradual and also more formal and immediate. So instead of being less and less invited to dinners, I suddenly get formally shut out of the community by having my access to the online space revoked. Alternatively, my contributions to the space could get deleted, my voice silenced, even retroactively. When we discuss these rules and their enforcement, we can break them down into four core concepts: * **Moderation** - here certain topics or media are excluded, with a benign intent. The idea is make a certain online space suitable for a specific audience or topic. An example would be a ban of pornography for a space catering to minors, or the exclusion of car discussions in a forum dedicated to bird watching. * **Censorship** - moderations evil twin. It basically is the same thing, excluding certain topics from a space, but it implies a sinister motive. A political party forbids the opposition to be heard, a group of people is to be shut out and marginalized. Still, it is important to realise that censorship and moderation are often technically the same beast. The main difference is that censorship is often also covert and opaque, whereas good moderation is documented and transparent. * **Mediation** - this includes a vast variety of techniques, but it boils down to the effort of making a friendly and productive communication possible. Mediation doesn't prohibit a topic to be discussed, but tries to prevent an argument to devolve into a shouting match. This can be achieved by translating sentiments or ideas, by encouraging participants to use or avoid specific rhetorics, and so on. As with moderation, mediation has a benign intention, it is a tool to enable communication. It should be transparent insofar as that everyone knows that mediation is happening, and with which intent. * **Tone policing** is mediation taken too far or being misused. It is especially a thing used by people in power to shut down those who aren't. Valid arguments or complaints get thrown out unless the person making them submits to sometimes arbitrary rules.Mediation and anon2317280404e policing employ a very similar toolset, but as with moderation and censorship, the malicious or sinister motive is what makes it a bad thing. To be clear: Tone policing is a tool of oppression. The problem with both of these two pairings is the huge gray area between them. Just two very simple examples: One can try to gently mediate and end up excluding a group of marginalized people through anon2317280404e policing. Or one can try to keep pornography away from kids but in the same run also shut off any access to sex education. Whenever we find ourselves in charge of designing policies on how any given social platform or online community should work, we need to think about these problems. At best alongside a friendly conversation with everyone who could be affected by these policies, especially those who are often marginalized or overlooked. There aren't any perfect solutions, but a lot of catastrophically wrong ones." 2,57122,2019-07-25T04:55:02.019Z,56942,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"Good analysis. My basic approach is: don't rip anyone off, don't harass others, don't get us into legal trouble and don't be a jerk. And yes you do know what that means. And then...let er rip." 3,57198,2019-07-26T17:15:32.043Z,56942,anon3809206126,anon2724270673,"Has anyone thought about consensual anon2317280404e deafness? To explain what I mean, here's a story from the OpenVillage Festival (#workspaces:lote6). A German guy (I think it was Henry, @anon58670428, from [Wir bauen Zukunft](/t/7127)) said something that fell foul of an American woman present there. She told him off, very publicly, as a white male neoliberal or something. We looked at each other in disbelief, for we had heard no such thing. The situation was solved by @anon3449369942 (bilingual, a native speaker of English and Swedish of very international background, and deft at navigating cultural contexts), who explained that the woman was trying to read Henry as she would read an American of his age and skin anon2317280404e, and was picking up a subtext that simply was not there. She pointed out to the woman that he was doing all the work to communicate with her in her native language, and she, instead of being grateful (or learning German to improve their communication), was punishing him for not knowing the English language _and_ the contemporary anglo-American culture like a native. She then asked her to leave. Tone policing is often problematic, but even with mediation, it's not clear to me who is qualified to do it in a context like Edgeryders. Few people have Nadia's ability to cross cultural borders. And people like Henry, or me – we speak good English, even great English, but we cannot guarantee the fine command of subtext that we would have in our native languages. Native English speakers might get many false positives, and think we are being inconsiderate or even violent, while we are simply out of our linguistic and cultural comfort zone. Hence, consensual anon2317280404e deafness. A rule that says: _to accommodate people who are operating outside their native language (in Edgeryders, that's the majority, whichever language you choose), we don't engage with anything that has not been said explicitly. If you are in doubt, ask: do you think what I wrote was dumb? Are you trying to make the point that [insert project/organization name] is a puppet of some vast neoliberal movement? Stuff like that._ @anon2434097920's strategy of forbidding only the most obviously wrong stuff is in the same direction, I think." 4,57200,2019-07-26T18:04:41.162Z,57198,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"This is where ""oversupply understanding"" comes in." 5,57218,2019-07-27T10:41:21.000Z,57198,anon58670428,anon3809206126,"Dear Alberto! I cannot recall a situation like the one you described. Might have been someone else. However, I've experienced situations where my words were misinterpreted in a way I saw myself confronted with an accusation of being inappropriate (or even worse, abusive). And it happens irrespective of me speaking English or in my mother anon2317280404gue. In most cases this can be resolved by further communication. It depends if both parties are willing to resolve the issue and if there's an adequate amount of trust. And if there's a mediation angel like Nadia around chances are even better. Still I don't think this sort of situations can be prevented by a specific ruleset. Until we are all illuminated we're going to react here and there to emotions triggered by some words or actions of others. It's part of the process ;) So I'd add up to John's list: don't take yourself too seriously. Hope you guys are doing good! Drop me a message, when you get to Berlin. Would love to catch up. Much love Henry" 6,57247,2019-07-29T10:28:52.512Z,57218,anon3809206126,anon58670428,"I'm pretty sure it was you... maybe you are so enlightened that you ignored, and immediately forgot, the woman's criticism. :slight_smile:" 7,57267,2019-07-29T13:14:41.000Z,57247,anon58670428,anon3809206126,"Do you remember the day and venue/room and the topic of the discussion? I'm keen to bring it back to my memory. // Henry Farkas 017662855974 [www.down2earth.org](http://www.down2earth.org) [www.wirbauenzukunft.de](http://www.wirbauenzukunft.de) [www.earthship-deutschland.de](http://www.earthship-deutschland.de)" 8,57273,2019-07-29T13:25:35.238Z,57267,anon3809206126,anon58670428,I think it might have been the harvesting session at the end of day 1 @anon 9,57286,2019-07-29T15:58:21.963Z,57273,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"It was in some kind of plenary session. It was fleeting, lasted less than a minute." 10,57527,2019-08-03T23:32:30.822Z,57200,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I should also add that there seem to always be some around who want to correct, indeed anon2317280404e police, their peers in conversations independent of any moderator action and the conversation can sort of derail into a drawn out debate on who is right, whether offense was given or taken, theories about intent and other aspects. I see this as not to be avoided but it can get so involved that the original discussion gets lost. It’s part of how a community arrives at its standards. Moderation in such cases requires not some Solomon-like judgement that cleanly deals with it all, but rather a kind is ongoing summing up and often a nudge over to where it can be discussed on its own. I say nudge because too strictly making everyone stick strictly to the topic in the header can be stifling in its own right." 11,57601,2019-08-05T19:06:15.487Z,56942,anon2434097920,anon2724270673,"The more I think about this subject the more convinced I am that what is really needed is much more design and building of the user-controlled experience. I have done a lot of moderating in my life and managed systems that use moderation extensively. But it increasingly concerns me that ad-based business models for social media networks are in so much conflict with the individual controlling their own experience in that network that they choose instead to do moderating that is essentially a rear guard action form of censorship. Or if not censorship let us call it a continuation of the networks control of the users experience because they cannot relinquish that control without breaking their business model. I certainly understand and sympathize with a statement like “let’s make all users safe.“ But who decides what safe even means? And from the user perspective, I do not need a censor or even someone remotely resembling one. And in Facebook‘s case, I do not trust them at all about anything. Why should I? But I think we all agree on that point. Not that I don’t use it, I do. And I think I know the trade-offs. However I will never find out what it is they won’t show me and I don’t like that. So again what I want is control over my own environment. If I don’t want to see something I want to be the one to decide. If I don’t like someone’s anon2317280404e I’ll say so. Now I do understand the problem of hate speech I think and it is a thorny problem. But again who decides what I, an adult can and cannot see? Hate to speech is a definite problem but where does one draw the line? One idea I take from when I managed a public radio station that is non-commercial, is the idea of the “call to action.” In such a case one might say all kinds of derogatory things about others and it would be offensive but if they do not make a call to action then perhaps it is best dealt with by the people in the conversation who can either hopefully ignore the person or filter them out or just let them know that such statements say more about them then the people they are criticizing. Regarding kids, I managed an online community that was almost exclusively populated with teenagers and we had to observe child protection laws very carefully. I support those laws and there are ways to keep those environments pretty safe, but it is expensive to manage because you need a lot of on the ground moderation plus sophisticated software for identifying problems and you need parents who take responsibility for their children’s well-being and do not delegate that to surrogates." 12,57604,2019-08-05T20:35:24.919Z,57601,anon2434097920,anon2434097920," There is the problem of scaling up to a very large size of user base. I admit that the systems I have managed never got that huge, not more than several thousand people. At those sizes more hands-on moderation from the company can be pretty effective. But when the site/platform scales up really large, how do you keep moderating decisions from being increasingly arbitrary? This to me lends more strength to the argument that more focus should be placed on giving the user more control rather than devising more sophisticated ways of company management of the user experience." 1,54467,2019-06-03T20:44:13.209Z,54467,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"My friend [Fabrizio Barca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_Barca) has a rare combination of characteristics: a first-rate intellect, an impressive network in policy making circles, and a keen interest in justice. He has lately become intrigued by inequalities: what they are, how they are changing, what we can do about it. So, he started a group called the [Forum on inequalities and diversities](https://www.forumdisuguaglianzediversita.org/our-project/). The Forum recently released a report called 15 proposals for justice ([Italian only](https://www.forumdisuguaglianzediversita.org/proposte-per-la-giustizia-sociale/)), which is making waves. The report gives prominence to the consequences of technical innovation on inequalities and justice. So, here is the idea. @anon3449369942 and I would like to organize a small meeting to look in more depth at the issue of how equality and justice are encoded in technological choices. Specifically, it would be interesting to look at the main technologies being developed in the NGI debate (blockchain folks, [decentralists](/t/10023), the fintech crowd etc.), and see how each impact on indicators of equality and justice. Putting in the same room technologists, economists and social scientists should allow for a more holistic perspective. For me, the interesting question is: **are some technologies more likely to lead to an outcome of increased justice than other technologies**? If there are, we might consider Hopefully, we can provide some material to the people in charge of the next round of [NGI Open Calls](https://www.ngi.eu/opencalls/), and whoever is looking to fund new technologies that are human-centric, trust-enhancing and so on. We are talking Brussels, October 2019. What do people think? @anon227579045, would you be interested? What about @anon3931191205? Others?" 2,54477,2019-06-04T06:17:57.911Z,54467,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,@anon2926706121 @anon1505367078 @anon1686813978 @anon2434097920 @anon3031202475 another one to invite people in the IOH and broader Edgeryders community to help develop and promote. 3,54546,2019-06-04T15:54:58.475Z,54467,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,Great idea. Gets to the real heart of the matter. 4,60691,2019-10-04T14:47:57.082Z,54467,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"10 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them - 19/11 - Brussels](/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/25)" 7,54736,2019-06-08T10:01:42.017Z,54467,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"I think @anon Zoe has a significant body of work weaving through manufacturing, tech and social justice. Gunnar's doing interesting work in fintech/ mobile money that touches on exclusion from access to banking services outside Europe while Max Valentin has interesting experience from working with Romani buskers in Sweden. And before this Max set up a crowdfunding platform for culture with the twist that public funding would co-finance the projects that succeeded to get enough financial backing from the general public." 8,54737,2019-06-08T10:03:05.904Z,54736,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,@anon1505367078 you and Max really should meet 9,60693,2019-10-04T15:01:20.127Z,54467,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"4 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Workshop on Inequalities in the age of AI, what they are, how they work and what we can do about them - 19/11 - Brussels](/t/workshop-on-inequalities-in-the-age-of-ai-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-19-11-brussels/10326/35)" 13,54945,2019-06-12T08:50:57.425Z,54467,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"We will organise a one-day event in Brussels at End of November, 2019. **Day session:** focuses on Ai as tech. Key audience is MEPS, parliamentary assistants and key people at EC. Location is Near European Parliament. Exact format t.b.d. In partnership with: _...feel free to add your own suggestions here_ (I am discussing with FEPS). **Evening session:** focuses on tech & socialecological sustainability. Key audience is the tech/hacker scene. Details T.b.d with @anon3899621522 re: a collaboration with Digityser. I will be in the driving seat to make it happen together with our outreach teams as this is a topic that touches on both the Internet of Humans and Wellbeing in Europe initiatives. And it makes sense to have it as a focal point if we want this work we are doing to have some kind of political impact right now - i can explain during our next call. To prepare and drive engagement towards this event, we want to have a focused campaign to surface experiences, people, projects, places and collective insights that will feed into this event
_Ping @anon2926706121 @anon1686813978 @anon1505367078 @anon1676186961 @anon2434097920 @anon" 14,54953,2019-06-12T09:31:53.630Z,54945,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,"@anon3449369942 can we pinpoint a date already? Tuesday 19th November, for example? (the final week of November there is a session in Strasbourg, I think: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/doc/news/lookingaheadagenda/21361/Cal2019_en.pdf) Pinpointing a date eliminates the need for another round of confirmations and makes logistics simpler." 15,54954,2019-06-12T09:35:24.450Z,54953,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,Ok @anon3899621522 ping. 16,54981,2019-06-12T11:56:15.640Z,54953,anon3899621522,anon3809206126,"Let me see what is happening that day on our side.. I also need to know : How much people is projected to come? What format? (panel? , speakers + presentation slide?, interactions layer for the public?) If we brainstorm this well we can organize something unique & really good for the community! Let me know what you need!" 17,54982,2019-06-12T12:02:13.412Z,54945,anon3899621522,anon3449369942,OK now I see the idea.. This is really cool! I definitely want this event to happen! 18,54983,2019-06-12T12:05:39.652Z,54981,anon3449369942,anon3899621522,Can we organise the next IOH community call around co-designing this event and the process leading up to it? What do you think @anon2434097920 and @anon3031202475 ? 19,55088,2019-06-13T15:30:01.854Z,54983,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"Sure, maybe scheduling it for next month? Or what type of timeline did you have in mind @anon3449369942? I put it here https://edgeryders.eu/t/community-calls-lets-talk-almost-face-to-face/10110 as a reply" 27,57481,2019-08-02T12:25:02.501Z,54983,anon3031202475,anon3449369942,"How about we set up the next two community calls, on August the 20th and September the 3rd of September as ""How to get involved with the Edgeryders festival"" meetings for the whole community (directly inviting members who we would like to participate to clear up the process with them and see if maybe there is some overlap with other so they ould team-up.) The next one on September 17th could be about discussing the concrete topics and ideas of those who will participate before they start writing their preparation threads. From there we could see if we want to talk more about one of those threads/topics already ahead of the festival or what the next steps for the calls would be. What do you think @anon3449369942, @anon2926706121 and @anon2434097920 ?" 28,57482,2019-08-02T12:42:47.468Z,57481,anon3449369942,anon3031202475,yes 29,57513,2019-08-03T05:29:58.445Z,57481,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"great idea @anon3031202475. @anon1686813978 we make a (mental) note on this and (pre-emptively) start designing best outreach plan" 30,57526,2019-08-03T21:49:58.904Z,57481,anon2434097920,anon3031202475,Sounds good to me. 1,56692,2019-07-15T05:54:14.605Z,56692,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![communitycalls%20logo%2023rd%20july|690x488](upload://4fbbsO8aPCW1Ewc0IwpsvTSZ0ij.png) *image by Maria Euler* ## Join us this Tuesday, July 23rd, at 6PM for our next community call with our fellow Peter Bihr. In this call we’ll dive into “Things about the Internet of Things” through an interview and in-depth discussion with Peter, who works on the intersection of emerging tech and societal good. “I deeply care about the impact of emerging technologies on society and our day-to-day lives. I believe that tech, both as a set of tools and as an industry, has a huge impact and hence an obligation to do better—not just for the most privileged but everyone.” Join the discussion with Peter on anything Internet of Things related, and get to know others on the Edgeryders platform for engaging, thought-provoking and captivating conversations. Join the Zoom meeting here. https://zoom.us/j/137706302" 2,56963,2019-07-22T10:39:05.848Z,56692,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"I'm very excited about this call tomorrow with @anon Think @anon4261882768 and @anon2339827249 surely would be interested as it's IoT related? Others that come to mind are @anon1514803743 @anon" 3,56965,2019-07-22T11:04:55.000Z,56963,anon4261882768,anon2926706121,"Hi Inge, I already mentioned I am not available tomorrow, but that I am looking forward to a detailed report so I can contribute later, greetings, Rob" 4,57052,2019-07-23T16:02:33.510Z,56692,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,We've started! Hope to see you there! :) 5,57178,2019-07-26T08:13:35.521Z,56692,anon1676186961,anon3031202475,I missed it - have you maybe recorded it? I'd love to listen to it! 6,57394,2019-07-31T15:24:34.988Z,57178,anon2434097920,anon1676186961,Yes it is here on the platform in audio and text. 1,56578,2019-07-12T22:02:26.715Z,56578,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"A big part of the problem, as i understand it, is the way that Facebook and Twitter set up their feeds to stoke controversy and polarization. If it stayed as a controlled boil they would prefer that since they can sell more ads that way. But it does boil over and then they think they have to start censoring some of the bile they in fact encourage as a business model. I want user control. I do not want them acting as censors when it suits them and then in other cases claiming it isn't their responsibility. I personally abhor hate speech, but I don't see how it can be fairly defined or enforced. In porn, there are ""community standards"" that put a lid on it some places, but we're talking about planetary services. And maybe I want to see the unvarnished full view of what people are saying. I am an adult, why would I not be allowed to see it? or maybe I don't want to see it. Then let me decide. Not Facebook or Twitter. They don't exactly have trustable ethics for such powers." 2,56587,2019-07-13T05:39:11.540Z,56578,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"you are pointing in a very very valid direction where large part of the problem lies. Just listened [to this podcast](https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/rnhzlo/145-louder) about the Carlos Maza saga, how Steve Crowder violated Youtube's hate speech rules (but still got away with it because his following is too big basically). But main take away is second part of the podcast in which they explain how it is possible that franon2926706121 voices became so big, and how they're only now realizing how they've helped radicalize people. (and this article fromThe Verge tells [how they're now going to even get rid of algorithms](https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20690736/youtube-learning-playlists-algorithm-recommendations) with educational playlists, ""So you won’t fall asleep during chemistry lessons and wake up to conspiracy theories."")" 3,56592,2019-07-13T13:21:30.847Z,56587,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"That article about YouTube playing nice for kids tends to make me more cynical about them rather than less. We’ll do the right thing for your kids but we’ll keep on manipulating you. Still, it shows that they respond to some pressure. Which has been anon4292955258 heavy lately given how shameless they have been in exploiting kids." 4,56593,2019-07-13T13:27:50.592Z,56592,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,I need to find the reference but I read recently that controversy and polarization raise ad revenue more than the happy kitty photos and the cuddly babies. Since they are publicly traded they can’t let their stock price go down as if they were part of some socially responsible portfolio. Can’t have that. Sometimes I think of it metaphorically not so much as a road but rather as a bobsled or luge run where once you get going there is no getting off. 5,56597,2019-07-13T14:35:24.177Z,56593,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"This [article in Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/the-toxic-potential-of-youtubes-feedback-loop/) lays it out pretty well. "" Earlier this year, researchers at Google’s Deep Mind examined the [impact of recommender systems](https://www.groundai.com/project/degenerate-feedback-loops-in-recommender-systems/1), such as those used by YouTube and other platforms. They [concluded](https://twitter.com/DeepMindAI/status/1101514121563041792) that “feedback loops in recommendation systems can give rise to ‘echo chambers’ and ‘filter bubbles,’ which can narrow a user’s content exposure and ultimately shift their worldview.” The model didn’t take into account how the recommendation system influences the kind of content that's created. In the real world, AI, content creators, and users heavily influence one another. Because AI aims to maximize engagement, hyper-engaged users are seen as “models to be reproduced.” AI algorithms will then favor the content of such users. The feedback loop works like this: (1) People who spend more time on the platforms have a greater impact on recommendation systems. (2) The content they engage with will get more views/likes. (3) Content creators will notice and create more of it. (4) People will spend even more time on that content. That's why it’s important to know who a platform's hyper-engaged users are: They’re the ones we can examine in order to predict which direction the AI is tilting the world."" So in other words, what we see is largely a product from people with nothing better to do with their time.." 6,56626,2019-07-13T21:04:30.050Z,56597,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"That's exactly what the podcast touched upon as well: YouTube's drive to get to 1billion views and having every decision - from design to algorithms -- designed to get people watch more and more. They apparently joked about the previous algorithm being called the Gangam Style algorithm: every video would eventually lead to Gangam Style, the most popular video at that time. They started realizing that just showing the same content but more popular did lead to more views per video, but not more minutes watched (if you get feed exactly the same video but watched by more people, you may like it, but you won't continue watching it). So, the culprit is that YouTube's aim to make YouTube profittable (which it wasn't when Google bought it), it's need to have people watch more and more, led them to create something allowing franon2926706121 voices to be in your feed when you're just looking for a video on how to your lawn, and now you're a flat earther." 7,56634,2019-07-14T01:12:28.864Z,56626,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"Right. They always need you to think you’re getting it all for free. And of course you are monetarily. But they need to be pretty non transparent about it because none of them make that much unless they follow you around and compile where you go and what you do. User control is not just a policy issue. And not just a privacy or bubble issue. Or a UI issue. It is all of them. Facebook would say, “but you do have user control. You control who your friends are, many privacy settings, what groups you want to join and so much else.” But what about following me around? What if I control that for myself? What if I say don’t follow me here (have private browsing but Matt Coleman security expert extraordinaire says they aren’t all that private) but you can follow me to these sites while I shop for something, and when I find it you leave me alone again, as one example. Anyway I don’t see how at this point the giant companies can be controlled other than to enforce ways that allow authentic competition. Fining them does nothing as far as I can tell. Right now they just crush or buy what looks interesting or makes them more profitable or dominant. And again this is the bobsled course. Go fast and can’t get off." 8,56638,2019-07-14T01:51:54.134Z,56578,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I was watching tv just now and an ad came on for Hewlett-Packard laptops. The theme read, “Be you. Nobody’s watching. Now with webcam kill switch.” Oh wow big feature. Now you don’t need tape. It does reflect though a change in the blanket acceptance of blessed tech." 9,56746,2019-07-15T19:35:39.793Z,56597,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:5, topic:10342""] That’s why it’s important to know who a platform’s hyper-engaged users are: They’re the ones we can examine in order to predict which direction the AI is tilting the world. [/quote] In Edgeryders, that would be me! :smiley: Do we even have recommendation algos?" 10,57278,2019-07-29T14:16:57.806Z,56578,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"Oh boom, this just showed up in my feed https://eos.org/articles/majority-of-youtube-climate-videos-promote-nonconsensus-views Also interesting to #earthos crew and @anon3401476781" 11,57281,2019-07-29T14:47:59.046Z,57278,anon3401476781,anon2926706121,"Thanks @anon2926706121 for the ping. WTF is the first thing that comes to my mind. Then, well, there's a lot to say about that. I take some time to think about it and I'll come back to you." 12,57345,2019-07-30T16:40:24.489Z,56578,anon2724270673,anon2434097920,"From the end users point of view, especially with a platform like YouTube, where you essentially do the digital equivalent of channel zapping, a recommendation algorithm is key. The problem is that for YouTube, this algorithm is ultimately controlled by the wrong metric (is this ""engagement"", that drives advertising consumption and hence revenue?). The solution though isn't simply to abolish the algorithm - we still want a system that shows us new things. And these new things should ideally blip us out of our bubble, but in a way that doesn't make us uncomfortable or, worse, bored. We're toying with the idea of making the algorithm transparent and user-controlled, but it's hard to do right. The fetched content should be relevant, new, interesting, and still in tune with the users preferences soanon3242181883. And it needs to be clear _why_ each and every bit of new content is presented to the user, so they understand what is going on. Getting an algorithmic feed needs to be a pull operation, not a push one. That means that the user needs to actively ask for the algorithmic feed. Each and every time. The default needs to be a sorted timeline view. And if that gets too full, the user should be asked to curate which content is shown there, and which sources get pushed to the backburner." 1,53998,2019-05-25T19:33:48.220Z,53998,anon577366890,anon577366890,"You wake up in cuba, have your morning coffee, and you need to send an email. There is no wifi in your house. You take your computer and walk to the nearest park. There a young man is standing on the corner offering small green cards. On them is a wifi name and the password to access it. All around you on every bench and corner sit young couples on their smartphones, older college students working on papers, and mothers watching children play. It is here, outside, among the screams of children and the general buzz of people that you can log on. This park is where the internet lives. Even this small shift of place, from ubiquity to locality subverts an assumption we all make about about the most important interface of the modern world.. In this internet, via this infrastructure, what does it mean to be online? It is fair to wonder if even this small shift would allow for certain forms we take for granted in our ubiquitous and isolated internet. It is fair to wonder, for example, if the sort of anonymous hate much of the western internet has been inundated by could even exist. Still, this is only a shift of one factor, out of isolation and into the communal. Once online the computer is still built for isolated use, the log in still for one person. What we are given here is not a resolution but a hint at the possible. Scattered across the world there are other shifts and other hints. There have been documented cases of entire families using a single facebook profile. There are stands at public markets for thumb drives of "content" in areas where censorship is heavy. If we hold back our attempts at "why" these systems exist and take a moment to simply appreciate that they exist we can follow their existence to the simple conclusion. Isolated and ubiquitous internets are just a choice. What if we're doing it wrong? By we I mean the colonial sense, as in western civilization and western culture. By it I mean the internet. Specifically the sort of access we build its infrastructure to facilitate. There is a prevailing sense that the internet, like water, should have an infrastructure that allows for simple and uninterrupted, ubiquitous, access. At its base this sentiment is a noble one. Like water and education the internet should be accessible by every human on the planet, and this access should be easily had. However, the more one looks the more one finds flaws in, or at the very least other ways of approaching, the concept that the access should be everywhere all the time. With that in mind, why on earth should wifi be ubiquitous? The prevailing colonial western logic establishes the following basic premise: Because it is good and when something is good it should be everywhere all the time. If you're not american and this seems foreign or confusing to you then consult the Mcdonald's Logic: People like burgers, so people should have constant and immediate access to burgers. This stems from the also very american sense that conflates objects with freedom and freedom with democracy. It works like this, In america freedom has no real definition but it is unanimously agreed upon that whatever it is is good and that everyone should have it everywhere. All of this is derivative of the founding ethos, "Democracy is good, democracy should be everywhere all the time." The final and parent logic I find to be true. It's derivative statements less and less so with every consecutive leap down the family tree. So the question we come to explore is about the statement, "The internet is good, and so it should be everywhere all the time." Is the internet good? We can address that quickly, it is not. That doesn't mean the internet is "bad." We're just asking the wrong question. The internet is a technology. Technology builds tools. It is immensely weird to point to something like that and blurt out "controlled combustion is good," because its not. Controlled combustion is not inherently good. It is good at building particular sorts of things. But, perhaps we mean the things it builds are good. So our question becomes, "The things the Internet builds are good." Again, no they aren't. It follows from essentially the same reason as above. A tool is not good. A tool is good for certain tasks. Controlled combustion is good at building guns. Guns are not good--they aren't bad either. Guns are good for abruptly ending somethings life. The same is true of internal combustion engines, they aren't good, they are good for building machines that move fast or lift heavy or, coincidentally, end somethings life very abruptly. A technology is good at something. A tool is good for something. Conversely, they are very bad at other things and they are very bad for other things. So no, the internet is not "good". "...and so it should be everywhere all the time." Here a definition in isolation no longer works. We're talking about integration and interaction at a massive scale. This is about industry and culture and environment and, as a result, politics. So often we address this by simply saying, "The internet should be everywhere because it promotes freedom." If you don’t want to read the rest of this section then it will serve you just refer to the previous mentioning of the american definition--or lack thereof-- of freedom and to wonder to yourself "Is it a good idea to write policy and build infrastructure based off some ill defined and simple sentences that, owing to their lack of definition, mean at once so much and so anon222512824." You could also skip that and just read the news. There are a series of much discussed points refuting that the internet promotes freedom, some of the best being those outlined in the Ukrainian net theorist Evgeny Morozov's book "The Net Delusion." In the next short section I will briefly outline these points for those without better things to do. If you already believe me than skip down to the paragraph that begins "do not be afraid." The internet is just as useful for anti-democratic regimes and generally "anti-freedom" dictators as it is for those groups americans selectively deem "freedom fighters". In some cases much more so. A fantastic example of this is the much publicized roll of the internet via microblogging sites twitter and facebook in the protests and subsequent revolutions that were the Arab Spring and Euromaiden. At the time and still to this day is a story is often repeated in which the internet had a pivotal role in the incepting and directing of those moments. Tahir and Independence Square were said to be hotbeds of twitter activity in which tech savvy freedom fighters typed away, organizing brilliant and seemingly instant fronts that, just in time, would mass and disappear like so many white blood cells attacking the disease of fascism. This is a good story. The women and men who made up these movements were unspeakably brave and I do them no justice here. However, that particular story, of the sort of role that the internet played in these movements, turns out to be not exactly true. When the actual posts surrounding these events were looked at more closely it became clear that while not entirely false, the role of the internet in the organization and mobilization of people was greatly exaggerated. The internet was certainly used, but not in the way the western(or eastern for that matter) media told the story. Rather than say "look how good the internet is as a tool for freedom" we begin to ask "how useful was the internet as a tool in these movements?" and then to the better question "was the internet as useful to the protestors(freedom) as it was to the government's(fascism)?" This evolution is important for us because it moves us very far away from the original ill defined premise and closer to the actual issue. Years later, Looking now at those movements and their eventual repercussions, no less at the internet's role in those repercussions, we are further pushed to question our ethos surrounding the internets sainthood, and much more seriously, the forms we choose to physically manifest it in. Further, if the internet's use in expanding so called freedoms is questionable, then it's ability to diminish them is concrete fact. Dictatorships can use and have used the internet for reliably identifying and locating political dissidents en masse, selectively censoring public discourse in real time, creating swarms of trolls that intimidate voices and obfuscate fact, and a very long list of other both evil and rather anon2926706121nious tools built from this technology. Do not be afraid. I raise these issues not in hopes of prohibition or to engender fear in any way. The internet does much good. I do it simply to call into question--not to repudiate--the architecture of a political system in its fullest sense. I mean the complex and human made system that links belief and idea to industry, culture, society, finance, and policy. The structure of which that anon222512824 idea above sits within as a pivot sanon2317280404e. There have been many essays and books and movies which highlight both the good and objectively evil of the internet and I do not wish to spend anymore time focused on it. If you're unconvinced or curious Mr. Morozov has 400 pages of argument for you. I am not offended if you stop reading this and go jump into that. But the morality of the internet is too philosophical a discussion for my taste. This is not what I wish to talk to you about. I have focused on it simply because with an idea it is enough to find one simple flaw, among much perfection or many other flaws just like it, in order to do irreparable harm to the blind acceptance of that idea. And it is irreparable harm I wish to do and hope I have done. In short, it turns out that the morality of the internet, like the morality of any technology is nothing but the sum of a tool and the instant of its implementation. Even this is determined only by the particular window from which we saw a particular hand fire a particular gun at a particular being for an unknown but certainly very particular reason. In a word, it's difficult. And that is all we need to know for now. I will now take a moment after that particularly long, though I hope not too boring, enumeration of issues with a premise to remind the reader that this is about place. We are asking whether or not the internet should be everywhere. This is a matter of place because everywhere is all of them. Wonderfully, we are not in terra incognita talking about how we build technology into tool and tools into place. This discussion is in many ways at the heart of the story of human civilization. Every time we push the boundary of the real we have had to find some form for it to take and some way for it to be used and subsequently understood. It must have somewhere to be. Looking over our shoulder this way it may seem that while to be human is to love and think and create, to be "humanity"--at once singularly it and plurally apart of it--is to find a place for the things we love, think of, and create. We place them so well that too often we mistake what is for what should be, what has been, and what will be. We tend to see the current manifestations of technology as part of some inevitable construct. But, history is not a straight line. Nothing made by human hand from human mind is a part of anything beyond the history that shaped the culture that raised the mind that used the hand to build the thing(hagadyah). The tools we make and the infrastructures we build around them are both simply artifacts. There is no absolute principle or universal truth that they manifest. Things can be made differently. Infrastructure can take different shapes. The permutations are likely infinite. Simply put, things can be radically different. "...alone everywhere" Often in our western imaganings we view time spent on the internet as anti-social. The image comes to mind of a pale man in a dark room illuminated only by the blue glow of his computer. I imagine all of us have seen this picture or can at least imagine it all too easily. But if we are to question it I believe we would find three pivots. (1) why is he white? (2) why is he a he? (3) why is he alone? The first two have simple, though consistently ignored answers. (1) systems of white supremacy in our culture that paint all protagonists as white. (2) patriarchal systems in our culture that paint all protagonists as men. those systems were built, are not inevitable, and deserve to be radically altered. I won't dedicate much time to them here not because they aren't important but because the third leads us somewhere I'd like to go with you. It's answer too can be stated simply. (3)Because we built the interfaces of the internet to emphasis a physical isolation. Computers, hand-held or otherwise, have been built with one screen and one keyboard. The digital interfaces via which we log on are singular, the profiles we build personal. The interfaces via which we utilize the internet are absolutely exclusionary. It is important the we remember it does not have to be this way just because it currently is this way. Further, as we build the internet to be everywhere, if we accept that the physical objects and built interfaces via which we utilize the internet are isolated and emphasise an exclusion then everywhere we access it we are physically isolating ourselves. We are emphasizing an exclusion. This is an effect of the current technological institution in the western white world. There are already alternate forms of access that turn these assumptions on their head. Imagine an internet that is outdoors and entirely communal. Imagine an internet which emphasises public life and community, the opposite of the isolated, indoor, private interfaces via which we currently interact. You do not have to simply imagine. All around us there are important hints, not utopias, but glimpses at other possibilities." 2,54003,2019-05-26T09:51:53.245Z,53998,anon3031202475,anon577366890,"[quote=""anon577366890, post:1, topic:10007""] Imagine an internet that is outdoors and entirely communal. Imagine an internet which emphasises public life and community, the opposite of the isolated, indoor, private interfaces via which we currently interact. You do not have to simply imagine. All around us there are important hints, not utopias, but glimpses at other possibilities. [/quote] Hello @anon577366890, Thank you so much for this well written and thoughtful essay on our assumptions and the morality challenges surrounding the internet and (western) developments. And also for ending it on an optimistic note. This is the right anon2317280404e to develop the Internet of Humans :). Would be great to hear a bit more about your background as well! What do you do? Where are you from? In which of those hints and projects showing glimpses of this other internet are you involved or would you like to be involved? And finally, do you happen to have an image to go with your essay? We would love to share it further and that helps. If not I would make one from a quote from the text, if that is ok with you. If so, would you want to choose it yourself or should I just pick one?" 3,54013,2019-05-26T19:42:59.143Z,54003,anon577366890,anon3031202475,"Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm very grateful you enjoyed it. My background is as an applied mathematician. I study complexity and chaos mostly with a lot of focus on networks. In terms of the hints and projects I'm currently working on creating/finding/synthesizing alternative interest-free financial products based off of risk sharing and networks of communities to aid in construction and maintenance of local/communal grids (broadband, energy, water, etc). I'm also working on using the Pirate Box project and expanding it a bit to create neighborhood/city level isolated internets. Of course, I would absolutely love to get more involved in other peoples projects and could absolutely use help with mine. I don't have an image but I would gladly make one. What did you have in mind? I also noticed to my great embarrassment some typos in the essay. Is there a way for me to fix them? again thank you" 4,54051,2019-05-28T03:45:19.036Z,54013,anon2434097920,anon577366890,"Hi - anon4292955258 an essay indeed. Thanks for such a thoughtful piece. And yes you can edit your posting if you haven't already. How do you picture a commons brought together more closely through networking, which is what I think you are calling for." 5,54803,2019-06-10T15:46:18.675Z,54013,anon3031202475,anon577366890,"Hello @anon577366890, Thank you for your answer. I see you already edited your post. What is the Pirate Box Project? Could you link to it? I thought it would be nice to take a quote from your essay, like the one I picked ""Imagine an internet that is outdoors and entirely communal. Imagine an internet which emphasises public life and community, the opposite of the isolated, indoor, private interfaces via which we currently interact. You do not have to simply imagine. All around us there are important hints, not utopias, but glimpses at other possibilities."" that you feel would be a good start into it, maybe even one formulated as a question to get people curious and put it in a nice big font as an image. If you would do that yourself amazing, otherwise just send me the quote you would like :). Have a great day!" 6,54935,2019-06-12T01:35:03.673Z,54803,anon222512824,anon3031202475,"Hey Maria, here's a link for ya: https://piratebox.cc/" 7,55086,2019-06-13T15:26:21.306Z,54935,anon3031202475,anon222512824,Thank you :slight_smile: 8,55151,2019-06-14T13:02:02.711Z,53998,anon3721548357,anon577366890,"Hey, I TL,DR the above a anon222512824 but I wanted to let you know about this: http://www.nestorsire.com/the-weekly-package-2016-2018/ I am friends with an artist couple https://gethanandmyles.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-writings-on-wall.html (out of Marseille) who have recently worked with the guys above. Just thought I'd make that connection. With regard to some of the text of your post I'd posit that (in part) this perception of the ""isolated pale white dude"" was because in the early days this very much was the ""internet demography"". Of course things change, but not necessarily in concert with narratives, which like to lag. That said it is obvious that challenging the narrative is a good thing (as so fricken often). In other news to @anon196034329 the mp3 school is still in the works and slowly evolving. I met up with @anon Currently he is working mostly reactively as the situation in Bamenda is a rapidly deteriorating [shit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1yoEV_sV2g) [sandwich](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By24ardaOAI). He is mostly busy with the refugees' basic needs at this point. Still, we have approximately 40 mp3 players (etc.) and 100 sd-cards with some basic audio lectures on site. Current goal on his end is to make an adapted local dialect recording of relevant excerpts of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Where-Women-Have-No-Doctor/dp/0942364252 that we lifted of the net. On my end I am working on sourcing and sometimes ruggedizing/feminizing a bunch of mp3 players, small solar, powerbank kits, recorders, documentation means, spare parts and tools. Of course the hope is to make this as much as possible of them, by them, for them with emphasis on content adaptation, and hardware life extension. We are aiming to set up some sort of organization after the pilot runs of this are done. The phase 1 value prop being in short: Resource efficient basic education (and stress relief) for the marginalized, illiterate, and busy in environments where schools do not work or do not exist. Phase 2: Allow optimization for specific outcomes including, content spread, local content adaptation / creation, impact vs cost, self sustainability, and 2-way learning. But to be realistic, we'll need help on the organization front and currently the IDP situation is so bad I am thinking about ordering rolls of tyvek from China to have them locally made into repurposable blankets with mosquito netting and a pocket for the mp3 player glued on. That is if my contact and hero on the ground Eric doesn't get abducted and tortured again..." 9,55157,2019-06-14T14:26:03.807Z,55151,anon196034329,anon3721548357,"[quote=""anon3721548357, post:8, topic:10007""]the mp3 school is still in the works and slowly evolving. I met up with @anon Ohhh wow :blush: I had not heard anything about your work on this so far. If you need some more seedfunding for this, I'm pretty sure Edgeryders OÜ can fork out 1-2 kEUR for more hardware, shipment fees etc.. [quote=""anon3721548357, post:8, topic:10007""]Current goal on his end is to make an adapted local dialect recording of relevant excerpts of [this book](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0942364252) that we lifted of the net.[/quote] That book is actually made freely available as chapter-wise PDFs by the publisher itself (Hesperian). See [Autarky Library](/t/8791), item 483. Lots of other books in there as well, maybe you find other relevant content. That Autarky Library content collection is actually the outcome at my end after @anon1676186961, you and me developed the [Kafal Local Media Server](/t/4519) idea back in 2015. I rather wanted to go for comprehensive content and as a compromise abandoned the audio format as converting all that to audio is impossible without significant funding. Indeed I found all the content, but it's only English, only PDF, and not open source so that converting it to anything else (even EPUB for proper reading on phones) is a legal issue. So I got stuck at that point as I can't find a good way to get all that content to the people needing it. Your approach of sticking to audio and going for a small intervention first makes a lot of sense in comparison …" 10,55162,2019-06-14T14:37:45.373Z,55151,anon3449369942,anon3721548357,@anon 11,55167,2019-06-14T15:54:29.449Z,55157,anon3721548357,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:9, topic:10007""] See [Autarky Library](/t/8791), item 483 [/quote] Niiiice! Yeah, things are very much in the Kafal vain still. But I did indeed break it down to a much smaller pilot version that is hopefully more sticky on the ground. Once there is a persistent structure etc. it is 0 problem to drop a bunch of epubs, daisy, and pdf on the side of the sd card (we currently have mostly 128 MB). Actually with the players costing around 1-2.5 EUR that is really the cheapest way to get a sd-card reader, an interface (earphones) and a charging cable / infrastructure into use. Anything that builds on this is of course a synergy win (and realistically already happening as I posted some old hardware down there). But a lot of the target audience is not literate, or has time to sit in front of a screen. And the other bit is that written material can always be read into audio - which could be either a paid job opportunity, or done as synth. My new pocketbook for example reads anything and dumps if where I want via bluetooth audio - probably just a 80/20 solution though. With regard to open source / copyright I've taken an approach that is... let's say unbureaucratic. Where I can and feel it is right I try to reach out and inform the authors what we're doing. My expectation is that we will at some point run into problems - but I'd like to make sure they are with the right people / organizations. Because there is a scenario where you turn this risk into a opportunity. :wink: Or would you like to be a multinational trying to squeeze out money from the poorest of the poor and literally standing side by side with the likes of Boko Haram? That is a very plausible risk in the days of social media and new publishing paradigms. Then there is a far bigger arc to it as well, such as the ""Gutenberg Parenthesis"" bit, and potentially conserving dying languages, which could turn out to be invaluable beyond the aid aspect." 12,55174,2019-06-14T16:10:55.052Z,55157,anon3721548357,anon196034329,"On the ER OUe offer - that is awesome to hear! We're in the process of putting the pitch together in the next couple of weeks. Mostly I want to target this at gov/aid/biz overlaps and see what echo I get. Eventually this could be a framework: https://www.skillsafrica.org/apply But I am very open to think about mini-interventions with potential PR return. For example one could order that tyvek to be locally made into hammocks, bedsheets, tarps (and later repurposed). The Tyvek could have ER / MoP logo on one side, and e.g. illustrations of the IDPs experiences drawn by them on the other side. These illustrations could be photographed and made into a gigantic digital collage. A potential sponsor could e.g. supply the pens for this (e.g. Molotow from Berlin), another cover the shipment, or pay for the tyvek. Just a thought. Oh and we're dialing in on a naming / branding scheme as well: Pearls of Wisdom (PoW, yes the association of prisoner of war, and the cynicism of the idiom _can_ work for us here) for the mp3 project. If we manage to get more than that done (Eric works a lot around SDGs, womens ed, IDPs) it can be under the header of Mother of Pearl (which, like education, is a beautiful but not fundamentally scarce resource)." 13,55176,2019-06-14T16:24:24.662Z,55162,anon3721548357,anon3449369942,"Hey @anon3449369942 nice to see you too! You were actually the main point in me finally digging up my password again. The point is a bit off topic (and potentially sensitive) though, so let me know if you're okay to discuss it here. It has to do with one person we both met briefly on the CMI event in Marseille. The one from SA that doesn't drive anymore. We're in talks with KAUST, and you know that we do [auanon2317280404omous vehicles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1H724-xLc), sooo I wondered if we were careful about this - maybe this is an opportunity to improve some things for her." 14,57195,2019-07-26T16:56:58.808Z,55176,anon3449369942,anon3721548357,send me a PM? 1,55630,2019-06-24T16:29:37.380Z,55630,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Every year (going way back), venture capitalist Mary Meeker publishes a set of stats and data highlighting trends for the year. It's a big report with a lot of data, stats, comments, quotes - more than 300 pages. She has just released her 2019 report: https://www.bondcap.com/report/itr19/#view/2" 2,55631,2019-06-24T16:35:01.671Z,55630,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Here is the intro/summary of what is in the report: ""We use data to tell stories of business-related trends we focus on. We hope others take the ideas, build on them & make them better. At 3.8B, the number of Internet users comprises more than half the world’s population. When markets reach mainstream, new growth is harder to find as evinced by declining new smartphone shipments in 2018. While E-Commerce continues to gain share vs. physical retail, growth rates are slowing. While Internet advertising growth is solid & innovation is healthy, there are areas where customer acquisition costs may be rising to unsustainable levels. While Internet user growth is slowing, global innovation & competition continue to drive product improvements, new types of usage & monetization – especially in areas of digital video, voice, wearables, on-demand + local services & traditionally underserved markets. Outside of USA, we focus on especially high growth & innovation in data-driven / direct fulfillment & financial services. We highlight massive global usage changes related to the evolution of images & interactive gaming as communications tools & the broad emergence of freemium businesses at scale. The rapid rise of gathered / analyzed digital data is often core to the holistic success of the fastest growing & most successful companies of our time around the world. Context-rich data can help businesses provide consumers with increasingly personalized products & services that can often be obtained at lower prices & delivered more efficiently. This, in turn, can drive higher customer satisfaction. Better data-driven tools can improve the ability for consumers to communicate directly & indirectly with businesses & regulators. Core constituents (consumers / businesses / regulators) are increasingly drinking from a data firehose & management challenges continue to rise for all parties. Broad awareness of challenges (& related vigorous / heated debates) can be the first step in driving change. Consumers are aware of concerns about Internet usage overload & are taking steps to reduce usage – leading USA-based Internet platforms have rolled out tools to help monitor usage & social media usage growth appears to be decelerating following a period of strong growth. Privacy & problematic content concerns are also top-of-mind & are following similar patterns. Owing to social media amplification, reveals / actions / reactions about events can occur quickly – resulting in both good & bad outcomes. In markets where online real-time rating systems exist, accountability can be improved vs. offline options as consumers & businesses interact directly while regulators can also benefit. Rapidly expanding connectivity has helped amplify voices of good & bad actors. This has brought new focus to an age-old challenge for regulators around the world – finding the most effective ways to amplify good & minimize bad, often resulting in different regional interpretations & strategies. As Internet systems become increasingly sophisticated, data-rich & mission critical, so has the opportunity for cyber attacks. We are in a new era of cyber security where technology issues are increasingly intermixed with international diplomacy & defense. We focus on the impact of the Internet on work (via on-demand services & remote options), education & healthcare – the materiality of current trends imply inflections are occurring. We update USA trending around government finances & the importance of immigration to the technology sector. The Hillhouse Capital team provides insights into China – the largest market of Internet users & a leader in innovation / scale.""" 3,55633,2019-06-24T17:07:23.142Z,55631,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"A few items from the report: Social media use globally is flattening and growth has slowed way down. Europe has 15% of global internet users, North America has 9% and Asia Pacific has 53% Spotify is the only European company in the Top 30 Internet Market Cap list, and it is #30. "" ...privacy [concerns] are a headwind for [Facebook] in 2019. It's one of the factors that's contributing to our expected deceleration of revenue growth throughout the year. You've got regulatory – which was GDPR in 2018... the regulatory arc will be longer-term in playing out...Platforms like iOS are making bigger pushes in privacy & that has the potential impact... then changes that we're making ourselves...we've elected to rollout GDPR-type controls globally...later this year, we'll be launching Clear History, which will also affect our ability to do third-party targeting."" - David Wehner – CFO, Facebook, 2/19" 4,55644,2019-06-24T20:10:35.797Z,55633,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Survey of Retail Customers (2018 Accenture survey that included a lot of European responses): 91% Prefer Brands that Provide Personalized Offers / Recommendations 83% Willing to Passively Share Data in Exchange for Personalized Experiences 74% Willing to Actively Share Data in Exchange for Personalized Experiences" 5,55713,2019-06-25T21:13:37.411Z,55630,anon196034329,anon2434097920,"I clicked through some slides in the report as well. The numbers are really interesting, actually … as in, Google and Facebook had 40% and 90% ad revenue growth, respectively, from the beginning of 2017 to today. I didn't really think that the ad market was growing at all anymore … I was feeling a kind of disgust though, about how these venture capitalist types are pushing for and cheering for everything that drives consumption. Instead, if we want the world to be naturally beautiful, full of life and livable in 100 years from now, we quickly need to arrive at the point where everyone feels guilt and disgust when consuming something without necessity. As in, feeling to have no moral right to consume. So how will people have fun when they don't consume for fun anymore? Oh, they will manage. They might have to learn the art of frugal hedonism or something along these lines. (That's actually a book and [here are some sample chapters](https://www.frugalhedonism.com/taster-chapters/).)" 6,55715,2019-06-26T00:47:11.881Z,55713,anon2434097920,anon196034329,Yes you must read these reports understanding the lens she uses. 7,57164,2019-07-25T20:41:09.721Z,55713,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:5, topic:10220""] So how will people have fun when they don’t consume for fun anymore? [/quote] This question is deeper than it seems. I started writing a reaction, but then I realized I really don't know much about how to frame the problem, and I deleted it." 8,57165,2019-07-25T20:49:50.606Z,57164,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"In this context, @anon https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1152768373106925568" 9,57166,2019-07-25T20:55:26.687Z,57165,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"i read it, but honestly it did not seem groundbreaking to me. When I was in university (1980s) marketing types were already crooning about ""oh, we don't sell products, we sell whole ways of liiiiife!""." 10,57190,2019-07-26T13:21:51.204Z,57165,anon2434097920,anon196034329,He does make some interesting observations about tools and skills. 1,56809,2019-07-17T12:40:11.566Z,56809,anon2339827249,anon2339827249,""" The European Union has launched a formal investigation into Amazon, opening a new front against US tech giants. Announcing the decision, the European commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager, said she wanted to take “a very close look” at whether Amazon’s business practices broke EU anti-trust rules."" "" The latest investigation will assess the agreements between Amazon and the thousands of independent retailers that sell goods on its site. After a preliminary investigation launched last year, the commission said Amazon appeared to use “competitively sensitive information” from those independent retailers. The formal investigation, launched on Wednesday, will study how the use of this data affects competition, with a focus on Amazon’s “buy box”, which allows customers to add items from a specific retailer directly into their shopping carts."" From: [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/17/amazon-faces-eu-inquiry-over-treatment-of-small-retailers) Long expected, now officially announced. Thoughts?" 2,56826,2019-07-17T15:05:04.497Z,56809,anon3809206126,anon2339827249,"I was trained as an industrial economist. For my discipline of origin, antitrust legislation and its application is the weapon of choice, because it studies large corporations and large corporation have an in-built incentive to collude (""competition is for losers""). Of course, antitrust became very difficult to do in recent decades, because most companies worth regulating transcend jurisdictions. I love [the example of Goldman Sachs](https://opencorporates.com/viz/financial/index.html) in the interactive visualization by OpenCorporates. Play with it, it's sobering. As a result of this and other phenomena, hardline antitrust decisions have all but vanished in America. No company was forced to break up after [AT&T](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System)... in 1984. I have long believed that the EU finds itself in a privileged position, because it has stumbled across a way to regulate companies that are not in its jurisdiction. It is based on market access: ""if you want access to 500 million relatively affluent people, you have to play by our rules"". Some past commissioners, like Monti and Vestager, were able to regulate _American_ companies in the past. This is, IMHO, one of the strongest card that Europe possesses. There have recently been calls to come down hard on some of the tech giants, as in ""break them up"", not just fine them ([one](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html), [two](https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead)). The antitrust rationale is clear: their position is no longer contendible. Textbooks, in these cases, recommend breakup or a tightly regulated monopoly, possibly nationalized. What would happen if the EU told Facebook that it has to break up or stay out of the European market? Either way, it would be competition-enhancing: if it did break up, we would have two or three companies instead of one. If it did not, we would have spectacular growth of alternative services based on their access to a market where Facebook itself cannot operate. This might seem extreme, but, I repeat, it's actually industrial organization 101, and I find it worth considering." 1,53925,2019-05-24T13:56:55.888Z,53925,anon3417207767,anon3417207767,"Between 2015 - 2018 I contracted for a number of UK government departments, including Government Digital Services (GDS), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Home Office (UK Passports). Even though I'd studied Politics & German at University, I'd never actually worked in politics, so this was an experience of the political system, at a time when the way public facing service development was becoming ever more digital and user-centric. I've been lucky enough to work and become friends with some amazing Civil Servants and consulting businesses working around government but yet my overwhelming sense, is of Civil Service fighting the tide to ""do the right thing"" for citizens and society, rather than enabling policy that has the people at its heart. In the UK, the events of June 2016 now overshadow all policy-making and whilst systemic reform should be the first priority, current events rather indicate the opposite is true. So, whilst digital services are thoroughly researched, tested and built along agile, collaborative principles, it's not the case that policy is being developed in the same manner. I've long wondered what effective user-centric democracy would **_actually_** look like. It's a conversation I have with people, in different government departments. For example - how could we change the electoral system to reflect the way in which citizens already interact with internet technologies? How can left behind communities become empowered? Essentially, how can politics move from top-down, to bottom-up?" 2,53930,2019-05-24T14:48:45.047Z,53925,anon3809206126,anon3417207767,"[quote=""anon3417207767, post:1, topic:9980""] I’ve long wondered what effective user-centric democracy would ***actually*** look like. [/quote] Hello and welcome @anon3417207767, my name is Alberto. I am an old-timer here on Edgeryders. I walked that path myself, back in the 2000s. I was fortunate enough to be put in charge of several first-generation open government projects ([blog in English](http://www.cottica.net/category/cat-opengov-en/)), so I had some opportunities to experiment. I also collected my reflections into [a book](http://www.cottica.net/wikicrazia/). Nowadays I am much less involved in that scene. There is still good work to be done, but I have become pessimistic on the chances of system-level reform from within. I guess I went to deep into complex systems science, with its luggage of emergence and resistance to external pressure. My latest, and probably last, contribution to high-level thinking about government is called [The Black Briefing](http://www.cottica.net/2018/03/01/the-black-briefing-why-well-intentioned-policies-fail-so-often-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/). It proposes that government is just another agent, subject to evolutionary pressure to survive and grow. This pressure *systematically* steers government in the direction of superimposing standards onto the full complexity of society and the economy. If done with sufficient power, this will result in overwriting society with standards, in a social equivalent of monoculture. Complexity breaks down, and consequences can be dire. In this perspective, I am anon4292955258 wary of deploying the metaphor of a commercial service for democracy, like in ""user-centric democracy"". It makes complete sense that, say, a restaurant service be user-centric, trying to make it easy for the client to order and consume food. Why, after all, saddle her with the full complexity of procuring the raw materials for her meal, preparing it, keeping the kitchen clean and so on? The information about that is contained in the meal's price. With democracy, I am not sure the metaphor holds. A voter that thinks she should be spared the intricacies of policy might be an unwary one, believing, for example, that disentangling a national legal and economic system from something as deep and broad as the European Union is a simple matter of cutting a Gordian knot. How do you see the matter? How does it map onto infrastructure and policy for the Internet?" 3,53934,2019-05-24T15:18:13.582Z,53930,anon3417207767,anon3809206126,"Thanks @anon3809206126. Thanks for sharing your blog post, I'll definitely take a look. I suppose there's a couple of points I've considered to your comments. To your point of the metaphor of commercial services and the idea of ""user-centric"" government. This is a principle I've actually seen being applied, for real, within digital services. This is partly why, for so long I've been interested in how citizens can become more enable to participate in an iterative democratic process. I suppose the deeper question to answer becomes ""how much government should a citizen be exposed to?"" My view has always been that the current democratic settlement is too abstract, too representative and fails to empower either the individual, the community, or the society. Thus, the impact of relatively rare referendums and elections aren't correlated to the individual's viewpoints and actions. Indeed, to your EU point - how do citizens understand the wider implications of such questions, rather than outsourcing such decisions to a political class no better equipped to answer the question than the electorate that it supposedly serves. I've seen with my own eyes the impact of effective, government, user-centric design and am curious to see how this might escape the confines of a Civil Service, to make its way into higher level decision making by way of a network effect that might enable more thorough and deeper decision-making. The side effect, in a changing world might also be more stable government with active, rather than passive contribution from citizens. Of course, I'd be failing my own argument if I didn't acknowledge that this would require, testing, iteration and learning and that failure is definitely an option!" 4,53951,2019-05-24T20:02:49.731Z,53925,anon2434097920,anon3417207767,"[quote=""anon3417207767, post:1, topic:9980""] For example - how could we change the electoral system to reflect the way in which citizens already interact with internet technologies? How can left behind communities become empowered? [/quote] That is a tricky one in the sense that many of what we could think of as ""left-behind communities"" are either poor, live in rural areas or are otherwise less connected. Or maybe they are just seen that way, and are more connected to the Net than is often understood because they have a mobile phone that connects. Still, I live in a rural area and whereas I have a broadband connection, about five properties down the road they do not have broadband and frankly, anon222512824 chance of getting one other than expensive and slower satellite connectivity. Since it is fairly mountainous, cell reception is pretty spotty. Those people all drive into town to hang at the library or coffee shop for their connection." 5,53954,2019-05-25T06:36:05.905Z,53951,anon3417207767,anon2434097920,"Hi @anon2434097920. My view is that inclusion needs to be formalised. I feel that digital or not, our democracy has stopped (or maybe never did) work to include everyone. In addition to the question of geographical inclusion is race, gender, economic etc etc." 6,54012,2019-05-26T16:28:33.761Z,53925,anon2434097920,anon3417207767,"Meanwhile, this Politico story does not paint a very encouraging picture of how the GDPR is working out.. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/25/how-silicon-valley-gamed-the-worlds-toughest-privacy-rules-1466148?cid=apn" 7,54288,2019-05-31T07:47:21.799Z,53930,anon1514803743,anon3809206126,"I broadly agree with @anon3417207767 that the democratic systems we have in place are generally broken, or rather, less effective than they could be if they were to be rethought using human-centric design principles. For me this isn't necessarily internet specific - the internet and access to it etc may be required to enable better solutions but what I think the question here is is more about does our current democratic processes work well for humanity in today's/tomorrow world? [quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:9980""] Nowadays I am much less involved in that scene. There is still good work to be done, but I have become pessimistic on the chances of system-level reform from within. [/quote] I too have been trying to work within and have come to the same conclusion. Frustrating as it is the machinery of large organisations is not set up to work for humanity in a human centric way, it's always fuelled by corporate and capitalist values. [quote=""anon3417207767, post:3, topic:9980""] I’ve seen with my own eyes the impact of effective, government, user-centric design and am curious to see how this might escape the confines of a Civil Service, to make its way into higher level decision making by way of a network effect that might enable more thorough and deeper decision-making. [/quote] @anon3417207767 I feel we know each other... To echo the point that working within isn't the right place for us to do this thinking - just over a year ago, I was asked to create a vision of what “innovation in Government” could look like. Whilst closely studying emerging government strategies I noticed there was anon222512824 in the way of GDS type ambitions (the human centric approach) within the plans for our society. In fact the main thread throughout the likes of the UK’s Industrial and Digital strategies are based on widening the doors to large corporate support and, reading between the lines, approving their capitalist control and influence in exchange. The Government’s contribution in all this is to sponsor large programmes of infrastructure development (yet more capitalist gain) and to provide economic incentives in order to create the perfect environment for global industries to make their home in the UK. Chris, if you're interested in exploring what democracy looks like for a nation based on rethinking using a service design process that you're familiar with then I think we could set something up. I think it plays well into the topic of Internet of Humans, we could possibly run some design sprints and build up a ""discovery"" to present at a track in November. Maybe the festival will include prototyping and broadening of the discussion." 8,54301,2019-05-31T10:31:20.967Z,54288,anon3168534516,anon1514803743,"Inspiring discussion! Briefly, it seems like the global political systems are not able to achieve the necessary climate goals. So let's make a kind of bypass-operation and connect consumers and producers via some kind of moral filter! How about this draft: Imagine an app/site that makes it super easy to favor the most climate-smart alternative. It should be possible to ask for a product or even a shopping list and get the best way to achieve it in seconds -- calculated given your geo position and transport -- wherever you are. The app workers are a global network of volunteer ""consumer politicians"" that agrees upon the basic mission and rules. It distributes consumer power via high granularity: a participant can only debate/rank/vote in maximum 10 product categories. Delegation gives tree advantages: Higher competence in the respective debates, more power in the areas of interest/expertise and less workload for each participant. A lot of consumers starts to use the app and it becomes beneficial for the #1 products. The application takes a fee from aspiring companies for assessment and voting in the categories and regions where they want to become the climate-leading alternative. Is it a bad idea? Otherwise, let's realize it! :grinning:" 9,56802,2019-07-17T10:04:35.081Z,54288,anon3809206126,anon1514803743,"[quote=""anon1514803743, post:7, topic:9980""] I think it plays well into the topic of Internet of Humans, we could possibly run some design sprints and build up a “discovery” to present at a track in November. [/quote] That sounds really interesting... I would be glad to attend something like that." 1,55428,2019-06-19T13:09:07.104Z,55428,anon3449369942,anon3449369942," There are two themes/conversations I would like to explore in the context of internet of humans. But I am unsure how to frame the topics. Any input and offers of help would be much appreciated.... 1. What a deep green movement for the Internet of Humans would look like and which questions we should be asking to start figuring this out together. For example- how would you/not approach the work of developing a deep green trustmark for digital tech? What would you not try/avoid doing? Who or what would you bring into that conversation?How would you mobilize people in tech to contribute or adopt using it? 2. An internet without bias? I came across this conference on bias in Neuroscience and AI https://www.ru.nl/bias2019/program-location/. The topic is important but i wouldn’t know how to approach it without normative thinking - how would you invite people to discuss this? Any ideas or additional topics you would like to explore?" 2,55429,2019-06-19T13:18:37.897Z,55428,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:1, topic:10190""] What a deep green movement for the Internet of Humans would look like and which questions we should be asking to start figuring this out together. [/quote] Let's start by trying to define ""deep green"". Do you mean ""deep"" it as it is referred to in relation to [""deep tech""](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_tech)? [quote=""anon3449369942, post:1, topic:10190""] An internet without bias? [/quote] @anon3572363072, how could Memex and Storex be useful for those wanting to work together for more sustainable tech?" 3,55472,2019-06-20T08:35:51.291Z,55428,anon273015838,anon3449369942,"The work that the [Green Web Foundation](https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/) has been doing seems highly relevant, [Chris Adams](https://twitter.com/anon2753384108) is the person I'd recommend chatting to, he's been doing work with them. That covers the **energy angle of digital services**. Then there's of course the **materials angle** for those products that have a hardware component (everything IoT for example). [The Restart Project](https://therestartproject.org/) are doing amazing work around prolonging the life cycle of electronics through repair. So maybe one aspect is along the spectrum of ""how does this come into the world"", ""how is this in the world"", ""how does this end its life"" kinda thing." 4,55475,2019-06-20T09:22:13.904Z,55472,anon3449369942,anon273015838,Oh! Yes ofcourse hey @anon2207037597 :slight_smile: maybe you have some relections on ^^? 5,55476,2019-06-20T09:25:15.076Z,55472,anon3449369942,anon273015838,Got suggests for how not to approach thinking about trustmarks on general/ a starting set of questions we could depart from based on your experience with the trustable iot one you are developing? 6,55486,2019-06-20T10:11:49.894Z,55476,anon273015838,anon3449369942,"Ah right, yes. Thanks for the reminder. I sometimes take that so for granted because I'm in too deep to notice that not everybody spends their days pondering these questions :slight_smile: Some of the foundational questions to ask yourself is: - Should this mark provide a base-line, or be more aspirational? (One establishes a minimum standard, the other a ""gold"" standard, which means one applies to potentially everything while the other applies to a small subset.) - Do we build this around information provided by the vendor/manufacturer or do we verify information independently? (One is easy but could be abused, the other is more robust but more costly.) My research on this might be outdated, but to the best of my knowledge, there isn't currently a canonical ""green"" trustmark for things like electronics. It seems like Fairphone's approach of making their phones' components transparent is about the limit of what has been possible. Why? The sourcing is *incredibly* complex. Once you get to your definition of green/sustainability (Focus on materials? Sourcing processes? Repairability/recyclability? Shipping and packaging? Energy use? Something else entirely?) you'd likely need to start breaking down the product into its components, and possibly these components into their own more basic components. The way supply chains work, a product (let's take a smart home assistant as an example) might have software from a company that we would recognize, and some parts or most parts of the industrial design might come from the same company if it's a higher-end consumer brand. _Maybe_ the case and some chips and boards could be traced back, or reported on by the company (if they agree to share, because of IP rights). Once you're down to the chip level, most likely those were sourced as is in Shenzhen, and at the latest that stage is where documentation is likely to become a lot less complete (currently; that might change if there's a business case for better documentation!). So! I believe there are some data bases for finding out environmental impact both on the materials side ([Dr. Isabel Ordonez mentioned something along those lines at a recent ThingsCon Salon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUs7XwvhIv4)) as well as on the energy side of digital products (The Green Web Foundation and Chris Adams to the rescue!). Beyond that, **I think this breaks reasonably new ground to really justify some deep research: How can we mitigate the lack of transparency and still get to meaningful insights into how green a product is? What are best practices to make things more green? What are strategies to allow for this type of mark to evolve as things get more transparent over time?**" 7,55506,2019-06-20T15:45:09.173Z,55486,anon2434097920,anon273015838,"I agree about defining 'deep' - and given the situation we collectively find ourselves in, I think that definition should be as inclusive as @anon273015838 suggests: materials, sources, processes, recyclability, shipping, packaging, energy use - all of the above and whatever else goes along with it. In some ways this reminds me of the late 60s and early 70s, back when we the people were discovering just how extensive pollution was. Fires in rivers, Love Canal, dying lakes, acid rain, PCBs, DDT...etc etc. There was a period of deep collective investigation into what we had done to ourselves. We need that now in every walk of life." 8,55675,2019-06-25T08:42:37.755Z,55475,anon2207037597,anon3449369942,"Thanks for tagging us. We are probably lacking the wider context of this thread — apologies if this misses the mark ;) There are a number of initiatives towards ""repairability scores"" for electronics, some EU, some scoping at a national level (including hints from Defra here in the UK) and some private sector-driven voluntary approaches. Additionally [TCO are looking to expand their criteria to include a full lifecycle approach](https://tcocertified.com/criteria-overview/). Worth also remembering that EU-driven voluntary initiatives like Ecolabel that have had extremely limited traction. For example, the Ecolabel for laptops has existed for years, but very few (if any?) manufacturers have ever risen to the challenge. In terms of reducing environmental harms in the supply chain, we would recommend getting involved in [Good Electronics network](https://goodelectronics.org/), which has long-term experience networking grassroots activists on the ground. [Electronics Watch](http://electronicswatch.org/en) has done a great job of extending these concerns into actionable, public sector procurement. However, worth throwing in here that while there are areas where labour in the supply chain activism overlap with green supply chain activism (such as occupational hazards and pollution in production), the agenda of slowing consumption of electronics, and even promoting repair and reuse in primary markets, are seen to be somewhat challenging to labour activists. So sensitivity is required as there is still a perceived ""zero sum"" of jobs in this respect." 9,55680,2019-06-25T09:19:36.332Z,55428,anon3180318115,anon3449369942,"Second the recommendation to cooperate with the [Good Electronics Network](https://goodelectronics.org/). We have been a member for years, useful exchange, focus on sharing campaign info and policy processes, less so on co-developing local formats / strategies; occupational health / right to know has been a key issue from the start, as has supply chain transparency (here a 2018 [survey of tools](https://www.spott.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/Proforest-Transparency-tools-in-commodity-supply-chains-an-overview.pdf)). Lacks tangible alternatives to feature / rally around given the limited commercial reach of [fairphone](https://www.fairphone.com) et al, short product cycles (went to annual in almost all areas of mobile tech a while back) plus rebound effects (see ""[backfire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation))"") have made this an uphill battle. Limited links to free software networks, something I never anon4292955258 understood - the convergence of open data / hardware / software is sth Edgeryders could push for to promote a holistic concept of openness." 10,55704,2019-06-25T14:42:02.902Z,55428,anon2753384108,anon3449369942,"Hey folks. > What a deep green movement for the Internet of Humans would look like and which questions we should be asking to start figuring this out together. > For example - how would you/not approach the work of developing a deep green trustmark for digital tech? I think I'd ask what the scope of the problem you're trying to explore is - I'll speak about IoT here, as I think web's a slightly different story, and this is already a pretty long response. In my experience, that once you pull at one aspect of this what you might refer to as _deep green_* , it's hard not to end up in a situation where you basically end up at a conclusion like Michelle Thorne's post, [_it's capitalism, stupid_][cap2]. At that point, it's harder to make specific recommendations without us needing huge sweeping political changes. \* I assume would be some kind of more systemic way of talking about sustainability, beyond plastic straws and the like [cap2]: https://medium.com/@anon3416257941/its-capitalism-stupid-e20e42fe68cf #### My experiences with IoTMArk I'll try sharing my experiences when trying to get some understanding of climate change and environmental sustainability into the open IoTMark, which became the [BetterIoT work that Alex Deschamps-Sonsino has sunk a colossal amount of work into][bet1]). [bet1]: https://betteriot.wordpress.com I got involved back in 2012, when I was working at [AMEE][amee1] (an environmental data startup - Avoid Mass Extinction Engine), and I wanted to understand some of the issues around hardware. [I wrote up my experiences here about the first event ][oiot1], and [the follow up event here in 2017][oiot2]. [amee1]: https://www.amee.com/ [oiot1]: https://blog.chrisadams.me.uk/2018/03/13/writing-up-iotmark-1-of-2/ [oiot2]: https://blog.chrisadams.me.uk/2018/03/13/writing-up-the-iotmark-part-2-of-2/ If you're short on time though, the TLDR version is that we had a _really_ hard time seeing how building IoT products in a environmentally responsible way, could be commercially viable in the current context because we are so used to shifting many of the costs of related to a service/product outside an organisation, I mean - we didn't even have a good way to capture all the bad in a single diagram or artefact, to really help us talk about which harms we wanted to mitigate first, let alone agree a some methods that smaller companies might be able to adopt, and survive. We figured it needed to be something accessible to them to be able for us to realistically propose it in the trust mark then. #### Finding some stuff via Isabel's work - MET Matrixes,and EcoCosts Back then, I wasn't really aware of any accessible framework to talk about the different kinds of costs incurred on humans or the environment, but through reading some of Isabel Ordonez's work, I've since came across some tools like [MET (material, energy toxicity) Matrixes - see the grid in that deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zZ_7KTfJM_6gKzI638yeyQY3k1PzHc2o7vQUkX1ij24/edit#slide=id.g57245d9f11_0_5), that at least let you start enumerating some of these costs for industrially designed products, and give some data to inform tradeoffs you might make, and [EcoCost][ecocost1], with some nice apps and openly licenced data you can work with. [ecocost1]: http://ecocostsvalue.com/ That said, these frameworks tend to be aimed at mass producted tools or services - where you typically couldn't change much about how you deliver a service to people after you've decided to ship something. Typically you'd wait to ship the _next_ edition of the thing - before you can make changes. This is different to the more webby, ""continuous delivery"" way we talk about services, which seem largely informed by how large public sector organisations might do so, rather than orgs which need to move around substantial quantities of stuff from factories, to retailers, to customers, to an end of life destination (_maybe a new factory. but more likely landfill). > What would you not try/avoid doing? This feels a bit depressing, but I'd try asking why we still only keep referring to Fairphone as one of the only small company success stories in electronics - after 6 or 7 years. We desparately need more examples like them, but I struggle to see many. > How would you mobilise people in tech to contribute or adopt using it? I think there are lessons to be learned from the work by [Emily Webber][em] and [Doteveryone with consequence scanning][csqscn] - they've put work into designing events that fit into the way digital products are increasingly made, and I think it's one of the more promising ideas I've seen of late. That and reminding people in tech [that no one else is coming][no1else], and if we want to feel better about ourselves, we need to be prepared to act ourselves, and that we have more agency than we might think. [The People, Power and Technology reports from Doteveryone][pplpowertech] are particularly good for this, and they point to an appetite among workers for frameworks or things they can use at work to address the dissonance of working in tech, when so many things are clearly on fire, environmentally. There's also some nice stuff coming from the [W3C themselves on the web front, with the Ethical Web Principles][eth], that's both recent, and anon4292955258 accessible. [em]: https://emilywebber.co.uk/ [csqscn]: https://doteveryone.org.uk/project/consequence-scanning/ [no1else]: https://medium.com/@anon [pplpowertech]: https://doteveryone.org.uk/project/peoplepowertech/ [eth]: https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/ethical-web-principles/ I know this is a bit of a brain dump - sorry it's not more structured, but I'm happy to chat more about web and energy on Saturday, which I think is a slightly better situation now." 11,55854,2019-06-28T12:10:47.479Z,55704,anon3449369942,anon2753384108,"thank you @anon2753384108 and @anon2207037597 for this - plenty projects, people and entry points to explore. I'm digging into it - looking forward to meeting up tomorrow :slight_smile: I've been looking around at my end and came across @anon The actual map they produced: https://kumu.io/doteveryone/responsible-tech#org-network Another thing I came across is research on ""Impact Tech - the intentional use of science and technology to benefit people and the planet"" by @anon If anyone wants to dig into it, we could compare notes :slight_smile: ping @anon3401476781 maybe of interest to you too" 12,55935,2019-07-01T10:17:54.364Z,55704,anon3809206126,anon2753384108,"Wow, @anon2753384108, this is really great work, thanks. I was not aware of the W3C's Ethical Web Principles, and it's a great discovery!" 13,56672,2019-07-14T14:29:26.898Z,55675,anon3449369942,anon2207037597,Dunno if you have already seen this beautiful angy-guy rant about reparing broken tech products. In case you haven't: https://cheezburger.com/4550661/this-anti-apple-rant-from-a-repair-guy-reminds-us-not-all-heroes-wear-capes 14,56676,2019-07-14T16:43:10.144Z,56672,anon2434097920,anon3449369942,Good for him. My Mac laptop has one of those batteries that’s glued to the keyboard so if you need a new battery you have to throw out the whole keyboard. 1,56363,2019-07-08T21:55:46.332Z,56363,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"There is a search engine that, apparently, plants one tree every 45 searches launched. A friend who I respect a lot says he has been using it for two years, and it's anon4292955258 OK (though not as good as You-Know-What). Anyone has any experience of using it? https://www.ecosia.org/" 2,56426,2019-07-09T16:38:59.656Z,56363,anon51020356,anon3809206126,"This is amazing. I've recently become a green bait so to speak - I go into any and all sustainability things.. So i installed it and while it's hard to process the 61.5 million trees they supposedly planted so far, it just looks like a good approach. Notwithstanding the carbon footprint of the Internet itself.. https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-much-co2-is-the-internet/9174" 3,56445,2019-07-10T07:40:26.963Z,56363,anon2926706121,anon3809206126,"this is great, @anon3809206126. I had to do some anon222512824 research before - ""who are they"" ""how do they make money"" etc etc. But it took me a few minutes of searching online for me to add it as my default browser. Which reminds me, @anon3449369942 and others: we really should also quickly focus on our other online presence: why should people trust us? One thing that's got to improve is our wikipedia page: ![26|690x322](upload://6HeeDHoX4BrEw7m9ApP7XmAk43R.png)" 4,56452,2019-07-10T11:09:01.029Z,56363,anon1676186961,anon3809206126,"I also really love the idea, it was high time for me to part with google anyway. Thanks for this." 5,56462,2019-07-10T14:54:40.869Z,56363,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"61 million trees planted and we are just hearing about it now...I would have to take that as pretty good news. So much bad stuff going on that floods the news feeds and no mention of such projects, at least none that I have seen. It looks like they take ad revenue and pay tree planters. Makes sense...I didn't they went out and planted the trees themselves. I like the bits-to-atoms approach." 1,56022,2019-07-02T02:12:45.971Z,56022,anon677245861,anon677245861," This is a public discussion in Brussels about the question: ## Platforms, precarious work and the public good. Can platforms empower workers? The event is organized by The Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and targets policy makers and academics. @anon3449369942 participates is on the panel of the afternoon session: “platforms for the public good”. Find more details in the [invitation flyer](https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d9a9c0490bdcb6d045860cd5e1509b46d90ed8b0.pdf).   (Image: Unemployed workers during the Great Depression. Public domain. For details, see the [source on Wikimedia Commmons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_1_106492_Relief_workers_at_Annerley_during_the_Great_Depression,_1938.jpg).)" 2,56116,2019-07-03T14:47:43.122Z,56022,anon3317973212,anon677245861,"Very excite, sorry to miss this, hope to see some of the post-event stuff and things online." 3,56122,2019-07-03T15:18:38.726Z,56116,anon3449369942,anon3317973212,Ill try to document the discussion and then post the notes here 1,53638,2019-05-17T15:47:46.014Z,53638,anon838581715,anon838581715,"Starting to post my summary and reflections here (this will be updated). The Stockholm workshop on 11th of May was preceded by a presentation by Alberto Cottica about collective intelligence which gathered about 40 people. We had a Q&A after the presentation which was very engaged and unfortunately we had to cut the Q&A in order to stat the workshop. During the workshop we went through the following steps: - “Interestmapping” (What We Care About) - Listening Triads - Collaboration Mosaic A - Personal statement - Collaboration Mosaic B - Resource Mapping **What was shared/learned in the workshop?** I believe there was shared a collective understanding throughout the workshop that there are a lot of us ""out there"" who not only talk but also walk about building the Internet of Humans, to become a better place. **My reflections** Reflections since the process is that I would have liked to have done more in terms of giving room for participants to present themselves as whole humans. This time we jumped straight into talk and documentation, not really setting the stage and giving space for background – because we had a lot of ground to cover. - I felt that there was an immense and deep knowledge in the room. There was also representatives from all sectors of society (academia, civil, public, business, interest groups - maybe more?) which I think is a great start for an event like this. It’s requirement for leveraging system change to involve stakeholders from all sectors. I am really happy that I got the feedback from participants that they want to continue and explore collaboration, this was a seed planted to further building of relationships and collaboration and that is good as it was the intention. - As we had anon222512824 time left after the exercises we could not share the results in plenum. However I am sure people will be interested to check the documentation online now afterwards and continue to look forward to forum discussions and the next event. **Connecting with some questions/concepts I feel are worth exploring for Internet of Humans** Some questions: - How can we work with the idea of expanding on distributed events / festivals to connect to the power of digital and analog? Some inspiration from u.lab and their online course with local hubs connecting local changemakers: https://www.presencing.org/u-lab-s https://www.edx.org/course/ulab-leading-change-in-times-of-disruption - How can we organize for physical and online prototypes on multi-location basis? I personally see a concept (or paradigm) that I also work with as an interesting strategic approach with how and what the Edgeryders community intend to do with this project - leveraging systemic change. There is a course about this in August 21-23 2019 in Stockholm. https://courses.complexity.university/ I have talked a anon222512824 bit with @anon1505367078 about it but I want to share it with all of you. This course is more for the organizational and social level of the work, not the technical level. This connects to my thread on how to develop the Internet as a society and humanity. The thread transformed into a conceptual thread on Holochain and SSB technologies. I find it interesting that something I asked (anon4292955258 abstractly) about a social issue, looking for social approaches to find social solutions, transformed into a thread about technical approaches and technical solutions to a social challenge. That points to some interesting things to me, about discernment, thinking, conversation, the field and perhaps also our tech-anthropocentric age. I think I can see how a lot of issues stemming from being social issues are approached with technical solutions." 1,53945,2019-05-24T17:30:21.848Z,53945,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Our call includes Mozilla Fellow Peter Bihr (http://peterbihr.com/): Peter is an expert in the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT plays a role in the next generations of the internet and networking in general, that is will be co-equal to the web in stature and influence. Who will control it and who will benefit? Peter, as founder and Managing Director of [The Waving Cat](http://thewavingcat.com/), a boutique research, strategy & foresight company explores impact and opportunities of these emerging technologies—especially Internet of Things (#iot). As a [Mozilla Fellow he did R&D into creating a ""trustmark"" for IoT](https://thewavingcat.com/iot-trustmark/) so people can understand the purpose of a given IoT device and determine its value as a good thing or not. All are invited to join. The call begins at 17:00 Brussels time (GMT+2). https://zoom.us/j/3063210325" 1,53746,2019-05-22T10:09:44.865Z,53746,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"On **Thursday 30 May** Nesta, in partnership with the Solicitors Regulation Authority, will be launching the [Legal Access Challenge](http://links.splash.events/wf/click?upn=UTvcgVzGNEbHsXNbwDEE6IBIpx-2Bbwqti7ImHPf4FzUUd9w55pzLr0hC5E20Vq-2FWh_HXIval2mvDIejmA9lTvFiOfrBUHMeeMptJ9KMMgFX3AiWa6zQxYljR6c8LQHpEicFl6f6HnAvzIx2rvaj3867nFzI4YYWiShJD4FAqT3pm6ffwyXlSJMyzs0cJkLxsZvvFXXjbbiirwKBSjHyxfb0-2B3uZ0aVJGAouoeg1jQNn0H7KO05EPYxr4Wr1ptpC1oz-2FDsCbp6xkyuL8mx-2BIJ0SssiYV6KWrB4-2FsGwflIoHrHJTjfYnT3wKEeMxBgjgM2mrOGZP0xip6G4ENtQ2gAxZI15osOGncNLedS1TxWD95lwpphROvSKYnBfrwV0ILhYaVX-2FpisCYT8VVjYg9d5IGg0bNvteHTNlY114WWvW2FKI-3D). An audience of technology entrepreneurs, solicitors, regulators, policymakers and civil society groups, will meet to discuss: * How far can tech go in making legal support accessible and affordable to everybody? * Is tech going to transform how people experience legal services? * What barriers are holding back innovation in tech that directly helps people to resolve their legal problems? * Who should play what part in encouraging a new generation of digital legal services? Join our speakers below in a panel discussion: * **Clive Coleman** , BBC Legal correspondent (Chair) * **Julie Bishop,** Director, UK Law Centres Network * **Nicky Leijtens** , Advisor to the Board, NautaDutilh and Co-Founder, She Breaks The Law * **Tim Pullan** , CEO and Founder, Thought River * **Julia Salasky** , CEO and Founder, Crowd Justice The event will last until **19:30** with networking and drinks until **21:00.** [Register here](http://links.splash.events/wf/click?upn=w7wbcXhBsVbRoRkIFCfppbacQE3a1C4-2B49-2FJqmplYIV5wPDjECWbJFVIwXSM4t3HivSo3n1iCUw4b0Q7IKfa3TXfCerRDXholFwPT-2BEOU35dHzmssZM75rdI4MTL-2B1Roreh3TvgtukuVmhFwJQNXBnIZjVqWERnJEm8bLBvXD0H2Q2akB-2FV7uyoKKTShYLgzgESlrS7XrJh3Gt-2Bn4GCe9JGt1Ie25KU6ZqOg2y-2BtCKS6DBp0R7GTM0-2FW0HG7VPKVGKMTS5I0-2FWkLcrlYZLq-2BTCT9FQrNe5ytkcQFc85FNrRT4krK4CDFqXTVbJIxKup-2BroYGRVnRRn1LBeWUmC-2BwJayiEXDekdX4neFWWeNpeQw-3D_HXIval2mvDIejmA9lTvFiOfrBUHMeeMptJ9KMMgFX3AiWa6zQxYljR6c8LQHpEicFl6f6HnAvzIx2rvaj3867nFzI4YYWiShJD4FAqT3pm5WTGQAAv7oZXaOnbMd-2BwvtkWsZIKAd5e1Vy3dU3QExUW5EoDVyZ8EVlpzeOK-2FAzRNEKyaIAykgl428n3irRHeaBqUPIHz-2FZCraid2fzXSzw2KflywClP7E4gGWA2y48NI1Ogo-2F5Q7YNqlXX7TDcg3pNBsP1WFs3j9EUYWo1Eum1gQRw7XCN5QS5cLv0re1m1yY6o2P0HKh8RBk6z0UVRz8VZa-2BMycjjOxkK9BbQL9Lt14pthhKSZ5cZCmrMNXWetw-3D)." 1,55530,2019-06-21T06:57:48.600Z,55530,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"Thought this might be of interest to someone in the network, I think it is key that if major cultural organizations position themselves in emerging fields that civil society / social movement actors are involved in the definition of these positions... Soenke *****UNESCO vacancy for AI & Education projects - temporary assignment***** UNESCO is looking for candidate to join their ICT in Education department to work on AI in Education related projects for a period of 3-4 months with a possibility of extension based on satisfactory performance and availability of funding. We are seeking a candidate who has a background in Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence (optionally with specialization on AI in education and learning) and excellent research and writing skills. The main responsibilities will include: Supporting the research and document drafting for the organization of UNESCO AIEd-related publications, as well as providing expertise support for the implementation of UNESCO project activities relating to AI in education and learning. Candidates will need to have completed / close to completing their Masters/PhD degree in a discipline relevant to the post and demonstrable ability to conduct research and provide expertise in the field. Some experience of teaching/tutorial work in AI / Computer Science / Programming in an international are also desirable requirements for this post. We are looking for the incumbent to start to work for us as soon as possible. All interested applicants should send an email to [ v.cucuiat@anon" 1,53684,2019-05-20T13:33:27.753Z,53684,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"A friend just brought this to my attention and I figured it could fit in just nicely here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daowo-summit-uk-the-blockchain-art-knowledge-sharing-summit-registration-61241314420 Maybe someone here wants to go, or we want to reach out to people involved to come here :)" 1,55009,2019-06-12T15:02:24.203Z,55009,anon3180318115,anon3180318115,"Hi, since @anon1119284955 [mentioned](https://edgeryders.eu/t/get-your-facts-straight-with-ai/10108) the economist and theorist of public value Mariana [Mazzucato](https://marianamazzucato.com/) (her site features many of her research publications) but does not like white pages, maybe start here - a [review](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2018/10/09/book-review-the-value-of-everything-making-and-taking-in-the-global-economy-by-mariana-mazzucato) of her most recent book, The Value of Everything, including [audio](http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=4128) of her 2018 LSE Lecture ""The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy"", and a 2018 [policy report](https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/mazzucato_report_2018.pdf) meant to ""nurture a new belief amongst EU citizens about what real collaboration across Europe can achieve"" published by the EU. @anon3809206126 - while I think of writing posts as part of my research, I just now became aware of the [open notebook science](https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-wonder-of-open-notebook-science-opencare-community-vs-opencare-team/6142) approach...thx for maintaining such a comprehensive record of past exchanges, this is incredibly generous." 2,55022,2019-06-12T21:09:01.094Z,55009,anon3809206126,anon3180318115,"I read _The Value of Everything_ with great interest, and am, in fact, a big fan of Mazzucato since *The Entrepreneurial State*. She is one of a small, but important group of economists that can restore economics as a relevant discipline in the next ten years ([see](http://www.cottica.net/2017/01/03/policy-making-as-risk-management-under-complexity-five-economists-for-the-next-ten-years/)). Value theory, and the woman herself, keep resurfacing in the Internet of Humans discussion (like [here](/t/9821/48) and [here](/t/10041/2). She is also an inspiration for the #research-network:economic-sci-fi seminar, elsewhere in Edgeryders. I will now read the policy report, you already recommended it twice, so it must be good. And yes, do open notebook science, it's good for the soul and for replicability." 3,55038,2019-06-13T06:48:30.216Z,55022,anon3180318115,anon3809206126,"Thx for the overview of Mazzucato et al. Amazingly useful, as I have been trying to come to terms with discussions of ""design for emergence"" some of the colleagues over at [ouishare](https://iaac.net/meet-master-in-design-for-emergent-futures-co-director-mara-balestrini/) and now the [Salus Coop](https://www.saluscoop.org/) have been involved in. Browsing your archive, I was wondering what had happened to the data coop discussions, btw, will try to find out more about Open Care though. One thing came to mind reading ""If you think that you are a steam boat and you can go up the river, you are kidding yourself."" - Werner Herzog's drama [Fitzcarraldo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo). They didn't just think they could go up the river. They took the 320-anon2317280404 steamboat up a mountain. A tragedy, a thought experiment gone awry so badly the local indigenous population burned down the film set. Herzog later said the central scene (pulling the ship over the mountain) was a key metaphor - he just didn't know for what..." 4,55081,2019-06-13T13:38:56.856Z,55038,anon3449369942,anon3180318115,@anon948059616 was very active in the UK on the datacoop front a while ago. Is now working on something to do with NHS/British healthcare reform I think? 5,55091,2019-06-13T15:41:01.990Z,55009,anon3031202475,anon3180318115,@anon3180318115 thank you very much. Great to take the initiative to add information and discussion to a topic growing from another discussion. Very much appreciated. 6,55137,2019-06-14T09:42:52.000Z,55081,anon948059616,anon3449369942,"Thanks – I published [https://futurecarecapital.org.uk/policy/healthcare-data/](https://futurecarecapital.org.uk/policy/healthcare-data/) a couple of years ago in reference to data coops in healthcare. More recently, I have endeavoured to build on this work with [https://futurecarecapital.org.uk/policy/taking-next-steps-to-harness-the-value-of-health-and-care-data/](https://futurecarecapital.org.uk/policy/taking-next-steps-to-harness-the-value-of-health-and-care-data/) The ultimate aim, now, is to explore the potential of a UK Sovereign Health Fund – my recent presentation on the topic is one of the x3 here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnq2toG4cs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnq2toG4cs) Annemarie @anon" 7,56052,2019-07-02T09:16:51.341Z,55137,anon3180318115,anon948059616,"Hi Annemarie, thx much for sharing this, finally got through your publications. We will look at question of cooperative data governance with colleagues from [Salus Coop](https://www.saluscoop.org/) and others to better understand where this discusson is in practical terms, so this is extremely helpful." 1,53642,2019-05-17T22:25:00.691Z,53642,anon1505367078,anon1505367078," *Data Terra Nemo: Great conference, and so non-commercial they only had a pico-projector* First day at the [Data Terra Nemo]( [https://dtn.is](https://dtn.is/)) conference. There are a lot of very interesting talks and almost everyone present is working on something that would fit hand in glove into the NGI space. This conference, barely advertised outside of the indie-web describes itself as such: > Data Terra Nemo is a technical conference for hackers and computer scientists focused on distributed and decentralized systems. You probably won't go to this conference unless you recognise at least some of the people and projects on the speakers list. It's the bleeding edge of the decentralised web. To quote Alberto from a different context: [quote=""anon3809206126, post:5, topic:9920""] The more I hang around the hacker community, the more I think that most of what Europe needs to build a human-centric Internet is already out there. There is a large, diverse, investment-ready portfolio of technologies, companies and NGOs, standards and principles (like ethical design itself) and, most importantly, people. If the EU were to put some of its considerable firepower behind them, we might actually get somewhere in a relatively short time! [/quote] I come away from the first day of Data Terra Nemo with much of the same feeling. The first DTN was held in 2015, and was largely inspired by the fledgeling Scuttlebutt protocol and other technologies. In just a few years since then, that technology and others have gone from being barely operational proofs of concept to functional prototypes at worst and battle-tested fully fledged technologies at best. Dominic Tarr, original developer of the Scuttlebutt protocol, opened the conference. I want to share some of his experiences here, since they are probably emblematic of how a lot of these radical projects get started – far away from the Siemens, Googles and Microsofts of the world. He told a story of how Scuttlebutt was born out of the almost adolescent punkiness that grew out of the early days of Node.js and the - at the time- crazy idea of using javascript for your entire web stack, backend to frontend. There were, as Dominic joked, no grownups in the room telling them what to do. Without getting into technical details about what Scuttlebutt is, I will let their excellent narrative documentation video speak for itself: https://vimeo.com/236358264 This video hints at something which I find to be really special about Scuttlebutt, but also to an extent Mastodon and other communities that thrive on these platforms. It is that they seem to develop a humanness, community and a certain strand of hopefulness that is very different from the evangelical naiveté of Silicon Valley. In Dominics story, he touched upon this, retelling how Scuttlebutt user Zach! had come across a new genre of science fiction called Solar Punk. This hopeful utopian genre could perhaps best be described as narrative of a society of high-tech hippies, a blend of high-tech and nature, world-wide-web and wood-wide-web (an apt analogy, used by the great Gina Giampaolo of [Rumors](https://rumo.rs/) in her talk!). This image of the future had integrated deeply into the community of Scuttlebutt, wedding technology to a hopeful narrative for a better future. That's no small accomplishment! I'll write a few more of these posts on what I've seen at Data Terra Nemo, and I'll try to get some people I meet involved. Projects represented here include a DAT, IPFS, Beaker browser, Web torrent and others. I will try to churn out a few more posts about these too." 2,56042,2019-07-02T08:25:57.065Z,53642,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"Thanks for the writeup, @anon1505367078. From what I'm getting, the DTN community is mostly looking into decentralized protocols. That meshes well with the solarpunk cultural orientation: as I understand it, solarpunk is about tech that works well when run out of small collectives, and does not need huge investment in infrastructure. The applications of decentralized protocols you cited are mostly in the field of social media (SSB itself and Mastodon). I would also note, in passing, that these folks are innovating around business models too, since their tech is so commons-oriented. And I would like to know more about that, too. About right?" 3,56048,2019-07-02T08:44:37.595Z,56042,anon1505367078,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:9928""] The applications of decentralized protocols you cited are mostly in the field of social media (SSB itself and Mastodon). [/quote] SSB as a protocol is actually agnostic about what you use it for. There are implementations of chess games and book recommendation apps all running on the same SSB stream - you are probably keeping chess moves and and book notes from your network in your .ssb folder." 1,54243,2019-05-30T15:20:43.905Z,54243,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"We proudly present the 16 projects selected to join [@anon 1. [@anon [#ledger](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ledger?src=hashtag_click) [@anon" 2,56044,2019-07-02T08:32:15.748Z,54243,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"The full list is below. It includes Worldbrain.io: congratulations to @anon3572363072! https://ledgerproject.eu/index.php/2019/05/30/ledger-selects-16-human-centric-projects-working-on-decentralised-technologies-to-enter-its-venture-builder-programme/" 1,52457,2019-04-10T15:53:48.782Z,52457,anon3449369942,anon3449369942," ## WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BUILD A HUMAN-CENTRIC INTERNET? **Meet people who are doing it. Learn how to do it. Build it together.** Internet of Humans is a track within our annual Edgeryders festival. It is dedicated to bringing together existing projects into a demo of a Next Generation Internet that supports values of openness, cooperation across borders, decentralisation, inclusiveness and protection of privacy. Edgeryders is a company living in symbiosis with an online community of thousands of hackers, activists, radical thinkers and doers, and others who want to make a difference. We believe that a smart community outperforms any of its members; this is the result of people working together, improving on each other’s work. We are on a journey to help one another navigate the changes that are happening in different parts of the world. * How are we building good lives against a backdrop of massive social, economic, ecological and political challenges? * How are we creating opportunities for ourselves and where can we support one another better? In work, health, family, community life? * How are we building the evolution of the Internet and our digital technologies so that they support these efforts? We are interested in what participants already are doing in different parts of the world, and what we can do together. # **Are you our next Fellow? Tell us what you would like to build, explore or learn about building a Human-Centric Internet!** **Fellows will receive bursaries of up to 10,000 EUR, a travel budget of up to 1,000 EUR, and the opportunity to learn from and connect the next generation of working solutions in building a human-centric internet.** Internet of Humans is a gathering of contributors to the Next Generation Internet, a 3 year research project that engages hundreds of original initiatives. The fellowship program offers participants an opportunity to explore, learn from and connect with people building working solutions for an Internet that supports our ability to thrive as individuals, communities and societies. ## As an Internet of Humans Fellow, you commit to : 1. Read what other participants are working on and share your own experiences/work. 2. Arranging and documenting a series of online calls to which you invite people from whom you wish to learn or collaborate. 3. Engage the people you invite to join us at activities for project matchmaking, partnership building and fundraising. 4. Articulate a burning question to move everyone’s work forward, and turn it into a proposal for a research theme and track of a distributed festival. We are looking for Fellows who are passionate, curious and driven, as well as willing to collaborate using online platforms and community building methodologies. If this is you, we want to hear from you! Questions or nominations? Create an account on edgeryders and post them in a comment below. ## About the program, process and selection criteria Internet of Humans is a track in a highly participatory, distributed festival showcasing working solutions and demos produced by community members, as well as pathways for working together towards their sustainability and scaling. It will take place in November, 2019 in a number of cities and brings together the broader Edgeryders scene that involves hundreds of original initiatives. Aiming to deepen community collaboration, during May - November 2019, Edgeryders will appoint 6 “students” to support research, community building and content curation for the Internet of Humans community. We use “students” in the Latin sense, of people that will apply themselves to the subject, as fellows of a Internet of Humans Alliance, and not in any sense as an indication of career status. **What you will get if selected:** * A bursary appointment: Up to 10,000 Euro to reimburse your working time, distributed on the basis of winners’ financial needs * A travel budget: Up to 1,000 Euro, to be authorized in advance by due justification. **Process and timeline:** * **April 12 Mar - May 30.** We collect submissions in the form of published proposals for Human Internet Festival. * Review of submissions * Announcement of winners * **May 30 - June 30.** Fellows host online calls and invite * **June 30 - November 30.** T.b.d with each fellow so as to not disrupt their other activities. **Who can participate?** Anyone with a story relevant to building working solutions for an Internet that supports our ability to thrive as individuals, communities and societies. You need to be interested in learning and collaborating with others online and offline. **Selection Criteria** We will consider individuals who have demonstrated an interest in and alignment with building a Human Centric Internet in the folllowing ways (each item will receive a score from 0 the minimum, to 5 the maximum, which will be summed to define the final score used to choose the winners): * are registered on edgeryders.eu and have introduced themselves in the Internet of Humans online community workspace: [Tell Your Story!](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-your-story) * are operating at the grassroots level or are heavily interacting with such groups * Are open in their work, use of methodology, technology, results (public and transparent communication, open processes for participation, commons licensing, open source code etc.) * their contribution is validated in positive responses by their peers in the Internet of Humans community (as seen from the Comments section) * have storytelling and content production skills for presenting the initiatives they come across to various community groups and audiences * demonstrate willingness to collaborate with others and use online environments for communication, engagement, documentation of work and social media **What happens if I am selected?** You will be working closely with the Edgeryders team to build the Internet of Humans community conversation and together with it's members, put together the program for it's track of sessions and events within the Edgeryders Festival which convenes our global community. **What happens if I am not selected?** You eligible to get a symbolic 200€ reward for your contribution if it meets the selection criteria. More information about this here: http://bit.ly/2LbQvyD **How to get started? Join the process of building the Internet of Humans sections of our festival program** 1. Interview a person relevant to your burning question. 2. Transcribe interview and have the interviewee post it [here](/c/ioh). _You will need to create an edgeryders.eu account to do this._ 3. Comment in depth on at least one other transcribed interview. Once you are done use `#internetofhumans` and `#edgeryders` to draw our attention to your comments, story and proposal for the program. This will encourage others to get in touch and build support for your work! **The deadline for applications is May** **30th** **2019** , but the sooner you start and complete your application, the higher your chances! For more information come to [our weekly online community gatherings](https://zoom.us/meeting/3063210325) every Wednesday in May at 16:00 GMT+2 (CST Brussels time) or sign up on the Edgeryders platform and leave a comment below. ## Partner organisations This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825652 " 5,52497,2019-04-11T16:51:05.670Z,52457,anon3449369942,anon3449369942, 6,52532,2019-04-13T14:07:35.575Z,52457,anon196034329,anon3449369942,"I like the call for applications this way :) Now let's see what kind of people we can attract. Looking forward to meeting some fellow ""crazy hacker"" types among them! [quote=""anon3449369942, post:1, topic:9715""]Fellows will receive […] the opportunity to learn from and connect the next generation of working solutions in building a human-centric internet.[/quote] Maybe we can explain that to potential applicants in a bit more detail? As in, how we envision to mesh together the different alternative Internet technologies into a kind of technology demonstrator to show what an Internet of Humans could look like. (Also, as the tech admin of Edgeryders: I'm open to integrate a few of the fellows' proposals into our platform infrastructure so that we can experiment with them right here in this community. It has to suit for an online community soanon3242181883, of course.)" 7,52542,2019-04-14T08:27:18.702Z,52532,anon3449369942,anon196034329,"I feel like that is for the fellows themselves to define based on their own assesment of what is possible within the time frame set, no?" 8,52697,2019-04-20T12:56:33.484Z,52457,anon435423455,anon3449369942,"Is one of these Bursaries open to those who live outside of Europe? I live in Canada and am very interested in applying. Are the funds allocated to travel for the event in November? At best, I could only attend that event if I won... is that what is expected?" 9,52716,2019-04-22T07:25:36.250Z,52697,anon51020356,anon435423455,"Hi @anon435423455, welcome on board! We do not discriminate based on location, however for the purpose of this project it would depend a lot where your network is based. Pretty much all of the events and the festival will be in Europe, and if you would be engaging groups in Canada it would be harder for them to attend, same for you. The travel budgets are flexible, but it seems likely that upon negotiation your entire travel budget would have to be purposed for getting you to Europe. @anon2434097920 & @anon3449369942 can tell you more about it! Have you lived anywhere else previously or have connections to Europe and current debates about the Internet?" 10,52758,2019-04-23T20:51:34.473Z,52716,anon435423455,anon51020356,"Thanks @anon51020356 for your reply! To clarify, in order to participate in the Bursary application you are saying I can live anywhere but have to have a network in Europe... I wish this were the case but in the words of Caanon3449369942n communication guru Marshall McLuhan, who advised that one, ""think global but live local"" that is not where I have put my energy. I went ahead and posted my story, regardless, to see what, if any, feedback I might receive. Plz advise me as whether is it worthwhile doing an interview in light of this information about my network as it would seem that I do not qualify to continue." 11,54187,2019-05-29T21:52:09.243Z,52457,anon463194720,anon3449369942,"Hello @anon3449369942 and @anon51020356, A couple of questions about the process: [quote=""anon3449369942, post:1, topic:9715""] We collect submissions in the form of published proposals for Human Internet Festival. [/quote] Once one has posted to the Tell Your Story category, what is the next step to create and publish a proposal for the festival? Is there somewhere where proposals are published as such, or does ""proposal"" mean the collected content that one contributes to the IoH category through story telling, interview, and comments? Thank you!" 12,55993,2019-07-01T17:25:43.942Z,54187,anon1676186961,anon463194720,@anon 13,56013,2019-07-01T19:05:30.443Z,54187,anon2434097920,anon463194720,"Hi Adam. First, apologies for not responding sooner. A dropped ball; no excuses. Yes I would say you have it right in both examples - a proposal could be something written out in the usual way, and it can mean the collected content that one contributes. And of the two, I emphasize the latter because one could gain a Fellowship that way and not do a more formal proposal (at least not right off), whereas if one wrote a formal proposal and did not participate actively here on the platform, one's chances would be lessened greatly. Indeed, the Fellowship is about participating and bringing in one's network to join in on the conversations, here and in group calls. It all culminates in the final event, but that event is built on what we talk about here. Regarding our process, we are slowly going about reviewing and making our selections (more slowly than anticipated), so the announcements are not confined to May, as it says above. And what we consider a proposal is not a narrow use of that word, as you astutely point out. We're looking for people doing work that furthers the goals of both the Internet of Humans/NGI Forward project in general and Edgeryders' part of it more specifically, who regularly communicate about it to a network of colleagues and friends that is deeply embedded in Europe. Selection for a Fellowship is then by invitation. I hope that answers your questions." 14,71128,2020-03-10T11:05:47.077Z,52457,anon3031202475,anon3449369942, 1,53748,2019-05-22T11:41:46.524Z,53748,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Herzlichen Glückwunsch, du hast das Rentenalter erreicht, und ohne einen Renten- oder Investitionsplan wirst du gezwungen sein die deinen Weg durch das Alter zu “hacken” und zu improvisieren wie du es in deiner Jugend getan hast. Aber hab keine Angst, mit ein wenig innovativem Denken und Zusammenarbeit mit deinen Leidensgenossen kannst du gewiss mit Stil durch die Altersdemenz surfen! Viele unsicher Beschäftigten schaffen es ins Rentenalter, und das könnte sehr wohl auch für dich der Fall sein. Manche Amerikaner haben sich bereits gezwungen gesehen Altenpflege “auszulagern” und schicken daher ihre Eltern nach Indien um für dort für $2000 pro Monat wie Maharajas zu leben. In Japan erzählt der Film “Menzon do Himiko” die Geschichte eines Seniorenheims für ältere Transvestiten und Homosexuelle. Im Film schaffen sie es ihr Seniorenheim durch einen teuren Tokioter Nachtklub und reiche Spender zu finanzieren. Aber bist auch du so gut aufs deine Rentenzeit vorbereitet? Glaubst du wirklich das noch Jemand deine Projektpläne, Finanzierungspläne und Bewerbungen lesen will wenn du wieder Windeln tragen musst? Es ist an der Zeit neue Optionen für Menschen abseits klassischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse zu suchen, bevor es zu spät ist... ...Stell dir vor du seiest 96 Jahre alt und dein Roboterassistent hat aus versehen dein Gebiss mit dem “open source” Staubsauger aufgesaugt weil der “Internet der Danon2926706121” Kühlschrank und der Herd so viel gequasselt haben, dass sie den Assistenten aus dem Netz kickten. Natürlich ist nicht wirklich so ein großes Problem, weil dein Nachbar einen 3D-Drucker hat und (nachdem du eine gratis 3D-Datei von Dingsiversum heruntergeladen hast) schaffst du es dir ein neues Gebiss zu drucken. Leider passt es nicht richtig und am Ende musst du das Essen beim Suppen-Disco Event am Abend doch auf den Felgen zerdrücken und kleckerst dir dabei biologisch angebauten Meerrettich über dein nachhaltiges Milchfaserlätzchen. Weil dein Robotorassitent weiterhin nicht richtig funktioniert entscheidest du dich selbst in der Hipsterbadezimmerinstalltion zu waschen, aber du rutschst aus und brichst dir die Hüfte. Doch auch hier können deine Freunde dir helfen und beginnen sofort dir mit 3D-gedruckte Knochen ein neues Bein wachsen zu lassen. Leider verläuft die Operation nicht gut und du bekommst eine Infektion, doch auch dafür gibt es Heilung für die mit ausreichend Rechenkapazität: Du stellst deine eigene patentfreie Medizin basierend auf deiner individuellen DNS her. Hooray! You win! you have advanced to the next level of retirement: that of constantly badgering your kids to come and visit you! But not everyone will be so lucky in the future, so it is time to explore the different possibilities that can be made to exist for people outside the “system”. Hura! Du hast gewonnen! Du hast das nächste Level der Rente erreicht: Das in dem du ständig deine Kinder anbettelst dich zu besuchen! Aber nicht jeder in der Zukunft wird so viel Glück haben, daher ist es an der Zeit alternative Möglichkeiten zu erforschen für die Menschen die außerhalb des aktuellen “Systems” existieren. In den nächsten zwei Jahren bringt Edgeryders eine Community zusammen um die Themen Zukunftstechnologien, -geschäftsmodelle und -gesetze die unser Zusammenleben unterstützen zu untersuchen und entwickeln. Wir nennen es “Menschliches Internet”. Wir werden es gemeinsam schaffen. Wir nutzen Community Management ebenso wie Edgeryders Schatz an Open Source Technologien um unsere Onlinediskussionen in kollektive Intelligenz zu entwickeln. Der gesamte Prozess ist -und bleibt- offen für jeden der sich daran beteiligen möchte. Gemeinsam werden wir: 1. Erfahrungen von menschlichen Internet- und Technologielösungen sammeln 2. Diese Erfahrungen durch diskussionen validieren 3. Diese Informationen benutzen um Menschen und Projekte zusammenzubranon2926706121n um gemeinsam die Geldmittel zu beschaffen und Lobbyarbeit zu leisten die wir brauchen um die Projekte zu verwirklichen und die Lösungen die wir brauchen aufrechtzuerhalten. **Willst du dich beteiligen? Super! Der Anfang ist ganz einfach:** ![59733395_421794291701774_8736371703820582912_n|690x528](upload://1eY3uFk42FImIjhYao0lbPdMTvb.png) Such dir eines der Schwerpunktthemen in der obenstehende Grafik aus und beschreibe eine Geschichte die ein Szenario untersucht wie man mit den Bedürfnissen der nicht so fernen Zukunft umgehen könnten. Diese Geschichte könnte eine persönliche, direkte Erfahrung sein oder vollständige Fiktion und Speculation über die Zukunft oder Präsentationen von konkreten Projekten oder Lösungsansätzen. Vorallem wollen wir untersuchen wie und mit wem menschen derzeit zur entwicklung den zukünftigen menschlichen, nachhaltig und gleichberechtigten Internets beitragen. Teilnehmer deren Geschichten andere zu durchdachten Konversationen inspirieren können ein “[Menschliches Internet Stipendium](https://edgeryders.eu/t/fellowships-with-bursaries-for-human-centric-internet-builders-deadline-may-30/9715/10)” bekommen. Wenn du so weit bist deinen Geschichte zu teilen, mach dir einen account auf [edgeryders.eu](http://edgeryders.eu/) und teile deine Geschichte here: https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-your-story Wie finanzieren wir dies: Dieses Projekt wird vom Europaische Union Horizon 2020 und Innovations Programm unter der Förderungsnummer 825652 gefördert." 1,54392,2019-06-02T20:41:15.790Z,54392,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Our client every person on the streets of Europe. Some people say the sky is just the sky, but I say, why deny the obvious child? – Paul Simon The homeless in the tunnel of Brussels Central Station, the migrants in Gare du Nord, the bus drivers on strike for a decent stop over for a croissant and a coffee. The hipsters taking the early Thalys to go for a meeting in Paris, the bankers on their way in the Eurostar, and that old lady trying to make sense of the machines just to get a ticket to visit an old friend in Namur. The 5’ o clock kitchen brigade of any small bar in any station in Europe. Yellow vests marching. Those throwing sanon2317280404es. Those hitting hard with their baanon2317280404s. Medics on both sides. Those who have destroyed over 60% of all traffic cameras. Those repairing them. Software developers perfecting gait recognition. Those who walk. Us, walkers. Architects of houses housing voice activated shopping machines. Architects of gardens in which computing is infused with the grass. More water. More electricity. Power. Architects of cities overlaying a visual grid, digitally twinning every lamppost, every bin. Any piece of paper in that bin, in the grid. Some people the sky is just the sky, but it is the cloud. Whose cloud? Architects of hybridity hide behind models that hide the simplicity and commonality, the plain sense. The painters, the carpenters and the firemen. The football player aching pain in his pleasure after the remote referee said no goal. The kids biking watching their feeds like hawks with glasses. The bike left to ride on its own, no passenger to move it along, so lonely, hears of cars complaining and getting depressed as they crouch remotely activated only. Just what is it exactly that they want, they were overheard whispering. What is it? I heard a person say: We want to be free (to do what we want to do) but they do not seem free to me, just more anxious and more worried. Still. The soldiers marching. The prisoners paying for their own prison stay. Those whose say Good morning!. Those who say Goodnight. You getting a morning coffee, you who face a lonely day. You trying to do good. You trying to do evil. And the few Kings who still walk Europa. The honest man seeking an honest wage. Meet our client." 1,54580,2019-06-05T11:37:30.734Z,54580,anon838581715,anon838581715,"NGI and NLNet is co-funding development of a Free, Libre and Open RISC-V processor. I think this is profoundly important for a user friendly Internet as there has been anon4292955258 some scandals with the proprietary processors available today. Libre RISC-V M-Class - A 100% libre RISC-V + 3D GPU chip for mobile devices https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class/updates/first-nlnet-grant-approved-to-fund-development" 1,55888,2019-06-29T13:12:47.522Z,55888,anon3809206126,anon3809206126," _An English version of this post is available [here]( https://edgeryders.eu/t/of-sea-watch-3-and-reconciliation-in-the-internet-age/10261)_
**Leggo con preoccupazione danon1410463509 vicenda danon1410463509 nave Sea-Watch 3.** Al momento in cui scrivo, è tutt’altro che risolta ([qui il Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/26/ngo-boat-carrying-migrants-defies-matteo-salvini-veto-lampedusa-italy)). Comunque vada a finire, temo che le sue conseguenze riguarderanno non solo i protagonisti danon1410463509 storia (i 42 migranti raccolti dal Mediterraneo, il capitano danon1410463509 nave, le autorità italiane direttamente coinvolte e i loro leaders politici), ma tutti gli italiani. Queste conseguenze saranno fortemente negative. Potrebbero arrivare fino alla disintegrazione del senso di unità nazionale. **La ragione è questa.** Le italiane e gli italiani sono esseri umani, e come a tutti gli esseri umani gli capita di surriscaldarsi durante una discussione. Di lasciarsi scappare una parola di troppo, e attraversare il confine tra il confronto e la lite. È umano, e normale. Il lunedì, i bar di tutta la penisola sono teatro di discussioni molto accese sulle partite di calcio del giorno prima. È normalissimo sentire persone accusarsi a vicenda di “avere rubato il rigore”, “avere corrotto l’arbitro”, o roba simile. Naturalmente, le persone in questione non solo non erano in campo durante le partite in discussione, ma non erano neppure nel raggio di cento chilometri dallo stadio. Gli accusatori lo sanno bene, ma associano ugualmente il tifoso danon1410463509 squadra avversaria alle presunte scorrettezze commesse dai suoi dirigenti e dai suoi giocatori. **Il “voi” contro il “noi”, [secondo i biologi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_selection), sarebbe addirittura un tratto innato, parte dell’evoluzione di *homo sapiens* .** Nanon1410463509 discussione su Sea-Watch 3, avviene qualcosa di simile. Molti limiti di civiltà e di correttezza sono stati passati. Spero che la mia percezione sia sbagliata, ma vedo il paese dividersi in due tifoserie. Il campo di questa partita è quasi vuoto; ma i bar sono pieni di persone che insultano non solo i giocatori, ma gli uni gli altri. Le parole che leggo sono pesantissime. “Uccideteli”, “affondateli”, “disumani” e così via. Purtroppo, prevedo che l’eco di queste parole rimarrà con noi a lungo. **E questo ha a che fare con Internet.** Da un lato, Internet fornisce un archivio delle cose che condividiamo: la gioia e la rabbia, le opinioni misurate e argomentate e gli insulti e la frustrazione. E non dimentica niente. Se oggi usi la rete per chiedere l’affondamento di una nave piena di povericristi, o dare del nazista al ministro tale o all’onorevole talaltro, ti lasci dietro una traccia digitale che non sparirà facilmente. Hai voglia a pentirti: quel post su Facebook, o tweet, ti rimarrà appeso al collo come l’albatro morto al vecchio anon2278327272io di Coleridge. Dall’altro, i social media tendono a spanon2926706121rci in “bolle di consenso” dove la maggior parte delle persone sono vicine alle nostre posizioni. [Secondo Zeynep Tufekci](https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads), queste bolle tendono a diventare sempre più estreme con il tempo e il consumo di social media. **Insieme, questi due effetti creano una situazione in cui le nostre prese di posizione più estreme diventano una gabbia da cui non possiamo più uscire.** Da una parte, esse sono incancanon1410463509bili, o quasi, dalla memoria elettronica danon1410463509 rete: se cambi idea, devi sapere che tra un anno, o dieci, qualcuno potrà *sempre* rinfacciarti quell’insulto di cui ti sei pentito, quanon1410463509 posizione che oggi consideri sbagliata. Dall’altra, averla espressa ti rende parte di una bolla che ti *premia* per quanon1410463509 posizione; ti ammira, ti rispetta come una persona che non ha paura di dire quello che pensa. In questa situazione, è ancora più difficile rimettersi in discussione. Conclusione. **Ai tempi dei social media, quando in una comunità si forma una linea di frattura, essa tende ad allargarsi, a cristallizzarsi, a diventare irreversibile** . Diventa molto difficile perdonarsi a vicenda e riconciliarsi. È quello che è successo nel Regno Unito: nel 2015, le categorie di “Leaver” e Remainer” non esistevano. Nel 2016 erano un’abbreviazione che voleva dire “uno che vota per/contro l’uscita dall’UE”. Nel 2019 sono *identità:* se andate su un sito di incontri per cuori solitari, lo troverete pieno di profili che dichiarano “non potrei mai uscire con un Leaver/Remainer”. Queste identità sono *completamente inventate* , ma l’effetto combinato di memoria incancanon1410463509bile e bolle di consenso le rende efficaci, e anzi le approfondisce. Temo che, con la Sea-Watch 3, noi italiani abbiano trovato la nostra linea di frattura, la nostra Brexit. A breve termine, come mostra l’esempio britannico, una divisione del genere sprofonda un paese in una continua guerra che risulta paralizzante. Dopo il referendum, infatti, il governo britannico non ha fatto sostanzialmente niente, nemmeno preparare la Brexit. A lungo? Nessuno lo sa. Temo che una comunità nazionale così divisa non sia sostenibile. E quindi? Io non conto niente, ne sono consapevole. **Ma se le mie parole avessero un peso, le userei per chiedere ai miei connazionali di essere compassionevoli non (solo) verso i migranti danon1410463509 Sea-Watch 3, ma anche gli uni verso gli altri** . Una persona può, in un momento di rabbia, dire una cosa orribile senza *essere* una persona orribile. Il “nemico” che ci sbeffeggia su Twitter è una persona molto simile a noi, con una famiglia, l’assicurazione dell’auto da pagare, forse un cane. E un paio di strati dietro al suo linguaggio offensivo ci sono argomenti che valgono la pena di essere presi in considerazione. Nessuno ha il monopolio dell’italianità. Ma a me piace ricordare questo: dopo la caduta del fascismo e la fine danon1410463509 seconda guerra mondiale, venne nominato un governo di unità nazionale. Ministro danon1410463509 giustizia era Palmiro Togliatti, il segretario del Partito Comunista Italiano. L’atto più significativo di Togliatti fu un decreto di amnistia, emanato in tempi molto rapidi. L’amnistia copriva “i reati comuni e politici, compresi quelli di collaborazionismo con il nemico e reati annessi ivi compreso il concorso in omicidio” ([fonte](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnistia_Togliatti)). Le implicazioni di questa scelta erano enormi: chi era stato complice nel trascinare il paese in una guerra perduta, poi di collaborare con il nemico, veniva messo sullo stesso piano di chi non aveva commesso alcun reato, e non si era piegato all’occupazione. Equo? No. E infatti Togliatti dovette pagare un prezzo alto in termini di consenso, anche all’interno al suo stesso partito. Ma il governo di unità nazionale, e lo stesso Togliatti, pensavano che la riconciliazione, il perdono reciproco, fosse l’unico modo di procedere verso una nazione ragionevolmente coesa e stabile. Ci si può dividere, ma per andare avanti insieme poi bisogna riconciliarsi. **L’Italia è una repubblica basata sulla riconciliazione, e non credo che abbia un futuro se non riusciremo a invertire questa tendenza all’arroccamento sulle proprie posizioni e all’insulto pubblico di quelle degli altri.** Speriamo di rendercene conto, prima che sia troppo tardi. *Image: Terrour with fright” from le Brun. Credit: [Wellcome Collection](https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cra3apsc). [CC BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)*" 1,55569,2019-06-21T16:49:15.468Z,55569,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Dear community members and newcomers, *NGI Forward is as it should be a fastmoving and sprawling discussion space and sometimes it can be hard to get or keep an overview.* ### Therefore here a quick summary of some of the discussions and events of the last week with some links: We are happy that two true makers joined us and introduced themselves and their projects this week: @anon3572363072 : the founder of Worldbrain introduces himself and the project as well as Memex and Storex with great examples and passion. In the following discussion, one can see the upsides of direct contact between the developers and users as practical questions are tackled and we are looking forward to a more in-depth discussion of the underlying ideas and the effects and potential of the UX. https://edgeryders.eu/t/introducing-oliver-worldbrain-io-memex-and-storex-democratising-knowledge/10157 @anon2724270673 : leads from his personal story and disappointment with social media to his concrete project to build a better form of social media sharing ideas and prototypes to be discussed and developed further. https://edgeryders.eu/t/social-media-is-broken-lets-do-better/10017/24 Both of them also joined the community call on the 18th of June on the topic of ad-based economy and news that we organised in reaction to a very active discussion thread on the topic: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821 Another very important topic this week was ""Greenness"" as we want to increasingly look into and emphasise environmental topics and sustainability here at edgeryders and apply such thoughts also to the technological solutions we discuss. We also discussed how to discuss it: https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-internet-of-biases-and-other-terrible-ways-to-open-a-conversation/10190 and how to set up a workshop on the topic: https://edgeryders.eu/t/deep-green-tech-workshop/10191 The topic on how economical systems connect to the reality of how the internet and news media develop was also important this week and relevant references can be found in this post: https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-value-of-everything/10136 which was nicely added by @anon3180318115, who looks into collective intelligence design and introduced himself here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/anticipate-collective-intelligence-design/10106 We are looking forward to more discussion on the topics of this week as well as those to come and are excited about all the great new members that joined us this week to drive them. If there was another discussion or post especially relevant for you this week, please share it here with a link." 2,55576,2019-06-22T16:25:34.815Z,55569,anon3809206126,anon3031202475,"Thanks for the summary, it's great!" 3,55641,2019-06-24T19:09:42.708Z,55576,anon3572363072,anon3809206126,+1 on that :slight_smile: 1,55310,2019-06-17T14:34:12.962Z,55310,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"The francophone media are all the rage with the story of Monsieur Cuisine Connect, a kitchen robot sold by low-cost supermarket chain Lidl. MCC contains a tablet-like device as a touch-screen control interface; it runs Android, and it turned out to be anon4292955258 simple [to hack](https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Monsieur-Cuisine-Connect-Hack). As hackers took the kitchen robot apart in search of new cools hacks, they discovered a microphone, of which no mention was made in the marketing literature, nor in the product documentation. The microphone [was not simply forgotten in the tablet around which the MCC is built](https://youtu.be/wHggrMH5Fkk?t=213). It is mounted outside of the table, secured to the chassis for a clearer, unmuffled sound. The chassis itself has a small hole in correspondence of the microphone, for even better results. In engineering terms, this is a smoking gun: the manufacturer wanted Monsieur Cuisine Connect to be able to listen in. Even worse, MCC runs Android 6, which has important unfixed vulnerabilities. At the time of hitting the market (2019), those vulnerabilities were already well known (the final Android 6 security patch was released in 2017). > C'est ne pas de la paranoia, [...] c'est just qu'il faut toujours être préparés au pire [...] avoir conscience d'avoir commercialisé ces produits sans faire attention à tout ce qu'il y a autour. (The video is in French) https://youtu.be/wHggrMH5Fkk" 2,55396,2019-06-18T23:03:57.768Z,55310,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"I remember the time when such stuff was the realm of conspiracy theories. Not anymore: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qbq5x/the-cia-spied-on-people-through-their-smart-tvs-leaked-documents-reveal" 3,55510,2019-06-20T16:03:22.022Z,55310,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,There should be some sort of award given for 'most cynical new product.' 1,55416,2019-06-19T09:48:46.996Z,55416,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"""Join us in imagining infrastructures of regeneration, infrastructures of repair, and infrastructures of resistance"" https://ournetworks.ca/ thought of you @anon3931191205" 2,55481,2019-06-20T09:52:45.889Z,55416,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,I love the animation on their page! 3,55507,2019-06-20T15:49:53.802Z,55416,anon2434097920,anon3449369942,Infrastructures of repair...I'm into repair. I made my living as an auto mechanic for years and I still have that ethos of trying to repair before replacing. When i fixed cars and trucks in the 70s I was in the transitional time between when much of a vehicle's machinery could be repaired to when it became 'remove and replace.' 1,54393,2019-06-02T23:20:30.604Z,54393,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-health-russia.html Quite a lot, claims this article by the New York Times. This is of course highly relevant as it underpins the roll-out of the ecosystem of connected devices. > Yet even as RT America, the cat’s paw of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has been doing its best to stoke the fears of American viewers, Mr. Putin, on Feb. 20, ordered the launch of Russian 5G networks in a anon2317280404e evoking optimism rather than doom. > “We need to look forward,” he said, [according to Tass](http://tass.com/science/1045609), the Russian news agency. “The challenge for the upcoming years is to organize universal access to high-speed internet, to start operation of the fifth-generation communication systems.” I find it hard to believe that the 5G scare will block European developments, but if it's true that there is a coordinate information warfare effort, that's something to take note of if things start heating up." 2,54394,2019-06-03T04:58:57.670Z,54393,anon2926706121,anon1505367078,"I do we think we should take notice. In the US they got FOX to [spread the conspiracy already](https://www.thedailybeast.com/marc-siegel-tucker-carlsons-5g-apocalypse-health-effects-theory-from-russia-undermined-by-fox-news-doctor) and when that happens - according to [research by Harvard](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house), it will be part of the conservative right narrative in no time. Also listen to this [nice podcast about it](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/podcasts/the-daily/5g-technology-huawei-china-us.html) - because the China-US angle, and Huawei spy stuff also matters - your thoughts?" 3,54435,2019-06-03T12:59:32.714Z,54393,anon1514803743,anon1505367078,"I have a genuine question (maybe 2). Why do we need 5G? From what I can tell it purely supports vertical scaling, bigger and better - more data, faster. But that will come at a greater energy cost, price tag, and support proliferation of yet more devices and needless consumption. Is this benefiting humanity?" 4,54445,2019-06-03T13:58:09.201Z,54435,anon1505367078,anon1514803743,"> But that will come at a greater energy cost, price tag, and support proliferation of yet more devices and needless consumption. Is this benefiting humanity? You know, I completely agree on a human level. But is there a lot we can do about it? Probably not. It will come, because there is a lot of money to be made from pushing more bits through the air. So then it becomes a race to the top/bottom (depending on your perspective) as with all technologies, and the answer becomes - because if we don’t have it, but China/Russia/Nigeria/Brazil do, Europe will lag behind economically. Is it a satisfying answer? Not really. But at least in this case, this particular technological race doesn't seem like it will have hugely detrimental environmental effects." 5,54475,2019-06-04T00:23:46.741Z,54393,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,"The scare comes when you assign specific health effects to something when there is no evidence linking them. So, yeah, 5 G is too new for any of that. But it is also being rolled out as a world-wide inevitability - which it is - with no studies and no plans for studies (from industry apparently - why should they, nobody is forcing them to do it) when in fact it is known that cellular frequencies and some high frequencies used in certain ways and in proximity in certain strengths, can have measurable effects. So it is possible and to say otherwise or suggest otherwise is, in my view, irresponsible. But on the other side of it, assigning this or that bad health effect discredits just about anyone who even questions the safety of the technology. Because we have to be able to question it without coming off as an uninformed luddite. ." 6,54476,2019-06-04T00:33:19.387Z,54393,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,"A couple of things about the NYT story.. I don't know why anyone buys something they see on RT. It's propaganda. The story says, ""Virtually all the data contradict the dire alarms."" That is true because the dire alarms are too dire for what is really known about the tech. Nobody knows. Also one of the people mentioned who was the ""expert"" on one of those RT alarmist shows, "" On Feb. 7, [a segment claimed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grRmYI7OtRI) that “5G Tech is ‘Crime under International Law.’” Its featured expert was Arthur Firstenberg, who once charged that a neighbor’s wireless gear had hurt his health. He sued for $1.43 million in damages but [lost after pressing ](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/science/when-science-is-lost-in-a-legal-maze.html?module=inline)[his claim](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/science/when-science-is-lost-in-a-legal-maze.html?module=inline) for five years."" That guy Arthur Firstenberg spent time up here on the north coast of California doing the same thing scaring everyone about cell towers and wi-fi. He got a lot of people freaked out about it so bad the parents made the high school dismantle the school wifi network. But that guy is generally considered a real BS artist who lives in his car and goes from place to place scaring everyone who will listen." 7,54514,2019-06-04T12:44:52.088Z,54435,anon196034329,anon1514803743,"[quote=""anon1514803743, post:3, topic:10059""]Why do we need 5G? From what I can tell it purely supports vertical scaling, bigger and better - more data, faster. But that will come at a greater energy cost, price tag, and support proliferation of yet more devices and needless consumption. Is this benefiting humanity?[/quote] Exactly. Even from a purely technological perspective, it's not needed. What we'd need is data efficiency when we use the existing infrastructure. In the last 20 years, nobody cared about data efficiency in networks. It's always about more data throughput, without asking if the data we send still _means_ anything much? My guesstimate is that >95% of the data transferred does not mean anything. The exact same content and behavior could be transported with the remaining 5%. For example, we could remove all the bloated JavaScript of advertising trackers. Or (but that's a recent innovation) we could transition from JPG images to [BPG](https://banon1410463509rd.org/bpg/) (asanon2317280404ishing side-by-side comparison [here](https://banon1410463509rd.org/bpg/lena.html) and [here](http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/)) or to the (even better and completely free of patent nonsense) [AVIF format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#AV1_Image_File_Format_(AVIF)). What 5G will enable is even more data bloat, and because bloated rather than size-optimized data is ""convenient"" on the developer side, that's what we'll get." 8,54536,2019-06-04T14:45:04.328Z,54514,anon1514803743,anon196034329,"It's true - the difference there on those images is asanon2317280404ishing - seems a no-brainer. [quote=""anon196034329, post:7, topic:10059""] What 5G will enable is even more data bloat, and because bloated rather than size-optimized data is “convenient” on the developer side, that’s what we’ll get. [/quote] I totally agree with the developer issues and it's simply compounded by the marketing for the new and shiny products too - you can watch 4k streamed video on your phone and take 50 Mega pixel photos to be stored on the cloud - This is what the consumer wants. The consumer doesn't realise they can't see the difference between 740 and 1080 res on their phone let alone 4K and that their 50 mega pixel photo could be printed out at high res to be the size of a football pitch. [quote=""anon1505367078, post:4, topic:10059""] Europe will lag behind economically. [/quote] Over the past year I'm starting to believe that this would be a good thing - some days I look into a crystal ball and see that a crash is inevitable - and if it's sooner rather than later maybe we can scrape through. I don't want poverty but I do want alternatives and the economy is currently driven by capitalist wealth, debt and illnesses. If we completely crash then maybe we would be more resourceful and people would turn their attentions to the real problems looming... (it's a view I'm nurturing out of frustration and currently being in the UK one, with anon2317280404gue in cheek, hope will happen if Brexit does finally go through - starting to address real issues being the only good thing I can think that will happen from that). I'm really hoping that this Internet of Humans work I've stumbled upon will look into the ""alternatives"" to the perceived need for the likes of 5G so that there is either 1) the opportunity to do something before it's too late or 2) have some airbags ready for when it is too late. Maybe we can invent/discover/create something that is an antidote and contribute towards the changes we need to see. We run the risk of trying to integrate with the innovations generated from capitalist machinery and becoming lost in it or part of the problem, I'm not suggesting we ignore these innovations but I feel we need to assess their worth for humanity and adopt accordingly, challenging where necessary and looking for the integration hot spots to convert and transform others." 9,54540,2019-06-04T15:03:57.835Z,54476,anon2926706121,anon2434097920,"and that's the whole thing with disinformation, unfortunately a lot of people do believe RT - and they can't phantom you still believe ""mainstream media,"" a sheeple who hasn't dared to take the red pill yet. :( I just wrote a anon222512824 thing about it: It’s striking how fast Lenihan’s article took flight in right-wing media, and the news of Twitter’s action, in turn, was immediately picked up by many of the same news sources. RT [ran](https://www.rt.com/news/460596-twitter-antifa-journalist-lenihan-ban/) with the headline “Twitter bans researcher who exposed journalist ties to Antifa.” But according to Yochai Benkler, a law professor at Harvard and a co-director of the university’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, this turns out is actually not surprising at all. In his book, co-authored with Harvard researchers Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts, “Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics,” they set out how we shouldn’t blame Facebook for the spread of falsehoods, but right-wing media instead. “ *Most American news outlets try to adhere to facts. When something proves erroneous, they run corrections, or, as Benkler and his co-authors write, “they check each other.” Far-left Web sites post as many bogus stories as far-right ones do, but mainstream and liberal news organizations tend to ignore suspiciously extreme material. Conservative media outlets, however, focus more intently on confirming their audience’s biases, and are much more susceptible to disinformation, propaganda, and outright falsehoods (as judged by neutral fact-checking organizations such as PolitiFact).* ” ([The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house)) (you can read [my full piece here](https://mailchi.mp/codastory/disinformation-matters-antifa-the-intellectual-dark-web-and-the-internets-twisted-cylinder-debates-over-media-bias?e=[UNIQID))" 10,54543,2019-06-04T15:19:52.589Z,54540,anon3449369942,anon2926706121,"you guys should read this, very interesting breakdown of how Breitbart pushed the hillary email dicourse into focal point in run up to elections. Lots of lessons in there... https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/" 11,54645,2019-06-06T14:24:05.545Z,54514,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:7, topic:10059""] What 5G will enable is even more data bloat, and because bloated rather than size-optimized data is “convenient” on the developer side, that’s what we’ll get. [/quote] Do we have a separate topic here? FWIW, I agree with you, @anon196034329. I am fascinated by the value theory implications. If we make a claim that advertising is not an economic good, but rather an economic bad; and that much our bandwidth goes to carrying it, it follows that we could reduce our bandwidth _and_ increase our well-being at the same time. Increased well-being comes from two sources: a less bloated Internet, plus the additional stuff we could produce with the resources saved from not producing 5G. Libraries, hospitals, bicycle lanes, whatever. Value theory, value theory... :nerd_face:" 12,54654,2019-06-06T15:24:57.797Z,54645,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,Interesting thread. I had not thought that much about the energy required to push out all those ads. And in general yes there seems to be a common belief that storage bandwidth and throughput are a commodity limited only by current iterations of technology with no consideration of what gets consumed just to bring it to us. 13,54679,2019-06-07T09:25:18.209Z,54514,anon3449369942,anon196034329,"Data efficiency is an interesting one. It links together the Scuttlebutt discussion on what technology users and problems it makes sense to focus on and the solutions/models that you develop to serve them. Some mobile health applications like [Grace Health](https://grace.health/) and [Lilly](https://lily.health) are using both what they are calling AI, and data efficiency (at least in the sense of the data costs for the user), as part of their business models. It could be an interesting separate thread no? @anon2434097920 @anon1505367078" 14,54687,2019-06-07T12:06:33.281Z,54679,anon196034329,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:13, topic:10059""]mobile health applications like [Grace Health](https://grace.health/) and [Lilly](https://lily.health)[/quote] And that's yet another interesting thread. For most of these applications, data transfer efficiency can be infinite by just keeping all the data on the user's devices. That is a super rare model of doing things now, though, as they all want that ""new gold"" on their own servers. I just remember the time when [I had to find a cloud-free smart bathroom scales](https://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/a/10473). In the end, it all came back to open source hardware and software again. Commercial vendors just can't be trusted to not want our data." 15,55290,2019-06-17T11:26:14.982Z,54679,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:13, topic:10059""] Data efficiency is an interesting one [/quote] Efficiency is always defined in relationship to some goal: effort per unit of goal achieved. If your goal is revenue, collecting data (even data that you do not necessarily need to provide your core service) may be efficient *if you can resell them*. It goes back to value theory, since the concept of value encodes societal goals. The GDPR principles state that you should not collect personal data, unless you need them to provide the service that you are out to provide." 16,55321,2019-06-17T20:00:52.497Z,55290,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"So in Google's case, if you sign in with them, they see your searches, know where you are, know you do or don't use their office suite, look at certain kinds of YouTube vids, etc etc, and they rioll that up into a much more valuable mega-profile. They might, and surely do, contend that they need all that data so they can serve the best ads for the best rate, and that this is a service they provide to you. But in fact they do not need to combine all that data since it really doesn't do much of anything for you. As for 5G, what I don't want is what we have now: tech companies with a stake in the outcome telling us everything is fine and safe (I lived through the 50s where that was what the nuclear industries did), a government that will not step up to its role in protecting the public by making an objective determination (usually because the lobbies are too strong and donate too much money) and a bunch of noise from the troll factories spreading FUD all over." 1,53287,2019-05-09T15:46:32.640Z,53287,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Facebook, Google and Amazon come to mind first as the behemoth companies that have arrived at winner-take-all status and now function more or less as monopolies. Microsoft used to be that way, and they do still rule office software, but they are not as dominant as they used to be. Apple would gladly join that club, but Samsung keeps getting in the way. But it seems to me that the goal of any modern internet tech business is either joining this club or getting acquired by one of them. One argument in favor of this says that since everything is as cheap as possible or even ""free"", we consumers all benefit. Is this a good thing? What are the larger consequences of this reality? And is there a different way to structure the economics of the Internet?" 2,53289,2019-05-09T15:57:14.446Z,53287,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"To extend the argument in favor of winner-take-all, these companies are not monopolies and should not be regulated as such because of all these consumer benefits. And those benefits are certainly there. I once heard Jeff Bezos say, ""we're gonna obsess about our customers and make our competitors obsess about us."" And they have stayed true to that, even while putting the hammer on any business that stands in their way. And they provide service to other businesses: run your servers, sell or ship your goods for you, and anything else you might be willing to outsource. At the same time there is no doubt that they are becoming like a company store for the entire body politic. One of Facebook 's co-founders just wrote this [editorial in the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) calling for FB to be broken up because it functions as a monopoly even while being 'free' to the general public. (We do pay with our data of course.) But similar to the question of whether or not they are a platform or a publisher, they are a new kind of monopoly that may or may not need to be modified by the old remedies." 3,53290,2019-05-09T16:04:19.732Z,53287,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,Another train of thought is how much this trend maps to capitalism itself as we are in a period of rapidly increasing global wealth inequality that already matches the 1920s. The whole game seems to be trending in a winner-take-all direction. 4,53330,2019-05-11T15:24:57.308Z,53287,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"This [well-written article in Vox](https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18520703/big-tech-break-up-explained?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=6950949865-Benedict%27s+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-6950949865-70493557) lays out the problems of regulating the tech industry. It is talking about American tech companies and American antitrust law, but the conundrum is the same for any regulator. Since amazon, Google and Facebook are popular and offer either no-pay services or lower, rather than higher, prices, current antitrust law doesn't really cover them. What goes on behind the scenes with the data you provide to Google or Facebook (which is not considered to be a form of consumer payment), or the huge loss-leaders Amazon carries out at times which drives out competitors, has to be dealt with if any ""next generation internet"" is even possible, seems to me." 5,55108,2019-06-13T19:18:01.510Z,53287,anon1022881418,anon2434097920,"I'd have to put on my futurist hat to start thinking of the solutions (hi John, craig here!) - but what is to stop a future company from developing AI that, for example, can truly separate stuff on the internet based on your desires? What do I mean by desires? Well, the ""Reality TV"" aspect of the Internet DOES appeal to many, so they may set this new app (in a mobile OS or a Browser) to reflect that. Even then, it would weed out (rank lower) sites that didn't prove themselves worthy. In other words, things that didn't fit the mold would be as hard to find as they were in the early days of the internet instead of taking up all the headspace. Then we have a ""normal straight family"" who may want their AI settings to be - for lack of a easier way to explain - more of the Chinese model (sans the rewriting of history, etc.). They want the good stuff of the internet without hearing the worthless opinions of every troll, the millions of fake ""drop ship"" web sites that sell Amazon products and so much else. They don't care about ""Freedom of Speech"" - they want a tool to enhance knowledge and life. In some ways the mess is sorting itself out. All the screamers are starting to make less in Ad money...which makes them go away if their enterprise is based on mostly the $$$/ As the ""Volunteer Economy"" both online and off proves, people like to help other people....sometimes for free, sometimes for just expenses and sometimes for many even a small stipend or salary. The problem with larger internet models is that once the 10's of million of initial VC money is taken, the die is cast. No doubt we are at a low point in the evolution of this thing....the question becomes whether we will say the same in 5 or 10 years. Maybe, as we speak, some young guns are writing these AI apps which will filter out noise." 6,55254,2019-06-17T03:06:47.567Z,55108,anon2434097920,anon1022881418,"Sometimes a strong winner in an Internet category gets beaten by a better product, or one more in tune with what the consumers really want, such as what happened with MySpace, Friendster and Facebook. MySpace was really dominating there for awhile in 2004-6. Murdoch paid something above $400M for it, and it withered down soon after, not because they did anything wrong, but more people wanted the FB model. WHat's different now is Metcalf's Law and the sheer size of Facebook. They have enough money to buy any competitor before they can get off the ground." 7,55309,2019-06-17T14:27:38.000Z,55254,anon2392238860,anon2434097920,"I like the proposal from Cory Doctorow and others that, rather than the traditional antitrust model, the big social media and email platforms be required to open up their protocols and that we eliminate the intellectual property restrictions against creating interoperable instances that can piggyback on their platforms and import data from them without their permission." 8,55317,2019-06-17T19:37:27.066Z,55309,anon2434097920,anon2392238860,"I agree. Antitrust in the US has had its definition narrowed over time so that it is now seen that if consumers don't have price hikes then a monopoly/trust is a benign thing. That does not cover today's reality and should be updated. It should be settled law that you own your own data and if a company gathers that data, they have to be able to deliver it to you in full, and in a format you can use. And if you say they can no longer have it or use it, then they have to let it go. We shall see if lawmakers have the fortitude to withstand the massive lobbying that works against this and any similar notion." 1,54755,2019-06-09T08:22:43.298Z,54755,anon1676186961,anon1676186961,"I decided to share a piece I edited and co-authored lately for the European Science and Media Hub (link once it's out) - it's anon4292955258 an entry level, I'm well aware of it :) But maybe some of the things we point out can be an interesting starting point for your debate. I also plan to write a short summary of what we've discussed about AI in Journalism in the European Parliament last week. The other authors of this piece are Andrius Balciunas, Andrea Kocsis, Anna Udre and Borko Brunovic. -------------- One of the fields, where AI technologies can be used in newsrooms, is tackling misinformation. However, fact-checking tools still require human supervision and they seem to carry the risk of biases, mistakes and the possibility of human misuse. In order to overcome misinformation, both journalists and teachers have a responsibility to educate the public on how to spot false narratives and stop them from spreading. ![|624x388](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ijfB4IsX3iO2qdd4Rlq2pzAvmSSICkCU48WWvsyRgalVmjYL288iyE3-4lNkfocCpbt0E85-cB1hQoW21ROddKOJqzlXlyxHzwYmWBpdvEaDUci5Ih3GtvVAN-ROyeRjYQxUtiyH) Source: https://thebestschools.org/magazine/robot-love-understanding-complicated-relationship-technology/ Are we alone in the fight against misinformation and fake news? Are there tools out there that can help journalists or should we be rather scared of artificial intelligence in the media? Although it seems robots will not conquer our newsrooms in the near future and we will not have an algorithmic army fighting online trolls, it does not mean AI tools are risk-free options. We checked the pros and cons of automated fact checkers. Do they work? Even if they do, can be entirely sure that journalism has the largest responsibility in the war on misinformation? Artificial Intelligence (AI) - flies airplanes, drives cars, writes news and forecasts the weather. Decides on life and death. Most inventions throughout history provoked controversy - but not many of them had been as widely debated as artificial intelligence. There is still no clear definition of what AI is and what does it do, but its existence opens up many questions. Legal, technical and above all moral and ethical. What are its limits? Achievements? And - perhaps most importantly - who, and how, controls it? Manipulations that AI allow have potentially devastating effects on society: fake news, fake reviews, fake videos evoking fake emotions. At the same time, it is a tool to create better societies, a brighter future, and meaningful jobs. And in the context of journalism, AI can be an ally of both the reader and the author - we invite you to learn about the available tools and their applications. AI against misinformation Journalists do not have to fight the battle against fake news alone. There are AI-based tools which can be used in the newsrooms against misinformation. According to Mattia Peretti, the Project Manager at “Journalism AI” at LSA, the most frequently used are fact-checkers. Fact checking tools use rich databases of verified, high-quality and wide-ranging information. The algorithm is also fed with examples of debunked stories and results of the work of human fact-checkers. According to Lucas Graves from [Reuters Institute Oxford](https://agency.reuters.com/content/dam/openweb/documents/pdf/news-agency/report/reuters-institute-graves-factsheet-180228.pdf) the development focuses on three aims: spotting false or questionable claims circulating in the media; verifying or facilitating verification of claims or stories and delivering corrections instantaneously, across different media, to audiences exposed to misinformation. ![|572x333](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Wiv5g-UfiymWCtQwdjX5ql6Ti3S9eqnqYIyO9nPw1vkg9ip8UOZ02O1CQDEh6GExJprVO7NMMRfAdMEYpfNwFjZZlgtsTWemwlH5XJohiHfsPawk0VemmnDF325vTg2NaLS8ODhT) Lucas Graves: Understanding the Promise and Limits of Automated Fact-Checking. Reuters Institute Oxford. Factsheet 2018. At the moment, these fact checkers are half-automated. The databases used in these algorithms have displayed multiple examples of stereotypes and biases, and they are not capable of the judgment and sensitivity to the context, necessary to reliably establish the veracity of the material. " I'm a bit skeptical about AI and fact-checking. Sometimes misinformation is not fake, it's a anon2317280404e, something very subtle” admitted Guido Romeo, Data journalist at FACTA, “ I have never seen a machine to grasp it" Similar results came out of Brooke Borel’s (the author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking) [research](https://www.popsci.com/can-artificial-intelligence-solve-internets-fake-news-problem), during which she used ClaimBuster against her own manual work. Although ClaimBuster found almost the same amount of fake information and did it faster than her, it missed some important information which was only partially true and could be defined as misinformation. She cited the example of a sentence about climate change, a topic both political and scientific, which contained a subtle judgment: minimizing the impact of human activity on global warming. The ClaimBuster was not able to point out the doubtful anon2317280404e of the article. However, AI has also promising results in newsroom practice. “ The New York Times uses “Perspective” a Google tool, one of the best for comment moderation” - mentioned Stefan Hall, World Economic Forum. He also highlighted the benefits of the MTI-based Portico to reduce toxicity in an online environment, as well as Twitter’s own strategy to try and address disinformation, particularly bots and trolls. “ I think the Google’s “Perspective” is probably the most likely to be available in other countries.” - pointed out Hall. - “They have a human editor involved so there is always someone who makes the ultimate decision. However, many companies are looking into that.” Wilfried Runde stressed the importance of the journalist’s judgment in the process - “ the result will always be left with the journalist in the newsroom.” This applies to Truly Media, a tool developed three years ago by Deutsche Welle and the Athens Technology Center in Greece. The technology is based on open-source engines, such as [TinEye](https://www.tineye.com/), which reverse-searches images. It is used for example by Amnesty International in their investigations, or in the European Parliament to verify scientific material. Its main purpose is to verify the authenticity of user-created content - but the final decision lies with the person who interprets these findings. Mattia Peretti also mentioned a UK-based fact-checking charity Full Fact during European Youth Science and Media Day. It monitors major newspapers and broadcast news, as well as parliamentary sources, using the available subtitles and also text to speech conversion. Lucas Graves from the Reuters Institute Oxford described two other available automated fact-checking projects, the [Duke Reporters Lab](https://reporterslab.org/) and [Chequeado](https://chequeado.com/). The Duke Reporters Lab is a hub at Duke University. They have developed [Tech & Check Alerts](https://reporterslab.org/tech-and-check/), which helps journalists spot questionable claims in the local news - and sends a list of them in a daily newsletter. Their other new project, FactStream, offers live fact-checking of major political events via a mobile app. Its first public test came during the 2018 State of the Union address, when during the speech reportedly more than 3,000 people used the app. Finally, Chequeado is a fact-checking nonprofit based in Buenos Aires. In its current version, the program monitors presidential speeches and about 30 media outlets across Argentina to find claims to check. Another planned feature matches statements against previous fact-checks, and against official statistics, in order to automatically generate a draft for a human fact-checker to review. The platform will be shared with other fact-checking organizations in South America, and with news organizations interested in political fact-checking, but at the moment it is available only in Spanish. There are many other AI-based fact-checkers available, such as [ClaimBuster](https://idir.uta.edu/claimbuster/), the [veracity.ai](http://veracity.ai/) or the [Factmata](https://factmata.com/). The technology is constantly improving, but will it ever become a reliable solution against the misinformation and the fake news? Solutions? Education So, can we overcome misinformation, or is it here to stay permanently? People working with hybrid threats and information warfare stress the role of education and raising awareness in overcoming this threat. After Russia [illegally annexed Crimea](https://carnegieeurope.eu/2017/03/15/revisiting-2014-annexation-of-crimea-pub-68423) and started a war with Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainian media professionals spotted how the society was manipulated with misinformation for many years. Their first response was to start debunking the myths, but the long-term strategy required educating young people. Media professionals [started a project where school children could learn](https://www.stopfake.org/en/stopfake-helps-schools-to-teach-media-literacy/) to discern non-objective information. Though, the responsibility lies not only on journalists. “ People always assume that science journalists are experts in fake news and know how to change them. But that's not true,” said Mićo Tatalović, “Nature” news editor and Chair of the Board of the Association of British Science Writers. “I don't believe in the idea of media manipulating people. We are here to report, not to change peoples mind,” he responded about the ways science journalism can fight fake news. “ There is already too much manipulation outside. It should be the role of education and teachers. They are the expertise you need, not journalists.” Therefore, the knowledge must be passed to teachers as well. This applies to the use of AI in fighting misinformation. As Wilfried Runde of Deutsche Welle said, “ publishers must be open about the AI tools that they are using in their work”. If a media outlet is using AI for editing, data analysis, preparing material, etc., they must be transparent about their tools and encourage the public to participate in giving feedback. This would benefit both the media and the society - by showing how technology helps us create reliable content, spot the misinformation, and reestablish trust, crucial to democratic societies. But also explaining why AI cannot replace human judgment or ethics, or the need for personal contact in acquiring sources and first-hand information. Therefore, it seems that humans are not entirely alone in the fake news war. Technology has already developed useful tools for facilitating the journalists’ work, such as fact-checkers, and the industry does not stop progressing. However, these options still require human supervision and they seem to carry the risk of biases, mistakes and the possibility of human misuse. So journalists are here to stay. But they must stay alter and show how our values of democracy, transparency, and freedom of speech are being preserved in this super dynamic, technologically enhanced environment." 2,54759,2019-06-09T09:42:05.392Z,54755,anon1119284955,anon1676186961,"Not sure... I have somewhat of a tooth with journalists that repel the responsibilities of their role... It has been investigative journalism ( https://en.unesco.org/investigative-journalism ) that has brought everyone to think of the activity as a 4th estate, and which justified a number of protections for the category, including the excess of creating protected professions out of it (e.g. in Italy) as if one needed to be professionalized to exercise the role... ...now the category seems very keen to rush for clickbait strategies, first reporting rather than deep reporting, and overall journalism as a form of marketing, which is a paid ally of this or that power/mission... No doubt education is part of the solution, and I have never heard anyone claiming otherwise... but journalists should live up to their roles, or be ready for expiration :angel: Scientific bloggers (who are not living in the walled garden of professions) are already competing on quality of analysis, and often doing a much better job than ""journalists""... a few of them transition with success to more traditional editorial endeavours, like book publishing... so it is achievable with a bit of effort :slight_smile: and people refusing to analyse their own profession are a bit like those men replying the accounts of feminists are exaggerated, because they have never directly witnessed this or that..." 3,54761,2019-06-09T11:48:28.011Z,54759,anon1676186961,anon1119284955,"I agree with most of what you point out - and the way this particular profession and business evolve creates a whole set of new crazy problems. I think what's of key benefit and importance here is the possibility to use some of the new tools to help support one's arguments - especially as some of the misinformation gets incredibly sophisticated, and things have to be dealt with at incredible speed. One of my favorite artistic groups - Forensic Architecture - uses a somewhat similar combination of multidisciplinary expertise and sophisticated tools to produce counterarguments against those in Power - may it be EU, or Israel, or the palm oil industry. I don't think these tools justify laziness or solve the problem of good journalism in times when the industry works based on broken logic. But I anyway think we must be open to technologies that help do this job well." 4,54764,2019-06-09T13:38:23.178Z,54761,anon1119284955,anon1676186961,"If I understand you right, you are proposing that new tools to produce narratives, just like new artistic forms, can contribute to awaken journalism, and public alike, from the spell they fallen prey to... That certainly I would agree with... they can be a force to be reckoned with... :+1: Even art, though, has often become a tool of propaganda, and technology is just an accelerator to make certain things quicker and allow us to make more, sometimes qualitatively more allowing us to invent new forms... but still technology is just that, an accelerator trapped in the social context it is born from and used into... Tricking automatic fact checking is extremely easy, just like counterfactual attacks with generative approaches can trick the best performing classifiers... Curious humans establish causality chains, which ML don't touch upon, by design (here I would reference the job of Judea Pearl, and Spyros Makridakis, for example)... and humans can design social discourses for fallibility, something which relying on fast machine-driven ""fact checking"" seems to de-incentivize... So I guess I am completely onboard with you about the provocation factor, and the value of working on that family of tools and approaches :slight_smile: ... but I am somewhat cold (and I might have misunderstood here, and you are cold about it too, I apologise in advance I don't mean to label an opinion on you I am just venting my own understanding of this interaction :sweat_smile: ) concerning the idea of championing that family of tools and approaches as part of the solution... to me they are provoking agents, just that :angel: . We still have to push for journalism to have again skin in the game, and devote time and resources to value creation in the form of investigation, and we have to rethink a lot of our interactions to accomodate uncertainty and healthy critical skepticism... :slight_smile:" 5,54765,2019-06-09T13:47:13.639Z,54764,anon3449369942,anon1119284955,""" when we are drowning in information, the artist's work is to make things visible""" 6,54769,2019-06-09T15:49:06.007Z,54764,anon3031202475,anon1119284955,"[quote="anon1119284955, post:4, topic:10108"] We still have to push for journalism to have again skin in the game, and devote time and resources to value creation in the form of investigation, and we have to rethink a lot of our interactions to accomodate uncertainty and healthy critical skepticism… :slight_smile: [/quote] When it becomes possible to automate certain tasks or give them to AI it is increasingly important to identify which can not be handed over, but also how to properly finance those people who do the investigative and creative tasks we do not want be done by algorithms. In board meetings it is probably a lot easier to convince the investors to get a new software which is often a one time investment, than to increase staff and their payment to make sure enough well educated people are able to do the work. So, how could those important human contributions, for example in journalism but in future probably also in education or art, be better evaluated, financed and argued for in the face of AI's that might be able to take care of some, but not all of those tasks and never to an absolute extend, but which will inadvertently be advertised as such. How can we balance the argumentative and regulative structure to use the new tools without ever overusing and dismissing the necessary human factor and by doing so loosing the necessary expertise and balance?" 7,54776,2019-06-09T17:13:38.661Z,54769,anon1119284955,anon3031202475,"You raise an important point... the way boards think about investments... ...It is common use to account for the purchase of a machine by modelling the amortisation of the investment over the next few cycles of activity, and if the operation is well done they can later account for residual values... in practice, this is an exercise of projections: they expect to absorb the costs of purchase undercutting the margins of a number of operational cycles, and then expect the future cycles to be purely margin producing, as far as that component is concerned... On the other hand, personnel is a ""liability"" whose costs are prolonged life-long, unless said personnel can be demoted to ""venial"" functions (as it happens e.g. with AI adoption, when the human task is limited to data curation) and consequently kept outside of the structure and only paid per task execution, or fraction of cycle... Now the truth, rather well known to most investors and board members, is that the above amortisation projections are fictional, since they rarely account realistically for maintenance and upgrades (one has to remain competitive, in rhetorics at least), and the real costs of technology are rather much higher than approved... However, they offer the opportunity of playing with finance, via the residuals and margins discourse, and most important of all, to cut on the liability represented by personnel transforming it into an externality... However, the account of the personnel is just as partial as the discourse on amortisation of purchases: personnel grows qualitatively, often exponentially relatively to the investments in continuing education, and can be part of learning organisations, which is not true for machine learning (let's be reminded that today this is very far away from the inflated/hyped general artificial intelligence many imagine when thinking about deep learning and other machine learning approaches). The challenge to us (and this is beyond journalism) is how to change this culture of accounting and management. Our challengers are human resource offices that essentially live by framing candidates and employees in cells construed by titles and certificates, financial and accounting offices that are tasked with maximising short term returns and producing histories of efficiency (as opposed to effectiveness), and technologists/solutionists who have built entire consultancy/entrepreneurial careers on just satisfying those counterparts, conflating their rhetorics, and lobbying for all this. It's a scary inertia. Some economists have started: William H. Janeway is attacking the supremacy of efficiency, pushing effectiveness again in the limelight; Mariana Mazzucato is attacking the entire language of value, pushing back the tsunami of finance that keeps hold of our economies since the 1970s... But we can work to speed some things up, and one would be proposing an alternative frame for accounting, where emphasis of what is measured is put on effectiveness and value creation... Automatization will still find a place, righteously so (for the reason we each mentioned above), but it would not get coopted to satisfy those toxic logics... at least where the frame will be adopted :angel: ...but I am highjacking the thread now :stuck_out_anon2317280404gue:" 8,54777,2019-06-09T17:18:38.765Z,54776,anon3031202475,anon1119284955,"[quote=""anon1119284955, post:7, topic:10108""] Some economists have started: William H. Janeway is attacking the supremacy of efficiency, pushing effectiveness again in the limelight; Mariana Mazzucato is attacking the entire language of value, pushing back the tsunami of finance that keeps hold of our economies since the 1970s… But we can work to speed some things up, and one would be proposing an alternative frame for accounting, where emphasis of what is measured is put on effectiveness and value creation… Automatization will still find a place, righteously so (for the reason we each mentioned above), but it would not get coopted to satisfy those toxic logics… at least where the frame will be adopted :angel: …but I am highjacking the thread now :stuck_out_anon2317280404gue: [/quote] @anon1119284955 Maybe you could start another thread on the challenge of changing the culture of accounting and explain theories such as William H. Janeway and Mariana Mazzucato a bit further? I think that would be a very relevant and valuable discussion for many issues we are trying to tackle on this platform." 9,54795,2019-06-10T14:45:02.048Z,54777,anon1119284955,anon3031202475,"Writing from a white page tends not to be my cup of tea... but I will consider the option. Till the next weekend :)" 10,54993,2019-06-12T12:44:46.718Z,54795,anon3180318115,anon1119284955,"Hi @anon1119284955 @anon3031202475 video of a talk by [Mazzucato](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbrmbeD5myk), maybe that's a way to get others into a [theories-of-value](https://edgeryders.eu/t/the-value-of-everything/10136) discussion" 11,55013,2019-06-12T15:51:51.222Z,54764,anon3809206126,anon1119284955,"[quote=""anon1119284955, post:4, topic:10108""] Even art, though, has often become a tool of propaganda [/quote] Art *was born* as a tool of propaganda – celebrate the king, or the Church. Michelangelo painted, but Julius II was paying, and he made sure he got what he wanted for his money. Art has many wonderful features, but independence from power is not one of them. Immortal masterpieces of the past start with an apology to some minor noble, who had the chief merit of paying for the artist's upkeep. A partial exception is art for the market. Verdi needed no patron, because he had a publisher (Ricordi) and he could fill the theater. But then, of course, you get commercial art, which *also* has many wonderful features, but has its own collective patron to keep happy. And while we are at it, science also gravitated to power, and was fully captured in its orbit by the mid 19th century. :slight_smile:" 12,55015,2019-06-12T16:45:54.657Z,55013,anon1119284955,anon3809206126,"Interesting point of view... although by that narrative, the art born as propaganda was already art for the market in reality, since the artist had to pitch ideas and drafts for investments... Also more recent forms of arts for the market have been heavily subsidised for propaganda purposes (e.g. CIA and pop-art)... Art, however, was not born in the middle age, and it actually predates the historic era tout court, being primarily born by the desire of humans to give shape to their reflections on themselves and the world... and ""minor"" forms of art have always existed in parallel to the idolised-and-paid-for forms, those minor form being the ones to look at, at each time, for art as a reflection on reality... until they were eventually acknowledged, made main stream and paid for, and new forms would start appearing :slight_smile: ...somewhat similarly science, hence Kuhn's peculiar description of its evolutionary dynamics... Science like art has a very peculiar way of periodically giving raise to new questions, and fields ( this is anon4292955258 interesting and recent on the topic https://elifesciences.org/articles/21451 ) and we could argue that Feyerabend and Kuhn should be much more cited than Popper is when talking about it... but I digress :angel: One thing I could say of art and science, one thing that is similar of what was commented above of art and journalism, is that several times in history it was first art to capture a phenomenon, and only later science to try to make sense of it with the same tools that art had used..." 13,55018,2019-06-12T18:56:14.307Z,54755,anon2926706121,anon1676186961,"talking about AI and news, did you see this initiative? > The principle is straightforward: we pick a topic that is in the news and scan a selection of 50 sources ranging from large publications to small, specialized outlets. We collect a few hundred articles that are parsed through our home-brewed scoring algorithm. The model returns a spreadsheet that contains the URL of the story, the headline, the source, the word-count of the article, and the score. Then, our editor, Christopher Brennan manually removes any “noise,” typically false positive articles that are off-topic. He will also check for oddities, like a 3,000-word piece scoring only 1.8 (it is usually a large multi-topic news wrap up), or a 500-word article scoring a 4.1 (it could be a well-angled short piece from Quartz or Axios; it took us months to remove the misleading correlation of length and quality…). Finally, he will write a short text introducing the topic of the week and after a few checks from the team, we hit the “send” butanon2317280404. https://mondaynote.com/introducing-deepnews-digest-306235826786" 14,55030,2019-06-13T02:00:40.449Z,54755,anon2434097920,anon1676186961,"To the point about education: what seems to have fallen into less favor is emphasis on teaching critical thinking. It isn't enough to tell people to make sure everyone is more mindful now that so much fakery is around us. I think it takes time to train oneself to question, and to know what to question, and how. My brother was a middle school teacher for more than 30 years and year by year that kind of education diminished while ""teaching to the test"" became more important. It caused him to retire early because that was not what he got into teaching for." 15,55080,2019-06-13T13:37:40.428Z,55013,anon1676186961,anon3809206126,"if the beginning of art were the cave paintings - then it was most likely not really born as propaganda, but as a very pure tool for human expression." 16,55082,2019-06-13T13:40:54.603Z,55080,anon3449369942,anon1676186961,"mmm I think they were functional - something to do with transcendence, which btw I think I heard was function of using gold leaf in church deco - functional art before it became expressive/decorative..." 17,55099,2019-06-13T16:32:04.059Z,55015,anon3809206126,anon1119284955,"[quote=""anon1119284955, post:12, topic:10108""] Art, however, was not born in the middle age, and it actually predates the historic era tout court, being primarily born by the desire of humans to give shape to their reflections on themselves and the world… [/quote] [quote=""anon1676186961, post:15, topic:10108, full:true""] if the beginning of art were the cave paintings - then it was most likely not really born as propaganda, but as a very pure tool for human expression. [/quote] You are both right, I stand corrected. Let me reframe: *art*, as an activity, has its own beginnings and drivers. The existence of *artists*, a professional élite devoted to making art, can only arise when there is some surplus (someone has got to grow the food that the artists eat), and somebody who can commandeer such surplus in support of artists. Hence the close alignment of artists with powerful and rich people. The same can be said for professional scholars (but not learning per se), professional warriors (but not fighting per se) etc." 18,55126,2019-06-14T07:52:34.987Z,54755,anon3180318115,anon1676186961,"@anon1676186961 Just out from [Witness Media Lab](https://lab.witness.org/): ""How do we work together to detect AI-manipulated media? [Synthesis Report](https://lab.witness.org/projects/osint-digital-forensics/): Expert meeting and knowledge exchange between i) leading researchers in media forensics and detection of deepfakes and other new forms of AI-based media manipulation and ii) leading experts in social newsgathering, UGC and OSINT verification and fact-checking.""" 1,54848,2019-06-11T08:52:12.414Z,54848,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"![finance%20instability%20(1)|690x393](upload://gLz1GNix3GnuyyjpD0IYNO4fPlg.png) Hello, dear community members, we are planning the next coming up community call. *What could be done about the Ad-based internet economy with emphasis on the news?* An (almost) face to face discussion extending the discourse discussion: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821/77 It will take place on *Tuesday the 18th of June from 18:00 to 19:00 Brussels time on zoom* If you are interested: 1. Feel free to specify and propose your own spin on it before and during the call. 2. Invite whoever you think might be interested from within and outside the platform. 3. Tell us if you would you like to take some of the topical lead during the call? Who would maybe prepare some questions or a case study/project to present to others? Please comment here if you are interested and @anon Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/859462719" 2,54858,2019-06-11T10:46:36.263Z,54848,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"I def would like to participate! Also think @anon2434097920, @anon683229855, @anon1462728170, @anon3005076832, @anon196034329, @anon2724270673, and @anon3809206126 would be interested to have an irl discussion on the topic?" 3,54861,2019-06-11T10:55:03.064Z,54858,anon2724270673,anon2926706121,"I definitely am, and already filled in the Doodle :)" 4,54866,2019-06-11T11:22:32.221Z,54848,anon2926706121,anon3031202475,"@anon1686813978 here's social line for push and visual: Facebook, Twitter, news, we all use it for ""free"" but there's a real cost: our data, our privacy. We want a different model. Join us in a community call on the problems of and the solutions to the ad-based internet economy " 5,54868,2019-06-11T11:37:34.793Z,54848,anon3005076832,anon3031202475,"@anon2926706121: Thanks for pinging me :pray:. Unfortunately, I don't think that I will be able to make up some time for this in the next weeks. [quote=""anon3031202475, post:1, topic:10122""] Who is free when? Fill out the doodle doc here: [https://doodle.com/poll/6q3zg9c34hstu6cu ](https://doodle.com/poll/6q3zg9c34hstu6cu) [/quote] Thanks for that! Doodle might be okay regarding privacy and stuff (I didnt closely look and dont want to become too technical, e.g. relating CDNs), but there are definately better (in the above sense) and Free and Open alternatives, like: [dudle (TU Dresden)](http://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) or [framadate](https://framadate.org/) and probably a bunch of others (afaik there is a discourse plugin, too -> @anon196034329 ?)." 6,54872,2019-06-11T12:18:39.411Z,54868,anon196034329,anon3005076832,"[quote=""anon3005076832, post:5, topic:10122""]afaik there is a discourse plugin, too[/quote] Yes, there is the Discourse polls plugin, available from the post editor under "":gear: → Build Poll"". We use that at times for making appointments already, it works reasonably well." 7,54874,2019-06-11T12:33:36.535Z,54866,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,@anon1686813978 let us know with links when it's online so we can all easily reshare/retweet. Thanks! 8,54883,2019-06-11T13:07:09.899Z,54872,anon3031202475,anon196034329,"That is good to know, how can we use it?" 9,54885,2019-06-11T13:17:12.509Z,54883,anon196034329,anon3031202475,"You basically list the proposed dates and times of an appointment as options in the poll. For details about setting up Discourse polls: https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-polls/77548" 10,54949,2019-06-12T09:09:44.571Z,54866,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,@anon1686813978 what's the update on this? :) 11,54960,2019-06-12T10:11:12.373Z,54848,anon1686813978,anon3031202475,Some issues with having proper access to posting. We're working on it 12,54986,2019-06-12T12:18:57.799Z,54949,anon1686813978,anon2926706121,Gained access to FB. Your text to share with this link https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821/49 ? 13,54991,2019-06-12T12:33:09.985Z,54986,anon3809206126,anon1686813978,"@anon1686813978 that is a comment (the topic is 9821). If you click on it you will not see the original post, but comment number 49. It can happen that people want to share a comment, but it's rare." 14,54992,2019-06-12T12:34:53.072Z,54991,anon1686813978,anon3809206126,I do believe it's better to share the whole topic in a post so people can get context. OK to share the link to the topic? 15,54997,2019-06-12T12:56:10.126Z,54992,anon1686813978,anon1686813978,"[quote=""anon1686813978, post:12, topic:10122""] https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-is-to-be-done-about-the-ad-based-internet-economy/9821/49 [/quote] Shared the link to topic!" 16,55002,2019-06-12T13:44:48.351Z,54997,anon2926706121,anon1686813978,"hm, it would've been better with event, anyway you can change it on FB? because we need people to first know it's an actual event and they are invited, our aim with this social outreach is not to have them write, but join the call. (I shared this on riot)" 17,55003,2019-06-12T13:46:12.868Z,55002,anon2926706121,anon2926706121,Oh and please share the social links here with us 18,55014,2019-06-12T16:40:26.171Z,55003,anon2434097920,anon2926706121,"I would make anon2926706121 and fsimonov hosts of the ER FB page so their comments display front and center. I would do it but I am not the host either. Sometimes I make comments there or post links, but they sit on the side where nobody much sees them." 19,55100,2019-06-13T16:35:12.322Z,55014,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,"Ok, the doodle (which in future iterations will be replaces by the Discourse Polls Tool) has been up for a few days now and Tuesday the 18th of June seems to be the best date at such a short notice. ### Therefore I am now announcing a community call on the topic of ad-base economy and news for Tuesday the 18th of June starting time 18:00 - 19:00 on zoom. We can now all invite more people we know who might be interested. Will update the top post with the date and time. Would someone from the original discussion like to/ be available to preparing some initial questions or examples to get the discussion going? @anon2434097920 , @anon2724270673 , @anon2926706121 , @anon3809206126, @anon1462728170 , @anon" 20,55101,2019-06-13T16:36:39.955Z,55100,anon3809206126,anon3031202475,I'd rather skip... 21,55173,2019-06-14T16:10:29.168Z,54848,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Here the link to join the community call via zoom: Topic: Any news @anon Time: Jun 18, 2019 6:00 PM Brussels Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/859462719" 1,53775,2019-05-22T19:56:15.388Z,53775,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"
Posting the CCC call for contributions here as the call just opened. There are always people from the Edgeryders scene at both congress and camp. When there is money to do so the Edgeryders org tries to help cover some of the costs for those who want to go in exchange for sharing what you learn with others who cannot go. This is usually in the form of a thoughtful post on the platform summarising interesting projects, discussions you heard or participated in like this one @anon So if you want to go with a crew or as a community reporter, let's organise something together. leave a comment below or DM me if you prefer :slightly_smiling_face:
___ # [Call for Participation: Chaos Communication Camp 2019](https://events.ccc.de/2019/05/22/call-for-participation-chaos-communication-camp-2019/) The Chaos Communication Camp in [Mildenberg](http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/267114042) is an open-air hacker camp and party that takes place every four years, organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists and utopians get together for five days in the Brandenburg summer – to communicate, learn, hack and party together. We focus on topics such as information technology, digital security, hacking, crafting, making and breaking, and we engage in creative, sceptical discourse on the interaction between technology and society. We’d love to see your submission for these tracks: * Arts & Culture, * Ethics, Society & Politics, * Hardware & Making, * Security & Hacking, * Science. Apart from the official conference program on the main stages, the Chaos Communication Camp also offers space for community villages, developer and project meetings, art installations, lightning talks and numerous workshops (called “self-organized sessions”). ### Lightning talks Got something interesting to say but don’t want to submit a full talk? Consider doing a lightning talk instead! You will have five minutes to present your ideas or projects – or just to rant, if you need to vent. A formal submission through our submission system (called „frab“) is not required; as usual, the lightning talks are organized via our public wiki. Lightning talks can be held in German or English and will be streamed, recorded and published (see below). For projects, installations, workshops, sessions hosted in assemblies and other fun stuff is no formal submission through frab required. There will be a wiki page to keep track of requirements for space and other resources. Simply start already considering now what you would like to make, bring, or show, and write it down once the wiki goes online. ### Dates & deadlines * May 22th, 2019: Call for Participation * June 11th, 2019 (23:59 CEST): Deadline for submissions * July 10th: Notification of acceptance * August 21st – 25th, 2019: Chaos Communication Camp at [Ziegeleipark Mildenberg](http://www.ziegeleipark.de/index.html) ### Submission guidelines for talks All lectures need to be submitted to our conference planning system under the following URL: https://frab.cccv.de/cfp/camp2019. Please follow the instructions there. If you have any questions regarding the submission, you are welcome to contact us via mail at camp2019-content@anon Please send us a description of your suggested talk that is as complete as possible. The description is the central criterium for acceptance or rejection, so please ensure that it is as clear and complete as possible. Quality comes before quantity. Due to the non-commercial nature of the event, presentations which aim to market or promote commercial products or entities will be rejected without consideration. Since most participants find – or don’t find a lecture by its title, it’s important to keep your talk description precise, accessible and comprehensible. Our teams will keep a keen eye on title and subtitle and make suggestions to change them if necessary, so please avoid insider jokes and stereotypes. As it is likely that there will be multiple submissions on the same topic, please show us exactly why your talk should be part of the conference. Remember that the teams are diversely staffed, and not every reviewer knows every submitter and their backgrounds. Please write something about yourself, your research, and your motivation. It does not matter if the talk has been held at another conference somewhere on this planet, as long as it is up to date and relevant. Talks should be 45 minutes long and can include up to 15 minutes for questions and answers. Longer slots are possible if absolutely necessary, but should be an exception. Please take our limited amount of presentation time into consideration, check how much time you really need to bring home your points and then tell us the proposed length of your talk. ### Language Although the Chaos Communication Camp is an international event and a lot of content is presented in English, there will again be a translation team that will simultaneously translate most German talks into English. So if you are not comfortable with presenting in English, don’t hesitate to present your lecture in German. If your talk will be held in English, your submission should also be in English. ### Publication Audio and video recordings of the lectures will be published in various formats at [media.ccc.de](https://media.ccc.de/) under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This license allows commercial use of excerpts by media institutions as part of their reporting. If you do not wish for material from your lecture to be published or streamed, please let us know in your submission. Note: As German law (and therefore the license) might differ from the law of your country, please let us know if you have any issues or questions regarding the exact implications. Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee a perfect translation. ### Travel, costs & visa The Chaos Communication Camp is a great adventure for us, also financially. As we’re all there to have a nice time together, and split the costs, we cannot offer a different entrance fee for speakers, workshop organizers or angels. The camp is a non-commercial event where neither the organisers nor the speakers are being paid – thus, we cannot provide a free entrance ticket, even for speakers. If necessary, we are however able to provide limited support for travel costs. If you need help applying for a visa, such as an official invitation to present to the German embassy, please let the content team know well in advance. Please be aware that the visa application procedure may take up to six weeks or longer! *Photo: Fabrizio, [CC BY-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/).*" 2,54196,2019-05-30T08:19:49.497Z,53775,anon3258157245,anon3449369942,The world is such a small place. I just received a demand to be the Brussels beer deliverer for Hackerspace BXL who is also attending the camp. They also say there is place in their bus and embassy tent if any edgeryders from Brussels would want to come with. Tom says hey @anon3449369942 ! 3,54478,2019-06-04T06:19:54.612Z,54196,anon3449369942,anon3258157245,"Yes!! He reached out to me on another channel about whether we had vouchers. I know a couple of people who might - will check, this is something Id like to attend myself. Do you have space in the truck to give someone a ride?" 4,54585,2019-06-05T13:15:43.870Z,53775,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,"Yeah, I'm interested in attending. I turned in a an application to do a session in the Art & Culture track on some of the Participio tools – Dreams, Realities and our Loomio and Pretix integrations." 5,54726,2019-06-08T09:02:16.276Z,54585,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,"Ok ill ask around and see who has more vouchers in case more people xant to join. Camp is most fun if you are part of a crew and set up your own space with activities in it, or join a nice one. I really enjoyed the Belgian one - lovely, friendly people and i learned to make my own circuitboard from scratch :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: @anon273015838 are you going to camp?" 6,54734,2019-06-08T09:38:24.000Z,54726,anon273015838,anon3449369942,"@anon3449369942 alas I won't be able to make it, but my good friend and long time thingscon collaborator Dries de Roeck will be there for sure, I'll hook you up! [Sent from a mobile, please apologize the brevity and typos.]" 7,54740,2019-06-08T14:27:52.506Z,53775,anon2513069393,anon3449369942,"Hey, I just discovered the event now and I have already a half-plan for these days, but there's still a potential + 3 days for submission of lecture proposal (unless I only want to give a shorter 'lightning talk' - as I understood... ) Just a couple of questions if you dont mind: - what are those split costs? - are Edgeryders going together? - is it like the Borderland model that no 'audience' and everyone is a contributor(lecturer, artists, angel)? Thank you Best, anon2513069393" 8,54762,2019-06-09T12:12:57.466Z,54740,anon3449369942,anon2513069393,"anon2513069393 let me check who is going. Regarding content it is participatory in a similar way to borderline, though the culture/crowd is a bit different. The split costs bit - going to camp costs: ticket + travel + food. Accomodations = bring your own tent. We try to organise that people can carshare from brussels. Ideally people cover their own trip to brussels and we can cover the ticket fee. What we ask in exchange is that people contribute back to the community. E.g by organising a workshop or writing a thoughtful article to share what you discovered/learned during the event." 9,54815,2019-06-10T21:19:27.273Z,54762,anon2513069393,anon3449369942,"Dear @anon3449369942, I hadn't expected that, but I am very drawn to participate, thank you for a generous answer.I know I'd definately love to write a post-event article. When it comes to organising a workshop: is that right that it can take various forms and last 45 min. Is that a requirement that one creates both an article AND workshop? (Ideally, I'd like to do both, but - as I said - I have 24 hours to figure all out ;) As tomorrow is the deadline, I will be asking further questions via [camp2019-content@anon anon2513069393" 10,54988,2019-06-12T12:22:06.835Z,54762,anon1514803743,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:8, topic:9954""] We try to organise that people can carshare from brussels. Ideally people cover their own trip to brussels and we can cover the ticket fee. What we ask in exchange is that people contribute back to the community. E.g by organising a workshop... [/quote] Hi @anon3449369942 I might be too late to ask but would it be possible to still contribute? I would propose to run a workshop based on a project of mine: [http://www.adventurelabs.co.uk](Adventure Labs) where we would make devices to solve a puzzle or problem, introducing people to ways of making physical sensor based devices and I'd happily team up with Edgeryders at this event to do that. I could come to Brussels and I would bring all the kit to use and the planned session too (though you'd be welcome to contribute to the theme/content/format of the session). Would it be appropriate and would the community be interested?" 11,54990,2019-06-12T12:28:10.904Z,54815,anon3449369942,anon2513069393,"I asked someone if they might have a token lying around. ""maybe"" :slight_smile: Will keep looking, maybe you guys can ask around too using the camp hashtag on twitter or via redditt @anon2513069393 @anon1505367078 @anon1514803743 ?" 12,55000,2019-06-12T13:39:33.238Z,54990,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,"[quote=""anon3449369942, post:11, topic:9954""] Will keep looking, maybe you guys can ask around too using the camp hashtag on twitter or via redditt @anon2513069393 @anon1505367078 @anon1514803743 ? [/quote] Yup, I'm asking around. No success yet. None of my usual suspects had any left." 13,55143,2019-06-14T11:35:03.000Z,54990,anon2513069393,anon3449369942,"Thank you so much Nadia and team, I've decided to make my application/proposal in Copenhagen/Roskilde University for VR event instead - which overlaps with the Camp. I wish you really inspiring times and hope to attend&collaborate another time. Best, anon2513069393" 1,55048,2019-06-13T08:59:37.327Z,55048,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"Hi everyone! These weekly calls are where the Edgeryders communication crew coordinates the work of supporting project crews, community managers, fellows and community members to get the word out and engage people in the exciting work everyone is doing. They happen here every tuesday at 16.30 CET: https://zoom.us/j/482525755 Feel free to add activities, Links to content, questions or proposals for topics/questions/campaigns/projects that you wish us to include in the agenda for the next call in a comment below. Also, if you have information, input that can help us please feel free to post in comments below! ## IOH **Current Affairs, News or events in the world** * *what are hot conversation topics where you live on the internet and in the world? _These can be general ones such as the unfolding church scandal in Poland, or the massive protests against corruption in the Czech Republic in a campaign that is being driven by the Czech Pirate party. Or they can be more specific to tech._ **Upcoming Activities** * is there anything related to your own work/interests that you would like more people to know about? * Any events that you are going to, involved in, would like to organise or see happen with others in the Edgeryders scene? **IOH Conversations** * Any conversations that you have come across here and that you would like to see more people join? * Maybe you have a burning question, or topic that you wish us to help build a conversation around for you. * My own ones are... -- **Tech + Sustainability:** How to do a campaign/ call for people to send us burning questions to explore around this topic? What is the call for action/input? Who do we want in this conversation? -- **Tech + Justice:** How to do a campaign/ call for people to send us burning questions to explore around this topic? What is the call for action/input? Who do we want in this conversation? **IOH is what we make of it, so what would you like to see in here? Tell us!**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHM29F2h2qI" 2,55055,2019-06-13T09:23:41.403Z,55048,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,"I already gave @anon1686813978 the heads up about the [blog](https://edgeryders.eu/tags/blog?view=topic-preview). In general, what goes there is curated content intended for general consumption. So, I encourage the comms team to keep an eye on the blog feed and treat every post as material to push out. You could even recycle some content of the past, as long as it was not too heavily time-specific." 3,55076,2019-06-13T13:02:41.603Z,55055,anon1686813978,anon3809206126,First iteration of the social media post plan coming up! 4,55104,2019-06-13T18:21:40.360Z,55048,anon1505367078,anon3449369942,I will be there for the call! 5,55130,2019-06-14T08:30:59.988Z,55104,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,great- anything you want to add to the agenda? 1,54768,2019-06-09T15:33:59.501Z,54768,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Dear edgeryder community members connecting things and people through the internet of the future: I found a design challenge that might be along the lines of a few projects (@anon273015838 might be something for you or someone you know of? Napkin sketch submission rolling until the 20th of June, those selected are given tools to further describe their ideas. 1200 £ for the winner 750 £ for the runner up.): https://designchallenge.virteuproject.eu/ ### What they are looking for They're looking for concepts that speak to the question of… ""How might we use connected Internet of Things systems and products to re-imagine collaborative and communal living that is sensitive to differences between members of these living spaces?"" In particular, they want submissions which are… * Early stage designs that use connected IoT systems and products to explore new ways of living together * Ideas about how to balance personalisation, privacy, and the experience with the interests and preferences of different people who live together * Creative interventions in using connected devices to provide for life together, not only as individuals ### How it works: ### How the Design Challenge Works The Design Challenge has two rounds. **Round 1** *Deadline: rolling until June 20th* Submit your “napkin sketch” - very early sketch and description of your idea **Round 2** *Deadline: June 20* ""Selected applicants from Round 1 are given beta tools to support their concept development and are invited to submit full materials of technical diagram, user storyboard and business plan We will consider all of the concepts submitted within the deadline and evaluate them. On or before June 27th we will announce the finalists who will be invited present their concept at the final VIRT-EU design challenge event as part of ORGCon on 13 July 2019 in London. [ORGCon is Open Rights Group's conference](https://orgcon.openrightsgroup.org/2019) in London. The selected concepts will be the ones that best answer the Challenge question and have the most potential for impact"" ### Would be great if some projects of people connected to the community could become part of this :)" 2,55034,2019-06-13T05:43:27.679Z,54768,anon3809206126,anon3031202475,Looks like one for @anon 3,55037,2019-06-13T06:13:00.080Z,55034,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,Or @anon1823656240 4,55039,2019-06-13T06:48:26.000Z,55037,anon1823656240,anon3449369942,"Ah thanks! Looks interesting, I’ll put something together :)" 5,55040,2019-06-13T07:01:42.438Z,55039,anon3449369942,anon1823656240,"Kat while you are at it check this out, especially the fellowship (we are doing several batches so ignore the May 30 deadline): https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh" 6,55042,2019-06-13T07:26:35.000Z,55040,anon1823656240,anon3449369942,Thanks Nadia I’ll take a look! 1,54190,2019-05-30T03:56:34.354Z,54190,anon3930211770,anon3930211770,"I recently met Alberto in an unrelated setting, and then discovered that he was the Alberto with whom I had interacted on Edgeryders 4 years ago. The discussions about the Internet of Humans seem to be near to what drives me. So I will first link to What I wrote in 2015 : https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-proposal-for-testing-assembl/4140 and add : A main ingrediant of what I propose is : 1. not to use words as the basic semantic unit, but ""Word senses"" , somewhat like WordNet but in a more radical way. 2. context(s), in a specified format, is mandatory for any text or sentence. That means some work at a basic level of software design. Not difficult, but structural. This is a anon222512824 short as an introduction, but it is late, and it is probably better that I reply to comments and questions rather that try to guess them." 2,54208,2019-05-30T11:55:09.617Z,54190,anon1505367078,anon3930211770,"[quote=""anon3930211770, post:1, topic:10029""] I have been thinking about the use of networked computers as a aid to thinking at a global scale [/quote] This is the goal of [Worldbrain](https://medium.com/@anon" 3,54242,2019-05-30T15:20:22.267Z,54208,anon3930211770,anon1505367078,"Yes. The goal is the same. I have installed Memex. But as I said, words are not an adequate basic semantic unit. It leads to problems at many levels. For example : translation (unless you want to impose english as global language you have to learn if you want to participate). I my opinion what is needed is something like UNL, but more radical. from Wikipedia : ""Universal Networking Language (UNL) is a declarative formal language specifically designed to represent semantic data extracted from natural language texts. It can be used as a pivot language in interlingual machine translation systems or as a knowledge representation language in information retrieval applications.""" 4,54244,2019-05-30T15:24:50.552Z,54242,anon1505367078,anon3930211770,"[quote=""anon3930211770, post:3, topic:10029""] words are not an adequate basic semantic unit. It leads to problems at many levels. For example : translation (unless you want to impose english as global language you have to learn if you want to participate). [/quote] This is a topic currently being explored by us in Edgeryders. Indeed, we will do [multi-lingual ethnographic coding](https://edgeryders.eu/t/doing-ssna-in-multiple-languages/8058) in the coming years. @anon1037234888 and @anon3809206126, do you have any insights to share on that front?" 5,54665,2019-06-06T16:42:31.047Z,54242,anon2434097920,anon3930211770,Do you have any examples of what you mean by UNL in this context and how much more radical would you be? 6,54827,2019-06-11T04:09:49.565Z,54665,anon3930211770,anon2434097920,"To answer that question I will cite the ""Scope and goals"" section of the Wikipedia article [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Networking_Language#Scope_and_goals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Networking_Language#Scope_and_goals) and add in line comments where my approach diverges. Normal font for common parts [_italic for parts specific to UNL_] [**bold for parts specific to my approach**]. UNL is designed to establish a simple foundation for representing [_the most central aspects of_] [, **without preset constraints**,] information and meaning in a machine- and human-language-independent form. As a language-independent formalism, UNL aims to code, store, disseminate and retrieve information independently of the original language in which it was expressed. In this sense, UNL seeks to provide tools for overcoming the language barrier in a systematic way. At first glance, UNL seems to be a kind of interlingua, into which [_source texts are_] [**live input is**] converted before being translated into target languages. It can, in fact, be used for this purpose, and very efficiently, too. However, its real strength is knowledge representation and its primary objective is to provide an infrastructure [_for handling knowledge that already exists or can exist in any given language_] **[that enables much easier aquisition and creation of knowledge, and constructive discussions, that crosses the present day cultural and academic boundaries**]. [_Nevertheless, it is important to note that at present it would be foolish to claim to represent the “full” meaning of any word, sentence, or text for any language. Subtleties of intention and interpretation make the “full meaning,” however we might conceive it, too variable and subjective for any systematic treatment. Thus UNL avoids the pitfalls of trying to represent the “full meaning” of sentences or texts, targeting instead the “core” or “consensual” meaning most often attributed to them_]. [**I treat the context free “full meaning” of words as a mostly a meaningless abstraction that is not worth pursuing as an aim. The only pertinant meaning to me is the one in the authors mind. The aim is to make that meaning available to the readers with the least possible deformation. The unit of meaning I propose is a word sense that includes its context (or domain of validity).** **When the author inputs a text into the system he either finds one in the system or creates it on the spot. That creation will be part of the text, so there is no need of a centrally managed ontology. As in natural language such ""neologisms"" propagate with their usage. They can be included in independently managed ontologies, that can specialise either in general or specialised domains, and made available to authors**]." 1,54562,2019-06-05T06:58:40.023Z,54562,anon1514803743,anon1514803743,"I thought folks might be interested in this https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/ This year's topic is air pollution, last year plastic pollution. The solutions are not coming through very fast and our governments are very slow to react, they're too busy with their immediate concerns of position and control rather than tomorrow's I think it's good we have campaigns like these to draw awareness, I think it's useful to include some guides to what we can do to minimise pollution but I don't see enough action. The day itself is poorly advertised, I haven't seen anything about it in national media and a ""day"" hardly seems sufficient. Whilst reading the site I can't help but feel it suggests the activities that take place on the 5th of June could soanon3242181883 compensate for the damage we're doing... It's not the intention but it's the risk that after doing so some will feel they've wiped their hands clean of responsibility for another year... Maybe it's just a marketing issue or maybe it's that emphasis on just a ""day"" seems to miss the point but we are yet to see effective use of the internet to drive systemic change. So how could the internet be better used for campaigns like these? If we were to run such a campaign how could we make it more effective? Is there continued direct action that the internet can foster, enhance, and make easier?" 2,54685,2019-06-07T11:56:26.269Z,54562,anon3809206126,anon1514803743,"[quote=""anon1514803743, post:1, topic:10075""] Maybe it’s just a marketing issue or maybe it’s that emphasis on just a “day” seems to miss the point but we are yet to see effective use of the internet to drive systemic change. [/quote] In fairness, it is a difficult call to make. So many important issues competing for our attention... it's hard to stay focused." 3,54718,2019-06-07T22:19:43.181Z,54562,anon2434097920,anon1514803743,At this point if every day isn't world environment day we're pretty screwed.. 4,54724,2019-06-08T08:23:11.817Z,54685,anon1514803743,anon3809206126,"True I'm guilty of that too, focus is difficult, the domain is very broad - it's the world... It is good that the conversations emerging in Internet of Humans is helping narrow down to something to focus on though" 5,54770,2019-06-09T15:55:57.315Z,54562,anon3031202475,anon1514803743,"[quote="anon1514803743, post:1, topic:10075"] Maybe it’s just a marketing issue or maybe it’s that emphasis on just a “day” seems to miss the point but we are yet to see effective use of the internet to drive systemic change. So how could the internet be better used for campaigns like these? If we were to run such a campaign how could we make it more effective? Is there continued direct action that the internet can foster, enhance, and make easier? [/quote] I think another problem with events and campaigns like this is that their punctual nature allows it for people to turn off light for an hour on one day or to like something on Facebook to feel a bit better and a bit as if they are helping to solve the problem. Of course generating awareness is important but as mentioned in more long lasting ways and without easy options to satisfy the uneasiness the shared knowledge generates via a a light or like butanon2317280404. Therefore I would argue to simultaneously not make the campaign too easy for the receivers, but of course work on making it easier for those initiating them." 6,54782,2019-06-10T04:13:56.549Z,54770,anon2434097920,anon3031202475,"Awareness that leads to more individual responsibility is a good thing, but that awareness really has to become political pressure to get governments not just on board but assigning to this the proper priority. So for in the countries with the most impact that is not happening." 1,54221,2019-05-30T13:25:53.593Z,54221,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,".... This means that it is vital that citizens become part of the full loop, from the beginning of asking questions about smart services in smart cities to feeling safe and secure with their home appliances. That is why in 2010, Council set up IoT Day on April 9th ([iotday.org](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8090451/iotday.org)). The event has grown in scale and scope as IoT sinks more into everyday life. For the 2017 edition, there were 58 events across the globe, ranging from people in a bar talking about the changes that they see in their daily work, to panels and seminars and professional workshops. The purpose of IoT Day is to get an organic, local public debate going, resulting in larger groups of diverse people asking what kind of society they want. For the 2018 edition, Council will team up with the IoT Consortium ([iofthings.org](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8090451/iofthings.org)). Starting this fall, using the [iotday.org](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8090451/iotday.org)/ events link, you can upload events for 9 April 2018. Council is a timely ecosystem. Although it is not yet viewed as a strategic powerhouse, having grown only slowly without any advertising, it will soon become more visible in that capacity. It is a small but decisive building block, building a new political decentralized system where transparency reigns, all nodes are equal, and earlier dependencies are eradicated. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8090451" 2,54351,2019-05-31T23:25:20.308Z,54221,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"It is a useful document, @anon4261882768, thank you for sharing it. I find this ""origin story"" really interesting. You were part of a small group of people who, early on, saw a transformation coming. You concluded you had > [...] *two options: either we assist policy to ensure that at least some public space survives, or we build our own parallel systems* . Question: how, in your opinion, can public space be made to survive? I know, for example, Arduino founder Massimo Banzi's take on this matter: never connect devices with anything other than open source hardware and software. This will put some ""give"" into the system. Last time I heard him speak about this, he preferred to use the locution ""connected devices"" instead of ""Internet of things"". On the opposite side of the argument, Alan Greenfield has a model of how a related concept, ""smart city"", has been gaining traction, despite very serious intellectual, moral and technical shortcomings: > What happens [...] inside the municipal bodies that constitute the primary presumptive audience for such a marketing campaign? Low-level bureaucrats, pressed for time and starved for insight, stumble onto this thicket of conversation via a cursory keyword search; they copy-and-paste a few lines from the first reasonably credible-looking search result into their PowerPoint slides, unmodified; and these slides then get submitted up the hierarchy. The language propagates across the institution — and, what’s more, it meshes with that found in the hurriedly-downloaded white papers on the subject that someone found on the website of a name-brand management consultancy. The savvier staffers start to feel confident using these terms: speaking in them, thinking in them. In other words, no solution is offered. All we know is marketing, and anything that feeds the hype, make matters much, much worse. What does your group think?" 3,54354,2019-06-01T07:37:43.227Z,54221,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Hi Alberto, We do not have 'one' group. There is no ""we"". I can only talk for myself. People that I meet align than go elsewhere. We share a sensibility, that is all. When that converges you get a certain idea of where the keys to change are. None of what I have written was 'engineered', it all happened, like it is happening now. So I speak for me. As we are part of a project that works with public money, you, me, must believe in this public space, otherwise we would not be in it. I believe in it to the extent that I can be a real agent in trying to change it. That is what I am trying to achieve with the invite only expert workshops in the Taskforces, to build a common understanding that there is no escape from this transition and that leadership means taking control of the drivers. I get very good input and feedback, a lot of gov and biz are beginning to see the world will consist of a few large ecosystems and we can shape ours. Every situation is historical and full of opportunity of change. Thinking the course is set is not for people in a strategy group, but for people who are afraid and want to escape. On the parallel systems: here ‹we see the LEDGER space opening up and with DECODE and Jaromil led zenroom (see decodeproject.eu) ideas about data, privacy, security are no longer niche but getting traction, alongside the awareness that is build with dowse.eu. I am talking with hardcore thinkers like Stephan Engberg who too thinks we need to rebuild bottom-up - literally aiming to replace/upgrade almost all standards. And I fully agree. But I do not want to do that for one village, or one group of people and that means that without agency on the system as such we can not change its drivers or slow it down. And besides, this is the Borg we are engulfed in, there is not one location on the planet of the grid that will remain 'free' (which is why Moneyland aims to go to the Moon/Mars).And we need to slow it down as the world is now clocking in on a crazy Silicon Valley individualist start start start up mode. We need to take back our own pace. On Arduino: I wads around when that started from IVREA Design School, as a great educational project of building a micro processor as a design challenge that turned out to be a great prototyping platform on the PROCESSINg of Casey Reas. https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Credits Arduino brilliantly steered this design object into a fully open source environment tuned to makers first https://www.fastcompany.com/3025320/how-arduino-is-becoming-the-worlds-social-network-for-hackers-and-makers and then, now to partnering with Intel and ARM. In a way they have become a anon4292955258 normal IoT company. Being close to them I can contact them quickly when Council members in Lagos want training, for example. I am very happy to hear more from Banzi but I think connected devices is just another name for the kind of connectivity that is IoT. https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/18/arduino-nano-boards/ ""Some argue that the maker movement may have passed its peak and is now moving away from microelectronics, but Banzi is not convinced. “Here in Europe, the maker scene is different from California where it is closely related to artists, hackers, and the local franon2926706121 culture. In Europe, there is a lot of overlap between makers and small and medium enterprises. A lot of these small companies run using maker methodologies. For instance, if they don’t have the money for expensive machinery, they build their own do‑it‑yourself solutions using maker tools.”"" https://www.u-blox.com/en/blog/innovation/discussion-makers-arduino’s-massimo-banzi So yes I am very interested in new network topologies, in breaking tcp-ip, in investigating networks that connect only to each other at the edge, no central node, no server architecture 'systems' like https://smarimccarthy.is/articles/2012-08-24-centralization-vs-decentralization-two-centuries-of-authority-in-design/ And we have money in NGI to fund these ideas, so if you know of hackers and ciders who want to investigate these types of new connectivities please send three to me so we can help them broker proposals. On Adam: I have known Adam for over 15 years. He first reached out to me when I was working as Flow editor with John Thackara on Doors of Perception: http://flow.doorsofperception.com Incidentally that is where I laid the foundation for a large part of my understanding of what is now #IOT meeting for example my good friend Usman Haque from Pachube (as no EU VC was found -typically- forced to sell to US VC Logmein, Xively and now oh irony: Google). Since then we met in Taiwan where I went with him on one of his very good and productive city walks, set next to him in meetings where he was asanon2317280404ished how I could sit all day through these awful ppt presentations indeed of IoT architectures (I told him I daydream) and had him invited (with Alex Bassi) to speak to the entire IERC and IOT Forum community in 2012 in Venice https://iotweek.org/speaker/adam-greenfield/ He then presented a set of slides which consisted purely of the marketing ppt of all major companies. Her thought that would wake up the crowd, the IoT community, all they saw was someone playing back the same hype that the marketeers in their own HQS were building that none of them believed as well. Adam thought he was 'critical' in the lions den. It had no effect at all. I was in the audience with the engineers, in the projects, working hard as one of the team and I saw this firsthand. It had no effect as I predicted that in the 2007 text. You can not fight an ontological change with toolsets from the old paradigm. The only way, simple Bucky, is to build a new one alongside it. All else, flight, escape, protest, hacks, simply strengthens the funders and vested interests, in fact by opposing them you give them fuel to hold out a bit longer. But OK! I still respect that position, a lot. A kind of similar attempt is done by Aral Balkan and Schrecko Horvath and DIEM who also think I have gone over to the dark side when I try to expose my ideas to them that include working with current gov and current big tech and SME and hackers and.....in order to build a smart society - if it has to be smart - then preferably a smart society for all and not just for the rich or the hipsters. IoT is a basic operation of automation started from the Industrial Revolution with a logic that seems to be of its own and whoever denies that it is real, but that it is marketing at this moment is totally irresponsible towards the younger generations the Igens and Millennials on their devices all the time, rapidly growing up in a fully engineered AR and VR fed Matrix. Anyone doing that for really good personal reasons and from an old worn through position like Adam I respect. Anyone voicing that position now makes him or herself fully irrelevant, niche and in my opinion romantically escapist. Interested in a pragmatic approach: Free e-book https://www.spranon2926706121r.com/gp/book/9783642404023" 4,54491,2019-06-04T08:58:25.220Z,54354,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"[quote=""anon4261882768, post:3, topic:10036""] We do not have ‘one’ group. There is no “we”. I can only talk for myself. People that I meet align than go elsewhere. [/quote] Ouch. I try not to make that particular mistake... it seems I slipped. Noted, and apologies for attributing you things you did not say. In my defense, the document might be interpreted as there being a ""we"" (""I tried to raise awareness among my friends, artists, writers, thinkers, and makers [...] This is about us [...] It was time we organize""]. [quote=""anon4261882768, post:3, topic:10036""] [Greenfield] then presented a set of slides which consisted purely of the marketing ppt of all major companies. Her thought that would wake up the crowd, the IoT community, all they saw was someone playing back the same hype that the marketeers in their own HQS were building that none of them believed as well. Adam thought he was ‘critical’ in the lions den. It had no effect at all. [/quote] What a fascinating story! It seems to imply that *everyone in the room was fully aware that they were part of an effort with no intellectual integrity*. ""Yeah, so? What did you expect? We know it's a scam, we are in it for the money."" Is that what you mean? That's way darker than I thought. :frowning: I am not sure how to deal with your assertion that [quote=""anon4261882768, post:3, topic:10036""] whoever denies that [the IoT] is real, but that it is marketing at this moment is totally irresponsible towards the younger generations [...] Anyone doing that for really good personal reasons and from an old worn through position like Adam I respect. Anyone voicing that position now makes him or herself fully irrelevant, niche and in my opinion romantically escapist. [/quote] In *Against the smart city*, Greenfield does not deny the reality of the *consequences* of the smart city discourse. In fact, the book ends on a warning: > this rhetoric does work in the world. It sets agendas, influences perceptions of what it means to be ""advanced,"" recalibrates norms and guides the allocation of resources. Proliferated across the network without end or limit, we can see it filling an entire space of sociotechnical possibility with the airless hegemony of a single bad idea that no one has the time or energy to fight, least of all the citizens whose lives will wind up conditioned by it. What he *does* deny is that the smart city concept (not the IoT, though the two are connected) makes any kind of sense. He takes it apart with the tools of urban planning. He does such a good job that that concept has become just... untouchable, for any self-respecting person. As far as I am concerned, what matters about his position is not whether it is old, but whether it is right, and I believe it is. I am not even making only an academic point. I am being pragmatic, just like you say, because facts are unyielding, and a big weapon to fight the smart city ideology is that, in practice, it does not work. This is why, in this debate here, I am looking for technological facts to buttress visions and political positions. Pushing a vision through is always hard (your document is a clear witness of this). Pushing it through _against the facts_ seems just too hard!" 5,54492,2019-06-04T09:21:28.921Z,54221,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Hi Alberto, good points! I am not really sure what you mean with your last paragraph. What 'facts' you are referring to. I am not so much interested if a position is old or new or 'right' (right for who?) but if it is relevant to our work here. Of c course if I see it as a football team I would want Adam or someone taking his position (and there are anon4292955258 a few edgeryders who have taken it anon4292955258 literally it seems) on the playing field. But only as 1 of the 11 positions, as our job is to build an inclusive zone for our client, the European taxpayer. But indeed yes, very good discussion, definitely a workshop that I think edgeryders can set up in Brussels, I will most certainly join!" 6,54684,2019-06-07T11:55:03.143Z,54492,anon3809206126,anon4261882768," [quote=""anon4261882768, post:5, topic:10036""] right for who? [/quote] ""Right"" in this context means what it means for climate change. The people who are acknowledge as knowing most about this particular set of issue all agree on the basic facts: climate change is happening, and it is caused by human activity. Debate over. For the smart city it is the same: it is Le Corbusier 2.0, and that position has no intellectual currency anymore. Debate also over. [quote=""anon4261882768, post:5, topic:10036""] But only as 1 of the 11 positions, as our job is to build an inclusive zone for our client, the European taxpayer. But indeed yes, very good discussion, definitely a workshop that I think edgeryders can set up in Brussels, I will most certainly join! [/quote] Agreed. But, what workshop are we talking about?" 7,54697,2019-06-07T14:26:20.424Z,54684,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,One that you will set up? 8,54698,2019-06-07T14:28:08.548Z,54684,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,"Debate over. Interesting. So you are ""right"" (which I dispute as our discussion on AG has in know way relations on any level to global warming or heating) and declare debate over? anon4292955258 a decentralized approach!" 9,54705,2019-06-07T17:03:22.618Z,54698,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"[quote=""anon4261882768, post:8, topic:10036""] So you are “right” (which I dispute as our discussion on AG has in know way relations on any level to global warming or heating) and declare debate over [/quote] Not me. But Greenfield, yes. One section of _Against the smart city_ is titled (emphasis mine) > _13 | The smart city replicates in anon2317280404e, tenor, form and substance most if not all of the **blunders** we associate with the **discredited** high-modernist urban planning techniques of the twentieth century._ He can say that, without his position necessarily implying an act of intellectual arrogance. This is because actually, science *does* run a decentralized approach. Anyone can dispute anyone else; scientific consensus forms when authoritative authors all (or close enough) agree. Authoritative authors are those who are quoted by other authors, who are themselves authoritative. Yes, it is recursive, but the recursion can be handled mathematically by the [Perron-Frobenius theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perron%E2%80%93Frobenius_theorem). Science is an ""eigendemocracy"". I quoted climate change, because the same eigendemocratic process invoked by Greenfield against the smart city powers the claims of climate scientists when they say that the debate on human-fueled climate change is conclusive, or at least as conclusive as it gets in science. [quote=""anon4261882768, post:7, topic:10036, full:true""] One that you will set up? [/quote] We could think of setting it up together? Let's talk!" 10,54707,2019-06-07T18:03:44.189Z,54705,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,Great! Calling you next week. Have a good weekend! 11,54727,2019-06-08T09:09:24.207Z,54697,anon3449369942,anon4261882768,Getting the Jedi on :grin: 12,54728,2019-06-08T09:10:53.143Z,54705,anon3449369942,anon3809206126,"If you do, dont forget to ping @anon2926706121 and @anon1686813978 for comms support." 1,54256,2019-05-30T18:40:21.883Z,54256,anon1514803743,anon1514803743,"Hello Edgeryders community! I am so glad to have found you. I was sent a link to your call to action on the Fellowship application on a day or so ago so I apologise firstly for the late submission and secondly for the long post. Although it’s late I still feel it’s important to post this and become a member of your community. I also hope that any conversations continue and won’t stop on the deadline today though if they do I look forward to discovering more about the community and I’m looking forward to engaging in other conversations too. Innovation and technology progression usually means bigger is better but bigger also comes with greater energy demands So how are we as humans expected to survive in a world already suffering from the demands on its finite resources? The impact to the planet is also causing a greater intolerance to our neighbours. We find ourselves amidst increasing far-right views driven by fear of an uncertain future that is dependent on our precious dwindling resources. In my opinion the two real threats to humanity are our **disregard for the environment** and our **disregard for each other**. Most individuals wouldn’t argue this yet help isn’t coming from the places that could make the most difference. For example, The UK Government want the shiny new technologies - they think 5G, AI and blockchain will secure an economy by attracting global industry to UK shores but it’s a misconception that this will solve any problems, all it does is create more. They’re sold the ideas from capitalist machinery that operates without any regards for humanity, and they don’t have the means or will to challenge what they are being sold. They don’t want to think differently, they want to be told how to think. The world is being nurtured on capitalist values; scaling vertically, making things bigger can only result in a survival of the fittest or a type of natural selection where those creating these changes consider themselves to be the fittest. The help isn’t coming from those who could help the most and it won’t. It’s up to us. We need to do more with less and we need to innovate to do this. We need to challenge the general material and consumer driven values and demonstrate that the likes of health, community and purpose have more meaning and reward. Because I have worked at the level of very overarching questions I need to be careful not to just reframe the question of how we make a more human-centric internet. If I try to be more specific I would frame this as: What technology innovations (infrastructure/hardware/software) could be invested in to ensure that we reduce the demands on natural resources to sustainable levels whilst we enable humanity to thrive and live harmoniously alongside each other? And how do we make whatever solution so attractive that it is readily adopted by society at scale? Maybe this question is too broad - a rather random set of considerations include: cheap to build low-powered devices and networks, technology that lasts many years rather than just a few, tech investment decisions based on human-centric standards, personal data pods and distributed applications, cooperatives, skills trades, collective action and intelligence, altering value systems, building sustainable local communities. I propose to work with a team to explore this question in detail or to join in with a team who are already exploring elements of this. The work may be to bring together disparate work into a consolidated package and to design an attractive and scalable product that could be readily adopted by society and easily incorporated into peoples lives. For me the fellowship would integrate me into a community that appears to be directly addressing the concerns I’ve been trying to address in the wrong places. The financial element would allow me to dedicate time to the questions that this campaign has raised. I’m on a sabbatical from the UK Government, I feel like a student at the moment - the intention is to find the communities, movements and causes that can I fully get behind and collaborate with on this type of work." 2,54353,2019-06-01T06:26:59.835Z,54256,anon3809206126,anon1514803743,"Hello @anon1514803743, nice to meet you. You seem to be thinking at a high level, that of value theory: [quote=""anon1514803743, post:1, topic:10041""] We need to challenge the general material and consumer driven values and demonstrate that the likes of health, community and purpose have more meaning and reward. [/quote] Last year, I took great intellectual pleasure in Mariana Mazzucato's *[The Value of Everything](https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/mariana-mazzucato/the-value-of-everything/9781610396752/)*. Through an historical account of value theory and how we do national accounting, she drives home one point: value is a societal choice, and a very political one. At different points in time, the same activity was considered to produce value or not, depending on the ideology of the time. Value theory can get fairly metaphysical, and one is reminded of medieval scholars debating on how many angels can dance on a pin. With a major difference: value theory drives the world. Once we have decided something has value, then we throw the full weight of human resources and anon2926706121nuity to borrow, beg, steal or even produce it. We might hold heterodox value theories, and many here do. Me, I am very interested in how such theories are encoded into technological artifacts. What are your views here? You say you want to build ""an attractive and scalable product that could be readily adopted by society and easily incorporated into peoples lives"". This also what normal-capitalist tech companies want. I imagine your product will be different, and I mean _technically_ different, as it embodies a different world view. But in what way?" 3,54434,2019-06-03T12:55:07.362Z,54353,anon1514803743,anon3809206126,"Hi @anon3809206126 thanks for replying to me. I will take a look at the book, it sounds interesting and might help me understand these points a bit more. [quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:10041""] At different points in time, the same activity was considered to produce value or not, depending on the ideology of the time. [/quote] A question I'd have whilst reading it is how do ""ideologies of the time"" get set? I'm going to assume predominantly through advertising, media and political events in current times - which are all generally encoded with capitalist values - making people want certain things and then things being designed to meet what people want. That feels cyclic and I wonder if the book suggests how to disrupt it? I once got into an debate with a doctor at Microsoft (Ireland) who during it warned me I was ""thinking pseudo-philosophical thoughts"" about the value to the world of our work there and how we were conducting business with others. I left there pretty quickly after that but I've been considering this question now for over 20 years - what value to the world does my work-effort/life contribute towards? I'm avoiding the depths or heights of the meta and keeping it as practical as possible and have worked for those organisations (BBC, UK Civil Service) where I assumed I'd find aligned values. Although good work has been done, I'm still searching. What I haven't done much of is think about other people's value theories and _how_ they are embodied within the technology. I like your question: [quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:10041""] We might hold heterodox value theories, and many here do. Me, I am very interested in how such theories are encoded into technological artifacts. What are your views here? [/quote] I have thought about your question all morning now and talked myself around anon4292955258 a few twists and turns and sometimes they've put a different meaning to your question... An overly simple answer is that I think it has to be by design and through compromise. I go back to my view of it also being cyclic and a need to break that cycle soanon3242181883. A chicken and egg situation - analogous to capitalism and people. Did the people want the consumer goods or was it the consumer goods that made the people want them? I've a photo here I took at a service station a couple of years ago: This was a busy weekend in summer along a major motorway in the UK. What struck me here was the first fast food place, [tossed](https://tosseduk.com/our-food/), had menu was very different to that which is expected of the motorway fast food chain. Personally I dread the service station and only really pop in for the toilets but this place actually had food I would eat. Sure there was still a bit of plastic and convenience but generally the food options were healthy and appetising (to me) and had been ethically sourced. The reason I took the photo is probably obvious to most of us here. Why was this more healthy and more ethical fast food place not more popular? It looked funky, pink is hard to miss, it was the first and most prominent food place as you entered the building, it had a big sign and the food on display looked good. Yet it was empty, and I was the only customer there for a good while. The neighbouring options were packed. The burgers and chicken places had queues that backed up anon4292955258 some way. I really did find this difficult to understand - my own value system programmed to avoid those places - So I posted the photo on social media asking others what they made of it. The main answer I received: _It's what the people want._ But I'm not so sure. I'm under the impression it's more like: it's what the people are told they want. They probably wanted something: tasty, quick and cheap to satisfy their hunger and they could have got that from the first place just as much as anywhere else. So what else was it that the people wanted? Did they _really_ want: the grease dripping down their chins clogging up their arteries, eating animals that have been intensively reared in inhumane conditions, paying companies that encroach on natural habitats and cultures, who avoid tax and litter the countryside and seas with their rubbish? I'm sure if they were asked directly they'd say no. So I just don't understand the influences and value theories at play here but feel it must be due to the people being misguided/told/sold an idea in some way... Another example: If somebody had said just a few years ago: > I'm going to bug people's houses with listening devices for my own commercial (and political) gain and what's more they're going to PAY me to do it! haha! We would have laughed. But apparently the people want to ask what the weather is, to be told a joke, to have a voice from thin air in their house respond to their questions and consumer needs. The implications which when logically argued surely outweigh the benefits so what value theories are at play here and how are they formed - within the technology/product and/or within the people. I would really be keen to explore this more - can you tell me more about your specific interest in encoding value theories into technological artefacts? [quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:10041""] You say you want to build “an attractive and scalable product that could be readily adopted by society and easily incorporated into peoples lives”. This also what normal-capitalist tech companies want. [/quote] What I am suggesting here is that we need to tap into this psychology in some way. We need to be able to use the capitalist approach of telling people what they want but based on our more heterodox value systems that benefit humanity. [I wrote about this here where I use successful quaker businesses such as the UK chocolate industry as examples of how it might be done](https://medium.com/@anon [quote=""anon3809206126, post:2, topic:10041""] I imagine your product will be different, and I mean *technically* different, as it embodies a different world view. But in what way? [/quote] This is where I come to what I consider the 2 biggest threats to humanity. 1) the environment, 2) our intolerance for each other. And the question - what technologies can help here? I think it's about 1) downsizing so we can do more with less for longer and 2) altering value systems by moving people away from valuing personal instant gratification and competition with our neighbours to more rooted longer-term purpose and meaning through being valued and needed by our neighbours for our complimenting skills. Maybe this is along the lines of eco-villages and the technologies that can enhance and support those principles - maybe it is to start to identify opportunities to weave those kind of principles into society as it currently stands rather than create a new eco-village environments from scratch. I could start listing out things but I'd rather find a group to work on this with in a structured way. Maybe, if this chimes with your own interests Alberto we could work on it together in some way? You're the only one to respond to my post so thank you - I wonder in light of this conversation if others would be interested to join in on this thinking too? Also, if you or anyone knows of other projects or work that is looking at this maybe you could point me to it and I would be very happy to join in there too." 4,54444,2019-06-03T13:53:09.058Z,54434,anon3809206126,anon1514803743,"[quote=""anon1514803743, post:3, topic:10041""] I’m going to assume predominantly through advertising, media and political events in current times - which are all generally encoded with capitalist values - making people want certain things and then things being designed to meet what people want. [/quote] Partially. The first documented such change goes from physiocratic thinking in the late 17th century (only agriculture creates value) to _The wealth of nations_ in 1780 (manufacturing creates value, too). No advertising, primitive media, VERY primitive capitalism. Political events, yes. I imagine they shaped ideology soanon3242181883." 5,54462,2019-06-03T18:41:25.083Z,54434,anon2333263393,anon1514803743,"Relatively soon, I will be posting about the Planetmakers Platform which is a project attempting to address both the threats you (and I and many others) are concerned about." 6,54486,2019-06-04T08:19:31.707Z,54434,anon3809206126,anon1514803743,"[quote=""anon1514803743, post:3, topic:10041""] Maybe this is along the lines of eco-villages and the technologies that can enhance and support those principles - maybe it is to start to identify opportunities to weave those kind of principles into society as it currently stands rather than create a new eco-village environments from scratch. [/quote] Maybe I need to be more specific here. I was thinking of fairly concrete technical choices. A good example is how the Scuttlebutt community deprioritized support for multiple device accounts. Why? Because it's a first world problem. ""First world techies"" with multiple devices are not the demographics SSB is meant to serve. The whole story, as I understand it, is [here](/t/9569?u=anon3809206126). The take home point is: [quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:9569""] The builders of Scuttlebutt **started from the sort of human community they wanted to build** : open to the underprivileged, solving basic social connectivity problems while staying away from surveillance capitalism, etc., *and on those basis they are making all their technical choices* , right down to the editor. As they do that, they discover and exploit sources of economic efficiency (“underprivileged audiences are less demanding, easier to serve with open source tech”). They ended up with a very different product from the ones they are seeking to replace, and with a *very* different community. Diaspora still feels Facebook-ish: Scuttlebutt feels completely different, to me at least. [/quote]" 7,54489,2019-06-04T08:35:59.292Z,54462,anon1514803743,anon2333263393,"The name of your project/platform is very intriguing. If I were to guess and apply some of my own interests I imagine it's a platform for the maker movement to start to think about some of the technologies (sensor/IoT/automation etc) we would need within our environment (the planet) to sustain life. I'm probably off the mark here but it's something I'm also very interested in for the future and I'm[I created a scheme of work for students to do some of that type of thinking](http://www.adventurelabs.co.uk/2017/11/27/a-mission-working-towards-2050/). I'd be interested to hear more about Planetmaker Platform (chances are it's something totally different) Also @anon2333263393 I'd be really interested in chatting to you about reach and diversity - [I noticed you chatting about this elsewhere](https://edgeryders.eu/t/brexit-minorities-and-populism-in-europe/10028), one thing I'd like to ensure with Adventure Labs is that it reaches the more hard to reach and underserved young adults in our society. Maybe we could chat about that (maybe on a different thread or channel)." 9,54723,2019-06-08T08:18:19.896Z,54486,anon1514803743,anon3809206126,I just wanted to say @anon3809206126 that I am responding it's just taking a bit of time to write what I'm thinking and I'm snatching moments to do so ... hopefully I can post reply in a day or two. 10,54725,2019-06-08T08:25:03.176Z,54723,anon3809206126,anon1514803743,"Wow, @anon1514803743, that's very considerate of you. No worries, Take your time!" 1,54214,2019-05-30T12:25:44.684Z,54214,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"*In this short text I will argue that leadership needs to be tuned to the technological drivers that form the mental imaginaries that inform everyday life. As we find Internet of Things in all domains, health (BAN, body area network- wearables), home (LAN, Local Area Network - smart home), mobility (WAN, Wide Area Network – connected car) and city (VWAN, Very Wide Area Network- smart city) it is logical that we find the last remnants of illogical, erratic and highly emotional behavior in the only domain it has not yet reached (that is, in the West): politics. In short in Asia the engineers lead, in the West they do gadgets, applications and services, leaving the system to populists. Do we have spineless engineers, are they hiding deliberately or do they have no clue how to be a leader?* https://www.linkedin.com/post/edit/leadership-2017-engineers-doing-job-rob-van-kranenburg" 2,54719,2019-06-07T22:26:14.545Z,54214,anon2434097920,anon4261882768,"[quote=""anon4261882768, post:1, topic:10035""] https://www.linkedin.com/post/edit/leadership-2017-engineers-doing-job-rob-van-kranenburg [/quote] Rob that link keeps redirecting me to a more blank page. It might be that someone who is not connected to you in LinkedIn can't see it.." 1,54672,2019-06-06T19:52:47.546Z,54672,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"Thank you @anon2926706121 for sending me into the the weird part of the internet. Again. Apparently a Russian company called ""Boobs Dev"" (yes, seriously) has developed a game where players can... have sex with Stalin: _""It promises violence, nudity and blood, and users can use it as a tool for “revenge” or, should they wish, to “help the leader reach worldwide supremacy,” apparently by seducing him.""_
https://codastory.com/news/sex-with-stalin-game-russia
Meanwhile in China...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/china-smart-city-exposed" 2,54682,2019-06-07T11:49:33.697Z,54672,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,"I don't know about Stalin, but the TechCrunch article... we always knew it was coming. We were just discussing Adam Greenfield's work on smart cities with @anon4261882768 (topic [here](/t/10036)). > The system also uses its facial recognition systems to detect ethnicities and labels them — such as “汉族” for Han Chinese, the main ethnic group of China — and also “维族” — or Uyghur Muslims, an ethnic minority under persecution by Beijing. > >Where ethnicities can help police identify suspects in an area even if they don’t have a name to match, the data can be used for abuse. It's remarkable that something with this level of delicacy was simply leaked into TechCrunch!" 3,54717,2019-06-07T22:17:54.319Z,54672,anon2434097920,anon3449369942,"Reminds me of this film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Revolution_(1996_film)" 1,54545,2019-06-04T15:29:46.267Z,54545,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"Just came across this creepy piece that surfaced some thoughts I have yet to structure into something coherent. Will share here when I manage to parse them into something intelligible. For now I wanted to share it here as well as a vice article that gives more context to it...
https://vimeo.com/337909277
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evym4m/ai-told-me-human-face-neural-networks If you have any proto-thoughts or reflections feel free to share them, would be much appreciated help to get my own head around this....." 2,54664,2019-06-06T16:34:16.828Z,54545,anon2434097920,anon3449369942," To me what is creepy is not so much watching a kind of time lapsed bit rot, but rather how it points to the reality we are entering where it will become increasingly difficult to know what is real and what is true the things you see on your screen or hear or view in media." 1,54582,2019-06-05T12:06:29.229Z,54582,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"Just saw this invitation from @anon re-posting here in case anyone is interested! ""What kinds of projects, domains, and ideas do you think the Turing Institute should be working more on? What would you work on if funding was no issue? ... Reply or drop me an email emalliaraki@anon About the Turing institute: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects ping @anon" 2,54617,2019-06-06T04:37:26.499Z,54582,anon273015838,anon3449369942,"Oh wow, this looks ace!" 1,52655,2019-04-17T14:45:03.873Z,52655,anon838581715,anon838581715,"What I'm interested in seeing in regards for the development of the Internet is to explore the potential of the development of the infrastructures in a free software and open-source manner, without a Benevolent Dictator for Life. Considering that the much of Internet infrastructure is built on free software and open source technologies, it makes me wonder ""What if we would organize the infrastructure development of the Internet in a similar manner?"". To do this by gathering companies, government, civil society and have open and collaborative processes in order to include a multitude of perspectives of this complex issue and overcome the challenges causing devastating consequences for societies, organizations and humans. I do not know of any projects working on the organising of society in relation to the internet, only W3C and IETF working on technical collaboration and standardization. My interest in this is mainly in connection to the recent developments and consequences from the Internet that people can experience in their daily offline life or when surfing the World Wide Web. Specific events I'm thinking about are examples such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal with Facebook and how similar events have happened. These are having a big effect on societies and democratic processes, at least in the representative democratic processes such as election. In that sense we are experiencing consequences of an Internet that is continuously being developed but we do not know how, when it is done, it's simply having an impact on us as human beings, with potential large scale negative consequences. The consequences can mostly be loosely drawn as humans and scientific research can't really keep up with the silo-based, non-coordinated nature and speed of development, making it harder to connect the dots between source of change and consequences. My hopes are that we can gather a group of organizations and individuals from different sectors of society who are willing to collaborate and take a more holistic approach, a systems thinking approach on building a Internet infrastructure which serves humans and society as a whole. Perhaps establishing an ongoing collaboration with experimentation and action for the development of Internet with discussions and analysis happening when the group designs and reflects on experiments that are to be tested or have been tested. These thoughts and my background leading up to this is mainly based on my experience as a human. In this information society it becomes more evident and feels like a lot of actors are acting independantly and unknowing, or not caring, of the different directions they are pulling toward, and the consequences which come from everybody trying to pull in different directions. It gets easy to create a sensation of chaos. I believe that this goes for a majority of challenges we are facing, climate, mental health, economy. It's basically the Wild West whereas I believe that many expressions we can see on the Internet are symptoms of this experience for many people. I think that with the current information overload many people have, that can really pacify a lot of us. I think we're at an interesting point in this time in which these big challenges are becoming more and more transparent, evident and tangible. We need to take a new approach in order to show that we can overcome these challenges, prove that a new approach can be done and then overcome all of these in parallel. I strongly believe that this is more of a challenge of how we organize the work with these common challenges as a society rather than finding one or many technological solutions to all of it. Technological solutions solve technological challenges. << Message from your Edgeryders host: Newcomers - please [sign up](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login) and join the conversation! >>" 2,52674,2019-04-19T01:41:16.976Z,52655,anon2434097920,anon838581715,Are you picturing an alternate open source physical infrastructure? Or do you picture adapting the one that already exists so that it operates in a more open and cooperative way? 3,52747,2019-04-23T14:32:57.949Z,52655,anon3168534516,anon838581715,"[quote=""anon838581715x, post:1, topic:9766""] I strongly believe that this is more of a challenge of how we organize the work with these common challenges as a society... [/quote] Agree! The educated middle-class is bigger than ever, full of boredom, seeking after visions, motivation, meaning. We are right in time, but we have to fight the cynical ""what's in it for me""-individualism. I will attend the 11th of May in Blivande." 4,52751,2019-04-23T16:48:30.500Z,52747,anon2434097920,anon3168534516,"One need only take a good look at the planet's overall health and then there should be plenty of motivation. One of my burning questions is how the internet and information technology is going to help turn it around. Right now I see a whole lot of tech stuff being developed that I would place more in a ""because you can"" category rather than ""because you should."" I have read a pretty compelling argument for why a lot of dedicated driverless cars are more efficient than big transit systems, which are not efficient and are always subsidized. But I think that might be pretty far away in time still. And I also think the ""shakeout"" period for driverless/auanon2317280404omous vehicle tech is going to be pretty hairy. At least i have no intention of beta testing them and for sure hope to not get in the way of those who do." 5,52757,2019-04-23T20:43:52.728Z,52655,anon435423455,anon838581715,"In response to your comment: ""I do not know of any projects working on the organising of society in relation to the internet, only W3C and IETF working on technical collaboration and standardization. My interest in this is mainly in connection to the recent developments and consequences from the Internet that people can experience in their daily offline life or when surfing the World Wide Web."" ----- I suggest you research Holochain. It is an engine for building decentralized, scaleable, secure apps that are focused on helping society organize in groups for social, political or economic aims. It is a functioning viable alternative to the growing information capitalism with its all invasive surveillance strategy that dominates the internet today." 6,52759,2019-04-23T20:55:11.550Z,52757,anon1505367078,anon435423455,"[quote=""anon435423455, post:5, topic:9766""] I suggest you research Holochain. [/quote] As I understand it, both @anon1805933255 and @anon1591454855 have dabbled in Holochain?" 7,52760,2019-04-23T21:02:37.942Z,52759,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,@anon 8,52761,2019-04-23T22:07:27.670Z,52759,anon1805933255,anon1505367078,"Yep. We have been fiddling with Holochain and will continue doing so. Possibly we will be looking to create something based on the [Valueflows](https://valueflo.ws) vocabulary / [REA](https://msu.edu/user/mccarth4/McCarthy.pdf) to enable new flows of value within the food system. Holochain provides a few key features which, combined with open standards and protocols, could prove to be a really strong setup: * P2P application platform - no middle men * Single sign on and verified identities while retaining anonymity and data ownership - facilitates trust between parties * Built for component reuse - enabling remixing of functionality between applications and easy integrations * Fully encrypted if needed * Distributed hash tables without the performance bottlenecks of cryptocurrencies - no need to maintain a global state * No need to maintain global state means.. resilience - your subnet gets disconnected from the internet and your application keeps running * Built for performance - no global state and no middle men means no maximum number of transactions. (same as for any of the old open protocols - what is the maximum number of transactions per minute for `http` or `smtp` world wide?) * Built for limitless microtransactions without fees .. and probably some other stuff I forgot just now.." 9,52772,2019-04-24T08:26:32.313Z,52759,anon1591454855,anon1505367078,"Yes, and to add a bit of prose to what Kristofer pointed out. My entry to [Holochain](https://holochain.org/) came from a long quest of trying to figure out why we (in the corporate mindset I had been trained) spend so much time on things that do not make peoples (and the planets) life better which to me is a lot of what I hear in your critique @anon838581715x. So after having spent years looking into the control schematics of money I was out there campaigning for publicly created non-debt money when I came across the [Metacurrency](http://metacurrency.org/) project that pointed out that money was a very poor signalling system that is extremely lossy of information. What the Metacurrency project suggested, of which Holochain is a part, was that we needed a new way to individually creating the expressions that we need to better make visible what has happened (money says very anon222512824 about what actually happened) and our desires for future things to happen. And we need to be able to weave all these expressions, like I am now weaving the words that I have learnt, to make new meaning. So, this was a long winded way of motivating why I am very excited by Holochain for creating a human internet. Not because it couldn't be done by other people, other protocols or in another way, but because the driving force behind the project is fully set on transcending the scarce reality of the monetary environment. Turning a world of transactions into a world of interconnected flows and people. Sure enough Holochain is not THE framework for EVERYTHING. Lots of applications require different tech but at its core it is, in my view, deeply human and respectful of human integrity in the way it allows for you storing your data until you decide you want to share something with someone, just like you do with your everyday experience as well as enabling as few as two people to start using a new app together with no involvement of things like servers. Agent-centrism also allows for these applications not only to bridge between each other, but to many other systems where you allow the application to act on your behalf. Integration with things like [SSB](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) which is already creating a much more human experience should be easy enough given that they are both offline first, cryptographically signed information exchanges. As for actual use right now, in addition to what me and @anon1805933255 [built](https://github.com/anon1805933255lund/holochain-logistics) I have one more application [prototyped](https://github.com/anon1591454855/MailBoox-rust) and a few more designed, but there is still a lot of changes going on in the [core framework](https://github.com/holochain/holochain-rust) so things are breaking a lot. A few more months until apps see daily use I am guessing. Anyway, sorry for ranting, but the efforts for open-source ""_organizing the work with these common challenges as a society_"" are very much front and center in the Holochain/Metacurrency community as far as I can tell." 10,52773,2019-04-24T08:41:33.832Z,52772,anon1505367078,anon1591454855,"[quote=""anon1591454855, post:9, topic:9766""] money was a very poor signalling system that is extremely lossy of information [/quote] This might be interesting to @anon196034329 and his PayCoupons project. Matt, what’s your take on Holochain?" 11,52778,2019-04-24T09:13:06.031Z,52674,anon838581715,anon2434097920,"Good questions which makes me reflect on my post. An open source physical infrastructure would be interesting, @anon3931191205 got interviewed about that. I think that would be interesting for redundancy and a resilient solution better than the idea of a ""backup"" if the mainstream infrastructure goes down. However in regards to your question I am picturing the current physical infrastructure being governed in a different way socially. Like right now there are 11 ""keyholders"" to renew the DNS root zones(?) of the entire Internet and that crucial infrastructure is entirely based in the U.S. which I think can be a security issue if things go wrong over there and someone tries to do something to that single node. I'm not putting emphasis on the technical side even though it is important, I'm putting more emphasis on how society organizes socially to develop a common infrastructure. At the current point it seems to me that a few strong players seem to build and run the entire infrastructure apart from servers and websites run by a larger variety of operators." 13,52784,2019-04-24T10:51:59.106Z,52773,anon196034329,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1591454855, post:9, topic:9766""]I came across the [Metacurrency](http://metacurrency.org/) project that pointed out that money was a very poor signalling system that is extremely lossy of information.[/quote] Oh, money is a very poor system for a multitude of reasons :) For one thing, state currencies try to be both a means of exchange and a store of value, and these two monetary functions are in conflict. And there is the more fundamental reason that money as a ""token of value accepted by a multitude of parties"" is inherently a social construction and needs social governance to be successful, and that often fails, both in states and in grassroots projects. So what we did to support economic exchange in [PayCoupons](https://pay.coupons) is to switch from money to mutual credit notes. In a way, everyone there issues their own currency and we solve the problem of ""but how does everyone get what they want"" with an algorithm for multi-party bartering that we made. I remember we looked into Holochain, Bancor, Stanon1410463509r etc. but so far, there is just no distributed ledger technology that could run PayCoupons in a privacy-protecting way. The mathematics for running our algorithm in that manner are just not there yet. So we have to stick with a centralized or federated platform architecture for now (and it shows that distributed ledgers have some limitations left, but it will be figured out). When it comes to actual use of any new value accounting or exchange system, the experience we made is this: it's a challenge to hide away all the tech complexity from the end user, but without that there will be no mainstream adoption." 14,52791,2019-04-24T12:23:12.574Z,52784,anon1591454855,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:13, topic:9766""] I remember we looked into Holochain, Bancor, Stanon1410463509r etc. but so far, there is just no distributed ledger technology that could run PayCoupons in a privacy-protecting way [/quote] I'd love to hear what the privacy-protection needs that you have are? I agree that especially all of the blockchain stuff I have seen is super unaccessible for anyone non-technical. Hoping that the key management parts of Holochain will help make it much easier to hide that stuff. Would be fun to have a conversation around this a anon222512824 further down the line, mutual credit is basically built into the structure of Holochain since it is fully peer-to-peer with no miners and that heavy stuff." 15,52792,2019-04-24T12:30:10.649Z,52791,anon196034329,anon1591454855,"[quote=""anon1591454855, post:14, topic:9766""]I’d love to hear what the privacy-protection needs that you have are?[/quote] Transactions on distributed ledgers are public and pseudonymous, and would show the ""zero-sum mutual credit exchange transactions"" that we calculate for our users. With that information and a few user accounts taking part in the transactions (de-anonymizing a few trade partners which is still ok) one can then apply network analysis techniques and de-anonymize everyone's identity. We're building the system for businesses though, and they would not be happy to see that all their trade partners, orders and order volumes are exposed publicly :| The only way to solve this would be to run mathematical optimization in a distributed way over a network, with each node having only limited knowledge about their own orders. But that's _wayyy_ too slow. So we have to wait for functional encryption and the like to become more mature so that we can do the same but on a single machine." 16,52803,2019-04-24T16:03:39.364Z,52778,anon2434097920,anon838581715,"The ""winner take all"" mentality that governs the internet as well as the whole capitalist world is a core part of the problem. Unchecked, it leads to mass extinction." 17,52864,2019-04-26T15:30:52.724Z,52655,anon3031202475,anon838581715,"Thank you very much for this discussion. I am still very much starting to learn about Holochain. Thank you very much for having this discussion and linking explanatory texts :). Similar to the underlying capitalistic mentality shaping solutions through their development as brought up by John, I want to mention the general problem of scaling at this point. Many solutions, if not all, change their character when scaled up. How do you think would it impact the Holochain and Pay-coupons models you are discussing here if they would be used by large and not fully self-informed communities?" 18,53296,2019-05-09T21:02:32.072Z,52864,anon1591454855,anon3031202475,"I'm glad it was helpful @anon3031202475 , if you have other questions around Holochain I am happy to talk about it to the extent of what I know. It's hard for me to say much about the character of Holochain-based software since it's all still very experimental. There are no production-level apps and I don't know how well it is all going to turn out, but in theory and prototyping it is looking fascinating. I think that there is a possibility of not needing to scale as much with self-hosting. Especially if we can bridge all of the different applications through the person using them. If it is as easy to create an application (or at least instance of an application) for three people as it is for 10 000 people then how large a scale would we need? One aim with Holochain is to have small packets of composable code that can be used to create the local applications that are needed within a community. While there are probably going to be applications that span actors from all over the world, including knowledge sharing and bridge-building applications between networks, there is a possibility for an approach to network building that promotes smaller, evolvable applications that are run by a bunch of people that want to coordinate activities. Is there really a need for global scale applications? The one network? If not, what is the appropriate scale of a network? I am guessing that people will be bridging different networks and applications in the area of their interest and expertise. I don't really have a clear picture of all this yet, but I don't think we'll see these 4 billion people applications like FB. Maybe not even 4 million people applications. More like a multitude of interconnected 400 people (or 40 people) applications. Many people may have similar applications but they could all be running slightly different versions and tweaked interfaces, at least that is the promise of the infrastructure as far as I understand it. We could hope that this would lead to more self-steering, self-directed and self-informed groups, but I guess time will tell if that actually comes to fruition." 19,53497,2019-05-14T20:10:36.013Z,52772,anon3931191205,anon1591454855,"[quote=""anon1591454855, post:9, topic:9766""] Agent-centrism also allows for these applications not only to bridge between each other, but to many other systems where you allow the application to act on your behalf. Integration with things like [SSB](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/) which is already creating a much more human experience should be easy enough given that they are both offline first, cryptographically signed information exchanges. [/quote] I would be very keen to hear more about your view on how SSB and Holochain would be combinable? I'm also curious to hear more about what holochains relation to monetary structures embedded within the applications. Would currency be a possible integration in the core protocol of Holochain? Would it be in the application layer? In general I'm curious as to Holochains relation to monetary-issues :cherry_blossom:" 20,53503,2019-05-14T21:15:46.397Z,53497,anon1591454855,anon3931191205,"Well as both SSB and Holochain are frameworks that store information locally, author (and cryptografically sign) and gossip what you as an agent signal (post) into the systems, it seems to me that building bridging applications would be relatively straight forward. You could have an application, lets call it SimplePost, that is able to cross post (through your cryptographic signatures) both into the SSB blob and some Holochain local chain and DHT. You could also authorize an SSB application to request data from say your Holochain contact book by simply opening the ""API"" of the Holochain application to allow it (authorizing the keys of the application requesting). I write API in quotations since, in my understanding, good Holochain design is based on separating the UIs and data layer of all the Holochain applications so that we can create UIs that utilize many different DHTs for richer applications. Through that design, all data function calls are effectively APIs and just as accessible from, for instance, an SSB application as from a simple localhost webapp (using things like websockets). As for currencies and Holochain that is a bit of a rabbit hole. This whole thing grew out of the meta-currency project and there is some pretty deep and heady [material](http://metacurrency.org/portfolio-item/deep-wealth-a-post-monetary-jazz-ensemble/) on what Holochain is trying to enable in this space. But as a short reply, yes, one of the reasons why Holochain has focused so much energy on creating peer-validating functions and temper-proofing local chains of entries is that it sets the stage for super simple implementation of currency. Currencies on Holochain would not require tokens or mining but are a way of issuing credit to one another which is then a circulating supply. This can be done within applications, but are possibly better thought of as micro-services usable by any application you have installed. Currency is a simple app. And as all other apps, the UI could weave it into another app. Say for instance a carsharing application. The application that is keeping track of car usage and maintenance costs can call into the carpool credit application and shift credit from one user to another. Maybe the carpool credit application can also be the tool library credit application, all that requires is using it in both apps. I don't know if that makes things clearer @anon3931191205, if not, please help me clarify where I am confusing, I'm happy to exercise and grow my understanding like that. :smile:" 21,53600,2019-05-17T01:57:09.980Z,52655,anon2199355017,anon838581715,"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm seeing two issues you're touching one. The primary one being about project governance: how do we run these projects? There I find it difficult to avoid BDFL when starting the project, but the question is how to transition to something better as other contributors come on board. I'm not sure anon4292955258 how that relates to governing the Internet though. But with your concerns on information overload (as well as the practicalities of helping people find the conversations they need to be a part of) seems to tie into my interest in how to improve search and discovery. I'm definitely interested in hearing more about how this would work!" 22,53927,2019-05-24T14:14:13.344Z,53503,anon3809206126,anon1591454855,"[quote=""anon1591454855, post:20, topic:9766""] Currencies on Holochain would not require tokens or mining but are a way of issuing credit to one another which is then a circulating supply. [/quote] Hmm. This does remind me of @anon196034329's [Paycoupons](/t/8417). Am I wrong?" 23,53929,2019-05-24T14:41:44.495Z,53927,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"Where such Holochain currencies are issued and accepted by one party each: yes, then these would be very similar to coupons. The reason we could not use any public ledger protocol for PayCoupons' coupons was however that our coupon exchange algorithm (network bartering) could not be implemented in a privacy-protecting way with any current blockchain technology. Without that algorithm, coupons are not really useful though. So in case that Holochain has coupon-like currencies I'd be interested how they facilitate their exchange …" 24,54033,2019-05-27T12:16:09.123Z,53600,anon2333263393,anon2199355017,"At this point, there is a lot of material about commons-based governance out there based on the work of the Nobel Prize winning Elinor Ostrom. We need off the shelf frameworks, templates and software that make it easy to adopt commons-based governance for projects." 25,54251,2019-05-30T16:04:48.200Z,52747,anon838581715,anon3168534516,"[quote=""anon3168534516, post:3, topic:9766""] Agree! The educated middle-class is bigger than ever, full of boredom, seeking after visions, motivation, meaning. We are right in time, but we have to fight the cynical “what’s in it for me”-individualism. I will attend the 11th of May in Blivande. [/quote] @anon3168534516 At the same time the educated middle-class is more busy than ever with work days consisting of 8-11 hour workdays (including about 2 hour commute for some), taking care of kids, having Netflix competing with its main competitor being a biological need called *Sleep* and hours of ""sousveillance"" looking at other people's lives instead of interacting with each other and society. I think you're on to something but I believe that all people have an inherent will which there is a constant battle from different actors to attract. [quote=""anon2434097920, post:4, topic:9766""] One need only take a good look at the planet’s overall health and then there should be plenty of motivation. One of my burning questions ... At least i have no intention of beta testing them and for sure hope to not get in the way of those who do. [/quote] @anon2434097920 Definitely. Maybe the narratives around these issues such as the planet's ecosystems health and overall system health are erasing the motivation when the narratives need to enable people's will? Regarding the driverelss car-narrative I believe big reason to the belief in this is that it has strong compelling arguments for investors and politicians interested in growth and maintaining current mainstream policies connected to measurements like GDP. This is simply because it requires to build new (electric) superior cars/vehicles (for few individuals), infrastructure, support and maintenance systems as well as auanon2317280404omy systems which is more attractive than the more financially cost-heavy investments of big transit system which are less flexible, more capital intensive and has less revenue per person (one car/person vs one train or hyperloop/many people). This is more interesting even though it's admitted that it's much more difficult and complex (i.e. people being involved in traffic) to build self-driving systems for cars than for airplanes as there are more vehicles and objects on the ground than in the air. [quote=""anon435423455, post:5, topic:9766""] It is an engine for building decentralized, scaleable, secure apps that are focused on helping society organize in groups for social, political or economic aims. It is a functioning viable alternative to the growing information capitalism with its all invasive surveillance strategy that dominates the internet today. [/quote] @anon435423455 Thanks for the tip. As I understand it, Holochain is a technical solution trying to replace the Internet, dependant and within this technical and social infrastructure that the solution wants to replace? It would need to be housed within an alternative physical and social infrastructure than the current Internet in order to replace it right (and then have a surge of users onboarding Holochain instead of the platforms on the web as we know it)? [quote=""anon1591454855, post:9, topic:9766""] My entry to [Holochain ](https://holochain.org/) came from a long quest of trying to figure out why we (in the corporate mindset I had been trained) spend so much time on things that do not make peoples (and the planets) life better which to me is a lot of what I hear in your critique @anon838581715x. [/quote] @anon1591454855 I'm thinking my post is more perspectives and merely asking: what if we would try things differently as a society, based on what we are learning from the current state of affairs? And I'm trying to not jump to the solutions be it technical or social ones. :slightly_smiling_face: [quote=""anon2434097920, post:16, topic:9766, full:true""] The “winner take all” mentality that governs the internet as well as the whole capitalist world is a core part of the problem. Unchecked, it leads to mass extinction. [/quote] @anon2434097920 I'm not sure it's ""winner takes all"", I'm thinking it is more like everyone takes everything? Regardless of ideology, it seems that responsibility to consider and act for the *wholeness* of the system is abscent. [quote=""anon2199355017, post:21, topic:9766""] The primary one being about project governance: how do we run these projects? There I find it difficult to avoid BDFL when starting the project, but the question is how to transition to something better as other contributors come on board. I’m not sure anon4292955258 how that relates to governing the Internet though. [/quote] @anon2199355017 Yes there are two issues and the primary is on how we run the Internet as a whole and an infrastructure. You're right about BDFL, when starting something on one's own initiative that becomes a BDFL scenario - however starting with together others, I'm not sure it has to be a BDFL scenario. How this alternative way of governing and developing would work - that's what I would like to research if I get the fellowship with bursary. :slight_smile: [quote=""anon2333263393, post:24, topic:9766, full:true""] At this point, there is a lot of material about commons-based governance out there based on the work of the Nobel Prize winning Elinor Ostrom. We need off the shelf frameworks, templates and software that make it easy to adopt commons-based governance for projects. [/quote] Interesting! How has these materials translated into real-world practice? I know there are practical examples which her research was connected to - but how has it developed? It might work with the off-the-shelf solutions but the implementation of those - they depend a lot on the process in which they are implemented right? Are they convincing enough as governance systems in comparison to existing systems? How have they been convincing societies and communities so far? **My proposal is to research: How can we organize for a big, complex and social multi-stakeholder challenge like the development of the Internet?** *A challenge which at first seems like a web of technical challenges and where it seems every issue can be solved with technical solutions - but in reality perhaps in essence is a social issue at its roots?* **My proposal for a track at the distributed conference would be to try to arrange distributed participatory processes to try to build the coalition throughout Europe needed to take on the challenge of reshaping the development of the Internet.** (I have not replied to Holochain-replies, unsure how they relate as a technical solution.)" 26,54305,2019-05-31T11:11:25.873Z,52655,anon463194720,anon838581715,"[quote=""anon838581715x, post:1, topic:9766""] Considering that the much of Internet infrastructure is built on free software and open source technologies, it makes me wonder “What if we would organize the infrastructure development of the Internet in a similar manner?”. [/quote] @anon838581715x what's your definition of ""infrastructure""? Do you mean the communications hardware on which digital signals travel between devices? Or are you using a different definition? I'm curious because to me preventing things like Cambridge Analytica's data peddling is a task more at the level of data governance rather than at the level of infrastructure governance. Maybe I'm using a different definition?" 27,54364,2019-06-01T16:57:50.221Z,52773,anon2448459615,anon1505367078,"I don't even know what ""loss of information"" means. And if I did, I might believe loss of information is a feature, not a weakness." 28,54365,2019-06-01T16:59:49.118Z,52778,anon2448459615,anon838581715,"No, the DNS root servers are spread out over the planet. One is in my home town, Stockholm." 29,54488,2019-06-04T08:33:21.942Z,54251,anon3809206126,anon838581715,"[quote=""anon838581715x, post:25, topic:9766""] How has these materials translated into real-world practice? I know there are practical examples which [Elinor Ostrom's] research was connected to - but how has it developed? [/quote] Over a long time – decades, or centuries. _Governing the Commons_ lists, if memory serves, six long-term stable of managing (limited, renewable) resources without top-down control: water management in the Philippines and Eastern spain, forestry in Switzerland and Japan, fisheries in Eastern Canada and so on. Since these governance arrangements evolved over a long period of time and tend to have no recorded history, Ostrom never gets to observe such an arrangement gel. The book ends with conditions and even ""design principles"" that increase their chances of success. Highly recommended." 1,54183,2019-05-29T20:16:21.703Z,54183,anon271427034,anon271427034,"Dear all, Is this something EdgeRyders can help me with? Although an advisory, Brexshit was forced upon Brits and the EU as part of #AgendaEurope - white working class apathy, because of decades of neglect and underinvestment in poorer parts of the UK - and the fallacy of what has been termed as Schrodanon2926706121r's immigrant. Now Farage has gained a modicum of power, following the results of the EU elections, this is where #AgendaEurope starts to kick off. Farage has today announced he is in discussions with far-right groups in Germany and Italy, which will result in further marginalisation and discrimination against minority groups. For minorities in the UK, this means more hate crimes and, should the UK Electoral Commission allow Farage to go unchecked, a further reduction in rights - including repealing the Human Rights Act - and perhaps another Windrush scandal. How do we stop it? Well, I haz a cunning plan, which can be replicated elsewhere in Europe. As with the UK, some minority groups are less inclined to vote and be actively engaged in political discourse, so, the simple answer is to mobilise such groups. Hope Not Hate did so against Tommy Robinson in his campaign to become an MEP, and it worked. In UK cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester and large parts of London, minorities make up the deciding vote in all elections, but only if we turn out to vote. Take the upcoming London Mayoral election, for example, the Conservative party have put up a black candidate against the current, Muslim, Labour party Mayor. My question is how do we engage minority groups to stop the rise of the far-right, and what tools and resources are available for us to do so? Rgds, Jason" 2,54272,2019-05-30T21:36:36.379Z,54183,anon838581715,anon271427034,"[quote=""anon271427034, post:1, topic:10028""] My question is how do we engage minority groups [/quote] Very important question. My take: The most important thing to do is to actively seek these groups out, talk to them and engage with them, not online, but AFK and interview them about what you're interested in. Also, depending on their situation, it might not be the right timing for them to be on the frontline to stop the rise if the minorities are already exposed to hate crime in their everyday lives." 3,54297,2019-05-31T10:02:58.444Z,54183,anon3449369942,anon271427034,"Ahead of the european elections my Dad asked me who/what I would be voting for. He's very capable of processing vast amounts of complex information in multiple languages - even for him it was difficult to discern what the different political parties are about and the implications of voting for them. I told him I prioritise information politics in this round of elections. More specifically political representatives I can trust to fight against breaking net neutrality, against online surveillance and censorship and copyright. I pointed to our having to know what is happening in order to be able to defend our other rights. Connecting this to the implications of internet acces/access to information in the ongoing uprising against military dictatorship in Sudan ( see #sudanuprising on twitter). He *got* it immediately. I believe you need to find connections between what is happening in the society where people currently live, and the places where they have cultural or historical ties. The dynamics of divisiveness and authoritarianism are fairly similar I think and if described in terms that connect the issues and struggles. Making a more sopisticated/nuanced connection to how these ideologies affect geopolitics and the effect on people's everyday lives in both locations. Children of the diaspora are generally well equipped to do this. Especially if we are well connected with people of our generation that were born and raised ""back home"" as seen from our parents' perspectives. BUT, this is if we ourselves are engaged and informed. I feel an important challenge here is getting people to look beyond the rhetoric and really understanding the foundations of how society works in order to make wise decisions. And honestly, I think non-minority groups underestimate curiosity and willingness to learn amongst minority communities. Study circles, lectures, webinars etc.- easily accessible resources for about learning how ones societies work. They need not to be patronising and contents need to live up to standards of intellectual integrity. For me Sudan and Ethiopia are closer, but I have seen these dynamics play out in Sweden. @anon" 4,54357,2019-06-01T10:11:36.934Z,54183,anon3809206126,anon271427034,"[quote=""anon271427034, post:1, topic:10028""] My question is how do we engage minority groups to stop the rise of the far-right, and what tools and resources are available for us to do so? [/quote] @anon51020356 should this be moved to the POPREBEL discussions?" 5,54447,2019-06-03T14:53:02.077Z,54272,anon2333263393,anon838581715,"[quote=""anon838581715x, post:2, topic:10028""] Very important question. My take: The most important thing to do is to actively seek these groups out, talk to them and engage with them, not online, but AFK and interview them about what you’re interested in. Also, depending on their situation, it might not be the right timing for them to be on the frontline to stop the rise if the minorities are already exposed to hate crime in their everyday lives. [/quote] I can endorse this point from actual experience. At London Creative Labs, when we ran an inclusive work creation programme, we went out and met ""hard to reach"" groups where they are. We didn't use digital for our outreach. As a result, we massively outperformed both the public and private sector in our outreach to the target groups." 6,54458,2019-06-03T18:03:10.815Z,54447,anon3449369942,anon2333263393,How did you start/who did you approach first in the places you went? 7,54459,2019-06-03T18:03:51.058Z,54458,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,oh and hi and welcome @anon2333263393 :) 8,54463,2019-06-03T18:46:08.294Z,54458,anon2333263393,anon3449369942,"Super short summary: 1) We spoke to people at Job Centres. 2) We posted leaflets on so-called ""sink"" estates (projects). 3) We ran recruitment events at community centres on estates and job centres. 4) We spoke to people in an authentic way coming from a strengths-based approach. There is no substitute for getting out there and meeting people face to face on the ground." 9,54464,2019-06-03T20:05:20.953Z,54463,anon3449369942,anon2333263393,sounds legit :) Any surprises? 1,54117,2019-05-28T23:46:20.050Z,54117,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"![27|690x273](upload://rZGI4WKHytEGF6iTUts2OaBJPsA.png) *This post-modern blockchain find borrowed from the slides of [Sarah Friend](https://isthisa.com/), who held one of the best talks at DTN.* A panel ended the [DTN](https://edgeryders.eu/t/data-terra-nemo-first-report-scuttlebutt/9928) conference I attended recently that really shone a light on an interesting balkanization that is going on in the open source software world right now. This panel, titled 'Problems in distributed systems we need to solve', took an interesting turn when the moderator asked a question about the 'blockchain space'. Data Terra Nemo is a conference on decentralized p2p technologies, and yet the word 'blockchain' was usually only mentioned as the butt of a joke. Some of the technologies discussed (like [Wireline](https://www.wireline.io) and [Circles](https://joincircles.net/)) use blockchain in their stack of technologies, but their creators both 'owned up to it' during their talks, being very aware of the status of the 'b-word'. Their jabs at the ""blockchain space"" were not very serious, but the jokes were telling. Basically, what has happened is this. As 'crypto' became a fad and a repeat of the dotcom crash, 20 years later, many people building decentralized technologies have seen their scene flood with money going to really bad ideas and sloppy technology. This has been particularly frustrating since there was never any money for any decentralized technologies before the blockchain bubble, and once it arrived, most of it went up in smoke with the core projects solving hard computing problems mostly going unfunded. One panelist summed it up as that the people in the decentralized p2p space felt they were working on hard and important problems, while the developers in the blockchain space were solving issues that were more trivial. There was also an anecdotal story on that the blockchain companies were starting to have problems hiring good developers, even when offering big paychecks because the social status of working in that space was so low among talented software engineers. At the same time, the influx of money into the crypto/blockchain space created a parallel culture, which has not only attracted golddiggers but anon4292955258 a lot of honest and talented people working on interesting ideas, and all of the panelists but one admitted to both having been funded by ""crypto money"" and many agreed that there were things to learn from ""the other side"". They also pointed to a few technological challenges that the blockchain-side was getting right, that they were not yet keeping up with. One panelist also made the comparison with the dotcom crash – most of it was garbage, but a few gems survived and had great success for decades to come. A few days later, I went to a [DGOV](https://dgov.foundation/) meetup organized by @anon3129606453. A group of very idealistically motivated people was sitting around a table in a humble office talking about how to bring the benefits of DAOs to the governance space. I gave a lightning talk on how there is a lot of amazing decentralized technology being developed outside of the blockchain space and decided to bring the full story from DTN under the 'don't shoot the messenger' principle. Their response was very earnest and humble, completely acknowledging the shortcomings of the blockchain space and that the enormous influx of cash had done harm to the community. And there is plenty of room in which to collaborate. Many of the ideas being built on blockchains would benefit greatly from being paired with technologies discussed at DTN. In fact, one such initiative is Wireline, who sponsored the DTN conference and gave an interesting demo on their platform for creating distributed p2p web applications. I think there might be an opportunity to do some good work here. There is still a lot of blockchain-money out there, and perhaps more importantly – that term has the eyes and ears of countless of people around the world. Those working for a human-centric internet should use this to their advantage. * First of all, policy-makers and investors need to broaden their perspective and look at the entire spectrum of distributed p2p technologies – no just the small subset that is blockchain. * Currently, the blockchain space is vastly more funded than the rest of the space. It might be in the interest of the big players in the blockchain space, who now have the ears and attention of their investors, to use some of that social capital to redirect attention towards a larger picture. * Blockchain influencers sit on a lot of attention capital which they could use to explain the wider implications of the decentralized p2p web to the public * Finally, those of us with a fanatic streak (I have been guilty of cursing the B-word myself in the past) might need to move past that into a more integrated perspective to start working together." 2,54119,2019-05-29T01:34:55.936Z,54117,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,"Fascinating. @anon2333263393 (who works at Holo), what is your take on this? I know that the EC has tasked the NGI Forward group to give blockchain an extra hard look. I wonder though, if they see it as ""settled"" technology so to speak, when it is evolving pretty fast still." 3,54174,2019-05-29T17:28:31.710Z,54119,anon2333263393,anon2434097920,"So much I could say about this and I don't want to speak out of turn. There is a crypto boom which will inevitably be followed by a crypto bust. Holochain is not a blockchain project even though it offers many of the benefits of blockchain, the underlying P2P architecture and technology is derived from the Metacurrency Project which predates the crypto boom. I've spent my share of time working in decentralized p2p projects without any real funding (income) or organisational support, so I know where people are coming from on that score. I should add that I'm speaking in a personal capacity and not as a representative of Holo." 4,54175,2019-05-29T17:51:24.318Z,54174,anon2434097920,anon2333263393," Understood. I look forward to seeing your perspective on any aspect of this field. Like so many of these technologies, something big happens that catches the publics fancy and much following comes after." 5,54321,2019-05-31T14:54:45.213Z,54117,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"Fascinating post! [quote=""anon1505367078, post:1, topic:10023""] As ‘crypto’ became a fad and a repeat of the dotcom crash, 20 years later, many people building decentralized technologies have seen their scene flood with money going to really bad ideas and sloppy technology. [...] There was also an anecdotal story on that the blockchain companies were starting to have problems hiring good developers, even when offering big paychecks because the social status of working in that space was so low among talented software engineers. [/quote] I am afraid I have seen some of this up close myself. Already, I think the NGI initiative has an opportunity to increase its own awareness of what is going on in the world of decentralized architectures. There is anon4292955258 some resentment going around: ""Why are you guys only funding blockchain stuff?"" I have heard at least a couple of people make an explicit ""bigger fool"" argument: ""Yeah, it's BS, but if it has 'blockchain' in it, maybe I can get to the next round of VC funding"". [quote=""anon1505367078, post:1, topic:10023""] One panelist also made the comparison with the dotcom crash – most of it was garbage, but a few gems survived and had great success for decades to come. [/quote] Which is to say, there is no free lunch. *Nothing* replaces discernment and responsible choice. If you are the NGI, you do not get away with supporting technologies wholesale; you need to get in there, and really look at what people are doing, and support specific projects. Which ones? The ones that are best at encoding shared values into technical choices. A final note, as an economist and a quantitative social scientist. When building capacity in an economy, it is not important to support technologies: what you need to support is people and organizations, and better still _ecosystems_ of people and organizations. Once it has capacity, your ecosystem will then be able to ride successive technological waves. Bubbles are very bad for ecosystems, because they attract actors committed to keeping the bubble from bursting. So, when given the choice between different ecosystems, I would stay away from the overheated ones. The blockchain world, with all the hype and the emphasis on buying luxury cars (*cars*, for heaven's sake! How can anyone take seriously a claim to reform the system made by someone who likes to flaunt Lamborghinis?), has looked very much like a bubble for a few years now." 6,54327,2019-05-31T16:05:48.330Z,54117,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"@anon1505367078, this is good work. I have taken the liberty of promoting it to the Edgeryders blog. Can you make sure @anon" 7,54328,2019-05-31T16:10:33.863Z,54327,anon1505367078,anon3809206126,"Thanks. I have never talked to him, does he become aware of it by being tagged in whispers? I'll send a pm." 8,54329,2019-05-31T16:12:11.250Z,54328,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"Not sure if whispers require admin status, and if he has it." 9,54330,2019-05-31T16:14:54.827Z,54329,anon1505367078,anon3809206126,"Wait, are we sure he is already hired? I haven't seen an announcement. Don't want to send him work unless he knows that he has the job?" 10,54331,2019-05-31T16:16:58.996Z,54330,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"No, not sure. And of course, only after he has started." 11,54341,2019-05-31T19:38:32.583Z,54321,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,">If you are the NGI, you do not get away with supporting technologies wholesale; you need to get in there, and really look at what people are doing, and support specific projects. Which ones? The ones that are best at encoding shared values into technical choices. Exactly so." 1,54076,2019-05-28T10:58:54.594Z,54076,anon463194720,anon463194720,"My story begins in a converted school bus on a residential street in Vancouver, Canada. It weaves through intentional community, meditation, homesteading, and software development, and arrives at Internet of Humans through three volunteer projects that all come from different angles on this question: how can we use technology to build smarter, more collectively intelligent patterns for systemic change? Through a project I started a couple of years ago, currently called the Collective Intelligence Network (http://collectiveintelligence.ca), I'm trying to make sense of the disciplinary silos of research that use the term ""collective intelligence"", find common threads, and identify ways that the best of what we've learned about cooperation can be embedded in technology. On a more concrete level, in co-operation with The Open Coop in London, I'm building a protocol and code for organizations to share information about themselves that can be automatically assembled into maps and directories to make movements visible. The aim is to get beyond the multiple, overlapping, incomplete and difficult-to-maintain maps of organizations like co-ops or ecovillages, and create a way for those nodes to very easily host structured data about themselves on their own web sites. Data can be crawled and aggregated, based on filter criteria, so that directories and maps can be built and updated from the authoritative source of the nodes themselves. We're starting with existing data specifications (Schema.org) and the most widely-available web technologies, and plan to launch a prototype next month. The third project is in the research stage: could we build a mutual-credit digital currency that would support economic solidarity among next-economy organizations and individuals, outside the tilted playing field of debt-based money? All three of these projects are motivated by the sense that the possibility to create a different world -- or play a different game -- exists in the spaces and connections among us. Many of those connections are mediated by technology. Can we build technology that fits the infinite game of regenerative life? A hurdle that both motivates and hampers these projects is the nature of our economy. In an economic system that rewards the externalization of costs, that is predicated on competition, and that is destroying ecological and human potential, what tools can we use to leverage the benefits of doing things differently into economic viability and abundance? And, personally, what tools can I use to be able to work on things that matter and still eat? Looking forward to the conversations! Adam [CollectiveIntelligence.ca](collectiveintelligence.ca) | [Sapient.life](http://sapient.life) | [Autodidacts.io](http://autodidacts.io) | [Photosynthesis.ca](http://photosynthesis.ca) https://twitter.com/amckent" 2,54118,2019-05-29T01:25:27.244Z,54076,anon2434097920,anon463194720,"Greetings and welcome. Quite a task you have set out for yourself, mapping human collective intelligence. I was reading your [Making Sense](http://collectiveintelligence.ca/making-sense-of-collective-intelligence-information-bandwidth-feedback/) essay on your website. Interesting analysis into groups, crowds and swarms. Looking it over I got the impression of it as a kind of journal for a journey you have been on for some time. I recommend others have a look at the [Collective Intelligence](http://collectiveintelligence.ca/) website." 3,54137,2019-05-29T10:36:17.644Z,54076,anon3809206126,anon463194720,"[quote=""anon463194720, post:1, topic:10016""] The aim is to get beyond the multiple, overlapping, incomplete and difficult-to-maintain maps of organizations like co-ops or ecovillages, and create a way for those nodes to very easily host structured data about themselves on their own web sites. Data can be crawled and aggregated, based on filter criteria, so that directories and maps can be built and updated from the authoritative source of the nodes themselves. [/quote] Hello @anon463194720, and welcome. This is really interesting, as it transposes the usual free riding problem of human communities at the organizations' level. My organization needs to do some work, so that a common good (let's say, a directory) can result from the aggregation of everybody's work. This work is typically uninspiring: housekeeping, like renewing certificates for the website or turning in your VAT return. And if my org does not do it (or does not do it well, for example with regular updates of the data), it can still use the common good. What are your thoughts about how to incentivize organizations to do this work, with an acceptable standard of quality? I have long thought that important data on organizations already exist, stored in very official state databases (Edgeryders, for example, has a legal obligation to keep some information in the Esanon2317280404ian [Company Registration Portal](https://ettevotjaportaal.rik.ee/index.py?chlang=eng). Problem is, those data are not open. Many states have sprouted publicly owned companies that make money selling them (this predates the Internet, by the way). I have long sympathized for the effort of Chris Taggart and his [OpenCorporates](https://opencorporates.com/), who are trying to build a worldwide database of unique identifiers of companies. Could this be an alternative to what you have in mind?" 4,54142,2019-05-29T12:18:59.108Z,54118,anon463194720,anon2434097920,"Thank you John! I have not thought of that essay as anything like a journal entry before, but in a sense it is. With your comment in mind, I see it as a static projection of a winding process of puzzling that has occurred over several years, and that remains incomplete. It has received a bit of attention from people in the academic collective intelligence world, and I will probably develop a more formal version in the future with collaborators. I'm really interested in the areas where CI research and practice intersect. Innovation in collective process doesn't (usually seem to) come out of formal research, it comes out of practice. But research can help us understand practice, and forward the process of bringing innovations that work toward the mainstream (highly publicized examples of this include [Google's Project Aristotle](https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/understanding-team-effectiveness/steps/introduction/) and [CI studies from CMU and MIT in 2010](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6004/686)). In this field, research is a sort of anti-Sisyphus mechanism that builds intellectual flying buttresses supporting the more interesting work of actually cultivating intelligent communities and high functioning groups. I'm really interested in the feedback loops within the spiral of innovation > research validation > (contextually appropriate) best practices > adoption, and how each of these stages can be accelerated. Or more simply: **how do we update collective guidance systems fast enough to avoid going extinct?** This applies across many levels, from very small groups to planetary governance. I am very keen on feedback from the Edgeryders community! I hope to include some of you in a series of online collective intelligence salons that I'm launching in a few months." 5,54151,2019-05-29T13:45:19.993Z,54137,anon463194720,anon3809206126,"Excellent questions @anon3809206126! Regarding incentives, I think there are a couple ways of looking at this. One is a sort of rational economic perspective. In this case, organizations benefit from being shown in maps and directories because it brings publicity and makes them findable for the people they want to be found by. This incentive already exists, which is why many organizations do maintain their data, more or less, in centralized directories. What we're doing is allowing those organizations to *consolidate the effort of data maintenance for many directories into a single point.* That point is within the admin interface of the organization's own website. The second way of looking at incentives is: how do you actually get people to do things? This is more about psychology and less about economics. Even when there's an incentive, annoying housekeeping tasks like the ones you mentioned often don't get done, not because they're not a rationally good idea, but because nobody gets around to doing them! Combining these two, our adoption strategy is something like: * Partner with existing networks to reach out to nodes at scale. Ideally nodes will receive invitations from multiple networks. * Make it *super easy* to adopt, with initial data automatically populated from the node's website. * Use gamified reminders and notifications to encourage nodes to update or check their data as needed, with the lowest possible barrier to action (key to this is the location of the update process within an admin interface where they already are, not requiring external URL or login credentials). * Add features that deliver quantifiable value (syndication of event listings, needs/offers, etc.) to increase the basic incentive to participate. This strategy remains to be tested. Feedback and suggestions are welcome! Regarding your second question: you're right that all the data probably exists elsewhere already! But, after spending many months working with a few specific network organizations towards sharing data between very much overlapping directories, I am not convinced that any kind of centralized authoritative directory is the way forward in the long term. I am completely in support of the OpenCorporates project. I think it is relevant to but not a substitute for what we're working on because: * It doesn't include the kinds of human-relevant information we need (things like mission statement or organization description) * It's not organized by values or intent (we want to help movements for a more just and sustainable world see themselves, and OC doesn't include metadata that captures these intentions) * We need to include groups that are not defined by a legal entity More abstractly, a beautiful thing about moving authoritative data into the hands of the nodes themselves is that can *allow the node to decide what about itself is important*. With centralized directories the directory decides what about the data subject is important, by defining the data fields. This means that, even if you have shared protocols, it remains difficult to make data usefully interoperable because what different directories think is important doesn't necessarily match. Even more generally, data out of context loses meaning. Corporate registries are a informational context that is institutionally defined, for purposes and context of the institution, not the organization the data is about. This relation of context and meaning might have something to do with why filling in government forms is an almost universally uninspiring task! With self-defining data we can turn this around. Hopefully, the better fit the node is for a given directory, the more what's important will be a match between the two, and the node's presence within that directory will be appropriately rich. This approach is experimental, and will remain a balance between defining taxonomies that work for directories, and letting nodes define themselves through a wide array of possible fields. If any of that is excessively obscure or doesn't make sense, I am happy to clarify! Again, very interested in feedback from the Edgeryders community about all of this. Thanks for the conversation." 6,54168,2019-05-29T16:27:11.239Z,54151,anon2434097920,anon463194720,Do you see machine learning playing a role in this? 7,54307,2019-05-31T11:24:52.635Z,54168,anon463194720,anon2434097920,"Not something I'd thought of before @anon2434097920. Probably not initially. For now, we're aiming to keep the technology as simple and boring as possible! In the future, though, there is one spot where machine learning could potentially play at least an indirect role: enabling a context-aware fuzzy mapping between the words that organizations use to describe themselves and the words that individuals or directories use to search for them. This is a much more general problem that I don't imagine tackling from scratch for this, but work that's been done using ML for natural language processing could be useful." 8,54326,2019-05-31T15:54:00.424Z,54307,anon2434097920,anon463194720,Historic footnote: ML was mainly underwritten at first by huge multinationals with mountains of documents that they didn't have the people to properly catalog so they would know where everything resides. After they got it working fairly well they started looking around at what else they could train it on. 1,54268,2019-05-30T21:00:58.399Z,54268,anon3963878727,anon3963878727,"In a scenery of big data when often loophole allowed **abuse** **of** **personal** **data** for commercial purpose, a multi device App to browse, build and manage a highly scalable and distributed p2p Common Data is smart thinking isn't it? Like in a living organism and/or a social space, data in this networking tool is thought to be semantic, atomic and both human-centric and common-centric. As resilient growing source for a Common AI, a further significant effect would be to include ethical Values in system logic and well actually, endless possibilities open up in front as we look at it, what do you guys reckon?" 2,54295,2019-05-31T09:41:20.496Z,54268,anon3809206126,anon3963878727,"Hello @anon3963878727, and welcome. I confess I don't anon4292955258 understand what you are proposing (disclaimer: I am no computer scientist). What would the common database look like? Is there anything out there resembling it, at least in part?" 1,54209,2019-05-30T12:09:22.135Z,54209,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Join me for IoT Week in Aarhus. Digital Signatures for services (banking, payment, energy, education, care, mobility, connectivity…) and Digital Signatures for architectures (virtual and analogue enablers of connectivity) are defined by stakeholders that organize themselves, ICANN style, without any commercial intent to take profit elsewhere. They are a tool to complement current actions on procurement and local agency as in this kind of SLA it does not matter that the original data sets and analytical platforms are not under your control. In this manner local stakeholders are a priority part of building the next layer of value, naming the new entities that are formed when AI inspired intelligence starts to see patterns unrecognizable before. In order to create open service creation platforms (for example take the learnings with you in/of a connected car), free flow of data is not enough. In line with the @anon This session will then be about co-creating procedures for building Digital Signatures for Marketplaces. Marketplace are instrumental for new data-driven business models. We assume Open Marketplaces will benefit from network effects. https://sites.grenadine.co/sites/iot/en/aarhus-2019/schedule/3503/Discussing%20Next%20Generation%20Internet%20Technology%20and%20Policy%20Workshop%20(session%20II)" 2,54259,2019-05-30T20:18:57.815Z,54209,anon838581715,anon4261882768,These Digital Signatures - do they allow for anonymity? As I understand it they can be temporary identities? 4,54263,2019-05-30T20:44:21.000Z,54259,anon4261882768,anon838581715,"Yes, the idea is federated and attribute based only. You can have thousands of ‘identities’, only ‘event identities, basically never exposing yourself as your ‘full set of properties’ (sorry for this engineering type of talking about people of flesh and blood and dreams and hope. The key lies in looking at all the competion now on the passport Sovrin, ID2020, Uport/ioT-A, WIN and getting grip on the ’source’. If the ’state’ as it is currently is the ’source’ we drag a lot of dependencies into a new ontology. Accountability is what I prefer over ‘anonymity’. I like to know who I am dealing with. Tokenized trust is what we well build but that can only be real in localities, in potential encounters with people. Christian Nold and I wrote about a kind of local IoT structure a while ago. We were called naive back then, now I think it can be anon4292955258 mundane. Christian and me are having a informal meeting about that at UCL next Wednesday. I will send notes here. [http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/108](http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/108) It is a free book, like all my texts." 5,54269,2019-05-30T20:59:33.000Z,54259,anon4261882768,anon838581715,"Just like edgeryders aim: emphasizing that people from all walks of life have to be at the table when we talk about alternate possibilities for ubiquitous computing. As you can see what is called IoT now was called ubicomp, pervasive computing, calm tech, ambient intelligence from the 70s" 1,54211,2019-05-30T12:14:00.509Z,54211,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"Hi all Decode project worker Ola Bini is detained in Ecuador. https://twitter.com/olabini?lang=en It can help to once in a while check #freeolabini once in a while and retweet, Greetings, Rob" 2,54223,2019-05-30T13:29:58.332Z,54211,anon1505367078,anon4261882768,"[quote=""anon4261882768, post:1, topic:10034""] It can help to once in a while check #freeolabini once in a while and retweet, [/quote] It's a very hairy issue indeed. His detainment is (according to my sources at least) probably a tangled up mix of international and local Ecuadorian politics, so Ola might have more luck with the changes of political winds. Next elections are not until 2021, so lets hope the campaign can put on some pressure." 1,54086,2019-05-28T14:42:29.182Z,54086,anon4261882768,anon4261882768,"OPEN INVITATION: HOW CAN WE BRING A REALISTIC POSITIVE STORY THAT ACCEPTS THAT TECHNO-POLITICAL INFLUENCE AND AGENCY/POWER IS ALREADY HERE? RSVP me at kranenbu@anon TF2 Entitlements, UCL London, 05 06 2019 05 June 2019 1:00 pm 3:30 pm Darwin Building B05, Darwin Building, UCL Our objective is to brainstorm on how to bring citizens into the scenario of a pragmatic cybernetics that is outlined below. How can we bring a realistic positive story that accepts that techno-political influence and agency/power is already here, and needs to be debated with new terms and concepts? What language, visuals, channels and ‘politics’ is needed?" 2,54150,2019-05-29T13:40:57.326Z,54086,anon3809206126,anon4261882768,"[quote=""anon4261882768, post:1, topic:10018""] the scenario of a pragmatic cybernetics that is outlined below [/quote] Sounds interesting and edgy! But I guess that a link is missing from ""below""." 3,54167,2019-05-29T16:07:28.832Z,54150,anon4261882768,anon3809206126,Indeed. Here it is https://www.theinternetofthings.eu/open-invitation-how-can-we-bring-realistic-positive-story-accepts-techno-political-influence-and 1,53749,2019-05-22T12:15:51.800Z,53749,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Mehr als 3,3 Mio mal wurde das "Die Zerstörung der CDU" Video von Youtuber Rezo bereits angeschaut und Petitionen es im öffentlich rechtlichen Rundfunk abzuspielen wurden bereits gestartet. Vor allem junge Menschen reagieren mit Dankbarkeit und Interesse auf das Video und teilen es mit Freunden und Familienmitgliedern um Diskussionen zu starten und Informationen zu verbreiten und der Aufruf zur EU-Wahl am Ende ist fraglos relevant. Das verlinken und beanon2317280404en der Referenzen ist ein wichtiges Feature das die argumentativen Effekt des Videos in Kombination mit dem sehr persönlichen Ton bestimmt. Wir würden hier nun gerne nicht nur nach deiner Meinung zu dem Video und den darin angesprochenen Themen fragen, sondern auch nach Links, Referenzen, Material und Beschreibungen von Projekten, real und spekulativ, die die die genannten Probleme angehen und vielleicht lösen können, damit die Welt eben nicht vor die Hunde geht und wir einen konstruktiven Ansatz finden um die Zukunft zu entwickeln. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y1lZQsyuSQ Nimm zum Beispiel einen Timestamp, Clip oder Referenz aus dem Video und füge deine Projektidee oder ein Projekt von dem du weißt an und verlinke es hier, oder schreibe ein Kommentar hier und beschreibe es. WAS HILFT GEGEN DIE ZERSTÖRUNG FÜR DIE ZUKUNFT? * Wählen zum Beispiel, aber das allein reicht noch nicht. * Informieren auch, aber wieder, das allein auch nicht, also was für Projekte helfen oder könnten helfen? Und wer macht sie oder will sie machen?" 2,53750,2019-05-22T12:26:58.802Z,53749,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Here the translation: The "The Destruction of the CDU" video by youtuber Rezo has been viewed more than 3.3 mio times at this point and a petition to show it in German public TV has already been started. Especially young people reacted with interest and thankfulness to the video and shared it with friends and family to start discussions and share information. The reference and research links are an important feature of the video which, in combination with the very personal anon2317280404e lend to its argumentative power. We want to ask here not only for your opinion on the video and the topics it covers, but also for links and references for Projects, real and speculative, tackling those problems to ensure that the world won't blow up after all and to develop konstructive solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y1lZQsyuSQ You could for example take a Timestamp or clip from the video or one of the references and follow it up with your own project or projects you know of and link them here or write a comment and describe it here. WHAT HELPS AGAINST THE DESTRUKTION AND DEVELOPS THE FUTURE? -Voting for example, but that on its own is not enough -Informing others helps as well, but that that on its own is not enough, so, which project help or could help? and who is or want to do them?" 3,53751,2019-05-22T12:36:17.483Z,53749,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"**Und da die CDU die hier so massive kritisiert wird auch schon mal gerne als "Rentnerpartei" beschrieben wird, und zwar weil viele ihrer Positionen und ihr auftreten gerade der älteren und Rentnergeneration zu dienen scheinen (in wie fern auch das der fall ist sei dahanon2926706121stellt) und diese ihre Kernwählerschaft ist, während die Renten der Zukunft zunehmend unsicher wurden unter der Regierung einer Partei die einst mit dem Slogan "Die Rente ist sicher" in den Wahlkampf zog ist empfehle ich diese Geschichte hier als inspirations Lektüre:* https://edgeryders.eu/t/herzlich-willkommen-zur-rente/9949" 4,53935,2019-05-24T15:58:39.550Z,53749,anon196034329,anon3031202475,"Nice follow-up video from 2 hours ago, with many of the German YouTubers collaborating with Rezo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpg84NjCr9c (No English subtitles yet, but the non-German folks can copy&paste the video's text from the description into a translator.)" 5,54101,2019-05-28T18:40:19.381Z,53935,anon196034329,anon196034329,"The funniest part just happened :smile: Seemingly as a reaction to Rezo's vide, the CDU plans to hold their next party internal meeting around the topic of ""asymmetric electoral campaign fighting"" (German: ""asymmetrische Wahlkampfführung""). In German, the expression has the same strong connotation to asymmetric warfare and terrorism as in English. And [the invitation for that meeting came in _by fax_](https://twitter.com/robinalexander_/status/1133268983883411457). Everyone is entitled to their political opinions of course. The real-life absurdity here is really funny in any case. It illustrates a stark difference between the generations regarding technology use and communication culture." 1,54049,2019-05-28T00:18:14.395Z,54049,anon1460953238,anon1460953238,"Users of information technologies are aware that infrastructural systems exist and subtend their activities, and can conjecture explanations of how these systems work based on their examinations. However, information infrastructures are often as difficult to conceive as they are to perceive; they are both enormously complex and relatively invisible. This is both necessary and by design, but it does make examining and explaining the working of information infrastructure technologies rather difficult. As information infrastructures become less visible and more complex, two things can be assured; that there will be more in need of explanation, and less available to examine. The purpose of this project is to examine what role the invisibility and complexity of information technology infrastructures plays in a user's relation towards said systems. I argue that, within the context of human relations towards systems that resist aspection or comprehension, human methods of dealing with such systems constitute techne, or a craft. I further argue that the craft of dealing with occulted systems of non-anthropic scale and complexity is endemic to forms of information infrastructure other than the technical. I illustrate this point through examination of contemporary and traditional crafts that have historically dealt with complex and occulted systems, particularly those that are categorized as witchcraft or magic. Through this example I argue that magical practices are analogous to technical practices in regards to human relations towards the complex and hidden in information infrastructures. Using distant reading methods I argue that this concordance is a generalizable phenomena not limited to the populations directly observed, and demonstrate that a discourse on hidden and complex infrastructural systems is present within both the magical and technical literature. I theorize that, as the relative hiddeness and complexity of information infrastructures increases, the presence of and need for craftwork to it manage also increases. Our current information infrastructure environment is not fully agential. It is, however, responsive, predictive, and surveillant. Magic's depiction of complex and hidden infrastructures and their relation towards the anthropic always already inflects and may yet inform our incipient relations towards the burgeoning and increasingly agential forces of technical information infrastructures. The narrative of the project is as follows. I have surveyed one hundred and twenty students in the field of information studies. These students do not know how many of their technologies work, particularly information infrastructure technologies. They are aware of this lack of knowledge, but that does not stop them from forming relations to these systems. They use a variety of metaphors and creative conceptions to describe how they imagine that these systems work. While these depictions may not be factually accurate, and the students are aware of their factual inaccuracy, these creative depictions still inform the students' relations towards these information infrastructures. Not all technologies are treated equally; there is a continuum. A hammer, for instance, requires no imaginative facility to explain; its functioning is both simple and visible. As technologies become less visible, their functioning is less evident, and requires more explanation. Similarly, as a technology becomes more complex it likewise becomes less explicable (and often seemingly agential). In instances wherein students described their relation towards particularly complex and hidden infrastructures, they often characterized these relations with reference to the concept of 'magic'. It is important to point out that these students do not think that technology is magic, but rather assert that it is practical to treat it as if it were magic. This invocation of the term magic is not an abrogation of rationality, but a description of their own relative, perspectival relation towards the phenomena in question. What does it mean to treat an information technology and its adjacent infrastructure as if it were magic? What does a magical relation towards complex and hidden systems entail, and how can our understanding of such relations inform the ways in which we use and relate to information infrastructures generally? In order to answer these questions we turn to examine magical practitioners and their crafts, with the intention of better understanding what it means to have a magical relation towards information infrastructures. I have interviewed sixteen magical practitioners for this project. Students often described their relation towards technology in terms of magic; similarly, magic users often described their relation towards magic in terms of technology. What, however, is magic a technology for? Using the interviews as evidence, I argue that magic is primarily a technology that for dealing with, managing, and maintaining occult and possibly agential infrastructures that provide some service, or undergird some essential activity. Whether or not these infrastructures actually exist is of no consequence; what matters is that tools for their management do.One possible avenue through which to illustrate this connection between the magical relations of the students and the magical relations of the magic practitioners is to take a look at all of the similarities in practice, all of the good, practical advice relating to occult and possibly agential systems, and point out that these are all very similar to the sort of 'non-rational' responses from many of the students. The intent here is to point out that our non-rational approaches towards information infrastructures and their adjacent technologies do not arise de novo; instead, it is a mainstreaming of many of the warnings and precepts always already in traditional and contemporary magic practice. Our seemingly novel approaches towards and relationships to these complex and hidden systems technical information infrastructures are outgrowths of of centuries of work on dealing with just such phenomena by magical practitioners. This is also intended to demonstrate how, in relation towards complex and invisible systems, humans tend to do the same sorts of things, and enact the same sorts of relations, regardless of whether we are talking about Siri or Faerie. While magic and science are often painted as being at odds, they may be framed as complementary. Science is the art of explaining the measurable, while magic is the art of dealing with the unknown. We need arts of dealing with the unknown now, and we will need them more and more as infrastructural systems expand in relative scale and as such diminish in relative visibility. It is natural and necessary for information infrastructures to be complex and hidden, but we need to be aware of how such occultation can inform and inflect human/infrastructural relations. The problem now is not that infrastructures are occulted by being hidden, in the sense that wires run in the wall or Wi-Fi works on an invisible spectrum. Rather, it is that infrastructures are becoming occult in scale; that is to say, they operate at non-anthropic scales, and are not amenable to anthropic aspection, comprehension, or analysis; at least not in a holistic fashion. Magic is an attempt to understand the management of systems, without necessarily understanding the system itself. In this sense we are all magicians, increasingly so." 2,54082,2019-05-28T12:08:42.742Z,54049,anon2724270673,anon1460953238,"Fascinating approach, and I recognize the use of ""magic incantations"" in regard to technology. It baffled me anon4292955258 a bit when I was doing helpdesk work. People called me for help and mostly expected exactly this: A magic incantation that would make things work. They often didn't care to understand why it would work, and working incantations would usually make their way into other problems: _""It worked for my email, so it should work with the printer too, right?""_" 1,53598,2019-05-17T00:38:19.301Z,53598,anon2199355017,anon2199355017,"Today we rely on very few sources for discovering the information we want and need, mostly having it fed to us by Google and Facebook. I have long been fascinated by how to solve this, and have currently come to the conclusion that part of the blame lands on longstanding browser UI design. If the browser asks users to select a single search engine or a single homepage (or use the default), people will come to use that webservice for everything. And those services will try to address every use case rather than shine at particular ones. To explore this I have created my own (WebKitGTK-based) web browser ""[Odysseus](https://odysseus.adrian.geek.nz/)"" and have published it to the [elementary](https://elementary.io/) [AppCenter](https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.anon2199355017.odysseus/) (though I will soon be deploying to other distros as well). I very comfortably use it as my primary browser, and I'm aware of others happily using it as well. But let me describe why I find it's features so valuable to illustrate my thinking: **Top Sites** I'm worried about people coming to rely on their homepage for most of their discovery, so I don't want to have a single one. Google Chrome's (or is it Opera's) concept of ""top sites"" provides one way for multiple sites to share that prime realestate in the form of links. Though at the request of others I plan to try another approach as well where people can set multiple homepages for the browser to choose at random for each new tab. **Web Feeds** I really don't like the alternatives to this early Web technology. I don't want people to waste their time reloading specific websites, and nor do I want that to be solved by having all updates routed through a centralized service. That would just defeat any decentralization the Web has left! Webfeeds allow a client application to load updates from all registered websites and merge them clientside into a single list, fully under the users control. Getting away from the AI-curated timelines of Facebook, et al. And they are useful to web developers to split and combine these datastreams however they want. **App Recommendations** Like other browsers Odysseus will open non-HTML and -HTTP links in other apps already installed on your computer, and it sends webfeeds to native apps as well for subscription. This is vital because without that central servers delivering code, native apps have more freedom to be peer-to-peer. And browsers should have the freedom to focus on rich text rather than being a virtual machine for networked apps. To help the adoption of those apps Odysseus takes it one step further than other browsers: if you do not have a compatible app installed it will recommend some to you from your package repository. This currently works on any AppStream compatible distro. **To Be Done** **Personalized Suggestions** We currently go to sites like YouTube when you want to idle away our time, but those sites do not necessarily have our best interests at heart when building their AIs. At the very least they want to keep us on their site. We need something more decentralized we can trust. These technologies ask the question ""what pages are related to those I've visited?"" I plan to answer this with ""What did they link to?"" That is I plan to echo back the unvisited links you encounter online as personalized recommendations. This sort of technique may also be useful for exploring problem areas, more professionally. **Bookmarks & Bookmark Sharing** The common wisdom I see is that people don't use bookmark managers and instead find it easier to search for it again from Google. From a privacy and network efficiency perspective this is a big usability fail. For this reason I'm planning on basing my bookmarking system exclusively on tagging, and to allow webpages to offer some default tags to organize themselves under. Ideally making the process a single click and review to bookmark, and a single addressbar search to retrieve. Furthermore since your friends and family are your best sources of links, and to aid people in helping others to discover the pages they've found useful/enjoyable I plan provide tools to share subsets of your bookmarks. **Combined Search** I mentioned above that I think it's a huge problem that browsers make it significantly easier to use the ""default search engine"" than any others. To address this I plan to make it trivial to register multiple search engines and search accross all of them simultaneously, possibly filtered by some tags. At least in the geospatial profession (and Searx) there's good support for this in the form of the OpenSearch standard, but I will need fallback logic to work with the dominant search engines of today. --- I'm keen to hear what all of you are working on, and possibly how my efforts can help with that." 2,53599,2019-05-17T00:52:13.871Z,53598,anon2199355017,anon2199355017,"As for who am I, my name is Adrian Cochrane. I live in New Zealand. I'm starting a software/open-standards contracting company with my father, after having graduated from Victoria University of Wellinganon2317280404 with a BSc Computer Science. I really value software freedom and privacy, and hope to do my small part in bringing it further forward. Climate change is the other main issue I care about." 3,53606,2019-05-17T06:55:18.207Z,53599,anon3005076832,anon2199355017,Probably you want to include links in the original post: https://github.com/anon2199355017/Odysseus (browser home) and https://elementary.io/ (OS home). 4,53619,2019-05-17T09:22:03.180Z,53606,anon2199355017,anon3005076832,"Yup, and it's got a website too at https://odysseus.adrian.geek.nz" 5,53631,2019-05-17T14:13:32.683Z,53598,anon3809206126,anon2199355017,"Welcome @anon2199355017, and thanks for sharing this. It is anon4292955258 an achievement. My name is Alberto, I am one of the old hands on Edgeryders. I am an economist: if you discount some basic programming for data analysis, I am anon4292955258 far removed from ICT. So, what strikes me most from Odysseus is that it is part of an ecosystem different from the one I live in (Mac OSX + Firefox + several ad blockers), *which I had no idea was out there*. Odysseus works with Elementary OS, and it's available from its AppCenter. It (like, one presumes, Elementary itself) was based on the [ethical design manifesto](https://2017.ind.ie/ethical-design/) – and that, for me, was what really hit home. The more I hang around the hacker community, the more I think that most of what Europe needs to build a human-centric Internet is already out there. There is a large, diverse, investment-ready portfolio of technologies, companies and NGOs, standards and principles (like ethical design itself) and, most importantly, people. If the EU were to put some of its considerable firepower behind them, we might actually get somewhere in a relatively short time! " 6,53641,2019-05-17T22:07:16.026Z,53631,anon2199355017,anon3809206126,"elementary OS actually predates The Ethical Design Manifesto, but it describes what we do very well. It's actually a fascinating story behind elementary OS, one of people getting inspired by the work that came before them and taking it further. It started with an artist creating an icon theme! And yes there's a remarkable number of people around the world who are actively working to address these issues. We are often lacking funding, marketting, and sometimes UI design skills, but it's getting better and I think that just goes to show how deeply we value it." 7,53694,2019-05-20T20:34:33.315Z,53598,anon2434097920,anon2199355017,"This story is about IndieWeb, but really it is about efforts like yours. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us ""When social-media servers aren’t controlled by a small number of massive public companies, the incentive to exploit users diminishes. The homegrown, community-oriented feel of the IndieWeb is superior to the vibe of anxious narcissism that’s degrading existing services. And, in a sense, decentralization also helps solve the problem of content moderation. One reason Mark Zuckerberg has called for the establishment of a third-party moderation organization is, presumably, that he’s realized how difficult it is to come up with a single set of guidelines capable of satisfying over a billion users; the IndieWeb would allow many different standards to emerge, trusting users to gravitate toward the ones that work for them. Decentralization still provides corners in which dark ideas can fester, but knowing that there’s a neo-Nazi Mastodon instance out there somewhere may be preferable to encountering neo-Nazis in your Twitter mentions. The Internet may work better when it’s spread out, as originally designed.""" 8,53699,2019-05-21T00:03:22.791Z,53694,anon2199355017,anon2434097920,"Thanks for the extra push to read that article, it's excellent! It's talking about very much the sort of things I want to encourage with my browser work." 9,53725,2019-05-21T13:51:02.714Z,53694,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:7, topic:9920""] Decentralization still provides corners in which dark ideas can fester, but knowing that there’s a neo-Nazi Mastodon instance out there somewhere may be preferable to encountering neo-Nazis in your Twitter mentions. The Internet may work better when it’s spread out, as originally designed. [/quote] I like this quote very much, thanks @anon2434097920." 10,54014,2019-05-26T20:11:34.752Z,53598,anon577366890,anon2199355017,"This sounds like a wonderful Idea. I love the concept of decentralized discovery. I've been working on something very similar with novelty creation rather than classification in recommendation algorithms. I've been calling them Bubble Breaker Algorithms. I've got a working prototype and paper ready, perhaps this could be useful to you?" 11,54016,2019-05-26T20:40:43.630Z,54014,anon2199355017,anon577366890,"Yeah it could be! I'm just trying to figure out how your work would relate to mine. Would it be websites Odysseus could be configured to work with, built in to the browser, or what else?" 12,54017,2019-05-26T21:08:57.507Z,54016,anon577366890,anon2199355017,I'm honestly not sure lol. The two concepts just seem so similar there must be a way. Is there place in the browser for suggestion something? Perhaps other websites to visit based off past history? Or something like that? 13,54018,2019-05-26T21:12:02.238Z,54017,anon2199355017,anon577366890,"Yes, that's my next task to tackle! I'm looking at harvesting unvisited links you encounter to echo back as personalized recommendations. So maybe the answer is ""a bit of both""?" 14,54019,2019-05-27T03:41:07.294Z,54017,anon2199355017,anon577366890,Please share whatever you have when you feel comfortable! 15,54028,2019-05-27T10:06:01.096Z,54014,anon3809206126,anon577366890,"[quote=""anon577366890, post:10, topic:9920""] I’ve been working on something very similar with novelty creation rather than classification in recommendation algorithms. I’ve been calling them Bubble Breaker Algorithms. I’ve got a working prototype and paper ready, perhaps this could be useful to you? [/quote] Hello @anon577366890, this sounds really interesting. Could you say more about it?" 16,54045,2019-05-27T21:21:06.947Z,54018,anon577366890,anon2199355017,That's perfect! It'd be specific to the sort of data you're working with. I'd be extremely happy to talk it over with you. Message me and we can talk it over in greater detail if you're interested. 17,54046,2019-05-27T21:22:19.885Z,54028,anon577366890,anon3809206126,I'd be happy to post the preliminary paper. It needs some more work before I'm planning on submitting it but this might be a good place to get some feedback. Where would be a good place to do the posting? 18,54047,2019-05-27T22:09:31.177Z,53598,anon3809206126,anon2199355017,"@anon577366890 I think you could get the most results by doing this: post [here](/c/ioh/tell-your-story) a teaser, in which you explain the concept of Bubble Breaking and how you came to it. And then add the link to the preliminary paper, wherever you have it. This way, the reader can understand more or less what you are up to with a very small investment. If she likes the teaser, she can then up the game by reading the whole paper." 1,52348,2019-04-06T12:20:41.749Z,52348,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"## Stockholm launch event How do we collaborate to build a human-centric next generation internet? You are invited to an alliance working towards this goal. Internet of Humans is a track within our annual Edgeryders festival. It is dedicated to bringing together existing projects into a demo of a Next Generation Internet that supports values of openness, cooperation across borders, decentralization, inclusiveness, and protection of privacy. At this event, we will be telling our stories and getting acquainted with the roadmap of the Internet of Humans project. Consider this an introduction to how you could fit into this story, and with whom you could collaborate. **Location:** House Blivande, Södra Hamnvägen 9, Stockholm **Date:** Saturday 11th of May **Time:** 13.00-17.00 Internet of Humans is a gathering of contributors to the Next Generation Internet, a 3-year research project that engages hundreds of original initiatives. Edgeryders is a company living in symbiosis with an online community of thousands of hackers, activists, radical thinkers and doers, and just normal people that want to make a difference. We believe that a smart community outperforms any of its members; this is the result of people working together, improving on each other’s work. ## How to register Reply to this thread, saying that you want to attend. If you're new to Edgeryders, a short introduction is always welcome. We will keep you in the loop by posting updates here on the platform. ## Partner organizations This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825652. " 2,52352,2019-04-06T13:38:25.135Z,52348,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"I would like to come to this one, pending a check on my other May commitments. I do want to see Blivande, and we also need to celebrate Edgeryders Nordic. This is just a note to @anon3449369942, @anon1505367078 and myself." 3,52390,2019-04-09T09:05:17.498Z,52348,anon364511723,anon1505367078,"Hi. I'd like to come to this – Developer/designer/activist working at [code and conspire](https://www.codeandconspire.com)" 4,52393,2019-04-09T09:22:17.334Z,52348,anon2522756338,anon1505367078,will be attending 5,52397,2019-04-09T12:05:14.335Z,52348,anon3713826422,anon1505367078,I'll gladly join :raised_hands: 6,52399,2019-04-09T12:09:40.808Z,52348,anon2448459615,anon1505367078,"I'll be there too. I am a Bitcoin veteran and IPFS, crypto and OpenTimestamps dabbler." 7,52401,2019-04-09T12:45:09.067Z,52348,anon3296142424,anon1505367078,"Hi, My first post after some cumbersome signing in process. I intend to participate. Got message via Debian users Swedish." 8,52402,2019-04-09T12:52:48.338Z,52401,anon1505367078,anon3296142424,"[quote=""anon3296142424, post:7, topic:9705""] My first post after some cumbersome signing in process. [/quote] Hi! I'm sorry you found the registration cumbersome, but happy to have you attending. A part of our work in Edgeryders is academic research ([one example here](https://github.com/opencarecc/opencareProjectDeliverables/blob/master/WP2/D2.5%20Ethnographic%20report.pdf)), which requires us to have users go through a consent funnel. You're very welcome to Edgeryders. What stoked your interest in attending?" 9,52404,2019-04-09T12:57:52.878Z,52390,anon1505367078,anon364511723,Hi @anon 10,52405,2019-04-09T12:59:08.215Z,52402,anon3496478590,anon1505367078,"(Did not anon4292955258 understand the credit card's question purpose during registration either, anyway...) I am interested but won't attend the Stockholm meeting, as I don't plan to travel from France. I would like to see minutes and be informed of the outcome of those discussions. Cheers!" 11,52415,2019-04-09T17:01:23.652Z,52348,anon1410463509,anon1505367078,I would love to attend! Im a UX designer based in Stockholm and got interested in this initiative which was mailed to me by the ”stupid hackaanon2317280404 community” - and would love to hear more about what it is and how I could contribute! 12,52426,2019-04-09T21:53:03.657Z,52348,anon683229855,anon1505367078,"I will come IF I can. I'm a computer scientist and is tech lead for a large swedish HPC center in Södertälje, Open Source officer and active in a number of tech startups. I hope I can contribute alot." 13,52427,2019-04-09T22:05:02.457Z,52426,anon1505367078,anon683229855,"[quote=""anon683229855, post:12, topic:9705""] I will come IF I can. [/quote] Yes! I was going to invite you explicitly this week, and now you saw it before I even had to. Really hoping that you can make it." 14,52428,2019-04-10T06:04:15.839Z,52348,anon1805933255,anon1505367078,"Sign me up, I'll be there! I'm an entrepreneurial type with a tech/coding background and lots of food related stuff on my resume. I am currently working on a few different projects with the ambition to accelerate systems change. Some keywords: Regenerative food systems, [Holochain](https://holochain.org/), [ValueFlows](https://valueflo.ws/), platform cooperatives, distributed governance." 15,52430,2019-04-10T08:11:11.285Z,52348,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,Ok. Will check travel org 16,52436,2019-04-10T09:32:07.902Z,52348,anon1003891198,anon1505367078,"I'm planning to attend. I'm the project lead for cryptpad.fr, which recently won one of the NGI awards. I'm interested to meet the folks from Edgeryders, and anyone working on resilient or privacy-preserving technologies. Also, it seems like a great excuse to see a bit of Sweden!" 17,52445,2019-04-10T11:51:35.817Z,52348,anon3192625380,anon1505367078,"Hi, I am interested in going, though I have no idea if I can provide any kind of input. I am a particle physicist." 18,52452,2019-04-10T12:46:42.598Z,52445,anon1505367078,anon3192625380,"[quote=""anon3192625380, post:17, topic:9705""] Hi, I am interested in going, though I have no idea if I can provide any kind of input. [/quote] I you have a gut feeling of it being for you, it most likely is. What brings you to the topic? What are your thoughts about the current state and future of the internet?" 19,52454,2019-04-10T13:35:07.247Z,52452,anon3192625380,anon1505367078,"I got an invitation from Peder because I was at the stupid hackaanon2317280404, reading about it I am interested, I think this is the kind of discussion we should be having. So I'm in." 20,52456,2019-04-10T15:34:26.353Z,52348,anon3451824175,anon1505367078,"I'd love to attend, count me in. (I'm an ex-musician and ex-academic, nowadays self-proclaimed armchair anthropologist. Looking forward to meet and discuss with all the people here!)" 21,52468,2019-04-10T17:35:10.287Z,52436,anon1505367078,anon1003891198,"[quote=""anon1003891198, post:16, topic:9705""] I’m the project lead for [cryptpad.fr ](http://cryptpad.fr), which recently won one of the NGI awards. [/quote] How great! We've actually looked at Cryptpad in Edgeryders, I think @anon3809206126 found it?" 22,52469,2019-04-10T17:39:12.576Z,52468,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,Indeed. It [was discussed](http:///t/9422) at the Forward kickoff meeting. :slight_smile: Welcome! 23,52478,2019-04-10T21:50:21.359Z,52348,anon410091241,anon1505367078,"I'd like to participate, I am however already part of an exhibition the same day so I may leave early as I distrust volunteers. https://anon3713826422johansson.se" 24,52479,2019-04-11T06:46:36.848Z,52478,anon3449369942,anon410091241,:rofl: I feel you. 25,52501,2019-04-12T09:34:02.431Z,52348,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,"Guys I think this might be of interest for some of the people showing up at the event: https://edgeryders.eu/t/fellowships-with-bursaries-for-human-centric-internet-builders-deadline-may-30/9715 " 26,52520,2019-04-12T18:19:56.629Z,52348,anon3129606453,anon1505367078,"I am really hoping to attend, if I can make the travel to Stockholm work! I have previously introduced myself already, but I work at the intersection of decentralised governance and horizontal culture. I work with organisations and networks to help architect human, and technical, operating systems that work in a distributed, participatory way. I am a Member at [Enspiral](http://www.enspiral.com), Steward at [Going Horizontal](www.goinghorizontal.co), and Core Team at [DGOV Foundation for Distributed Governance](www.dgov.foundation). I also speak and advise on DAOs." 27,52530,2019-04-13T12:51:07.881Z,52520,anon3809206126,anon3129606453,"Wow, added bonus. @anon3129606453, I think it was @anon" 28,52545,2019-04-14T10:32:51.635Z,52348,anon477394456,anon1505367078,"I'll be there! This is me: [anon477394456.se](http://anon477394456.se)" 29,52553,2019-04-14T19:48:28.009Z,52348,anon2972833306,anon1505367078,Thanks a lot for the invite. I will show up! /Åke http://anon2972833306ren.se 30,52567,2019-04-15T13:28:02.436Z,52348,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"Some more information about the event in Swedish. We would love some help to invite people that should be there. ______ Vad innebär det att bygga ett 'internet of humans'? Vi behöver alternativ till amerikanska företagsnät å ena sidan och kinesisk statlig kontroll å andra sidan. Edgryders bygger en allians under de kommande tre åren för att leda bra initiativ från ord till handling genom att bygga konsortier och guida till finansiering. Alliansen är redan finansierad genom det stora projektet 'Next Generation Internet' i Horisont 2020, EU:s ramprogram för forskning och innovation. Just nu finns det tre saker att agera på: 1. Vi har ett smygstarts-event för inbjudna i Stockholm den 11 maj. Du är inbjuden, och registrering sker här: https://edgeryders.eu/t/stockholm-may-11th-internet-of-humans-matchmaking-event/9705 2. Vi söker 'curator fellows' med brinnande frågor som vill jobba med oss de kommande sex månaderna. Mer info om det här: https://edgeryders.eu/t/fellowships-with-bursaries-for-human-centric-internet-builders-deadline-may-30/9715 3. Vi söker intressanta initiativ och personer som vill vara en del av alliansen de kommande åren. Tipsa oss gärna! Internet of Humans är en allians av organisationer, företag, aktivister och utvecklare som samarbetar för att utveckla nya modeller för framtidens internet som bygger på öppenhet, integritet, samarbete över gränser, decentralisering och inkludering. Vi tar avstamp i projektet Next Generation Internet som för samman hundratals initiativtagare i hela Europa. Vi vill snabbt gå från ord till handling och målet är att under året forma starka konstanon1410463509tioner som kan söka pengar tillsammans för banbrytande projekt. Edgeryders har tagit fram metoder för att snabbt hitta nya infallsvinklar och unika frågeställningar. Under de kommande två åren kommer Edgeryders ge stöd till alliansen genom att: * Utse fellow-curators, betalda för att samla ihop de mest intressanta initiativen och frågeställningarna och knyta dem samman * Hålla events, både offline och online, med syfte att skapa kopplingar manon1410463509n människor, projekt och idéer * Ge stöd i ansökningsprocessen genom tillgång till erfarna ansökningsskribenter * Samla ansökningsdatum och kriterier på en plattform där vi hjälper varandra förstå vad som efterfrågas * Vi kommer göra de första gemensamma ansökningarna redan i sommar, och sedan trappa upp i höst och vinter ______ @anon477394456, @anon2522756338, @anon3713826422, @anon3451824175, @anon1805933255, @anon3449369942, @anon683229855 If you want to help me and @anon838581715x reach out, you can ping some relevant people in your networks." 31,52570,2019-04-15T14:14:58.460Z,52348,anon1765092422,anon1505367078,"I intend to be present. I live within walking distance so it should not be difficult. I am active within [DFRI](https://www.dfri.se/) fighting for digital rights." 32,52571,2019-04-15T14:16:00.115Z,52570,anon1505367078,anon1765092422,"[quote=""anon1765092422, post:31, topic:9705""] I intend to be present. I live within walking distance so it should not be difficult. [/quote] Great, you are very welcome. Feel free to point people you think should be there towards this thread." 33,52576,2019-04-15T15:11:30.460Z,52348,anon683229855,anon1505367078,I will attend. http://eriklonroth.com 34,52589,2019-04-16T03:25:16.723Z,52348,anon3818888330,anon1505367078,I'm in. :) 35,52596,2019-04-16T08:31:30.061Z,52348,anon3389596563,anon1505367078,"Timing is a tad bit tricky, but will do my best to make it work. Will keep you updated. Me: http://anon3389596563.se Somewhat relevant current project: http://changecourse.se /Björn Nauclér" 36,52657,2019-04-17T15:05:07.737Z,52348,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"We've started having video calls with participants to do anon222512824 interviews. Zenna interviewed @anon838581715x today, and he interviewed her. Then Mattias got the transcript of his own words and edited it into a post, which you can read here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-do-we-organize-society-for-a-whole-systems-approach-for-developing-the-internet/9766 [quote=""anon838581715x, post:1, topic:9766""] I do not know of any projects working on the organising of society in relation to the internet, only W3C and IETF working on technical collaboration and standardization. My interest in this is mainly in connection to the recent developments and consequences from the Internet that people can experience in their daily offline life or when surfing the World Wide Web. [/quote] These interviews and the posts they generate will inform the tracks of the event on May 11th. Who would like to go next?" 37,52746,2019-04-23T14:20:32.581Z,52348,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"Before the main event, @anon3809206126 will give a session on how we in Edgeryders use collective intelligence. https://www.facebook.com/events/828397694207351 Albertos session starts at 13:00, and the main event starts at 14:00. > How can we structure online conversations to build powerful collective intelligence? What tools would we need to be able to navigate our networks of collective intelligence as well as we navigate our own thoughts, experiences and opinions? > > Edgeryders have developed tools and methods with this in mind, drawing upon digital ethnography, semantic social network analysis and online community management practices. > > In this workshop we'll give you an interactive demonstration of our tools with real data, talk about how increased collision rates and dense networks accelerate innovation and inspire you to think about how to find unknown solutions to hidden problems. You will learn about the bleeding edge of large scale digital ethnography and sense making through Semantic Social Network Analysis. Ping @anon" 39,52754,2019-04-23T17:04:26.295Z,52404,anon364511723,anon1505367078,"Hi @anon1505367078. Thanks for the kind words. I think I’ve moved from being fascinated to feeling more or less fed up with the ideologies and products coming from the valley. A process over the last ten years or so, where the internet I grew up on got replaced by social media products that are affecting me and people around me in ways I don’t like." 40,52763,2019-04-24T06:01:12.710Z,52348,anon4065237236,anon1505367078,"Very interesting indeed, I want to attend. I was a Member of the European Parliament for the (Swedish) Pirate Party 2009-2014. As an MEP I focused almost exclusively on issues related to the free and open internet, such as copyright reform and trying to limit mass surveillance. I became a political activist in 2004 over the EU directive on Software Patents, and have been ever since. I find it truly amazing and fascinating how a swarm of activists, working together over the internet, can succeed in both understanding the very complicated EU legislative process, and changing its outcome. I am convinced that we are right now witnessing the emergence of a collective intelligence (or multiple collective intelligences) in the form of swarm(s) of activists. If this is indeed the case, I think that this will (hopefully) be the future of democracy in the EU, enabling citizens to take an active part. The EU legislative process is too complicated for a single citizen to really understand and follow. But a swarm of citizens can do it, as we have demonstrated several times in the last 15 years, and will hopefully demonstrate again. /Christian Engström" 41,52818,2019-04-25T00:52:03.305Z,52348,anon2799462679,anon1505367078,"Thanks for the invite Hugi, I'll see you there! Short intro: Developer / Designer / Front End Wizard ✨ [Mishmash](https://www.mishma.sh/) + [Blimp](https://blimp.se/) 🚀" 42,52827,2019-04-25T10:42:37.585Z,52348,anon3991823521,anon1505367078,"Thanks for the invite via the scuttleverse Hugi! I'm in for this one! I just signed up on this site, so I guess I'm new to Edgeryders. **Short intro on me:** I'm a (originally Dutch) full-stack system developer living and working in North-Sweden for one of Nordics bigger newspaper companies. In my free time I like building sites, apps and software systems (mostly from and for space/sat related tech). This meetup seems to be right up my alley ;) See you folks there!" 43,52829,2019-04-25T12:18:49.213Z,52763,anon1505367078,anon4065237236,"[quote=""anon4065237236, post:40, topic:9705""] Very interesting indeed, I want to attend. [/quote] Great news! You will be a very important addition. Indeed, we need to employ this alliance towards both technical developments and policy activism. [quote=""anon2799462679, post:41, topic:9705""] Thanks for the invite Hugi, I’ll see you there! [/quote] Happy to have you with us @anon2799462679! [quote=""anon3991823521, post:42, topic:9705""] (mostly from and for space/sat related tech). [/quote] This I would love to hear more about @anon3991823521. Any links you want to share?" 44,52831,2019-04-25T12:59:23.679Z,52348,anon1883575004,anon1505367078,"Hey! I'd love to attend. I'm building Human Network - a social network for movements - and Fluent, a distributed network of speciality talent that accelerates products/companies with a positive impact. Curious about the alliance!" 45,52832,2019-04-25T13:24:55.739Z,52831,anon1505367078,anon1883575004,"[quote=""anon1883575004, post:44, topic:9705""] I’m building Human Network - a social network for movements - and Fluent, a distributed network of speciality talent [/quote] Great! Very happy to have you Rasmus!" 46,52838,2019-04-25T16:42:23.216Z,52348,anon1003891198,anon1505367078,I've confirmed my travel arrangements. Looking forward to the event and to seeing Sweden for the first time. 47,52843,2019-04-25T18:34:32.357Z,52838,anon1505367078,anon1003891198,"[quote=""anon1003891198, post:46, topic:9705, full:true""] I’ve confirmed my travel arrangements. Looking forward to the event and to seeing Sweden for the first time. [/quote] Great! How long will you be here and where are you staying? You are more than welcome to come [work from Blivande](http://blivande.com/) while you are in Stockholm. We always make room for guests in Edgeryders projects." 48,52852,2019-04-26T08:45:16.002Z,52348,anon1707115032,anon1505367078,"Hi, I am really interested in such an event! I think the ambition of the project is great and really glad to have found a forum to discuss this. I've recently opened a startup with the goal of building a consumer-centered portal that focuses on data integrity. We are building a safe portal for the web, for stopping the sell of data and the tracking. The alpha version of our work can be seen here: [NoNoRank](https://nonorank.com). Hopefully a new Internet is possible. I would really appreciate to participate and discuss! :)" 49,52856,2019-04-26T10:02:27.263Z,52852,anon1505367078,anon1707115032,Welcome @anon1707115032! 50,52865,2019-04-26T16:18:45.023Z,52843,anon1003891198,anon1505367078,"> Great! How long will you be here and where are you staying? I arrive Friday and return to Paris on Monday, but I'll be visit Linkoping on Sunday. I booked an airbnb a walkable distance from the location. I'll probably come and check out the space on Friday just so I know how to get there." 51,52871,2019-04-27T10:26:38.536Z,52763,anon3809206126,anon4065237236,"Hello @anon4065237236, welcome! I read and greatly enjoyed your book – in fact, some of your insights are embedded into the fabric of [how Edgeryders is organized](/t/8729). We even briefly met in Stockholm once, though you probably do not remember me. Thing is, I am working on the mathematics of detecting and interpreting ""swarming"" in the context of an online conversation. It is several levels of abstraction removed from *Swarmwise"", but I think you will resonate. I am giving a presentation of it, just before the main event, and you are more than welcome to attend. https://www.facebook.com/events/828397694207351 Looking forward to seeing you at Blivande!" 52,52891,2019-04-27T15:17:23.781Z,52831,anon51020356,anon1883575004,"Hei @anon1883575004, I'm intrigued by your Human Network - I'm not sure which of the resources online are accurate, as a google search returns results for groups in both the Netherlands and Sweden.. Do you have a link? How is it going.. and more importantly, what do you expect to come out of it? Asking because there's many groups out there talking about more collaboration and better interoperability - we ourselves got into plenty of discussions with other networks over the years, but a path was never clear, and covering the costs for coordination is very expensive, as we see every day in our own network. Thanks! // Noemi, community manager in around edgeryders. xx" 53,52896,2019-04-27T15:45:07.057Z,52348,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,This is shaping up to be anon4292955258 an auspicious gathering. Every one of you has a fascinating story to tell. I hope you will elaborate more on your projects and ideas in other parts of this forum. 54,52902,2019-04-28T12:03:34.000Z,52871,anon4065237236,anon3809206126,"Hello Alberto, I look forward to meeting you (again) at the event. Which book are you talking about, is it Swarmwise? If so, I should point out that it is not written by me, but by Rick Falkvanon2926706121 (who founded the Swedish Pirate Party). I like his book a lot, however, and I agree with more or less everything it says. I look forward to listening to your presentation of it and discussing it. See you at Blivande! /Christian" 55,52915,2019-04-29T09:23:38.285Z,52902,anon3809206126,anon4065237236,"Yes, Christian. I confused people: you and I met not in Stockholm but in Brussels, in the very early days of your mandate as MEP. The book is indeed Swarmwise. Apologies, and see you at the event!" 56,52918,2019-04-29T10:37:22.769Z,52348,anon4249578688,anon1505367078,"Thanks for the invitation, I'll come. I work with open science/open access to scholarly literature." 57,52919,2019-04-29T10:40:47.579Z,52918,anon1505367078,anon4249578688,"[quote=""anon4249578688, post:56, topic:9705""] I’ll come. I work with open science/open access to scholarly literature. [/quote] Great! Happy to have you join us." 58,52921,2019-04-29T10:51:17.240Z,52348,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"I very highly recommend this post by @anon3931191205 to everyone coming to the event: https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-radically-new-internet-a-study-on-p2p-protocols-and-mesh-networks/9802?u=anon1505367078 Let’s try to get the ball rolling on a few other interesting conversations like this before the event, and we’ll really hit the ground running." 59,53038,2019-05-02T09:37:48.673Z,52348,anon3660231234,anon1505367078,"I got an invitation from @anon1505367078 and I intend to be there. I'm mostly interested in the human side of technology in general, and internet in particular, and there's more information about me at http://kazarnowi.cz" 60,53106,2019-05-04T20:34:29.161Z,53038,anon3809206126,anon3660231234,"Welcome then! I will be there too, so see you there." 61,53130,2019-05-06T10:55:23.245Z,52348,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"Good news for those of you attending who are curious about our [Fellowships with Bursaries for Human-Centric Internet builders](https://edgeryders.eu/t/fellowships-with-bursaries-for-human-centric-internet-builders-deadline-may-30/9715)! To apply for the fellowship you need to complete the following task: [quote=""anon3449369942, post:1, topic:9715""] **How to get started? Join the process of building the Internet of Humans sections of our festival program** 1. Interview a person relevant to your burning question. 2. Transcribe interview and have the interviewee post it [here ](/c/ioh). *You will need to create an [edgeryders.eu ](http://edgeryders.eu) account to do this.* 3. Comment in depth on at least one other transcribed interview. [/quote] And the good news is that this is one of the things we will be doing at the matchmaking event. This means that you can use your transcribed interview from the event for your application. Two birds, one sanon2317280404e." 62,53146,2019-05-06T15:40:23.606Z,52348,anon2320969274,anon1505367078,"I might not be able to, but I'd very much like to join in! Developer with sprawling interests in... everything concerning understanding and helping humanity. Psychology, technology, complexity, spirituality, community, networks, philosophy. Maybe I'll be lazy and give my LinkedIn profile as presentation https://linkedin.com/in/semikolon" 63,53163,2019-05-06T20:31:28.882Z,52348,anon1727204756,anon1505367078,"Oh I was so excited to see Hugi's post about this, it seems right up my alley. In fact, that could be my presentation - ""Excitable"". I haven't had the attention to scrutinize all the conversation, perhaps not even register in proper time, but if you'll have me I'll be delighted to attend the extended event on Saturday! Best regards CJ - consultant in systems development etc" 64,53164,2019-05-06T21:09:13.974Z,52348,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"@anon2320969274 and @anon1727204756, you are both most welcome!" 65,53170,2019-05-07T07:16:51.562Z,52596,anon3389596563,anon3389596563,I'm sorry to say it won't work out this time. Looking forward to future events! 66,53231,2019-05-08T13:10:30.968Z,53163,anon1727204756,anon1727204756,"I would like to elaborate slightly on what I'm so excited about. Mainly I'm coming for the session with @anon3809206126, but certainly I'm staying for the Internet of Humans workshop and the fiercely brilliant community. As a technologist, reader and dabbling philosopher I went through the perhaps recognizable process from Internet awe (""Wikipedia will rescue Truth!"") to attention fatigue. There a couple of years ago Alexander Bard, Joi Ito and Kevin Kelly saved me, and since then Susan Blackmore, Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Simon, Robin Dunbar, ""Hanzi Freinacht"" et al have kept me inspired. Network effects, serendipity, conversations, meaning, the invitation from @anon1505367078 alerted me to that there may be others who walk these paths beside and ahead of me. Let's see how I move past my awe this time. Perhaps you'll appreciate my humble, initial contribution ""[Meditation on group communication](https://medium.com/@anon1727204756/meditation-on-group-communication-2715520e3a7e)""" 67,53234,2019-05-08T13:48:52.924Z,53231,anon3809206126,anon1727204756,"[quote=""anon1727204756, post:66, topic:9705""] perhaps recognizable process from Internet awe (“Wikipedia will rescue Truth!”) [/quote] Well recognized, @anon1727204756. Well recognized indeed. [quote=""anon1727204756, post:66, topic:9705""] There a couple of years ago Alexander Bard, Joi Ito and Kevin Kelly saved me, and since then Susan Blackmore, Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Simon, Robin Dunbar, “Hanzi Freinacht” et al have kept me inspired. [/quote] I have a different pantheon (bar Herbert Alexander Simon), but I think I get the idea. [quote=""anon1727204756, post:66, topic:9705""] Perhaps you’ll appreciate my humble, initial contribution “[Meditation on group communication](https://medium.com/@anon1727204756/meditation-on-group-communication-2715520e3a7e)” [/quote] I am curious: is there a reason why you don't mention topology? In network terms, your groups are perfect cliques, with everybody connected to everybody else by edges of equal weight representing communications. That is... a very specific configuration to require. Groups can scale much better if you allow for more flexibility in patterns of connectivity (local hubs, lattices, small world etc.)." 68,53239,2019-05-08T14:50:42.969Z,53234,anon1727204756,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:67, topic:9705""] Well recognized, @anon1727204756. Well recognized indeed. [/quote] Thanks. I imagine others would benefit from recognizing the same... [quote=""anon3809206126, post:67, topic:9705""] I have a different pantheon (bar Herbert Alexander Simon), but I think I get the idea. [/quote] Looking forward to learning more about yours :slight_smile: [quote=""anon3809206126, post:67, topic:9705""] I am curious: is there a reason why you don’t mention topology? In network terms, your groups are perfect cliques, with everybody connected to everybody else by edges of equal weight representing communications. That is… a very specific configuration to require. Groups can scale much better if you allow for more flexibility in patterns of connectivity (local hubs, lattices, small world etc.). [/quote] Precisely the question I hope you might elaborate on! Indeed I could rename my article ""meditation on meetings"", I was mainly thinking of the communication happening around a single table. My intention was to establish a base case, driven by my personal hypersensitivity to quality of conversation and inspired by the [late Ladislaus Horatius' ""Mindfulosophy""](https://www.facebook.com/Visdomsgille-Mindfulosophy-1216582355070855/). I touch on topology in _""Dividing into smaller group can enable more participation and diverse conversations, but unless you can summarize and bring those thoughts back you lose out on the benefits of a large group of participants to begin with""_ and have seen (painfully) failed attempts to migrate existing large groups to sensible topologies... but yes, I very much look forward to your elaboration." 69,53245,2019-05-08T16:32:33.332Z,53231,anon2434097920,anon1727204756,"You make a good point in your essay, if I understand it correctly, that sometimes if you disagree with something someone says in a larger group conversation, it is often better to not feed it with your attention rather than take vocal issue with it, since often that leads to a tangent that can derail the main thrust of the conversation. In my experience this is useful in many, if not most cases." 70,53249,2019-05-08T20:18:19.680Z,53245,anon1727204756,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:69, topic:9705""] if you disagree with something someone says in a larger group conversation, it is often better to not feed it with your attention rather than take vocal issue with it [/quote] That's definitely my preferred analysis, which may of course have its antithesis. The philosophy group that caused me to formulate these thoughts would get hijacked in almost surreal ways... on the other hand some of my most magically mindful meetings have been with Noden / Blivande, but that resilience seems carefully cultivated. Having said that, there are abundant aspects of network society I have not formulated, and I may already have hijacked this thread or preempted the matchmaking event... Are we on a good track here, for a while mesmerizing ourselves with the power of network effects and memetics, or does @anon1505367078 or @anon3809206126 care to direct us some ahead of the event on Saturday? I'll spend some time to read the material available, learn of founding principles etc... And will see most of you on Saturday!" 71,53259,2019-05-09T07:09:05.189Z,52348,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,"Hey guys, ahead of the Stockholm meetup you may want to [have a look at this post](https://edgeryders.eu/t/welcome-to-retirement/9869/2) as I think it can be helpful for the discussion. Maybe also help spread it around to your people so we can grow this conversation...
[![Who%20CAN%20WE%20TRUS%20WHEN%20EVERY%20PACKET%20IS%20A%20POTENTIAL%20CARRIER%20OF%20A%20LIE_(1)|690x578](upload://zBZ9sIOpcuhfCAOLiBnJSGk2m4l.png)](https://edgeryders.eu/t/welcome-to-retirement/9869/2)" 72,53260,2019-05-09T07:58:15.725Z,52399,anon1727204756,anon2448459615,"[quote=""anon2448459615, post:6, topic:9705""] OpenTimestamps dabbler [/quote] Wow! Not only does the amount of IPFS/Scuttlebutt/whatever experience in this group excite me, but timestamps... I was an early employee in [Guardtime](https://www.wired.com/2015/06/tech-behind-bitcoin-stop-next-snowden/) and learnt the innovative details of Ahto Buldas' protocol. Let's talk!" 73,53266,2019-05-09T10:19:13.698Z,52348,anon838581715,anon1505367078,"Hey everyone! Some more info about the event and a request: Alberto's presentation is starting at 13.00 and our workshop is still starting at 14.00. The request: We kindly need to ask you to bring a laptop for the event if you have the possibility. The laptops will help us document the day and lay foundation for continued collaboration and progress online after the workshop. In connection to this, please also download these templates (in .odt and .docx) and bring them with on your laptop for the workshop. Link: https://mega.nz/#F!W2An0aoZ!W2ByWPQrSrbx-rv_o2-IUQ We're looking forward to see you all for the event on Saturday! Ping (confirmed attendees) @anon" 74,53280,2019-05-09T12:32:36.141Z,52456,anon3451824175,anon3451824175,"@anon1505367078 unfortunately I won’t make it, due to some last minute developments. I hope it doesn’t cause any pain with regards to the planning! Sad to miss this one!" 75,53295,2019-05-09T20:59:09.224Z,52348,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"Only a couple of days to go! On Saturday, you will be in the exceedingly capable hands of @anon838581715x and @anon3809206126, and we've laid a final hand to the event schedule together. I'm sad to say that I must attend the funeral of a family member this weekend and have had to return to Iceland. Hence, I will not be there at the event. I will, however, follow up with all of you next week. I'm very sad to miss this, but after all, this is only the beginning. I am really looking forward to seeing what comes out of this and reconnecting with you once I am back." 76,53313,2019-05-10T14:07:24.664Z,52348,anon1049766816,anon1505367078,"Hey, I will gladly attend. I currently put a lot of my efforts so that more research-based ideas hit the streets. This looks like a great community, curious to meet in person." 77,53319,2019-05-10T16:22:54.517Z,52348,anon871569147,anon1505367078,"I'd like to join too. I'm developing an open source decentralized alternative to things like Slack, Quora, Facebook groups, Reddit, Disqus. It's called [Talkyard](https://www.talkyard.io/). I'm from Gothenburg, Sweden, live in Stockholm. Looking forward to meeting everyone and finding out more :- )" 78,53328,2019-05-11T11:04:43.839Z,52348,anon808971203,anon1505367078,Hi! I’m interested in possibility of decentralized internet and what society could be like having tools to share and preserve information freely. Going to attend leading talk today and hope to participate in meeting group which follows 79,53329,2019-05-11T12:34:01.193Z,52348,anon838581715,anon1505367078,Link to templates: https://mega.nz/#F!W2An0aoZ!W2ByWPQrSrbx-rv_o2-IUQ 80,53331,2019-05-12T09:34:43.899Z,52348,anon3809206126,anon1505367078," Hello to all the humans of the Internet of humans event, it was really lovely to meet you all. You can see by the picture (that only contains Scuttlebutt users, apparently – thanks @anon3931191205 for the initiative!) that we were pretty happy by the end of it. Some people have been asking for the slides of my presentation. [Here they are](https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/zxxObz0IU7zRI5DhzPAlftlO/) inclusive of presenter notes. I have stored it on CryptPad as a tribute to @anon1003891198; I am a CryptPad newbie, let me know if I have set the permissions wrong and you are unable to download. Special shout out to my triad mates @anon683229855, @anon2448459615 and Typhaine (yes, a triad of four). Also nice talking to @anon4065237236 and the fiery @anon3192625380. @anon3129606453, you were missed! I hope to get to meet you at some point. :slight_smile:" 81,53333,2019-05-12T11:09:19.997Z,53331,anon1727204756,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:80, topic:9705""] Some people have been asking for the slides of my presentation. [Here they are ](https://pad.fr/file/#/2/file/zxxObz0IU7zRI5DhzPAlftlO/) inclusive of presenter notes [/quote] 404 PAGE NOT FOUND :-( [There](https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/zxxObz0IU7zRI5DhzPAlftlO/) we go... :-)" 82,53336,2019-05-12T13:43:55.076Z,53333,anon3809206126,anon1727204756,Thanks @anon1727204756!! 83,53494,2019-05-14T19:53:01.574Z,52348,anon3931191205,anon1505367078,"Thank you all for an awesome event! Had a great time and many great meetings as well as conversations. Very happy to have gone. See my notes from @anon3809206126 s presentation [here](https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/view/NSURE7IN0xGwaeEM3GNOjtYEou9qa6TdHhtr1xgqxiE/) :) Much :heart_decoration:" 84,54032,2019-05-27T11:50:41.190Z,52348,anon2333263393,anon1505367078,I'm sorry to have missed this event. I only found out about this project last week via a colleague at Holo. I will be making a proper introduction in due course and explore how I can get involved. 1,52837,2019-04-25T16:36:08.957Z,52837,anon3931191205,anon3931191205,"Mesh networks are local network of routers that are interconnected. Usually they are a way for communities to share WIFI connectivity with each other and in many cases these mesh networks are run by communities as a means of free Internet connection within an area, or at least cheaper Internet connection within an area. Mesh networks can also be found within companies for more local infrastructure, these are seldomly, by those active in the mesh network scene, considered mesh networks though. What’s specifically interesting is when you take mesh networks in combination with peer-to-peer protocols, such as [Scuttlebutt](www.scuttlebutt.nz) or the [DAT-protocol](https://datproject.org/) as new features are enabled, seldomly else even imagined. They happen to fit very well together as the two technologies merge and creating something anon4292955258 unique: Some interesting use qualities are, - offline communication Communication which can happen in the same geographical region without requiring http/""The Internet"". Be that file sharing, such as in the case of dat or actual person to person communication such as in the case of SSB. - Free Data - The only cost is the hardware, hardware similar to the ones already found in almost every single household in western society. - More private data, less vulnerability - As the data is stored locally there's a much smaller risk in terms of third party infranon2926706121ment, be that in the form of a data leak such as [the facebook scandal](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2018/04/04/facebook-says-data-on-87-million-people-may-have-been-shared-in-cambridge-analytica-leak/1) I’m currently looking at use cases for these technologies and have sketched out three different areas for these kinds of implementations. 1) Underdeveloped regions where infrastructure are not always available. Having mesh networks in combination with peer-to-peer enables for communication through WIFI and that communication can still happen. 2) Local communities, it’s very efficient means for communication, for example for eco villages, off-grid living - mesh networks are ideal. 3) Privacy / National Infrastructure Security - We are seeing a rise of cyber security attacks, specifically cyber security attacks which are targeting national and corporate infrastrucutre - [taking communities and entire nations offline](https://nordic.businessinsider.com/can-hackers-take-entire-countries-offline-2018-12). Mesh networks in combination with peer-to-peer protocols could be a solution for a lot of privacy issues that we are currently seeing in contemporary society. If mesh networks and peer-to-peer protocols are implemented, especially in combination with each other, it would be a much more durable communciation infrastructure for society. This also goes for company infrastructures and the flaws that we see - as a means for both international, and business2business espionage is happening via cyber platforms. If companies use and communicate via meshnets and peer-to-peer it is safer and not as easy to hijack. One of the biggest saefty issues in terms of privacy is also human errors, some of those issues are eliminated with peer-to-peer solutions. Passwords are eliminated. User IDs and device are tied to each other. A hacker would actually have to have physical access to someones device or gain their private keys rather than password accounts which is more easily cracked. Currently there are a lot of different mesh networks in the world. I do not have a complete overview at the moment. Guifi covers most of southern Europe. Freifunk is a big one in Germany. Then we have some areas in Greece which communicates via satellite connections, but local ones. Those are the most interesting ones right now. There are actually no examples as of now having mesh networks plus peer-to-peer protocols implemented at the same time. In regards to specifically Sweden and the Nordic region I am in looking into this right now. I am keen to explore this as with the three target areas mentioned above. On one hand our communication infrastructure is not as durable as we would like to think. Both seen through examples as in Northern Sweden as infrastructure can be down and out for longer time periods when there is snow for example. Also with cases when there is highly fragile infrastructure which from a cyber security perspective can be taken offline entirely by a small team of 5 qualified hackers. __________________ This research is funded by the EU fund [Designscapes](http://designscapes.eu/) for exploring the implementation of mesh+P2P in Northern Europe. Any leads, potential contacts or groups to discuss implementation with is highly welcomed! " 2,52858,2019-04-26T11:23:45.965Z,52837,anon3005076832,anon3931191205,"Love it. I had a list of technologies like [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/), scuttlebut, dat, [SOLID (Bernes-Lee)](https://solid.inrupt.com/) and so on, but don't find it at the moment. If you could document your findings in a wiki topic (like [the resource planning software list](https://edgeryders.eu/t/open-source-software-for-resource-scheduling-and-booking/6629)) or somewhere else and share the link, I'd be very gladful. Noawadys, a lot of projects take the blockchain hype (and I assumed 95% of it will be gone/given up within the next few years), where it is very difficult to access the real value and basis of these projects - at least for me. Doing stuff ""blockchain"" seems to often comes with ""having a supershiny overpromising webpage"" (have to rant a bit here). And at the last Makers4Humanity lab there was something going a bit into the crossover you mentioned: a local file-sharing hot spot with chat capabilities. I do not remember the projects name, but might stumble upon it again. I think I took a picture of the printed-out usage instructions somwhere." 3,52863,2019-04-26T15:02:45.749Z,52837,anon2434097920,anon3931191205,You are part of the Designscapes group? 5,52885,2019-04-27T14:35:24.453Z,1,anon2434097920,anon3005076832,I meant anon3931191205. It looks like an interesting group and project. 6,52886,2019-04-27T14:36:32.922Z,52837,anon2434097920,anon3931191205,">There are actually no examples as of now having mesh networks plus peer-to-peer protocols implemented at the same time. So in other words, there are these networks set up for communication within the network, and they may or may not plug into the main 'Net in some way, but there is not an example of these mesh networks communicating with each other directly?" 7,52901,2019-04-28T11:28:26.845Z,52858,anon3931191205,anon3005076832,"> I had a list of technologies like [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/), scuttlebut, dat, [SOLID (Bernes-Lee)](https://solid.inrupt.com/) and so on, but don’t find it at the moment. @anon3005076832, that's awesome! If you do find it, I'd be very keen to see. I keep my lists of fun things [in this spread](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LFbflHSdTLqCDc0fio10cVKuuMQdG9qPJ4B7nmpIH5M/edit#gid=2104697170). Yeah, reg. blockchain I feel similarly and tend to stay away from the hype. That's also why I'm so excited about the new realm of distributed webs, it has real practical implementations and solves a lot of the issues we see with current web protocols. IPFS too even though they are more silicon-valley oriented than SSB or dat. I'm very keen to learn more about Solid! So far I've only heard briefly about it... I can't help but wonder if there's a reason I for why I haven't heard anyone talk about it much. > And at the last Makers4Humanity lab there was something going a bit into the crossover you mentioned: a local file-sharing hot spot with chat capabilities. This sounds interesting as well! If you remember what it was, link me up pls! :pray: :sparkles:" 8,52904,2019-04-28T13:29:31.133Z,52863,anon3931191205,anon2434097920,"> You are part of the Designscapes group? Not directly part of it, the research I'm doing currently on mesh-networks and P2P was funded by them though :cherry_blossom: > So in other words, there are these networks set up for communication within the network, and they may or may not plug into the main 'Net in some way, but there is not an example of these mesh networks communicating with each other directly? No, and yes. haha, to give a correct answer. No as in, that's not what I was referring to at in that section. There simply aren't any mesh networks which run with P2P protocols as of yet, only prototypes. This is even though technologically they are a perfect fit due to the local data hosting. Yes, as in there are no direct connections between the distributed protocols although the ssb and dat community are starting to look into how they can merge better, especially SSB and DAT are a very good combo. If you are on Scuttlebutt, there's a bit more about this in this link: %jRIyWsJZwKgxfA3K/pJfZv4sMv4DQMKl8Eq+JHPo3p4=.sha256" 9,52905,2019-04-28T13:32:36.138Z,52858,anon3931191205,anon3005076832,"> And at the last Makers4Humanity lab there was something going a bit into the crossover you mentioned: a local file-sharing hot spot with chat capabilities. Was it perhaps [Subnodes](http://subnodes.org/) you were thinking of? Yannick from iMal mentioned it over on Scuttlebutt and it sounded very similar to what you described." 10,52906,2019-04-28T19:13:55.186Z,52905,anon3005076832,anon3931191205,"[quote=""anon3931191205, post:9, topic:9802""] a local file-sharing hot spot with chat capabilities [/quote] Right now pretty sure it was [PirateBox](https://piratebox.cc/doku.php?id=openwrt:diy) . On the way to finding it, I also stumbled over https://daviddarts.com/offline-file-sharing . Too sad we often forget that the world is full of crazy and cool." 11,52914,2019-04-29T09:21:33.931Z,52837,anon1505367078,anon3931191205,"Thank you for this excellent post @anon3931191205! [quote=""anon3931191205, post:1, topic:9802""] In regards to specifically Sweden and the Nordic region I am in looking into this right now. I am keen to explore this as with the three target areas mentioned above. [/quote] We actually just got our hands on a bunch of RaspberryPis at Blivande, the cultural hub, workshop and co-working space we run in the harbor of Stockholm. Maybe we should extend a mesh network around the house and the harbor? I think @anon3713826422 might be interested in some meshing." 12,52938,2019-04-29T20:20:44.800Z,52837,anon4190938726,anon3931191205,"Check out https://freifunk.net/en/ They seem to be the largest community that is active at the moment. They have been active for anon4292955258 a few years. For something more ephemeral but in the same idea of other networks, also have a look at https://hyperboria.net/ Hyperboria had a very interesting scene going a while ago, I lost my key so I have not been there for a while. :slight_smile: There were some people from the Nordic region in Hyperboria when I was there. There are anon4292955258 a few P2P protocols or Delay Tolerant Networking systems available, but not very many that would be easy to adopt. At least I have not found a favourite yet. Freifunk seems to have a relatively robust solution going. Maybe you know all this, but I did not see it mentioned." 13,52941,2019-04-29T23:50:21.084Z,52914,anon2434097920,anon1505367078,Meshin' around. 14,52979,2019-04-30T13:05:27.926Z,52837,anon3809206126,anon3931191205,"Hello @anon3931191205, welcome and thanks for the thoughtful post. I am myself a user of Scuttlebutt (SSB), and would like to qualify your proposition that [quote=""anon3931191205, post:1, topic:9802""] What’s specifically interesting is when you take mesh networks in combination with peer-to-peer protocols, [...] they happen to fit very well together as the two technologies merge and creating something anon4292955258 unique. [/quote] Scuttlebutt's [presentation video](https://vimeo.com/236358264) states: > When Scuttlebutt is running, it looks to see if there are any other Scuttlebutt accounts on the local network, that is to say, the coffee shop wi-fi. In the video, the two cute characters Jackie and Martin are indeed using SSB from the same coffee shop. She follows him, he is well connected, and all is clear skies and smooth sailing from there. Indeed, they do not need ""the Internet"" to share stuff with each other, because they sit on the same local network. Neither do they need servers, because the content lives in folders on their laptops. So, *technologically*, the features you identify in your post ensue. But what happens *socially*? Not much, it turns out. Maybe New Zealand is different that way, but If I go to a Brussels Café the chances of someone else running SSB from the same café are close to zero. So, nothing is enabled for me. To use SSB, i need to use the hack of [pubs](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/basics/pub): > pubs are servers that have a static IP address, are always online, and always follow you back when you follow them (thus growing their network). In this way, they can act as a waypoint for you to find the location of your friends and catch up with them. When you first get started on Scuttlebutt it can appear incredibly empty until you ""join"" a pub. In other words, I could not use SSB without ""the Internet"" (or moving to a hipsterish area of New Zealand, perhaps). None of this invalidates what you have to say. All I'm saying is this: let's all be very wary of technological determinism. Just because the tech enables something, it does not mean this something will happen. I am curious: do you have any experience of SSB working locally, as in your areas 1 and 2? Where? Do you have any observation to report as to what people use it for? Keep up the good work. Pasting the link to the SSB presentation video for the many folks who do not use it. https://vimeo.com/236358264" 15,53308,2019-05-10T12:17:19.727Z,52837,anon273015838,anon3931191205,"Hi @anon3931191205, I love this! I'm sure you've considered it already, but just in case: I think another really interesting use case for this is just local communities, even within well-connected areas. A fully localized mesh could be built up as a hub for all kinds of creativity that has a distinctly local flavor in a way that often the internet isn't optimized for (even though of course localized communities exist there, too). For a fictional, but really cool exploration of this I'd highly recommend the (still brand new) debut novel by Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail ([Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121978-infinite-detail)). Set in a kind of post-crash world without internet, there's a community there that uses a local mesh as the foundation for all kinds of local creative sharing from music to augmented reality installations in public space, out on the street. Not exactly what you're looking for, but I figured it might be close enough to your research interest that it might be worth taking a quick look there. That said, the notion of more resilient networking is a tempting one, even outside of purely military use - say in conflict/post-conflict or disaster settings (war zones, earthquakes, etc.), or even just in very remote locations where local file sharing can be really useful among (concurrent or time-shifted) visitors." 16,53490,2019-05-14T19:31:43.717Z,52914,anon3931191205,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:11, topic:9802""] We actually just got our hands on a bunch of RaspberryPis at Blivande, the cultural hub, workshop and co-working space we run in the harbor of Stockholm. Maybe we should extend a mesh network around the house and the harbor? I think @anon3713826422 might be interested in some meshing. [/quote] This sounds awesome! I'd be happy to include you in the potential collaborators for a the prototype stage at the end of the report for the research phase, does this sound good to you @anon3713826422?" 17,53491,2019-05-14T19:38:00.710Z,52938,anon3931191205,anon4190938726,"[quote=""anon4190938726, post:12, topic:9802""] Check out [https://freifunk.net/en/ ](https://freifunk.net/en/) They seem to be the largest community that is active at the moment. They have been active for anon4292955258 a few years. [/quote] Yes, they are awesome! I've been considering getting in touch with them. Plan for now is to try it out in the nordics and then potentially expand. I've researched their Mesh-structure a bit and apparently their network structure makes it so that the entire network would act as a singular node for the SSB protocol. Will look further into it next week though :) I think [Guifi](https://guifi.net/) might be the largest network in the world though :star2: Hyperboria are cool too! Just saw that they're hosting a ""[Battle of the mesh](https://www.battlemesh.org/)"" event on July 8-14th too! > There are anon4292955258 a few P2P protocols or Delay Tolerant Networking systems available, but not very many that would be easy to adopt. At least I have not found a favourite yet. Freifunk seems to have a relatively robust solution going. Hmm! This I haven't heard about, what is it?" 18,53492,2019-05-14T19:43:16.799Z,52837,anon3931191205,anon3931191205,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:14, topic:9802""] In other words, I could not use SSB without “the Internet” (or moving to a hipsterish area of New Zealand, perhaps). [/quote] It's true that you can't, at the moment, use SSB without wifi, thus the proposed merge with Mesh-Networks. This would make it so that you could be anywhere in a mesh-network region and be ""at the same cafe"" so to speak. Decentralized protocols would also solve the issue of mesh-networks running over https usually having a very big issue with stable connectivity since SSB is ""offline-first"" locally hosting the data. > I am curious: do you have any experience of SSB working locally, as in your areas 1 and 2? Where? Do you have any observation to report as to what people use it for? Nope! And that's why we are conducting this project of ZMesh, to explore the combination of P2P protocols and mesh-networks in a real life scenario, as it has never been done before, as of yet." 19,53493,2019-05-14T19:46:55.925Z,53308,anon3931191205,anon273015838,"[quote=""anon273015838, post:15, topic:9802""] For a fictional, but really cool exploration of this I’d highly recommend the (still brand new) debut novel by Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail ([Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121978-infinite-detail)). Set in a kind of post-crash world without internet, there’s a community there that uses a local mesh as the foundation for all kinds of local creative sharing from music to augmented reality installations in public space, out on the street. [/quote] Coooooooooooool! :star2: :star2: :star2: Awesome recommendation! Will definitely try to get my hands on Infinite Detail! > That said, the notion of more resilient networking is a tempting one, even outside of purely military use - say in conflict/post-conflict or disaster settings (war zones, earthquakes, etc.), or even just in very remote locations where local file sharing can be really useful among (concurrent or time-shifted) visitors. Yes!! Definitely. I'm very keen to explore this aspect. Also from a resilience perspective, preparatory for the inevitable crash of the centralized communication structure which is the internet in its current form." 20,53537,2019-05-15T14:20:58.509Z,53490,anon3713826422,anon3931191205,"I would be happy to be on the list even though at the moment there are too many things going on and I'm having a hard time focusing on this subject, might organize myself better soon and explore it more... I bet @anon808971203 would also be interested in collaborating <3 btw, I also heard recently about http://pjodd.se/ from from this %P9i5KKgtlzPR3ybqrvyCAdGoAGtwa+PHckimUYNyjaE=.sha256 @anon3931191205, it might be also relevant to you" 21,53575,2019-05-16T07:02:57.310Z,53308,anon3809206126,anon273015838,"[quote=""anon273015838, post:15, topic:9802""] For a fictional, but really cool exploration of this I’d highly recommend the (still brand new) debut novel by Tim Maughan, Infinite Detail ([Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121978-infinite-detail)). [/quote] On my list. Thanks @anon273015838! [quote=""anon3931191205, post:18, topic:9802""] It’s true that you can’t, at the moment, use SSB without wifi, thus the proposed merge with Mesh-Networks. [/quote] I do not see that as a severe problem. Rather, I was pointing out to a social network problem: a local social network will only work if enough _local_ people use it for it not to be an empty space. Until we went together to the matchmaking event in Stockholm, I had never had the pleasure to fire up Patchwork and see SSB users on my local network. People were taking screenshots, which means it does not happen often to others, either. In Belgium we have a hyperlocal social network called [Hoplr](https://www.hoplr.com/About). When you sign up, you have to add your address, and they check that you really live where you say you live. You then are added to the same database as everyone else, but you can only see, and interact with, people that live in your same neighborhood. And neighborhoods are small, at least in Brussels: they use a statistical unit called _quartier_, of which there are 145 in the city (1.3 million inhabitants). I am a member for my _quartier_, but the activity is not enough to sustain a real conversation, even through ""the Internet"". My corner of Hoplr has defaulted to a kind of hard-to-search Craigslist, with people selling used furniture and the like. Of course, local Hoplr and local SSB could be socially great, if everyone used it. But not everyone will adopt them until they are socially great, so we are stuck. The pubs solution makes SSB viable for me, but it would not be possible without ""the Internet""." 22,53581,2019-05-16T09:20:59.877Z,53537,anon3931191205,anon3713826422,"[quote=""anon3713826422, post:20, topic:9802""] btw, I also heard recently about [http://pjodd.se/ ](http://pjodd.se/) from from this %P9i5KKgtlzPR3ybqrvyCAdGoAGtwa+PHckimUYNyjaE=.sha256 @anon3931191205, it might be also relevant to you [/quote] Yes! I'm from Malmö and know them anon4292955258 well, hoping to work with them too :)" 23,53999,2019-05-25T19:54:22.255Z,52906,anon577366890,anon3005076832,"I'm working on a project in New York that's using Pirate Box. The community around it seems to have died out but the technology and vision is beautiful. We're working to build what we're calling ""localized internets"" and This Mesh Grid concept is pretty wonderful. Extremely glad I came across it." 1,53995,2019-05-25T18:06:46.890Z,53995,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"5G wireless technology is the great enabler of IoT. Can't happen without 5G and its huge increase in speed and latency. Most 5G is getting built around the high end of the spectrum where fast speed and huge data transfers abound but the waves travel such short distances and are easily interrupted by physical objects, that the transmitters need to be positioned everywhere. Ubiquitous. So far, no comprehensive studies have been produced about the public health implications of having this huge flow of data blasting everyone from the millions of anon222512824 towers it will require. The IoT powered by 5G presents unprecedented opportunities for services, for surveillance and for security breaches. How much has the public weighed in on these questions? Do we even know the full implications so we can make informed choices? Is it inevitable regardless of what we think?" 2,53996,2019-05-25T18:08:48.605Z,53995,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,China has already installed three hundred and fifty thousand 5G nodes. The US one tenth as many. I do not know the European deployment at this point. 1,53815,2019-05-23T16:24:48.786Z,53815,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I've been trying to get my head around what ""human centered' really means and how it ought to play out in the real world. I keep arriving back at increasing user control over their (our) own experience coupled with far less centralization of data." 2,53820,2019-05-23T17:00:34.139Z,53815,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"European governments can individually or collectively make anon2317280404s of rules and regulations trying to get the huge companies to behave in what they regard as more civil ways, but as @anon2926706121 brings to our attention where Mark Scott of Politico.eu says in his [tweet set](https://twitter.com/markscott82/status/1131151004299407361), those huge operations like Google and Facebook just find ways to route around those rules. Or they pay the fines and move on with business as usual until the next fine. Meanwhile they [lobby extensively for those rules to be watered down](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/facebook-and-google-pressured-eu-experts-soften-fake-news-regulations-say-insiders/) so they are more favorable to their business models (which requires minimal transparency). And, according to [Investigate Europe](https://www.investigate-europe.eu/legislation-from-closed-chambers-how-undemocratic-is-the-eu/), the EC buckles to that pressure, esp if the big banks want it that way. The privacy rules that require permission to gather and store personal information are a good start. But why not extend it to everything in one's online environment? In other words, Facebook, _you can't do anything at all with me or what I say on your platform without my permission_ and you have to create a tool set that gives me all the control I think I need. Because while I am not paying you money, I am paying you with my attention and while you might benefit from the illusion that this is a ""free"" commodity, in fact it is so valuable that you are now one of the biggest richest and most powerful companies in the world. My point here is, how is it ever going to become human-centered if things don't become that stranon2926706121nt?" 3,53825,2019-05-23T17:50:39.991Z,53820,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"As an aside, the [Code of Practice](https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/code-practice-disinformation), that industry put together as a set of voluntary practices, is pretty much [a farce, according to the ""Sounding Board""](https://www.beuc.eu/documents/files/3OpinionoftheSoundingboard.pdf) written by a group put together by the EC specifically to critique the Code. As they write in the critique, ""As outlined by the Sounding Board’s previous written feedback and comments, the “Code of practice” as presented by the working group contains no common approach, no clear and meaningful commitments, no measurable objectives or KPIs, hence no possibility to monitor process, and no compliance or enforcement tool: it is by no means self-regulation, and therefore the Platforms, despite their efforts, have not delivered a Code of Practice."" The issue of pressure from Google and FB, stems from the fact that some of the orgs and companies involved in putting together the Code are significantly funded by Google and FB, and thus do not want to offend their benefactors to the point that they [withdraw their funding, which it has been reported, they did indeed threaten to do](https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tech-blackmail-eu-misinformation.php). So, don't look to such Codes as being any help in bringing about a ""human-centered Internet.""" 4,53877,2019-05-24T00:34:37.920Z,53815,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"With the emergence of blockchain, Holochain, Scuttlebutt, mesh networks and more, it seems clear to me that along with user control, much more decentralization is also necessary. But right now most data gets stored in gigantic centralized data centers and servers. In reading some of the logs from the May 11 Workshop in Stockholm, decentralization was one of the main themes expressed by participants. I wonder if @anon3713826422 or @anon808971203 would consider elaborating on your concerns about the need for more decentralization?" 5,53953,2019-05-24T21:19:38.455Z,53815,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Decentralization is being discussed in other parts of this forum, such as: https://edgeryders.eu/t/building-my-own-browser-to-explore-decentralized-discovery/9920/6" 1,53712,2019-05-21T10:28:36.317Z,53712,anon3449369942,anon3449369942,"We are in one of the consortia shaping the ECs Next Generation Internet (NGI) program, strategy, priorities etc for their investments/regulation. We are offering six-month paid Fellowships as part of our contribution to NGI. What we need are individuals coming in with a set of burning questions that they are exploring and have been for some time now. And can bring in a network of people also doing relevant work to share their own experiences and discuss them with others. Then collaboratively interpret the findings from the SSNA - Semantic Social Network Analysis. The data is open, the findings are open, software is opensource, platform is based on Discourse. Anyone welcome, all they need is an email address. The participants who go through the Internet of Humans process get invited to the matchmaking event happening in Brussels this fall in time for the next round of collective applications for larger pots of financing. Including but not limited to the next round of Horizon 2020 applications, this is the process:
![59|690x224](upload://juuE6eFKoQ3jbFE8KxYJLCnUqlJ.png) ## What the fellows do: The fellow contacts people who they think are relevant/should be in this conversation and reaches out to them. The fellow then produces a shortlist of people who are interested in participating in the IOH collaborative discovery, sensemaking and matchmaking process as outlined above. We try to make it simple for the people you get on board: you give us a list of names of people who you as a Fellow have reached out to so that they are on board and know to expect an email from Edgeryders. An Edgeryders team member then calls them and has long in-depth conversation/deep interview. The team member edits transcript/notes from the call it into a skeleanon2317280404 post with a first-hand perspective of the person interviewed. They review the skeleanon2317280404, make edits and then post under their own name on the platform. They then respond to questions in the comments. They also read 2-3 posts submitted by peers also doing interesting work, and leave thoughtful comments with questions, key information, deeper reflections to help move the thinking /conversation forward. The whole thing all ends with a collaboratively built community event. ""Collaborative"" as in: every individual proposes to host a session on something they want to learn, teach or build. Session proposals get developed/refined through P2P input. The event sessions are documented online, conversations follow after the event and they are processed into reports here on the Edgeryders platform. In the run up to the event we all help to bring people to the table who can in turn help further participants with their own work (based on their session content). In the form of Matchmaking and proposal building sessions we help people generate high quality concept notes and meaningful consortia for EC funding and other opportunities for collective fundraising.*** ## List of Fellows’ deliverables: 1. Participate in one physical event in Brussels at the beginning of the fellowship to learn more about the project and how to align with the work/activities the team is doing. When: End of June/early July. (t.b.c with team & fellows) 2. Commit to the 1-a-day: You come up with one status update with url to a high quality story, or discussion to share via your own social media account. This helps us to highlight and make it easy for new people to find their way to the best discussions, events etc in IOH. *When: throughout your fellowship.* 3. Participate in a remote meeting/ video call/virtual cafe: Personal interview: a deeper, reflective conversation about your work with Edgeryders team and the other fellow (we have two fellows at a time). *When: by May 30 (t.b.c with team & fellow)* 4. Write your Deep Story: Incorporate what surfaced during the personal interview into a deeper, reflective post introducing your work and the path leading to it, questions you have, things you struggle with etc. Some examples: [Anthony](https://edgeryders.eu/t/how-open-insulin-works-to-open-source-science-and-medicine/519), [Winnie](https://edgeryders.eu/t/my-first-month-as-an-opencare-community-fellow/6338) and [Ybe](https://edgeryders.eu/t/a-bus-tour-for-a-trauma-informed-world/762), 5. Recruit people: Give us a list of min 15 people doing interesting work relevant to the IOH/ongoing conversations on the IOH forum on [edgeryders.eu](http://edgeryders.eu). The people on the list are ones you have reached out to and engaged to participate in the collaborative discovery, sensemaking and fundraising process on the [edgeryders.eu](http://edgeryders.eu) platform. What they get: new information, structured collective intelligence and wisdom around a topic of interest to them, growing personal network, invitation to facilitated/well curated matchmaking and proposal development events organised by the Edgeryders team. Important: the people you suggest should be based in Europe or have really strong ties to the continent in terms of personal and professional network. We also ask that your list is somewhat gender balanced. The people you recruit would be committing to do the following: * Come to three video calls (interview, discuss findings from SSNA, prepare event session) * Post their own story and respond to comments posted on it… * Read and leave thoughtful comments on stories of others ( contributions should be thoughtful & rich: have to have value added for both participants and the team in terms of new information or perspectives to further the thinking/learning with quality). * ideally, they would also do one session in a final event, but this is not necessary. 6. Write six Internet of Humans Dispatch posts: Follow the conversation on the platform and highlight key contributions and insights emerging from it in a post. 7. Participate in a remote meeting/ video call/virtual cafe: Discussion of findings from ethnographic-coding /SNNA analysis. *When:* TBD 8. Participate in a remote meeting/ video call/virtual cafe: To propose/develop one theme/track for the final IOH event weaving together key threads and a cluster of people/participants. 9. Co-write introduction to the event and detailed description your own event track in the Program for the final event. *When:* TBD 10. Participate in one physical event at the end of the fellowship to present your findings and hand over the reigns to the next batch of fellows. 11. Wrap up fellowship with one thoughtful post summarising fellowship experience, what you got out of it and your own recommendations for next batch of fellows to move the collective IOH experience & community forward. *When:* TBD **The bursary & travel support:** * We have a total of 6 fellowships to award at 10,000 EUR per fellow. Payment is done in tranches against submission of listed deliverables. * Each fellow is eligible for 400 Eur in travel support. Up to this amount in total is reimbursed to the fellow with due justification *prior to incurring the expense*, and is reimbursed after the travel has been conducted against receipts (with VAT) and documentation (written description of purpose of travel and what was learned/achieved as a result in a post on the platform). _**The duration of the fellowship is 6 months.**_ ## The Paperwork/administrative process we need you to follow: **Step 1. We send you a Contract** You are sent the draft your contract. You Read it through and if you agree, let the research coordinator @anon **Step 2. Time tracking** At the end of agreed period you need to report your time and describe the activities. To do this, we use the FreeAgent software. Ask us to create an account for you. Go to “Work → Time Tracking”. You have now three options to proceed. In all cases, select the work package as the FreeAgent “Task” to which your worktime belongs. This is mandatory according to the reporting requirements we have. * **Option 1** : Select project and task and click “Start Timer”. This will use FreeAgent as a time tracker. To stop tracking, click on the “pause” butanon2317280404 that appears next to your newly created timeslip. * **Option 2** : Select project and task; fill in the worktime field and if necessary the date. Click “Add Timeslip” (the “Start Timer” butanon2317280404 changes its function when you add a worktime figure). This allows to record the worktime for a single day. * **Option 3** : Click “Add Weekly Timesheet”. This allows to efficiently take over your worktime tracking from another tracking application, and may be your preferred choice if you are already using one. Add a comment: a few words as to what you used the time for, referring to tasks and deliverables as much as possible. You can also add a link to what you produced, if applicable. For this, use the comment field at the bottom of the timeslip form. Inform Marina that you finished reporting time for a certain period. She will export your timesheet. **Step 3. Invoicing (you do this twice during your fellowship)** Create your invoice. The time reported needs to correspond to the amount allocated for your work. Our standard hourly rate is 41,86 eur. To create the invoice you can use [this template](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uTZl6ZC-zJSDsQY9-sdmGkv762ECcI5HytktNk9cshE/edit). Send your invoice to Marina. She will attach it to the exported timesheet, invite you to sign using SignRequest and import it back to FreeAgent to request the payment. ***Important to know about the IOH matchmaking and collaborative proposal writing/fundraising !!!*** *The people who participate have to do the actual work of putting together the proposals - we just save them time and money they would otherwise have to throw into the process of trying to participate in EC funding bids. The work has to start months ahead of time, with someone at their end committing to a structured process and taking responsibility for ensuring that their organisation respects everyone else’s time - by e.g submitting their parts in a shared document that is curated by someone who knows what they are doing* *Our initial point of departure is EC funding applications for the next batch of Horizon2020 applications. That said, the process we have designed is intended to feed into other community submitted opportunities. *People who have participated in previous Edgeryders run collective discovery and sensemaking processes have continued to build on the relationships formed. Some have gone on to do interesting work, others have received professional opportunities such as got invited into good consortia etc. The unMonastery, OpenCare. Others have continued to use the Edgeryders platform/instances of it for their own work e.g Winnie building a biohacking community connecting counterculture labs in SF (Openinsulin) with labs in Ghent, Geneva etc - at one point discussing with city of Milan about setting up a patient-owned microbrewery for insulin in the city.*" 2,53809,2019-05-23T15:38:59.672Z,53712,anon2801154208,anon3449369942,Thank you for this work! This sounds like an interesting opportunity :star_struck:. how can one become a Internet of Human fellow? 3,53826,2019-05-23T18:14:03.079Z,53809,anon2434097920,anon2801154208,I would start by commenting and participating here and we go from there.. 4,53913,2019-05-24T12:09:23.119Z,53712,anon2801154208,anon3449369942,i will start with my burning question and see if this kind of research fits in this discussion :grinning:. i want to find out if there is a trend towards user centric content in web marketing. by that i mean designing web content that meets user needs. less quantity more targeted more precise around researched discovered user needs. I want to understand if there is more budget allocated to this kind of marketing. What are the main barriers inside teams to put in place the workflow that produces this kind of content. I have been doing a small research among law firms this year. this is the [research planning doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LBf00LQecPoYDrnREwUMdDbHA4io8MQNtJVVAnRS78A/edit#)..i would be happy to continue this line of research and share the results. also bring with me a network of consultants that are doing advocacy to shift towards a more ethical web content marketing. 5,53949,2019-05-24T19:17:10.468Z,53913,anon2434097920,anon2801154208,My suggestion is to go into the [Tell Your Stor](https://edgeryders.eu/c/ioh/tell-your-story)y area and...tell your story! 1,53646,2019-05-18T12:10:29.287Z,53646,anon1505367078,anon1505367078,"This is directed to you who might have heard me talk about Edgeryders at Data Terra Nemo. Basically, the Internet of Humans project can be relevant for you in a few different ways: 1. We will run collaborative proposal writing workshops, mainly to go for EU funds 2. We award fellowships with travel bursaries 3. We can direct you towards funds in the [NGI ecosystem](https://www.ngi.eu/) 4. We will run events like the one we just ran in Stockholm, connecting you to people who you could collaborate with to go for big funding from bodies like the EU Horizon 2020, which requires ambitious applications and multi-party consortia. 5. We also work with policymakers and institutions who need to understand what you are building in order to create funding calls to match it. 6. We interface with policymakers and institutions to proactively influence better legislation to try to prevent legislators from breaking what we're working on Your first step towards all of this is simple. Just make a post about yourself and what you are working on. We will then be able to tag you and draw you in when interesting things happen. Our next big collaborative proposal writing session will be in October." 1,53634,2019-05-17T14:50:32.376Z,53634,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"The EU Article 13 copyright law is controversial. And I think it is fair to say that many, if not most, or even all, people in here think it is a bad law with far too much restriction, and largely unenforceable. What is wrong with Article 13 and what should a good copyright law look like?" 2,53639,2019-05-17T15:49:21.286Z,53634,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Some would even argue that there should not be any copyright law. But realistically, that is not going to happen. Intellectual property is here to stay. But this law's restrictions are extreme: it doesn't even allow for 'fair use.' I know Europe never really had a fair use exception, but this would have been a good time to put one in. Instead they went the other way completely. The following blog post from our own @anon3809206126 illustrates the clumsiness and counter-productive nature of the rule. In it he tells the story of how he wasn't able to photograph an old poster in the House of European History in Brussels, a museum dedicated to spreading knowledge and understanding about being European _to Europeans_: http://www.cottica.net/2019/05/15/captured-how-deep-the-european-union-lost-its-way-on-copyright/" 3,53640,2019-05-17T16:27:23.570Z,53634,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"The main copyright holders I know are musicians who write and record their own music. One is East Bay Ray, the guitarist for the punk band, The Dead Kennedys. Another is a trio of angelic folk sanon2926706121rs, The Wailin' Jennys. In both cases they have seen their revenue from recordings drop down to negligible numbers over the past 20 yrs. This means they have to tour much more in order to be full time musicians. Ray is 70 years old. The Jennys all became mothers over the past decade. Touring is much more of a hardship when you are a mother, and sometimes it just isn't doable. Will this new article 13 law help them and other copyright holders earn their living from their recordings? Not unless it succeeds in forcing YouTube to stop allowing people to watch copyrighted material for free and they succeed in stopping stream-ripping sites from searching them for items to rip. I do not see how they are going to accomplish that. As of last fall, [YouTube had done nothing about it.](https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/09/10/mpaa-piracy-stream-ripping/) Meanwhile, smaller sites may soon be required to pre-approve posts and links uploaded from their users, an expense many cannot afford. And this in the service of stopping piracy that hardly occurs on small sites anyway." 4,53645,2019-05-18T08:51:22.752Z,53634,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,"Would be nice to post this direct question in different channels as well. To do that an image would be good. @anon2434097920 how about this: _[redacted]_ Just took a screenshot of the first view of imagesearch in Google when you search for copyright. Should I add it to your post?" 5,53650,2019-05-18T14:20:17.691Z,53645,anon2434097920,anon3031202475,Sure that's fine. Thanks! 6,53654,2019-05-19T07:05:26.670Z,53634,anon683229855,anon2434097920,Perhaps remove the possibility to pursue legal messure on copyright if the material is made public. 7,53662,2019-05-19T19:09:13.507Z,53654,anon196034329,anon683229855,"That's a good point actually :) @anon2434097920 and @anon3031202475, posting a screenshot that includes copyrighted works of simple copyright symbols is copyright infranon2926706121ment and should not be done in a post about copyright even though it perfectly illustrates what's wrong with the system. All of this is hilarious, so let's find it funny :rofl: Anyway, I removed the screenshot image from the posts above, and please choose a self-created graphics or a freely licensed one (with proper attribution) instead." 8,53663,2019-05-19T19:22:49.529Z,53662,anon2434097920,anon196034329,I didn't notice it was a copyrighted image... 9,53670,2019-05-20T08:38:38.945Z,53662,anon3031202475,anon196034329,"ok, sorry, I have been dealing with copyright more in the art-context and there this would have been ok as a comment itself. But for wider publishing, I see how that would be a problem, even so, the publicity of getting into an argument based on that might be interesting in itself. Sorry if I created a problem." 10,53695,2019-05-20T21:08:19.380Z,53670,anon196034329,anon3031202475,"Not a problem. :) We never had any copyright related complaint against Edgeryders so far, so there is no immediate ""danger"". I'm just careful b/c I've seen copyright trolling in other spaces. For example, a friend had to pay 700 EUR due to improperly attributing a licence-free photo of ordinary carrots. Typical German Abmahnwahnsinn, though [that ""business model"" was later scaled down](https://www.e-recht24.de/news/urheberrecht/10029-pixelio-urteil-endlich-wende-in-abmahnfaellen.html) by some court." 1,53232,2019-05-08T13:31:18.124Z,53232,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Hello I am Maria, I am here at Edgeryders and the Human Internet project in particular as a community manager. I also build electromagnetic sculptures, collaborate with physicists to teleport art pieces in virtual galleries or do inclusive design research to lower entry barriers for information, services and educational applications. I love to participate in and facilitate interdisciplinary communication and exchanges. Therefore I am excited about the type of community-driven research here at Edgeryders. I have an inherent urge to find points of connections between topics and people thinking about those topics, which I call being a “compulsive connector”. I love to recommend books and texts as well as potential collaboration or conversation partners. If you want to discuss an idea or help to formulate headlines, concepts or questions to connect to other people to make your project grow I am very happy to help. After my A-levels I started studying physics in Heidelberg, with the naive goal to understand everything, to than decide to change to fine art in Dresden to have more time to appreciate the beautiful models and think about their implications, from where, after participation in the FAST programme (Framing Art Science and Technology) I went to the RCA in London to do a Master in “Information Experience Design” to focus more on the design and development of “Entry Points” and “points of Connection” for others combining the approaches and tools of fine art, design, new technologies and scientific models. I conceptualised, realised and exhibited multiple interactive sculptures and installations across Europe and worked as a UX design researcher for example with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for design or for the financial education startup “Gimi”. In 2018 I relocated to Stockholm and am now an artist in residence at the comunity and culture hub “Blivande”. If you are interested you can find some of my artistic works on my website [mariaeuler.com](http://mariaeuler.com/). Since 2010 I have lived in 6 different cities and 3 different countries in Europe and I very much appreciate being able to do that and the experiences and encounters I had and have while still being able to keep contact to my friends from school and later university across borders. However, sometimes I am questioning the effect of being disconnected from long term political and cultural discussions and participation due to this “modern nomad” lifestyle shared by so many of our generation, which is another reason I hope we can help to develop this more human-centric internet here at the Human Internet project. I believe strongly in international collaboration, exchange and friendships and hope we can help to create systems that lives up the reality of the transnational lifes we are leading. I am looking forward to more communication, Maria" 2,53233,2019-05-08T13:48:07.903Z,53232,anon3031202475,anon3031202475,"Edgeryders is a multilingual platform, therefore I will add a short version in my mother anon2317280404gue as well: Hallo, Ich bin Maria und bin hier auf Edgeryder als Community Manager. Sonst bin ich interdisziplinäre Künstlerin und mache Design Forschungsprojekte. Ich habe nach dem Abitur angefangen Physik in Heidelberg zu studieren, dann jedoch in Freie Kunst gewechselt um mehr Zeit und Freiraum zu haben für die Schönheit und Implikationen wissenschaftlicher Modelle. Schließlich habe ich meinen master in ""Information Experience Design"" am Royal College of Art in London gemacht. Ich konzeptualisiere und realisiere interactive Installationen die Kunst und Wissenschaft verbinde und stelle diese aus. Außerdem habe ich als Design Researcher mit dem Helen Hamlyn Center für Design und zum beispiel füf das Finanzielle Bildung startup ""Gimi"" gearbeitet. Ich habe in den letzten 10 Jahren in 6 Stödten in 3 Ländern gelebt und es ist sehr wichtig für mich nicht nur Kontakt zu den menschen zu halten die ich dort treffe, sonder auch nicht den Anschluss and politische und kulturelle Diskussionen zu verlieren. Ich hoffe wir könne hier daran arbeiten Systeme zu entwickeln die modernen Lebenswirklichkeiten und menschlichen Werten entsprechen. Derzeit lebe ich in Stockholm. I verbinde gerne Themen und Menschen und helfe Konzepte, Fragen und Überschriften zu formulieren um andere zu erreichen damit Projekte wachsen können. ich freue mich mit euch zu kommunizieren und zu forschen, Maria" 3,53262,2019-05-09T09:28:23.318Z,53232,anon51020356,anon3031202475,"Maria, meet @anon2565020671, researcher at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and a team member in Wellbeing in Europe. He spent a few good years in Berlin a while back and is very much interested in the German side of socio-political issues in Europe, which is why he's seeing an opportunity to build a German language community in the project(s). Also speaks German! Just wanting you to meet, since we'll be working across in our projects :-)" 4,53263,2019-05-09T09:37:04.931Z,53262,anon3031202475,anon51020356,"Thank you @anon51020356 for the introduction. @anon2565020671 Ich freue mich darauf zusammenzuarbeiten :)" 5,53360,2019-05-13T11:31:01.016Z,53232,anon2565020671,anon3031202475,"Hallo Maria! Ich freue mich auch darauf, mit dir zu arbeiten. Ich schreibe im Moment mein Story über Gesundheit für die [Care Stories Kategorie](https://edgeryders.eu/t/about-the-care-stories-category/79). Ich habe seit langem nicht auf Deutsch geschrieben. Ich hoffe, dass es Sinn macht!" 6,53590,2019-05-16T14:53:15.657Z,53360,anon3031202475,anon2565020671,"Wunderbar! Ich freu mich schon auf deine Geschichte. Ich selber habe in den lezten Jahren auch meist auf Englisch geschrieben, vorallem was professionelle Themen angeht. Interessant wie sich das Gefühl für die Sprache verändert. (und für die deutsche Tastatur, der Austausch von y und z macht mich verrückt)" 1,53393,2019-05-13T15:50:06.335Z,53393,anon1462728170,anon1462728170,"I found this community via a mention on SSB. I work in academic technology and am concerned that large capitalist platforms both favor consumption over creation and provide a lever by which global computer networks are becoming a frightening instrument of control. I wish I could do more, but I lack both the coding skills to build the tools I think the world needs and the salesmanship to convince anyone that they are important, but I'm sure there must be a better way than what we have." 2,53405,2019-05-13T18:26:17.422Z,53393,anon196034329,anon1462728170,"[quote=""anon1462728170, post:1, topic:9890""]I … am concerned that large capitalist platforms both favor consumption over creation and provide a lever by which global computer networks are becoming a frightening instrument of control.[/quote] For a bit of a fresh perspective, it just occurred to me that both of these problems are not problems with just the current Internet but with pretty much everything in Western (and Westernized) societies. _Everything_ is unhealthy and has been used as an instrument of control in the interest of corporate profits and state profits (i.e. tax revenue via GDP growth). Examples include: * the industrialized food system, which includes massive advertising for unhealthy eatable stuff, heavily processed an addictive food, industrially grown ""organic"" products, commercialized ""fair trade"" products with hollow promises and branded basic food items (which did not exist until the 1920s / 1930s) * the waste management system, with contracts setting the incentives against political measures for trash reduction, as the promise a certain amount of (profitable) trash to the collection companies … which then use the plastic for example like free fuel and just burn it in power stations to profit from the electricity (I know this in detail from a certain medium-sized city over here …) * delusional advertising on for-profit TV stations … while this was a point of discourse in the late 90s here in Germany, now everyone has just become used to it * the housing market, which has in many places morphed from a market to fulfill the basic need of accommodation to a market to fulfill the desire of investors and landlords for ROI / profits * … and there is of course more, you name it That's just to illustrate: the Internet is going the only way that has been prepared for it by an industrial, oligopolist, capital-intensive, consumption-driven economic system. It's not the Internet's fault, it's about bigger forces that now control the Internet as well. And my guess is that we won't get rid of the issue without a major overhaul (or breakdown) of capitalism itself …" 3,53448,2019-05-14T12:38:56.983Z,53405,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:2, topic:9890""] *Everything* is unhealthy and has been used as an instrument of control in the interest of corporate profits and state profits (i.e. tax revenue via GDP growth). [/quote] This is a profound intuition... though one that is not necessarily super-actionable. It would be great to find low-hanging fruits of things that can be done here and now, without invoking systemic change. I am not necessarily against systemic change, but it can take a very long time!" 4,53455,2019-05-14T13:29:38.220Z,53448,anon196034329,anon3809206126,"Sure, we'll get to the actionable items in a short while :) I just think that there is also value in attempting a ""purely academic"" understanding of the situation first. Because whether one thinks ""everything is anon4292955258 alright and just Internet governance is messed up right now"" or ""everything is perverted by a drive for profit, and that includes the Internet"" will inform what actionable items to choose. For example: in the first case one might try to utilize state institutions to improve Internet governance, while in the second case one might rather focus on P2P / decentralized new infrastructures because one would see state institutions as the supporters and enablers of the profit-driven takeover of all areas of life for decades now, with anon222512824 hope for a fast systemic change." 5,53467,2019-05-14T15:05:54.934Z,53455,anon2434097920,anon196034329,I agree that the internet's problem is fully analogous to today's unchecked capitalism (emphasis on unchecked). Both are on winner-take-all tracks that I think are proving to be ruinous. 6,53512,2019-05-15T08:26:33.692Z,53455,anon3809206126,anon196034329,"[quote=""anon196034329, post:4, topic:9890""] I just think that there is also value in attempting a “purely academic” understanding of the situation first. Because whether one thinks “everything is anon4292955258 alright and just Internet governance is messed up right now” or “everything is perverted by a drive for profit, and that includes the Internet” will inform what actionable items to choose. [/quote] Oh, absolutely agree. Le't say that, as the broken/corrupt quota of the system increases, the list of actionable stuff gets shortened towards an empty set." 1,53359,2019-05-13T11:17:10.805Z,53359,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"As a thank you gift for the lovely [Internet of Humans matchmaking event](/t/9705), held on Saturday in Stockholm, I thought I would make an early harvest of the IOH conversation on this forum. It's only a _social_ network, not a social semantic one, because no ethno coding has yet taken place. But still, we have 58 unique contributors, that authored 347 posts in 45 topics. In total, the nascent corpus is already 44K words long (**UPDATE** – 8 hours later, same day, we have 60 unique contributors, 365 posts in 47 topics, and 46K words. This does not yet include the documentation from the Stockholm event). And here's the network: ![image|690x559](upload://fRYC6LU5p87INbY9tbl2lc0y0tA.png) It has 58 nodes, one for each contributor to the debate, and 120 edges (**UPDATE** – 8 hours later, on the same date, the graph had 60 nodes and 126 edges. I have not update the figure.). Node color maps to unweighted degree, i.e. the number of people with which each of us has direct interaction. A warmer color indicates higher degree. The most connected person is, unsurprisingly, the community manager @anon2434097920, followed by @anon1505367078, me and @anon3031202475. @anon196034329, @anon3931191205, @anon2339827249, @anon273015838 and @anon838581715x are also anon4292955258 active. Most of the others have only 1-4 connections. Notice the ""northern star"" configuration, with a lot of the Swedes gathered around Hugi. As the conversation develops, its social network will continue to change with each post we write. I will post periodic updates for everyone to see. :slight_smile: also ping @anon" 2,53361,2019-05-13T11:35:39.624Z,53359,anon1505367078,anon3809206126,Thank you Alberto. Lovely to see. What are you using to make these maps? 3,53363,2019-05-13T12:38:35.523Z,53361,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,http://tulip.labri.fr/TulipDrupal/ 4,53383,2019-05-13T14:45:09.756Z,53359,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,This chart may come in handy for us in showing the Commission that we are underway with something substantial. 5,53495,2019-05-14T19:55:29.909Z,53359,anon3931191205,anon3809206126,"Awesome! Thanks for sharing, looking forwards to follow the updates :cherry_blossom:" 1,53167,2019-05-07T03:24:25.415Z,53167,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Or can you be one or the other depending on whether it is to your advantage, which is what Facebook especially wants to do. Newcomers - please [sign up](https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login) and join the conversation!" 2,53168,2019-05-07T03:43:19.630Z,53167,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"A platform is content neutral, like the phone company, and does not interfere in any way with the content of what gets said on their networks (wiretapping in criminal cases is different). A publisher makes editorial choices and takes responsibility for the consequences of that content. It used to be a pretty clear distinction until online conversation networks came along. In the early days, those of us who managed those online conversation networks, including big companies like America Online, argued that we shouldn't be held liable for everything that the users say to each other, because for one thing, we would have to pre-approve everything that got posted, which most users would find intolerable. Or we would have to actively censor whatever we found objectionable. So for the most part people said whatever they wanted and dealt with the liability or libel issues themselves. In 1996 in the USA, Congress passed the Communications Decency Act that did a number of things, mainly related to obscenity and minors, but included section 230 which make online services immune from liability for the content posted on those companies' sites. In 1997 the Supreme Court struck down most of the CDA, but kept Section 230. This was all before social media as we know it was even dreamed up. So into this legal framework came social media operations that gained audience far beyond anything any other online service had ever seen or even likely dreamed of. And with the advent of the Facebook 'news feed' began the process we find ourselves in today where the companies actively manipulate what we see on our screens to maximize our desire to stay on the site, or return to it often, and to feed us a lot of what we want to see and hear so we might buy the things the advertisers show to us. Whether they intended it or not, this actively contributes to a more polarized society according to numerous studies and essays. And now, Facebook has banned extremist individuals outright. So are they a platform or a publisher? They say they are a platform when they want that shielding from the law and they admit to being a publisher when they want to get rid of what they consider to be hate speech or people who espouse violence. But when the New Zealand mass shooter spread that video all around Facebook, Facebook used the shield of a platform to avoid liability for spreading it, but then they wanted to be a publisher when they banned it. And let us remember that while that video was viewed on their platform millions of times, they made money off the ads that ran along with it." 3,53169,2019-05-07T03:44:59.750Z,53167,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"This [article on Vox](https://www.vox.com/technology/2019/5/6/18528250/facebook-speech-conservatives-trump-platform-publisher) does a good job of explaining the situation.. Meanwhile [Facebook is tussling with the EU](https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-story-facebook-fight-against-european-regulation/) on a number of regulatory fronts, mainly to keep the EU from regulating them at all, although they seem to be willing to accept a anon222512824 of it. For now FB can play the neutral platform card. According to the above Politico article, ""The EU law governing responsibility for content on social media platforms is the 2000 e-commerce directive, which does not hold companies like Google and Facebook liable for illegal content posted by their users. Companies must take down illegal content once it has been flagged as such, but they are not required to actively prevent it from being uploaded."" But this is not at all settled. What do you think should happen?" 4,53195,2019-05-07T13:21:07.157Z,53168,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"[quote=""anon2434097920, post:2, topic:9858""] So are they a platform or a publisher? [/quote] The debate on Internet regulation teems with these questions. Is Uber a tech company or a taxi company? Is Airbnb a platform or a hotel business? I am fresh from a long conversation with Amelia Andersdotter (@anon227579045). She explained that the legal consequences of sticking a label on things are very far-reaching. If I understand her reasoning, she advocates: 1. Taking a long, hard look at the emergent consequences of the way these companies do business before taking action. 1. Mapping these consequences against the values that we would like society to uphold. This can be messy. In the case of Uber, some people dislike the relatively low compensation that many drivers appear to get for their time. But some others point to the fact that Uber has made taxi travel safe for Indian women. Women do not like to take taxis in India, because drivers have been known to demand more money than agreed once the car is in motion and the client has left the safety of her house. There have been cases of harassment, too. Uber does not have these problems, because (1) the price or a ride is established and (2) the identity of the driver is known, and the company is credible when it threatens consequences against misbehaving drivers. 1. Only after this move in to regulate. I am probably representing this anon4292955258 clumsily, Amelia herself could do it much better." 5,53209,2019-05-07T18:44:18.069Z,53195,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"Often regulation is one or more steps behind the innovative entity that acts in ways the call out for some regulation. In Uber's case, it does seem like the taxi cab industry, at least in the US, was so complacent that it was ripe for serious disruption. With AirBnB it's more complicated because an unintended consequence is how much it has changed the rental picture for local residents, which has large social impact. In Facebook's case, they seem to just want to run out ahead of any regulation, because, I think, they want to constantly adjust their models to maximize their ROI from all the data gathering. I can sympathize with FB's view in a sense. Back when I started and managed sfgate.com, it was owned by a company that had thousands of employees, both union and non-union. The unionized workers were represented by no less than 14 separate unions. Naturally they wanted to represent my employees too. I, as a lifelong union sympathizer and former union member myself (Machinists International), thought that someday it would be appropriate for them to represent the workers on my crew. But not at first because they would enforce rules written long ago for a different industry with clear divisions of labor and that would stifle the quick movements we required to be innovative. And in that sense, unions function kind of like regulators. But then, we were essentially giving news away to the public with a small number of ads thrown in and we were not doing any deep data mining on our users.." 6,53210,2019-05-07T18:56:44.784Z,53167,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Author and columnist Cory Doctorow just published [this column in Locus](https://locusmag.com/2019/05/cory-doctorow-steering-with-the-windshield-wipers/) discussing how anti-trust laws have been so weakened that they no longer get applied to breaking up really big monopolistic companies when the real problem is the sheer size and hegemony of those companies. "" Concentration leads to all kinds of bad things. Take Facebook, a company whose day is long past. People fucking *hate* Facebook, which is why 15,000,000 people left the service in 2018, primarily 15-to-34 year-olds, way up from 2016. And where did most of those people go? Instagram, acquired by Facebook in 2012. Facebook has a privacy problem and we should regulate to fix it, but the reality is that for as long as people who care about Facebook’s privacy dumpster fire end up on another Facebook-owned site, Facebook will slowwalk any kind of privacy protections."" He then goes on a long excursion about Article 13 and copyright, where he makes the point that forcing these companies to monitor all their comments and function as a censor will be so expensive that it will mean breaking them up - the real need - won't happen because smaller entities won't be able to deal with that kind of workload. ""If we appoint tech giants with the unimaginably expensive civic duty of policing all online speech for copyright infranon2926706121ment (or “extremism” or what have you), that will make it impossible to unbiggen Big Tech: we won’t be able to shrink them into pieces small enough to manage, because those pieces won’t be able to manage their public duties.""" 7,53293,2019-05-09T16:44:28.954Z,53167,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"This [New York Times editorial by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) is well worth your time. Relevant to this topic he says, "" Mark used to insist that Facebook was just a “social utility,” a neutral platform for people to communicate what they wished. Now he recognizes that Facebook is both a platform and a publisher and that it is inevitably making decisions about values. The company’s own lawyers have argued in court that Facebook is [a publisher](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/02/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-platform-publisher-lawsuit) and thus entitled to First Amendment protection.""" 8,53294,2019-05-09T19:08:15.245Z,53293,anon3449369942,anon2434097920,"Yes I read it, makes sense to me. Will be interesting to see which politicians/ regulators pursue this line...FB has means to blackmail/disinform alot of people into falling in line with FBs agenda." 9,53298,2019-05-10T02:43:39.697Z,53294,anon2434097920,anon3449369942,"Hughes recommends that the government set standards for what can and can't be said. I think that barks up the wrong tree. A lot of FBs problems could be solved by giving everyone much more control over their experience, for instance let people do the filtering they want. But that runs counter to their business model of creating ever more pinpoint profiles against which they sell ads at ever better prices." 1,53064,2019-05-02T17:15:14.879Z,53064,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Her hour long conversation with The Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel is essential to understanding the commercial driver of today's Internet. Or you can read the book of course, but that will take a lot longer. She lays it out there clearly enough for anyone to understand. https://www.c-span.org/video/?456637-1/after-words-shoshana-zuboff" 2,53065,2019-05-02T17:17:24.258Z,53064,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"And of course it begs the question, do you know what you are trading off when you use these services? Are you asked for consent for all the data that is gathered and do you give it? Her answer, in the interview is, ""we don't know and it's not because we are stupid. It's because they are designed for us not to know."" In addition, she mentions a couple of consumer surveys where, when informed of what companies who sell ""smart"" devices actually do with their data, 70 to 80 % of respondents say they do not want it."" So the business model is predicated on consumers not knowing. She mentions that doll, I think it was the Cayla (banned in Germany for being a spy tool), that monitors your kids in their rooms and says that, unbeknownst to consumers, the doll was gathering chunks of dialogue and selling that data to a CIA contractor to help them improve their voice recognition technology. So, whether you know it or not, your kid might be helping the CIA. I would think that this is something that as a consumer you would at least like to know about and agree to." 3,53066,2019-05-02T17:33:49.485Z,53065,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Related to the spying toys: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-smart-tech-toys-spying-20170228-story.html" 4,53067,2019-05-02T17:54:13.303Z,53064,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"Not to go on and on here, but she also goes into the difference between a company gathering your data for the sole purpose of improving their service to you and taking that data and selling it in a secondary marketplace. To go back in history, for decades now most privacy policies lay out how they will or won't sell or give away your data but they may share it with their ""partners."" In this context, partner can mean almost anything and they don't have to define it. So it is about as airtight as running your air conditioner with the windows open." 5,53229,2019-05-08T13:06:05.933Z,53064,anon3031202475,anon2434097920,"For a while I used to think that the sheer mass of data on individuals would provide a kind of security in itself as it would be impossible to actually read/listen to and interpret all of those pieces of information. I thought that if everybody would just have access to all information, no one would have the time to act upon it or have a huge advantage over the other. But my view has shifted learning about the capabilities but also demands of big data analysis. There are tools in existence and development able to interpret the largest amounts of data so that they can be acted upon and at the same time such tools are not available to everyone even if the information would be. Companies with the capital, know how and computing power to use the available data so often even provided freely or by users unaware of it have a huge advantage over the rest of the population." 6,53243,2019-05-08T15:21:38.963Z,53229,anon2434097920,anon3031202475,Yes. This is a core part of the winner-take-all dynamic that is happening. 1,52991,2019-04-30T15:48:19.217Z,52991,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"We have created a set of tags for this forum, listed in the first response. These are tags that we, the hosts, will use tagging topics (can only tag topics, not individual comments), and we hope that you will use when you create a topic. Note that this is a work in progress, so is not carved in sanon2317280404e. We may amend it from time to time as seems appropriate." 2,52992,2019-04-30T15:49:22.932Z,52991,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"PERSONAL DATA _Primary:_ _consent_ _data mining_ _identity_ _privacy_ _tracking_ _user data_ Secondary: data centres data sharing diversity filter bubbles harassment human values inequality password relationships the cloud trust GOVERNANCE _Primary:_ _copyright_ _data sovereignty_ _democracy_ _monopolization_ _net neutrality_ _regulation_ _surveillance_ Secondary: antitrust article 13 citizen climate change consumer decentralisation disinformation diversity economy free speech health netizen opt-out transnational work conditions SAFETY _Primary:_ _cryptocurrency_ _cybercrime_ _cybersecurity_ _darknet_ _encryption_ _malware_ _spyware_ _security vulnerabilities_ Secondary: blocking cyber warfare resilience sustainability terrorist trustworthiness TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT _Primary:_ _artificial intelligence (AI)_ _biohacking_ _blockchain_ _e-commerce_ _internet of things_ _machine learning_ _medical technology_ _open source_ _peer-to-peer (P2P)_ _protocols_ _robot_ _smartphone_ Secondary: 5Gg ads auanon2317280404omous vehicles business models energy efficiency facial recognition internet backbone next billion users network hardware neural networks open hardware voice assistant" 1,51400,2019-03-06T09:10:06.148Z,51400,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"Earlier this week, we had a long meeting in which many important things were said. One thing from @anon > the Commission feels a mismatch between who they are talking and the pioneers of this new human-centric Internet. As I considered this, I realized that it is not at all clear (not to me, at least) what ""a human-centric Internet"" actually is. @anon4261882768 (at the London meeting) and @anon2339827249 (in [this article](https://www.britishcouncil.org/anyone-anywhere/explore/web-for-all/rethinking-internet)) have spelled out the NGI Forward vision as well as I know how: > But things don’t have to be this way. Between Silicon Valley’s corporate-led internet and the Chinese model, where the government is in charge, can we come up with a third narrative, where citizens and communities are in control and can determine their own future? In other words, **for now all we have a is a big question mark**. This opens a lot of room for ""mismatches"" like the one described by Mirko. Who is it the Commission have in mind? Who could be a good metaphor for a human-centric Internet builder? A Creative Commons lawyer? A Siemens R&D employee? A startupper drawing exponential curves in a PowerPoint file? As I mused about these things I chanced into a discussion on [Scuttlebutt](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/), (like @anon1505367078 and @anon196034329, I try to keep some tendrils in the indieweb, probably not as seriously as they do). To see the whole thing, if you use Scuttlebutt, use message ID `%u0fnmwUQTBcL9S8HP3uYCdBgnssu4GIyWSuo5XLYvPs=.sha256`, but the title says it all: ""Deprioritizing first world problems"". The back story is this: an often-repeated feature request of Scuttlebutt is to provide for a multi-device account. The author of the original post has this to offer: > Multi-device management is by definition a problem experienced by people who *own multiple devices* , and those are probably by definition not the underconnected world [...]. >It turns out that if you pick first world techies as your target audience, you'll be dealing with people who perceive tiny inconveniences to be major showstoppers. Moreover, if you keep on catering to them, you'll be empowering privileged people more than the underprivileged (one example is that if you build apps to be online-only, you are privileging the privileged with good internet connectivity and ignoring the underprivileged, widening the inequality gap further). Meanwhile, underprivileged people are less demanding and more welcoming to almost any progress. In other words, it takes 100h of work to make a privileged audience satisfied, while it takes 10h to make an underprivileged audience satisfied, because of low-hanging fruits and less demanding attitude from users. And the underprivileged are often excluded from target audiences because they aren't economically viable customers. But that's when you're running a business, and with Manyverse I'm not. It takes a tech giant or a VC-funded startup to build polished apps for first world techies, while it takes just a reasonable amount of free time from open sourcerers to build decent proof-of-concept software for less demanding audiences. This gave me a bit of an ""aha"" moment. The builders of Scuttlebutt **started from the sort of human community they wanted to build**: open to the underprivileged, solving basic social connectivity problems while staying away from surveillance capitalism, etc., *and on those basis they are making all their technical choices*, right down to the editor. As they do that, they discover and exploit sources of economic efficiency (""underprivileged audiences are less demanding, easier to serve with open source tech""). They ended up with a very different product from the ones they are seeking to replace, and with a *very* different community. Diaspora still feels Facebook-ish: Scuttlebutt feels completely different, to me at least. See the video below if you want a quick intro. So. Human-centric, check. Technical innovation, check. Social innovation, check. Are communities like these those we are supposed to engage in NGI Forward? If so, I am afraid the narrative will have to change in depth to make space for that much diversity in the conversation.. Those guys might engage, but they will come asking some deep, probably unsettling questions. ""If the purpose is serving humans, it is not a given that we should be even giving business a say. By your own definition, business is only relevant if it serves humans"", and so on. https://vimeo.com/236358264" 2,51404,2019-03-06T12:19:42.291Z,51400,anon1505367078,anon3809206126,"[quote=""anon3809206126, post:1, topic:9569""] So. Human-centric, check. Technical innovation, check. Social innovation, check. Are communities like these those we are supposed to engage in NGI Forward? [/quote] Absolutely, I think you’re spot on. Communities using and building things like Scuttlebutt (also known as SSB), DAT, IPFS, Beaker and Mastodon are a great starting point for exactly these reasons. These are the first groups I want to engage with. We have a huge reservoir of themes to draw upon that these communities are already discussing: resilience, environment, alternative energy, wellbeing, social issues, decentralized institutions for solidarity and many more. Through our good friends at Enspiral, we have direct access to the heart of the Scuttlebutt community as the main developer [Dominic Tarr](https://twitter.com/dominictarr) is from New Zealand, so it's a good place to start. Someone made this map of how the user-base and culture of various social online technologies map on to the political compass. I don't know who the author is, and it is obviously to be taken with a pinch of salt, but there is some truth to it. It corresponds broadly to my own experience with these communities. ![authoritarian-kwangmyong-stormfront-cubadebate-gab-ai-wechat-baidu-vkontakt-authoritarian-left-29889578|500x591](upload://rUQhhzsRidJ5AhQ1eADvZYEzjkm.png) Engaging the communities on the two libertarian quadrants to engage in the NGI conversation is crucial. To do so, we will need to give them incentives. Access to funding through calls, and some guidance for how to apply, is one incentive. Creating high-profile invite-only events that cater to their tastes is another. That said, there are smoother ways that invite-only to get to the right people, which is essentially to make the communication specific enough in flavour that only the right people understand why they should go. One event using this strategy is [Data Terra Nemo](https://dtn.is/), which I will be attending in May. As a side-note, Scuttlebutt developer Dominic Tarr has anon4292955258 the story to tell. He is an extremely productive author of open source libraries, and has written hundreds of modules that are being used all around the internet. He has never been paid a dime for this work, and gives the code away. Obviously, he can't maintain all this code, so when people come along to take over maintaining old modules he is has written ages ago, he is happy to hand over the reins. This created controversy as it was discovered that control over one of those modules had ended up in the hands of a thug who inserted malicious code into an update, which was then pushed out to thousands of servers all around the internet. Its intended target was a single Bitcoin wallet platform called Copay which was using the module, and the perpetrator could then harvest account details of any account with more than 100 Bitcoin. Dominic caught a lot of flack for not doing due diligence on who he hands over code to, but [his response](https://gist.github.com/dominictarr/9fd9c1024c94592bc7268d36b8d83b3a) was that as long as companies are not paying maintainers of the modules they use or maintaining the modules themselves, they had themselves to blame." 3,51408,2019-03-06T14:13:36.049Z,51404,anon3809206126,anon1505367078,"[quote=""anon1505367078, post:2, topic:9569""] [his response](https://gist.github.com/dominictarr/9fd9c1024c94592bc7268d36b8d83b3a) was that as long as companies are not paying maintainers of the modules they use or maintaining the modules themselves, they had themselves to blame. [/quote] You are right, this is anon4292955258 the story! Its morals are clear: if you go with the present economic model for the Internet, ""human-centric"" will remain an aspiration, rather than a description. The Internet's economy post-1993 pulls in the opposite direction. [quote=""anon1505367078, post:2, topic:9569""] One event using this strategy is [Data Terra Nemo](https://dtn.is/) [/quote] `` They must mean ""Data Terra **Nullius** ([like here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius))`<\geekmode>` [quote=""anon1505367078, post:2, topic:9569""] To do so, we will need to give them incentives. [/quote] No argument!" 4,52767,2019-04-24T07:05:43.752Z,51404,anon3449369942,anon1505367078,guys can we make this thread public? 5,52770,2019-04-24T07:25:04.623Z,52767,anon3809206126,anon3449369942,This thread is now public. 1,52604,2019-04-16T14:24:40.219Z,52604,anon2434097920,anon2434097920,"I'm John Coate. I'm a member of the Edgeryders Board of Directors and am the lead host (AKA Community Manager) for this Internet of Humans project. My internet career goes all the way back to 1986 when I started as the Marketing Director for [The WELL](https://www.well.com/), described by Wired! Magazine in 1997 as ""The world's most influential online community."" There was no name for it back then because nobody had yet done it as a job, but I was in realty the first ""online community manager."" In 1994 I co-founded and managed the first major online news website, [SF Gate](https://www.sfgate.com/). We were the first to do a number of things on the web that are now standard. And we were the first to live webcast a major sporting event in 1997. Later I was Director of Development for the [Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/), and still later the General Manager of a [public FM radio station](https://www.kzyx.org/#stream/0) in California, where I live. I've been part of Edgeryders since 2016. I have seen first hand the entire arc of the internet with all that is both wonderful and terrible about it. It disturbs me that it increasingly concentrates power and wealth in the hands of a few gigantic companies. This winner-take-all situation is not what we pictured as we were building the various parts of the Internet. I hope that here we will bring out new ideas and paths forward to put the 'Net back to the human-centered place we knew that it could, and should, be. I live on the north coast of California, in a meadow by the redwoods about 3 km from the pacific ocean cliffs." 2,52699,2019-04-20T23:39:50.988Z,52604,anon435423455,anon2434097920,Thanks John for sharing your inspiring story! I am looking forward to getting to know yourself and members of this online community better! 3,52708,2019-04-22T04:44:27.937Z,52699,anon2434097920,anon435423455,And I look forward to it too. Thanks. 1,52681,2019-04-19T16:59:42.299Z,52681,anon3809206126,anon3809206126,"Alberto Alemanno pointed me to [the story of Eunomia](https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/04/eunomia-leaks-reveal-antagonism-over-federated-social-credit-system/82330/), which very much looks like a recently launched Horizon 2020 project trying to come up with some system to detect fake news. The link above leads to a review written by a site called One Angry Gamer, a news website that covers gaming, but also internet freedom and ""ethics in journalism"". The money quote (emphasis mine): > A European Union-funded initiative called Eunomia has contracted various thinktanks, tech groups, and Fediverse evangelists to help with a new social credit scoring system. The system will be applied to social media and the federated destinations using blockchain technology. It will be governed by a crowdsourced system where groups rank up and rank down the trust levels of information. **In simple terms, it’s an adaptation of China’s social credit scoring system for the Fediverse**. Well, someone working on the project leaked some chat logs, and it reveals a rather antagonistic nature from the people working on the project toward the users who are skeptical of this EU funded project. [..] This obviously didn’t seem like an innocuous project from the EU especially given the Union’s recent anti-freedom of speech initiatives like [Article 11 and Article 13](https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/03/article-11-and-article-13-have-passed-public-list-made-available-of-politicians-who-voted-for-bills/80963/). [...] **Why is a social scoring system even needed for social media if users didn’t ask for it?** Note the reference to the Fediverse. One of the partners is Eugen “Gargron” Rochko, the creator of Mastodon. It seems reasonable to deduce that there is anon4292955258 some trust to rebuild, and that suggests a lot of listening in NGI, and not so much speaking. And a question to @anon2434097920. Where does this type of post go in the public space? It was not obvious to me, given the cats you made." 2,52682,2019-04-19T17:19:44.127Z,52681,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"Not done with the cats - still figuring it out. I created 4 discussion sub-categories just now. See if they make sense to you. I'm trying to find a small number of larger 'buckets"" that will work with tags to help people get to the things that interest them. Looking for balance between good organization and screen clutter. I'd make those boxes smaller but I don't see where to do that. So, then, in the case of this 'we did not ask for it' topic, I would put in under Governance since it is talking about a EU-directed potential regulation." 3,52698,2019-04-20T15:42:36.819Z,52682,anon3809206126,anon2434097920,"Ok, done. As for ""making sense"", I dislike ontologies and see them as a necessary evil, and [they are overrated anyway](http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html). From a community management point of view, I also dislike empty or semi-empty cats. So, my instinct would be to have only ONE cat, #ioh, with one subcat for the research team, and maybe (maybe) differentiate later, when the discussion is so crowded that it begs breaking down. That's how OpenCare worked, and that's how I would do it if I were in your shoes." 4,52707,2019-04-22T04:40:08.965Z,52698,anon2434097920,anon3809206126,"I wasn't fixed on keeping those subcategories up there. Was trying them out for size in anticipation that more organization will be called for later. Pre-release mocking up. Ontologies and tags and all are not as important as they once were when search was more cumbersome than it is today. But I think they are more useful than you do probably. At any rate they help describe the landscape. Anyway I moved this into a general discussion area. Probably will come up with a snappier name for it.." 1,52309,2019-04-04T14:32:29.724Z,52309,anon838581715,anon838581715,"Hi, My name is Mattias Axell and I am a returning community user at the Edgeryders community platform from earlier interest and endeavors some years ago. Since my earlier interest in Edgeryders I have studied the entrepreneurial programme at Kaospilot in Denmark. During my studies there I started engaging in government transparency connected to freedom of information and open data. I have previously worked as a producer in 3D industry, with events such as hackathons, hosted and moderated conference tracks, helped out with workshops, held courses, lectures and seminars at different conferences and events regarding widely ranging topics. I am introducing myself here as part of my new part-time project to collaborate with @anon1505367078 and arrange an event for the NGI project during 11th of May 2019. I currently also work part-time with [Civic Tech Sweden](https://civictech.se/) where I am trying to gather a community and network in Sweden for free software and open source initiatives but also in general tech initiatives which tries to create more and different kinds of value for society. I will be working with @anon" 2,52313,2019-04-04T16:35:18.078Z,52309,anon3449369942,anon838581715,Welcome back :)