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| From: | Samer |
| Subject: | Re: [GNU/consensus] Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons |
| Date: | Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:17:19 +0100 |
Thanks for sharing this great initiative.
Are you going to participate on the CCC conference in Hamburg between 27-30Dec this year?
I'd be happy to speak with you.
You could attend to this self-oranized session: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Session:Bringing_free-as-in-freedom_to_social_networks:_what,_why,_and_how
and also organize your own session.
I want to ask you something - is it possible to have an internship in your organization via this program:
http://www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu/index.php
with ideas like this: https://decentralizedmodel.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/the-decentralization-roadmap/
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On Sun, 12/13/15, Samer <address@hidden> wrote:
Subject: [GNU/consensus] Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons
To: address@hidden
Date: Sunday, December 13, 2015, 9:29 PM
communitiesDecentralized solutions to
Dear
all,
I think that the
following call might be of interest to some members of the
list. Please, feel free to disseminate it
(thanks!):
Call
for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons
We
are witnessing today a steady growth in the impact of
user-generated content and peer-production on the so-called
sharing or collaborative economy. These emergent practices
are an indicator of radical changes in the mode of
production in an age of ‘prosumerism’, characterized by
two main trends. On the one hand, corporations such as
Google, Uber or Facebook are capturing the value created by
the actors contributing to the collaborative economy, in a
way that has been described by some scholars as an
exploitation of free labour. On the other hand, projects
such as Wikipedia or GNU/Linux are emblematic of a new model
of production that relies on the contribution of many
individuals collaborating to a collective project that is
not owned by any given entity but rather by the community as
a whole (Commons-Based
Peer Production or CBPP). These individuals organise
themselves without relying on traditional hierarchical and
mercantile organisational structures, to produce a set
of commons resources
which are made freely available to the public for use and
reuse. In the last few years, CBPP has expanded beyond the
field of software and encyclopedias to also cover the realms
of information (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), hardware
(FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), accommodation (Couchsurfing,
BeWelcome) and currency (Bitcoin, Altcoins).
The
concept of decentralisation is a key
requisite for the protection of thesecommons — from their
governance system, including the allocation of power and
functions in the organisation of labour; to the
characteristics of the socio-technical means of
collaboration, in terms of both the underlying technical
infrastructure and the ownership structure of such
infrastructure. Despite the original design of the Internet
as a decentralized network, with
the advent of the Web 2.0, centralized
(and often proprietary) platforms — typically driven by
corporate interests — have progressively taken over the
web.
These centralized choke-points can be used by governments to
increase surveillance (as disclosed by the Snowden
revelations), to blackout the Internet (e.g. Egypt, Syria,
or San Francisco’s BART), or to restrict the activities of
activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). It has now
become clear that it is not enough to develop
free/libre/open source (FLOSS)alternatives,
if we do not as well endeavor to re-decentralize the
Internet.
Newdecentralized software tools
may ultimately be useful to support the operation and the
long-term sustainability of CBPP communities.
In
view of this, we organised the second FLOSS4P2P
workshop (@Fablab
London, supported by P2Pvalue),
gathering a wide spectrum of people working ondecentralized FLOSS projects
that could help or support the activities of peer production
communities.
Given the success
of the workshop,
we would like to prepare a book in collaboration with
the Institute
of Network Cultures (on
the model of the former MoneyLab
Reader)
to explore the topic of decentralisation in thecommons sector.
We
welcome proposals from academics, activists, researchers and
practitioners interested in exploring the topic from a wide
set of perspectives, ranging from computer science,
engineering, sociology, philosophy, organisational theory,
cultural studies, digital studies, etc. Contributions can
cover a variety of topics, including tools for grassroots
communities, commons-based peer production,
both online and offline wikis, maker culture, activism,
hacktivism, free culture, citizen science and hospitality
exchange. Contributions can take a variety of formats, e.g.
a story, a sci-fi tale, a comicstrip, a manifesto, a
critical essay, an interview, a study, a poem, a
conversation, a debate, a combination of the
former… we
would like you to experiment and surprise us!
We
invite you to submit
an initial abstract (max.
750w; count each image as 200w, if any) explaining your idea
by January
30, 2016.
Examples of possible topics are:
Dynamics
of (de)centralization in
CBPP communitiesDecentralized software
applications for online/offline
tackle specific communities concernsGuidelines
for developers and/or researchersComparison
of centralized/decentralized processes in
CBPP (e.g. decision-making, infrastructure ownership, value
generation, value distribution)Practical
experiences around centralized/decentralized structures (in
the form of stories, research, interview,
etc.)
The
more compelling ideas will be selected to be included in the
book.
Please upload
your contribution using the following Easychair
link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floss4p2p
If
you have further questions about the expected content,
format, etc. do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward
to hearing about your ideas!
Primavera De FilippiSamer
HassanDavid
Rozas
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Samer |address@hidden| http://samer.hassan.name
"We are the ones we have been waiting
for" (June
Jordan)
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