Episode description
European Lab forum
6e édition
Europe de la culture : année zéro
4 — 8 mai 2016
New kids on the block : des réseaux décentralisés à la FreedomBox
Co-programmé avec Elevate – Discourse & Activism
Internet est devenu une immense toile qui s’immisce dans tous les aspects de nos vies. Ce qui était à l’origine un protocole hypertexte décentralisé et ouvert ne cesse d’évoluer vers plus de concentration, pour finalement se retrouver contrôlé par un nombre restreint de grandes plateformes, véritables sentinelles de l’ère digitale.
Utilisés à des fins privées, commerciales et politiques, les réseaux sociaux sont particulièrement représentatifs de cette tendance, alors que la souveraineté technologique peut être décisive lors de combats politiques, que l’on parle d’élections ou de révolutions.
Katharina Nocun, ancienne coordinatrice politique du parti pirate interviendra sur ce panel pour nous parler de l’impact sociologique des réseaux sociaux et de leurs modèles économiques.
Alors que Diaspora est un exemple pertinent de réseau social indépendant, la FreedomBox représente l’un des outils les plus innovants et les plus prometteurs de ces nouveaux logiciels.
http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org
http://diasporafoundation.org/
Intervenants :
Katharina Nocun • Compact I DE
Markus Sabadello • FreedomBox I AT
Modérateur :
Daniel Erlacher • Elevate I AT
Programmé dans le cadre du projet européen We are Europe : http://weare-europe.eu
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New kids on the block : decentralized Social Networks and the FreedomBox
Curated in collaboration with Elevate – Discourse & Activism
The Internet today is a giant web, a hilarious copy machine, interlaced into more and more aspects of our lives. What started as a network of equal nodes, has since transformed the layer above the open, decentralized hypertext protocol, and begun to move it towards greater centralization and power in the hands of few large platforms. They are powerful new gatekeepers of the digital age. Proprietary de facto standards of the dominant companies have lead to the emergence of virtual “information silos” that can barely communicate with one another.
Social networks are an important benchmark for this trend. They are an important tool for private, commercial and political use. Technological sovereignty can be decisive for political struggles, regardless of whether we talk about elections or revolutions. Sovereignty means owning your data – and your hardware. Whereas Diaspora is an example for independent social networking, the FreedomBox project is one of the most innovative and promising tools for self-empowerment and decentralization.
Katharina Nocun’s talk will present an overview of the impact of social networks and the driving economic forces of this market. The status quo of the Diaspora network and the Federation as the most prominent representative of free and open source non-commercial decentralized alternatives will be analyzed. Furthermore, the economic analysis of the relevant market structures will be used to derive fresh perspectives on how this “new kid on the block” could develop a strategy for a successful market entry.
Markus Sabadello will introduce the FreedomBox, which is a project to develop a personal server, proposed originally by Eben Moglen. The motivation is to provide an alternative to centralized Internet services such as Facebook, Google, etc. The FreedomBox project inspired many individuals and communities with interests in free software, decentralized networks, political activism, net neutrality, online human rights, and related topics.
http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org
http://diasporafoundation.org/
Speakers :
Katharina Nocun • Compact I DE
Markus Sabadello • FreedomBox I AT
Moderator :
Daniel Erlacher • Elevate I AT
Curated in the frame of european projet We are Europe :
http://weare-europe.eu
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