ICT2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform was held on the 20-22 October in Lisbon, Portugal. The 3-day event is EU’s biggest digital research event in 2015. It attracted more than 7000 ICT professionals. The conference discussed how to make a fully digitised economy and society a reality in Europe. D-CENT was showcasing its tools in the exhibition area among around 100 best-in-class results of European ICT Research & Innovation projects. Read more +
Interviewing Evgeny Morozov, is a historian of technology, author and editor at journals such as the Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and the Financial Times, and of books such as The Net Delusion: the dark side of Internet freedom, To Save Everything, Click Here, and Le mirage numerique soon out in France.
“Citizens are not just vehicles and machines for consuming more songs on Spotify, films on Netflix, entertainment or stuff from Amazon. In Europe there’s still this desire to think of citizens as active participants in the public sphere. It is people who organise, lit citizen movements and do occasionally uprisings. Who participate in all forms of decent”, Morozov reminds.
D-CENT interview: Evgeny Morozov from D-CENT on Vimeo.
The October issue of the ERCIM News publishes an article about the D-CENT Project, written by Harry Halpin of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The article, titled Decentralized Social Software for Political Autonomy, describes our efforts to build applications for the common good. W3C is one of the D-CENT project partners.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
Picture: Alexander Klink
Denis Roio (aka Jaromil) is a researcher in philosophy of technology, artist and software artisan whose creations are endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. He has been involved in Bitcoin since the early days and since 2000 he has been dedicated to building Dyne.org, a software house gathering the contributions of a growing number of developers who value social responsibility above profit.
Jaromil is leading D-CENT development of Freecoin, a blockchain-enabled digital social currency and has been invited at the reinvent.money event on the 26th of September by organiser Paul Buitink to explore the opportunities of Bitcoin beyond its function as currency.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
During the last few years, the internet economy has been mainly developing using a business model that offers services for free to the end users, but at the same time creates profits by mining, aggregating, and selling personal and social data for commercial and surveillance purposes. Therefore, the lives of internet users are continuously electronically tracked, analysed, clustered and segmented in profiles and graphs: personal data as a commodity for the “markets of identity“, with large implications on the users’ privacy and the rights related to personal data. Read more +
Gareth Rogers, technology lead for D-CENT at Thoughtworks, was interviewed at the CAPS2015, the annual international event on Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS). The conference was organised on the 8th of July 2015 in Brussels. Read more +
In an effort to come up with solutions to the societal challenges that policy makers and current solutions are not able to tackle, social innovations are popping up as new types of services and products. In the recent years social innovations have been accelerated with the digital layer, which is proving to be especially effective in bringing people together, offering tools for self-organization and providing a democratic space for everyone to contribute to solving these especially wicked problems.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
Francesca Bria in conversation with Blaine Cook, former lead developer of Twitter, principal co-author of the OAuth and Webfinger specifications and co-founder of Poetica. Blaine describes his worries and hopes for the development of digital platforms by social movements to mobilise collective action and build collective power.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
Historian of technology, author and editor at journals such as the Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and the Financial Times, and of books such as The Net Delusion: the dark side of Internet freedom, To Save Everything, Click Here, and Le mirage numerique soon out in France. Evgeny Morozov talks about why it is important to go beyond the concept of the Internet in order to understand what Identity means in the current digital world; by politicizing the debate over the future of technology and infrastructures Morozov starts shedding a political and ethical dimension to data use and data sharing.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
Four years after the emergence of the revolutionary networked social movement 15M, the newly formed Spanish political party Podemos is now one of the most innovative, growing political parties in Spain and just over three months ago the grassroots citizen-led coalition Barcelona En Comù won the City Council elections in Barcelona forming a network of new democratic Cities that include also Madrid, Zaragoza, Pamplona and others. Read more +
