[liberationtech] Ensuring Free Access to Ideas in Public Spaces?
Hi folks, Thanks to the awesomeness that is TA3M [0], I've had a chance to talk with a few librarians who're somewhat disappointed by the fact that it's difficult to freely access knowledge at libraries: all Internet access is filtered and surveiled, reducing the freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas. So, I promised I'd reach out to folks to see what, if anything, we can do about the situation. First, what technologies could public libraries employ that would ensure or best facilitate intellectual freedom, free expression and free access to ideas when people use the library? Different libraries will have different connectivity structures, so this is a fairly broad question. I think there's a more fundamental question, though, which is figuring out how to make libraries again responsible for providing unencumbered access to ideas. I don't know how to do this. I could help draft standards-language for The Responsibilities of Libraries to the Public but perhaps there's already such a document out there that could be updated or re-enforced. At this point, I'm trying to start a discussion. Thanks for your time, Nick 0: http://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Ensuring Free Access to Ideas in Public Spaces?
..on Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:58:43AM -0500, Nick Daly wrote: Hi folks, Thanks to the awesomeness that is TA3M [0], I've had a chance to talk with a few librarians who're somewhat disappointed by the fact that it's difficult to freely access knowledge at libraries: all Internet access is filtered and surveiled, reducing the freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas. So, I promised I'd reach out to folks to see what, if anything, we can do about the situation. First, what technologies could public libraries employ that would ensure or best facilitate intellectual freedom, free expression and free access to ideas when people use the library? Different libraries will have different connectivity structures, so this is a fairly broad question. Host the data locally and allow people to connect to it using computers at the library or their own phones associated with the libraries own 'offline' wireless network. Move terabyte archives to each partner library over snail-mail or securely copy it between libraries over the Internet, for local hosting. Here's a project of ours, that albeit artistic and conceptual in its goals, is a fully functioning wireless web-server that even takes the form of a book: http://weise7.org/book/ Being Internet independent the book can be read on wireless-capable devices in a cave, out on the ocean etc. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver PGP B6E9FD9A http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Ensuring Free Access to Ideas in Public Spaces?
Hi Nick, In a recent search, I came across these folks: http://www.ifla.org/ See in particular their mailing lists and their FAIFE committee: http://www.ifla.org/mailing-lists http://www.ifla.org/about-faife Hope this is helpful, -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/w/User:Mike-ZeleaCom/in Hi folks, Thanks to the awesomeness that is TA3M [0], I've had a chance to talk with a few librarians who're somewhat disappointed by the fact that it's difficult to freely access knowledge at libraries: all Internet access is filtered and surveiled, reducing the freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas. So, I promised I'd reach out to folks to see what, if anything, we can do about the situation. First, what technologies could public libraries employ that would ensure or best facilitate intellectual freedom, free expression and free access to ideas when people use the library? Different libraries will have different connectivity structures, so this is a fairly broad question. I think there's a more fundamental question, though, which is figuring out how to make libraries again responsible for providing unencumbered access to ideas. I don't know how to do this. I could help draft standards-language for The Responsibilities of Libraries to the Public but perhaps there's already such a document out there that could be updated or re-enforced. At this point, I'm trying to start a discussion. Thanks for your time, Nick 0: http://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
