Hi Doug, I haven't had much time to look into it, but there has been some discussion in Canada about linking reforms to the postal system with community broadband: http://www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/
Lots of talk happening as part of our regulator's discussion of broadband as a basic service: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/internet/internet.htm Best, Fenwick On Sun, 8 May 2016 at 23:57 Doug Schuler <doug...@publicsphereproject.org> wrote: > I'm currently working on a short paper — basically an editorial or op-ed — > on the idea of an open-ended, non-profit, citizen-led public alternative > communication and information infrastructure project. I’m not exactly sure > what that means but I’m envisioning something that supports a variety of > basic features that people use (search, chat, photo posting, etc. etc.) as > well as more advanced features such as deliberation, discussion, > collaboration, decision-making, etc. It would probably need to be built > with federated, integrated, distributed open source modules and be governed > by its users and developers in some sort of open public way. It would be > used without surveillance, data harvesting, censorship. The paper won't be > long and it certainly won't be authoritative or comprehensive; at this > point I'm just trying to help surface the idea and get feedback. > > My plan is to build the case somewhat in the paper and to suggest some > ideas that are likely to be useful in thinking about moving forward. That's > why I'm writing to you all. > > If you have any points or suggestions or examples that I need to know > about as I work forward I'd love to hear them. I probably won't be able to > incorporate everything in this initial piece but, ideally, as time goes on, > the suggestions you make would help inform the project. > > Please send me your thoughts on this. > > Thanks!! > > — Doug > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu.
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