Folks with an interest in the "delivering community power" proposal might also find this of interest...(its something of a riff off that proposal
https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/repurposing-post-offices-as-community-innovation-hub-inclusion-equity-and-deconcentration/ M On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Fenwick Mckelvey <mckelv...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > 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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