On Wed, 4 Mar, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Randall Packer <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>>> “I'm not sure I feel like a citizen of the net. …. it
(citizen) [also}] means 'A person who is legally recognized as a
member of a state, with associated rights and obligations’… and
I'm not sure I feel any of those things about the Net."
All true @Edward, all true… but, I leave with you with the
following Tweet I sent out yesterday (with some embellishment) :
#netartizens: the #Internet as our own self-proclaimed #nation not
requiring hierarchical authority from above to be [granted the rights
of] citizenship [of our own domain].
http://tracks.unhcr.org/2015/02/stateless-in-west-africa/
"Ten million people around the world have no nationality. "
https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/about/
"E-residency is a state-issued secure digital identity for
non-residents that allows digital authentication and the digital
signing of documents."
https://github.com/MrChrisJ/World-Citizenship
"The goal of this project is to learn and layout a simple process for
anyone in the world to create their own Private Passport Service that
can be used to validate and prove the existence of other persons using
nothing but available tools."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10881213/The-coming-digital-anarchy.html
"Daniel Larimer, who is working on a tool called Bitshares to apply
blockchain technology to banking, insurance and company shareholding,
believes that this new breed of technologies will ultimately render
government entirely obsolete. "
http://www.wired.com/2014/01/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-seriously-and-not-just-for-the-reasons-you-think/
"I believe it’s time to reconsider their potential, and make mesh
networking a reality. Not just because of its obvious benefits, but
also because it provides an internet-native model for building
community and governance."
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