How Open Protocols Are a Key Part of Regenerative Technology - Identity Woman

Transmutations

We know from experience and empirical analysis that open source and open standards projects drift into oligarchies that struggle to reform themselves and become ossified. Often, we can simply let them die and replace them with fresher alternatives, but when that's a costly option we can learn from theoretical models of institutional change to understand how to compost the oligarchy and regrow the project from within.

Folk Tech Futures Workshop & Atmospheric Afterpartea · Luma

Join us for our next in-person Folk Tech event! What could the future look like in a world of open protocols and community-driven technology? What could we do…

Call for Participation: AT Protocol Ecosystem Action Research - Ecosystem Action

A pilot program to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem.

Call for Participation: AT Protocol Ecosystem Action Research - Ecosystem Action

A pilot program to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem.

Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking our Digital Futures

We are fast approaching the point of &ldquo;peak digital&rdquo;, with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological breakdown and ongoing societal instability.<br />&nbsp;<br /><i>Digital Degrowth</i>&nbsp;is a call to completely rethink our digital futures in these fast-changing times. It explores how degrowth thinking and alternate forms of &ldquo;radically sustainable computing&rdquo; might support ambitions of sustainable, scaled-down and equitable ways of living with digital technologies. Neil Selwyn proposes&nbsp;a rebalancing of digital technology use: digital degrowth is not a call for simply making reduced use of the digital technologies that we already have &ndash; rather it is an argument to reimagine digital practices that maximise societal benefits with minimal environmental and social impact. Drawing on illustrative examples from across computer science, hacker and environmental activist communities, this book examines how core degrowth principles of conviviality, autonomy and care are already being used to reimagine alternate forms of digital technology.<br />&nbsp;<br />Original and stimulating, this is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communication, sustainability studies,&nbsp;political ecology, computer/data sciences, and across the social sciences.

The ecosystem is moving

Considerations for distributed and decentralized technologies from the perspective of a product that many would like to see decentralize....

Where Does Community Live?

ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.

Blogging on the open social web - and more exciting features - pckt - Dev Journal

ATmosphere — referring to the growing ecosystem of applications built on the AT Protocol, a federated protocol for open social platforms. Not to be confused ...

The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices

This volume examines how openness is designed, governed, contested and lived in contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures. From open source software and internet standards, to citizen science platforms, public sector data systems and alternative computing practices, the book shows that infrastructures are never neutral technical backbones.

#protocolsforpublishers #atproto #mcp #webapplets | Chad Kohalyk

Web publishing is facing its next challenge: a new iteration of centralizing platforms. BUT there is also a new wave of open protocols and standards that can help us gain our independence. Next month in NYC we are gathering a group of frontier technologists and popular web publishers to discuss how we can sail into this next platform shift as captains. #ProtocolsForPublishers Learn more and sign up here: https://pfp.unternet.co We will be hosting talks on #atproto #mcp #webapplets and web payments, and give publishers the opportunity to interact directly with developers working on these frontier technologies. Thank you to Unternet, Graze Social, Free our Feeds, and betaworks for their support.

Inventing New Nature

Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission

Ecosystem Action Research

A pilot program to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem

A Government Guide to Open Protocols

Public sector teams must go beyond the in-house or off-the-shelf dichotomy to take advantage of open protocols, which offer a unique way to manage both software costs and geopolitical exposure