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diff --git a/presentations/common-goods/README b/presentations/common-goods/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c90f74 --- /dev/null +++ b/presentations/common-goods/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Presentation "Demokratisk kommuicationsinfrastruktur som motståndsform" inför FSCONS 2017 + +Presentationen bygger på tankar om Fripost i en kontext av Gemensam +nytta. Inspirationen kommer från Mattei's *Gemensam Nytta*. + +**Dokument** + + * *application.mdwn* -- Ansökan till FSCONS 2017 + * *script.mdwn* -- Manuskriptet + * *presentation.mdwn* -- Presentationsorginal + * *bibliography.mdwn* -- Vad det låter som + * *Makefile* -- Kör *make* för att bygga diff --git a/presentations/common-goods/bibliography.mdwn b/presentations/common-goods/bibliography.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2effa0f --- /dev/null +++ b/presentations/common-goods/bibliography.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ + + * Ugo Mattei 2011, *Gemensam Nytta*, (original *Beni Comuni*), Balders förlag, Riga 2016. + + * Catharina Thörn 2017, (*Kolla upp titel*), Editorial note (*Ledare?*) in *Dagens ETC*, July 3, 2017. diff --git a/presentations/common-goods/proposal.mdwn b/presentations/common-goods/proposal.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..601de6a --- /dev/null +++ b/presentations/common-goods/proposal.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +--- +title: Demokratisk kommuicationsinfrastruktur som motståndsform +subtitle: Technology infrastructure as a common googd +author: Gustav Eek <gustav@fripost.org> +date: tor 13 jul 2017 20:18:26 CEST +... + +Proposal to FSCONS 2017 + +# Abstract + +In this lecture I will present the democratic principles of Fripost +and demonstrate how also complicated resources, such as infrastructure +for electronic communication can (and must) (*underställas folkligt +demokratiska pricesser?*) (I argue that central communication +infrastructure should be viewed as a resource). + +I will start in a (well known) critique of Garret Hardin's (*Vem +talade om detta FSCONS 2015?*) classical tragedy of the commons +(*referens*) (one that has been presented many times before). + +# Description + +The importance of Internet as communication medium can not be +questioned. For those who take user freedom seriously it is saddening +to see how the Internet has changed from being a common and highly +distributed network to the increasingly privatised web we encounter +today. + +In this lecture I will present the democratic principles of Fripost, +the free email association which was founded as a reaction to that +development. I will demonstrate how also complicated resources, such +as infrastructure for electronic communication can (and must) +(*underställas folkligt demokratiska pricesser?*). + +Fripost and its foundataion and principals has been presented several +times since its constitution in 2010, also at FSCONS. This +presentation, however, takes a different and broader stand. + +I will start in a (common) critique of Garret Hardin's (*Vem talade om +detta FSCONS 2015?*) classical tragedy of the commons (*referens*) +(one that has been presented many times before). The fault lies in the +dikotonomy *public-private* and in the idea that every resource needs +an owning (*huvudmann?*). What is not managed can not yield profit. In +the case of the (*inhängdad?*) of the commons, management in it self +causes the scarcity, it is not the scarcity that requires management. + +It is not obvious, however, how digital technology and technology +based on Internet can be recognised as a resource and common +good. Though "friendly" in its usage, it is intrinsically intricate +and complicated in its internals, and the distance is far between the +providing and consuming ends. + +Here Fripost becomes an example of central communication +infrastructure that implements democratic "ownership", maintenance, +and development. And democracy is equal influence: it does not stop at +gathering of opinion. + +Equal influence is ambitious, and how it is interpreted in Fripost +will be discussed in its details, but in short the key is that +Fripost's commitment (*åtagande?*) is equally much social as it is +technical: all decisions originates from the members, short term as +well as strategical; activities are balanced between the association's +three legs: (a) technology, (b) adult education, and (c) propaganda; +and sustainability is the leading word. + +I humbly recognise that what we do is small in scale and ambition. But +I still want to put it in the context of important local struggles +that with global implication. In the world, farmers fight for land, +urban folks for water, and students for independent universities. We +fight for the right and free access to Internet and the means for +communication. Internet is designed to be distributed and for equal +unlimited access for everyone. That sounds quite much like a common +good, and commons require equal influence. + +The moral of the presentation is of course that we should fight back +against the privatisation process, particularly that of the +web. Fripost illustrates that it is possible and also suggest how it +can be done. diff --git a/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn b/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e67221 --- /dev/null +++ b/presentations/common-goods/script.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +--- +title: Demokratisk kommuicationsinfrastruktur som motståndsform +subtitle: Technology infrastructure as a common googd +author: Gustav Eek <gustav@fripost.org> +date: tor 13 jul 2017 20:18:26 CEST +... + +Script. + +# Scattered notes + +**Introduction and background -- importance of the Internet** + +The importance of Internet as communication medium can not be +questioned. For those who take user freedom seriously it is saddening +to see how the Internet has changed from being a common and highly +distributed network to the increasingly privatised web we encounter +today. The capital constantly require right to increased profit, and +it constantly seeks new grounds + +\section*{Software as a Service} A concept introduced in the spirit of +centralisation is \textit{Software as a Service} (SaaS). SaaS means +that users perform their computer work on or through a network server +on the Internet or a local network. Examples of SaaS are Amazon Cloud +and Google Docs. One of the main problems with SaaS is that the users +has no control over their data. + +\section*{Privacy and Surveillance} +With large clientele comes a lot of power. Large transnational +operators, such as Google, are profiting from efficient use of privacy +invading schemes. Together with e.g.\ Google's email service one also +gets things that was probably \emph{not} asked for: advertisement, +semantic analysis of email contents, and spying. One part of Google's +marketing strategy is to sell the collected information to third +party. + + +We formed the association in 2010, seven years ago. Our chairman at +the time, Stefan Kangas poited out to me, what I did not quite +understand at the time, but what is becomming increasingly clear to +me. Fripost is part of a general resistance struggle (motståndskamp) +of global scale (mot griptången). This was in the early beginning of +the Arabic spring in Libya. + +(*Citer Mattei s. 64) + +The common good (gemensamt nyttiga) is something that is natural to +take as given, and it deserves to be. + +**More introduction ideas** + +The importance of Internet as communication medium can not be +questioned. For those who take user freedom seriously it is saddening +to see how the Internet has changed from being a common and highly +distributed network to the increasingly privatised web we encounter +today. + +In this lecture I will present the democratic principles of Fripost +and demonstrate how also complicated resources, such as infrastructure +for electronic communication can (and must) (*underställas folkligt +demokratiska pricesser?*) (I argue that central communication +infrastructure should be viewed as a resource). + +I will start in a (well known) critique of Garret Hardin's (*Vem +talade om detta FSCONS 2015?*) classical tragedy of the commons +(*referens*) (one that has been presented many times before). + +Of course we recognise that this process of privatisation and +enclosure (*att hägna in?*) is not isolated to Internet +infrastructure. The capital constantly require right to increased +profit, and it constantly seeks new grounds. However, the Internet and +digital technology an area where this process is very (*närvarande?*). +One of the later (*landvinningar*) is the right consumer data through +various privacy intrusive software as a service technologies (read +Google Drive). And of course state and inter state institutions +rather (*eldar på*) than (*stämmer*) the development. + +**Enclosure vs innovation** + +(*Continuation on "process of privatisation"*). Digital technology is +intricically intricacy and complicatied in its internals, though still +"friendly" in its usage. Therfore it can be dificult to distinguish +privitasation (*inhängnad*) from innovation. + +Side note. In my opinion, private innovation and development is +natural and of not at all problematic. Of course, however as a note to +the note, enclosing technology and restricting its usage (e.g. throung +proprietary software development) is highly non moral and should not +be accepted. + + +Fripost was founded in order to take back a small, but important, part +of our Internet life, namely the email communication +infrastructure. We gather around several servers that receive and +stores the members' email. The reliability of the service is of cause +of great importance. Therefore the network is arranged with +reliability in mind, and we hire a hosting service for the main +server. + + +We formed Fripost in 2010 in reaction to ... (*Fyll på med Google och +Facebook, etc*) ... + +Proper democracy. + +Democracy is about influence and power: the power to make decisions +and have them implemented. + +**Citizen Dialogues** + +Surveys in Sweden say that people show more interest in +society and politics than some years ago. Still trust and +participation in municipiatal parlamentary proceses and traditional +parties decay. + +As a response, the municipalities and regions in Sweden (SKL (*Vad?*)) +suggest so called citizen dialogues (*medborgardialoger*), usually in +connection with major infrastructure and city development projects, as +a way gather peoples opinion. This (*tilltag*) is Inspired by Sherry +Airnstein (*Kolla upp detta*) and planning research from the +1960'es. Her original ideas, however, had an equality idea +(*rättvisetanke?*. That idea of equality is totally lost in the way +these "dialoges" are committed: "Symbolic participation", Airnstein +would call it. Real participation require delegated power. (Thörn 2017) + +The common good (gemensamt nyttiga) is something that is natural to +take as given, and it deserves to be. + +**Compararison with other commons: Common intellect** + +I want to put the Internet (and all kinds of tele communication) +besides other common resources, such as (a) our soil, (b) sources of +water, (c) libraries and published knowledge, (d) and more. + +Idea (viewpoint) ... owned and managed by one single (*huvudman?*) +... historically speciffic. + +Common management (not quite managed) of water in rural India is +described by Vandana Shiva (*provide reference*). Privatisation and +"management" *caused* scarcity. + +The fault lies in the dikotonomy *public-private* and in the idea that +every resource needs an owning (*huvudmann?*). What is not managed can +not yield profit. In the case of the (*inhängdad?*) of the commons, +management in it self causes the scarcity, it is not the scarcity that +requires management. + +Logic: if it is not scars it can not be managed, and what is not +managed can not yield profit. + +Compare owning with being (*äganda med varande*) (Engels). Another +mindset + +Ugo Mattei describes this mindset as a *common intellect*. + +(*Beskriv också utarmningarna av jordarna som beskrivs i "Den sista +skörden" (eller var det "Slutsködat"?). Exemplifiera också med +Fukuoka's senaste*) + +**Final** + +I humbly recognise that what we do is small in scale and ambition. But +I still want to put it in the context of important local struggles +that with global implication. In the world, farmers fight for land, +urban folks for water, and students for independent universities. We +fight for the right and free access to Internet and the means for +communication. Internet is designed to be distributed and for equal +unlimited access for everyone. That sounds quite much like a common +good, and commons require equal influence. + |