From 44a42938d2a3199893416657a6fba376368cc93a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gustav Eek Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 01:47:07 +0200 Subject: [prsnts/common-goods] Presentation Fripost as a common -- Initail commit Initial commit of the presentation of Fripost and on Internet as a common good resource for FSCONS 2017. Draft of proposal, *proposal.mdwn*, and early draft of script, *script.mdwn, created. Also provided are intital *README* and bibliography, *bibliography.mdwn*. --- presentations/common-goods/proposal.mdwn | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 presentations/common-goods/proposal.mdwn (limited to 'presentations/common-goods/proposal.mdwn') 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 +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. -- cgit v1.2.3