Redesigning the Internet 

Handbook


an organization or individual
an initialtive, protocol or tool


  1. Decolonising the internet: Whose knowledge is it?
  2. Whose Knowledge? 
  3. Decolonizing Data: Unsettling Conversations about Social Research Methods

  4. Decolonizing Digital: Empowering Indigeneity Through Data Sovereignty
  5. Decolonizing the digital landscape: the role of technology in Indigenous language revitalization

  6. Prolegomenon to the Decolonization of Internet Governance

  7. Beatrice Martini
  8. Tabita Rezaire
  9. SaveTheInternet.
  10. Beyond Net Neutrality:
    Free Basics and the Internet’s Political Battles

  11. Miao Ying
  12. WIKIPEDIA COMPETITION: EDITING & TRANSLATING
  13. DECOLONISING INTERNET GOVERNANCE
  14. Center for the Cultivation of Technology
  15. Open Knowledge Foundation 
  16. Open Archive
  17. Secure UX Curriculum
  18. Caroline Sinders
  19. INTERNET FREEDOM FUND
  20. A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls
  21. Finding ctrl: visions for the future internet
  22. What is Decentralized Storytelling?
  23. Co-Creation Studio
  24. Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
  25. World-Wide Wandering Web
  26. Project Liberty
  27. Gitcoin
  28. Welcome to Web3
  29. Stuck on the Platform
  30. Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
  31. tiny internets
  32. Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
  33. Noosphere
  34. IPFS
  35. COMPOST
  36. Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
  37. Starling Lab
  38. Hypha Woker Co-operative
  39. Olia Lialina
  40. Turing Complete User – Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction
  41. The Weizenbaum Institute for Networked Society 
  42. A modern wiki for a modern internet: the Smallest Federated Wiki on The GovLab’s Demos for Democracy
  43. The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
  44. Open Educational Resources (OER)
  45. Internet Dream, 1994, Nam June Paik
  46. After the Internet

Redesigning the Internet

Handbook


an organization or individual
an initialtive, protocol or tool


  1. The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
  2. Decolonising the internet: Whose knowledge is it?
  3. Whose Knowledge?
  4. Decolonizing Data: Unsettling Conversations about Social Research Methods

  5. Decolonizing Digital: Empowering Indigeneity Through Data Sovereignty
  6. Decolonizing the digital landscape: the role of technology in Indigenous language revitalization
  7. Prolegomenon to the Decolonization of Internet Governance

  8. Beatrice Martini
  9. Tabita Rezaire
  10. SaveTheInternet.
  11. Beyond Net Neutrality:
    Free Basics and the Internet’s Political Battles

  12. Miao Ying
  13. WIKIPEDIA COMPETITION: EDITING & TRANSLATING
  14. DECOLONISING INTERNET GOVERNANCE
  15. Center for the Cultivation of Technology
  16. Open Knowledge Foundation
  17. Open Archive
  18. Secure UX Curriculum
  19. Caroline Sinders
  20. INTERNET FREEDOM FUND
  21. A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls
  22. Finding ctrl: visions for the future internet
  23. What is Decentralized Storytelling?
  24. Co-Creation Studio
  25. Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
  26. World-Wide Wandering Web
  27. Project Liberty
  28. Gitcoin
  29. Welcome to Web3
  30. Stuck on the Platform
  31. Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
  32. tiny internets
  33. Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
  34. Noosphere
  35. IPFS
  36. COMPOST
  37. Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
  38. Starling Lab
  39. Hypha Woker Co-operative
  40. Olia Lialina
  41. Turing Complete User – Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction
  42. The Weizenbaum Institute for Networked Society
  43. A modern wiki for a modern internet: the Smallest Federated Wiki on The GovLab’s Demos for Democracy


decentralized knowledge, open source, and internet decolonization


Nesta

In March 2019, the World Wide Web turned thirty, and October will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the internet itself. These anniversaries offer us an important opportunity to reflect on the internet’s history, but also a chance to ponder its future.

While early internet pioneers dreamed of an internet that would be open, free and decentralised, the story of the internet today is mostly a story of loss of control. Just a handful of companies determine what we read, see and buy, where we work and where we live, who we vote for, who we love, and who we are. Many of us feel increasingly uneasy about these developments. We live in a world where new technologies happen to us; the average person has very little agency to change things within the current political and economic parameters.

Yet things don’t have to be this way. In a time where the future of the internet is usually painted as bleak and uncertain, we need positive visions about where we go next.

As part of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative – the European Commission’s new flagship programme working on building a more democratic, inclusive and resilient internet – we have created this “visions book”, a collection of essays, short stories, poetry and artworks from over 30 contributors from 15 countries and five continents. Each contributor has a unique background, as most were selected via an open call for submissions held last autumn. As such, the book collects both established and emerging voices, all reflecting on the same crucial questions: where did we come from, but more importantly, where do we go next?

The NGI hopes to empower everyone to take active control in shaping the future: the internet does not just belong to those who hold power today, but to all of us.

https://findingctrl.nesta.org.uk/

CREDITS:
Introductions and chapter heading text by Katja Bego.
This book was curated and edited by Caroline Back, Katja Bego and Amelia Tait. Interviews conducted and edited by Amelia Tait.

Website design and development by
ToyFight.


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
This project was created as part of the Next Generation Internetinitiative funded under the EC H2020 project EU Engineroom, Grant Agreement 780643.