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


Ben Tarnoff

Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?

In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this—it had to be remade for the purposes of profit maximization, through a years-long process of privatization that turned a small research network into a powerhouse of global capitalism. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.

The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet. Deprivatization aims at creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organized. Not with an eye towards making markets work better, but towards making them less dominant. Not in order to create a more competitive or more rule-bound version of privatization, but to overturn it. Otherwise, a small number of executives and investors will continue to make choices on everyone’s behalf, and these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It's time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.

Ben Tarnoff, Internet for the PeopleThe Fight for Our Digital Future,
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people

ISBN  9781839762024
Published by VERSO 
June 2022