Internet of Humans
Festival 2019 This is the space where we organise this years edition of our annual community gathering. Events The Internet of Humans events of different scope and sizes. To add an event here: Start a new topic in this category – as usual. Click “Add Date and Time” and choose according to your event. This way your event will be automatically published in the events section of the NGI Forward Consultation Platform as well. Add a picture. The first picture in your topic will be used as the event’s preview picture when it is republished as described above. Festival Participants The 2019 Edgeryders Festival requires that, in order to get a ticket, participants contribute to this platform with their “story” by which we mean who you are, what your ideas, motivations, goals and projects are. And this is the place to do it… NGI Impact Summit Participants in the NGI impact summit explore what their life and the internet might be like in an array of possible futures. A custom made card game designed to facilitate the discussions lets you build your ideal economy and government, imagining viable alternatives for internet technologies and their applications, against the backdrop of a global climate crisis, and testing it against real world restrictions. Show more The last two years have been a stark lesson in how global events can affect people’s lives on a personal level. These are the themes that the NGI Impact Summit explores. Through a program of live and online events, summit participants take a look at all-encompassing philosophies, sweeping economic policies and historic social trends, and asks what these might look like through the eyes of ordinary people living through them. Through experimentation, play and discussion, the NGI Impact Summit is an exercise in asking the question “How can we use Internet Technologies to make the world better?” What is Witness? The event takes place in a fictional setting designed to give people the chance to explore themes around climate change, technology and economics through gameplay, discussion and storytelling. The setting is called “Witness”, a collection of artificial islands floating on the ocean of a future Earth devastated by climate change. Each island, or “distrikt”, is closely connected to every other, but also has its own unique identity, philosophy and systems. Each distrikt acts as a sandbox to try out different economic and political ideas. It is a place where people can imagine societies unrestricted by conventional ideas about “how things have always been”, but must still operate within the real-world boundaries of plausible technology and the plurality of human nature. A Card Game to anchor NGI debates in desirable futures The Witness card game creates a space where players can experiment with the ideas proposed by Witness, using the rules of gameplay to reflect the real world constraints those ideas must operate in. In the game each distrikt has a deck of cards including a range of policies and tools reflecting that distrikt’s philosophy. Throughout the game players are faced with various challenges and crises, using their deck, either collaboratively or competitively with other players, or by themselves, to respond. A single distrikt’s deck can be used to demonstrate how one school of thought might succeed or fail, while multiple decks can be combined to create the player’s idea of a perfect society. As well as being an engaging and fun game, we want the Witness card game to serve as a springboard and space for discussion. As people play Witness they will think and talk about how society should deal with challenges ranging from environmental catastrophe to pandemics, to how new technologies will affect us all. More specifically we will explore insights on we can draw on how we should build, monetise and regulate the Next Generation of Internet Technologies so that they contribute to the wellbeing of people and planet. Interviews A closed group only accessible to Edgeryders team and individuals who have been interviewed. Here is where we upload transcripts from your interview, for you to edit and then yourself post it into the forum when you feel comfortable with the contents. You can only access it if you are logged into the edgeryders platform: https://communities.edgeryders.eu/login What should topics in this category generally contain? Do we need this category? Can we merge with another category, or subcategory? Tell Us About You We want to understand how you and others are trying to contribute towards building the evolution of the Internet and our digital technologies - so that they support efforts to build a better future against a backdrop of massive social, economic, ecological and political challenges. What is a burning question that drives your work? How did you get started and what hurdles have you met along the way? Which doubts do you have about the work you are doing and the path forward? What kind of support would you like to offer others traveling a similar path? By sharing your story below you enable others to connect you with people, conversations, opportunities relevant to your personal and professional development: Create an Edgeryders account by signing up here! Click on the + New Topic button below to open a new rich text editor. Write your story and click on the + Create Topic button to submit it. The Overweb Challenge This forum is a community space to connect and work together with others to hack our idea of what the web can be. The Overweb Challenge is an opportunity to do three things. Expand your understanding of what is possible in your area of expertise, interest or endeavour. Be in the know early in the game. Be recognized within the emergent Overweb community. January 21 I The Overweb Challenge is launched at theoverweb.com February-March I Top Submissions from the Overweb Challenge are showcased April I The Global Overweb Hackathon! What you can do here: Connect with other participants of the Overweb challenge event to form teams. (Fill in this form and introduce yourself and your project) Discuss, present and develop your project in detail. (Press the “+ New Topic” button in this category to start a new thread about your project) Reach a wider community of interested free spirits thinking and making a better internet. (Check out the “Internet of Humans” conversations) Tips for what information to include about your project! What is your project about? What’s the problem it solves and how? What stage are you in? What do you need concrete help with? Feedback? People? Skills? Guidance? Clarity? Show more Practical advice The comment threads in the topics are “nested,” which means you should choose to reply to a specific comment in most cases (the ‘reply’ at the bottom right of the comment), rather than reply to the whole topic (the blue ‘reply’ button at the bottom of the topic). To start a new topic, select the subcategory that is most appropriate from the dropdown menu below where you enter a title. For example, if it is your own story, then Tell Us About You is the correct location. But don’t start a new topic when it is better to continue a current conversation. Topic clutter can become a problem… About the project This conversation is part of a Horizon 2020 funded Coordination Action under the official name NGI Forward. The project focuses on building a coherent vision for the Next Generation Internet. The community research is hosted on Edgeryders, an online community of 5000 people in more than 80 countries who share experiences. By sharing experiences with one another we turn our collective knowledge into useful advice to make better decisions for ourselves and our families in the near future. As a consequence of getting to know people from around the world, we connect one another to important information, new ideas and new opportunities. The research analysis considers content collected through http://edgeryders.eu, subject to online ethnographic analysis and semantic social network analysis. Beyond the research project, we are a community: We use the tools offered by this platform to help connect people with mutual interests, concerns and complimentary skills. The online conversation runs in parallel with events all over Europe to meet and share constructive approaches. Anyone is welcome to participate, either in English or in their native language. The project is funded by the European Commission under grant agreement number 825652 from 2019-2021. This conversation is hosted by Edgeryders OÜ, in partnership with: Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Warsaw (Poland), Resonance Design (Netherlands), Nesta (United Kingdom), Nesta Italia (Italy) and the City of Amsterdam (Netherlands). NGI Forward is a part of the NGI Initiative NGI Ethnography A space for all discussions and documentation specific to the ethnography for NGI Forward. Code review. Comments about individual codes and code choices. Memos. Where to put longer form memos on coding choices and other theoretical / methodological / topical observations. Reporting. Where we construct our reports (approximately every 3 months) Research Call Notes. Where to document notes of weekly and biweekly calls. https://edgeryders.eu/t/open-ethnographer-manual/6811?u=amelia contains all the documentation for ethnography practice and procedure. Coworking Recovery Event We want to understand how you and others are trying to contribute towards building the evolution of coworking and remote work. And how Internet and our digital technologies can support your work- so that they support efforts to build a better future against a backdrop of massive social, economic, ecological and political challenges. What is a burning question that drives your work? How did you get started and what hurdles have you met along the way? Which doubts do you have about the work you are doing and the path forward? What kind of support would you like to offer others traveling a similar path? By sharing your story below you enable others to connect you with people, conversations, opportunities relevant to your personal and professional development: Create an Edgeryders account by signing up here! Click on the + New Topic button here to open a new rich text editor. Write your story and click on the + Create Topic button to submit it. This event is part of the NGI Forward project Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, launched by the European Commission in the autumn of 2016. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 825652 from 2019-2021. You can learn more about the initiative and edgeryders role in it at https://ngi.edgeryders.eu NGI Policy Summit 2020 Welcome to the discussion platform for the NGI Policy Summit 2020! This is a dedicated space for speakers, organisers and attendees to discuss the topics of the Summit, as well as asking tricky questions that we can try to address throughout the event. Have a look through the discussions in this section and Sign Up to get involved. We will be making regular announcements and posts throughout the build-up to the Summit. Join in with the introductions thread, and start a topic if you have: Examples of internet policy interventions that have been successful (or not!) Interesting ideas and approaches that could shape the debate in any of our topic areas Questions or problems you might need help with in the internet policy space, and help with others’ questions Fun, inspirational content such as juicy long-reads and punchy videos Experiences of working on internet issues that you’d like to share and discuss Anything else you think we should know!
