Subject: February Community Call
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Time: 12pm EST
Participants: 34 people
Location: Zoom meeting (recording available here)
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RxC Community Updates
- Welcoming newcomers to the monthly call
- Amit, Mars, Jeff, and co: welcome!
- Upcoming virtual meetup at RxC San Francisco
- Description: The meet-up will feature brief presentations from RXC President Matthew Prewitt on the topic of data ownership and Buckminster Fuller Institute Executive Director Amanda Joy Ravenhill on the topic of systems design and a generous economy. Presentations will be followed by an open discussion with attendees.
- Contact: Nate Strang (@natestrang on Telegram)
- Event Time and Date: Wednesday, February 10th; 1:00-2:15pm PT
- Event URL: Join on Zoom
- Divya Siddarth talking about her paper on Taiwan civic tech
- Read the paper here: TAIWAN: GRASSROOTS DIGITAL DEMOCRACY THAT WORKS
- Contact Divya at divya@radicalxchange.org for more information
- Check out polis-community on gitter for censorship-resistance actions
- Dani from Giveth: Preview the Commons Stack Simulator Pilot Episode featuring RadicalxChange community.
- Kaliya - The Identity Woman: Upcoming Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop
- we changed the dates to March 8, 10, 12: https://thoughtfulbiometrics.org/ we are bringing together folks who work on biometric development as scientists, identity management folks, civil society advocates and anyone else interested in exploring biometrics and the issues surrounding it. The event will be co-created by the attendees live the day of the event using open space technology. So the agenda is TBD but you can see ideas people had about topics on the site.
- Amit Kumar: Open source Decentralised Mesh Networking
- Open source Decentralised Mesh Networking which can help people in protest sites with internet bans to communicate (p2p with some data, processing hubs) with each other, so that everyone can send/receive encrypted messages, consensually use each other’s cameras, microphones and speakers to rally their voices (occupy protests digital mic-check version). For reference, few such legal networks already exist. Such as RedHookWiFi, which proved to be a networking backbone during Hurricane Sandy disaster.
- Mars: New World Order. Network State. New concept of a state.
- Read more here
RxC Foundation Updates
- RadicalxChange(s): a new podcast series from RadicalxChange.
- Follow the series here
- Revisit the data agency talk from last week
Next Call
- The next community call will be Wednesday, March 3, 2021.
- Submit a topic you’d like to talk about or hear of, please fill out the form on Typeform.