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Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 13:42 UTC
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[EASST-Eurograd] critical infrastructure lab launch event
April 13 - 14 // Save-the-Date and Call-for-Contributions
Dear colleague, friend, comrade,
The registration for the critical infrastructure lab launch event
has opened!
The event will take place in Amsterdam at the University of
Amsterdam in a bit
under a month, on 13th April 13 and 14, 2023.
There is a maximum of 100 places, so please register swiftly, but
only if you
are certain you will participate. Registration and participation
is free of
charge. Some food and drink is provided to participants, as
written in the
programme.
Preliminary Programme:
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/2023/03/13/launch-event-programme/
Registration:
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/registration/
We are greatly looking forward to welcome you in a months' time in
Amsterdam.
In solidarity,
Fieke, Niels, Maxigas, and Szilvia
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/
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On Thu, Jan 26 2023,
max...@anargeek.net wrote:
*Executive summary / TL;DR*
- The critical infrastructure lab launches on April 13-14, 2023
at the University of
Amsterdam
- Send in your session proposals for interactive workshops on
April 13th (the lab day)
- Send in your extended abstracts (academics) or position
statements (practitioners)
for the panel sessions on April 14th (the research day)
- Send submissions to submi...@criticalinfralab.net by March
1st (750-1000 words)
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Dear colleague, friend, comrade,
Communications infrastructures constitute the invisible
scaffolding of social life.
Largely concealed to their end-users, they are becoming the main
stage where local and
global economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical
conflicts are played out. Once
established, infrastructures shape societies for decades to
come.
On the *13th and 14th of April we will launch the critical
infrastructure lab* to
discuss and develop visions of how communication infrastructures
can serve the public
interest -- and we want to do that with you!
Work in the critical infrastructure lab will focus on the
development of new
infrastructural futures that center people and planet over
profit and capital. Hosted
at the University of Amsterdam and led by Fieke Jansen, Niels
ten Oever, and Maxigas,
the lab will bring together activists, advocates, scholars,
policymakers, and industry
actors. Three analytical lenses of standards, geopolitics and
environment will be
applied to built an evidence base, investigate and develop
infrastructural imaginaries,
and create actionable research for infrastructures that serve
the public interest.
*About the launch event*
The two-day event at the University of Amsterdam will take place
on the 13th and 14th
of April. It will be a mix of keynote speakers, hands-on
workshops, infrastructure
walks, and panel discussions. Both days will be in person, but
day 1 will be streamed.
For both days, we invite session proposals from activists,
advocates, scholars,
policymakers, and industry.
Day zero, 13th of April, will be a hands-on lab day. It will
offer space for
interactive sessions on geopolitics, environment, and standards.
We invite proposals
for sessions of 2.5 hours. For instance, workshops,
infrastructure walks, policy
challenges, simulations, etc. Pretty much everything that is
_not_ a panel or paper
presentation.
Day one, 14th of April, will have a more academic structure. It
will kick off with
three keynote presentations followed by panel sessions. The
keynote speakers - Ksennia
Ermoshina, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Yu Hong - will inspire and
challenge us. The
keynotes are followed by Corinne Cath, who will present her
research on exclusionary
cultures of internet governance.
The afternoon will be dedicated to simultaneous panel sessions
in the areas of
infrastructure and geopolitics, infrastructure and environment,
and infrastructure and
standards. Academics can submit an extended abstract (research
question,
theory/literature, method, data, preliminary findings) and
practitioners can submit a
position statement. These contributions should be between 750
and 1000 words.
*Want to submit*
Do you have an idea you want to workshop, a discussion you want
to host, or some
research that you want to present?
State clearly in an email:
- your name and affiliation,
- whether you are submitting for day zero or day one,
- the research area (infrastructure and geopolitics,
infrastructure and
environment, or infrastructure and standards)
- include an abstract, position statement or a blurb for an
interactive session!
Send your submission to submi...@criticalinfralab.net by March
1st.
The lab and its research is supported by the Ford Foundation,
the Internet Society
Foundation, and Omidyar Network.
Best,
Fieke, Niels and Maxigas
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/
-- Niels ten Oever, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher - Media Studies Department - University
of Amsterdam
Affiliated Faculty - Digital Democracy Institute - Simon Fraser
University
Non-Resident Fellow 2022-2023 - Center for Democracy &
Technology
Associated Scholar - Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - Fundação
Getúlio Vargas
Research Fellow - Centre for Internet and Human Rights -
European University Viadrina
Vice chair - Global Internet Governance Academic Network
(GigaNet)
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Read my latest article on network ideologies and how 5G reshapes
the internet
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308596122001446
-- Maxigas
Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture
Department of Media
University of Amsterdam
NEW BOOK =>>> Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics
of Hacking
by Johan Söderberg and Maxigas, foreword by Richard Barbrook
Catalog: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/
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Maxigas
Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture
Department of Media
University of Amsterdam
NEW BOOK =>>> Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking
by Johan Söderberg and Maxigas, foreword by Richard Barbrook
Catalog: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/
=== I love long emails | https://email.is-not-s.ms/ ===