Digital Solidarity Networks in times of the pandemic
a shared listing of tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality
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To whoever encounters this pad: this is work-in-progress, please join!
This is the start of a listing of some resources regarding mutual aid strategies and social closeness through alternative digital infrastructures in times of physical distancing, remote working or care giving, etc. This pad contains examples of collective digital alternative practices, in a time where everything points to the further consolidation and accelerated normalization of the Big Tech industry (Zoom, Facebook groups, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.). Other attitudes are possible!
In such a context, we feel the response-ability to suggest a different approach to technology. One that promotes collective networks of solidarity that don't rely on data extractivist models, reconsider the figure of the user, and can be adapted to the specificities of each situation. Luckily, there are already plenty of kickass, inspiring initiatives doing great work in this arena. With this pamphlet, we hope to share some of them.
At the same time, we cannot ignore that it takes effort, and a great amount of privilege, to abandon these corporate tech solutions once and for all. Ease-of-use in times of urgency, network effects, family members whose contact is dependent on the usage of mainstream social networking platforms, complicated political situations where these are sadly the most convenient choice, the need for an online presence in times of structural precarity, etc, are all considerations that should not be discarded and are the reality for most of us. In fact, and precisely because of such considerations, we are not advocating a purist approach. We are all entangled with Big Tech, but we would prefer to critique, limit and eventually abandon our dependencies. However, with this pamphlet we hope to provide a counterpoint to approaches such as https://techagainstcoronavirus.com/, which promote technologies that reinforce capitalist ideals of productivity in situations of crisis (i.e.: "business as usual").
So if you are interested in experimenting with other digital infrastructures, we invite organisations, collectives and individuals to look closer into these alternatives and support them to the best of their abilities, by either hosting their own versions of the software, therefore diminishing the visitor load, or providing financial compensation for their services.
Meanwhile, smaller groups do not have to wait for these organisations to finally put their tech-hearts in the right place .... There are many tools and hosting initiatives to start exploring and engaging.
We have curated this list from a similar perspective to those articulated by the tennets of the Feminist Server Manifesto (https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml ), ...
The list will perhaps be slowly updated as new projects and groups are announced depending on our energies, how the virus and our governments respond to each other, ... etc etc, no pressure, no productivity claims. We try to not apologize for not being always available.
Translations of the above text:
- generated French translation https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/digital-solidarity-networks_french
- Portuguese translation https://pajuba.frama.wiki/wiki:solidariedade_feminista
General resources
* Coronavirus Tech Handbook - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
* Pirate Care Syllabus https://syllabus.pirate.care/
* Digital Self-Defense Knowledgebase https://defendourmovements.org/
* Detroit Community Technology Project https://detroitcommunitytech.org/ // https://detroitcommunitytech.org/?q=teachcommtech
* Consentful Tech Project https://alliedmedia.org/consentful-tech-project
* prendre soin https://ps.zoethical.org/c/engagement/prendre-soin/137
* Mental Health Resources Varia pad - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/mentalhealthc19-resources
* GISWatch Community Networks 2018 Report - https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/giswatch18_web_0.pdf
* Hacking with Care ("The collective explores well-being and care as components of hacking and activism, while also seeking to liberate care, and to inspire alliances between "caregivers" of different competences.") - https://hackingwithcare.in/
* Tactical Tech's Security in a Box - https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/security-in-a-box / https://securityinabox.org/en/
* Tactical Tech's Gender and Technology - https://tacticaltech.org/#/projects/gender-technology / https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
* Dear cultural institution, There is an elephant in the room! - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/elephant
* Dear student, teacher, worker in an educational institution, https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.en.html (September 2020 follow up!)
* We, Computer Users, demand the right to … https://userrights.contemporary-home-computing.org/
* The Politics of Covid-19 Syllabus - https://the-syllabus.com/coronavirus-readings/
* Een poging tot een verzameling van activiteiten voor kleuters en ouders - activities for preschoolers and parents (mostly in Dutch and French) https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/Ketjes
* Feminist Pedagogy in a Time of Coronavirus Pandemic https://femtechnet.org/feminist-pedagogy-in-a-time-of-coronavirus-pandemic/
* 'Collective Health as Really Beautiful Artwork' by The Feminist Economics Department (the FED) - https://tinyletter.com/Feminist_Economics_Department/letters/collective-health-as-really-beautiful-artwork
* Hackers and Hospitals https://libreplanet.org/wiki/HACKERS_and_HOSPITALS
* The Pandemic Imagination Reading Club - https://salwafoundation.nl/Session-1-The-Pandemic-Imagination
* A People's History of Sillicon Valley Syllabus https://pad.riseup.net/p/social_movements_and_tech_change-keep
* The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest - http://titipi.org/
Connected lists
* Online tools for the pandemic by the Faces + Eclectic Tech Carnival mailing lists https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/online-tools-for-the-pandemic
* Social Practices COVID-19 Teaching Resources https://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Social_Practices_COVID-19_Teaching_Resources
* A collection of open-source tools, apps and services recommended by Tactical Technology https://myshadow.org/resources
* Collaborative Tool Inventory https://pad.puscii.nl/p/collaborative_tool_inventory
* HKU Utrecht's list of recently opened online cultural resources: museums, libraries, streaming of operas, etc. https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MEDIA-onlineArt_and_resources
* Sharing is Caring https://wiki.mur.at/SharingIsCaring the hands-on infowiki provided by mur.at (in German)
* Autonomous Fabric's SUPPORT and RESOURCE pad for self-organised initiatives in Rotterdam and beyond https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Autonomous_Fabric_of_Rotterdam
* LibrePlanet Remote Communication https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Remote_Communication
* Collection of initiatives to help each other in the COVID-19 crisis https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/COVID-19
* Servers: From autonomous servers to feminist servers https://gendersec.tacticaltech.org/wiki/index.php/Servers:_From_autonomous_servers_to_feminist_servers
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Non-extractive* software hosters
* Multi-service
* Lurk (small scale) - https://lurk.org/
* discussion lists, xmpp chat, microblogging, wiki, mastodon
* Framasoft (medium scale) - https://framasoft.fr/en/ - Frama is in overload mode..
* pads, forms, agenda, slides, chat, video-calling, maps, microblogging, notes, mindmaps, calculators, etc.
* Chatons - distributed load of Framasoft - https://entraide.chatons.org/en/ As Framasoft is overloaded, the Chatons network decided to make a page offering the same services as Framasoft, one of their members, but distributed over the different Chatons servers (have a look - auto-explanatory) Every time you load this page, other servers are proposed.
* Riseup - https://riseup.net/
* email, chat, VPN, mailing lists, etherpads
* Autistici/Inventati - https://www.autistici.org/
* Systemli https://www.systemli.org/
* xmpp chat, email, etherpad, web hosting, ticker
* disroot ( www.disroot.org ) xmpp, jitsi, etherpad, taiga, email, diaspora, nextcloud
* autonomic coop: https://autonomic.zone - worker coop which provides software hosting
* Video chat
* Jitsi
* instances where Jitsi is hosted:
* by the jitsi team: https://meet.jit.si/
* lurk.org: https://meet.lurk.org/ (almost stable) - not working at the moment
* surf.nl: https://edu.nl/meet, https://videobelpilot.surf.nl/ (in partnerships with NL educational institutions)
* greenhost.net: https://meet.greenhost.net/
* mayfirst: https://meet.mayfirst.org/
* autistici inventati: https://vc.autistici.org/
* systemli: https://meet.systemli.org/
* disroot: https://calls.disroot.org
* guifi net: https://meet.guifi.net
* waag: https://meet.waag.org/
* Domaine Public http://conf.domainepublic.org
* Freifunk München: https://meet.ffmuc.net/
* collective tools: https://meet.collective.tools/
* vc4all: https://beeldbellen.vc4all.nl/
* Praatbox: https://praatbox.be/
* + many more! (more: https://fediverse.blog/~/DonsBlog/videochat-server dead)
* (more more: )
* + many many more (with annotations!): https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instances
* Big Blue button https://bigbluebutton.org - to install on your own server, their version is not a good demo, Modest version available on https://bbb.faimaison.net/b - Faimaison indicates that their server can handle conversations from 2 to 10 people. https://www.faimaison.net/actualites/outils-tele-cooperation-covid19.html
* The Onling Meeting Cooperative: https://www.org.meet.coop (demo @ )
* Audio chat
* Mumble
* instances of Mumble:
* Espora - https://mumble.espora.org/
* Mayfirst - https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/mumble
* Textual chat
* Freenode IRC
* for example http://freenode.net/ (server IRC), accessible via the web interface: https://webchat.freenode.net/
* Collaborative writing
* Etherpad, examples of instances:
* Wikimedia Etherpad - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/
* Riseup - https://pad.riseup.net/
* FramaPad - https://framapad.org/fr/
* + many others!
* CodiMD
* CodiMD - https://demo.codimd.org/
* Cryptpad
* Cryptpad - https://cryptpad.fr/
* Collaborative Drawing
* Excalidraw https://excalidraw.com/
* WBO https://wbo.ophir.dev/
* Streaming
* https://live.autistici.org/
* https://echo.lurk.org
* https://cytu.be/
* File sharing
* Riseup - https://share.riseup.net/
* Firefox https://send.firefox.com/ - Mozilla - yes or no?
* hostb - https://hostb.org/
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Non-extractive* software
(would be nice to add personal experiences maybe another chapter?)
* Video chat/voice chat
* Jitsi - https://jitsi.org/
* podcast with Jitsi founder/project lead Emil Ivov & Randy Ksar who works at 8x8 who hired the Jitsi team and acquired the Jitsi Technology https://www.8x8.com/blog/episode-5-meet-jitsi
* Wahay - https://wahay.org (did not get it to work)
* Mumble - https://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php
* Apache Open Meetings - https://openmeetings.apache.org/
* unhangout - https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/about/
* Jami - https://jami.net/download/ (not tested, comes with a blockchain part? not sure what is underneath the interfaces to handle the chatting and calling https://jami.net/the-jami-blockchain-switches-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-authority/ )
* Streaming
* Icecast (audio/video streaming server) - https://icecast.org/
* streaming with icecast notes https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Streaming_Service_with_Icecast
* Butt streaming tool, if you have Icecast config you can use https://sourceforge.net/projects/butt/support
* Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) - https://obsproject.com/
* Open Streaming Platform - https://openstreamingplatform.com/
* Metastream - https://getmetastream.com/
* VideoLAN streaming solution - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html
* Gstreamer - https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gstreamer
--> notes about self-hosting streaming software: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/streaming
* CyTube https://github.com/calzoneman/sync
* Studiolink - (german docs) High Quality audio stream integration - https://studio-link.de/
* Chat
* XMPP/Jabber
* server software: https://prosody.im/, https://www.ejabberd.im/
* clients: https://xmpp.org/software/clients.html
* Conversations (Android) (!) - https://conversations.im/ (also available in f-droid!)
* Dino (Linux Desktop) - https://dino.im/
* Gajim (Windows, Linux, Mac) - https://gajim.org/
* Chatsecure (iOS), Siskin (iOS), Monal (iOS)
* ConverseJS (web-client) - https://conversejs.org/, installed at different places:
* https://conversejs.org/fullscreen.html
--> further reading: https://homebrewserver.club/category/instant-messaging.html
--> XMPP bots: https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/explore/repos?q=bots&topic=1
* IRC
* server software listing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_daemons
* recommendations: ?
* IRC client listing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients
* kiwi-irc (web-client) - https://webchat.freenode.net/?#varia
* weechat (command line) - https://weechat.org/
* Game development
* Twine - http://twinery.org/
* Ren'Py - https://www.renpy.org/
* Bitsy - http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html
* Fabularium (app) - https://fossdroid.com/a/fabularium.html
--> more links: http://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/tools.html
* Godot - https://godotengine.org/
* Library softwarehttps://post.lurk.org/about
* Bibliotecha - https://bibliotecha.info/
* Calibre - https://calibre-ebook.com/
* File sharing
* OnionShare - https://onionshare.org/
* Secure browsing
* Tor Browser - https://www.torproject.org/download/
Self-hosting (with others)
--> more links: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/self-hosting-together
* Freedombox - https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
* https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud (great listing of many tools !)
* Freedombone - https://freedombone.net/
* Yunohost - https://yunohost.org/#/
* Practical guides and much more - https://homebrewserver.club/
* Feminist servers checklist: https://pad.riseup.net/p/femservers-checklist-security
* Run Your Own - https://things.bleu255.com/runyourown/Main_Page
* Homebrewserver Club - https://homebrewserver.club/
* Streaming guides https://p-node.org/documentation/streams
* Local Network wifi zone (short distance) - http://www.mazizone.eu/
* Subnodes - https://github.com/chootka/subnodes-lighttpd + http://subnodes.org/
* Occupy Here - https://github.com/occupyhere/occupy.here
* Run your own social: How to run a small social network site for your friends - https://runyourown.social/
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Alternative social networks
* WeDistribute "a publication dedicated to Free Software, decentralized communication technologies, and sustainability" - https://wedistribute.org/
* Welcome to the Fediverse - https://fediverse.party/
Microblogging
* Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/about // https://instances.social/
* Pleroma - https://pleroma.social/ // https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma
* Misskey - https://join.misskey.page/en/ // https://fediverse.party/en/misskey
Macroblogging
* Socialhome - https://socialhome.network/ // https://fediverse.party/en/socialhome
* Hubzilla - https://zotlabs.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project // https://fediverse.party/en/hubzilla
* Diaspora - https://diasporafoundation.org/ // https://fediverse.party/en/diaspora
Activist organising
* Crabgrass - https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/crabgrass
* Used for example by riseup https://we.riseup.net/
Digital libraries
* Aaaaarg - https://aaaaarg.fail/
* Memory of the World - https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/ , https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/
* Internet Archive - https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/ + https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
* Library Genesis - http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ - https://whereislibgen.now.sh/
* Sci-Hub - https://mg.scihub.ltd/ , https://sci-hub.tw
* Monoskop - https://monoskop.org , https://monoskop.org/log/
* Z Library - https://b-ok.cc/ , https://booksc.xyz/
* Imperial Library of Trantor - https://trantor.is/
* LibriVox - https://librivox.org/
* The Anarchist Library - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
Non-extractive* software initatives and use examples
* Libre Planet moved their conference fully online - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2020/Streaming
* running Gstreamer and Icecast
* Love Chaos Quarantine https://www.lovechaosquarantine.zone/
* adhoc online festival
* running https://hoffnung3000.de/
* Radio On the Radio, online Varia stream (14-03) - https://varia.zone/en/pages/stream.html
* using Icecast
* ∏node propose the ANTIVIRUS program : an open collective anti isolation radio show made from your home. Everyday at 20h (Paris time) - https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus
* Online Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (15-03) - https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1629/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-1
* running on a Mediawiki
* Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern: "An exercise that might be of use to others: in Anthro of Networks, we asked students to use a networked-writing platform (Twine, Trello, Miro, Mural, Whimsical) to document 24hrs of their networked activity - a mini-auto-ethnography. Some were revelatory! https://anthronetworks.wordsinspace.net/spring2020/req" - https://twitter.com/shannonmattern/status/1238679065827082244
* using Twine, Trello, Miro, Mural, Whimsical
* Data Vis Book Club happening regularly online - https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-papers
* running Etherpad
* Anti-University - https://2020.antiuniversity.org/
* running https://hoffnung3000.de/
* Streaming video, a link between pandemic and climate crisis https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2020/04/16/streaming-video-a-link-between-pandemic-and-climate-crisis-journal-of-visual-culture-hafi-2/
* Read & Repair feat. Digital Solidarity Networks - http://varia.zone/en/rr-digi-soli-networks.html
* 3 Adventures in the Ether , a Choose Your Own Adventure game on the windows of Varia - http://varia.zone/en/3-adventures-in-the-ether.html
Radio/Streaming
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* PUB - http://pub.sandberg.nl
* Rietveld - http://radio.rietveldacademie.nl/
* Hammam Radio - https://yamakan.place/hammamradio/
* Radio Quarentena - https://cpr.org.ar/radio-cuarentena/
* Echoraeume - http://echoraeume.klingt.org/ in Vienna
* Domes FM - http://bidstonobservatory.org/radio in Liverpool observatory
* Radio Calafou - https://wiki.calafou.org/index.php/Radio_Calafou Calafou radio from a eco-industrial post-capitalist colony in Catalonia✨
* LAG radio - https://leftover.puscii.nl/ https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/Radio/
* MayDay Radio Marathon - http://oscillation-festival.be/
* List of streamings from Greece to Palestine to Asia - http://und-athens.com/journal/quarantine-list-1
* pNode - https://p-node.org/actions/antivirus
* Strike Radio - http://strikeradio.org/about/
* https://mutantradio.net/
* Ràdio Web MACBA - https://rwm.macba.cat/en
* Reboot http://reboot.fm/
* n10 http://www.n10.as/
* Yamakan https://yamakan.place/palestine/
* Leftover radio https://leftover.puscii.nl/
* https://radioee.net/ (nice way to present the podcasts)
* radio in between spaces https://www.inbetweenspaces.net/
* p-node https://p-node.org/
* https://yamakan.place/palestine/
* https://radiorelativa.eu/
* Baba Radio http://www.babaradio.online/
* Radio Implicancies https://issue.xpub.nl/12/
* Extractive software relies on a business model where the user produces economic value for the tech company in exchange for its free (free as in beer, not as in freedom) services (e.g.: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, et al). However, the exchange rate(?) is often disproportional and can have direct consequences for democracy, society and basic human rights(?), while generating profits in the order of the billions for the company (e.g.: US$40 billion (2017) for Facebook and US$110 billion (2017) for Google.)
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Statements, snippets, sharp quotes, good jokes
Framatalk statement (video chat service hosted by Framasoft) - https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/
16 Mars 2020 : Framatalk est en surcharge d'utilisation
Nous demandons aux personnes relevant de l'éducation nationale (profs, élèves, personnel administratif) de ne pas utiliser nos services durant le confinement et de demander conseil à leurs référent·es.
Nous savons que le ministère de l'éducation nationale a les moyens, les compétences et la visibilité pour créer les services en ligne nécessaires à son bon fonctionnement durant un confinement. Notre association loi 1901 ne peut pas compenser le manque de préparation et de volonté du ministère.
Merci de réserver nos services aux personnes qui n'ont pas les moyens informatiques d'une institution nationale (individus, associations, petites entreprises et coopératives, collectifs, familles, etc.).
Le formulaire ci-dessous vous permettra de créer un salon chez un hébergeur éthique aléatoire en qui nous avons confiance.
March 16, 2020: Framatalk is in overload of use
We ask the people in charge of national education (teachers, students, administrative staff) not to use our services during containment and to ask their referents for advice.
We are aware that the Ministry of Education has the means, skills and visibility to create the online services necessary for its proper functioning during a containment. Our association law 1901 cannot compensate for the lack of preparation and willingness of the Ministry.
Thank you for reserving our services to people who do not have the IT means of a national institution (individuals, associations, small businesses and cooperatives, collectives, families, etc.).
The form below will allow you to create a room at a random ethical host we trust.
A trans*feminist infrastructure implies... - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvC21LSXgAIMPtl.jpg
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Q's & multiple A's
* What to say when somebody wants to use Zoom or Skype or Microsoft Teams for a video call?
-- data extractivism!
-- spying tools! ("if zoom is not the primary window on your screen for more than 30sec, the administrator of the session gets a notification")
-- stocks!
-- side story: "Working from Home? Zoom tells your boss if you're not paying attention" - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdnmm/working-from-home-zoom-tells-your-boss-if-youre-not-paying-attention + https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis
-- Because Big Tech is already making enough money from the pandemic - https://reporterre.net/Pour-Amazon-le-coronavirus-est-une-affaire-tres-profitable
-- Because these tools are made for managing employees. They do not have a culture of activism, art or education built in.
-- Because Zoom iOS App is sending info to Facebook, even if the user has no Facebook account https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7e599/zoom-ios-app-sends-data-to-facebook-even-if-you-dont-have-a-facebook-account update: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook
-- because "if you're having a committee meeting via Zoom and you use the chat function to privately write to someone, your colleagues may not see it in real time, but it shows up when the chat is downloaded and put in the minutes folder"... https://twitter.com/HJHaldanePhD/status/1244302917206708233
-- because Zoom is not taking measures to protect its users against harrassment: Citizen Lab report: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/
-- because Zoom has serious privacy issues https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ + https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing
* What to say when colleagues propose to work with software that is not maintained by the university or school, but is a free service hosted by someone else? How to rely on someone else's infrastructure as an educational institution, without engaging with that infrastructure?
-- what data is captured?
-- by whom and for whom is the tool made? with what ideology? (is this important? or is pragmatism more important these days?) (how to still project in the future, while remaining pragmatic?)
-- how to support upstream?
For example, from whereby.com's vision page:
Flexible working allows employees to choose the location they want to work from (and often also what time they work). Whether it’s a home office, a coworking space, library or an airport - each individual knows best what works for them, and how they do their best work.
Or the statement Framasoft wrote on the 16th of March 2020, see line 245.
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Reading list
* Let's first get things done! on division of labour and technopolitical practices of delegation in times of crisis http://twentysix.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-196-lets-first-get-things-done-on-division-of-labour-and-techno-political-practices-of-delegation-in-times-of-crisis/
* Solidarity as Infrastructure - https://www.systemli.org/en/2020/03/15/solidarity-as-infrastructure.html
* Pervasive Labour Union - http://ilu.servus.at/
* On paranoia and reparative reading - https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4597-paranoia-and-the-coronavirus-how-eve-sedgwick-s-affect-theory-persists-through-quarantine-and-self-isolation
* Other geometries vocabulary - https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/interdependencies
* Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of the Coronavirus - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59f87d66914e6b2a2c51b657/t/5e7bbeef7811c16d3a8768eb/1585168132614/AAFCZine3_CareintheTimeofCoronavirus.pdf
* Complaint and Survival - https://feministkilljoys.com/2020/03/23/complaint-and-survival/
* Taskeen Adam (2019), Digital neocolonialism and massive open online courses (MOOCs): colonial pasts and neoliberal futures https://sci-hub.shop/https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2019.1640740
* Libro de soberania tecnologica (2014) Volumen 1:
Cast: https://radioslibres.net/wp-content/uploads/media/uploads/documentos/dossier-st-cast-2014-06-30.pdf
French: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/dossier-st1.pdf
Italian: http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec1/it/
* Libro de soberania tecnologica (2018) Volumen 2:
Cast: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-es-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-13-v2.pdf
French: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-fr-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf
English: https://www.ritimo.org/IMG/pdf/sobtech2-en-with-covers-web-150dpi-2018-01-10.pdf
* Libros Vol 1 y 2 en formato GIT y traducciones que existen (ingles, frances, castellano, italiano, neerlandes, etc): https://legacy.gitbook.com/@sobtec
* Cartography of Exhaustion: Nihilism Inside Out, Peter Pál Pelbart - https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/58360af69ff37c59db161054
* Coronavirus and philosophers - http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/
* One hundred years of crisis https://www.e-flux.com/journal/108/326411/one-hundred-years-of-crisis/
* The universal right to breathe https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-universal-right-to-breathe/
* Ten Premises For A Pandemic https://www.ianalanpaul.com/ten-premises-for-a-pandemic/
* Feminist Autonomous Infrastructures https://www.giswatch.org/en/internet-rights/feminist-autonomous-infrastructures
Viewing list
* https://www.artez.nl/en/webinar-crisis-education-critical-education with an analysis of the issues with extractive software in education by Seda Guerses
Listening list
* We Be Imagining Podcast - A Chance to Transgress https://americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast/episode-chance-9dtjd4-b5neb
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Concrete political and institutional responses [welp, not sure yet how to title]
* #internet4all - https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/ [did not dive into this one yet, did one of you?]
* "From net neutrality to public internet" - https://techaction.nyc/posts/from-net-neutrality-to-public-internet/
* Statement of the EDPB Chair on the processing of personal data in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak - https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news_en
* pressing pause in a time of crisis: https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/pressing-pause-in-a-time-of-crisis
* State of Emergency https://www.are.na/francis-tseng/state-of-emergency
* GreenNet compilation of OS tools: https://www.apc.org/en/node/36165/
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