[Advisors] FW: [ciresearchers] Do-It-Yourself Networking: an interdisciplinary perspective (links and call for papers)

[michael gurstein]

This looks like a very interesting opportunity...

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From: ciresearchers-owner at vancouvercommunity.net [mailto:ciresearchers-owner at vancouvercommunity.net] On Behalf Of panayotis antoniadis
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:10 AM
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Subject: [ciresearchers] Do-It-Yourself Networking: an interdisciplinary perspective (links and call for papers)


Dear all,

I would like to draw your attention to a special category of community wireless networks, those that focus on local interactions and operate mainly outside the public Internet. Such networks become easier and easier to install, especially at a "hyperlocal" level, raising many interesting questions, related to social, political, technical, economic, and other challenges to be addressed.

There is now a growing community of researchers from different fields, practitioners, activists and artists that are interested in this type of "offline networks". See for example:
- http://www.dagstuhl.de/14042
- http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/category/alternativeinternets/
- http://librelist.com/browser/off.networks/
and more at http://nethood.org/links.php

Our recent paper at the journal of community informatics on the "right to the hybrid city"
and the sidewalk metaphor, I think provides a good introduction on this topic and some answers to the key question: "Why?": 
http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1092

If you find all this of any interest, you are very welcome to participate at a new series of interdisciplinary workshops on DIY networking, starting at a well-known engineering conference, Mobisys 2015, in Florence from May 18-22nd. Submission
deadline: February 28th!

More details here: http://diynetworking.net

Best,

Panayotis Antoniadis
senior researcher at ETH Zurich and co-founder of nethood, a new non-profit organization based in Zurich http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~pantonia/