Open Educational Resources: freie Lehr- und Lernmaterialien

Ich will das nicht verteidigen, aber wer eine Kettensäge verwendet als Nasenhaarschneider, muss trotzdem höllisch aufpassen.

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Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)

As physical flux are constrained in our houses exacerbating existing hierarchies inequities, social constraints, as well as giving the occasion to some of us to confirm the richness of our differences and affirm the benefit of collective life choices, ground new network organization, exacerbate our need to share practices of care.

In my gaze it felt that despite the almost omnipresent governmental presence, human networks took a measure of their importance and along the course of confinement we saw the buildup of the lines of many solidarity networks, not only because we benevolently provided necessary goods for each-other, but also because we shared opinions, information, and a lot of imaginations along the modalities of our existing independent infrastructures, trusting each other, across borders.

Kreative Menschen leisten am meisten, wenn sie den Eindruck erwecken als täten sie nichts.

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Ich drücke dem Unternehmen wirklich alle Daumen, Zehen und was sonst noch so dazu taugt.Wenn die am 24. starten, können die anderen ihre Geschenke alleine auspacken. Ich sitze vor dem Rechner und schaue NASA-TV!

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Zeitlichkeiten

Für das Ethisch-Moralische in der ästhetischen Kommunikation sind dann Identität, Herkunft, Authentizität zuständig. Diese Instanzen lassen die schlichten Formen und konventionellen Erzählweisen vergessen. Es entsteht eine Mischung aus Sozialfolkore, Aufstieg-durch-Bildung-Porno und identitätspolitischem Kitsch.

Die Gegenwartsliteratur, herausgefordert durch „das Politische und Ethische“, reagiere bisweilen etwas biedermeierlich. Inhaltliche, geschichtsmoralisch codierte Bedeutsamkeit (Stasi, Nationalsozialismus) und identitätspolitische Positionierung (Minderheit, Diskriminierung) verunmöglichten den kritischen Blick für die Form

meiner Meinung nach ist der einzig vernünftige Sicherheitsansatz "less is more": einfache, durchschaubare Prozesse und Systeme, die man wirklich durchblickt und kontrolliert.

Dann ist es allgemeingültig: Sofware, die irgendwann nur noch aus Ausnahmen und Sonderfällen besteht, mit heisse Nadel gestrickte Netzwerke - soll ja schnell gehen - EMail-Verteiler, bei denen keiner mehr durchblickt, ein Wirrwarr an Domains etc.

domain working groups

AgricultureEnergyFinanceGeoinformationHealthIndustry 4.0/SMEMobilityPublic SectorSmart City/Smart RegionSmart Living

Research shows those who view friendships as something that happens because of luck are lonelier later on in life, she says, “and those who see it as something that happens based on effort are less lonely years later.”

Information Retrieval

Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen

Seminar: Deep Natural Language Processing

ISO 29100/Privacy Framework [2] defines the privacy principles as:1.Consent and choice,2.Purpose legitimacy and specification,3.Collection limitation,4.Data minimization,5.Use, retention and disclosure limitation,6.Accuracy and quality,7.Openness, transparency and notice,8.Individual participation and access,9.Accountability,10.Information security, and11.Privacy compliance.

Plenary (generally in the spring) and Interim (generally in autumn) meetings.

technology assessment and policy analysis

industries, governments, and academia

Model-based systems engineering is a standard practice

Rigorous and Pragmatic Methods & Tools

FOUNDATIONS

Continuous threat and system behaviormonitoring• Management of access rights and privileges• Use of testbeds for assessing new threats in fielded systems• Supply-chain diligence• Certification and accreditation standards • Formal methods for identification of vulnerabilities

Architecting Systems to Address Multiple Stakeholder Viewpoints

Trends of Emerging System Properties

Applying Systems Engineering to Policy

real-world operation

stakeholders, including customers, beneficiaries, users, owners, and relevant third parties

establishing stakeholders’ success criteria and concerns, and defining actual or anticipated customer needs and required functionality, early in the development cycle, and revising them as new information is gained and lessons are learned;

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Any new and exciting space made by those in power, or even by anyone who hasn’t made a conscious and educated effort to mitigate power, turns into a lawless wasteland pretty damn quickly.

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animals after experiencing a near-death experience with a predator lie down and shake their body to physically release the trauma

four building blocks and 14 signals for improving and inspiring the design of better digital public spaces

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Vice versa, many researchers and practitioners who are mainly interested in human-centered social constructs choose to ignore the to them often alienating world of technical systems design.

subtle knowledge constructs, modeling languages, elicitation, and validation processes

human-centered aspects that predominate in community informatics, like ethics, legitimacy, empowerment, and socio-technical design

Creating a community network ontology is therefore about much more than just knowledge representation. It also requires us to think about how this conceptual knowledge model affects real-world knowledge creation and application processes, in our case concerning participatory community network mapping. Its participatory nature means that we need to think hard about how to explicitly involve the community in the construction, evolution, and use of the ontology.

Ontologies are inseparable from the communities in which they are being created and used [25].

One complicating issue when trying to make sense across multiple communities is that not only do different communities have different cultures and practices, but also different epistemologies: different languages to describe their community and the soci(et)al context it operates in, with often different meanings attached to the terminologies used.

an ongoing, complex process of aligning resources, practices, and initiatives of multiple communities [20].

how to make sense across their boundaries in order to explore and expand their common ground? How can they do so to scale up their collaboration for collective impact?

As we saw, communities have traditionally been defined as striving towards the mutual benefit of their own members.

When opening up the definition of community in terms of community networks, with their broader, overlapping contexts, what is that mutual benefit? Of course, the communities making up the network focus on their own purposes, interests, and needs first. Still, through their intersecting socio-technical contexts, those purposes, interests, and needs partially connect the communities. This means that larger, overarching, common good constructs may become focal points of interest around which inter-communal joint purposes, interests, and needs can emerge, be more explicitly defined, linked more closely, and strengthened.

socio-technical

Still, what does it mean to become such a federation? What does it mean to connect communities into federated networks that can achieve impact on wicked problems? Graham sees the distributed governance structures and processes of community networks as scaling fractally, society being a fractal composite of communities. Communities, in his view, are complex adaptive systems, adjusting situational individual responses to emergent experiences, such that the system stays in balance with the context that defines it.

federation of locals

scaling fractally

relational epistemology

community norms, values, goals, and ethics

Such scaled-up communication and collaboration processes would also require meta-design principles to collaboratively construct the required design rationale, media and environments [23].

time-centric, topic-centric, question-centric, debate-centric, and argument centric deliberation technologies

Etzioni astutely observed that all communities have a serious defect: they exclude. To prevent communities from over-excluding, they should be able to maintain some limitations on membership, yet at the same time greatly restrict the criteria that communities may use to enforce such exclusivity. He therefore proposed the idea of “megalogues”: society-wide dialogues that link many community dialogues into one, often nation-wide conversation [7].

Such boundary objects play a brokering role involving translation, coordination, and alignment among the perspectives of different communities coming together in a kind of meta-community [26], which is the case in our fractalized community networks.

boundary objects

The CommunitySensor community network ontology can be positioned somewhere in the middle of this spectrum: community network representatives are totally free to come up with their own terms for element and connection types in their own ontologies. However, these terms are organized in a deep structure with community-specific element and connection types being classified by higher-order element and connection type (sub)categories described in the CommunitySensor community network conceptual model.

This is in line with systems practice, which defines purpose in terms of longer term and more abstract aspirational states—“guiding stars”—and shorter term, more concrete desired outcomes—“near stars” (https://docs.kumu.io/content/Workbook-012617.pdf). We have come across two main sub-categories of purpose elements: ‘Themes’ and ‘Topics’ (guiding stars) and ‘Goals’ and ‘Plans’ (near stars).

“networked societies” rather than “information societies”

online deliberation, sensemaking, argumentation and discussion-mapping, community ideation and idea management systems, collective decision making, group memory, participatory sensor networks, early warning systems, collective awareness, and crowdsourcing

Community informatics (CI) is the application of information and communications technology (ICT) to enable and empower community processes [11].

Communities are groups of people sharing social ties and interactions for mutual benefit—which can be a shared purpose, interest, or need—in a common space [8,9,10].

This line of thinking has been solidified in the Community Informatics Declaration, which states that a just and equitable Internet provides recognition that the local is a fundamental building block of all information and communications and the “global” is a “federation of locals” [14]

CI4CG

CI

ICT

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DOI 10.21627/2020fa

A Story Begun Wislawa Szymborska The world's never ready For the birth of a child. Our ships are still not back from Windland. Ahead of us lies the Saint Gothard pass. We must outwit the guards on the desert of Thor, Fight through the sewers to Warsaw's centre, Win an audience with King Harald, And wait for the fall of Minister Fouche. Only in Acapulco Can we begin again. Our supplies are exhausted, Of matches, engine spares, reasons, and water. We have neither trucks, nor the blessing of the Mings. With this thin horse we'll never bribe the sheriff. There's no news of the Tartars' captives. We've no warm cave for winter, Or anyone who speaks Harari. We don't know who to trust in Nineveh, What the Cardinal will demand, Or whose names lie in Beria's files. They say Charles the Hammer will strike at dawn. So we must appease Cheops, Volunteer - of our own free will, Change our faith, Pretend we're friends of the Doge And that nothing links us with the Kwabe tribe. It's time to light the fire, Send a message to grandma in Zabierzow. And take down the tents. May the birth be easy, And the child grow strong. Let him take what happiness he can, Leap the abysses, Have strength to endure, And think far ahead. But not so far, As to see the future. From that one gift, O heavenly powers, Spare him.

An atlas can connect space and time in new ways. An atlas can articulate the coalescence and collision of local and global trajectories, described by the late Doreen Massey as ‘throwntogetherness’. Massey describes how different elements and trajectories – human, more-than-human, social, cultural and political – come together to define a here and now. In this understanding, space is not limited to specific areas or points on a map, instead it is produced by the encounter of multiple local and global trajectories which have also a temporal dimension.

Maps and atlases are not only visual tools, they are epistemologies. They can help us pay attention to the world using all our senses in order reorientate, navigate and take action as political bodies in an ecological crisis.

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Infrastructure

peer-to-peer architecture

federation

self-governance

civic intelligence

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1234635

The authors propose a feminist ethics of care approach to CTCs in order to address the gendered power dynamics that often define and shape existing infomediary practices, distribute care work, and make existing care work visible.

Building upon Sweeney and Rhinesmith’s approach, and bringing the conceptualizations of care [14,33,34], I propose the following framework:I define social practices as the acts of care performed by individuals and afforded by CTCs in order to promote self and community needs;Based on this study’s ethnography, I categorize social practices into three groups:Care work: the invisible work performed by the infomediaries, or any CTC worker, as described by Sweeney and Rhinesmith;Peer-to-peer care: individuals (CTC users) collaborating with each other so they can inform, take decisions, and strive towards their individual needs; andCommunity care: individuals (CTC users and infomediaries) acting collaboratively or individually in order to promote community wellbeing.It is important to emphasize that social practices also include other social acts that are not necessarily “care”, but given the interactions observed in the CTCs in the favelas, I chose an explicit care-focused lens as the basis of this framework in order to breakdown the social practices in a way that could help make a case for the importance of the CTCs beyond their ICT-focused roles.

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https://doi.org/10.3390/info9050113

We propose a venture into an existential opportunity for establishing a world ‘good enough’ for humans to live in. Defining an existential opportunity as the converse of an existential risk—that is, a development that promises to dramatically improve the future of humanity—we argue that one such opportunity is available and should be explored now. The opportunity resides in the moment of transition of the Internet—from mediating information to mediating distributed direct governance in the sense of self-organization. The Internet of tomorrow will mediate the execution of contracts, transactions, public interventions and all other change-establishing events more reliably and more synergistically than any other technology or institution. It will become a distributed, synthetically intelligent agent in itself. This transition must not be just observed, or exploited instrumentally: it must be ventured into and seized on behalf of entire humanity. We envision a configuration of three kinds of cognitive system—the human mind, social systems and the emerging synthetic intelligence—serving to augment the autonomy of the first from the ‘programming’ imposed by the second. Our proposition is grounded in a detailed analysis of the manner in which the socio-econo-political system has evolved into a powerful control mechanism that subsumes human minds, steers their will and automates their thinking. We see the venture into the existential opportunity described here as aiming at the global dissolution of the core reason of that programming’s effectiveness—the critical dependence of the continuity of human lives on the coherence of the socially constructed personas they ‘wear.’ Thus, we oppose the popular prediction of the upcoming, ‘dreadful AI takeover’ with a call for action: instead of worrying that Artificial Intelligence will soon come to dominate and govern the human world, let us think of how it could help the human being to finally be able to do it.

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable." John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

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