Resources

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We’re not the only ones trying to save the world. Although egx does not directly support the initiatives below we do champion them and encourage you to learn more about them.

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Humane Technology

 

Much of today’s web is abusive in that it spies on users, manipulates them, or denies them their rights. Groups are springing up to address these moral shortcomings.

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• Center for Humane Technology: Realigning Technology with Humanity

• Public-Interest Technology Resources

• The Copenhagen Catalog

 

Metrics Fixation

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• Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse

• Why do we manage academia so badly?

• A Cure for Our Fixation on Metrics

• Examples of Bad Metrics

• “Metric Fixation” and its discontents

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Decentralized Technologies

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• Publius

• Freenet

• GNUnet

• I2P Anonymous Network

• YaCy

• BitTorrent

• Gnutella

• IPFS

• Dat Protocol

• MaidSafe

• Secure Scuttlebutt

• radicle

• PLAN Systems

• 1M5 — Invisible Matrix Services, Uncensored Communications

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Brightnets

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• Monolith

• OFF System download | SourceForge.net

• The Owner Free File System - The OFF System

 

Conferences

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• DWeb Camp

• Decentralized Web Summit 2018: Global Visions / Working Code

• Decentralized Web Summit: Locking the Web Open

• Stanford Blockchain Conference 2020

• Rebooting the Web-Of-Trust

 

Resources for a Deeper Dive

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• Matrix Ecosystem Review (PDF): A review and comparison of various decentralized technologies.

 

Decentralized Resources

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• alternative-internet: A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form).

• awesome-decentralized-web: an awesome list of decentralized services and technologies

• awesome-decentralized: - Awesome list of distributed, decentralized, p2p apps and tools -

• redecentralize-website: Website of Redecentralize.org

• decentralized-social-apps-guide: An awesome overview of existing open-source decentralized apps and platforms for social networking, engagement and collaboration

• awesome-peer-to-peer: A list of peer-to-peer resources.

• p2p-index: A collection of peer-to-peer decentralized projects.

• decentralized-web-primer: An introduction to the ideas, implications and technical design principles of the decentralized web. Viewable at

 

Identity and Web of Trust

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• Decentralized Identity Web Directory (website source): Self Sovereign Identity Curated

• Rebooting the Web-Of-Trust (website source) (GitHub Org)

 

Rebooting the Web of Trust Workshops

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• rebooting-the-web-of-trust: RWOT1 in San Francisco, California

• rwot2-id2020: RWOT2 for the ID2020 UN Summit (May 2016)

• rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016: RWOT3 in San Francisco, California

• rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2017: RWOT4 in Paris, France

• rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017: RWOT5 in Boston, Massachusetts

• rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018: RWOT6 in Santa Barbara, California

• rwot7-toronto: RWOT7 in Toronto, Canada (September 2018)

• rwot8-barcelona: RWOT8 in Barcelona, Spain (March 2019)

• rwot9-prague: RWOT9 in Prague, The Czech Republic (September 2019)

• rwot10-buenosaires: CANCELLED: RWOT10 in Buenos Aires, Argentina (March 2020)

 

Rebooting the Web of Trust Concept Explorations

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• self-sovereign-identity: Articles and documents associated with designing and implementing identity technology using self-sovereign identity principles

• verifiable-news: TBD: W3C Credentials Community Group repository for curbing “social bots” and mitigating the spread of online misinformation and “fake news”.

• btcr-hackathon: Virtual hackathon to create spec and code for Bitcoin-based Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)

 

Self Hosted and Federated

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Lots of stuff, but mostly federated not decentralized:

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• selfhosted-awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

• awesome-selfhosted: - List of awesome Free Software network services and network-capable applications which can be hosted locally.

• awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of hosting and managing applications instead of renting from Software-as-a-Service providers

• awesome-fediverse: A curated, collaborative list of awesome Fediverse resources

• dank-selfhosted: Automated solution for hosting email, web, DNS, XMPP, and ZNC on OpenBSD.

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Not Updated Recently

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• awesome-p2p: An awesome list for those interested in building decentralized applications

• vincent-awesome-decentralized: A curated list of decentralized, P2P (peer-to-peer), and distributed platforms and applications (“dapps”).