The Commons Law Perspective, Open Hardware and Digital DIY
On October 1st I had an interview with David Bollier. Given his decade long work on the commons, as researcher and activist, author of books like Viral Spiral and in particular his work on Laws and the Commons, I thought … Continued
The Right to Repair
I have always thought that repairing a broken product is better than throwing it away, even though quite a few products are designed in ways that don’t help or directly encourage not to repair. In general, repairing is good for … Continued
Open Education at fOSSa conference
Last week I had the pleasure to participate in the free/open source software in academia (fOSSa) conference organised by the French INRIA. The topics of the conference covered from Open Education to Open Science, Open Design and Free Software. In … Continued
DRM & DMCA take away your freedoms
Technology companies are taking away the right of the people buying their products and convert them into simple consumers who don’t really own the products they buy.
The Free Knowledge Institute participates in “Digital DIY” Project
Digital Do It Yourself (DiDIY) is a new socio-technological phenomenon, centered around digital devices that support, often through open online communities, the convergence of “atoms” and “bits”. The DiDIY Research Project, which addresses the Horizon 2020 call for a “Human-centric … Continued
Selected Readings on Digital DIY
General introductions about digital fabrication technologies and how our societies are changing right now and in the foreseeable future: Neil Gershenfeld (2005). FAB. The Coming Revolution On Your Desktop – From Personal Computers To Personal Fabrication. Basic Books. About FabLabs … Continued
Digital Do It Yourself (DiDIY)
The FKI helped co-develop a research project on the impact of “Digital DIY”, which was selected for funding by the EC. In January 2015 we started the project lead by Luca Mari from Università Carlo Cattaneo/LIUC and with the Politecnico … Continued
A new start for the Free Knowledge Institute and the Free Technology Academy
Greetings, as you may have already noticed, the several wikis and other websites of the Free Knowledge Institute and the Free Technology Academy have published very little “good” content lately. This was due to a combination of two factors: the … Continued
FKI Board strengthened with two new members
The Free Knowledge Institute is proud to welcome two new members to its Board: Joe Corneli and Marco Fioretti. Both have been active community members within the free knowledge – free technology community. Both bring in new energy, large networks, … Continued
Complementary social and cryptocurrencies
Recently I have had the opportunity to meet with several people from the complementary currency and the cryptocurrency movements. I learnt an awful lot of things. Most of the people I met agreed that the learning experience is maybe the … Continued