Knowledge and Technology for a Free Knowledge Society
Swatantra’17 is an international conference on Free Software and Free Knowledge that will take place on 20-21 December 2017 in Trivandrum, India. The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is happy to contribute to this important event by presenting the main findings … Continued
DiDIY (Digital Do-It-Yourself) is a complex sociocultural phenomenon, still at its beginnings and rapidly evolving. FKI and the other members of the DiDIY Consortium studied DiDIY in depth from 2015 to 2017, in the context of the Horizon2020 DiDIY Project. … Continued
(this text was originally published by the DiDIY Project. We partially republish it here, because the DiDIY Manifesto is very in line with the FKI founding principles, and we therefore invite everybody to sign it! (see privacy information below)) Do … Continued
As you probably already know, FKI is one of the partners of the EU H2020 research project called “DiDIY (Digital DIY)”. This important work, which among other things provided us with some of the bases for other current initiatives like … Continued
(as published in DiDIY) There are a growing number of initiatives supporting entrepreneurial projects to explore the viability of a commons collaborative economy. In January La Comunificadora programme, closed its first experience in Barcelona (co-produced by Platoniq, Foundation Goteo, the … Continued
On 6 July 2016, the FKI, as a participant in the EC project on Digital DIY, organised a Digital DIY Community Day Barcelona, with the community of local and international makers, researchers, teachers and policymakers, together with Barcelona Activa and … Continued
One of the research tracks of the Digital DIY (DiDIY) Project is the one (Work Package 6) on DiDIY Legal Issues, Rights and Responsibilities. We are happy to announce that, in order to assist us in that activity, the DiDIY … Continued
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
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
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