The Labs swarm is working on different domains within the field of Linked Open Data. It is a connection of enthusiasts who commit their specific interests for the collective economy that currently emerges.
distributed global commonuication for common good
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is running community processes around the field of a federated social web. This will supersede the Semantic Web, also known as Web 3.0, and create new meaningful ways of distributed interaction. Everybody is asked to submit her demands.
Hyperdata
The provenance of anything shared will ideally be found with dynamically interlinked, openly updated datasets that represent our lifeworlds. Therefore the creation of public repositories and collective ontology design principles has to be fostered.
Needs + Offers, i.e. nutrition, accomodation, transportation
Linking the needs and offers from people within a relationship of trust helps in promoting economic activity, that does not rely on the money system. Think of a Gift Economy. Validation and distribution of actual overlappings becomes an important part of those Organized Networks.
Harmonious Hackathons
Building on ideas from OuiShareFest, a Networking the networks group is investigating methodologies for hack events with sustaining impact and long-term engagement, like Banana Budapest.
intentional, distributed action
As a think tank for transhumanistic self-organization and socio-economic innovation, we have to reflect on the performative underpinnings of our endeavours. With help from Post-Colonial Epistemologies, a little Philosophy of Mind and Social Psychology, theories of cooperation can be established and reiterated.
Leaving proprietary social networks
One of the main drives for our activities is the discontent with existing commercial solutions to Internet communication. We believe approaches that instead involve many providing parties can lead to clearer representations of information flows and thus more significant exchange.
OuiShare Labs Hacks is a fringe event to the Open Knowledge Festival 2014 in Berlin. It is aimed at the production and organization of distributed networking tools for the common good.
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