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Get involved with Etherpad at http://etherpad.org Multiplicity , round 1:

Which knowledge do we want to distribute? How can we re-direct the flow of knowledge. What kind of knowledge-commons (language, content, formats, etc.)?

• Extend regional representation, political networking
• Extend methods, media practices
• Extend materials, bodies of knowledge

... and other courts!


Action Points:

• First identify key people, networks, institutions that have local knowledge. Less individuals, rather institutions / networks. Diasporic networks / Refugees. Make sure meetings happen outside glob al north. Epistemic disobidience!
• Make sure students and active student organizations involved, confluence of interests / tactics (not just as audience)
• Pro du ction Sprints in the regions (Global South); learning about local practices / how libraries are built outside of academia (e.g. India); producing knowledge commons (c.f. Xerox). Diversity in people comes through geo diversity.
• Museum of media practices (collect and user submissions). Photographs media formats.
• Patch the geneology with other histories http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/courtcasesfromthefuture_genealogy

• Funding Sources: Columbia Global Centers; Hivos; School of Oriental and African Studies , Global Congress [^GlobalCongress] , OIF (Francophonie), Goethe Institut?
• Ask: Brian Holmes, Lawrence Liang, Nishant Shah, Kavita Philipps, Brian Larkin, Shannon Mattern , Chris Csikszentmihalyi [^root]     
• Pre-existing projects that may be useful: Making Change at Leuphana, MayDay Rooms

Notes:
Problem of Access is regional; putting diverse people in power; strategically contacting people. Identifying key players who could bring their networks/communities. Community outreach. Looking specifically
 for institutions.
Research/Universities: not only faculty-members, but also reaching out to students. Doing seminars around the topic at your universities.
Areas where access is restricted (cf. Bodo’s maps); ethnographic details. Taking regional specificities serious (platforms, devices, cultural context, practices). How does one open up a Public Library in the regions (Xerox-copies, MP4s, USB-harddrives). Understanding local political context (cf. protests against Internet.org). 
Local knowledge; Making Change-experience; using the network. Production sprints/meetings/workshops in the Global South - question of fundings? Seek fundings for international meetings.

If you are about diversity, need to think about what knowledge do you want to distribute. Local mechanics of how people build libraries. How people all already doing that.

What do "the diversified" get from this? It seems these platforms could serve, be useful for other language communities. Important to invite people to the table.
Local "experts" and practitioners. Changing perspective. Dislocate.

It is a specialised conversation on infrastructures for knowledge structures with specialists, cultural producers outside the current group.
Make use of "best practices". Pre-work might take a long time.

What about Russia? A lack of trust, and there are reasons. They do not need us, we have nothing to offer. Did so far not want any mention, publicity.

Society for Knowledge Commons (india&Brazil) http://www.knowledgecommons.in
[^GlobalCongress]: http://global-congress.org/
Media priacy in emerging economies & http://piracy.americanassembly.org/

http://www.ict4dc.org/
OSI&co https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25370177M/Access_to_Knowledge_in_the_Age_of_Intellectual_Property
http://copycamp.pl/en/

libGen user community: https://genofond.org/
budding OS community: https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/






[^root]: http://rootio.org/