[open-economics] Event on Jan 25: Building Community with the Help of Information and Communications Technologies – Opportunities and Challenges

[Christian Fuchs]

Building Community with the Help of Information and Communications 
Technologies – Opportunities and Challenges
A netCommons event http://netcommons.eu
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
18:00-20:00
University of Westminster
309 Regent Street
Fyvie Hall
London W1B 2HW

Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-community-with-the-help-of-information-and-communications-tickets-30489441741?aff=es2

Building Community with the Help of Information and Communications 
Technologies – Opportunities and Challenges

Professor Claire Wallace, University of Aberdeen will present work 
carried out in Aberdeen among four rural communities that have used 
information technology in different ways to help build community 
networks and an enhanced sense of identity and social cohesion.

Adam Burns, member of the netCommons project Advisory board and founder 
of the Free2Air community network, will provide insights into  how 
community networks are organised and what opportunities and challenges 
they pose.

netCommons is a Horizon2020 research project, which proposes a novel 
transdisciplinary methodology on promoting and supporting the creation 
of network infrastructures as commons, for resiliency, sustainability, 
democracy, self-determination, and social integration. The partners of 
the project have strong expertise  in engineering, computer science, 
economics, law, political science, urban, media, and social studies; and 
close links with successful Community Networks like guifi.net, 
ninux.org, and sarantaporo.gr.

Claire Wallace is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen 
and was co-investigator on both the CCNetwork+ and the Aberdeen Rural 
Digital Economy Hub. She was formerly President of the European 
Sociological Association and has worked in Research Institutes and 
Universities in England, Austria, Czech Republic and most recently Scotland.

Adam Burns has worked as an IT security advisor and has been 
instrumental in the development of alternative wireless networks since 
the 1990s, first in Australia, subsequently in London and Berlin, where 
he now resides. He is predominantly associated with the Free2Air network 
in east London but has also been very active in the alternative networks 
movement worldwide publishing extensively on community networks and 
participating in numerous meetings.

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