Wifi and Public Access

Part of the elements in the cChaos project is making available high speed wireless networks (WiFi) at the Farmers/Public Market Forums. Though cChaos is aimed at both being a small project - with several small "hot" spots at each market site or one portable one (???) the idea of large scale publicly funded WiFi has always appealed to me. Here is an article that questions that appeal.

Timothy Carr of "Media for Democracy" begs to differ though. His blog is :. In a subscription enewsletter he writes in part:

Democracy coalition partners and signing on to their community internet campaigns. Here are five things to do today:

1. Learn more about Community Internet at Free Press and join their Action Center to participate in future advocacy on this issue.
   
   
2. Read the Consumers Union's guide to getting involved to protect affordable access to broadband.
   
   
3. Stay on top of the community wireless movement by visiting MuniWireless.com and subscribing to their weekly newsletter.
   
   
4. See a community wireless network in action. Sascha Meinrath helped build the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) using the same "WiFi" equipment available off-the-shelf for homes and offices, but he and his colleagues put it on rooftops to connect neighbors over several square miles.
   
   
5. Find out more about others who are building municipal wireless networks in your neighborhood:

Comments would be appreciated.

EduChaos-Disruptive Tec&Attitudes&Radical Disclosure

To follow up on my initial post on "radical disclosure" I want to outline the design foundation for the cChaos project in general, and expand upon the radical disclosure paradigm in particular.

I am following the lead of Marie Jasinski who makes use of the patterns found in chaos theory and is actively applying them to the development and implementation of learning experiences which she calls "Educhaos".

Marie Jasinski

"Recognized for her creativity and innovative approach, Marie Jasinski is Director of Design Planet which is part of an emerging international network of educators, researchers and performance improvement technologists drawn together by their passion for playing with the rules and for creating learning experiences that are interactive, collaborative and engaging."

Another leading influence, programmer, educator and author is the unstoppable Stephen Downes who, among other things, publishes the wide ranging OLDaily, on elearning. He is a hard core seer of free open source tools for elearning that are end user driven in design.

I will be using Internet Archive to upload cChaos related video (See: Social Marketing using Farmers Markets - to be posted & linked soon). "Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

Internet Archive allows copyright under the "Creative Commons - - a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work."

And, because bloggers in general, and instructional technologists in particular, think too much and do too little, and are therefore academically and physically too fat and therefore unhealthy, good nutrition, exercise and physical labor are all key cornerstone elements to be addressed in the overall cChaos project design. That is - removing built impediments to physical activity - which currently result in health problems, such as pandemic obesity will be a major project design consideration.

Central to the project is the attempt to bridge the digitial divide. "poverty cannot be addressed without working on health; health requires education; education requires modern communication; modern communication requires effective technology; technology must be low cost but also complete (computer and network, and content, and business model, and, and, and..)"*referenced from here*

Finally, Radical Disclosure blows everything wide open and challenges the concepts outlined above. It is disruptive technology, politicology, and sociology. The trick is riding the edge between order and oblivion. It is bringing as much light into our personal, social corporate and political lives as possible. It tests our human limits to act freely in an enlightened and social environment.

Radical Disclosure is not about advocating change or revelation, it is a revealing process already in motion. If humans and the living planet as we cherish it are to survive the influence of technology, humans need to use enlightenment to preserve life. "How?" is the question and challenge!

I appreciate all comments.

Radical Disclosure.

Radical disclosure: The ongoing active process toward removing all barriers to free and open public access to corporate, political and personal information and the laws, rules, social convivance and processes that facilitate and protect the individuals & corporations who freely join, construct and embellish the process. The goal of radical disclosure is unsimulated and complete personal, political and corporate transparency. Radical disclosure by definition requires subjection to:

1. the health, safety, and wellbeing of individuals, neighborhoods, communities and social support systems,
   
2. the protection of the natural environment, and
   
3. the dynamic development of the social assumptions, laws, and conviviance that construct the radical transparency paradigm.

Privacy:
Privacy practitioners fail in their attempts to protect individuals from those individuals who operate on behalf of institutions historically proven to be the most effective in abusing the individual - governmental law enforcement agencies.
But radical disclosure is diametrically opposite - not opposed - and often synched to the ultimate goals of those of privacy advocates. Central is the idea of free access to "personal" information. But melded to that element is the redemptive idea of private ownership of that publicly accessible information. The information is free. The use of that information is limited.

Liability:
Radical disclosure requires that moot be made of personal, political and corporate legal liability, taking remediation out of the legal realm and into the social one.
The information can not be used freely to enhance private economic or political profit or to legally harm or unfairly use the participant.

For examples:

1. John Smith lives at 555 Main Street, Anytown, USA and his phone # is 555 - 1234. He is also diabetic.
   If you wanted to use that information to advertise your business or service, John Smith has the right to charge you for the right to solicit him. You do not have the right to send him mail, or phone him or in other ways use that information for profit freely.
2. John Smith is also an undocumented British Citizen who distributes cocaine in his neighborhood and generated $44.000,00 in income for himself last year.
   INS, IRS, and law enforcement could not use that public accessible information to prosecute him, collect taxes, deport him, interrogate him, or in any way diminish his quality of life.

To imagine how this might work:

suppose all claimed public accessible information were considered both "creative works of fiction" and "intellectual property" upon which those making it available, either the individual (hence "radical") or corporation ("traditional") had full copywrite/trademark/patent/intellectual property protection and ownership.

In this way radical disclosure would extend to individuals some of the current legal protections enjoyed by corporations and their officers.