supported by APC and APC METF by Dinesh Soon after attending dWeb, we are busy organising our annual Anthillhacks event. Things that hold these events together for us is the culture of APC that we now imbibe. It was my 2nd dWeb conference and strangely I found myself relatively silent and mostly in the spirit of observation - again. We were set among the tall Redwoods (also metaphorically) where participants were not curious about the large stumps or circles of trees around what was a super huge tree that was uprooted. dWeb work needed strife and not remorse or reflection of great losses that brought all of us together. We seemed happy for the rafts that help keep us afloat while we worked on keeping the ship afloat. A birds eye view of the two events - both of them structured as camps so that people live together for a few days - is attempted here: dWeb is about the corrective efforts and so is Anthillhacks - both of them structured to experience hope.

Planning Anthillhacks (Dec 2022) This is an editable document.. serves as drafts for https://open.janastu.org/labs/anthill Please edit in your support, collaboration, participation interests and also who would you want to be at and in anthillhacks. email: anthillhacks@janastu.org short link: https://bit.ly/ants2223

Application Questions Gender Sessions at Anthillhacks Theme: Gendered histories and community networks Rethink Everything. How can we look at users of community networks and technology determinism of the existing technologies. What is the lure, what works and why them seem to work. What are the traditional patterns that steamroll over the possibilities and promises of communication technologies. How can we rethink with community representations. How do we understand ourselves - can we situate ourselves as representatives. country wide stats

5 GN (ground navigators) min 1 coord of GNs meet once a week must GNs hv phones/voice recorders coord has laptop meet at an office/place with min 5 computers (aspi/desktops) after stage 1 these will be relocated to GN areas where GNs train others. 1 overall coordinator

(update visuals. help edit the following as needed) We have been telling stories, re-telling stories and weaving incredibly complex network of stories. How can Internet standards, protocols and tools support this basic human need? How can a hyper-media Web of inter-linked stories become discoverable and navigable content for all - inclusive of low-literate people. How can Internet technologies help archive, reshape, reinterpret, and reinvent to assist the natural ways of storytelling and help capture oral histories and local knowledge directly by the people for the first time in human evolution? We are working on Papad, a hypermedia annotation tool that can be used across devices and in regions with low internet connectivity and low-literate populations. Tools like papad have significant potential in creating and disseminating knowledge that is audio/video-based, and therefore accessible to populations with lower literacy levels. It can assist anyone in voicing their views on their community related topics. It would be a way to preserve and revive the knowledge for next geneartion. As a tool to share, learn and explore from other communities’ perspectives on art, culture, education, technology, tradition for health and farming. Our research focus has been on web accessibility for Indian needs in the local context of culture, literacy, and socio-economic conditions. One can upload an audio recording to a local server, browse, listen to audio and tag the entire audio or relevant parts (fragments), annotate a image tag, which can later be used in making audio visual stories that is relevant for the communities. Papad aims to be the audio visual publishing platform for the low literates, without barriers of knowing to read and write. suggest updates and add/delete references (see tabs at bottom of Open.janastu.org/projects/papad)

# Geeta 

Primary reference: http://milli.link/ Event registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/international-archives-week-2020-june-8-14-milli-sessions-tickets-107681129156 (Time zone: IST) Location: Contact organisers - location moved due to some trolls in the meeting today. This shall be the same for the entire week of event schedule. Hosts, moderators and session leads will set this up 15 minute before the session time. Please join early.

This document short url https://j.mp/blrcauses Independent calls - COVID Bangalore See the crowd sourced resources on COVID and the collectively collated sheet for aid https://www.ourdemocracy.in/Campaign/supportsangama

# ****Sacred Economy**** ****hashtag #sacredeconomy**** twitter handles to use @gramasevasangha @desiprasanna handles to check (pls add) @ravindratripat ****media resources**** general photos http://bit.ly/SSE_PHOTOS Kannada http://bit.ly/SSE_KAN Hindi http://bit.ly/SSE_HN English http://bit.ly/SSE_ENG