# dWeb travel - the exchanges 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. - dWeb is about reflecting on where we have come from in the last few decades and how larger interests got usurped by a few even over the short couple of decades while Anthillhacks is about reflecting on where we have come from over the many centuries and how main stream narratives and needs usurp the local narratives and communication needs. - dWeb brings together diverse people who articulate their issues and community needs while Anthillhacks brings diverse people to a typical community context to articulate issues of low literacy, local connectivity, significance of storytelling and need for participatory processes as a model of a dWeb Community Network. ***DWeb*** - the journey, the people and the location **discovery and navigation** the rafts that keep the ship afloat the culture that keep the rafts afloat the women that keep the culture afloat the location is an old scout camp - i was a boy scout - 50 years ago the location is silicon valley - i lived there - 30 years ago the location is internet archive - i was there - 3 years ago ***Anthillhacks*** - the journey, the people and the location **discovery and navigation** the rafts that keep the ship afloat the culture that keep the rafts afloat the women that keep the culture afloat the location is our old scout expeditions - 50 years ago the location is bio-diversity valley - over 300 years ago the location is an internet-independent archive - over 600 years ago The dWeb principles promise a future that is safer, freer and sustainable. Anthillhacks contextualises a culture of such promises over eons. Together, vis-a-vis, the strife is of cultures and technologies. As IA is to dWeb, the rafts being SSB, Filecoin and other sponsors, the cultures being APC and women being indigenous representations as are Janastu collective, APC and many indigenous representations. Like they say the devil is in the details. The long bus ride to the venue opened us to knowing other fellows, experiencing artichoke hearts and local brews. The bus ride back, had the backdrop of unsolved mysteries of mesh networks that resulted in us not wanting to take community networking for granted and to try to make space for residencies and exchanges of fellows from fellow networks. Soon after we are enjoying resident visitors from Brazil and Anthillhacks even had a number of dWeb participants participate. And soon after we are experiencing a déjà vu of Libre Mesh staging a protest after years of tantilizing us to setting up of larger network with demanding users - like at dWeb and now at the Anthillhacks event. While at dWeb most users experienced an un-usable mesh network in and around the hacker hall, at Anthillhacks the discovery of packets making loops with no quick way to fix it caused a considerable disruption that we had to rethink many of our community activities, the role of landing pages and local services. More on this in our Anthillhacks - a Community Networks Research and Campaign report. --- ![PC: Nico Pace, Log Cabin mate and APC tech influencer](https://i.imgur.com/cdziyc4.jpg) A Redwood. PC: Nico Pace, Log Cabin mate and APC tech influencer for COWMesh! ![Pipal tree from the area. Represents keystone species protected in cultural ritual contexts](https://i.imgur.com/SkKB4CA.jpg) *Strangler* Fig tree from the area. Represents keystone species protected in cultural ritual contexts. It is a symbolic statement of sorts on the way cultural contexts get defined and are protected. ![Bio diversity at COWMesh region](https://i.imgur.com/Rc2qm6p.jpg) Reserved Forest presents bio diversity at COWMesh region. The forest is growing with vengeance, and got a reserved forest status too, by hiding the ruins of an empire that still continues to influence the stratification of the community in the region. The locational narratives are sidelined by the main stream ones, faster than ever - now, due to the Internet aided information dissemination, the TVs and migration of youth to cities. ![Session for students on Pastoralism as sustainable practices](https://i.imgur.com/00Pox5v.jpg) Session for students on Pastoralism as sustainable practices. Random photo of screening a film at iruWay - the main campus in the area where COWMesh is deployed. ![Anthillhacks Papad session](https://i.imgur.com/bXwG59h.jpg) Session at Anthillhacks connecting groups using Papad, for fragment annotating audio-visual content in a local network, to others who are interested in it. ![Bamboo Tower NY 2023](https://i.imgur.com/4zdTHBD.jpg) May the resilient Bamboo bring Strength and Health to us all. Greetings from Janastu Collective, APC collaborators and the LokaLR team, and the Bamboo tower team of COWMesh community. --- Links: [Anthillhacks lightning talk at dWeb 2019](https://archive.org/details/campdaythreejuly20lightningtalksanthillhacksalocationinclusivefair) Anthillhacks lightning talk at dWeb 2019. Also more at open.janastu.org/labs/anthill A day by day blog of Anthillhacks written by a participant https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/blog/ An edited video of Anthillhacks https://vimeo.com/795871268 Embedded event of Bamboo tower at Anthillhacks: https://vimeo.com/799968976 A collection of Anthillhacks phtotos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/6vKW1QXwoSTEZASKA ---
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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

11/20/2022
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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

11/15/2022
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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

10/6/2022
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(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)

10/4/2022
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