What is the Open Wireless Movement?

What is the Open Wireless Movement?

We envision a world where, in any urban environment:

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  Dozens of open networks are available at your fingertips.
  
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  Tablets, watches, and other new devices can automatically join these networks to do nifty things.
  
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  The societal expectation is one of sharing, and, as a result, wireless Internet is more efficient.
  
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  The false notion that an IP address could be used as a sole identifier is finally a thing of the past, creating a privacy-enhancing norm of shared networks.
  

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  We are selling our product, NOT our users
  
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  We will never sell your personal data, content, feed, interests, clicks, or anything else to advertisers. We promise.
  
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  You own your content
  
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  App.net members always have full control of their data and the fundamental right to easily back-up, export, and delete ALL of their data, whenever they want.
  

Securely backing up your data off-site. The "tahoe backup" command inspects your local filesystem for files that have changed since the last time you ran it. It uploads each file that has changed and it creates a directory in Tahoe-LAFS to hold the current version of each of the files. You can browse or access old versions just by browsing the old snapshot directories.

Your data, encrypted, is stored on Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), which is a convenient, reliable, and widely understood platform for storage

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  Django is the web stack
  
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  Markdown is used for all of the user entered text
  
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  AWS hosts the servers
  

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  light on structure and heavy on flexibility
  
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  usesmarkdown instead of markup mangling WYSIWYG
  
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  doesn't sell user data to megacorps
  
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  doesn't flood the tubes withbacn
  

When Open Data and Civic Hackers Meet for the First Time… I wouldn’t quite say it is romantic. But when teams of software developers, designers, and data scientists get their hands on data sets they previously had no access to, the results are spectacular. That was the scene this past weekend at the hack-a-thon sponsored by two of the Code for America Accelerator companies (Captricity, of [...] Read full story

Occupy the Comms is the next step in this evolution. It brings everything together. It allows everyone to participate in a horizontal way. And there’s no catch. Money is not an issue.

In short OtC works on three different levels. The first level is real time news, the second is editing, the third is all-round broadcasting.
The site is structured around groups. You create a group for a certain event. Automated bots can scan the Internet for all content related to that event, like live streams. The users watching those streams can collaborate by creating a pad that indexes what happens at what time and what additional information like photos, tweets and blog posts is available.
On the second level, contributors from around the world can use the primary information to create videos or articles that capture the event from any perspective in word and image. The site features a chat which enables online editors to work together on a project, to divide the tasks, and to minimise the time necessary to finish it.
On the third level, streams and edited content can be broadcast and mixed on specific channels like GlobalRevolution.TV, or any other channel you want to create yourself. Aside from those, they can be distributed through regular outlets like YouTube and Vimeo.
These are the basics. There are even more interesting features which make OtC a formidable weapon of 21st century news reporting.
How to make a great Open API.
Although APIs tend to hide data they can certainly be valuable bridges to both read and write to existing services. REST seems to be a very popular model with arguably HTTP POST the dominant write protocol on the web today
Financial and political microtransactions are a necessity.
Many think [politics] would be improved by banning all money. I believe this is the wrong approach and is, in fact, dangerous over the long term. (I'd also add that a ban is very unlikely to be accomplished). Transparency and limits yes... but a ban on citizen participation no.
A better approach addresses two essentials:

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  drastically lower the threshold for participation in the lobbying process...
  
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  while also drastically lowering the cost of campaigning at ALL levels.
  

That's why I'm convinced the political microtransaction is a necessity.

So it CAN function, if desired, just like any other gift card or Internet wallet...

[Editors note: a microtransaction can pertain to speech and participation in forms other than campaign financing. Open government can include venues for microtransactions in lobbying, public comment, opinion polling, and even legislation drafting and voting. ~PR]

We're connected to the movement to enable a truly P2P, distributed internet without central points of control or failure. Our project embodies the goals of the movement of the 99% which seeks to reclaim the capacities for wealth generation from a privileged few. To fully meet our criteria, people need to be able to transact directly with each other with no segment of that interaction relying on a centrally controlled system.

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  Non-centralized rules (unlike the rules for money today)
  
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  Non-centralized database (as 99.99% are today)
  
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  Non-centralized name resolution (instead of DNS)
  
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  Non-centralized address space (to play the role of IPv4 or IPv6)
  
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  Agreements are made by mutual consent
  
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  All levels of participation are sovereign