A great story that tackles the issue of digital freedoms, relations of power and of production, with a touch of gender and voluntarism. Works just as well with children as with adults.
A short animation to explain the Fediverse, a decentralised network that lets you share short publications (Mastodon), videos (PeerTube), events (Mobilizon) or images (Pixelfed).
Animation by Aryeom, produced by LILA - ZeMarmot Team, in collaboration with Framasoft (France, 2022). CC BY-SA. 1 min. 38 s.
As a brave new world of ubiquitous AI arrives, an overview of the latest tech advances. Europe is playing catch up in the frantic AI technology race but has an ever-growing number of start-ups specialising in the field. Jonas Andrulis, founder of Aleph Alpha, a company based in Heidelberg in Germany, is looking to generate AI capable of streamlining the work of public bodies. Frenchman Thomas Wolf, co-founder of the Hugging Face platform, favours open source AI that is accessible to all.
Algorithmic video surveillance has transformed the "classic" cameras on the streets of our cities. This technology, sold by its promoters as a "decision aid", is actually an algorithmic layer added to the cameras to identify and analyze the allegedly "suspicious" behaviors or movements that the police want to track. Its deployment is carried out in complete opacity and without any public debate, in probably more than a hundred cities today, leaving the field free for the industrialists to promote and perfect their product of which we are the guinea pigs.
CHATONS – kittens in french – is the Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft).
"De-Google-ify Internet" is an initiative by Framasoft, a French not-for-profit association, aiming to reduce dependency on major tech giants and promote digital sovereignty. Through this program, Framasoft offers free, open-source alternatives to popular online services provided by companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, encouraging a more ethical, transparent, and privacy-respecting internet.
Framadate is a free, open-source online tool created by Framasoft. Framadate enables users to easily schedule meetings or events by creating polls where participants can vote on preferred dates and times, making it a simple and efficient alternative to mainstream scheduling tools such as Doodle.
Framaforms is a free and open-source/libre online form creation service developed by Framasoft and based on the Yakforms software. Framaforms allows users to create customised forms, surveys and questionnaires without the need for programming skills. It offers a wide range of features, including customisable questions, different response types (e.g. multiple choice, text and rating scales) and response tracking.
Mobilizon is a project designed to create platforms for event organization. This project enables each organization to have its own platform (and to manage its content and accounts), but also to communicate with other federated platforms. So you can search for events that are being broadcast on other venues connected to yours.
Mastodon is a microblogging social network project that lets you publish short messages, photos and videos, interact with others and follow other accounts' publications.
