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<p>Book Launch in Berlin at 19:00 on 31.05 at the Freifunk
Wireless Community Weekend held at c-base.</p>
<p>Further updates at <a
href="https://www.networkcommons.org/posts/20250530-berlin-booklaunch/"
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<p>Update: Book now available at the Institute of Network Cultures
in <a
href="https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-58-the-rise-of-the-network-commons-a-history-of-community-infrastructure/">PDF,
EPUB and Print on Demand</a> formats.<br>
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<p>Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking
initiatives with his book Freie Netze, published in 2004 (German
only). He iteratively developed The Rise of the Network Commons
in draft chapters published on his website The Next Layer before
his untimely death in 2017.</p>
<p>'The Rise of the Network Commons' is a cultural history of
wireless community network projects that spread from their
origins in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Copenhagen to Spain,
Greece, North and South America, and Africa. The movement drew
together a panoply of technical, social, and artistic hackers in
the development of new computational and social technologies.
Medosch develops a twofold thesis: that involving non-experts in
building a network commons has a profound emancipatory effect on
the participants, while also contributing to a radical
democratisation of technology. In community, we begin to shape
future technologies to serve local needs rather than commercial
interests. Only growing in relevance since it was written, The
Rise of the Network Commons reminds us how we build the
data/information/knowledge commons – by becoming sovereign
neighbours of practice and expertise.</p>
<p>We hope you will join us to celebrate the launch of Armin’s
book.</p>
<p>Please bring along your community networking experiences and
memories together with visions and challenges for the future of
community infrastructure.</p>
<p>c-ven, Volker and Adam.</p>
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