#democratisation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #democratisation, aggregated by home.social.
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The #internet’s initial promise of #democratisation has been undermined by centralised platforms like Facebook, which, while empowering users, also created chokepoints for corporate and political control: This “#enshittification” and “#despotification” are inherent to centralised architectures. #Decentralised protocols like ActivityPub and Bluesky offer a potential solution, empowering users and distributing power across the network. https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
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The #internet’s initial promise of #democratisation has been undermined by centralised platforms like Facebook, which, while empowering users, also created chokepoints for corporate and political control: This “#enshittification” and “#despotification” are inherent to centralised architectures. #Decentralised protocols like ActivityPub and Bluesky offer a potential solution, empowering users and distributing power across the network. https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
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Democratising Creativity: Beyond Musical Gatekeeping
Say no to AI-generated music!" — said people who could afford and master musical instruments and high-end professional computers for recording. They have made concert tickets inaccessible and unaffordable, haven't admitted that they stole old musical works without explicitly disclosing it until somebody sued, and can't even fulfill listeners' personalised needs.
#ai #music #accessibility #justice #creativity #tech #equality #innovation #digital #art #humanity #future #inclusion #system #society #culture #web #discovery #democratisation #fairness
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Democratising Creativity: Beyond Musical Gatekeeping
Say no to AI-generated music!" — said people who could afford and master musical instruments and high-end professional computers for recording. They have made concert tickets inaccessible and unaffordable, haven't admitted that they stole old musical works without explicitly disclosing it until somebody sued, and can't even fulfill listeners' personalised needs.
#ai #music #accessibility #justice #creativity #tech #equality #innovation #digital #art #humanity #future #inclusion #system #society #culture #web #discovery #democratisation #fairness
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#OpenAI published a five-principle #framework for the development of #artificialgeneralintelligence, emphasising #democratisation, #empowerment, #universalprosperity, #resilience, and #adaptability. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the company’s increased size since the 2018 Charter and the potential need to balance empowerment with resilience. https://www.implicator.ai/openai-posts-five-principle-framework-for-agi-altman-concedes-bigger-role-2/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#OpenAI published a five-principle #framework for the development of #artificialgeneralintelligence, emphasising #democratisation, #empowerment, #universalprosperity, #resilience, and #adaptability. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the company’s increased size since the 2018 Charter and the potential need to balance empowerment with resilience. https://www.implicator.ai/openai-posts-five-principle-framework-for-agi-altman-concedes-bigger-role-2/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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[PARUTION]
Le premier numéro de 2026 est paru!
Dossier "École et pauvreté" coordonné par Élisabeth Bussienne et Dominique SeghetchianQu’est-ce que la pauvreté fait à l’école ? Et que fait l’école de la pauvreté ? Si le rôle principal de l’école est d’amener tous les enfants à apprendre, elle y réussit insuffisamment, et les difficultés des élèves sont socialement réparties. Comment la pauvreté se manifeste-t-elle à l’école, et quelles réponses apporter à l’impact qu’elle a sur les apprentissages, l’orientation, les parcours et la vie scolaire ?
#école #pauvreté #inégalités #démocratisation
Découvrez le sommaire ici⤵️
https://www.cahiers-pedagogiques.com/sommaire-revue-603/ -
[PARUTION]
Le premier numéro de 2026 est paru!
Dossier "École et pauvreté" coordonné par Élisabeth Bussienne et Dominique SeghetchianQu’est-ce que la pauvreté fait à l’école ? Et que fait l’école de la pauvreté ? Si le rôle principal de l’école est d’amener tous les enfants à apprendre, elle y réussit insuffisamment, et les difficultés des élèves sont socialement réparties. Comment la pauvreté se manifeste-t-elle à l’école, et quelles réponses apporter à l’impact qu’elle a sur les apprentissages, l’orientation, les parcours et la vie scolaire ?
#école #pauvreté #inégalités #démocratisation
Découvrez le sommaire ici⤵️
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When ever I hear "democratisation" from a US #tech company, I know it doesn't mean public control of anything, or heaven forbid, accountability for what you're pushing.
That buzzword is dead to me. Just look at what "democratisation of currency" achieved: Power for criminals to buy elections.
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When ever I hear "democratisation" from a US #tech company, I know it doesn't mean public control of anything, or heaven forbid, accountability for what you're pushing.
That buzzword is dead to me. Just look at what "democratisation of currency" achieved: Power for criminals to buy elections.
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The democratisation of fitness trackers through the import/export feature of GPX data removes vendor lock-in and thereby puts the value in the presentation of the data and/or the community around/within the app.
#gpx #FitnessTracker #VendorLockIn #democratisation #community
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The democratisation of fitness trackers through the import/export feature of GPX data removes vendor lock-in and thereby puts the value in the presentation of the data and/or the community around/within the app.
#gpx #FitnessTracker #VendorLockIn #democratisation #community
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Comment la #democratisation de l’Allemagne & la relation franco-allemande ont-elles progressées après la #EndOfWWII ? « La France et la #dénazification de l’Allemagne après 1945 » discute les enjeux de la transformation politique et sociale dans la zone française de l’Allemagne. #TheEndsOfWar #WWII80
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Comment la #democratisation de l’Allemagne & la relation franco-allemande ont-elles progressées après la #EndOfWWII ? « La France et la #dénazification de l’Allemagne après 1945 » discute les enjeux de la transformation politique et sociale dans la zone française de l’Allemagne. #TheEndsOfWar #WWII80
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @cryptadamist Yes.
What they call ’#democratisation’ is a scam. The #cypherpunks etc whatever they like to think of themselves, want nothing but complete freedom from enforcement of any laws on them.
They want the ”freedom” for the will of the elected majority to not apply to them.
It ends the rule of law, it ends democracy. And as lawless spaces have to governed by somebody in any case, it turns the structure of society into a #mafia.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @cryptadamist Yes.
What they call ’#democratisation’ is a scam. The #cypherpunks etc whatever they like to think of themselves, want nothing but complete freedom from enforcement of any laws on them.
They want the ”freedom” for the will of the elected majority to not apply to them.
It ends the rule of law, it ends democracy. And as lawless spaces have to governed by somebody in any case, it turns the structure of society into a #mafia.
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(...) the strategic use of AI's controversiality threatens the role of public controversy as a force of the #democratisation of research and innovation, and risks to undermine its capacity for inclusion and problematisation. (...) This situation not only has implications for our understanding of #AI controversies as occasions for the democratisation of knowledge; it also has consequences for the methodology of #controversy #analysis
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the conversation
Raconter le déclin de la « petite bourgeoisie culturelle »
https://mcinformactions.net/211819
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@sebsauvage
Je ne partage pas tout à fait ce point de vue.On aurait pu faire la même supposition à propos de l'accès à la technologie et à l'informatique il y a quelques décennies.
En réalité, l'histoire nous montre que la démocratisation technologique est souvent inévitable. Aujourd'hui, presque tout le monde possède dans sa poche un appareil avec une puissance de calcul supérieure à celle qu'avait la NASA dans les années 1990.
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@sebsauvage
Je ne partage pas tout à fait ce point de vue.On aurait pu faire la même supposition à propos de l'accès à la technologie et à l'informatique il y a quelques décennies.
En réalité, l'histoire nous montre que la démocratisation technologique est souvent inévitable. Aujourd'hui, presque tout le monde possède dans sa poche un appareil avec une puissance de calcul supérieure à celle qu'avait la NASA dans les années 1990.
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#Democratisation trends in sub-Saharan #Africa: #GIGA expert Matthias Basedau sees serious threats such as #MilitaryCoups, #ViolentConflict, and socio-economic challenges, but finds positive long-term developments. Read his analysis in #GIGAFocus: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/giga-focus/under-pressure-democratisation-trends-in-sub-saharan-africa
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#Democratisation trends in sub-Saharan #Africa: #GIGA expert Matthias Basedau sees serious threats such as #MilitaryCoups, #ViolentConflict, and socio-economic challenges, but finds positive long-term developments. Read his analysis in #GIGAFocus: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publications/giga-focus/under-pressure-democratisation-trends-in-sub-saharan-africa
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When my parents were born, computers were manufactured by secret research institutions funded by the military. When I was born, computers were made by a handful of large corporations, and the prices were exorbitant. When my son was born, open-source-hardware-based cheap computers the size of credit cards were being made by small independent teams funded by ordinary people via public-funding web sites. The #democratisation of #hardware has done much good to society.
But even after all these years, commercial #software manufacture is still an exclusive domain of specialist practitioners. More so, #programming language creation is practised only by the elite. Yet, there is an accelerated explosion of new languages. This hints at the general dismay amongst ordinary programmers with elite-designed languages. Perhaps it's time to democratise programming language design, at least as to myriad syntaxes within a single paradigmatic family that possesses the same semantic. For instance, C++, Java, and C# belong to one family; OCaml, F#, Reason, another family; Haskell, Idris, Agda, still another.
During compilation, the compiler transforms any syntax within one family into a standardised AST, and continues from there. And during programming, the IDE translates the AST into the programmer's preferred syntax and presents that code to the programmer.
At its core, programming is all about the meaning of the programme, not the appearance thereof. So, let the programmers choose whatever syntax they fancy, or even let them design their own syntax. Perhaps, then, programming languages that cater to non-practitioners (doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc.), those not designed by, and for the elite, may emerge.
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When my parents were born, computers were manufactured by secret research institutions funded by the military. When I was born, computers were made by a handful of large corporations, and the prices were exorbitant. When my son was born, open-source-hardware-based cheap computers the size of credit cards were being made by small independent teams funded by ordinary people via public-funding web sites. The #democratisation of #hardware has done much good to society.
But even after all these years, commercial #software manufacture is still an exclusive domain of specialist practitioners. More so, #programming language creation is practised only by the elite. Yet, there is an accelerated explosion of new languages. This hints at the general dismay amongst ordinary programmers with elite-designed languages. Perhaps it's time to democratise programming language design, at least as to myriad syntaxes within a single paradigmatic family that possesses the same semantic. For instance, C++, Java, and C# belong to one family; OCaml, F#, Reason, another family; Haskell, Idris, Agda, still another.
During compilation, the compiler transforms any syntax within one family into a standardised AST, and continues from there. And during programming, the IDE translates the AST into the programmer's preferred syntax and presents that code to the programmer.
At its core, programming is all about the meaning of the programme, not the appearance thereof. So, let the programmers choose whatever syntax they fancy, or even let them design their own syntax. Perhaps, then, programming languages that cater to non-practitioners (doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc.), those not designed by, and for the elite, may emerge.
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Ina-Maria Jansson defends her PhD thesis in information studies "Förflutenhet för alla?: Digitalt deltagande som metod för demokratisk kulturarvsproduktion" at the Department of ALM, Uppsala University on June 10, 2023. Thesis (in Swedish) is available at https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?dswid=&pid=diva2%3A1748958 #participation #heritage #democratisation #heritagisation, #knowledgeorganization #informationinfrastructures
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‘Democratic Turkiye will turn to EU after the elections’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/democratic-turkiye-will-turn-to-eu-after-the-elections/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CHP #democratisation #EUenlargement #KemalKilicdaroglu #Nato
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‘Democratic Turkiye will turn to EU after the elections’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/democratic-turkiye-will-turn-to-eu-after-the-elections/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CHP #democratisation #EUenlargement #KemalKilicdaroglu #Nato
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‘Democratic Turkiye will turn to EU after the elections’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/democratic-turkiye-will-turn-to-eu-after-the-elections/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CHP #democratisation #EUenlargement #KemalKilicdaroglu #Nato
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‘Democratic Turkiye will turn to EU after the elections’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/democratic-turkiye-will-turn-to-eu-after-the-elections/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CHP #democratisation #EUenlargement #KemalKilicdaroglu #Nato
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I am in bits after listening to this. If you are feeling there is no hope, that what you do doesn't matter, this will provide some necessary respite to carry on.
#hope #education #equity #democratisation #autism #neurodiversity
Check out this episode of Full Disclosure with James O'Brien on Global Player - https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrfQkN/
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"Postwar European education campaigns coded #Europe as both white and raceless, Christian and secular."
Emily #Marker draws from her work on the French #education system to discuss #race and #universalism: https://tocqueville21.com/books/authors-response-black-france-white-europe-emily-marker/
#book #whiteness #coloniality #meritocracy #feminisms #decoloniality #antiRacism #FRPol #academy #university #integration #colorblindness #democratisation #Europeanness
#livre #racialisation #decoloniale #antiracisme #blanchité #racismeSystémique #colonialité #méritocratie #lectureDécoloniale #islamogauchisme #France #décolonisation -
"Postwar European education campaigns coded #Europe as both white and raceless, Christian and secular."
Emily #Marker draws from her work on the French #education system to discuss #race and #universalism: https://tocqueville21.com/books/authors-response-black-france-white-europe-emily-marker/
#book #whiteness #coloniality #meritocracy #feminisms #decoloniality #antiRacism #FRPol #academy #university #integration #colorblindness #democratisation #Europeanness
#livre #racialisation #decoloniale #antiracisme #blanchité #racismeSystémique #colonialité #méritocratie #lectureDécoloniale #islamogauchisme #France #décolonisation -
´#BLOOM was created over the last year by over 1,000 volunteer researchers in a project called BigScience, which was coordinated by AI startup Hugging Face using funding from the French government. It officially launched on July 12.´ #AI #democratisation https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/
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´#BLOOM was created over the last year by over 1,000 volunteer researchers in a project called BigScience, which was coordinated by AI startup Hugging Face using funding from the French government. It officially launched on July 12.´ #AI #democratisation https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/1055817/inside-a-radical-new-project-to-democratize-ai/
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When I see #data (#worldcup #qatar) or centralised (#birdsite) control I’m reminded of AdHocRacy we proposed 20 yrs ago in: BlueStar, a privacy centric location aware system
#adhocracy: allows the storage of location-relevant information in such a way that it cannot be controlled or censored by a minority of individuals
* #information #democratisation
* data in a physical location without fixed storage #infrastructure
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When I see #data (#worldcup #qatar) or centralised (#birdsite) control I’m reminded of AdHocRacy we proposed 20 yrs ago in: BlueStar, a privacy centric location aware system
#adhocracy: allows the storage of location-relevant information in such a way that it cannot be controlled or censored by a minority of individuals
* #information #democratisation
* data in a physical location without fixed storage #infrastructure
* tagging physical locations without #censorship. -
@alcinnz, rather.
#renewableEnergy, rather
I'd also add #goldMining #toxicWaste #labourAbuses #environmentalAbuses (related to #gold)
Also #democratisation #fiatWoes #moneyPrinting #neofeudalism #bankerHegemony #marketManipulation #sharePrices #stockMarket #takingTheWorldPrivate
Peace to you, friend.