🌏 News from Downunder!

Our very own Adam Burns was interviewed by Caddie Brain from Wikimedia Australia to contribute along side APNIC's Ian Peter Archive on the history of Australian Internet.

📺 Watch it here: https://tv.dyne.org/w/hpFCLEFdp6qQXJoum8CUXg

Happy world emoji day to all who celebrate!
https://worldemojiday.com/

Are they Cleanup heroes?
Animal Rescuers?
Waste pirates?

No, they're TrashUre Hunt!

TrashUre Hunt brings environmental problems to the attention of the public in an accessible, effective and playful way. In various forms of play, litter is hunted with groups of children, teenagers and adults. In addition to these activities, TrashUre Hunt provides lectures and workshops for the business community, the government and private individuals.

https://trashurehunt.org/

📢 Open call: Open Technology Research is a global, multidisciplinary research symposium bringing academics and practitioners together to advance understanding of the role of open technologies in the modern world and produces policy-relevant research that helps decision-makers drive impact.

This year's Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium, themed “Shaping the Open Transition”, moves from diagnosis to action: from mapping the landscape to charting the path forward. With keynotes anchored in what is already working, and sessions designed to translate research directly into policy recommendations and practice, the event is both a stocktaking exercise and a forward-looking call to build a more united, evidence-based global research agenda ON – one that strengthens open technology's role as a shared foundation for resilience and sovereignty, reinforces public interest governance, and mobilizes research and evidence to drive collective action.

https://symposium.opentechresearch.org/

Who holds the reins in this digital machine, and how do we yank them back?

👉 Ten minds from the trenches of tech, the halls of power, the markets, and law lay out the routes to reclaiming #autonomy, fortifying #democracy, and bending digital systems back toward the people they're supposed to serve.

🔗 https://web3privacynow.metalabel.com/politicsofprivacy

📚️️ Read this peer-reviewed article on municipal tokens as urban policy tools, using #LVGA & the #MyLugano app as a concrete case study.

https://www.
p2pfisy.com/research-papers/municipal-tokens-as-urban-policy-tools-the-case-of-lvga-and-the-mylugano-app

@Jaromil contributed the final chapter, where he set out privacy-by-design principles for municipal digital identity.

Municipal digital infrastructure can become a tool for autonomy, coordination, business & public value. Or it can become another surveillance layer.
👆The difference is in the privacy design choices we make early.

"The job was essentially like working on a second-hand market for high-end electronics, inside a discotheque, except everything was free (Full body workout included: phat TVs were heavy!). The business model was so absurd it would make a venture capitalist weep with confusion..."


From the Electronic Wasteyard to the Roundtable of Power
https://news.dyne.org/from-the-electronic-wasteyard-to-the-roundtable-of-power/

Everything that once felt connected suddenly is. Interfaced by brittle constructions of channeled electricity, we project ourselves into the ether. And there, in the ocean of data, our identities blend. Locality becomes osmosis. And realms flow into each other through their veil.

Welcome home, fellow dyne.
https://news.dyne.org/planetdyne-s2026-e04/

Let's get wonderfully weird!

:cafuda: https://www.romecall.org/organisations/



#romeCall

Centralized energy intermediaries don't secure power: they profile habits and raise barriers.

Energy Communities reverse this: prosumers share value internally, protected by encryption. No external exposure. No surveillance creep.

🔗 https://news.dyne.org/renewable-sustainable-social-communities-rsc/

Karaoke client! Sends track requests and manages the cue from the relay on the LBAN (Local Bar's Area Network)

📢 #Web3Privacy now Rome Meetup

Today, Friday 8 May, 17:30 - 21:00 CEST
🔗 https://luma.com/q1sdbqf3

Shaping and Defending the Techno-Political Evolution: Cryptography, Open Source, and Public Goods

​​​Half-day dedicated to fostering solidarity among:
- ​​​zk researchers and applied cryptographers
​- open source and human rights advocates
​​​- developers and hacker culture
​​​- internet freedom and grassroots movements
​​​- hacktivists and the general public

📍 Urbe Hub - https://osm.org/go/xcXi~KF3R-

AGENDA
​17.30 - 18.00 | Welcome & Gathering
18.00 - 20.00 | Talks & Open Debate
20.00 - 21.00 | Aperitivo on Urbe Terrace & Networking