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- Chaos Computer Club: Europe's biggest hackers' congress underway in Hamburg
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Some 12,000 hackers are challenging the power of Google, Facebook and Youtube to filter information and shape users' view of the world. One of them demonstrated how to hack into VW's cheating software.
- Copyleft
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.
- EFF to Librarian of Congress: Let Car Owners Look Under the Hood
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The reach of copyright law has expanded so far that it now threatens people's ability to repair their own cars and protect them against malware. Yesterday, EFF launched a legal campaign to fend off that threat.
- The Everyday Activist
365 Ways to Change the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
- GNU Project
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A free software, mass collaboration project.
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Open Source Software: a necessary tool to build our movements | What's Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Software companies are exploitative and other companies should invest in unionized products, condem work to lower wages and act in solidarity with other workers in the software industry.
- Open-source Software
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software.
- OpenStreetMap
Resource Type: Database
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
OpenStreetMap emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date.
OpenStreetMap is open data: you are free to use it for any purpose as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon the data in certain ways, you may distribute the result only under the same licence.
- OpenStreetMap (Wikipedia article)
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
- Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In order to defang surveillance programs like PRISM, we need to stop using centralized systems and come together to build an Internet that's decentralized, trustworthy, and free "as in freedom."
- 12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
"We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends.
- Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedded in society and promoted by both companies and governments.
- Where the free software movement went wong-and how to fix it.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Finley discusses the differences between Free Software and OpenSource software from a political perspective.
- Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.
- You Are Not a Gadget
A Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The internet has spawned a hive mentality, where the crowd takes precedence over the individual.
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