[rohrpost] Invitation: Building a European Cultural Backbone - Labs & Conference

[Ingo Leindecker]

Building a European Cultural Backbone – Labs & Conference
Federation of civil society media infrastructures

Labs: May 23 - 26 at Stadtwerkstatt / Linz, Austria
Conference: May 27 - 28 at Wissensturm / Linz, Austria

Program: https://cba.media/labs-conference

A significant part of public debate takes place today on a few 
commercial online platforms, whereby the conditions and forms of free 
expression are made dependent solely on a market-based logic and on the 
commercial business models of the platform operators.

Since no real democratic discourse can take place under such conditions, 
it is necessary to create independent, not-for-profit infrastructures 
and democratic media spaces (“Public Open Spaces”) that enable and 
promote public debates and opinion-forming under conditions geared to 
the common good.

Thus we invite to a series of events in Linz, Austria to explore and 
expand technology for community based exchange and publication. With 
collaborative hacking projects we want to push forward a common base for 
a European Cultural Backbone for community media and their surrounding 
media spheres.

Parts of the event will be streamed live online.

See also: "Building a European Digital Public Space - Strategies for 
taking back control from big tech platforms", edited by Alexander 
Baratsits, published at irights.info, December 2021.
https://www.irights-lab.de/publikationen/dps

A project by cultural broadcasting archive, Radio FRO & arso.
Kindly supported by City of Linz (Kulturamt, Open Commons and 
Volkshochschule), European Cultural Foundation, Verband Freier Rundfunk 
Österreich, Public Spaces, Radio free FM, Servus.at, Stadtwerkstatt and 
CCC - Chaos Computer Club Germany.

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Mag. Ingo Leindecker
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