DI.Days as Anarchist Practice/Anarchist Practices for DI.Days (gpn24)

Digital Independence Days are a response to the growing monopolization of technology and the recent loss of trust in US-based tech firms after the USA's shift towards authoritarianism. The (communicated) goal is to protect our current democracy and our current freedoms from deteriorating even further. Conserving the status quo and preventing a further loss of freedoms is likely not enough. I want to highlight the larger transformative potential in this project. By applying anarchist practices to DI.Days, we can imagine a world of decentralized and democratized software, platforms and infrastructure. A world where individuals act as sovereign providers and users of technology. A world where the providers of technology do no have the ability to enact arbitrary power upon users. A world where consenting to the sharing of data is real and not a lie hidden by "Accept all cookies" or "Agree to the Terms and Conditions". Moving from imagining such a future to prefiguring it, I want to look at anarchistic practices that might realize such a transformation and the role of DI.Days in it. The talk will have the following structure: 1. Introduction to social(ist) and small-a anarchism and some of their lines of thoughts and practices especially applied to education and organizing 2. What are DI.Days, what do they promise, and what do they look like in practice (at least in Karlsruhe) 3. Daydreaming a utopia for technology use on the basis of anarchist principles (and the hopes of DI.Days) 4. What practical small steps can lead there? And why are DI.Days a good project for making these steps? Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24/talk/TVNEUB/