AMRO24: Away from the “Internet of Ecocide” by Vesna Manojlovic

AMRO24: Dancing at the Crossroads, 8-11th May 2024

Lecture:
Vesna Manojlovic_ Away from the “Internet of Ecocide”: inviting radically open participation in Internet protocols standardisation

Opening-up Internet Governance to Artists / Activists / Anarchists , by including intersectional values of Ecology / Sustainability / Feminism / Diversity / Climate Justice / DeGrowth. Internet Governance is functioning on the “multi stakeholder model”: poly-centric collection of organisations, mailing lists and conferences where the decisions about functioning of the internet are made (such as names, numbers, protocols, and other standards). This is supposed to include actors as varied as students vs politicians, civil servants vs engineers, scientific researchers vs software developers… and still, there are challenges in both informing and attracting contributions from those who are affected by and could benefit from influencing the directions where “The Internet” is going. Because “the Internet” has not fulfilled its emancipatory promises - on the contrary, it has become an “ecocide machine”.
In this lecture, Vesna Manojlovic issued catastrophic warnings, and invited utopian hope; She introduced IETF, ICANN, W3C, RIPE, DNS and many other acronyms - and invited the audience to “consider the squirrels”.

*part of Sustainable & degrowth, practices & aesthetics Session, moderated by Joak.

More about the Festival and the AMRO24 Contributors: https://art-meets.radical-openness.org/2024/
Past AMRO Editions: https://radical-openness.org/en