CAPS Community Meeting and Workshop Tickets, Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:00 AM | Eventbrite
▻https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caps-community-meeting-and-workshop-tickets-24782588389
CAPS stands for Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation. It is an initiative launched by DG CONNECT of the European Commission in 2013 aimed at stimulating socially innovative applications of network technologies, building collective intelligence and collective action.
This event aims at bringing together old and new CAPS projects, discussing ideas for the next wokprogramme, defining clusters of projects, and ultimately establishing a working community of innovation entities that will actively cooperate with the EC on Digital Social Innovation over the coming years.
The venue is chosen because of the vibrant community of social innovators present in Berlin and the date is just before the European Citizen Science conference, which includes a CAPS panel on the importance of citizen engagement and sustainable development seen from the bottom up perspective of ’awareness, data, actionable change and innovation’.
The community meeting is mainly for the 36 CAPS projects to meet each other and their project officers, but it is also open to any external paticipant interesting in gathering knowledge about the current developments and interacting first-hand the current CAPS activities, from peer to peer.
This is an event organised by the European Commission. Participation is free of monetary charge - but you need to bring ideas.
Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation
▻https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/collective-awareness
22 new CAPS projects in Horizon 2020
▻https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/22-new-caps-projects-horizon-2020
Mazi Project
▻http://mazizone1.maziproject.eu/about
MAZI means “together” in Greek and the goal of MAZI is to provide technology and knowledge in order to
empower those who are in physical proximity, to shape their hybrid urban space, together, according to the specificities of the respective local environment
generate location-based collective awareness as a basis for fostering social cohesion, conviviality, participation in decision-making processes, self-organisation, knowledge sharing, and sustainable living
facilitate interdisciplinary interactions around the design of hybrid space and the role of ICTs in society.
What is new about MAZI?
MAZI wishes to invest in an alternative technology, what we call Do-It-Yourself networking, a combination of wireless technology, low-cost hardware, and free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) applications, for building local networks, mostly known today as community wireless networks. By making this technology better understood, easily deployed, and configured based on a rich set of customisation options and interdisciplinary knowledge, compiled as a toolkit, MAZI will empower citizens to build their own local networks for facilitating hybrid, virtual and physical, interactions, in ways that are respectful to their rights to privacy, freedom of expression and self-determination.
Moreover, unlike other technology-oriented approaches, MAZI takes the perspective of existing grassroots initiatives, whose goals are social and political in nature, and explores ways that DIY networking technologies can help pursue them, as a means and not as an end.
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This guide is intended to help you set up your first cloud-managed wireless mesh network with CloudTrax. CloudTrax is a free cloud-based network controller that makes it easy for anyone to build, manage, and monitor wireless networks from anywhere in the world.
CloudTrax Guide Overview
▻https://help.cloudtrax.com/hc/en-us/articles/202465650-Part-1-CloudTrax-Guide-Overview
This guide will assist you in setting up a new network on the CloudTrax web application. For easier, faster setup, use the CloudTrax for iOS or CloudTrax for Android apps. No matter which version you start with, you can switch between the web and mobile apps seamlessly.
Here’s what’s about to happen:
We’ll create a master login on CloudTrax.com that will allow you to build, manage and monitor multiple networks in one place.
We’ll create a new network on CloudTrax.
We’ll add access points to the network.
We’ll physically install the access points.
We’ll do some basic network configuration.
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