[STS-Africa] SEEKCommons CommCalls | Appropedia and Knowledge Commons for Planetary Impact with Emilio Velis

[Matias Milia]

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the SEEKCommons project, we would like to invite you to our first community call for 2025. In SEEKCommons, we work in a distributed network of STS researchers, OS practitioners, and socio-environmental researchers to promote science and technology commons for participative socio-environmental research. Our call series offers an opportunity to discuss the possibilities of the commons as a governance framework, with speakers presenting on its challenges, benefits, lessons learned, and the uncharted possibilities for “open technologies.” 

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FRI 28 FEB 2025 - 12:00 PM (EST) / 8:00 PM (EAT) / 7:00 PM (SAST) / 6:00 PM (WAT)
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"Resilience and Permanence: How Appropedia is Building Knowledge Commons for Planetary Impact" with Emilio Velis (Appropedia)
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This community call will discuss the experience of Appropedia, an open-access sustainability wiki. We will explore how publishing open documentation for sustainability projects can facilitate resilient collaboration between community organizations, open technologists, and socio-environmental researchers. We will respond to the following questions: How did we build a commons of sustainability projects using Appropedia? How do science and environmental justice practitioners use open-access documentation to address environmental problems? How can we prepare accessible publications that not only inform but inspire positive environmental action over time? How can we foster actionable and relevant socio-ecological knowledge with Appropedia in face of widespread climate disasters? And, how can we ensure that documentation remains open and accessible over time?
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The series is open to public participation, but requires prior registration. 
Register to the event: http://bit.ly/4kcePNt <http://bit.ly/4kcePNt>
For more info about the series, visit: https://seekcommons.org/community-calls.html 

All the best,
M. 

Matias F. Milia (He/Him/His)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Anthropology
University Notre Dame
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