decentralised applications
ARTICONF's mission
ARTICONF addresses issues of trust, time-criticality and democratisation for a new generation of federated infrastructure, to fulfil the privacy, robustness, and autonomy related promises that proprietary social media platforms have failed to deliver so far
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Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world.
But what does it mean for you?
I spent the evening analyzing it.
Here’s what you need to know:
We urgently need ‘AI translators’, people who translate the needs and demands of engineers to managers, or the concerns of citizens to developers. We need people who can talk about all aspects of AI, people who can connect people, planet and profit. @miekedk via @ScienceMediaHub
Why do you also refer to the planet-part when talking about AI? At present the CO2-emission of AI- and internet of things-applications combined is about two percent and it is growing. [For comparison: this 2% is roughly the same as the CO2-footprint of the airline industry.]
While we dream of building intelligence in a machine, we don’t want to see that there is so much intelligence in nature we haven’t explored yet. via https://sciencemediahub.eu/2022/11/09/demystifying-artificial-intelligence
Eugen Rochko reported that #Mastodon surpassed 1m users this month, with 489k joining since Musk’s Twitter takeover. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109300967725833789
“Decentralized” is Web3’s biggest buzzword and means that Mastodon lets users create their own versions of its server, rather than being bound to a central one. Servers are hosted by individuals or organizations who can set their own content moderation rules.
The platform’s source code is public, so users can contribute, fix bugs, and add new features. Some analysts believe Twitter should pursue a similar strategy.
We shared our results in more than 70 scientific peer-reviewed publications and over 60 events and activities. We also secured two patents and have made the entire toolset for DApp development available on GitHub under the Apache 2 licence.
Results - ARTICONF
articonf.eu
Our Results in Brief article we recently collaborated with @CORDIS_EU has been published on the CORDIS
website in six languages: https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442388-putting-users-in-control-of-their-social-media-and-online-data
"Hi, My name is Kate Orton-Johnson, and I'm a digital sociologist based at the University of Edinburgh, and one of the sociologists that's been participating in the ARTICONF project." @katyoj
...social and cultural understandings with technical understandings of how we construct our social media platforms have been really interesting. And I think the use cases that we've drawn on in the project raised some really interesting questions about decentralising social media
...and what that might mean for issues of trust, power and democracy. And I really think questions of the future of social media are going to need to tackle these in a range of different ways that rely on that interdisciplinary.
For a decent life on social media, we should all have access to decentralised social media → https://articonf.eu
Hello, I'm Pedro Jacobetty @pboxpj and I'm a sociologist working in ARTICONF. Blockchain technology is still in an embryonic phase, which made sociological research with possible future adopters something very challenging...
...It required extra effort to understand people's hopes, dreams and fears were because they didn't have a very clear grasp of the technology. So we learned there are many knowledge gaps and doubts about #blockchain, even among those actively working in their development...
We also interviewed academics and business people working on Blockchain. There's a big knowledge gap, from the ideations to the complete applications. There seemed to be a big disconnect. Our work was to develop theoretical and practical bridges to better inform social actors.
Objectives
Transparent, decentralised infrastructure
Simplify the configuration, creation and maintenance of custom blockchain networks by providing a cloud-agnostic Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) toolkit offering permissioned blockchain services for agile decentralised social media platforms.
Democratic and tokenized decision-making
ARTICONF provides personalized recommendations to social media users and enables them to collectively recommend and generate content, flag misinformation and earn rewards in return while ensuring no ownership violation.
Elastic resource provisioning
Improving efficiency for automating Cloud services, optimizing QoS (Quality of service) performance metrics, controlling the P2P infrastructure, and ensuring fast recovery for decentralized applications.
Cognitive analytics for collaborative economy
Trusted decentralized social network #ARTICONF provides a tokenized decision-making process and improves users' engagement rate and return on collaboration over incentivized and sharing economy through interactive and intelligent analytics.
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Use cases
Crowd journalism
Trustworthy live news video capture, streaming, and editing supported by direct marketplace blockchain transactions between producers and consumers.
Car sharing
AI-driven mobile app that mixes car sharing and carpooling models allowing cost sharing and safe travel through direct trustworthy transactions among passengers.
Video opinion discussion
Embeddable video dialogues for websites, products or events to increase
engagement, signups or sales.
Smart energy
AI-optimized renewable energy trading ecosystem offering complete trustworthy transaction visibility
ARTICONF is a Horizon 2020 project
Read more about the Partners or see an overview of the Work Packages.
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