C o m m u n i t i e s

arduino
http://www.arduino.cc/
Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring , itself built on Processing .
Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can be communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP .) The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free.
Arduino received an Honory Mention in the Digital Communities section of the 2006 Ars Electronica Prix.
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charter97
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/
Charter97.org is the most popular and authoritative source of social and political information on the Belarusian Internet. The project is nongovernmental and non-commercial and provides alternative information about events that take place in Belarus to as many Internet users as possible.
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code tree
http://www.codetree.org/index.php
CodeTree is an attempt to create a worthwhile dialogue between new media artists of different skill levels and backgrounds. The project's objective is to offer a social network that facilitates learning and artistic expression—a place where coders can dissect, share, and expand upon one another's code.
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metareciclagem
http://metareciclagem.org/
MetaReciclagem is not an independent collective. MetaReciclagem is not (and as for today never needed to be) a formal NGO—even though it is effectively an organization that is both nongovernmental and nonprofit. MetaReciclagem does not define a group of people, but is instead a name that some people use to identify and refer to an open methodology about the re-appropriation of technology to foster social transformation in different parts of Brazil.
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semapedia
http://www.semapedia.org/
Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.
To accomplish this, we invite you to create Semapedia-Tags which are in fact cellphone-readable physical hyperlinks. You can create such Tags easily yourself by choosing and pasting a Wikipedia URL into the form above. Once created, you put the Tags up at their according physical location. You just hyperlinked your world! Others can now use their cellphone to 'click' your Tag and access the information you provided them.
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stencilboard
http://www.stencilboard.at/
"Stencils" or "pochoirs" are pictures sprayed in public places using stencils. Since graffiti tend to be removed very quickly, www.stencilboard.at serves as an archive for preserving at least some of this creative, dynamic and critical art form.
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the Freecycle Network
http://www.freecycle.org/
The Freecycle Network is a worldwide network of local online gifting communities which enables direct person-to-person gifting locally rather than disposal of items in landfills. The goal is to establish a global online gift economy to promote reuse and provide new homes for items otherwise lacking monetary value. It empowers the more disenfranchised of society: the poor, the elderly, the home-bound with illness, etc. to make a difference in the world and to become philanthropists in their own right. It's beautiful to see and fun to give.
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the Organic City
http://www.theorganiccity.com/wordpress/
The Organic City is a collaborative digital storytelling project focused on the downtown Oakland, California. The project has three phases. During Phase 1, which took place during Fall 2005, the project developed a web forum where members of the public were invited to read and write stories about local places. During Phase 2, we conducted community outreach to promote the online community to the local physical community. During Phase 3, which took place through June 2006, the project developed a mobile story experience that can be accessed with handheld devices while walking around downtown Oakland. The project explores relationships between story, place and community; as well as the ways in which new technologies can enhance our appreciation for these important components of human identity. While today's media tends to isolate people from their local communities, it is important to find ways of using new media to reconnect neighbors and establish a sense of place.
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the Free Software Foundation
http://www.fsf.org/
The Free Software Foundation organizes the worldwide free software community. Among the millions of contributors and users in this community, there are many different opinions and approaches; our focus is on the philosophical and political work needed to maintain the freedom to use, study, copy, modify and redistribute software. This covers issues of software patents, proprietary licensing, and government legislation. We also organize and provide support for the GNU Project, which is a community of developers writing and maintaining the GNU free software operating system.
Our main objective is to achieve software freedom for everyone. The FSF is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, copy, study, modify, and redistribute computer programs. We promote the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU operating system, used widely today in its GNU/Linux variant, and free documentation. FSF and GNU websites and discussion mailing lists are places where people can come to coordinate their efforts toward these goals. All of these efforts improve the ability of people to share knowledge with each other and build communities around that knowledge.
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the CouchSurfing Project
http://www.couchsurfing.com/
The CouchSurfing Project helps members make connections worldwide. They can use the network to meet people and then go and surf other members' couches! When they surf a couch, they are a guest at someone's house. The host provides some sort of accommodation, a penthouse apartment or maybe a backyard to pitch a tent in. Stays can be as short as a cup of coffee, a night or two, or even a few months or more. When offering a couch, the host has complete control of who visits.
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NewGlobalVision / Telestreet
http://www.ngvision.org/
http://www.telestreet.it/
NGV es un proyecto que se propone crear una red de canales de videos independientes al menor costo posible. Se desarrolla basándose en la colaboración de las personas que trabajan en red y toman a la red como un punto de partida para la organización del trabajo, compartir conocimientos y recursos, la difusión del saber necesario para avanzar en la difusión de la información. El vídeo en calidad de VHS se aprovecha localmente a través de la PC y su distribución por medio de VHS o CD. Los contenidos deben expresar el movimiento; el cual los debe tomar con una conciencia crítica, reflajando la producción de cultura e información de manera liberada.
Las herramientas que actualmente utilizamos, que construimos con el curso del tiempo y que encontramos disponibles no son suficientes ni adecuadas: la conciencia común se encuentra cotidianamente bajo la preción de un sistema informativo que es potente y completamente abarcativo que apunta a mostrar exclusivamente una realidad condicionada para mantener el status-quo.
Pensamos que la información sea otra; para combatir esto es necesario aumentar la eficacia de las herramientas que podemos utilizar directamente y/o crear rápidamente. Sobre la base de nuestro conocimiento y experiencia queremos realizar nuevos y eficientes medios así como ya fue hecho en los últimos años por los diferentes colectivos.
NGV se basa en el uso de la tecnología y software de dominio público que permiten bajar y publicar video.
En el primer caso se presupone de la utilización de programas para compartir archivos y se requiere mantener videos en linea de modo que tengan máxima visibilidad en los distintos circuitos donde se comparten. En los archivos se indica que circuitos y server en los que encuentran. La presencia de todos los títulos del archivo es garantizada por servers FTP privados. Los productores que quieran publicar material, mientras esperando que todos los mecanismos estén dados para la publicación abierta, contactarse con ngv@ecn.org
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the Institut for Applied Autonomy
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/http://www.appliedautonomy.com/
TXTmob was initially intended as a tool for activists to share information and coordinate actions during political protests—particularly for the sorts of decentralized "convergences" that characterize modern anti-globalization demonstrations. The goal of the project was to provide communications infrastructures that support a broad range of activists' needs and enable fluid, spontaneous actions. In practice, TXTmob has been used in a variety of ways during recent protests, orchestrating "flashmob"-type actions (in which thousands of protesters converge on a location with very little notice), reporting on police movements, and exchanging messages of solidarity between activists in the street and their supporters around the world. During the RNC, Indymedia reporters and legal observers relied heavily on TXTmob for up-to-the-minute information about the action in the streets.
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the World Starts with Me
http://www.theworldstarts.org/
The World Starts with Me (WSWM) is a digital learning environment about sexual health education, AIDS prevention and creative ICT skills for young Ugandans. The program is for both schoolgoing young people and early school leavers. They are reached through 52 online schools and Telecenters around Uganda to be followed by networks in Kenya and Tanzania. WSWM combines sexual health education with creative ICT education using an experiential learning approach in order to make sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention training:
• more real (real life examples young people can relate to)
• useful (skills for job opportunities)
• appealing (creating your own expressive digital works)
• comprehensive (complete sexual and reproductive health and rights content)
• effective (researching and developing your own point of view)
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dorkbot international events.  
http://dorkbot.org
The main goals of dorkbot are: to create an informal, friendly environment in which people can talk about the work they're doing and to foster discussion about that work; to help bring together people from different backgrounds who are interested in similar things; to give us all an opportunity to see the strange things our neighbors are doing with electricity. dorkbot isn't really a forum for formal artist talks or lectures, but rather a chance for diverse people to have friendly conversations about interesting ideas. 
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theupgrade
http://www.theupgrade.net/
Upgrade! is an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. While individual nodes present new media projects, engage in informal critique, and foster dialogue and collaboration between individual artists, Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year.
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tobecontinuedigitalart
http://www.myspace.com/tobecontinuedigitalart
Tobecontinued is a group exhibition in progress that starts with some students of the Fine Arts Academy of Rome. Using Myspace as an interactive platform, Tobecontinued is based on the concepts of open art-work, cause and/vs effect, and free association of ideas; where the last art-work is always inspired to the previous one, in order to generate an open art-work in continuous evolution that never completes itself. The process is constituted by the single works as video, animations, photos, music, net projects, and shows details, nuances and ideas of the whole art-work's project. Let's continue, joining with us and sending your art-work (max. 4 mb per email) at tobecontinued.tobecontinued@gmail.com
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del.icio.us
http://del.icio.us/
Social bookmarking organized via tags . A tag is simply a word you use to describe a bookmark. Unlike folders, you make up tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like. The result is a better way to organize your bookmarks and a great way to discover interesting things on the Web.
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flickr photo sharing
www.flickr.com
flickr is an online photo management and sharing application and helps people make their photos available to the people who matter to them
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
www.youtube.com
YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience.
YouTube is a place for people to engage in new ways with video by sharing, commenting on, and viewing videos. YouTube originally started as a personal video sharing service, and has grown into an entertainment destination with people watching more than 70 million videos on the site daily.
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pourinfos
http://www.pourinfos.org/
L'actualité du monde de l'art / Daily art news, pourinfos.org est une page destinée aux artistes visuels, médiateurs, enseignants d'art, étudiants... Elle accueille au moins une information supplémentaire par jour du lundi au vendredi.
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NOSO
http://nosoproject.com/
NOSO is a real-world platform for temporary disengagement from social networking environments. The NOSO experience offers a unique opportunity to create NO Connections by scheduling NO Events with other NO Friends.These "NO" events, called NOSOs, take place in designated cafés, parks, libraries, bookstores, and other public spaces. Participants – whose identities remain unknown to one another – agree to arrive at an assigned time and remain alone, quiet and un-connected, while at the same time knowing that another "Friend" is present in the space.
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Artmob
http://www.theartmob.net/
Artmob is devoted to curating and commisioning art based content for mobile devices. Artmob will also provide links to resources for artists to create mobile content.
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Second Life
http://www.secondlife.com/
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 4,672,131 people from around the globe.
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Wikipedia's sister projects
http://www.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation,
a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:
Wiktionary. Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikinews. Free-content news
Wikiquote. Collection of quotations
Wikibooks. Free textbooks and manuals
Wikispecies. Directory of species
Wikisource. Free-content library
Wikiversity. Free learning materials an
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indymedia
http://italy.indymedia.org/
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noemalab
http://www.noemalab.org/index2.php
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edge
http://www.edge.org/
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opensource
http://www.opensource.org/
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the thing
http://www.thething.it/
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art-net art
http://www.art-netart.com/
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adaweb
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/home.shtml
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gallery9
http://gallery9.walkerart.org/
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d-i-n-a
http://www.d-i-n-a.net/en/dina/dina-xpo.html
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three
http://three.org/openart/
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r-s-g
http://r-s-g.org/carnivore/
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scene
http://www.scene.org/
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wifi-art
http://www.wifi-art.com/
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ccc
http://www.ccc.de/?language=en
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hackerart
http://www.hackerart.org/
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autistici
http://www.autistici.org/it/
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easylife
http://www.easylife.org/
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Thanks to :
section curated by Chiara Passahttp://www.chiarapassa.it
http://www.ideasonair.net

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