Digital Commons After COVID-19
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The recent report "Creating the Digital Commons" inspired me to look into the similarities between data and infrastructure governance. My preliminary conclusion: we need new sustainable paradigms!
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Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of IPv6 deployment among LIRs. In 2011, she joined the Science Division as Manager of the Measurements Community Building team; in 2015 she moved to Communications Department as Senior Community Builder, with a focus on organising hackathons. Vesna gives presentations at many technical conferences and workshops, and enjoys visiting hackerspaces. Vesna received a Batchelor of Sciences Degree in Computer Science and Informatics from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She has three children.
Reporting Live From the HOPE2020 Online Conference
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The thirteenth Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE.net) conference is being held entirely online from 25 July to 2 August 2020. We are following talks relevant to the RIPE community and reporting back. Join us in participating in real time, or watch archived presentations.
Connecting the Quantum Internet
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As a part of our efforts to increase collaboration between the "classical" Internet and quantum networking research, we are republishing the summary of a research paper on "heterogeneous quantum networks".
Report from the First Virtual RIPE NCC Hackathon
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While working from home during the global health crisis, we organised a virtual hackathon. The event lasted several weeks and aimed to measure and visualise the health of the Internet.
Hackathons in the Time of Corona
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To continue collaborative creation, let's challenge ourselves to make the longest hackathon: an on-going on-line open-data analysis of the health of the Internet during the COVID-19 crisis.
Ten Requirements for the Evaluation of Contact Tracing Apps
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There is an increased interest in the security and privacy impacts of software used for slowing down the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. In this article, we republish the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) recommendations for your information.
Internet Usage Measurements in the Time of Corona
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Many organisations are measuring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on Internet performance: in this article, we look at four recent reports.
After the Quake in Croatia
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After the recent earthquake in Croatia we looked at RIPE Atlas and RIS data to visualise the impact a large event like this can have on the resilience of the Internet.
WFH Hackathons
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This is one of the series of articles about virtual hackathons: if you are working from home and have some spare energy, please join the collective efforts to solve some important problems: your skills can help people and communities!
Reporting back from 36c3: Resource Exhaustion
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Watching the videos from the Chaos Communication Club (CCC) is both an entertaining and educational activity. Our 2020 focus on sustainability has inspired me to share my favourite moments that seem most relevant to the RIPE Community and RIPE Labs audiences.
In the meantime, I received comments from the (Mastodon) community, that are worth adding to this page: * this hackathon is explicitly NOT about web3 / NFT / Blockchain / DAO / Generative "AI" * one of the desired & expected outcomes is ALSO: "patches / bug fixes in existing green software" This would emphasize the importance of maintenance of existing infrastructure, next to the development of new solutions. (suggested by Joost van Baal-Ilić ) * here are some additional interesting possible data sources: https://gijn.org/stories/exposing-money-behind-environmental-destruction-investigating-investors/
Recent addition to the chapter about academic travel: art installation "Travel Less Without Loss" by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, illustrating in 3D the discrepancies between the Paris Agreement goals (yearly, 2T) and average Swiss citizen emissions (14T); and between train trips vs. flight emissions. https://actu.epfl.ch/news/outdoor-exhibition-highlights-the-impact-of-academ/ They also say: "I believe that as scientists, and as members of an academic institution like EPFL more generally, we have a civic duty to sound the public alarm.” This sounds very similar to my own experience: "Changing our travel practices is anything but child’s play. It involves making hard, carefully considered choices. The idea isn’t simply to give up traveling altogether, which can have serious repercussions for a person’s academic career. Instead, it’s about combining trips, deciding not to travel when we don’t need to, taking the train when possible,"... since I did not take any flights since end-2018. Exhibition web site: https://www.epfl.ch/campus/mobility/mobility-and-travel/academic-travel/travel-environmental-impact/exhibition-on-the-carbon-footprint-of-air-travel/
Transcript & the video of the session about environmental impacts of digital/Internet technologies can be found here: https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Building_cross-stakeholder_awareness_and_understanding_of_the_direct_and_indirect_environmental_impacts_of_digital/Internet_technologies_and_how_to_mitigate_them_–_WS_04_2023 and https://youtu.be/FMX6pYK3eWg
IETF draft has been published for the report from this workshop: "Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022" https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-ws-environmental-impacts-report/
Here is the video recording of the talk and panel about Internet history: "Remembering the Internet Revolution in Belgrade" : https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/881/
In October 2022, at RIPE85 meeting in Belgrade, there was another talk and another panel about Internet history: "Remembering the Internet Revolution in Belgrade" https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/881/
Here is a link to the video recording of the presentation & the panel: "Technical history of Internet Infrastructure in ex-Yugoslavia" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohp-MKVVYjQ&t=17478s Jelena Cosic (RIPE NCC) & Slobodan Markovic (UNDP) "Internet in Yugoslavia - From JUPAK to IP" (slides) https://www.ripe.net/participate/forms/uploads/fobi_plugins/file/see-10/Internet%20in%20Yugoslavia-FINAL_0f14b91c-6c4e-40e4-9ab3-b132acf8057c.pdf
I am happy to add the link to the presentation I gave about this topic at MCH2022 conference - please find the video here: https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-442-computing-within-limits#t=203
New links, to even more events: GEANT events, e.g.: Community Cloud Operators BoF, 6 June https://events.geant.org/ Computing within LIMITS: 21-22 June 2022. https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/ A New HOPE: 22-24 July 2022, New York City & virtual (the ticket is 99$!) https://hope.net/ NORDUnet: 3-15 September 2022, Iceland https://nordu.net/save-date-nordunet-conference-2022/ Bits & Bäume: October 1st to 2nd, 2022. Berlin https://bits-und-baeume.org/ RIPE85: 24-28. October 2022 Belgrade, Serbia https://ripe85.ripe.net/ Internet Governance Forum: 17th IGF 28 November-2 December 2022. Ethiopia https://www.intgovforum.org/en
Please join today's "open consultation" // feedback session about RIPE NCC's "cloud strategy" at 4PM CEST. Link to zoom is here: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/2021-September/003469.html
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