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netznetz.net:

netznetz.net -- a newly established Vienna/Austria-based 'meta-community' which consists of all kinds of digital initiatives, net artists and technicians who are associated with the term 'net culture' -- has been assigned by the commissioner for the arts (member of the social democratic party of Vienna) to develop a software-supported system of distributing funding money in the 'net culture' sector.
It all started with the frequently announced 'crisis of net culture' in Vienna. The well established institutions of the scene were cutting their services and activities, while many activists of the field had been relying on other means of income as a resource for their work for years, anyway. New forms of collaboration and presentation were emerging.
Coordinating resources via a simple mailing list, the quickly growing netznetz-movement launched its first project in 2004 with the 'netznetz Festival of Net Culture', bringing together members of the open source community, net artists, people of the cultural sector, technicians and the audience in Vienna's Künstlerhaus. Further projects evolved, the so-called 'redraft of net culture funding' being one of them.
Now for first time ever, a local government has agreed to support a local net community to decide over the distribution of its own funding. The new funding system strives for guaranteed and dispersed distribution of funding in the sector while the parameters of the distribution are meant to remain flexible, providing a dynamic scope. The aim is to encourage project-based collaborations by distributing various smaller grants. Therefore, everybody who is involved in the sector is subject to the principle of permanent reconfiguration of the system and the network.
The modular funding structure -- developed with lots of discussion effort and contribution of more then 30 groups -- was boldly presented by the community and accepted by the commissioner. According to the new plan, 50% of the funding are reserved for infrastructure ('backbone projects'), newbies ('microgrants'), and common representation ('annual convention') and are to be distributed by the administration together with the community in the course of an open space conference. Financial support facilitating the contributor's everyday work, which usually is not funded at all, is to be designated by the communities itself through 'network grants' (50%). The beneficiaries of the so-called 'network grants', a yearly spending account for approximately 20 groups, is to be evaluated with the aid of a social software tool -- a reputation system currently under development. Even before it has been coded, criticism as well as scepticism and fear start pouring into the media sphere. While even computer veterans criticise the alleged blind trust in a 'computer program', so-called left circles brand it as 'too neo-liberal' as the structure strives for 'collaboration instead of institution'.
netznetz is preparing a protoype in the course of a programming 'sprint' this week and is inviting international experts for an upcoming symposium in autumn 2005 in Vienna. People interested in discussing or contributing their knowledge with 'reputation systems', please send an email to grants AT netznetz DOT net.
Link / netznetz Sprint (August 9-13, 2005)
Link / netznetz Wikipedia

posted by johannes, Monday, August 08, 2005

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