Aral Balkan
I’m a cyborg rights activist, designer and developer at Small Technology Foundation (https://small-tech.org).
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Small Web
The Small Web is a web where each one of us can own and control our own places. At these places, we can choose to either be public or, importantly, communicate with each other privately. This decentralised, peer-to-peer web of sovereign individuals stands in stark contrast to the Big Web we have today which – at least in the experience of most everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing – comprises a tiny number of centralised trillion-dollar corporate silos heavily influenced by the whims of a handful of billionaires. As such, the Small Web is an effort to encourage a separate evolution of the web that empowers individuals (instead of corporations and governments) in an effort to safeguard human rights and democracy in the age of the global digital network. In this talk, I will introduce you to the Small Web (including how it differs from the mainstream Big Web), explain its challenges and potential, and demonstrate how Small Web sites can be built using Kitten and hosted using Domain (both experimental tools I’m developing at Small Technology Foundation).
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Copy of Small Technology – 45 mins, Dig It Up, Antwerp
A 45-minute talk to be presented as the opening keynote of Dig It Up conferene in Antwerp on February 20, 2020.
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Big Tech vs Small Tech (HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival, Oslo, Tue, March 1, 2022)
Talk at HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival, Oslo
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web0
Talk at University of Southampton
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NodeKit – Wed, Jan 26, 2022
This week's update on NodeKit.
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web0 manifesto and NodeKit
An introduction to the web0 manifesto and a first look at how NodeKit works. Prepared for the Small Is Beautiful live stream on Thursday, Jan 20, 2022.
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Small Technology – 45 mins, Dig It Up, Antwerp
A 45-minute talk to be presented as the opening keynote of Dig It Up conferene in Antwerp on February 20, 2020.
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Small Technology – 45 mins, NextM, Warsaw
A 45-minute talk to be presented as the opening keynote of NextM in Warsaw on December 5, 2019.
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Small Technology – 20 mins, Creative Ville, Antwerp
A 20-minute talk presented as the opening keynote of Creative Ville in Antwerp on November 22, 2019.
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Dear Regulators, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
A 10-minute talk I presented at the European Parliament on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 on the Future of Internet regulation, a conference on the E-commerce Directive and the upcoming Digital Services Act.
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Small Technology – 45 mins, UX Australia, Sydney
A 45-minute talk to be presented as the opening keynote of UX Australia 2019 in Syndey.