This newsletter was sent 24th April 2017. If you’d like to keep up to speed on the hi:project, click here to subscribe. Hello hi:project newsletter subscribers. All 255 of you. I’ll get to the point. The hi:project team is collaborating […]
Originally posted on the World Wide Web Foundation website. ________ Just hearing the names of some causes tells you all you need to know. You feel them in your gut instantly, and your mind follows quickly. Democracy. Human rights. The […]
The hi:project team is always looking for the most efficient and most effective ways to help people understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. It’s not always easy because the digital world is broad and deep, complicated and […]
It’s coming up to 15 years since Scientific American published “The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities“, by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila. (Paywall. […]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the Web. The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is a special working group chartered, as its name conveys, with stewardship of the Web architecture. The hi:project was […]
We are exploring how Solid – a proposed set of conventions in development by a project run out of MIT CSAIL – and the hi:project are mutually supportive. Solid decouples the app from the data, and the hi:project decouples the […]
Distributists believe property ownership is a fundamental right and that the means of production should be spread as widely as possible. Otherwise we’re faced with centralization by the state, by the few (a plutocracy, the 1%), or corporations (corporatocracy). I’ve […]
The Redecentralize conference at the London office of ThoughtWorks this past weekend was framed as: Taking back the net. A weekend to learn, connect and make technology that shapes society. I can’t imagine for one moment that your weekend was […]