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<p>Over the last couple decades, and particularly with the rise of social media, the Internet has become the glue that connects the personal, professional and social aspects of our lives. However, governments, militaries, commercial interests, and policing have increasingly shifted the Internet and World Wide Web from being a free, decentralized global space to one of commodification and surveillance of personal data and activities, perpetuation of everyday and systematic modes of oppression, bias, and divided access and control.</p>

<p>At the same time, the recent accessibility of networking technology through devices such as the Raspberry Pi has made it affordable and therefore possible for everyday people to learn how to design their own web servers and networks.</p> 

<p>Radical Networks invites the community to envision, learn, engage, and share work around the current state and health of the Internet and the future of digital networks and the open web. It is a forum for people who are curious about what drives these technologies that we are all dependent on and what is the creative potential, vulnerabilities, and opportunities to create with these technologies and take ownership back.</p> 

<p>We invite artists, activists, lawyers, engineers, writers, policy makers, educators, scientists, journalists, community organizers, and more to present your ideas in this year’s Radical Networks. We are looking for proposals for the following:</p> 

<ul>
	<li>Talk</li>
	<li>Workshop</li>
	<li>Artwork for our Exhibition</li>
	<li>Performance or Film Screening</li>
	<li>Lunchtime Meetup</li>
	<li>Panel</li>
	<li>Tour/Field Trips</li>
</ul>

<p>Not sure what to propose? Check out presentations from <a href="/archives/">previous year's</a> Radical Networks, or choose from this list of topics:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Control and ownership of networks</li>
	<li>Offline networks</li>
	<li>Mesh and Peer-to-Peer networks</li>
	<li>Local networks for community</li>
	<li>Experimental application of computer networks</li>
	<li>Networks for movement activism or journalism</li>
	<li>Network security and safety for daily life, survival, or informal economies</li>
	<li>Public policy and net neutrality</li>
	<li>Censorship, Surveillance, and Policing</li>
	<li>Artistic use of computer networks</li>
	<li>Radio and broadcast for community or activism</li>
	<li>Free and Open Source Hardware and Software</li>
	<li>Personal networks</li>
	<li>Bringing connectivity to rural or urban areas</li>
	<li>Experimental social networks and platform cooperativism</li>
	<li>Speculative futuring or alternative histories of the Internet</li>
	<li>Speculative networks</li>
	<li>Ethical hacking</li>
	<li>Digital security</li>
	<li>Indigenous technology</li>
	<li>Holistic security and healing technology</li>
	<li>Disability justice in Networks and Crip technoscience</li>
	<li>Climate justice, resilience, and environmental impact of networks and data infrastructures</li>
	<li>Digital literacy and education around networks, Internet, radio and digital stewardship</li>
	<li>Labor and technological networks</li>
	<li>...and anything else that takes a fresh or critical look at communication networks.</li>
</ul>

<p>The call for participation is open to all! We prioritize applications from people of color and Indigenous folx, womxn, non-binary folx, gender expansive and GNC, LGBTQ folx, immigrants, the undocumented, working-class, disabled folx, and first-time presenters!</p>

<p>Please note: Radical Networks encourages proposals to be experimental and risk-taking and not necessarily using polished language or prose. With that said, <strong>your proposal must adhere to our template. We are a very small team and need to read all proposals and process them as efficiently as possible. Proposals which don't follow the template may be discarded.</strong></p>

<p>If your proposal is accepted, please let us know if you need mentorship or support for how to present. We are seeking additional resources in how to better support first-time presenters.</p>

<p>To submit your proposal, follow the <a href="participate.html">instructions here</a>.</p>

<h3>Submissions are due by July 1st, 2019 by 12AM in your time zone. Please mind the deadline - No proposals submitted after the deadline will be considered.</h3>