Radical/Networks

Rachel O'Dwyer

I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Telecommunications Research and lecturer in Trinity College Dublin, where I teach courses in physical computing and media theory. My research areas include the Political Economy of Communications; Open Spectrum; Blockchains and P2P Infrastructures for Money.

I'm the leader of the Dublin Art and Technology Association, a group that showcases individuals working across art, hacktivism and technology www.data.ie. I organise the openhere festival on the social, political and technical issues surrounding the digital commons. 2012 focused on disruptive telecommunications; 2014 on open source hardware, open source ecology and open source value www.openhere.data.ie. I am also a core member of the P2P Foundation where I contribute to research in alternative currencies and coordinate the P2P academic research network.

I speak, write and organise workshops around topics such as the political economy of communications, the digital commons, disruptive telecommunications, open spectrum and more recently money, distributed infrastructures and the blockchain. Here’s a project I coordinated to make a fully open mobile network in Dublin City http://openhere.data.ie/?p=500. As well as academic publications, I am a regular contributor to Neural a magazine of media art, hacktivism and critical internet cultures http://neural.it and the Commons Transition blog http://commonstransition.org/the-revolution-will-not-be-decentralised-blockchains/ Some of my recent talks and publications are here https://tcd.academia.edu/RachelODwyer.