World information encompasses a comprehensive understanding of Earth's geography, cultures, history, economies, and societies, serving as the collective knowledge base that shapes our global perspective and decision-making. It encompasses diverse data, from political boundaries to scientific breakthroughs, reflecting the multifaceted nature of our interconnected world.
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World-Information.Org
World-Information.Org
Formation
1999
Purpose
International exhibitions, conferences and publications dealing with culture and technology
World-Information Institute forms part of an international network of partner institutions and experts in the fields of information and communication technologies and their social implications.
WII's main fields of research are a politics of the commons (and, from this perspective: problems of intellectual property regimes), new forms of cultural production, politics of search and organization of knowledge, surveillance technologies, big data and visualization, cultural and media policies. A recent example of an activity to further develop cultural and media policies is “Netzpolitischer Konvent” (Convention of the Austrian civil society on net politics), in which a catalogue of demands was drafted and
World-Information.Org series of projects - launched Brussels 2000 World-Information.Org was launched as the main media project of the European Capital of Culture 2000 in Brussels. The social, cultural and political dimensions of the new information and communication technologies were discussed.[2] The World-Information exhibition presented objects and research results on topics such as the history of modern communication technologies, the "big players" in the IT industry, financial networks or human rights. The program was completed by the "World-InfoCon" conference. Most resources are available on the world-information.org page.[3] The first presentation was followed by a series of conferences and exhibitions in Vienna (Technisches Museum Wien, 2000[4]), Amsterdam (Oude Kerk and De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics, 2002[5]), Novi Sad / Belgrade (Museum of Vojvodina, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 2003[6]), Bangalore (2005[7]) and Paris (as part of the festival "Futur en Seine", 2009[8]).
Deep Search (I) - Vienna 2008 The "Deep Search" conference critically dealt with "the social and political dimensions of how we navigate the deep seas of knowledge".Critically analyzing a situation in whichassumes a monopoly-like position in the field of search in many countries around the world, the conference asked questions as: „How is computer readable significance produced, how is meaning involved in machine communication? Where is the emancipatory potential of having access to such vast amounts of information? What are the dangers of our reliance on search engines? And are there any approaches that do not follow the currently dominating paradigm of
History
Free Re:Public Soundpolitisierung/Vienna 2002, World-Information/Belgrade 2003, World-Information/ Brussels 2000, Free Bitflows / Vienna 2004, Information Terror / Vienna 1996, Nikeplatz/ Vienna 2003, Save the Digital Ecology/Norway 2001
Public Netbase Basecamp I/II/III 2001-2002, System-77 Civil Counter-Reconnaissance/ Vienna 2004, Nikeplatz/ Vienna 2003, Free Media Camp/ Vienna 2003
When the founders of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 set up a web server (in an unofficially tolerated act of ‘misuse’ of the underemployed Internet server of Vienna's general hospital AKH) in 1993, they created one of the first arts and culture-related sites on the emerging World Wide Web.
The institute has been conceptualised as a platform from which independent initiatives and organizations could emerge. The first of these initiatives was – now an ‘historical example’ of an early new media organization in Europe. Founded in 1994, it was located in Messepalast, the predecessor of Vienna's. It combined various functions and activities: It was a non-profit Internet service provider that facilitated internet access mainly for the independent arts and cultural sector. This was accompanied by a program of workshops and courses to develop media competence. Public Netbase became a social space for this emerging scene of artists, techheads, activists etc., and ran an almost daily evening program of discussions, presentations, screenings and music events. In addition to these grassroots activities international exhibitions and conferences were conducted. Public Netbase used to be t0's main initiative until it had to be discontinued due to lack of funding (which was a result of repression by the Austrian right-wing government in 2006.
But already in 1999 the next initiative had been founded: World-Information.Org (WIO). It was presented – under the patronage of – as the lead project of the New-Media-program of the Brussels 2000 WIO resembles an intelligence agency, that collects and analyses information, but not in the interest of a state or as a think tank for corporate businesses, but for the independent cultural sector. Starting from the Brussels project, a series of international exhibitions and conferences has been developed. World-Information Institute (WII) is WIO's research department. In addition to conducting research, it continues the program of international conferences and the activities to further develop culture and media policies. In addition, on the Austrian national level, wahlkabine.at was founded in 2002 and became Austria's most prominent online “polling booth”.
Since 2010, Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 has developed the ‘living archive’ Future Non Stop,in which all its activities are documented, which makes it a valuable resource covering twenty years of activities in new media art, net culture and participatory use and critical analyses of new technologies, digital networks and the
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