Techno-political tools for open knowledge is linked to a social movements strategy and to a rich variety of experiences; based on some common aims, such as applying new technologies to political goals; emphasising a decentralised, swarming, collaborative and open environment, systematising knowledge generated by processes of mobilisation, and building collectively social memory.

This line of research addresses the problematic and potentialities of techno-political tools and some questions such as:

+ What makes an online tool a pro-democratic tool?

+ How to distribute the property of such tools?

+ What is the difference between techno-political tools and the social networking webs (such as: Myspace, Flirch and so on)?

+ How to resist the growth of Wikinomics (that is: capitalist profit based on commerce with the cooperation of the others)?

+ Are we sure that there is a link between network politics and network technologies?

+ How could technologies improve the possibilities for, and the means of achieving, more direct, less mediated, forms of democratic organisation?

+ What are the political implications of individualisation generated by the new technologies?

+ Can the visualisation tools afford new forms of representation which are quite different from the classical organisational view?

+ Can we extend the Free Software model towards other fields of production?

Contact person of the line: Mayo Fuster (lilaroja(at)gmx.net)