Erik Albers

Smart phones, smart homes, smart cities, smart farming … the number of connected devices is exponentially growing, yet is still far away from its peak. Every five years we produce more smartphones than there are humans on the planet. Confronted with climate change and the problem that any new electronic and smart device is produced in an energy intense process and with the consumption of rare resources, it is long time overdue to find a more sustainable growth of our digitisation. Time to transform the Internet of linear things into the one of reusable devices!

The talk explores four principles that any further digitisation shall be based on to move into a more sustainable digital society. It gives concrete advise how politicians nowadays can use these findings and apply simple directives that will allow the circular use and upcycling of software, extend lifetime and reusability of our hardware.

FreeYourAndroid workshops - party like in the 90s with GNU/Linux

The FSFE is running its FreeYourAndroid campaign and encourages everyone to do FYA workshops - Phone liberation parties like GNU/Linux parties in the 90s

The FSFE is running its FreeYourAndroid campaign to help people to achieve users and software freedom on their mobile devices. Unfortunately, liberating phones is sometimes far from easy, including to root your device, unlock the bootloader, flash a custom ROM, get used to f-droid and much more ... To help all those people out there, that lack a technical background but love to run Free Software on their mobile devices, the FSFE runs phone liberation workshops. These workshops are something, that everyone or every group can do. This talk will hopefully encourage you to do so! Hence, the talk is about: What exactly are we doing in these workshops? How do we organise? How can we help you in doing the same? Where can you get more information?