ARTICONF

The project partners reunited at @itecmmc for a final project review. Thank you #Horizon2020 @EU_Commission it has been an honour to collaborate for the Future Hyper-connected Sociality. @UvA_Amsterdam @mscdigsoc @UOhrid @MOGTechnologies @AgiliaCenter @vialog_io @bitYogaAS @itec

Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world. But what does it mean for you? I spent the evening analyzing it. Here’s what you need to know:

While we dream of building intelligence in a machine, we don’t want to see that there is so much intelligence in nature we haven’t explored yet. via sciencemediahub.eu/2022/11/09/dem…

Why do you also refer to the planet-part when talking about AI? At present the CO2-emission of AI- and internet of things-applications combined is about two percent and it is growing. [For comparison: this 2% is roughly the same as the CO2-footprint of the airline industry.]

We urgently need ‘AI translators’, people who translate the needs and demands of engineers to managers, or the concerns of citizens to developers. We need people who can talk about all aspects of AI, people who can connect people, planet and profit. @miekedk via @ScienceMediaHub

The platform’s source code is public, so users can contribute, fix bugs, and add new features. Some analysts believe Twitter should pursue a similar strategy.

“Decentralized” is Web3’s biggest buzzword and means that Mastodon lets users create their own versions of its server, rather than being bound to a central one. Servers are hosted by individuals or organizations who can set their own content moderation rules.

Eugen Rochko reported that #Mastodon surpassed 1m users this month, with 489k joining since Musk’s Twitter takeover. @Gargron/109300967725833789" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@Gargron/10930…

We shared our results in more than 70 scientific peer-reviewed publications and over 60 events and activities. We also secured two patents and have made the entire toolset for DApp development available on GitHub under the Apache 2 licence. articonf.eu/results

@articonf Instead of having pricing and penalties decided by a centralised entity, our solution builds a community of car owners and fleet managers where rental pricing is determined by a number of sources” explains Prodan. Full article: cordis.europa.eu/ar

Our Results in Brief article we recently collaborated with @CORDIS_EU has been published on the CORDIS website in six languages: cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442…

@articonf ...Instead of having to pay the standard per-mile or per-hour fee, users pay a variable fee based on the distance they travel or the time they spend using the car.

@articonf The car sharing Social DApp was recently featured in ‘Blockchain: Research and Applications’. According to the article, the app allows customers to temporarily check out a vehicle on demand.

@articonf "Our Video Opinion Discussion Social DApp generated over 3 000 social video opinions in over a dozen communities,” says Prodan. “These included politically essential topics such as academic freedom, climate change, and fair elections.” @vialog_io

@articonf To demonstrate the effectiveness of the ARTICONF solution, researchers developed four different Social DApp use cases, including for crowd journalism, car sharing, video opinion discussion and the smart energy marketplace.

@articonf Hosted on a federated cloud, our Social DApps have the potential to create a secure and practically inviolable social continuum. Without any centralised control mechanism,we can(...) allow safe information sharing using democratic consensus protocols.

@articonf The project chose the blockchain platform in part because of its use of consensus protocols, a method that allows users to verify transactions.

@articonf In order to ‘cage the troll’, the ARTICONF project has developed a blockchain-as-a-service platform for building trustworthy, scalable and democratic decentralised social applications (Social DApps).

@articonf Trolls “use a fake identity to engage in controversial discussions or deliberately communicate low-quality, manipulative information that often spreads quicker and attracts more readers than credible sources.”

@articonf According to Prodan, social media’s centralised ownership model raises several trust-related issues, including data security, privacy, transparency and the propagation of false content – i.e. ‘fake news’.

@articonf “Using blockchain and other trustworthy technologies, we’re building a decentralised social media platform that raises the bar in terms of transparency, privacy and autonomy.” @RaduProdanAAU

@articonf With the support of the EU-funded ARTICONF project, Prodan is working to democratise the social continuum: