Interface sets out to help movements learn from each other's struggles and develop dialogues with each other across barriers of language, national culture, movement situation, intellectual tradition and more. It also sets out to use IT to overcome the barriers created by paying for knowledge, whether that is the cost of printing or the cost of subscribing to periodicals; and to develop a real dialogue within this space.
As you can probably see (if you're reading this), we have a long way to go in this respect. We have good contributions, by authors from all around the world writing in different languages. But the site is the simplest possible, because our IT skills are low. We are very much looking for IT activist allies who will help us to produce "really useful knowledge" through effective dialogue and good technical solutions.
We have a couple of ideas, but we are very much open to any suggestions for how to do things that will work better! If you have ideas and can help, please email Steffen Boehm or Laurence Cox.
CFP (3 / 1): repression and social movements
CFP (2/2): voices of dissent
CFP (2/1): crises, social movements and revolutionary transformations
Interface (1/2): civil society vs. social movements
Interface (1/1): movement knowledge