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GreenNet supports UK100 and Mission Zero Coalition's campaign to gather pledges from local candidates and councillors in the forthcoming local elections in UK to commit to the Net Zero transition. Rival parties joins forces in groundbreaking pledge to tackle misinformation ahead of “Net Zero election" UK100 released a new report, Zero In: Accelerating Local Climate Action today and invited…

GreenNet supports 7amleh's call for a safe, fair, and a free digital space for all people. https://7amleh.org/2024/02/11/a-coalition-of-international-organizations-demands-that-meta-refrain-from-censoring-criticism-of-zionism-on-its-platforms

Dear GreenNet friends, It's time once again for our annual GreenNet winter newsletter. We'd like to thank new and longstanding GreenNet users for your support in 2023 and wish you a very merry festive season. We've been keeping busy this year as usual. In 2023 we welcomed new customers from Netuxo and Wave, and connected thousands of users in various ways - check the revived GreenNet in Numbers…

The legal challenges on the status of the .IO domain (see our previous item) have moved another step forward. The Chagos Refugees Group initiated a claim at the OECD in 2021 for a fair share of the enormous sums of money paid in domain registrations and to Paul Kane, the Internet guy who somehow lucked into the incredibly lucrative colonialist gig of running the .IO domain on behalf of "The Crown…

GreenNet has launched a mastodon server for our network, we launched and welcomed our first users at the start of 2023. We've already had lots of signups and existing GreenNet customers are welcome to register at https://greennet.social/ According to wikipedia: Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to…

We at GreenNet add our voices to the urgent calls for Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s freedom. The human rights and digital rights campaigner has been on dry hunger strike in an Egyptian prison since Sunday. The desperate hope was that while the eyes of the world are on Egypt the British delegation to COP27 would secure Alaa's safe release from prison and transport to Britain, where he has citizenship. In…

Since the beginning of October APC have been convening on Thursdays on social media (mostly Twitter, also Facebook and Instagram) around ICTs and sustainability / the environment. Every #EcoThursday we've had interesting conversations - so far we've touched on the impact of e-waste and ways to address it, extractivism and alternatives to it, and the right to repair and reuse.   For the last…

We have put the Reclaim the Streets website back online: https://rts.gn.apc.org Ultimately it is in the streets that power must be dissolved: for the streets where daily life is endured, suffered and eroded, and where power is confronted and fought, must be turned into the domain where daily life is enjoyed, created and nourished The campaign/movement's website from the 90's which Greennet…

On Wednesday 23rd June 2021 GreenNet moved office from The Green House in Cambridge Heath to Oxford House in Bethnal Green. The new office is only a short walk, bus trip or bike ride away from the old one. The new address is:     GreenNet     Oxford House,     Derbyshire Street,     London E2 6HG Our support telephone number…

GreenNet joined Nominet in the 90's, soon after it was set up. We voted for the Extraordinary General Meeting resolution proposed by Simon from Krystal hosting, and we've followed the campaign for the last few weeks. It's been incredibly impressive to see how the Public Benefit campaign has assembled information and support to overturn the board of Nominet, the campaign has been exemplary in it's…