The Phone That Serves You, Not Platforms – THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Time	14:00 – 15:55
Location	Beijing Room (AMS)
Capacity	20

What if your next phone ran computation locally, kept your data under your control, and connected you through community-owned networks rather than extractive platforms? 

The IEEE, which is the global organization that sets the technical standards behind modern technology, has just formed its first workgroup to define the infrastructure for the next generation of connectivity. The technical foundations are being laid now. At the TH/NGS we have a rare window to help shape them before the usual players lock in another decade of surveillance and extraction.

In this workshop, we’ll collectively imagine what a citizen phone ecosystem could look like in 2035, then map backwards to identify the decisions, policies, and designs that would make it possible. We call this future device the “kenner”. It’s named after Marge Piercy’s 1976 vision of technology that empowers citizens rather than controlling them. These outputs will be openly published and submitted to the IEEE workgroup as citizen input on what next-generation infrastructure should prioritize.