DWeb: Connecting people,
projects and protocols to build a decentralized web
Since 2016, DWeb, an independent project founded by the nonprofit Internet Archive, has gathered thousands of builders, researchers, activists, artists, educators and families to connect deeply, learn together, and have fun as we build systems that actualize the principles of trust, human agency, mutual respect, and ecological awareness.
DWeb Camp is dedicated to building tools for real world problems, including censorship resistance, identity for the stateless, and sovereignty over our data.
DWeb Camp is family-friendly.
Andi Wong serves as space steward and curator of the Children’s Program. https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/05/bring-your-family-to-dweb-camp/
DWeb Event Chronology
DWeb Camp 2026 – “Root Systems”
July 8-12, 2026, Alte Hölle, Germany
DWeb Camp 2024 – “Migration Moving Together”
August 7-11, 2024, Camp Navarro, Mendocino, CA, USA
DWeb Camp 2023 – “Discovering Flows”
June 21-25, 2023, Camp Navarro, Mendocino, CA, USA
DWeb Camp 2022 – “Healing Waters”
Aug 23-28, 2022, Camp Navarro, Mendocino, CA, USA
DWeb Camp 2019 at The Mushroom Farm
July 18-21, 2019, Pescadero, CA, USA
DWeb Summit 2018 “Global Visions / Working Code”
July 31-Aug 2, 2018, The Mint, San Francisco, CA, USA
DWeb Summit 2016 at the Internet Archive
June 7-9, 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA
DWeb connects the people, projects and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is more private, reliable, secure and open. A web with many winners—returning to the original vision of the World Wide Web and internet.
Since 2016 we have been a bridge enabling diverse communities to freely exchange ideas about the technologies, values, markets and agreements we need to move forward.
DWeb Principles
The Internet Archive has been one of the lead organizers of DWeb events since 2014.
As one of the world’s largest repositories of online knowledge and culture, the Internet Archive has a stake in ensuring that the Web remains free and open. It has brought together those who are transparent about their approaches and are interested in engaging across projects to learn and collaborate.
PURPOSE AND ORIGIN
These principles define the values of a decentralized web based on enabling agency of all peoples. It is the basis for behavioral norms and mutual accountability.
These principles originate from members of the DWeb Community — those involved with and convened by the Internet Archive’s work on the decentralized web. These stand alongside other sets of principles that share or expand upon these values, in recognition that our efforts to build a more just and equitable world are interdependent.
The principles are ordered from specific to general, beginning with more explicit technical features of a DWeb:
01. Technology for Human Agency
02. Distributed Benefits
03. Mutual Respect
04. Humanity
05. Ecological Awareness
Archive-It & “Archive/Opera” class at The Studio.
Seventh and eighth graders at Rooftop Alternative PreK-8 School in San Francisco worked with teaching artist Andi Wong to establish The Rooftop ARTchives. The “Archive/Opera” class gave students the opportunity to create both the “archives” (“public records” from the Greek ta arkheia,) and the opera (new “work”).
K-12 Web Archivists Capture History in the Making (2017)
Universal Access to All Knowledge.
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to texts, movies & music, as well as 624 billion archived web pages. archive.org
ArtsEd4All coordinated these special projects for the Internet Archive.
“We’re All in The Same Boat” Bread & Puppet Theater’s 2015 West Coast Tour
For the first time in fourteen years, artist Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet Theater toured the West Coast with a series of performances, workshops, lectures, exhibits and parades – a real Feast of Bread and Puppet events in the Bay Area from October 7th – October 13th, 2015.
Bread and Puppet is a radical puppetry group that has been producing large-scale performances since the 1960s. The group is so named for the combination of fresh bread and puppets that their audiences enjoyed when the troop was in their original loft location in the Lower East Side of New York City.
Browse the Internet Archive’s Bread & Puppet Collection for images & media.
Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions:
Internet Archive & DJ Spooky’s Quantopia (2019)
QUANTOPIA premiered in Friday, January 25, 2019 to a sold out house at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
A celebration of the history of the Internet, QUANTOPIA is a tribute to the depth and high stakes of free speech and creative expression involved in our daily use of media. Teaming up with Internet Archive and data artist Greg Niemeyer, mathematician Roger Antonsen and VR studio, MEDIUM Labs, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, composer/multimedia artist Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky has created a multimedia journey exploring the network evolution.
Commissioned by Internet Archive; a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Produced by Sozo Artists with additional support from Sozo Impact, Inc.
Browse the Internet Archive’s Quantopia – The Evolution of the Internet Collection of images & media.
