Xnet
platform dedicated to free culture and digital rights
Xnet (former eXgae) is a non-profit activist platform that develops and promotes alternative models for cultural dissemination and royalty management and work in different fields related to digital rights, networked democracy and freedom of expression. Its activities revolve around five core themes: free culture, Internet neutrality, technopolitics, network democracy, new models of sustainability for the digital era and the defence of citizen journalism and the legal fight against corruption. Xnet also engages in political lobbying at the national and international levels, by preparing and submitting legislative proposals and viral campaigns.
Until 2023, Xnet was a member of European Digital Rights (EDRi), a not-for-profit association to promote, protect and uphold civil rights in the field of information and communication technology.
Initiatives
Digital rights
Xnet is responsible for a significant amount of activity in the defence, dissemination and expansion of digital rights in Spain and Europe and is a member of EDRI (European Digital Rights), an international group of organisations defending civil rights in the digital domain. On 9 December 2021 EDRi's board temporarily suspend Xnet from the EDRi network.
In addition to organising the FCForum, Xnet frequently publishes legislative recommendations to ensure that local, regional, Spanish and European regulations are respectful of civil rights and freedom in the digital domain, and actively promotes and participates in advocacy campaigns for or against laws, directives or public policies that have an impact in this field.
Following Snowden's revelations about mass surveillance, Xnet began work on disseminating and advocating among the general public for communication privacy and the security of information tools aimed at Internet users in order to help them guarantee their fundamental rights on their own, whatever their legislative environments.
Since 2019, together with a group of families, Xnet has designed and leads Plan for Democratic Digitalization of Education. This project includes:
The development of a comprehensive, auditable, agile and interoperable IT tool called DD (Digital Democratic) to replace the proprietary tools in all the activity of the schools.
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