txt : Reclaim or offer knowledge and goods and meet new peers in the city, report a bug in your neighbourhood, send an S.O.S!

SOS is a physical tracker, connecting peers and seeds in the city, reclaiming public space 2.0 - It is both an api and a mobile kit that allows users to record messages (offers, requests and pledges) at public events and in public space. SOS was inspired by Speaker’s Corner and continues in the line of previous Platoniq projects such as Burn Station and the Bank of Common Knowledge.

SOS aims to connect people with similar interests who are in the same area and would like to share information and goods. Interested parties use the SOS to record ads that are then classified and can be accessed online and on-site by subject and keyword. When the system finds a match between messages or a reply to a particular ad, an sms is automatically sent to the users involved, to prompt a possible meeting or exchange.

S.O.S aims to generate policies that favour the use of significant, useful, endangered or reappropriated knowledge in urban and rural contexts, using the dynamic of local offers and requests. This project is part of Platoniq’s exploration of public collaboration formats that apply the positive effects of free software and P2P systems to the fields of (self) education and citizen participation.