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+# FreeFlow Community Principles 
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+|  ![](img/principles_01.png) | ![](img/principles_02.png)  |  ![](img/principles_03_.jpg) |
+|  ![](img/principles_04.png) | ![](img/principles_05_.jpg)  |  ![](img/principles_06.png) |
+|  ![](img/principles_07.png) | ![](img/principles_08_.jpg)  |  ![](img/principles_09.png) |
+
+## Inclusion
+
+![](img/principles_01.png)
+
+
+“If not US, then who? If not NOW then when?” 
+
+Anyone may be a part of FreeFlowCommunity. We welcome and respect the stranger. No pre-requisites exist for participation in our community.
+
+Its is important though everyone agrees to be in line with our values
+
+## Gift Economy
+
+![](img/principles_02.png)
+
+FreeFlow is devoted to acts of Gift Giving. The value of a Gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
+
+GIFT ECONOMY = BALANCE
+The introduction of an evolutionary new gift economy wherein the gift of giving is the value each giver receives - nothing is expected in return. 
+
+## Decommodification
+
+
+![](img/principles_03_.jpg)
+
+> The antidote to [hypernormalization](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM)
+
+
+In order to preserve the spirit of Gifting, our FreeFlow Community seeks to create online social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for Participatory Experience.
+
+## Self Reliance
+
+![](img/principles_04.png)
+
+FreeFlow encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
+
+We are no victims we can standup for what we believe in.
+
+## Self Expression
+
+![](img/principles_05_.jpg)
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+Radical Self-Expression arises from the unique Gifts of the Individual. 
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+No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a Gift to others. In this spirit, the Giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
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+"We are to take Individual Self-Expression as far as WE possibly can and Dream into Reality a much better World!!! Express yourselves. Start doing the things you love. Life is simple. Open your heart, mind and arms to new things and new people. WE are United in our differences..."
+
+## Community
+
+![](img/principles_06.png)
+
+Our FreeFlow Community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
+Quote: We honour tribalism.
+
+## Responsibility
+
+![](img/principles_07.png)
+
+We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
+
+"We return to Responsible Community Building"
+
+## Leave no Trace = Planet First
+
+![](img/principles_08_.jpg)
+
+Our community respects the Environment. We are committed to leaving no physcial trace of our activities in whatever we do and participate in the regeneration of the planet. We commit to Cleaning up the Earth for future generations. 
+
+## Participate
+
+![](img/principles_09.png)
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+Our FreeFlowCommunity is committed to a Radically Participatory Ethic (RPE). We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
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+# FreeFlow 
+
+![](img/freeflow_movement_.jpg)
+
+FreeFlow is a digital Earth 4.0 where people will be able to embrace new experiences on the first peer-to-peer internet. By being gifted with a unique digital identity, [FreeFlow Self](freeflow_self), you will have access to your new digital environment that prevails security, privacy, trust and freedom - It is your safe space for self-expression, self-discovery, learning and sharing of knowledge. 
+
+Along with the Capabilities and Experiences, users will be able to discover, create and share different levels of realities. Moreover, FreeFlow has the aim of providing the space of people to access information and knowledge without restrictions and borders.
+
+# Mission 
+
+Our mission is to provide a global accessibility to tools and experiences that allow everyone to access information and knowledge without borders and discover a true humanized way to communicate & connect with each other, create, exchange, learn, teach and share on this new digital universe. Through an ecosystem project collaboration, we are providing the key drivers for prosperity, equality, sharing, happiness and the advancement of human civilization. 
+
+It is a movement that helps in reconstructing the link between us and nature, between our inner and outer world. A bridge between digital and physical world. 
+
+# Technology
+
+Built on top of the new peer-to-peer internet, [ThreeFold Grid](threefold:grid_intro), it provides us with the possibily to scale up our solution and, thus, providing a complete user experience in the a fully secure, private and sustainable environment while being data sovereign.
+
+
+<p align="center">
+   A step towards freedom
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://vimeo.com/554359372" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+   
+Learn more: 
+
+- [Capabilities](capabilities)
+- [Experiences](experiences_intro_freeflow)
+

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+![](img/humanityplanet.jpg)
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+# Why we do what we do
+
+## Internet Access is a Human Right
+
+In 2016, [the United Nations officially declared Internet access to be a human right](https://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.27_en.pdf). The right to Internet access aims to protect people’s freedom of expression and opinion, as well as other fundamentals such as access to knowledge and information. 
+
+Yet as of 2019, [about 43% of humanity remains unconnected to the Internet](https://wearesocial.com/blog/2019/01/digital-2019-global-internet-use-accelerates), creating huge inequalities in the access to information and knowledge. It is important that the right steps are taken to improve the relationship between governments and citizens and to uphold all human rights.
+ 
+To make the new Internet accessible and equal to all, ThreeFold built an infrastructure that is widely affordable and collectively-owned by the network peers. To ensure a fair and equal distribution of the Internet to everyone, the expansion and reach to regions that need Internet capacity the most will be incentivized and/or sponsored by the Foundation.
+
+## Everyone Should Be Autonomous
+
+The Internet evolved to become the world's largest database of information and knowledge, opening up exponential growth on personal, organizational and economic levels. Yet it is owned by large international companies that exploit users' data. 
+
+The current approach of many governments and countries is to cut the Internet into pieces by limiting its accessibility and enforcing regulations. We need an Internet that protects our digital freedom and provides fair access to global information for everyone, everywhere.
+ 
+ThreeFold's Internet is a peer-to-peer Internet and owned by the users. All the technology of this new Internet is open-source and the whole experience is built around the fundamentals of a peer-to-peer network. On this new Internet, everyone owns their data and experiences - digital freedom.
+
+## Our Planet Needs a Sustainable Internet 
+
+The current Internet [consumes about 10% of global energy production](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255923829_Emerging_Trends_in_Electricity_Consumption_for_Consumer_ICT). With the imminent boom of emerging technologies such as Blockchain, Internet of Things, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence, the Internet’s energy consumption is [expected to increase exponentially](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2017-02-07-gartner-says-8-billion-connected-things-will-be-in-use-in-2017-up-31-percent-from-2016). 
+
+The current industry's solutions focus on increasing the use of renewable energies to power data centers. However this is not a viable solution as data centers consume enormous amounts of energy. Therefore, a new solution that can drastically reduce the global Internet’s energy consumption is needed. 
+  
+ThreeFold today brings the largest peer-to-peer Internet grid on the planet. It uses pioneering technologies that remove the need for centralized and power-hungry data centers, consumes up to 90% less energy, and uses up to 90% less international fiber network capacity. (To learn about ThreeFold power savings, read [here](https://farming.threefold.io/blog/post/for_our_planet/).)

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+# Why