Nomad is an international network of people, committed to putting the essential technologies into the public domain. The Nomad activists across the globe have been working towards developing alternative technologies aimed at general empowerment of people.

Nomad was created in September 2003 through the development and setting up of the NIFT (Nomad Interpretation Free Tool) for the 4th World Social Forum in India (Mumbai). The NIFT is a translation transmission tool developed in collaboration with the international interpretation network: Babels.

The aim of Nomad is to extend the GNU/GPL perspective to other technological issues, including the re-appropriation of the knowledge and the control of the technologies by the users. The Nomad’s sphere of activities at present ranges from communication to interpretation and memory.

This issue of re-appropriation of knowledge is closely linked to the political perspective of developing local production in an economy based on solidarity.

The Nomad network is not a technical service provider but a political network run on a voluntary basis.