Here's a really insightful post by @Framasoft's Pierre-Yves Gosset about the French Government DINUM and their La Suite project. In French, translated: "The Digital Suite of the State: Criticism of Criticism."
TLDR: They comment the various criticisms and are generally very positive about this […]
Once again, a truly astonishing amount of stuff has been happening with Co-op Cloud since our last blog post in October. Read about it here!
https://coopcloud.tech/blog/march-2025-equinox
– 3wordchant
#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech #OpenSource
Illustration titled "Democratic Tech" with 5 postits with the words: 1) Shared and free knowledge 2) Community care 3) Decentralised co-production 4) Communal self-governance, and, 5) Communication as equals (in the centre)
In the context of the @DigitalCoup and #AuthoritarianTech, can we find an answer in #DemocraticTech? Something that goes beyond mere free/libre open source software, and combines #cooperativism and #commoning. Communities who govern their shared resources, and […]
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Themed Co-op Cloud kite-flying, coming up in ~7.5 hours at 12 UTC today, Thursday 11th February 🪁
Today, we'll be talking about automating Co-op Cloud using Ansible (and maybe other tools).
Voice/video call: vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying […]
I saw this guy, Johnny Ryan, recently in a European Parliament session on #democratictech together with @robin and others.
Today @johnnyryan publishes a great article in the Guardian […]
Here's a thread to document my gradual exiting of anti-democratic tech, sometimes staying there, but inactively, and in other cases by eliminating my profile and data fully and leaving altogether. As I'm part of many networks (like you?), this is generally not something I can do in one day and […]
About tech startups wishing to cut bureaucracy andcred tape and aligning with autocratic leaders: that is really NOT helping innovation at all.
About the "Dictator's Innovation Trap":
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-f...
By Mike Masnick
#democraticTech
Since 2016 we have been working on the *Five Pillar framework* for *commons-based business models*. And while it has greatly evolved through practice in commons-collaborative economy programmes and platform coops and #SSE courses, we hadn't published too much about it.
Now here's an […]