#democraticTech

Wouter Tebbens ⁂

@wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

7 hours ago

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 […]

[Original post on social.coop]

Co-op Cloud

@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

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 […]

Wouter Tebbens ⁂

@wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

5 months ago

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 […]

Wouter Tebbens ⁂

@wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

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 […]

Wouter Tebbens ⁂

@wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

7 months ago

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

Wouter Tebbens ⁂

@wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy

8 months ago

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 […]