Doug, great and timely initiative! Raymond
From: LT [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Schuler Sent: Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:33 To: LT <[email protected]> Subject: [liberationtech] Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Another Tech is Possible For the past 7 months, a group of us has been working on a report titled "Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Another Tech is Possible”. In this report, we dive into the history of public investment in technologies at the foundation of Big Tech, and the imbalances between these investments and the returns to the public sector. We delve into the problematic labor and user relations underlining the value-creation machine Big Tech has assembled, and the perverse social and environmental costs of these socio-technical systems. We set out arguments for why Big Tech should be defunded, and offer potential actions Big Tech companies, governments and policymakers, tech workers, researchers, civil society organizations, social movements and individual citizens could take to redirect resources. We end by offering prospects for what refunding community could look like, how another tech is possible. We hope you can read it, it is posted here https://techotherwise.pubpub.org/defund-big-tech. Please feel free to share across your network. Thanks! — Doug PS. We also started a Tech Otherwise channel which we're hoping we can put to good use as time goes on. The results of two other workshops are also on the channel. -- Douglas Schuler <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good <http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci> http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci4cg-announce Creating the World Citizen Parliament <http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament> http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices
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