Hello all,
I want to share something that I’ve been working on with a group of people including Lucy Suchman, Andrew Clement and Doug Schuler for 7 months following a
workshop I organized at the Participatory Design conference last year. We released it today, and I think it resonates with many of you.
In
Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Another Tech is Possible, we argue that now is the time to radically redirect the future of tech. To think tech otherwise is to move away from binaries of tech or not (though we may sometimes need to make that judgement),
in favour of how we could make tech differently, in the service of our collective and sustainable well being.
The Tech Otherwise platform we built for this is designed to continue this conversation. We are now publicizing this, with some pieces coming out and maybe some media coverage (fingers crossed!)
– please consider reading, commenting, and spreading the word.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TechOtherwise
Thank you,
Christoph
Prof Christoph Becker
he/him
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information
Director, Digital Curation Institute
University of Toronto
https://twitter.com/ChriBecker