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 workshophttps://techotherwise.pubpub.org/pdc20 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 Possiblehttps://techotherwise.pubpub.org/pub/dakcci1r/release/1, 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 Otherwisehttps://techotherwise.pubpub.org/ 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 www.christoph-becker.infohttp://www.christoph-becker.info/ https://twitter.com/ChriBecker