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--margin-top-multiplier:0; line-height: 1.04;">Tech culture
is failing communities. How can we make it better?</h1>
<h2 name="1cdf" id="1cdf" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--h3
graf--subtitle" style="font-family:
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1.22;">Californian design principles have taken over the
internet, turning people into products. We need a roadmap
towards truly community-owned technology.</h2>
<p name="6299" id="6299" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4"
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letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The shift in internet and
technology culture over the last decade has been phenomenal.
Most of the services we use today haven’t been around long
at all — Facebook is thirteen years old, Twitter ten, and
Instagram six. The first iPhone — and arguably with it the
modern concept of an “app” — was released in 2007. And yet
despite all this technology that’s supposed to bring us
together,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcommentisfree%2F2016%2Foct%2F12%2Fneoliberalism-creating-loneliness-wrenching-society-apart"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fcommentisfree%2F2016%2Foct%2F12%2Fneoliberalism-creating-loneliness-wrenching-society-apart"
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1.07em;">social isolation is a major player in the current
epidemic of depression, loneliness, eating disorders,
suicide</a>, and other social problems. How has this
happened?</p>
<p name="4eeb" id="4eeb" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
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letter-spacing: -0.003em;">With these new technologies has
come a rapid shift in the culture and industry which builds,
markets, and owns them. Broadly, this has seen Californian
men working alone in their bedrooms suddenly get pushed to
global fame, propelled by a seemingly endless supply of
speculative venture capital funds, themselves also
overwhelmingly run by enormously wealthy white men. While we
currently find ourselves in many other spheres challenging
overly white, rich and male political structures, it feels
like there has not been similar mainstream political
critique of the ownership of our new, virtual, civic spaces.</p>
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letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLean_startup"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLean_startup"
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1.07em;">Lean Startup</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>model has sparked a
trend towards functionally limited but highly profitable
software: doing “just enough” to justify a purchase point or
app install. The hype around apps has meant that every new
technology product is required to follow the same
Californian design principles:<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVertical_integration"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVertical_integration"
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1.07em;">vertically integrated</a>, extremely expensive to
produce, for the most part free at point of use, highly
branded, with all data stored in the cloud and owned by the
company. I’ve found it difficult explaining to clients
looking to do something new that there are other ways to do
things, or that an app is one solution of many,<span
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data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fopenmigration.org%2Fen%2Fop-ed%2Fhackathon-and-refugees-we-can-do-better%2F"
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1.07em;">especially when solving social problems</a>.
Honestly, I still don’t quite understand what an “app” is
when someone asks me for one — the concept seems wrapped up
in a concept of a kind of experience that you’re expected to
have with it. But I digress.</p>
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letter-spacing: -0.003em;">A decade ago, technically-savvy
activists like me thought news sites like<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indymedia.org.uk%2F"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indymedia.org.uk%2F"
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1.07em;">Indymedia</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>were
the future. We thought that aggregation with RSS was the
eventual endgame for a decentralised, community-owned
internet. We were talking about making<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenwrt.org%2F"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenwrt.org%2F"
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1.07em;">cooperatively owned mesh wifi networks</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to provide free wifi
for everyone, the obvious and inevitable move towards
everyone using Ubuntu (or other Linux flavours), and
building thin-client networks from recycled computers in
community cafes to provide free internet and computer
access. And now we’re talking about commercial apps,
corporate social media, and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mturk.com%2Fmturk%2Fwelcome"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mturk.com%2Fmturk%2Fwelcome"
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1.07em;">Mechanical Turk</a>. Any mention of communities
and working with people seems to have vanished, in favour of
an almost pathological focus on software and software
culture itself. Something went wrong.</p>
<p name="ccdf" id="ccdf" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
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letter-spacing: -0.003em;">I’m developing a sort of
manifesto to try and combat this, and get back to this
kinder, community-oriented tech culture I remember from my
twenties. I’m calling it a Community Technology Partnership,
or CTP. Starting to write about this, I’ve discovered that
the rabbit hole is a lot deeper than I thought. As a result,
I’m going to syndicate the process of writing it up so I can
get feedback and generate discussion along the way.</p>
<p name="f6ef" id="f6ef" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p
graf--trailing" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px;
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Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400; font-style:
normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing:
-0.003em;">What follows is a list of overall values for a
CTP manifesto. It was pointed out to me an event on<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postfactpolitics.com%2F"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postfactpolitics.com%2F"
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1.07em;">post-fact politics</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the weekend that
the former concepts are all human; the latter ones all
inhuman or robotic and part of that Californian design
methodology that I critiqued at the start of this article.
So maybe it really does all start on this basic, structural
level. Following this will be more on the methodological
principles, the overall aims and objectives, and information
about two pilots I’m working on to develop the concept.</p>
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line-height: 1.15;">Complete > Perfect</h3>
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letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1,
'salt' 1;">Embrace messy data.</em></p>
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style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
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"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
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letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fopentranscripts.org%2Ftranscript%2Fprogramming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic%2F"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fopentranscripts.org%2Ftranscript%2Fprogramming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic%2F"
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1.07em;">Programming is forgetting</a>.<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
class="markup--em markup--p-em"
style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">All</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>computer
systems — from Facebook to Word — throw anything away they
don’t understand. You can’t create a Facebook event and set
the date later. You can’t do a painting in Word. More
subtly, what a piece of information looks like is based on a
designer’s desires: the concept of “a conversation” is
different and incompatible between email, Facebook and
Google Groups, for example. It simply doesn’t make sense to
try and synchronise all those things; they are fundamentally
incompatible.</p>
<p name="8aeb" id="8aeb" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Some of these systems are more
prescriptive than others. Taking the Facebook event as an
example, there’s a surprising amount of prerequisites. Not
only you already have a Facebook account and friends on it
(to make it worthwhile), you have to know the date and time,
location and title before being able to create it. A scan of
a flyer simply won’t do, for example.</p>
<p name="5b80" id="5b80" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Clearly, real-life is not like
this. Community information is huge, and varied, and a tiny
fraction of it ends up online in an organised way. Messy
knowledge ends up being word of mouth, and reaches very few
people. Some examples of this might be:</p>
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<li name="3c9c" id="3c9c" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--p" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
14px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times
New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">You can book a free room in a
community campus building (if you know who to talk to)</li>
<li name="e8f4" id="e8f4" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--li" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
14px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times
New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">There is an underused computer
suite in a local housing estate</li>
<li name="615a" id="615a" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--li" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
14px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times
New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The local library runs free
computer classes</li>
<li name="5e00" id="5e00" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--li" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
14px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times
New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The community garden centre is
looking for new directors</li>
<li name="a709" id="a709" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--li" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times
New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">A new planning application that
would affect the area</li>
</ul>
<p name="a25b" id="a25b" class="graf graf--p graf-after--li"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Yes, you might find these things
out via a chance post on social media, if you use it. But we
do not have even the mechanisms to store these things and
present them to the community in an accessible way.
Corporate apps work fine for solved problems for engaged
users; they do not work well to enable community resilience.
A CTP aims to collect knowledge first, and worry about what
to do with it later. Our systems should not be deciding what
the important information is: we should.</p>
<p name="f0b5" id="f0b5" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
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"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Let’s build systems that have the
lowest possible bar to entry, find out what we don’t know,
and develop new ways to record community knowledge.</p>
<h3 name="d9b4" id="d9b4" class="graf graf--h3 graf-after--p"
style="font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font,
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normal; margin: 56px 0px 0px -2px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0,
0.8); --baseline-multiplier:0.157; font-size: 32px;
line-height: 1.15;">Communication > Code</h3>
<p name="1103" id="1103" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3"
style="margin: 8px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
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letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1,
'salt' 1;">We should be flexible and holistic in what we
do with information.</em></p>
<p name="496f" id="496f" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">If what matters is people getting
access to accurate, useful, timely information, then we can
say that communication is the goal, not code. In the tech
sector we talk a lot about what platform or framework is
being used, and very little about what is being
communicated. I’ve been to countless tech presentations
where the talk has been entirely on the structure of the
app, and not a word about the people who are using it and
how it’s changed things socially. By focussing on
communications as a holistic problem, we can see the
internet as one tool of many to facilitate information
sharing.</p>
<p name="f613" id="f613" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">For example, we could automate
things like aggregated posters and brochures of local
events, enable people to work together to distribute flyers,
or create interactive displays of current planning
applications. We should not see the technology as the goal
in itself, but creating informed and engaged local citizens
who are able to get what they want from their neighbourhood.</p>
<p name="05b7" id="05b7" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2F596acres.org%2F"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2F596acres.org%2F"
class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
color: inherit; text-decoration: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216);
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px
1.07em;">596 Acres</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>project
is a particularly good example of this. In their own words:</p>
<blockquote name="bd00" id="bd00" class="graf graf--blockquote
graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px -23px;
border-left: 3px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); padding-left:
20px; padding-bottom: 2px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: italic; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--blockquote-em" style="font-style: normal;
font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">The seeds of
596 Acres were planted when founder Paula Z. Segal
obtained a spreadsheet of all the publicly owned vacant
land in Brooklyn and created a map of it to distribute.
This map was the first tool designed to let people know
about the unharnessed potential hidden in plain sight
throughout the city’s neighborhoods. It appeared on a
poster highlighting vacant public land in Brooklyn, and as
an interactive tool on our website. Getting the word
out — in print and online — has been at the heart of the
project ever since.</em></blockquote>
<p name="008d" id="008d" class="graf graf--p
graf-after--blockquote" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px;
--baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New
Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400; font-style:
normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing:
-0.003em;">I went to a fantastic presentation on this
project where this point was emphasised. The website and
open data provided the impetus and structure to get the
project rolling, and it couldn’t have happened without it.
But it was going to every plot of land and zip-tying the
contact details to it, answering the phone, and talking to
people that made the project a success.</p>
<p name="3232" id="3232" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Let’s focus on making sure people
get the information they need in a way that suits them, and
stop seeing the internet as an end in itself.</p>
<h3 name="2353" id="2353" class="graf graf--h3 graf-after--p"
style="font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font,
"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode",
"Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: -0.02em; font-weight: 700; font-style:
normal; margin: 56px 0px 0px -2px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0,
0.8); --baseline-multiplier:0.157; font-size: 32px;
line-height: 1.15;">Distributed > Centralised</h3>
<p name="128e" id="128e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3"
style="margin: 8px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1,
'salt' 1;">Facilitate people using the technology that
they want, rather than imposing new systems.</em></p>
<p name="73e6" id="73e6" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Just as the corporate internet is
designed to be perfect, it’s also centralised. Many
interventions attempt to introduce a new platform, and worry
about how to make people use it later. A CTP sees this as
completely the wrong way around. We should be enabling
people to use existing technology, mapping out what is in
use, and providing training to enable people to make
incremental improvements. The internet works because it is<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
class="markup--em markup--p-em"
style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">distributed</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>not<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
class="markup--em markup--p-em"
style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">centralised</em> — the
current top-down order of sites like Facebook almost
entirely being a product of massive capitalist investment.
We need to start owning our own information again.</p>
<p name="cdcf" id="cdcf" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">This means that we want to help
organisations improve their data offering. For example, many
community centres have no centralised list of all the
services they provide — something we started work on in the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstreetsupport.net%2F"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstreetsupport.net%2F"
class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
color: inherit; text-decoration: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216);
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px
1.07em;">StreetSupport project</a>. Very few have their
event data in a structured format that allows it to be read
by others. Maybe, at a later date, the need will emerge for
a centralised platform — but these platforms should not be
zero-sum, and should leave behind the education and
principles for organisations to understand what is needed
for others to be able to use their data.</p>
<p name="c858" id="c858" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">By owning our own information and
publishing it in a structured way, we can open the door to a
new generation of co-operative web services.</p>
<h3 name="66a7" id="66a7" class="graf graf--h3 graf-after--p"
style="font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font,
"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode",
"Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: -0.02em; font-weight: 700; font-style:
normal; margin: 56px 0px 0px -2px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0,
0.8); --baseline-multiplier:0.157; font-size: 32px;
line-height: 1.15;">People > Computers</h3>
<p name="9834" id="9834" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3"
style="margin: 8px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1,
'salt' 1;">Focus on improving people’s skills, not on any
given technology.</em></p>
<p name="69af" id="69af" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Fundamentally, computers are not
that interesting (at least to me). The internet can be
thought of as a giant mechanism for handing around Post-It
notes — the interest is in what is on them and who they are
being passed between, not the notes themselves. Technology
professionals have so neglected human needs that now an
entire sub-industry has had to be created with job titles
like “human centred design”, “user interface design”, and
“usability designer”. In my experience, talks at technical
events almost never feature feedback from people who use the
platform, focussing instead on technical minutiae and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgfsc.network%2F2016%2F10%2F10%2Fno-false-users.html"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgfsc.network%2F2016%2F10%2F10%2Fno-false-users.html"
class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
color: inherit; text-decoration: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216);
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px
1.07em;">evidence-less theorising</a>. The industry’s
current focus is on getting<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Finternetofshit"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Finternetofshit"
class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
color: inherit; text-decoration: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216);
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px
1.07em;">toasters and toothbrushes online</a> — apparently
more interesting goals than getting poor people, old people,
or people with learning difficulties online.</p>
<p name="0754" id="0754" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">A CTP prioritises people’s needs
directly. The goals are education, cooperation, and building
community strength. The technologies we use to do this
should reflect community needs. The digital divide is
growing again, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1177%2F1461444813487959"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1177%2F1461444813487959"
class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
color: inherit; text-decoration: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216);
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px
1.07em;">evidence suggests</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that as time goes on
internet use will come to simply reflect existing social
divides.</p>
<p name="a629" id="a629" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Existing social media platforms
are designed to try and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
class="markup--em markup--p-em"
style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">replace</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>real-life
interactions with online ones, so they can be analysed and
used for marketing. Services from Amazon Prime to Uber
attempt to simply remove them altogether.</p>
<p name="ea6e" id="ea6e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">We should build internet services
to enable and facilitate real-life interactions, and in
doing so work towards reducing the social isolation
epidemic.</p>
<h3 name="e9d3" id="e9d3" class="graf graf--h3 graf-after--p"
style="font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font,
"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode",
"Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: -0.02em; font-weight: 700; font-style:
normal; margin: 56px 0px 0px -2px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0,
0.8); --baseline-multiplier:0.157; font-size: 32px;
line-height: 1.15;">Locality-based > Interest-based</h3>
<p name="c93d" id="c93d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3"
style="margin: 8px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1,
'salt' 1;">Focus on communities of location, not
communities of interest.</em></p>
<p name="4a0d" id="4a0d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Your postcode at birth is still
the single biggest guide to your life’s chances: from
employment opportunities to life expectancy. However, the
communities we tend to make online — be they for work are
leisure — are even<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
class="markup--em markup--p-em"
style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">more</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>selective than those
based on our location. In order to redress some balance, we
must urgently turn our attention to our own neighbourhoods.</p>
<p name="7620" id="7620" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Almost any night of the week in
Manchester you can go to a tech event in a fancy Northern
Quarter office with free pizza and beer; it’s so common it’s
barely remarked upon. On some level, why would you go
anywhere else? Of course, from a community activist
perspective it’s hilarious to even think that a company
would consider sponsoring your meeting of a group working
against austerity, racism or sexism with free pizza and
beer. And yet the demographics between these two sorts of
meeting could not be more stark. The last tech event like
this I went to was about 30:1 men:women by by estimation,
almost all I would guess age 20–40. Most community meetings
on the other hand are a much more diverse mix of people:
age, race, gender and other issues much more in balance.</p>
<p name="2d6c" id="2d6c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">I’m not blaming anyone for this
state of affairs — I’m grateful for free food and beer, a
good talk and a warm office too. My point is more that we
need to redress this balance: we need more people with
technical skills working in local communities, and more tech
events that specifically focus on community needs rather
than individual technologies.</p>
<p name="7a38" id="7a38" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">By focussing on one specific
geographical area — where we live — we can attempt to break
this impasse. Anyone who’s been in enough meetings knows
that the real progress happens before and afterwards, in the
pub, a chat on the street corner on the way out. This chance
emergence of ideas interactions and friendships can’t happen
if people simply aren’t meeting in this way. People spend a
lot of time looking at how to make the tech sector more
diverse; and yet this always seems to be initiatives from
within, not without.</p>
<p name="995c" id="995c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">As people with a background in
technology, let’s re-engage with our communities and find
out what we can do for them and what they can do for us. And
maybe it’ll fix<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMcrDig%2Fstatus%2F831455627545280512"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMcrDig%2Fstatus%2F831455627545280512"
class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent;
color: inherit; text-decoration: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216);
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%,
rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px
1.07em;">a bunch of other problems</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>along the way.</p>
<h3 name="8bcb" id="8bcb" class="graf graf--h3 graf-after--p"
style="font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font,
"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode",
"Lucida Sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: -0.02em; font-weight: 700; font-style:
normal; margin: 56px 0px 0px -2px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0,
0.8); --baseline-multiplier:0.157; font-size: 32px;
line-height: 1.15;">Reduce, Reuse, Recycle</h3>
<p name="730b" id="730b" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3"
style="margin: 8px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1,
'salt' 1;">Use fewer, better technologies.</em></p>
<p name="04d2" id="04d2" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Most organisations and
individuals have tiny budgets (or no budgets) for technical
products and services. Money spent on these things is
explicitly not going on services for their users. And yet
the tech industry is constantly trying to sell people
expensive products and services, and work with five- or
six-figure website budgets. Of course, a good web-presence
and good quality design are positive things to have that
organisations should aspire to. But in general we should be
enabling organisations to do more with the limited resources
they have.</p>
<p name="da9f" id="da9f" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1,
'salt' 1;">Reduce</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>means
to simply use less technology, in order to improve the
offers that are there. There is a massive amount of
duplication. Most low-budget websites end up being
over-specified (I should know, I’ve built a few). We should
be helping organisations to use fewer, better technologies,
and understanding what is necessary over what is nice.</p>
<p name="2248" id="2248" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"
style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria,
"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><em class="markup--em
markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1,
'salt' 1;">Reuse</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>means
that people are constantly re-inventing the wheel at a low
level. There are multiple organisations who maintain a
database of voluntary organisations in Manchester, for
example. We need to build trust and inter-operability to
enable people to pool resources to build systems that work
better for everyone.</p>
<p name="e693" id="e693" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p
graf--trailing" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px;
--baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New
Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400; font-style:
normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing:
-0.003em;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em"
style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">Recycle</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>means that we should
have a patternbook of solved problems for small
organisations that can be easily used as off-the-shelf
fixes. For example this could be bits of code to convert a
Google Calendar or Facebook Events feed into a static page
on a website, or a set of supported, tested templates for
organisational brochure sites.</p>
</div>
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"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">This post is the start of a
discussion about the axioms of the technology we product:
the things we think so self-evident we barely inspect them.
It’s time to start being more critical about the nature of
the things we are making, who they are for, and what impact
they have on people, community, and planet. We need to get
back to a more holistic, community-grounded technology
culture that we own and develop ourselves, for the good of
everyone. I’ll leave you with Tony Benn’s<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Farticle%2Ftony-benn-and-five-essential-questions-democracy%2F"
data-href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Farticle%2Ftony-benn-and-five-essential-questions-democracy%2F"
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1.07em;">classic five questions</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about democracy that
we should perhaps start applying to to technology we use and
create as well:</p>
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<li name="49fb" id="49fb" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--p" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
14px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times
New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">What power have you got?</li>
<li name="1227" id="1227" class="graf graf--li
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14px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
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New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Where did you get it from?</li>
<li name="40f2" id="40f2" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--li" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
14px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
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New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">In whose interests do you
exercise it?</li>
<li name="de48" id="de48" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--li" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
14px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times
New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">To whom are you accountable?</li>
<li name="3cda" id="3cda" class="graf graf--li
graf-after--li" style="margin-left: 30px; margin-bottom:
0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179; font-family:
medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times
New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">How can we get rid of you?</li>
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style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --baseline-multiplier:0.179;
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"Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58;
letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Stay tuned for more on the CTP
concept, including details on the pilots due to start in the
next few months! Comments and suggestions welcomed with open
arms. If you like, find out more about my work and practice
on my agency site:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgfsc.network"
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background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px
1.07em;">Geeks for Social Change</a>.</p>
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