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One year of co-design One year of co-design
Designed for communities and groups to collaborate on mapping, monitoring, and documentation projects, MAPEO works entirely offline and communities retain control of their information. Read more…
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Solidarity Technology: Values for an Earth Defender’s Toolkit Solidarity Technology: Values for an Earth Defender’s Toolkit
Over the past year, we’ve dug deeply into our convictions and had empowering conversations with practitioners, allies, and partners. We combine this with our own experiences co-designing technology with earth defenders over the past five years to craft values for building technology in solidarity with earth defenders around the globe. Read more…
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Indigenous Cartography & Decolonizing Mapmaking Indigenous Cartography & Decolonizing Mapmaking
What kind of world are we building with our maps? How many of us take the time to ask this when we sit down with our tools (whether pen & paper or state of the art software) to draw our polygons and lines? And yet to make a map — and publish it, or define a congressional district with it, or profile where protests for Black Lives Matter are happening — is an act that affects the world. Read more…
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Renarration and Accessiblity: T B Dinesh on Localized Knowledge in Rural India Renarration and Accessiblity: T B Dinesh on Localized Knowledge in Rural India
Dinesh is a community media activist who focuses on on storytelling methods and local documentation in marginalised communities. Read more…
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Southeast Asia, with Pyrou Chung Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Southeast Asia, with Pyrou Chung
Even with all of the technology in the world, the paper mapping process still needs to happen. There still needs to be a physical aspect to help people understand what all of this data and information means Read more…
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Color Coded: Building Technologies of Respect for Our Collective Liberation Color Coded: Building Technologies of Respect for Our Collective Liberation
A conversation with Cesia Domínguez López, Co-founder of Color Coded. Read more…
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Telling a Different Story about Technology, with Ramesh Srinivasan Telling a Different Story about Technology, with Ramesh Srinivasan
Ramesh is a technologist who grounds his work in human experiences. He has traveled the world to report on innovative ways that local communities are making technology their own. Read more…
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Cooperative Ownership of Data without Blockchain Cooperative Ownership of Data without Blockchain
The entire business model of Silicon Valley breaks down without monopolistic control of user data & interactions, and this is why our approach hasn't been pursued by many in the technology industry to date. Read more…
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Reflecting on Bringing MAPEO to Northern Peru Reflecting on Bringing MAPEO to Northern Peru
In November 2019, three members of the Digital Democracy team travelled high up the Pastaza River in the Peruvian Amazon to the small oil town of Andoas, near the border with Ecuador. The purpose of the trip was to train Indigenous land defenders to use MAPEO for collecting and sharing evidence of oil spills on their territory. Read more…
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The effect of surveillance capitalism on social change efforts, with Allen Gunn The effect of surveillance capitalism on social change efforts, with Allen Gunn
The common thread that connects all facets of Gunner’s work is a focus on open approaches to capacity building and knowledge sharing in social change efforts. We’re taking a moment to explore the intersection of technology and human rights. Read more…