Context

I am pro-public-ownership of all infrastructure, but my experience aligns more with goals to bring tech/network/web infrastructure to local communities so the notes here will likely reflect that.

Notes

meet a community where they are, design for wide range of technical abilities
- Building computers, printers, wifi hotspots, peripherals, servers, etc, and digital infrastructure from low tech, could be making use of funding allocated to bridging digital divide
- working from existing emergent groupings who may have constructed infrastructure of varying quality and usefulness already. Think community Facebook pages or the Nextdoor app for hyperlocal communities

our time and energy is limited; face the way you want to go

“To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here “all roads to Mishnory”. To be sure, if you turn back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitable to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.” - The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin

why ‘alternative systems’
- revolt vs reform
- things that must change slowly
- things we’re all tasked with upholding
- things that we’re doomed to repeat
- discussion of strategy vs tactics
- bottom up top down convergence
gift economies in theory and practice
- public conveniences
- community-owned infrastructure
- non-hierarchical organisations
- abolition (alternatives to policing and justice system)
symbiosis of theory and practise
indieweb
decentralisation
etc

network of skill-sharing and hobby groups for older people https://www.u3a.org.uk/about

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decentralised vs distributed web, peer to peer