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Cooperative Technologists Community Discourse Forum

The CoTech community Discourse forum is a UK based open discussion board for issues relating to co-operatives and technology.

hng/tech-coops

A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general.

Tech Workers Coalition

A coalition of tech industry workers, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends cultivating solidarity among all workers in tech.

Toward a Critical Technical Practice

This is a chapter in Geof Bowker, Les Gasser, Leigh Star, and Bill Turner, eds, Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work, Erlbaum, 1997.

Toward a Critical Technical Practice

This is a chapter in Geof Bowker, Les Gasser, Leigh Star, and Bill Turner, eds, Bridging the Great Divide: Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work, Erlbaum, 1997.

Liberatory Computing

We live under a capitalist mode of computing. The tools, languages, techniques, and assumptions of digital systems are structured by economic forces that shape not just what we can do, but what we can imagine doing. By separating production from use, producing inflexible software, and slicing up computing into siloed apps, your agency is held back by a tech industry that profits from a population rendered computationally passive.

Liberatory Computing

We live under a capitalist mode of computing. The tools, languages, techniques, and assumptions of digital systems are structured by economic forces that shape not just what we can do, but what we can imagine doing. By separating production from use, producing inflexible software, and slicing up computing into siloed apps, your agency is held back by a tech industry that profits from a population rendered computationally passive.

Actualités/Essais/Documents

Technopolitique, Asma Mhalla : Intelligence artificielle, réseaux sociaux, implants cérébraux, satellites, métavers… Le choc technologique sera l’un ...

Patio Home

Global community of worker owned cooperatives specializing in the development of software, communication and design.

The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy”

There’s a certain dark irony in watching tech billionaires who built their empires on the “democratizing power of technology” now actively working to dismantle democratic institut…

Worker What??!! - A Short Introduction to worker cooperatives (A6, 12pp) - workers.coop

Written and designed as a primer on worker cooperatives, for people new to worker co-ops and for wide distribution. ‘Worker What??!!’ describes clearly what worker co-ops are and what we stand for. It includes testimonials from worker cooperators, and was put together with a view to being stocked in worker co-op shop floors or offices,... Read more »

Technological parables and iconic illustrations: American technocracy and the rhetoric of the technological fix

This paper traces the role of American technocrats in popularizing the notion later dubbed the ‘technological fix’. Channeled by their long-term ‘chief’, Howard Scott, their claim was that technolo...

Collective Action School

Explore how you can remake tech. Tech worker organizing, unionizing, and building different technologies

10. Why Your Tech Startup Should Be a Worker Co-Op — Limeleaf Worker Collective

Steve Giordano from Interstitial and Ethan Winn from Obran join us to talk about one of our favorite topics: worker co-ops! What they are, how they work, and why we think they are a great corporate structure for tech startups.