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What seems missing from DiEM25's Democratisation of Technology and Innovation
Who benefits from “democratising technology and innovation”? Answer: it’s complicated.
Limits and risks of "data as money"
In May 2018 (*), while discussing alternatives to Facebook and similar services, I also criticized the whole general idea of "using one’s own data as a currency".
Why I do not write on LinkedIn. Or Medium. Or Patreon. Or...
or Wordpress.com. Or Blogger. Or… OK, you get my drift. There are several important reasons why I almost never do that, have no intention to do otherwise, and invite everybody else to do the same.
NO, It's NOT "Time for Mark Zuckerberg to Give Up Control of Facebook"
It’s time for the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world to become irrelevant, instead. Even if they are cooperatives
About "managing personal fabrication on a mass scale"
There is a post on the P2P blog about the (digital) Fabrication Divide which, on one point, is not entirely correct.I am talking of this specific sentence: “The key question that hasn’t been asked is how will humanity manage personal fabrication on a mass scale” That key question has been asked, by me and all the other members of the EU-funded DiDIY (Digital DIY) Project, ran from 2015 to 2017. We also provided some answers, which are listed below.
Girl Scouts, other equal opportunity employers and... software discrimination
Casual browsing (more on this below) just brought me to the website of the Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada (GSSN). As many other organizations of all kinds, in the USA and elsewhere, they are, as clearly stated in their official Application for Employment:
an equal opportunity employer. All applications for employment will be considered without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, disability or marital status.