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If you are part of an established organisation, there are many ways in which technology can help you. The advantages that technology presents can also be used for creating new communities and for offering solutions to the members of already established communities.
Newly created groups can use technology for coordinating their members and structuring their actions. If you are in the process of forming a group and want to know more about the options available and how they align with your values, you may be interested in the workshop Basic Digital Infrastructure for groups, which you can attend on your own or with other members of your team.
You may be working with a community of users in a project in which technology plays a major role. If you need more people to join your project before it can move forward, as funders, users or experts, you can add your project here and get notified when someone else joins it. If you already have all the resources needed and you are looking for an IT professional with experience in working with communities for implementing your project, you can get in touch directly here.
Community Technologists are people who have the desire to build, design and facilitate the healthy integration of technology into their communities. They emphasize self-governance, participatory learning, collaborative design and sustainability. Pau&Company, as a Community Technology practitioner, researched about the digital aspects of multistakeholder cooperatives as part of the course/incubator programme Platforms Co-ops now!, participates in regular meetings of the Community Tech programme developed by Promising Trouble and has contributed to the Sociodigital Futures and Community Technology Research Study led by Matt Dowse from the University of Bristol. Pau&Company is also part of Community Bridge, an international project that offers Digital Privacy workshops and other services to users.
Funding is a key impediment for communities to develop and maintain tech projects, and this topic was researched during the Co-op Hackathon on May 2024. If your community or organisation has experience with this topic, please get in touch in the form below, your contribution will be used for developing a more robust and sustainable environment for funding these types of projects.
And for everything else, if you want to make technology work for your community, get in touch!
