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Francis Tseng
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where government fails, neglects, ignores, or is outright hostile, how are people surviving? (this chan focuses on infrastructure in particular)

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Don't Ask, Just Plant - Taking Back Our...

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For years now, Detroit has been in the spotlight as a poster city for urban revitalization. Stories about how brands like Shinola are tapping into the city's industrial heritage to bolster the economy, and how intrepid urbanists are converting the city's vacant land into sustainable farms and affordable housing, are commonplace.

Why Low-Income Communities Are Building...

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See an overview of Open Source Ecology's work describing the Global Village Construction Set: We're developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy - an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.

Open Source Ecology

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Updated 5 months ago

A brief introduction to the idea behind Issue Number Nine, and the concepts associated with it. "Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods" seeks to explore objects or instruments designed to care about and improve the welfare of infrastructurally marginal populations (i.e. those lacking connection to "networked" forms of modern provisioning-such as water, sewerage, communication, electricity-or to services such as health care and finance).

Précis: Little Development Devices /...

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Updated 7 months ago

Technology Rooted in Community Needs DCTP's mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet. DCTP formed out of the Digital Stewards Program launched in 2014 and networks cultivated at the Allied Media Conference.

Detroit Community Technology Project

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Updated 4 months ago

Being stuck without access to the internet is often thought of as a problem only for rural America. But even in some of America's biggest cities, a significant portion of the population can't get online. Take Detroit, where 40 percent of the population has no access to the internet-of any kind, not only high speed-at home, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit's...

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Updated 6 months ago

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