Why I’m supporting the Digital Life Collective
Today, the Digital Life Collective is seeking cofounding members — the first 150 people who will kickstart a co-operative movement to build tech we trust. I’m both a cofounding member, and I’m stepping up to be one of the directors of the initial UK-based co-operative which is a necessary piece of the support. Why am I doing this? I’m keen to see a future where we have ethical, responsible technology which works for everyone . To reach this, we need new ways to build this technology, new models which are sustainable and can offer secure, resilient systems. The Digital Life Collective stands a good chance of doing this, and is setting out in a sensible direction. The Collective community already has folks who aren’t from technical backgrounds, which is important — we need marketing and community and legal expertise too, and we have those involved. We’ll need to be more than a haven for geeks building for geeks, partly because we’ll need to be able to scale up to be effective