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[[Digital ecosocialism]] is a counter to [[digital capitalism]], and reclaiming the stacks is focused on the transition from the latter to the former.
While I’m more interested in building the new world than theorising the old, it’s true that you need to have an understanding of the current conditions in order to change them.
So, it’s important to understand - just what is [[digital capitalism]]? We probably all have a rough notion of what we mean by it - essentially, whatever it is that the [[Big Tech]] firms do ([[The purpose of a system is what it does]]). But there’s obviously a lot of fine-grained detail within that.
Two great resources have just dropped that will be of interest to anyone who wants a more thorough understanding:
I’m slowly working my way through the [[Digital Capitalism online course]]. It’s a trove of well-presented learnings on digital capitalism - what it is, why it’s bad, and what we could do instead.
I’m also dipping into [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis]] here and there - it’s much more dense and academic, but people like [[Christian Fuchs]] and [[Jodi Dean]] have been theorising on this for a long time, so you know it’s going to be good.
A budget for big earners and big owners ([[Jeremy Huntโs election budget for big earners and big owners]]).
It’s not good for public services.
At #systemsinnovation2024 and as I got to cycle here - memories of @RedQuadrant above the British Interplanetary Society, it’s in Oval. London -I took a big gamble. No coffee ๐
Give me a shout if you’re here. And if you know the real hashtag
First session exploring OurCluj in Cluj Napoca, Romania - mapping, community engagement, collaborative governance with Barbara Bulc. https://ourcluj.city/system-map/
#systemsinnovation2024
Andy Wilkins at #systemsinnovation2024 talking about using the ‘three horizons’ framework (IFF not McKinsey) to look at all the health megatrends hitting together… am itching to have a chat and talk practice!
Phrase of the day at #SystemsInnovation2024 - and phrase of the season on my podcasts -is ‘right relationship’. Like this https://humansandnature.org/humans-nature-the-right-relationship/
I understand it from Buddhism but it seems to have the perfect ‘venn’ of ‘indigenous’, Judaism,Christian, Quaker, systems, justice movements, deep ecology….
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Missed a lot of #publicsector panel at #SystemsInnovation2024 due to passionat convo about #publicservices… good stuff though from a policy perspective. Indy Johar, always good value - is he our Schmachtenberger? V big picture on possible futures… want to ask him why insurers not a big part of the picture!
Louis Klein and Karima Kadaoui engage in ‘rearranging the room’ to change the audience incentives as an illustration of ‘a shared understanding of metamorphic transformation’ at #SystemsInnovation2024 - ‘the best place to hide a treasure is behind a treasure’
Kickoff of #SystemsInnovation2024 and Miranda Dixon of Brink gives an #innovation #mission story of #SystemsChange which is actually incredibly practical for #procurement and #commissioning - getting oxygen concentrators where they were needed - with a #learning approach.
Teun Sljuis giving very practical examples of the use of System Dynamics and system mapping in real-world situations at #SystemsInnovation2024, from introduction of one-way streets to type 2 diabetes.
How can we disperse systems | complexity | cybernetics thinking into the ambience of organisations? https://buff.ly/3Zh9NHg
What happens when #systemsthinking clashes with traditional organisations?
At #SystemsInnovation2024 I facilitated a brilliant trio to unpack the challenges and opportunities that emerge when introducing systems approaches into complex environments.
Workshop session on ‘Shifting from Competitors to Collaborators for Systems Innovation: The ‘How’ of Enabling Pre-competitive Collaboration’ raising super interesting questions at #SystemsInnovation2024 - relationships valued over success, Tom Daly’s relationship with his swimming coach, and how can nice systems people reckon with evil, with sociopaths?
Mariana Mirabile talks at #SystemsInnovation2024 about working to move from a reactive visible level to a joined-up systemic level in Dublin’s climate action planning.
To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.
These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:
To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.
These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:
To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.
These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:
To define high level goals for the Tech Working Group of Social.Coop to explore during 2024, and request review/comment from the wider community.
These are projects currently being run by the Tech Working Group, together with high level next steps we have identified for them. They are in priority order:
First [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] in a few months for me.
I helped a chap making the connection between his MacBook Air and his BBC Micro:Bit.
And I looked at an old slow Dell Vostro laptop for someone - but didn’t get much time on this, beyond explaining to them how to back up some old files.
I wonder what’s the best app for benchmarking the performance of a Windows machine - to then report whether your changes have made a difference.
Second month back after being away for a few.
Looked at a couple of slow laptops.
A Dell Vostro. A bit of a long-term project for one of the other volunteers - today just backing up important files, which took about 2 hours running in the background.
An Asus running Windows 10.