Notices by ckohtala (ckohtala@social.coop)

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables
"In a city ‘run like a business’, the ethos and logic of city government shifts from a bureau- cracy serving citizens for the common good, to a technocracy that adopts business models and practices to serve individual consumers. In a city ‘run by businesses’ the provision of services and essential infrastructure transfers
from public to private delivery."
A collection of essays and speculative fiction:
https://meatspacepress.com

20 years ago, the protests in Seattle https://www.historylink.org/File/9213

Pangloss Labs is compiling a list of #free #opensource #openhardware #opensoftware projects arranged by theme as to how they address the #SDGs
https://panglosslabs.org/projects/osprojgc/

Field Ready has opened a makerspace / co-working space in Mosul after years of occupation, for the existing creative groups, self determination and autonomy
e.g. https://www.fieldready.org/single-post/2019/06/06/Makerspace-in-Iraq