Decentralisation is the only way forward, be it more distributed or less. Even though distributed architectures would have my preference, software usually requires maintenance, and not anybody wants to run a server.
Sharing the cost of such work can be done in a cooperativised model, like Social.coop @SocialCoop or #CommonsCloud - it can be #OpenCooperativism or #PlatformCooperativism
At a time when corporate sponsorship and ownership of city spaces, buildings, and events continues to grow at lightning pace, it's more important than ever to rethink our cities as shared entities that belong to all of us. In his recent speech at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, researcher, activist, and author David Bollier argued that urban enclosures, which
If I Only Had a Heart: A DisCO Manifesto
Value Sovereignty, Care Work, Commons and Distributed Cooperative Organizations
http://disco.coop/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DisCO_Manifesto-v.1.pdf
p2pValue conference and Deep Dive - #Sensorica: pAn open, decentralized and self-organizing value network 🌬 http://www.sensorica.co/home/working-space/recent-announcements/p2pvalueconferenceanddeepdive #OpenCooperativism