Wouter Tebbens ⁂

There is an awful lot of work that needs to be done, and it is at the same time amazing that so much IS being done by so many people and communities around the globe, to increase our resilience, autonomy and sovereignty moving out of the tentacles of BigTech, and their authoritarian political partners.

With the #DemocraticTechFund we are setting in motion a collective process to bring together what is already there and to make the transition together. Making the transition, we are identifying use cases that need our collective support, to mobilise people and donations to bring them to fruition, to maturity.

We think this needs to be done together: by citizens and committed organisations, multiplied by public and private institutions.

Mar 17 at 9:39amWeb
Show threadWouter Tebbens ⁂17h ago

We think there is much more chance for success if we initiate this bottom-up, democratically, through commoning, instead of leaving it to the market or the state alone.

We are confident that together we can make this work, and overcome the doomsday scenarios as preached by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos with their elitist space adventures.

Show threadWouter Tebbens ⁂17h ago
We recently came together with a dozen likeminded organisations in Amsterdam, at the @internetarchiveeurope and moved from concept development into prototyping. We're working to setup the membership onboarding and minimum viable governance, and allow people to make contributions in time and through donations. We're working towards the @dweb gathering in Berlin between 8-12 July, with a growing group of people. Really happy to see people join us in the matrix space and bring in their experience and love.
Show threadWouter Tebbens ⁂17h ago

It is time for a democratic tech fund. The acronym seems to be really fun: #DTF, or: Down To Fund 😍

PD thanks to @3wordchant and @arod for the cute acronym 😉

Show threadMisha16h ago
@Wtebbens @3wordchant @arod 🤣
Show threadAral Balkan16h ago
@Wtebbens @internetarchiveeurope @dweb Would be nice to be involved with Small Technology Foundation and the Small Web.
Show threadWouter Tebbens ⁂16h ago

Hi @aral thanks, that'd be really nice. If you'd like we have a matrix space here: https://matrix.to/#/#democratictechfund:matrix.org

We're in this creative process called 'prototyping', so be prepared, lots of moving parts that are in process to be defined and set up.

You're invited to talk on Matrix

You're invited to talk on Matrix

Show threadAral Balkan15h ago
@Wtebbens Well that made me download a matrix client and sign in for the first time in ages. Will read up asap :)