This essay was commissioned as part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation programme Social justice in a digital age in response to James Plunkett’s essay The care paradox. …

Community tech — technology that gives power and generates benefit for communities — is a vital part of the modern technology ecosystem. While a small number of very large companies might seem to dominate the digital landscape, the reality is that the Internet is full of alternatives and possibilities —…

Exploring innovation as care work I read this post by Meg Conley this week and it stopped me in my tracks, particularly this sentence: “Care work is the anticipation of grief.” This post is a rumination on how that term applies to care in a very different context. Being care-full The research…

Understanding the ingredients for a foresight commons When Careful Industries started to develop the Civil Society Foresight Observatory for the National Lottery Community Fund, a part of the brief was to work out what a Foresight Commons could look like — some kind of shared space and resource that might…

What do the words we often use to talk about digital power really mean? This glossary offers definitions for and groups some of the terms commonly used to describe the intersections of power and digital technologies. In creating it, we found that some terms are more likely to be used…

A guide to how funders, civil society organisations and policymakers can use the Belonging, Care and Repair Foresight report. Who is it for? This report is for anyone making plans for the future. …

Promising Trouble is seeking funding to support charities working with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to develop digital policy and campaigning skills Following on from the Community Tech Fellowship, supported by the Coop Foundation and Luminate, Promising Trouble has developed a Digital Policy Lab format to deepen the digital rights…

Creating shared foresight infrastructure for funders and civil society organisations — Read the report Now is a good time to think about how we think about the future Careful Industries is piloting a shared Foresight Commons that will make it easier for funders to fund the future and help civil society organisations anticipate and adapt to changing conditions. …

Who is building Community Tech, and what are they doing with it? This blog post is the third of three outlining the research that Promising Trouble has undertaken for Power to Change, answering the question, “How can Power to Change inspire greater uptake of Community Tech?”. by Anna Dent In…