Digital Life Collective
Josef Davies-Coates
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Just came across https://diglife.com/ in a post one of their members made on a facebook group I'm in where he said:
"I'm excited to be a co-founding member of the new Digital Life Collective. An amazing group of people is coming together to help build "technology we trust for the world we want." It's a global cooperative, currently incorporated in the UK, and we mean business! If you want to support the creation of tools that protect your privacy, are decentralized, and are inclusive/accessible to all, this effort is one way to do so.
Our initial goal is to raise 16K sterling, and in just a few days, we're 1/5 of the way there! The ultimate goal is orders of magnitude beyond this, but we're jsut getting started. Give us a hand and become a member?"
Shaun Fensom Wed 3 May 2017 1:26PM
Yes, several CoTech members involved. Plus CoTech has often come up in discussions in the collective. It's a very ambitious project. But hey!
Harry "Outlandish" Robbins Tue 9 May 2017 2:08PM
@shaunfensom are they eligible for membership of CoTech and, if so, are they in our tractor beam?
Shaun Fensom Tue 9 May 2017 2:47PM
@harryrobbins Well:
a) Digital Life Collective is international, although initially registering in the UK. Being international was an issue in the case of DTC.
b) Digital Life Collective is not a worker co-op. It is a kind of super-multi-stakeholder co-op. It will admit private businesses but that is arguably a red herring: the vast majority of its members are/will be people who make software and people who use it.
So, I assumed that the Collective would not fit the CoTech template although, arguably, it is an edge case. So tractor beam not activated. Yet.
CoTech on the other hand would make a very welcome member of Digital Life Collective as would all of the members of CoTech.
Harry "Outlandish" Robbins Tue 9 May 2017 4:30PM
CoTech on the other hand would make a very welcome member of Digital Life Collective as would all of the members of CoTech.
Sir, they're polarised their shield harmonics and they're pulling us in
Shaun Fensom Tue 9 May 2017 4:54PM
But the incompatible phase dynamics could cause us to go critical
Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) · Wed 3 May 2017 12:15PM
I can't work out exactly what they plan to develop for their members, or if it will be Free software, but I guess they are planning something big...